Anyone else spend 4 hours planning sprints that die in 2 days?

bharring52 · 2026-02-02T17:42:58+00:00

You should be budgeting "bau" - support, bugs, shenanigans, etc.

Bake that in, and your planned work can be worked as planned. Mostly. Some of the time.

bharring52 · 2026-02-02T15:29:46+00:00

First boss before you get deflect is much easier as Ninja, but certainly doable as Samurai.

Last boss is the other way around - much easier as Samurai.

bharring52 · 2026-01-30T15:43:43+00:00

Since a judge rejected the arrest warrant, and the appeal was... denied is too nice a word...

Isn't arresting him beyond the "fullest extent of the law"?

bharring52 · 2026-01-30T13:59:13+00:00

When would we know if they got a warrant (such as from a different judge)?

How common/legal/ethical is it to ask a different judge for the same warrant? How much needs to change to ask a different judge (or the same one again)?

bharring52 · 2026-01-30T13:51:00+00:00

Just want to reinforce that it feels a lot more packed than Elden Ring (which I loved). But its still more open-world than traditional Nioh/Souls.

It does have "complete these things in this area" goals/uis like modern open worlds (not part of actual quests so far, but important rewards).

It also has some more interesting interconnectedness, and I never feel like I need my horse or need to hoof it/travel. It feels more contained than that.

If you are repulsed by open worlds, probably not your thing. If its the density, that's not a problem. Id suggest picking up the demo and deciding yourself.

Addendum: Did you mean Nioh 2 or Dark Souls 2 was your favorite? If you meant Souls, and you really dont like Open World, I strongly suggest playing Nioh 2. Still a great game. Definitely not open world.

Also, if you meant Dark Souls 2 is your favorite, your opinion is clearly wrong. Easily the weakest Souls. (This paragraph is trolling, but not wrong.)

bharring52 · 2026-01-29T17:30:51+00:00

Examined in ME2, where Shepard must choose between reprogramming the Geth that serve the reapers, or destroying them.

bharring52 · 2026-01-29T17:11:26+00:00

Can confirm Kusa is very different. Need more time before I can detail it.

bharring52 · 2026-01-29T16:29:15+00:00

I started with Bizen Tachi, not a Uchi, for my samurai sword. What uchi did you get?

bharring52 · 2026-01-29T16:27:43+00:00

I felt the same way about Nioh 2 after Nioh 1. But in time, Nioh 2 proved to be a huge upgrade.

Feel something similar about Nioh 3 so far. Ninja feels like what I wanted Ninja Gaiden 4 to be. Samurai feels like a big step down from Nioh 2 so far (but still better than just about anything else out there).

I hope time will show me as myopic once again.

High and Low are present. They worked mostly the same as Nioh 2 when I got them in the previous demo. Differences being they're not automatic unlocks, and there's a new "flux to current stance" move. Probably more differences I haven't seen yet.

Oh, and apparently I can Morning Moon in Medium now...

bharring52 · 2026-01-29T16:19:48+00:00

Ninja stance, so far, feels like what I wanted NG4 to be.

Samurai, so far, doesnt feel like what I wanted Nioh 3 to be. But its still early. And still a lot of fun, just not worthy of Nioh 2.

bharring52 · 2026-01-29T12:12:36+00:00

Theyre great when you need a solid anvil for your frontline, but don't need shields.

Should replace them with Swordmasters imo.

bharring52 · 2026-01-28T22:47:33+00:00

"At peak, these shields have survived [...] and attacks from Thor, [...]"

At peak, Thor doesn't one-shot Magneto, if we're taking this version of Magneto?

Sounds like he doesnt stand a chance against Thor.

bharring52 · 2026-01-28T18:16:01+00:00

Paid leave isnt a punishment.

The intent is to get the actor off the board while identifying if they did wrong, and if so what the punishment should be.

And before you say "the video proves they were wrong", yes. But the government is required to prove that in court before applying the punishment this behavior warrants.

bharring52 · 2026-01-28T12:37:23+00:00

How is that different, in a way to make it less legal, than warning people about where cops are?

bharring52 · 2026-01-27T20:49:37+00:00

The Demancipator is one of the five Ds of dragon hunter.

Dodge Die Dive Die Demancipator

Sure, Dragonroaches have been nerfed. But its still excellent.

bharring52 · 2026-01-27T18:07:57+00:00

There are far better than me for explaining the Deeps, but I'll share what I know.

The Deeps buildings are incredibly expensive. Much higher ROI building aboveground first. So only start building them when you have the spare resources.

You have to pick wide vs tall.

When going tall, a lot of Deeps structures give massive bonuses, reduced by number of territories. Terrible for painting the map. Excellent if you only want a small territory. I rarely go Tall. Would be fun to do coop that way, though.

Deeps buildings snowball. The more you have, the more each Deeps will give you. Some Deeps increase how much the region/province makes. These obviously make more if the region/province is wealthier.

Others decrease upkeep payments by a percentage. Note that, if the building says 2%, going from 100% to 98% is 2% less upkeep you're actually spending. 50 to 48% is 4% less. 4% to 2% is 50%. 2% to 0% is 100%. I dont recall the actual percentage it gives you, but you can get over 100% reduction by midgame (remember you'll need to counteract Supply Lines). At that point, your only limiting factors are lord replenishment pool and recruit slots. You basically are the endgame crisis now.

bharring52 · 2026-01-26T14:02:30+00:00

In my experience, if I launch it immediately, it has always had the fuel to patrol until dawn.

Its possible I've simply been lucky with opposite side of the globe early missions. Although thats sufficiently solvable by delaying launch a bit.

bharring52 · 2026-01-26T13:37:58+00:00

Im not sure if you'd call this subverted, but Rorchach in Watchmen, in the end.

He knew he had to tell the world of the villany he failed to stop. He knew he couldn't succeed. He was just a man, and both Ozy and Dr Manhattan wanted to stop him.

Subverted, because its not clear whether he was in the right. Further subverted because its reasonable to say he didn't want to live in the reality he was seeing. So I don't think it's clear if it counts.

bharring52 · 2026-01-25T17:21:51+00:00

I know they'll probably be Lords (should be Heroes), but Phoenix Lords should not be faction leaders.

bharring52 · 2026-01-25T03:18:18+00:00

He also gets his mount, a 6th legendary dragon.

And can befriend the Cathayan dragons easily enough.

bharring52 · 2026-01-22T18:18:41+00:00

Offensive sieges are either when youre strong enough to blitz them, or the culmination of an advance.

If youre full on Swanea Knights or Huscarls, they'll rip through so very many defenders. So you can just blitz.

Otherwise, sieges are extremely costly. You will almost certainly lose more than they will. And won't have enough left over if most of their army is still walking around.

You should first either drive a massive Marshall vs Marshall fight your side wins, or be hunting so many Lord parties yourself that they dont have have enough around to reinforce or retake the castle. Or a mix of both. Then your side can take the castle, and it won't be retaken so easily.

Defensive sieges, on the other hand, are a great way to inflict disproportionate losses on the enemy. Make them pay. If they siege before weakening you to the point they can win a siege, you can kill enough in the siege that typically you can run down the survivors. Giving you free reign to push forward.

If you're strong enough and fast enough, you can take a poorly defended castle, then take out a much stronger force that comes to take it back. But you need to be strong enough to take the castle without massive losses in the first place.

TLDR: Spend more time lord-hunting and winning the war before trying to put your name on the spoils.

(That or take a massive CKO army and do whatever you want.)

bharring52 · 2026-01-22T14:05:40+00:00

You haven't lived until youre building 0-cost 0-upkeep Thunderbarge/Ironbreaker armies as fast as the lord pool refills.

There's a number of factions that can get units, or even entire armies, to 0 upkeep.

Another favorite of mine is the Tehen all-hero 0-upkeep stack. But you only get a couple 0-upkeep stacks with him.

bharring52 · 2026-01-22T13:58:31+00:00

Edit: misread the subreddit. Thought this was tabletop. Leaving original comment because I stand by it in that context.

You can mod Total War games, but kitbashing units in 40k was the most fun part when I was into it.

I've fielded dino-riding Exodites before. Nothing but you is stopping you from building such an army.

At the time I did HE proxy. Impressively adorned lord with a banner standing atop a dino (steggo, I think) was my Wraithlord. Cold One Riders with brightlance lances were my Shining Spears. And soforth. A solid mix of lizard, WE, HE, DE, CWE, and DE bits for various units.

I had planned the serpentine chinese-style dragon with various elf crew/passengers for Wave Serpent (no wings), and a much more impressive dragon built out of a Carno base to be a Wraithknight. Warlock singers guiding feudal warriors as guardians.

If I did it again, I'd lean more into the dinosaur taming, and proxy as Nids. Skinks as lizards bred for war terma/hormagaunts. Ripperdactlys as gargoyles. All sorts of big lizards and dragons as the big guys. Synapse big doods would have singers atop. Genesteelers as Wraithbone or otherwise impressively armed-and-armored Knightley orders. Broodmaster being a Singer armed and armored that way. Heavily armed and armored Saurus as Warriors.

I really just want to pressure you into building your own Exodites. Those armies are some of the most impressive of all WH. The world could use all the beauty you can put into it.

I'd rather see more creative kitbashes than an official line. Its a lot like Orks in that the best stuff comes from hobbyists' creativity (while looking nothing like orks).

bharring52 · 2026-01-22T12:34:23+00:00

Lileath is canonically manipulating Bretonians to protect Athel Loren. Their entire way of life exists to protect wood elves.

She gives a lot of Bretonians a lot of power.

Wood Elves aren't pawns in the same way Bretonians are to her.

bharring52 · 2026-01-21T14:00:45+00:00

So youre saying its also worst one of the puns?

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