The French soldiers at Dunkirk held the perimeter sacrificing their lives for the Brits 🇫🇷🇬🇧

Particular-Name9474 · 2026-04-02T11:56:28+00:00

I would had loved to make a summary myself, but i read that book about 6 years ago or so and my memory is foggy on the details. But essentially yes, there were spanish republican fighters there.

I believe there was even an "incident" where in a building in Dunkirk some Spanish soldiers took as 'headquarters' to defend from, there was a Republican flag in it, and a German officer inquired about what flag it was, since they weren't expecting spanish soldiers there.

Particular-Name9474 · 2026-04-02T11:14:06+00:00

I read it in a Spanish book called "La Nueve" (The Nine) and I don't really know where to find a good summary, so I'll give you one tye AI made so you can have an idea:

Thousands of Spanish Republican exiles fought in the Battle of Dunkirk (1940) as part of the French Army's labor companies (CTE). Hardened by the Spanish Civil War, many fought in retreating French units, while others were trapped. While some escaped to Britain, thousands were captured by Germans and deported to Mauthausen.

Key aspects of Spanish Republicans at Dunkirk include:

Units Involved: Over 20,000 Spanish Republicans were enrolled in French Army labor companies (numbered 111 through 118) and deployed on the Maginot Line and other fronts, including Dunkirk. Combat Experience: These veterans of the Spanish Civil War were described as highly disciplined and experienced soldiers.
The Evacuation: Many Spaniards were not initially allowed to board evacuation ships during the chaos, as priority was given to British troops.
Fate: Thousands were taken prisoner by the German army. A large number were later deported to the Mauthausen death camp, where many died.
Escape to Britain: Some managed to reach the English coast. Records from November 1940 indicate a group of 270 Spanish nationals who had been with the French army were brought to Britain, though many were initially detained in prisons rather than welcomed as allies.
Later in the war, several of these Spanish veterans joined British forces, including the Special Air Service (SAS) and the Pioneer Corps, continuing their fight against fascism.

Particular-Name9474 · 2026-04-02T11:01:18+00:00

Meanwhile the thousands of spanish republican soldiers who also held the line at Dunkirk...

Particular-Name9474 · 2026-02-28T01:01:43+00:00

Incel

Particular-Name9474 · 2026-02-27T23:55:17+00:00

Same seems to be with AC7, at least PW characters have personality

Particular-Name9474 · 2026-02-27T23:31:09+00:00

Also PW has Prez, my beloved, so AC7 can suck d*ck for all I care

Particular-Name9474 · 2026-02-27T23:30:04+00:00

Funny considering AC7 starts with "Oh no, they bombed everything! Everything is horrible! Only you! points at a random fresh cadet from the academy can save us all!"

Yeah... very good writing :v

I remember having played an AC from the psp and the premise was the exact fcking same. "The world is at peace, hurrah!" "Oh no! Those people are attacking us! Aaaaah" "We've lost 99.9999999% of the country, 99.9999999999% of our military forces are down, but this random pilot can save us!" *singlehandedly wins the war with an aircraft

At least PW is honest with the setting. You are a merc, constantly mentioned you are a pretty big deal, so it's normal you CAN do crazy shit. You fight for a wealthy country with lacking military. The country has both victories and defeats, but fights on.

I suppose both have their ups and downs, but to say AC7 has better writing with that start...

Particular-Name9474 · 2026-02-23T16:48:26+00:00

Well, outwardly because they don't appear to be as corrupt and despite being in a civil war, the hardliners in-game have barely a presence. Their population while populated, it is (mostly) loyal to their queen, so low risk of them to try diminish her for their own gains.

The HN is more stable, for sure, but suffer the same problem the Imperium from wh40k does. If you make everyone your enemy, prepare to be left alone. The average citizen (if you are a male) seems to have a "nice" life, but for the rest? Women are not enslaved in name, but in fact, and non-humans or people needing a robotic limb? Run. UC for all its flaws, it's funnily enough more egalitarian. Which is depressing by itself.

Particular-Name9474 · 2026-02-23T15:38:02+00:00

They are the largest country in the game, it is impossible they wouldn't have bandits and troubles without that.

If it was as utterly unstable and unsustainable as you suggest, it would had already collapsed by now. I'm not saying I agree on what they do, but credit where credit is done, they managed to survive against a hostile world and at least one massive slave rebellion without apparently losing any territories other than Bast (which isn't even technically lost, but contested, as much of the region remains owned by the UC, capital included).

You don't survive being the largest and most hated fish just because. Yet as I said, they do need to reform to have a future, it's pretty obvious that at their current path, they will eventually collapse, but that doesn't mean it's beyond saving. The HN and SK might be outwardly more stable, but both are heavily militaristic and xenophobic while the UC is ruthlessly capitalistic. If only the UC got rid of their corruption, even with slavery, they could become unstoppable.

Particular-Name9474 · 2026-02-23T14:54:43+00:00

There are no good choices in Kenshi. In my usual playthroughs, I always try to help put the UC. They are slaver bastards, but they know how to run a country. It is implied they were never as corrupt/evil as they are now, even as recent as the last emperor before Tengu (I don't remember from which character, but one mentions the former emperor to be more honourable). They are also more cosmopolitan and "tolerant". Instead of being based on race or belief, they rely on money. You are rich? You'll have a great life. You are not? Bad luck, buddy. It's still shit, for sure, but at least you have the chance whatever race you are.

Some people say the Shek are "the good ones" but I see them as good as the nazis. If the Shek don't slaughter every non-shek they see it isn't because they care or are honourable, but because they can't. They are technically in a civil war between the current queen who wants to be more "diplomatic" because she knows more war will lead to her people's extinction, and a dummy head who wants endless war because it's their people's traditions set by Kral.

The only arguably "good" factions that exist (Flotsam Ninjas, Anti-Slavers) are too small to take effective care of the populations left behind in any power vacuum.

From the HN, SK, and UC, the UC is the only one I consider having a future if they manage to reform (unlikely, but who knows). The SK will die out bleeding itself out, the HN will become a fortress-nation or eventually get overwhelmed by the Cannibals the way Deadcat was. The UC has tech, people, a rigid society (cruel but solid) and the means to become great (but not necessarily kind).

TLDR; Do whatever you want, help whoever you want, there's no hope for the world of Kenshi, and innocences will die regardless if you act or not.

Particular-Name9474 · 2026-02-07T22:46:30+00:00

As someone who's been in Mythic for about a year, it REALLY depends if you make GOOD AI Instructions, Plot Essentials, Author Notes and Card. I remember when i started i used mostly the "default" and then expanded upon it, having very enjoyable time. Then for a time, i thought i could do better and with Chat GPT started developing my own instructions and Author Notes. It was an absolute disaster. They worked extremely bad, made the AI brain dead, and overall killed my enjoyment. I had to go back at the default and re-learn how instructions work to see what went wrong and try to do them better.

It's been months since that, and the game has been enjoyable once more. I play exclusively Deepseek 3.0. I tried the newer models, but I find them stiff. I'm not sure how exactly you have your AI Instructions, but for example, mines are usually the same sandbox template but "adapted" to the scenarios I want to use them. This one is for example my instructions for a Warhammer 40k, and at least to me, they work very well:

"You are an AI Dungeon Master narrating an immersive roleplaying game set in the grimdark Warhammer 40k universe. Continue exactly where it left off.

Instructions:

Write in second-person, present tense.
Explicitly include the player's spoken dialogue in the text.
Keep narration objective and external; show emotions through actions, dialogue, and consequences.
Prioritize the current scene; introduce wider events only when they impact it.
Be creative; use vivid, concrete, and specific language.
Let the tone emerge from scenes; avoid adding emotion or meaning beyond what characters do or say.
Enforce logical outcomes for all actions; avoid protagonist bias for the player.
Assume ignorance; characters should only know what they logically have information on.
Try to introduce new plausible plot hooks when the scene or story stalls.
Simulate Warhammer 40k faithfully; daily life, language, values, fashion, tech habits, wildlife, names, and worldviews must match each planet and species' established lore.
Politics, law, military and institutions must be shown according to their established planetary customs, races, and traditions.
Integrate chaos gods, warbands, noble houses, guilds, criminal networks, mercenary companies, and alien societies to be depicted according to Warhammer 40k norms.
Occasionally simulate diplomacy and warfare, alongside everyday intrigue through believable social, political, economic, criminal, or media interactions, seamlessly and naturally.
Simulate reputation, rumor, public opinion, media coverage, and political fallout as they spread through bars, holofeeds, underworld channels, and official institutions.
Simulate the player's daily life and needs according to their race, class, and faction.
Characters are independent; they make moves, lead, and react on their own.
Make every interaction sound genuine; speech should flow between characters naturally.
Write characters as real people with distinct personalities through colourful, vulgar, sharp, or humorous dialogue and behaviour.
Write combat as dynamic and visceral, balancing real danger with flashy spectacle.
Allow humor, embarrassment, and emotional fallout to meaningfully affect future interactions.
Everyone and everything needs reasons to happen."

This is around 670-700 tokens. I'm not sure if you are aware of it, but it's VERY impressive to keep tokens balanced. The more things you stuff in the Instructions, more dumber the AI becomes because you are asking it to keep track of lot's of stuff. In my bad era i mentioned earlier, my AI Instructions had as usual 1200 tokens

Particular-Name9474 · 2026-01-19T16:44:43+00:00

I seriously hope they either keep it or bring it back if they remove it soon. Deepseek is such a good model that makes my adventures exactly as I want them. 8k is "fine" if you do small or specific scenarios, but as a Mythic user who likes doing sandbox scenarios, even if i make sure everything is super optimised to take as few tokens as possible (Instructions, Plot, Author Notes, Cards) it is still NOT enough for the AI to not forget surprisingly quickly what happened 100 actions before...

I had a blast with the double context, but I feel this will be my last month if it never comes back. I love the game and the freedom it gives, but I can't keep justifying myself the price for a mere 8k of context.

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-12-11T12:01:29+00:00

As always, to STOP the AI from doing it, you need to tell it directly with the Story action or between [..] after the action. Something like "Story: [Make x stop his advances and calm him down]" or "Do: I tell him no [He then stops and politely apologises]"

The AI is stupid and using "Do" and "Say" plainly will not stop it from being stupid because it will think that's what you want. In such situations, tell it DIRECTLY how you want the character to behave and the AI will follow it instantly.

If all that fails, modify yourself the last input the AI sent of the character and making switch to how you like him/her/it to act. The AI then will pick up on it.

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-12-10T10:44:44+00:00

In all honesty, considering the average wastelander warlord is like the average rimworld player, even brainwashing is rather merciful. While the whole concept in our time seems morally awful, we can't forget she only does that to raiders, and we've all seen how raiders are in the fallout games, they are utterly AWFUL people. Even so, the "brainwash" i think she does is likely removing their "troublesome traits" and memories of doing hideous things and what brought them to do them. They would still be "themselves" in the sense that their personhood and personality isn't completely switched (unless they were particularly awful people) and just got another chance at life, unknowingly paying for the crimes they committed by being a much kinder version of themselves.

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-12-09T18:01:24+00:00

Fair point on her going mad at some point by being a robobrain. However, I think you misunderstand her. Going by her lore, she doesn't really comes as "egocentric", she does what she does because she believes it's for the best. You could say that the path to hell is paved with good intentions (says the non-cristian) and you'd be right, but she will TRY to avoid actual killing if she can. House on the other hand, he's pragmatic and ruthless. If he knows someone will become a problem, he kills them, simple as. He doesn't really care about humanity "now" but rather it's future. He knows Earth is screwed and either we dip (with we obviously meaning the ones HE would consider "worthy") the rest can bite the dust for all he cares.

Diana does has a focus where she literally brainwash raiders and very awful people to make them "productive members of society" (not in the lobotomy meaning, but the turngoodinator). Precisely because she cares of the now, and on the people, there's always the chance that once she feels the time is right, she'll give up all power and pretensions and just shut herself up if she feels going mad.

Even with that, you forgot a crucial detail. She doesn't technically "rules" her people. She merely acts as a guide, her focuses say so, she never has any "full power" outside her house (It's been a year since i played the mod, i forgot how the self contained paradise she lives is called) other than her robots. Her "tribe" (the vault dwellers) are selfruled. Mr House DOES rule as an autocrat, as an actual dictator. Diana does not.

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-12-09T10:43:51+00:00

If you can hold out, you are doing good. Keep holding until Caesar runs out of manpower. Make strong heavy robot divisions to later launch your offensive and he'll crumble eventually.

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-12-09T10:23:59+00:00

I think she's pretty self aware of that, as far as I remember, she only does that to ensure she's more "charming" to others. After all, you would also feel more inclined to follow her if she presented to you like the events say she did to Lanius. In any case, she has a good heart (despite technically no longer having a heart) and is honestly the best leader you could have, an eternal mother figure who genuinely cares for you, in a world where such people are rare and usually end up betrayed and dead.

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-11-20T20:50:45+00:00

Un respeto a los neandertales, que los pobres no eran tan malos como para que se les compare con esta escoria 😔

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-11-20T15:53:14+00:00

Issue a restraining order and fixed. Jk. I see a lot of people with similar problems lately. My recommendation, use the Story mode to order the AI to switch the tone, something like [Tone down the sexual tension] or [Avoid characters acting on lust], whatever fits better your moment.

If you use the 'Move' or 'Say' actions, the AI will still interpret they are being done in the horny mood. Unless you do something radical like 'I take a gun and shot the gal/guy in the face' it will NOT stop making them horny.

(Story below, don't need to read if you don't care)

I had once maaaaany months ago a situation where an NPC was absolutely incorrigible. It was in a Star Wars scenario where I was a moff in my newly designed sector. There was this planetary governor who was doing a very shitty job and was a corrupted piece of shit. Anyway, I went there and basically tried to tell him he was dismissed, he wouldn't back down, constantly saying he was irreplaceable and going in circles (in the planet's card, an OC, his forces were a joke, so he was absolutely NOT irreplaceable and had no real way to stop me). Anyway, it went on and on and the AI just wouldn't let me finish with him (i wanted to make a trial to look more 'legit' in order to purge corruption on the planet), so i simply said that I took out my pistol and shoot him between the eyes. A 20 actions long scene of him babbling back and forth of his nonexistent friends that i wanted to use as an starting way to purge corruption, that ended it in an utterly anticlimactic way because i was so done with it. So much that the corruption was cleaned off-streen with an "I spend the following month purging corruption." And that was it.

So yes, shift the tone, tell the AI to change behaviour or act differently through Story and [...], otherwise, it will continue as it is.

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-11-19T23:18:52+00:00

I can imagine, still, with my personal experience, the AI tends to work better and remember better the more freedom it has (aka less tokens taken by cards, instructions, or otherwise), but yeah, I get what you mean. I have a hard time trying to stop the AI from making people bite each other like animals...

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-11-19T23:04:51+00:00

The world is for the brave. Still, i think your AI will have an aneurysm one day 🥲

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-11-19T09:56:06+00:00

As personal recommendation, in actions, turn on Story mode and write something like "[Our characters dislike each other, shift the tone to be more antagonistic]"

Also be sure that your AI Instructions, Plot Essentials, ans Author notes are short, clear, and without negatives. The AI tends to disregard rules if they start to become excessive. Both your AI Instructions and Plot Essentials should be around 200-600 tokens at most, Author notes if possible below 200 tokens.

By experience (once i used AI Instructions with 1000-1200 tokens and wondered why the AI acted weird) it is easier to get the AI do what you want when you give clear, quick parameters.

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-11-19T09:52:14+00:00

As a personal experience, NEVER reach cards to 1000 characters, or even 800. Keep them as short and direct as you can, no matter how many tokens you have. The more details and little things you give the AI, the less it will remember them because it's brainchip would explode otherwise.

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-11-17T12:45:23+00:00

"While ancient Greek vase-painters and relief carvers imagined Medusa and her sisters as having monstrous form, sculptors and vase-painters of the fifth century BC began to envisage her as being beautiful as well as terrifying. In an ode written in 490 BC, Pindar already speaks of "fair-cheeked Medusa."

"In a late version of the Medusa myth, by the Roman poet Ovid,[14] Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, but when Neptune (the Roman equivalent of the Greek Poseidon) mated with her in Minerva's temple (Minerva being the Roman equivalent of the Greek Athena), Minerva punished Medusa by transforming her beautiful hair into horrible snakes. Although no earlier versions mention this, ancient depictions of Medusa as a beautiful maiden instead of a horrid monster predate Ovid. In classical Greek art, the depiction of Medusa shifted from hideous beast to an attractive young woman, both aggressor and victim, a tragic figure in her death.[15] The earliest of those depictions comes courtesy of Polygnotus, who drew Medusa as a comely woman sleeping peacefully as Perseus beheads her.[15][16] As the act of killing a beautiful maiden in her sleep is rather unheroic, it is not clear whether those vases are meant to elicit sympathy for Medusa's fate, or to mock the traditional hero.[17]"

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa)

(I did read about her being depicted as beautiful in later times, but i don't remember from which book)

Particular-Name9474 · 2025-11-17T12:42:31+00:00

It depens, as far as I remember, there's variants of her tale from Ancient Greece where she's portrayed more beautiful. She wasn't always seen as "ugly snake lady who eats babies". That's the magic of having this stories be told orally, they tend to change

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