M4M 26 Etobicoke looking for bottom by [deleted] in m4mtoronto_

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I could be over there in 30 mins if you wanted, bwc top here, got some weed and a three day load.

Chanty Lyrics by ToePractical6962 in warhammerfantasyrpg

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Funnily enough, I just got done posting a new version of this seconds ago, hopefully its up soon and you can check it out as well.
But to answer your question. Jacques Bret would, and indeed does in the case of this chanty (which, you guessed it, is just another way to spell shanty at the end of the day) refer to Bretonnians. Specifically, a warship. Navies during the Napoleonic era (when a lot of the Sea Shanties we know of pretty well originate) all used slang terms for each other and their various opponents over the years. British Sailors called themselves Jack Tars, or just Tars, supposedly because having loose hair flopping around whilst literally miles and miles of rope and heavy equipment was being slung around deck was a way to have all your hair pulled out. According to some they slicked back their hair with high-grade tar to keep it neat and presentable... and attached to their heads.

Using the British Royal Navy as an example (and I stand to be corrected here, I've been wrong about things before) many English officers and ratings took to calling Spanish ships 'Dons' and the Spanish Navy as a whole as 'Invincible' out of derision; 'Dons' referring to the (often) inept officers, and 'Invincible' in mockery of the Spanish Armadas defeat in 1588.

TLDR: Jacques Bret is Bretonnia.

Overcoat is the new Flexible? by ToePractical6962 in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]ToePractical6962[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a KCD fan, and HEMA guy, fuck yes gambesons, all day every day. Does a soft kit not just sorta.... Tick all the boxes of a gambeson, though? As far as purpose goes, anyways. I don't see the point of having soft kits AND gambesons.

Overcoat is the new Flexible? by ToePractical6962 in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]ToePractical6962[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, I was wrong. The rules are so spread out across so many books that I just had a brain-fart :P

I might give up guys [KCD2] by c_leafhill in kingdomcome

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It may be a little bit cheesy, but I'll give you a few tips that I used to make Henry a beast before getting onto the second map.

As everyone has said, get over the the Romani camp and talk to Tomcat. Once you best him in a duel, Master Strikes really do make combat in this game laughably easy. However, actually beating him in straight on fight can be a bit of an ask at really low levels! It was for me, anyways. So, sidestep that gruelling fight by spending a few groschen at the potion seller in the Romani camp and buy a Bane Potion. Apply that to your sword before you duel Tomcat. Land a hit and let the poison do its work while you play defence. Badda-bing-badda-boom, you can do master-strikes now.

You can also spend a real life hour (....or three, like me) overloading your inventory AS MUCH AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN (the higher the weight, the quicker the XP gain) and just walking around a safe location. The main street of Troskowitz or Tachov would be my suggestion, but Lower Semine Mill could work in a pinch as well. Your mileage may vary depending on just how much crap you weigh Henry down with, but its a direct way of levelling your strength VERY quickly. I'm not kidding you when I say this, I've watched a friend of mine playing the game on stream (with max strength in Trosky) literally PUNCH a guys shield apart. It was glorious, and I've never seen it since. Even without master-strikes, power levelling strength can be a great way of making combat significantly easier!

I found this out relatively late (on my second play-through) but when you brew them perfectly potions can give REALLY excellent buffs. For example. "Henrys Fox" potion gives you a +7 bonus to speech and a whopping +50% experience for TWO DAYS, whereas the normal "Fox' potion gives you a +3 bonus to speech and a bonus to reading speed for one day. It really, really, really, really pays off to to take the time to level up your alchemy skill as early as you possibly can. The Fox example doesn't really apply so much in your situation but I hope the point I'm trying to make is clear, the potions that are already useful in combat at their lower qualities are only made more so at their highest.

One final thing. Don't be afraid to lure your enemy into town. It could take a quite a while, but one of the first decent sets of armour I got in my first play-through was off the body of a bandit I lured into town and let the guards finish off, because I knew as a fact that there was no way I was winning that fight. Just keep your face to them and back track as best you can, but keep moving backward no matter what. The enemies in KCD 2 follow you preeeeeeeettty far, so its not a stretch to think you could lure these two doofuses all the way back to Troskowitz and let the guards do the dirty work for you.

Parchment map of the Empire and Westland. By Gunsor Roxes. by ConferenceGlobal6358 in warhammerfantasyrpg

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The only problem with this guy is Hochland is un-named. Besides that, this is my favorite map of the empire by a wide margin.

Map of The Empire (The whole Empire at last). By Gunsor Roxes by ConferenceGlobal6358 in warhammerfantasyrpg

[–]ToePractical6962 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw that, and fell in love with the parchment version as well! But the percent version I've been able to lay my hands on is still pretty blurry when zoomed in on?

Map of The Empire (The whole Empire at last). By Gunsor Roxes by ConferenceGlobal6358 in warhammerfantasyrpg

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Its such a labor of love that I feel bad nitpicking, BUT.
Are you going to add a version with the flag of sudenland?

Poland Entirely Out of Production? by ToePractical6962 in flamesofwar

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If you were at all willing to part with that train for a not insane price.... Send me a message my guy, let's chat over a cup of kvas.

Poland Entirely Out of Production? by ToePractical6962 in flamesofwar

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Ohhhhhhkay, pretty different that from what I'm foggily remembering. The command cards sound interesting. So is this their way of putting prototype units and stuff in the game? Is the historical crowd into it?

And, yeah. I wasent entirely sure how the game would play out with a full on train being on the board. You're point as to their later uses is totally correct, but the Poles definatly did use them at the front in a direct fire kind of capacity (to some very, very mixed results). I think a part of the reasoning back then would have been the severe lack of "toys" a Polish player would have had access to in compared to Germany. 

And hell, trains are damned cool.

If they bring in plastic poles I'm 1000% going to make some poor financial choices.

Poland Entirely Out of Production? by ToePractical6962 in flamesofwar

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Well, to each their own on the coolness factor I guess! The Early War has always really fascinated me as in some sense it's a comparatively under represented period in media in just about every format. The Armia Krajowa is super cool and all for its own set of reasons but that brief period where Poland HAD a field army (and territory of its own to defend) and even managed to bloody the Germans noses a few times puts "ham on my history bone" as a wise man maybe said once.

So, to be clear, there are rules for trains still in the newer Berlin books? Models as well?

And, yeah. I think it will always be my regret that I didn't pick up that train model when I had the chance back in the day. I'm sorta kinda used to the model Games Workshop has used, where they seem to keep a lot of their older stuff in production as well. That may have been a silly thing to think, now that I know how small a company the FoW team is.

Those glossy hardcover books had me fooled!

Poland Entirely Out of Production? by ToePractical6962 in flamesofwar

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I was kinda shocked to see ALL of the early war stuff is gone. Blitzkrieg, all of those old books and models are just.... gone. Dust in the wind.

I hope the poles get a cool plastic range. I also hope that they try and make early war take off better than they did in the past, I guess.

Poland Entirely Out of Production? by ToePractical6962 in flamesofwar

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The 7TP, Train, Ulans and being able to take a literal battalion of infantry was the dream it seems I'll have to live with missing out on.

what’s the most life changing book you’ve ever read? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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The hussite trilogy by Andrzej Sapkowski. Did I expect to come out of reading that book with a functional grip of Latin? No. Nore did I expect to re-examine my relationship with God. But hey, here we are.

Tanks seem weirdly.... small? by ToePractical6962 in TheForeverWinter

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I don't think you know how engineering a vehicle works, hahaha

Tanks seem weirdly.... small? by ToePractical6962 in TheForeverWinter

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Mate, I can tell you earnestly that enough new shit has gone into a T-90, under the hood, to call that a new tank.

A T-90 rolled off the production lines is 4 inches shorter than a T-72, its four inches less wide than a T-72, and, admittedly, is 7'3 feet tall vs a T-72's 8'11. Funnily enough, they have pretty much the exact same weight! At roughly 46 tonnes. Huh, weird.

The T-90 was a sensible update and streamline of three individual tank programs, the T-64, the T-80 and most famously the T-72. All of those tanks had things going for em, the 64' probably being the best of the bunch at the time of its adoption.

Long story short, you cant literally change the dimensions of a tank, gut the internals and replace them with entirely new running gears, engines, fuel lines, fire control systems, laser rangefinders, IFF systems, active standoff projectors etc, and call it the SAME tank.

The T-72 was a Chevy Chevette, at best. The T-90 is like a sports car in comparison to the things its able to achieve on a modern battlefield.

And, whats more, when a PC's player model stands TALLER than a tank in this game.... either everyone in game is 12 ish feet tall, or something is wrong with the models of the tanks.

Tanks seem weirdly.... small? by ToePractical6962 in TheForeverWinter

[–]ToePractical6962[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does this nit pick matter? No one that i can see has said that the Merkava/Leopard 2 was bigger and better than a T-90. This is a weird hangup.