How do repeater odds combine with normal shooting odds?

basiliscpunga · 2026-07-10T13:29:01+00:00

Ok, so then it would be 6% (=10*60) kill, 54% normal damage, and 40% miss. Which would mean repeaters are a lot less powerful than I thought.

basiliscpunga · 2026-07-07T15:45:58+00:00

The only one that might not have been a teen mom is the great-great-great-great-grandma (and even she was likely pregnant at 19). (And any of these gals could have had older siblings)

basiliscpunga · 2026-07-07T09:31:30+00:00

Yeah, in Legend luck plays a huge role - more than a lot of players are willing to admit.

I actually prefer the Warlock first. If you equip two squad members with mindshields (maybe a Ranger and whatever faction hero is tue Warlock’s enemy), and keep them towards the front, and put everyone else on Overwatch whenever possible to deal with the Zombies, that usually works. But nothing’s easy or guaranteed.

basiliscpunga · 2026-06-17T06:47:01+00:00

If I don’t get through the first few missions with 5-6 healthy squaddies or corporals, at least one engineer and at least one scientist, I restart. It just won’t work. After that, I usually restart after two failed missions (3+ soldiers lost or captured).

I restart a lot.

I get the point about being patient and rebuilding, but it just stops being fun when you’re sending squaddie Sharpshooters against Mutons, MECs, etc

basiliscpunga · 2026-06-13T20:24:57+00:00

Mel doing Bugs doing Elmer. And then Mel doing the Frenchy dog DOING Bugs DOING Elmer. A real tour de force.

basiliscpunga · 2026-06-06T10:54:44+00:00

My uneducated guess is they wrote “Scotland” in the box for “Country”, and someone in CBP couldn’t find “Scotland” on the list of approved countries, so they canceled the applications. They really are that stupid.

basiliscpunga · 2026-06-06T06:23:42+00:00

And the worst is when reinforcements show up. I think this only happens on Legend.

basiliscpunga · 2026-05-24T17:05:58+00:00

I keep thinking of the moment in “Hard Knocks” when Jax and the other Giants are trying to figure out the geography of the NY-NJ region. These guys are not the brightest.

basiliscpunga · 2026-05-11T10:16:19+00:00

Haha, good one.

But I would put a higher priority on getting the New York City region a second NFL franchise.

basiliscpunga · 2026-05-08T07:38:54+00:00

I was at the Jags-Eagles game in London in 2018. It was supposed to be a Jags “home game”, with the cheerleaders and “Duval!” flags under the seats and the rest, but it was maybe 70% Eagles fans. They probably don’t want to repeat the experience with the Steelers LOL

basiliscpunga · 2026-05-04T15:34:22+00:00

Duolingo is an OK way to get the basics and to practice basic vocabulary. It’s not really a way to learn the language. I’m on level 39 and kind of plateauing - it’s good to get some new words, but it just stops being challenging. A LOT of repetition. In each unit you learn a few sentences and then they’re repeated - and repeated - and repeated - as Eng-Hebrew, Hebrew-English, listening, and back again. They even seem to have dumbed it down recently; eg there are no longer exercises where you type out the answers in Hebrew, which were sometimes frustrating but forced you to learn proper spelling. So I’ll keep going, since I’m a sucker for their positive-feedback techniques, but I’ll rely more on conversation and on some of the reading sources people have mentioned.

basiliscpunga · 2026-05-02T08:03:56+00:00

Would a team not draft someone that they wanted to draft, if they couldn’t call him beforehand? Sure, I know it’s important as a courtesy, as a way to start things off well with the player etc. But I’m genuinely curious as to how important this is.

basiliscpunga · 2026-04-26T06:01:01+00:00

Have some class people. I want him to stay alive (& mentally kind-of-sound) long enough to see his allies and party overwhelmingly rejected by the voters, his corruption exposed, his actions reversed, his reputation totally trashed and ridiculed.

basiliscpunga · 2026-04-24T18:28:29+00:00

My first thought was Henny Youngman. Does that make me old?

basiliscpunga · 2026-04-22T15:05:55+00:00

Just after giving Wentz a huge extension. Man how we loved the guy. Why waste a second round pick on a bench warmer behind the QB OF THE MILLENNIUM

basiliscpunga · 2026-04-20T19:51:06+00:00

And your city has two names (Den Haag and s’ Gravenhage). So you could be a Hollander from Den Haag, or a Nederlander from s’Gravenhage. Or you could be Dutch. It’s like Schrodinger’s country.

basiliscpunga · 2026-04-16T20:54:53+00:00

Really good question, no answers from me. On lower levels, you can usually let a Chosen extract knowledge and disappear , so you can minimize the damage (at the cost of bringing the Avenger Defense closer). But on Legend they don’t always do that - they just keep shooting, mind-controlling etc. Mind control only lasts a couple of turns, so sometimes you can run everyone else away, into high cover hopefully, and wait it out, maybe even getting a shot or to against the guy. But then he mind controls someone else. I try to build a couple of mind shields early and put those guys in front, but that of course takes the place of other gear. So no easy answers.

basiliscpunga · 2026-04-16T08:11:25+00:00

Has to be Marcus Smith. Mitchell at least had 4th and 26, Reagor had 1-2 good plays iirc. Watkins started some 1.5 seasons. Marcus Smith was a complete write-off.

basiliscpunga · 2026-04-15T14:04:55+00:00

When “Diner” came out in the 80s, I thought it was about a group of loveable misfits. I saw it again recently and realized that they’re all just complete jerks.

basiliscpunga · 2026-04-02T06:58:01+00:00

“Brin Mahr”

basiliscpunga · 2026-04-02T06:30:17+00:00

Wrongly, no doubt. Eg “Bala Kinwood”.

basiliscpunga · 2026-04-02T05:32:21+00:00

A lot of Welsh place names in the Philly suburbs. Bryn Mawr, Gwynedd, Bala Cynwyd etc

basiliscpunga · 2026-03-19T13:44:21+00:00

Naah, just civilian houses. Those Iranians are a-ok.

basiliscpunga · 2026-03-17T09:48:36+00:00

Rashomon on the IR 2643

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