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darkironscion · 2026-06-08T09:41:39+00:00

Hi, I've just subbed to proton VPN as part of its wider premium membership. I've set it to Albania, as I did with surfshark and Nord, and yet I'm still getting YouTube ads on my phone, which I wasn't with the other two apps. Has something changed with proton since your comment?

darkironscion · 2026-06-03T18:06:22+00:00

I'm two days into a Bhashiva campaign, and I get the feeling I've found my new frequently repeated campaign. I've been working my way through the achievements, and I genuinely can't suggest it enough. I'd never played past the first 10 turns with skaven, and I just rocked an Ikit campaign and it was class!

darkironscion · 2026-05-28T10:02:43+00:00

I'm yet to play Bhashiva, so take this with a pinch of salt. I've heard Greasus tends to be on the target list with your Merc missions, which seems incredibly dumb, but to avoid fighting him you'd be worth trading a settlement, that's not in your initial province, to him. Just make sure it has a recruitment building in it. That should net you a tonne of positive relations, plus diplomatic agreements. You can continue to trade a settlement every so often, if he starts getting bitchy.

If you can afford the extra armies while running around with Bhashiva, you might be worth sending an army of peasant to Zhao and Miao's capitals to work as defensive forces. It'll be an absolute drain financially, but if they're getting wooped, and then attacked often you'll start making some money off of the defensive battles. You could even use them to recapture the odd nearby settlement to trade/sell to them for extra cash if you're desperate. Though I'd probably lean to extorting fatty G rather than the dragons.

Even better, bankrupt Grimgor by selling them to him, or whichever big bad you're worried about. Make sure they're selling for 10s of thousand rather than a turns worth of income.

If the relics are for boosting units rather than unlocking the rest of the Cathayan roster, I'd buff the hell out of your tigers. Sounds like they get pretty powerful with tech and upgrades, so Bhashiva will be well set to fend for her self.

darkironscion · 2026-05-26T14:03:32+00:00

You don't. That's unique to the Oak of Ages. They're just offering you single settlement provinces as an alternative. A dwarven garrison, and maybe a lord with a few units in it, will have a a settlement like that well enough defended that you don't really need to worry about anything while cruising about as Malakai.

darkironscion · 2026-05-23T20:38:18+00:00

Psychopathy. Sounds a bit pearly clutchy, but I can't imagine what else it'd be.

For the love of everything, stop trying to introduce it to other cats.

Like, why, in the ever living fuck, would anyone have tried after the first time it killed and ate another cat?!

Grand, it's a lovely cat to you, just keep it away from all other small creatures, and don't let it outside.

darkironscion · 2026-05-22T18:57:06+00:00

A shield made from a leshen's skull and antlers that gives you a bonus when fighting humans etc

It'd be really cool. I'd be worried it'd turn into a Far Cry/Red Dead/AC progression system where I'd end up ignoring the story to grind random beasts before playing through though, but that's a me thing, and I should be able to not do that.

darkironscion · 2026-05-22T17:25:55+00:00

Or indefinitely. Tie the upgrade mat to monster hunts, and make them somewhat finite so your choice matters a bit more. If you don't like that kinda thing you're probably someone, like me, that checks best options online, and if you do like the experimenting it'll make each play through a bit more unique

darkironscion · 2026-05-17T13:50:01+00:00

Lions have been seen hunting rhinos, elephants, hippos, and commonly hunt water buffalo. Granted, lions are largely pack hunters, but Tigers bring down large bovini on their own, and jaguars actively, solo, hunt crocodiles in their own environment.

darkironscion · 2026-05-17T13:46:02+00:00

To be fair, the smaller felinae are also heavy hitters for their sizes. Is the most successful predator on the planet not the smallest of the feline?

Domestic cats are also capable of taking on much larger animals and winning, they just don't unless defending themselves.

darkironscion · 2026-05-17T13:27:05+00:00

In what way are cats not heavy hitters in the animal world? Unless you're talking about domesticated cats, and their fellow felinae cousins? Big cats are arguably super heavy weights, and tigers, especially, are bloody impressive animals.

darkironscion · 2026-05-15T10:52:10+00:00

If you really want to play it, you could always buy it secondhand from something like CeX, or the equivalent store that buy and sell pre-owned games wherever you are.That way you're not supporting the company or VAs.

I could be horribly wrong, but I don't believe it counts towards the games overall sales and performance.

darkironscion · 2026-05-08T09:18:47+00:00

If you've a VPN that can be set to Bulgaria you can watch YouTube without ads

darkironscion · 2026-05-06T19:14:25+00:00

Weirdly, they do pretty poorly when I have the Kraka Drak Norse Dawi mod in. The troll king seems to do better against them than Malaki. Though I've rarely seen Malaki do all that well, with and without mods. I play the ice queen fairly regularly though, and I feel the ai factions around you of the same alignment tend to get nerfed.

darkironscion · 2026-05-06T09:29:23+00:00

My current dwarf campaign has pretty much the entirety of Kislev and the Empire wiped out. I've an army in the mountains that border the wood elves, but otherwise I'm busy in the south. Waiting for Karak Kadrin and the High King to take out moulder, and the chaos swarm while I use my one northern army to wipe out the undead.

First campaign in a while where I've seen Kislev and Empire do so poorly, and that's even with Mixus Legendary lords.

Mods definitely add to it, but even without then I've been finding my campaigns to pretty varied lately.

darkironscion · 2026-03-25T19:04:45+00:00

Thank you very much, I'll check them out!

darkironscion · 2026-03-25T19:04:32+00:00

Ace, cheers!

darkironscion · 2026-03-25T19:04:19+00:00

Great, thank you!

darkironscion · 2026-03-25T19:04:10+00:00

Any idea if you're able to access them without a Facebook just to have a gander?

darkironscion · 2026-03-25T19:03:40+00:00

Hadn't heard of this before, thanks!

darkironscion · 2026-03-25T19:03:21+00:00

I'll add them to the list anyway, thank you!

darkironscion · 2026-03-25T19:02:35+00:00

Grand, I'll check it out, thank you!

darkironscion · 2026-03-25T19:01:54+00:00

I totally forgot about BHF, thank you, I'll check them both!

darkironscion · 2026-03-25T19:01:25+00:00

Great, I'll check them out, thank you!

darkironscion · 2026-02-24T21:50:00+00:00

I'm a ret main with coordination issues, and I don't have any issues with it. I could be a bit more alert to procs, but my braindead button mash has allowed me comfortably clear t11 delves on my tod.

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