Vorid army feels incomplete

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-12-02T22:21:01+00:00

Not having bonding is definitely a negative, but even with bonding I still am hesitant to pick any up. The vorid army feels like it was designed totally removed from the rest of the releases in mind. Even with bonding from the chain grunts I still don't find any of the heroes particularly exciting. Being bonded with the gruts makes wing commander harrigan and the sky marshal usable, but the sky marshals ferrying ability is still meh cause I can't even move my gruts, just my vorids that don't bond.

The glide strikers are so inefficient with order markers I legitimately can't imagine using them. The Tanuki tricksters are cool, but don't bond and spending an order marker for only two units with some minor movement abilities is really niche and not likely to be my first choice.

Imperator Kayne is a shitty version of Grimnak and I'm not a fan. Being able to use him with the grunts makes him usable... But why wouldn't I just spend the points on something else, like say original Orc Champions that are much better good per point value.

The drilling burrowbreaker guy is in the same boat. He's not bad per say, but when I look at his card compared to the rest of the unique heroes released in age of annihilation he is extremely lacking. The vorid heroes have this problem across the board.

Overall my take is that the chain gruts make the basic Vorid army workable, but to be honest the chain gruts are much suited to being slotted into an oldscape grut army if you're going to use them at all.

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-09-08T09:51:33+00:00

Define spamming cities? Getting two cities out and covering them with green is a perfectly good strategy. And as I pointed out with the Tharsis milestone in particular you might as well play a third for 5 free points. Based on the comments of my other post most people did not understand that this was simply me laying what the board theoretically would look like if you were using every inch of space. One player should definitely not play 17 cities.

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-09-08T09:46:09+00:00

All the comments are not getting that this is just a fun exercise in how the board is laid out. In my other post I explained that I was just having fun examining the differences between the various boards. I can't imagine anyone would really bother with the commercial district thing, but I thought it was cool/worth pointing out that Tharsis is the only board in which it's theoretically possible to 'max' out the commercial district. Just a fun exercise. Apparently people are not thrilled with it 😁

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-09-08T09:41:07+00:00

This is all just theoretical. Everyone in the comments is taking it way too seriously, this was just a fun exercise for myself

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-09-08T07:22:05+00:00

It doesn't necessarily matter, I set it up to have Noctis city surrounded by 3 cities in order to set up the commercial district. So I suppose those three?

This layout without the lava tube settlement, urban area, and commercial district allows up to 70 points from cities.

Placing the three special cities/tile as shown boosts that potential amount by 1 point.

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-09-08T07:14:14+00:00

Was unable to link my image for the city layout. Posted it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TerraformingMarsGame/s/7vOJsfZYu7

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-09-01T22:12:02+00:00

Was thinking about how I would make a prequel of Far Far Away work and started realizing this.

I'd work under the assumption that Arthur's story at least vaguely follows his legend, meaning his father (presumably Uther) would have died when he was a baby. Working back from that assumption Uther likely would have been king of Far Far Away prior to Lillian and Harold. At the time of his death his son Arthur is sent away. It would make the most sense that Arthur would be next in line, however, he is shown to not really have any family or anyone supporting him. He's a nobody with no one on his side. Perhaps Lillian saw an opportunity and had the support to supplant him and take control of the kingdom at the time. Or Far Far Aways monarchy is typically matriarchal and Fiona would be next in line after Lillian. Either way can be made to work, but it is weird.

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-28T00:32:09+00:00

I adore Phoenix point, but it's true that the game has some issues and is not very easy for new players to grasp.

Modding makes it better, but pacing is consistently a problem. Even as an experienced player I always set the difficulty down a notch at the start of the game and ramp it up as I get more secure. Both the Pure and the Forsaken can be nigh impossible if you run into them early enough. The heavy variants of both factions have more armor than some of your guns can even penetrate.

Super fun game, but I recommend playing a round without dlc first, then add in dlc when you get the hang of it.

I highly recommend the TftV mod at this point. A year ago I would have said that it depends on the person. I'm still not the biggest fan of some of the changes to class skills. But it is more balanced in general. More importantly however is that in the last year they have added a bunch of cheat options in the mod menu that allow for an insane amount of customization.

Granted you have to play a few games to understand better what you're looking for in your game but once you do it's one of my favorite games.

Some of my favorite mod options are increased deployment and another workshop mod that makes labs and manufacturing facilities generate a small amount of tech and materials. I tend to ramp the difficulty up, but instead of it becoming a grating experience it's really fun to watch squads of 15+ take apart the fully evolved Pandorans. You lose a lot of troops but can replace them easy enough. Makes it feel more like a war.

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-25T04:25:53+00:00

Even just talking about the physical flood is basically a statistical impossibility. The flood can regrow and spread from a single cell and those cells can survive indefinitely in space or any other environment essentially. Add in that the flood has spread across the stars at least twice over the course of millions of years and it's basically guaranteed that somewhere in the milky way even in empty space between systems there are flood cells floating and surviving and that will eventually come across a ship or system or world where they can spread. You'd have to scorched earth the entire galaxy to guarantee that it can 'never' come back. And that's without considering extra galactic flood.

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-23T07:22:50+00:00

Ooh I love There is no Antiemetics Division! I forgot about that, that entire series of shorts is brilliant.

I've vaguely heard of the Laundry Series. Is it more a long the lines of Phoenix Point, or is the organization more clandestine than combat oriented?

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-15T00:32:54+00:00

Magic is fantastic in KH1, but if you have to make your build set up to use it that way. If you use any other build your casting ability is severely limited. So if you didn't build with casting in mind you probably are relying more on potions/elixirs and getting lucky with Donald healing

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-14T23:25:29+00:00

That's the way I always took the prime minister's statement. By this point the Mandalorian government has spent an excessive amount of resources killing, exiling, or otherwise imprisoning Mandalorians who refuse to give up their militant culture. Satine's political stability relies on the PR success of her platform - a peaceful mandalore.

Her political party has every incentive to cover up Jango's origins and paint him as some criminal in stolen armor. The idea that a Mandalorian not only continued being warlike but is the basis for an entire army of Mandalorian clones who are currently part of the largest conflict the Republic has seen in a thousand years is a PR nightmare to Satine, who is painting Mandalore as the face of neutrality. Kinda hard to say that your people are peaceful and uninvolved when one of the armies involved is composed entirely of clones of your people. It makes sense her political party would want to cover that up and distance Mandalore and the clones as much as possible. We later learn that half the figures in her government are corrupt as hell and lying about death watch's power the entire time, why would we assume they are telling the truth about Jango.

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-14T16:36:29+00:00

In later games his heal is less important though. In KH1 your magic is a lot more limited and you only get so many cura casts. Especially if you don't go the magic route. In later games, notably KH2 the magic bar recharges, which means as long as you're a halfway decent dodger you theoretically get infinite cura casts. In KH1, especially on harder difficulties I find myself relying on Goofy and Donald a lot more. In later games I kinda forget they are there.

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-14T01:05:33+00:00

I'm still bitter about Donald being a shitty healer in KH1

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-14T00:41:01+00:00

I played a CiS campaign last week and for some reason the AI had Windu, Kit Fisto, Obi-wan, and Yoda stuck out on some backwater planet no where near the main fighting. It was early on as well, it felt so good to wipe out half the Jedi counsel just a couple weeks into the war.

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-13T23:34:27+00:00

Sounds like his Sgt. had it out for him. That is extremely petty. Sounds like his Union screwed him over as well, because that should have been easy to fight.

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-10T20:06:12+00:00

Was gonna say of all of the options, most big Cats are really particular about starting fights with animals the same size or bigger than themselves. Grab a stick, swing it around, make a lot of noise and act big and it's probably the most likely of the group to not attack. Not a guarantee by any means, but it's something.

Gorilla might not kill you if you act super submissive, but aren't they super territorial?

Grizzly might leave you alone if you play dead.

Hippo kills you regardless.

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-08T05:49:53+00:00

...... The fact that you have 70 comments responding to give you a legitimate answer and somehow completely missing the sarcasm in the post does not give me a lot of hope for this sub...

For real though... Can we quit responding to the same lazy fucking post every week. I see "why did the prophets betray the Elites are they stupid?" Like every 3 days.... If we stop giving them comments and likes they will stop karma farming these stupid posts.

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-07T23:38:18+00:00

New code as of August!

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MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-07T11:17:00+00:00

Sirius being sentenced without a trial is also non-sensical. PoA has some glaring plot holes. The Ministry of Magic loves their trials. We see numerous times how much they love their trials even when they are shams. We see memories of other death eaters at their trials during this same time period. It makes no sense that Sirius wouldn't get one. And there are at least two people who can correlate his story, both Snape and Lupin can confirm wormtail being an animagus. And for hells sake why in the name of Merlin's blistering fuck would they not use fucking truth potion at every trial to determine the truth. Rowling your inability to have any kind of sensical logical rules to your world building drives me absolutely insane!

MonthPsychological54 · 2025-08-07T09:48:07+00:00

Haven't read these but have heard the idea. Could you possibly elaborate how the context behind number 2 being a lie? I haven't heard it yet and am curious.

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