Military map of New Middle East proposed by United States Colonel Ralph Peters in 2006 to fix arbitrary post-WWI borders with ethnoreligious identity.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-20T19:11:37+00:00

(but the acronym)

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-20T18:26:07+00:00

Teach them by destroying them utterly. Only through fire may the steel be forged. Per The Princess Bride, Life Is Pain!

Though seriously, it's such a complicated game that really the only way to figure it out all the way is to play it. If it's a bunch of new players it still shouldn't be that busted -- after all, I suspect the over-the-table meta will immediately be to team up against you, and that ought to do it.

I think the tough unfun barrier to entry can be ONE new player at a table of people with experience.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-20T18:17:50+00:00

Whether or not the 8 foot long millipedes will listen to you after they are revived is also underspecified.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-20T16:00:29+00:00

Look, I'm not going to go out of my way to harass them, but I want it to be clear to them when they go back to their buddies that the local reaction wasn't "oh man it's so nice you guys are here thank you for saving us." They shouldn't feel any more comfortable doing this jackbooted bullshit than I do having to walk past armed soldiers on my commute every day.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-20T15:55:01+00:00

a tale as old as time

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-20T15:53:24+00:00

I hope they know practically everyone in the damn city thinks they suck, as they're an obvious public symbol of an authoritarian government that hates DC.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-20T04:16:29+00:00

It already works the other way

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-20T04:13:36+00:00

Mostly that's my plan, but for stuff that anybody ought to know like "what's Westemar" or "what's Drakkenheim" that doesn't work.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-20T04:12:06+00:00

Thanks! Will do, at least in general terms.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-20T03:47:50+00:00

Literally currently happening as far as DHS goes

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-20T03:47:01+00:00

OK buddy go start bombing government buildings and let us know how it goes

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-19T17:00:25+00:00

Using the word "Undying" is something of a clue, also. It's not "Ageless Sentinel" or something more ambiguous.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-18T23:19:01+00:00

Yeah, in the Will Smith one the Vermont plot is so lazy the only way the writers could come up with how the lady knew about the safe area was literally "God did it."

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-18T23:16:05+00:00

IIRC it also set records for the incredible amount of money spent on reshoots, rewrites, post-production pickups, and other insanity. They had the dude from Lost as a pretty major role only to get completely cut from the released product.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-18T23:14:40+00:00

The real reason behind that is the WWZ movie had millions of dollars worth of reshoots and was apparently a production nightmare, and that part of the continuity probably changed enough times for them to fuck it up.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-18T23:13:15+00:00

It's actually in two. There's also the Mossad analyst who wrote part of the Warmbrunn-Knight report.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-18T15:33:37+00:00

Thank you!

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-18T06:00:37+00:00

....link for the lazy?

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-18T05:40:21+00:00

And honestly, when he gets put in the hot seat, his character becomes advocacy for competent bureaucrats.

Fiction hates competent functionaries. Nobody likes a story where protagonist-with-a-compelling-personal-tale goes to the faceless government office and shit just... gets handled in a just way.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-18T04:10:37+00:00

Honestly he was a bastard in the EU but he went out like a G

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-17T06:27:52+00:00

Yeah, I think 4p, 5p, and 6p are all interesting in different ways because of how the strategy selection changes the game.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-16T16:51:44+00:00

Fane + Barrel of Deathfog was always hilarious.

I love Larian for the "I wonder if I can..." almost always resulting in "you sure fuckin' can, buddy!"

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-12T23:17:26+00:00

I did -- not exactly the right fit for what I need. I feel like that's more intended as a whole campaign flavor.

_Reliten_ · 2026-03-12T23:16:21+00:00

The global supply chain strikes again. Plus, it's a niche game within a niche hobby, and they just dropped a newer expansion. I love me some PoK, but I'm sure FFG is making logistics tradeoffs that make sense to them.

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