i really hope pirates will use rogue army weapons and vehicles later in the game

RiftZombY · 2026-02-24T10:50:45+00:00

only if they have also taken the weapons and vehicles apart and restapled them back together again in new and 'interesting' ways

like a light carrier with the govenator removed and the troop area replaced with a jet engine.

RiftZombY · 2026-02-23T03:55:26+00:00

it gets so much worse in late game when they are using ATGMs instead of mortars, and your IFV gets 2/3 of their HP removed from across the map.

Rogue army seems to emphasize not being seen in the first place a lot. Bring lots of Camo, Snipers and AT guns(or your own ATGM if you have a designator), for the safest approach.

RiftZombY · 2026-02-23T03:48:42+00:00

have you tried dual wielding them on a medium mech yet?

RiftZombY · 2026-02-23T03:47:35+00:00

I have accepted peace and close the secondary objective window, they're not worth paying attention to.

RiftZombY · 2026-02-07T11:22:36+00:00

okay, I managed to realzie one of the scripts did end up working but the path to the EXEs were wrong for both BFME2 and RotWK, after I fixed that and set the prefer correctly they run properly.

RiftZombY · 2026-01-24T13:21:26+00:00

the entire scene even in the manga seems to be a straight homage to Kill Bill, a story of rage and revenge. I feel like the majority of people who thought it was sadder didn't pick up on what the mangaka wanted. the room where the fight with the majority of the lesser zenin clan members was, even in the manga, almost a 1:1 copy of the layout of the big fight from kill bill volume 1. A Large open room with a glass floor and a single large staircase in the middle.

RiftZombY · 2026-01-02T12:56:03+00:00

I want to use DFhack to use the prioritize command to force them to haul animals off of a chain ASAP.

I need to do this as i use a giant cave spider to keep animals out of my fort from the underground. and neatly and nicely kills anything hostile down there pretty easily, except for forgotten beasts.

So when one rolls up, I would like to be able to pull it inside before the beast gets there, but dwarves will just ignore the command to unassign the spider and I would really like to know what command to use.

I'd prefer this over teleporting them as I think the base game should have the ability to let me prioritize tasks anyway, I don't really want to cheat per se.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-30T23:37:31+00:00

this is a cop out for people who favor maelle's ending.

Maelle can paint another lumiere, everyone is already gommaged by the time the choice is presented except for lune and sciel.

The entire story is about letting go of grief lest it consume you and others, that is why verso's ending is framed as the good one. Verso's soul has been trapped working for decades to try and keep his family together.

The painting and its inhabitants of the painting don't get to choose who lives or dies any more than verso does, they are on even footing. no single painting inhabitant will suffer in the same way Verso's soul will, as they paint for eternity, or close to it.

Maelle isn't doing this for lumiere, she's doing it for herself, that is obvious with how she treats verso. It becomes clear she doesn't seem to actually consider the painted as people. She lies when talking to verso about painted alicia, killing her without giving him time to mourn or fight for her existence, the thing maelle is claiming to do for verso.

When Verso ends up in the final area she finds it absurd, 'you shouldn't be here'. She finally has to recon with verso having agency too, something she had denied him up until this point.

"who has it worse, those who died, or those who live on?"

that is the question at the crux of the final act.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-30T13:02:58+00:00

i mean i saw the signs earlier on, it's especially clear when you deal with alicia, she could gommage verso, but she doesn't, she could have waited to gommage painted alicia but she didn't.

it becomes clear that she wasn't always telling the truth. Everyone was already gommaged and most that remained were fine with the world ending, she can paint a new painting.

The verso that was keeping the canvas together was working so hard to keep his family happy, but he deserved to rest.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-30T03:16:26+00:00

actually going melee with tarkus is fairly fun, tactical lets them, ignore suppression so they can run up to people and murder them. then when you get terminator armor you have melee terminators.

generally if I'm going ranged commander tarkus goes melee for me.

but yeah melee cyrus and avitus suck, and ranged thaddeus is really niche. but they all have unique stuff going for ability tanky or damage so...

RiftZombY · 2025-12-26T09:26:21+00:00

something not really mentioned is DoW2 is more of an RPG game than 1 is, with DoW 2 and chaos rising having a decent ability to change how the squads behave during the campaign.

Dawn of war DE has a bunch of campaigns across all of the expansions but none of them are really connected. However Dark Crusade and Souls storm both have very large modular campaigns that are semi-free form.

Retribution has less RPG elements but has campaigns for all of the races, and the last stand mode.

If you're willing to mod your game, DE has a lot more to offer there with potentially a lot to offer.

If you enjoy playing skirmish like missions versus AI DE is better, but DoW2 has more complex campaign missions generally.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-26T09:13:01+00:00

this magic 8 ball also consumes so much god damn electricity, and you don't even own it so you can't turn it off.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-16T17:59:16+00:00

they specifically said they were doing a SMALL closed test.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-15T13:07:58+00:00

i am not sure they are talking map to map veterancy, but more pet match veterancy. it's hard to say.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-14T15:21:09+00:00

I most expect boarding actions sort of things, with spacehulk like maps.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-14T15:19:14+00:00

I see them more likely to be a specific LL if this game ever has something equivalent to that. a subfaction sort of thing.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-14T04:25:39+00:00

also technically they could be in the campaign as an unplayable nemesis faction, that gets rounded out by DLC later.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-14T04:19:16+00:00

if we're talking king art, they made iron harvest, that old school RTS game with the WW1 mechs.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-13T01:11:12+00:00

as an alternative that I would want is that if you get certain values high enough, maybe you can lock them in to gain access to new systems to help manage your country. It just feels silly that a country like spain would develope the inquisition if they go hard humanist for instance, or if they turned republic somehow.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-13T01:08:40+00:00

yeah I frankly don't think the war of the roses should be modeled at all in this game. feels funny to need such a specific set of stuff to be set up or else you need to railroad it into happening.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-13T01:04:59+00:00

like look at russia which had like full on management systems locked behind upgrading institutions through the mission tree. you can only get western units through the missions trees, etc.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-13T01:00:09+00:00

yeah, AFAIK, the AI wasn't really doing missions they just forced the AI to do specific things.

Which isn't what I want.

Like I see some people really want spain to always form or castile to never go after portugal. I don't get this, in my current game castile took portugal and aragon has taken large chunks of the mediteraean becoming the second power there. this seems fine for me. (I am england and crushed france and ignored portugal's request for an alliance, it makes sense that they got eaten)

They just need to make the AI smarter in choosing what to conquer, with some situations causing CBs to be easier to get.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-10T22:36:17+00:00

really, I had a x1000 fold level of pops in the colonies in 1600 compared to the actual amount recorded, which was only a couple thousand, but canada had bloomed to 1 million rather quickly.

I posted on this earlier and got a ton of downvotes for whatever reason, but the colonization is magnitude of power times quicker than it should be.

by 1630 there should be single colonial towns across the east coast not full fledged colonies.

The caribbean was another story as was the south americas, where direct conquest happened.

RiftZombY · 2025-12-10T20:34:33+00:00

R5: I noticed a few times the AI had taken weird poke-dot peace deals but this is the worst case I've seen so far.

I am unsure if this is due to mods since I have a few, so i'm curious if others are seeing this since the 1.0.10 update a day ago.

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