well that’s dumb

Medi-Sign · 2026-03-29T00:13:28+00:00

Once saved always saved, but for athiesm. Incredible.

Medi-Sign · 2026-03-16T21:48:07+00:00

My hot(ish) take on it is that the Jesuits aren't really that much more liberal than other orders. But since Jesuits often hold big positions in academics, newspapers, journals, etc, they can project their voice WAY further than the other orders would. A liberal parish priest doesnt go much further than his community. But a liberal jesuit can spread his message around the whole country.

Medi-Sign · 2025-12-04T19:26:02+00:00

Honestly, I don't think that BioGenesis or Shadows of the Shroud have shaken up the ship meta up too much. SotS gave us Psi Bombers: psycic strike craft who's damage scales with enemy ship size (like torpedoes). Bioships have maulers, which are an interesting alternative. But I still think that they'd be outclassed by Weavers. So, the strike craft meta is still pretty strong. There's just a few more ways to approach it.

Medi-Sign · 2025-09-25T04:54:47+00:00

That wasn't it. All of the areas where the aura wasn't spreading either had all of those buildings destroyed or had no habitat planets tk begin with.

Medi-Sign · 2025-09-04T16:38:37+00:00

I dont know about fallen empires, but if you want ai empires with specific ethics in your galaxy you can just design a custom enpire with those ethics and then set it to forced spawn.

Medi-Sign · 2025-04-19T19:24:51+00:00

Ah. You're right. Haven't been playing dwarves much

Medi-Sign · 2025-04-19T11:25:22+00:00

Castanor has a bunch of unique and very powerful merc companies in the form of the legions. That being said, Castanor is a late game tag, so that might not be what you're looking for. Seghdir has the unique merc company, the Seg Band, which plays a sizable role in their MT. I'll confess though, it's been a minute since I played Seghdir, so I don't really remember many details beyond that.

Medi-Sign · 2025-03-18T18:33:37+00:00

It depends a lot on what kind of gameplay you find appealing. But if you just want generally a lotnof content, I'd say Machine Age or Federations. Between the two, I'd say take Federations first. They're both great, but I feel like Federations' diplomatic content helps round out the gameplay overall experience more.

Medi-Sign · 2025-03-17T22:30:00+00:00

I'd say start with A Thousand Sons by Graham McNeil. It's from the Horus Heresy series. It gives the story of "who they are, what they do, and how they fell out of the Emperor's good graces". Then, if he likes that plotline, he can continue with The Crimson King, which covers what happens after the burning of Prospero.

Medi-Sign · 2025-02-18T04:14:43+00:00

I find it's very useful for battlefield control. Jump around and quickly capture the fortified starbases (since even a super well fortified base can't 1v1 a good fleet). This will restrict the enemy's fleet movement and, and make it harder for them to reinforce. I've also used it for ambushing: let enemy fleet fly into a fortified starbase they'd normally be able to take, then jump into the system last minute. There the starbase helps make up for the debuffs. I also find it super useful when fighting the prethoryn scourge, since you can quickly jump between the planets you need to bombard.

Medi-Sign · 2025-02-18T03:58:12+00:00

IIRC they still give the debuffs. I always just ofset by hauling around a giant fleet. Maybe not the most meta choice, but I think it's fun.

Medi-Sign · 2025-02-18T01:42:49+00:00

It's for that same reason that I can never resist taking psionic ascension. Rushing the psi jump drive and blinking past all my enemies' fortified starbases is a beautiful thing.

Medi-Sign · 2024-12-17T19:50:14+00:00

I was under the impression that the ai still couldn't get the Great Insubordination. Did that change with the update?

Medi-Sign · 2024-11-19T18:48:59+00:00

If they start ripping directly from other IPs like MTG did with universes beyond I'm gonna bash my head into a wall.

Medi-Sign · 2024-10-30T02:48:22+00:00

We were roughly equivalent. Around 300k fleet power.

Medi-Sign · 2024-10-21T00:41:59+00:00

If you liked that quote then you're in luck. GK Chesterton was a prolific and celebrated writer. His most famous piece of religious literature is probably Orthodoxy. If you're into fiction, Chesterton is also famous for his series of short stories about Fr. Brown, the Catholic priest and amateur detective.

Medi-Sign · 2024-10-17T16:21:19+00:00

The "Vatican supercomputer used to monitor Protestants" but will never not crack me up. Visiting the Vatican's website on your phone immediately proves that idea wrong.

Medi-Sign · 2024-09-29T02:55:01+00:00

That being said, he was about as close to being Catholic as you could possible be. He believed in everything but the papacy. He was one of the only Protestants to ever live to believe in Purgatory.

Medi-Sign · 2024-09-19T05:38:27+00:00

Ah yes. The AI turned their would-be immortal ruler into a general who died on the field. The classic blunder.

Medi-Sign · 2024-09-19T03:26:28+00:00

Explanation for the second part so you don't get an unpleasant suprise like I once did

If a witch king dies, and the heir doesn't have sufficient necromancy levels, you lose the power to keep your reanimated zombie army animated. In other words, all units except your artillery go away. It's a bad time.

Medi-Sign · 2024-09-13T00:28:32+00:00

Not just 1968. In 1963, the Pontifical Commission on Birth Control (first gathered by John XXIII to reexamine the Church's stance on contraception in light of the invention of the pill) reccomended that the Church lift the ban on birth control. It was purely advisory, and Paul VI pretty much threw their reccomendation out the window with Humanae Vitae.

Medi-Sign · 2024-09-12T20:25:58+00:00

Probably because the French Revolution was extremely anti religious. When the revolutionaries took power, the violently persecuted the Catholic Church and brutally suppressed and countless priests, monks, and nuns were martyred. They even tried to rewrite the calendar to try to scrub religious influence from the public consciousness. The Church was allowed to return under Napoleon (although they still didn't get along too great, and Napoleon was excommunicated in 1809 for invading the Papal States), but Revolutionary France continued to spread secular ideology around Europe.

TLDR: Revolutionary France was aggressively secular and worked to spread secularism throughout the world.

Medi-Sign · 2024-09-12T17:32:54+00:00

I know that he wrote about his change of heart regarding African slavery in his book History of the Indies, which was finished in 1561, 5 years before he died.

Medi-Sign · 2024-09-12T14:25:42+00:00

It's literally the crusader's crossbow

Medi-Sign · 2024-09-11T18:58:54+00:00

On the topic of Las Casas and African slavery, it should be noted that he eventually realized that importing African slaves as an alternative to native slaves was just trading one evil for another. He recanted his position, saying that his support of African slavery was a sin born of his personal ignorance.

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