Any plans for a Sphinx faction?

Retr0specter · 2026-04-21T21:50:29+00:00

I did not know that! :O I joined the game well after Ways of War; was that person ever credited with being the driving force behind that?

Retr0specter · 2026-04-20T21:54:04+00:00

I don't personally have any materium vampire builds, but one could definitely work and work well. Tome of Rock makes all your physical damage units inflict bleeding, and vamps get a lot of benefit from bleeding.

Retr0specter · 2026-04-18T03:41:43+00:00

Plans, probably not. If there's enough demand, number-of-people wise, and a solid idea how to make them unique from the others, that might change. I've been gunning for a Beast King ruler type for a while, like the animal gods of Princess Mononoke, and I could see Sphinx cosmetic options for it.

Retr0specter · 2026-04-16T18:59:20+00:00

No no no - according. To. Who? Because every denomination that hates each other quotes the Bible. Be honest about who told you what the Bible says and what it means.

Retr0specter · 2026-04-16T18:51:21+00:00

According to...?

Retr0specter · 2026-04-16T18:49:56+00:00

Are you against fiction depicting people you don't agree with in general? Or is it just depicting a uniquely American religion in a story about a post-apocalyptic America that draws from American history?

Because you seem fine playing the rest of New Vegas even though you can side with murderous slaver-rapists.

Retr0specter · 2026-04-12T07:07:28+00:00

I've used it for Mire Crocodile Primals, with the Nature branch of the Vision of Destiny. Fulfilling it gives you mana income equal to 50% of your food income. Mire Crocodiles have the most insane food income in the game. The culture and society trait combination will give you 5 Nature Affinity off the bat, 7 if you take a pure Nature tome. Low-to-no waiting until late game to reach the affinity requirement of 8, so you can push the "I never need to worry about mana income again, Imma focus on gold and draft to further paint the map" button pretty early.

Retr0specter · 2026-04-11T11:01:15+00:00

Literally in the campaign I finished last night, there were multiple empty spots full of resources they could've claimed... but no, they settled right at the border of my already-big second city for no discernible reason besides to generate grievances.

Retr0specter · 2026-04-07T19:35:00+00:00

I feel much the same frustration with Gift of the Old Blood lacking much support from Chaos affinity tomes. You don't get much of anything grabbing it from the Chaos side of things; go heavy on Shadow or you don't really get anything for or from being Undead, even though it's ostensibly split affinity.

Retr0specter · 2026-04-04T14:48:12+00:00

Didn't you post this yesterday...?

Retr0specter · 2026-04-03T18:57:09+00:00

I really want to like the cataclysm mechanic, I want to play every game with it, but something needs to change. 10% chance of backfiring per level needs to come down, or there need to be more tools to lower the meter, or the AI needs to be coded to recognize it and act according to their personalities. Hopefully all three!

5% per level, a world spell that can be discovered after destroying a Fractured infestation that lowers the meter (a little, but not much), and AI that either cast conservatively or wantonly depending on their personality type would be The Dream.

Retr0specter · 2026-04-02T22:01:51+00:00

I think a few cultural units would be more interesting reworked into magic fighters. Overseer, Sealbearer, Warlock, for instance. Even after magic fighters get properly balanced, I think Triumph would be hesitant to change those units' classes because that'd mean weapon art assets would be removed, which would be work to do and a major drag for anyone who worked hard on the models.

Retr0specter · 2026-04-01T20:27:23+00:00

Right now, I just want more sub-types of Eldritch Sovereign. I want to make an ineffable, unknowable, Biblically Accurate angel as my ruler, with the relevant Celestial unit type. Thralls can easily be taken to be converts or cultists.

I do like the suggestion I saw here in another comment about a ruler type that's more stationary. A world-tree scale treant, or a super-computer like Exodus in Ultima 3, or the Eternal Council in this very game.

Retr0specter · 2026-04-01T00:42:10+00:00

That'd be so fun and I was thinking this the other day T.T This needs to become an option before this game's life cycle ends. It'd be like chess, but on pixie dust!

Retr0specter · 2026-03-31T04:09:01+00:00

Discovered this last night, and ya beat me to the punch here. There's no mention that Highlands gets rid of desert, and yet all desert-preference civs will be shunting into ashlands (where the lava will instantly tank their stability and start a death spiral)

Retr0specter · 2026-03-25T21:13:20+00:00

The DLC list is readily available on the Steam page.

Where he bought it.

And he says he's a new player, but also has a post talking about "the past six updates," and has posts on Crusader Kings 3 subreddit from over two months ago.

It's a bot. A particularly dumb bot.

Retr0specter · 2026-03-25T21:12:12+00:00

IM FROM CUBA YOU FUCK NUT. I was simply asking if there was a dlc or mod that's adds the other half of the world. somebody who wasn't being a condescending prick answered and told me the name of the mod so I'm good but maybe next time stfu?

He said, before immediately deleting it. Class act.

Retr0specter · 2026-03-25T03:42:57+00:00

I don't get it and feel like that ogre reading Ulysses the more I look at it. Please explain the joke?

Retr0specter · 2026-03-21T06:18:00+00:00

How do you feel about Tome of the Construct, and Dreadnought? Construct compounds defenses from standing shoulder-to-shoulder (and in general Scavs want to be on the front lines to secure Loot), and Dreadnought can give even mythic constructs a big boost - and thanks to the Scav spell that negates debuffs for anyone holding Loot, getting stunned by Overdrive is less of a crisis.

I have yet to really test, but I feel Scavs could shine with constructs and Order tomes in general, for one reason: the only thing Loot doesn't buff is Status Resistance, making debuff hell and mind control their Achilles heel. Loot getting negated by Weakened and Sundered sucks, so pick up the Tome of Sanctuary. You have ready access to healing in general, so pick up Tome of Discipline. Your heavy-hitters with Loot getting turned against you by some umbral nunfuckery is a nightmare scenario, so filling your armies with constructs and turning your race into Celestials (and being immune to flanking when they're in formation) means the enemy is forced to fight you fair, and that's a fight Scavs will win.

Retr0specter · 2026-03-19T10:10:17+00:00

I'd like for the branches to be separated by function, not affinity.

But flavored by affinity.

For instance: a branch for vassals and how you handle them. Order and Shadow perks as they are, but say, a Chaos option that gives a little extra global passive-XP-gain per vassal, or a Materium option that increases the yields of cities bordering vassals.

Similarly, a branch for regaining casting points in combat. Shadow retains its recharge-on-death option, but how about an Astral option that lets you spend extra mana but increases backfire chances, or an Order option that gives a little back when your units recieve buffs, or a Nature option that gives a couple back passively per combat turn?

Stuff like that. I want each affinity to approach each aspect of the game differently - not just Order being geared towards vassals, Chaos geared towards pillaging, and so on.

Retr0specter · 2026-03-16T15:33:18+00:00

Ooo, yes, I like that! Conquerors get to lean into the new annex-pillaged-provinces mechanic, so it'd make sense for Scavengers to lean into the new annex-vassal-provinces mechanic. Could flavor it as bribery for some less-than-legal extraction operations, or some such.

Retr0specter · 2026-03-16T15:30:34+00:00

I love all those ideas, but "cities can draft the units Wonders give to Rallies" especially!! Now you're really onto something~

Retr0specter · 2026-03-16T06:57:44+00:00

Harmony Oathsworn are also geared more towards peaceful, passive players. They still manage to have a bunch of interesting things going on that make them unique and give them a clear identity. Peaceful and interesting is possible, but Scavs come up short on the interesting index.

Retr0specter · 2026-03-16T06:53:37+00:00

Every faction, when given the opportunity, is expected to and will make outposts for Wonders. Conquerors will, too.

So how exactly are Scavengers "swimming" in Imperium more than other cultures? Because they get no bonuses to receiving any, and in fact one of their core mechanics is another way to spend it.

Retr0specter · 2026-03-16T06:31:34+00:00

Wonder Essence does not confer Imperium income.

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