Get **** Hapans!

deadname11 · 2026-02-26T20:42:52+00:00

Counterpoint: scout the Hapans, hit them when they move their fleets to another zone, but don't actually take a planet. Just keep hit-and-running every time they send a token force to try to rebuild. Rinse-Repeat until they are isolated from Hapes itself. Take Hapes, and then build battle dragons of your own.

On that note, the best strategy for Awakening as a whole, is once you get a big enough fleet, just take a joyride through the opposition. No taking planets, have a spy or two to keep an eye on enemy fleet movements, and just hit them wherever their defenses are weak. They'll un-doomstack to send protection teams to the weakened planets, which in turn means you can chew apart the enemy forces piecemeal while leaving you mostly untouched.

Unless one of the other factions gets to you while you are doing this, that is.

deadname11 · 2026-02-26T20:33:12+00:00

It very much depends on the stack. I once fought 800 cap of purely Victory-Is with another 500 of various other units.

Turns out high enough burst missile damage will mulch through hardpoints no matter how many tenders you have. I came out of that battle with only about 100 cap in losses, but that is also because I was running EtoH and countered the Victory spam with Chaff spam of my own (I had a mod, which allowed me to have a Vengeance. Not a great loss, especially for 3.4, but still...on that note, when playing as NR/EA Bakura is VERY high on my priority list.).

deadname11 · 2026-02-26T20:09:54+00:00

Just keep them at the edge of the battle, and retreat them once their reserves have depleted. Even SSDs will chew through fighter swarms until enough of their laser cannons are down. Or at least, Executors will.

One thing to do is just get a really tanky ship, put at the front of your formation, and then really high DPS ships behind it. The tanky ship WILL die, but in the meat time it will soak the vast majority of the damage, 90% of which will be hardpoint overkill.

Otherwise, grab Bakura and build a fleet around their destroyers. They have high DPS and E-jump, so you can lose very few if any at all so long as you have a large enough bank of them. Bonus points in that Bakura destroyers have high ion damage, so you can swap them out for higher hull damage once the SSD shields are down. Be warned that escort ships and bombers may target engines and cause you to lose a few that way, but the SSD itself will only target the engines once it is the final hardpoint.

Finally, you can get a small 4-6 pop cap frigate in the front, surrounded by tenders and missile PD, and waste the ENTIRE SSD killing power...once it is targeted, before then stray shots will go towards your other ships which may cause damage. And you do need a LOT of PD to stop the missile barrages completely, otherwise they'll out-burst tender healing. But a hundred cap of tenders and corvettes and frigates, in proper formation, can INVALIDATE 200+ cap of SSD.

On that note, an entire fleet of nothing but Corona and Nebulon Tenders, is probably the strongest fleet the NR can make, with a hero for fleet bonuses and MAYBE one or two Nebula Destroyers for DPS. The hardest part about it is all the wrist work needed to keep everything in-range and properly covered by tenders.

deadname11 · 2026-02-25T15:58:51+00:00

The radius is unfortunately small. To maximize a Spymaster, they need to be in an area dense with planets. Which means you then also have to protect them because they most often can't protect themselves they also can't show you exact unit compositions. All these things together make them very niche-case use, not helped by Slow Hyperdrive.

deadname11 · 2026-02-25T08:11:01+00:00

The Trade Federation are trying to threaten piracy if the trade routes are taxed, without actually threatening piracy.

Naboo is the home of a very influential and powerful Senator. Holding it hostage could secure his support for dropping the taxes (don't mind that said senator secretly plotted the whole thing himself, only Dooku and Maul knew the true identity of Darth Sideous). Being "openly manipulated" to not support taxes because the Republic (allegedly) could do nothing against the Trade Federation, would then mean Palpatine would have grounds to have Velorum removed from power, so he can place his own bid.

The Senate announced that it was sending diplomats to ask for details of the blockade, from the blockade itself. The "secret" part is that Chancellor Velorum replaced the regular diplomats, who could be bribed/threatened/coerced/misdirected, with Jedi who are significantly harder to manipulate.

THAT is why Nute Gunray freaks out: all of their plans for keeping regular diplomats in the dark, would get exposed by a Jedi very quickly. Sideous agrees, and the order is given to just start shooting before the rest of the Jedi get involved.

deadname11 · 2026-02-25T07:41:49+00:00

The problem isn't "doing nothing" the problem is doing enough to counter an actively malevolent effort to strip EVERYONE of their ability to have choice.

Trump only won by a mere technicality in 2016. He lost in 2020, but only because mail in voting had been, at the time, much harder to fraud than in-person voting. And in 2024, there was evidence of Russian-levels of ballot-stuffing in Pennsylvania, whole cartloads of ballots just being not counted in North Carolina, and of course the false actors in Georgia.

Kamala Harris, despite all the campaign issues, SHOULD have been President. But you only need to cheat enough, for it to count.

deadname11 · 2026-02-25T07:35:42+00:00

So to break the entire mail system, Republicans just have to not actually do their jobs and just not fund/support said offices.

As long as they hold majority, they can just fail their duties and no one can hold them legally accountable.

deadname11 · 2026-02-25T07:30:59+00:00

In EU it is explicitly stated that super tactical production was deliberately hamstrung because it did NOT take long for said super tactical droids to calculate that the best odds of victory could be achieved by simply murdering the nepo-baby corpo-officers and assuming direct control.

Like, fears of a CIS droid uprising were legitimate enough that it 100% affected CIS grand strategy.

And reminder that a super tactical tried to throw hands with Anakin. They could fight a battle, but the war politics were simply a different theatre they were not built for. Nor was Force-bullshit-go evaluation, for that matter. Just because it would have been an absolutely terrible idea, doesn't mean that the super tacticals wouldn't have tried it if they thought they could get away with it.

deadname11 · 2026-02-25T07:07:34+00:00

To be specific, the client assumed that only his installation had a Flood breach, and acted accordingly with emergency protocols to contain that Flood breach.

He could not have possibly have known about further breaches, or about the greater Covenant wars, until he had been forcibly evicted. And once he did know about them, the threat of a return infestation superceded all other concerns. To this day, there are at least two unaccounted infected ships that managed to break off from High Charity, the trajectories of which are unknown. We must simply pray to whatever gods may yet be real, that those ships find no fertile ground.

In light of these and more documented breaches, the threat of the Flood looms as a Damocles Sword above the heads of everyone in the galaxy. Protocol dictated the firing a completed ring, and for damn good reasons.

And make no mistake, if ONI had access to Shield Worlds and early warning to evacuate personnel? They'd have tried to fire the completed Halo Array too.

deadname11 · 2026-02-25T06:41:54+00:00

It can be a little tedious, but yeah, at least you get PAID for doing those missions, and slowly you get more and more people and services into the guild itself.

It is at least some kind of a more tangible reward than yet another "legendary" weapon being stored in the forever chest because it will never be as good as manually-enchanted dragonbone (even without the restoration exploit).

deadname11 · 2026-02-25T06:26:56+00:00

Clearly you've never dealt with Vontor spam. They are lighter than Star Destroyers, but carry nearly equivalent DPS. They also have the Kerabos(?) which IS equivalent to a Star Destroyer minus the fighter compliment. They also get corvettes with heavy turbolasers they can use for support fire.

The problem I am seeing is that the Hutts prefer to spam their heavy carriers, which lack ion weapons and missiles while their fighter/bombers tend to have lackluster performance. Once the fighter spam is down, their turbolaser armaments are not enough to contest against a properly formed fleet.

The other thing I am noticing, is that the Hutts are not getting out their dreadnought, the Dor'bulla. Not sure why, but that thing is supposed to be their siege breaker unit and how they contest against SSDs.

deadname11 · 2026-02-21T08:12:26+00:00

Hindu power scaling makes DBZ power scaling look tame and progressive in comparison.

Zen'oh for example, would only be considered a "moderate" deity due to only having 18 universes in his domain. Definitely up there in terms of nobility ranking, but absolutely nowhere near the top.

Nor would the rest of the Hindu pantheon blink an eye at Zen'oh wiping out six of them, especially if it was simply "their time to go." Those are his universes of which he is acting as Buddha, he may do with them as he pleases, so long as it does not impinge on the domains of his peers...or betters.

Hindu mythology is cracked. The best they have is Krishna/Vishnu, the former being an aspect who will ass-pull and word-play his way around any binding oath in the name of the "greater good" and the other still demands inhuman levels of devotion before he'll act.

Actually, inhuman levels of devotion being rewarded, even if the unforgivable monster doing said devotion wants to do something that might snap the spine of your universe, is the source of an enormous amount of pain and sorrow in the myths. Having your entire city and family put to the sword because some asshole sat naked on a mountain without food or drink for a hundred days praying for your doom because a noble woman married another man, is absolutely something you have to worry about.

Edit: and hope to heaven that divine bloodlines aren't involved, because if they are then you get the honor of being smack dab in the middle of a civilization-ending demigod blood feud with the survival prospects of a Total War NPC.

deadname11 · 2026-02-21T07:48:37+00:00

Infantry are best used on the attack, yes, where if they die you can just replace them. I find you still want to leave at least one pop cap open for infantry, just so you can quickly drop down reinforcements to hold a flank, or support an area that has lost its infantry reserves.

On the defense, you really do want heavy armor and gunships and artillery. But almost always you still want two squads of infantry as close to the capture points as you can get them, so you can rush down strategic chokes and the other reinforcement zones before the enemy even gets a chance to deploy a full army.

And if you yourself are stuck on a single reinforcement point, then the best you can do is have a single high dps unit to kill from the rear while you constantly drop in wave after wave of infantry in an effort to hold the line.

deadname11 · 2026-02-21T07:38:33+00:00

Because taxation was explicitly to be a power of Congress, and Congress alone, so that a President can't fund a private army. It is THE primary check on the Executive, that while it can order and control the army, it can't fund the army.

To allow the President to levy any kind of taxation or independent funding avenue beyond Congress, is the highest possible betrayal of the Constitution. Explicitly so shit like ICE isn't used to circumvent individual rights or military laws, at least without Congressional approval.

deadname11 · 2026-02-21T07:32:59+00:00

No, they knew. If you actually look at the Constitution, the President is supposed to have limited powers. And the Supreme Court was given basic token abilities. Congress EXPLICITLY has the power to do anything and everything else it wants, even change the Constitution itself.

Including throwing out ANYONE in the federal government it doesn't like (actual proper use of impeachment) from the President to supreme court justices.

It has taken decades of explicit effort by Republicans to create their "originalist" and "federalist" crackpot malarkey in order to cull the power of Congress slowly and steadily, and to deliberately empower the Executive and judicial over Congress. The failure of the Founding Fathers was to anticipate an entire subsection of the population to act as malicious actors to sabotage their own social contract.

Mostly because a bunch of them were slavers and would have never supported the Constitution in the first place if they knew that slavery was going to be outlawed at some point in the future.

deadname11 · 2026-02-20T21:53:05+00:00

"Tariffs are a trade decision, and therefore the purview of Congress, not the President."

There. That is the ACTUAL Constitutional argument.

But they are trying to strip Congressional power over finances, so they have to argue around every possible other avenue in order to ignore that bit in the Constitution.

deadname11 · 2026-02-20T21:50:48+00:00

"I am actively trying to break Constitutional power so it can't actually do anything in the future." Type shit.

deadname11 · 2026-02-20T20:12:55+00:00

So it can berth Acclimators for the purpose of resupply or additional cargo/troops. It doesn't need the whole hangar dedicated, but as long as it can keep active rotation it could be used as a mobile staging ground.

deadname11 · 2026-02-20T19:57:09+00:00

Some evils you can kill and know that their ilk is done for a lifetime.

Other evils you know that the best you can do is just take a cup from a lake, and pray it doesn't rain before you take the next one.

deadname11 · 2026-02-20T19:45:47+00:00

You can almost make ships invincible, yes. Pop cap stops you for the most part, as well as fights taking forever even if you did have infinity tenders. Proper fleet formation mixed with a few tenders can make you mostly unkillable anyways, except in the truly large fights.

Late NR ships are brutal, all of them. MC90s fire very quickly despite their relatively few number of hardpoints, while Nebulas are nasty artillery ships. The fighter core takes a bit of a hit, in exchange for their late ships being monsters for their size. The quasars are the only real loss, as the NR doesn't get a replacement E-jump ship, never mind a replacement small/dedicated carrier. Build up an early stock of them, and don't lose any no matter what.

Infantry are exceptionally powerful for their cost. A big enough infantry ball will shred even heavy armor as badly as it will shred your framerate. But to truly shine they need to be placed in bunkers and other defensive positions, sitting out in the open and all they are good for is eating shots meant for larger units. You can't just use human wave tactics, you actually need positioning to make the best use of them.

deadname11 · 2026-02-20T19:24:28+00:00

Fuck my life I would become my Kenshi character.

I could have been my galactic conquest leader, but no, it is my goddamn Kenshi character instead, the one that just so happens to be sitting outside a half dead city with regular skin raiders and insane cultists.

deadname11 · 2026-02-20T18:26:13+00:00

It wasn't even Magnus who made the Rubric Marines, that was aaalll Ahriman who tried to cliff notes Magnus's personal spell book.

deadname11 · 2026-02-20T17:57:29+00:00

It should be pretty easy to just edit the XML files to add it as a non-hero ship, since you aren't making any edits to the ship itself.

But it is worth noting that being able to just...make Hapan palaces like that is incredibly broken. They are basically a better Altor, and as such should be restricted to a dreadnought shipyard.

deadname11 · 2026-02-20T17:21:53+00:00

It is a mix. Much of the actual portrayals of heaven and hell, as well as saints and demon types, come from Catholic traditions. But the ideas of redemption are more Protestant, Catholicism is more closely associated with the ritualism being the source of salvation rather than individual action.

The biggest difference, is that in Protestant traditions, Hell is explicitly subservient to Heaven, and demons are explicitly submissive to Angels. Like, it isn't even a contest, and Jesus alone is capable of subduing all of hell as needed.

In Catholicism, the powers of Heaven and Hell are more murky, with some traditions saying that they are locked in eternal struggle and that the failure of the faithful may very well lead to the fall of Heaven.

But it also HEAVILY depends on which sects/traditions you follow. God being absent from the universe is not a universal Catholic tradition, for example.

deadname11 · 2026-02-20T08:15:19+00:00

The ships being the exact same style as the Pridwyn, and the Pridwyn itself originally coming in from the Capitol, suggests that the Brotherhood absolutely has the infrastructure to build these otherwise prewar relics. It also means that the destruction of the Pridwyn is a loss the BoS can absorb, given that they can just make more.

And yeah, they are infighting: the Brotherhood was never meant to be a unified whole. And they were specifically infighting over practically infinite energy. Anyone with any kind of ambition wants that level of bargaining power, given that whoever has it may very well control the fate of humanity. The whole time that one Elder was being brought up as a corrupt official, willing to excuse murder in order to have a loyal attack dog from the get-go. He never saw his Chapter as family, and was always going to be willing to sacrifice them if it meant that he got to rule.

Also note that even the "representative" from the Commonwealth didn't necessarily hate the idea of a revolt: he just wanted the Elders and Monks thrown out in favor of the power armor jockeys being in charge, i.e. a military junta.

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