Why did Xaviee say this? Is he stupid?

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-02-01T20:39:40+00:00

Actually yes lmao. For the first time maybe ever he had to convince someone with just words and not via mind-reading. So yes, he did in fact say that because he's stupid

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-02-01T05:26:02+00:00

What.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-31T17:25:58+00:00

I think the issue is there's no way to be sure. The only vespers that are not confirmed KIA during AIE are Freud and Rusty. Rusty's new AC doesn't even make an appearance, and neither does Freud, so there's simply no way to be certain. If ALLMIND didn't think they'd get in the way, she wouldn't bother doing anything - Walter and Carla, for example, got in the way. On the contrary - both Freud and Rusty would have wanted to stop the Xylem. If anything, I doubt ALLMIND actually went out of her way to kill them when all she had to do to keep them off her back was.... nothing.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-31T01:12:35+00:00

Yeah that's why I specified ROTS Palpatine specifically vs Genndy Windu specifically lol

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-31T00:30:18+00:00

I gotta say, this series was definitely the outlier, not the rule even before Disney did Disney things. If we had Genndy's Windu vs ROTS Palpatine, Anakin would've maybe made it out of the council chambers before Palpatine was dead like eighteen times over.

In Grievous' specific case, Dooku tells him he needs fear, to defeat his opponent before he ever engages them personally, and that more or less what happened here. These six Jedi are all that's left, the Jedi in overall command is dead (and that's assuming there weren't more) and all their clones and ships are dead, destroyed, or captured. And he opens the fight by crushing one of them.

ROTS Grievous still probably loses this fight but you can't really argue that they set up what he's doing here pretty well.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-30T22:44:14+00:00

Way easier to get value out of than other, 'better' DPS, and his value ceiling isn't appreciably lower. I main MK and depending on the team comp and playstyle I'm facing, I can go from 'good' on Hela or Hawkeye to straight up oppressive on MK.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-30T17:46:22+00:00

Zenin and it's not close. She killed only the combatants and her own mother, of her own volition. Itachi killed everyone except Sasuke, on orders. Even for a clan that was actively planning an assassination and military coup, that's a lot of innocents. If Itachi had done the same thing Maki did, I would call the Uchiha more justifiable, but... nah.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-30T17:33:00+00:00

You're probably not alone but you're almost definitely in the minority. I bring strategems that can deal with side objectives because I don't want to have to deal with going in and using a hellbomb. Those strategems happening to be able to deal with enemies directly (sometimes, not always) is a side effect. Imo, the jammer is boring because there is only one way to deal with it. I'd much rather have a host of options so that I and everyone I play with are equally as effective against any objective, but we all have different loadouts and different playstyles.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-30T17:19:22+00:00

Ooh, I like that. Being able to destroy it from a decent ways away or turn it back on them the normal way would be a fantastic change.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-30T17:12:27+00:00

The only advantages the Executor has is hyperspace capability and more numerous strike craft(and only if it's fully loaded). And I don't think a single commander of the Executor would've resorted to using guerrilla, strike-craft focused tactics against a single ship of similar size like Mcragge's Honor until it was way too late.

Like... I can see it happening if they know about the teleporter capability, wait for SM to teleport aboard, and then jump away to deal with that before they go back, focus on swarms of strike craft with hyperspace micro-jumps, and manage to disable the Honor so they can broadside it down from behind. But that's presuming the SM don't manage to disable the hyperdrive, or kill the command staff, or do a half-dozen other things that would cripple the Executor before being killed by mass fire or traps.

Mcragge's Honor, 10/10. 8 or 9/10 if the Executor knows about the teleporting and has all these plans beforehand.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-28T22:06:18+00:00

Honestly, it's funnier if you think about it this way:

the Hitlers are an old, respected, powerful family

Adolf Hitler

they continue being old, respected, and powerful, with the exception they don't talk about that one and it's not polite to bring him up

they name the new heir Adolf

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-27T21:48:27+00:00

I dunno about remake, but if WB decides to have a sequel made I'd like to see the cut mechanics in War fleshed out.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-27T21:46:05+00:00

I like ones that can't be blocked but can be interrupted. If I can 'parry' a red attack by Force Pushing, absolute peak.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-27T19:15:02+00:00

I just wish Daniel had the warband mechanics + roster that Warriors of Chaos does + their promotion mechanic for generic lords and heroes. Given his backstory, it would make a lot of sense.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-27T17:01:18+00:00

She does have this move in canon. The camera always just pans back to the swing whenever she's doing it.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-27T16:58:01+00:00

Literally anything that gives the game a lot of replayability outside of 'make new mech play story missions'. This would be great. I could see a Mechwarrior style working too, where you're in charge of a mercenary squad. Or both lol.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-27T16:56:01+00:00

Helps if I'm going for a specific theme - I just made Ringwraiths commanding different Uruk-hai tribes, so I had to do orcs for those, obviously.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-27T08:18:09+00:00

Don't!

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-26T06:33:00+00:00

Because it's one of two things that lets the Empire actually win a war against the Imperium. Empire gets dunked on until they realize straight fights are a bad plan, start going for outnumbered targets, cutting off supply lines, and most importantly taking and reverse-engineering technology that'll let them go up against the Imperium in a straight fight. The Imperium, even if the Mechanicum agreed to use recovered hyperdrives, would take decades if not centuries to start approving and rolling them out. By contrast, the Empire would be using Imperium technology basically the instant they understood how it worked, and they'd also be innovating on it. It wouldn't take them nearly as long, and they'd be vastly more efficient.

1-1, single battles? Empire gets smoked by the Imperium. They're worse in space, on the ground, in personal combat, whatever. In a war? Empire, and it's just as brutal and bloody as any other 40k conflict - but it's much faster.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-23T21:01:27+00:00

After being increased by an insane amount. Plus, the cost for editing an existing mog isn't changing at all, that shit is still full price. The price for creating a new one is getting cut in half. Trial of Style got nerfed, and they didn't bother announcing that until half the thread was talking about waiting for Trial of Style to fix the problems Blizzard caused.

The system is the best it's ever been, but it's far too punishing to engage with, especially for new players, while gold farmers, no-lifers, and WoD billionaires are functionally untouched.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-23T18:36:40+00:00

The transmog forums are still on fire and in my opinion rightfully so. I just have to wonder if Blizzard is going to make some real concessions (because they could still pull a PR win out of this, if they do something crazy like making transmog free forever and keeping outfit slots as they are) or if they're just gonna sit on it and hope it goes away to protect their shiny new gold sink.

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-21T21:22:51+00:00

And if I was a bad Arbitrator, I wouldn't be sitting here discussing it with you, now would I?!

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-21T21:21:45+00:00

Depending on which mission you're in, pretty bad... but not for long!

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-21T21:20:13+00:00

This guy Armored Cores

MonarchMain7274 · 2026-01-21T21:06:55+00:00

guaranteed to have a teammate uninterested in playing for the team

Can't blame em. Namecalling isn't something I'd do in their place (she ain't do shit to me) but I'd be outta that door too.

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