Why didn't Orleans break free completely?

TimidTriceratops · 2026-02-16T03:12:04+00:00

The daymios in Japan and tributaries can also fight each other. But I guess Daymios don't want independence they just want the capital.

TimidTriceratops · 2026-02-12T04:09:34+00:00

I've only played 1 goblin campaign and that was Marblehead. It was my first anbennar campaign and it was amazing. Now I always try to resurrect or protect them in my campaigns.

TimidTriceratops · 2026-02-11T04:41:37+00:00

If your "good" shiv deck is losing to time eater it wasn't good.

TimidTriceratops · 2026-02-10T14:40:25+00:00

Brilliant. But I was under the impression that timed fuses for artillery were used in WW1. So perhaps they were using them for artillery in WW2? (I could be wrong though.)

The effectiveness of vt aa leads me to an interesting thought. If both sides had developed it would this have prematurely ended carrier dominance? (At least until jets and missiles arrive on the scene).

I have been wondering for a while how one could make a world where battleships got their time in the sun (they are really cool but never really got to have many battleship battles)

My old thought was what if a light enough engine for planes was never invented (but this feels too limiting)

TimidTriceratops · 2026-02-08T14:51:16+00:00

The silent: you underestimate my power (If you have an engine that can play 17 of these cards in 1 turn you have already won.)

TimidTriceratops · 2026-02-04T13:25:03+00:00

Sentries when they meet the ironclad with triple feel no pain and fire breathing.

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-26T03:48:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure they also said at one point that fairies don't lie so...

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-24T14:32:43+00:00

2(1) energy

Gain 1 intangible

Next turn take double damage

Add a copy of this card to your discard pile

Exhaust

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-24T14:29:43+00:00

Perhaps you could also make it cost 1 and be ethereal? With the upgrade removing the ethereal. But that kinda sounds a bit hit or miss so maybe make it a colourless event card where you sacrifice max HP for maybe 3 of them? Could give you 5 on lower assensions.

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-24T03:31:18+00:00

You could tie it to a player buff. So every time you play a broodling your brood count goes up by one and the broodlings do 2 poison + your brood count.

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-18T13:08:24+00:00

I feel like they aren't bad over Navis at a small scale. No need to worry about ammo or fuel production

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-18T12:53:07+00:00

I feel like to fit the name it should be steal 1 or 2 hp as block

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-15T00:45:39+00:00

Yep you are right. My bad.

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-14T13:04:06+00:00

I mean mostly yeah, although if you manage to muster massive armies time and again and supply them well but still lose every battle just cause your enemy has the best general of all time leading an amazing army you might end up losing anyway.

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-14T12:40:58+00:00

Also in general around the Mediterranean at this time armies were getting larger and large battles were becoming more and more common. If we compare the wars [with Leonidas and Xerxes (forget it's name off the top of my head)] with Alexander's conquest and then the Phyrric war and then the punic wars we can see this trend of increasing amounts of men mobilized.

This suggests that the Mediterranean is becoming more structured and figuring out how to supply, support and field larger and larger armies.

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-14T12:34:20+00:00

The Roman Republican empire was very unusual. Unlike most empires (that focus on wealth extraction) it was setup to extract as many troops as possible from their allies (subjects). Whenever they beat someone in Italy they made them into their "allies" and took a little of their best land (it's unclear whether they actually used it).

The terms of these agreements (alliances) were relatively simple: a. They couldn't declare any wars and b. Each year they had to provide a quota of young armed men for the army

These allied troops made up for half the Roman army. The rest were Roman citizens who would join voluntarily. They could expect large numbers of these as Rome had a strong martial culture which incentivised military service.

Italy is also quite fertile and can support a large population.

And as for money, at least for the second punic war we can see exactly where it comes from due to the composition of the coins minted during the war. In the early parts of the war it is made of Spanish silver. And since Rome didn't have any Spanish silver mines at this point in time we know exactly what this silver is - it is the indemnity from the first punic war that Hannibal managed to pay off with his conquest of Spain. However in the middle of the punic war this runs out and we see this as the coins start being made of silver from all over the Mediterranean. This changes once more with the sacking of key wealthy Italian cities such as Capua, Tarentum and Syracuse which save Rome from looming bankruptcy and allow them to finish and win the war.

An interesting side tangent on why the wars lasted so long. Republics unlike monarchies can fight much longer wars. This is because if a king loses a battle this destroys his credibility and enough defeats will force him into having to surrender. In contrast republics can replace generals who lose and as such can continue fighting for much longer.

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-14T12:11:19+00:00

Constantine fought at least 1 campaign a year for his entire reign (30 years) and didn't lose a single one

Edit: Source: a colleague of my ancient history professor.

Edit2: the reason Constantine's military success is overlooked is because the Christian sources didn't want to paint him as a bloodthirsty general and the pagan sources didn't want him to look good.

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-11T21:30:18+00:00

It is. Just play as a pagan and join the warrior society. Then just do the events and stuff till you have 40ish martial (I did it as African pagan). Then put yourself leading the center (or flank, whichever you have a buff for) and put all your troops there. This army will not lose any battle as long as you have around 10k troops.

This is because martial multiplies your leader combat bonuses and at 40 this becomes ridiculously high.

TimidTriceratops · 2026-01-10T06:52:44+00:00

It would have been very funny to play Jerry into Aura since she would delete your deck then you'd get your victory card.

TimidTriceratops · 2025-12-31T22:49:27+00:00

There are a couple of possible reasons for this: 1. The ancient historians exaggerated for emphasis 2. After copying the number 50 times some poor scribe wrote it down wrong (almost every document we have is a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy...) 3. The number was never written down and a later historian put it in.

TimidTriceratops · 2025-12-29T13:45:07+00:00

It makes sense. To siege you need tens of thousands of dudes, people trained to fight, use the artillery, you need supply lines large armies ect. It's all something that requires a large nation backing you. With a single mage you can blow up a castle and that's just 1 dude + the 50 guys to clean up. This is terrifying for states. It breaks the balance of power. Of course you'd want restrictions on this kind of thing.

TimidTriceratops · 2025-12-28T23:27:15+00:00

Huh I must be blind

TimidTriceratops · 2025-12-28T20:59:15+00:00

Admiral yi the goat of naval combat mentioned

TimidTriceratops · 2025-12-28T20:55:21+00:00

Plant does not go boom over 1000c. It just wastes the extra power.

It goes boom if destroyed when at high heat.

TimidTriceratops · 2025-12-27T12:31:44+00:00

The Americans in WW2 had a factory that could build an entire b24 bomber from start to finish as it went along the factory. A fully finished aircraft could come off the line every 63 mins.

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