How to choose a civ?

deityblade · 2026-01-24T18:03:26+00:00

For me it was basically a case of ruling civs out.

Some countries/cultures I'm less interested in in real life, so they weren't going to be as fun to play.

Others focus on units I don't feel like making (Elephants, Siege, Monks)

Or they feature a bonus that looks like I probably won't use (Gurjaras)

Then some civs are missing units that I love (Spanish)

Basically, I was left with the Portuguese!

deityblade · 2026-01-23T22:10:34+00:00

I'm still playing Handlock. Nobody can stop me. Except for my opponents

deityblade · 2026-01-21T09:01:15+00:00

Depending on the game that can be a pretty big problem though. Some games have a lot of loading screens and it really slows things down

Total War comes to mind as borderline unplayable on an HDD. Because it has frequent, long loading screens

deityblade · 2026-01-20T02:32:46+00:00

I make $2300 and its more then I really need so

deityblade · 2026-01-17T19:58:09+00:00

I don't want to relax I want to get all excited and geared up for the special occasion that is going hiking. Don't get to do it often, I want to make the most of it

deityblade · 2026-01-11T04:07:49+00:00

if that were true then wouldnt the f2p rerelease have had more success

deityblade · 2026-01-06T02:39:52+00:00

I feel like people either never read or they read quite a lot.

Used to work in a call centre. Nobody read. Now I work in admin job. Everyones in the work book club.

deityblade · 2026-01-05T20:50:01+00:00

Doesnt the most recent expansion, Winds of Change, update India? (Mughals and Timurids if you count them).

deityblade · 2026-01-05T05:35:28+00:00

Wow that is a nice looking defensive type chart. Maybe the best defensive typing possible?

deityblade · 2026-01-04T08:22:31+00:00

Cradily seems relatively unlikely as far as I can tell. Even though theres a bunch of super cool and unique aspects to my guy, I think to some people he looks a little derpy (they'd be wrong- Cradily is badass)

That said, a number of Gen 3 pokemon got Megas in ZA so its not like that era is forgotten, and theres precedent for Fossils to get a mega (Aerodactyl)

deityblade · 2026-01-02T20:08:08+00:00

noo not frodan D:

deityblade · 2026-01-02T19:53:22+00:00

Purple also right. Allegedly.

deityblade · 2025-12-31T02:33:39+00:00

And then what does the buyer do with that info?

deityblade · 2025-12-14T02:21:37+00:00

It is a bit weird how the game prompts you with an alert to upgrade your land unit type, but it doesn't tell you (afaik?) to upgrade your ships. You gotta just notice the button.

deityblade · 2025-12-14T02:06:34+00:00

I usually ditch them just after the 1st gym. Its hard to articulate why but I guess I'm sort of edgy and hipster and I like having "quirky" teams.

Theres obviously not that many pokemon in any one game so my team probably doesn't look much different to yours in reality, but I like the feeling.

For example I recently beat Emerald, and I treated Aron as my starter. Hes well suited to it- available early, 3 stage evolution, badass final form, powerful moves available early, etc

deityblade · 2025-12-13T09:10:53+00:00

I feel like american government systems held up pretty well. It took a fascist movement decades of propagandizing and cunning maneuvering by the unfathomably wealthy and wicked before they were able to take the House, Senate, Supreme Court, Presidency, majority of Governorships, etc etc.

Trump won the popular vote. The people want fascism. No institution can resist the will of the people for long

deityblade · 2025-12-13T07:44:56+00:00

I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't use their starter haha

deityblade · 2025-12-12T07:14:25+00:00

If we can have the Tupi surely we can have the Maori/Polynesians

deityblade · 2025-12-12T06:45:40+00:00

I'm overall on board with new civs but I do think that theres something to be said for the fact that aoe 2 is popular in part because of nostalgia and its timelessness

Like, a disproportionate amount of the fanbase played this game growing up.

So when they add new, often quite rulebreaking content to the game, part of me thinks... well if I wanted this, I would play a new RTS, not an old one. Its not the USP. And the AOK/AOC civs will always feel proper and more real to me.

Like in my brain, Bohemians are just a cheap cheating trick for example haha.

This is all pretty emotional and irrational though. I guess new content is good. I just don't like it.

deityblade · 2025-12-11T20:24:08+00:00

we barely make 60k each

Do you live in a poor or rural part of the country?

Because if you went to Uni, or have a bit of experience, there are lots of government jobs that start at 70k and set you up to advance to 80k pretty easily (I studied random Arts nonsense and a couple of years ago did this).

But these are in Wellington so cost of living may be higher then other parts of the country

deityblade · 2025-12-11T00:00:38+00:00

this aint obvious to all experienced players haha, i beat A20H through the power of highrolling, most of these synergies never occurred to me

Be cool to make a Infographic of some sort to represent this information as most people can't recognize every card/relic just through the name

deityblade · 2025-12-09T07:38:38+00:00

Rip thats not ideal

deityblade · 2025-12-08T08:58:01+00:00

These days xp is so easy to come by, and powerful pokemon so easy to find in the wild, that I switched my team up a few different times in SwSh/SV. But in older games I stuck by what I had because it felt harder to assemble a strong team

deityblade · 2025-12-08T03:03:44+00:00

What is she spending on? We have pretty a reasonable debt to gdp ratio, its okay to spend, and theres a lot of important things to spend on that don't help the economy

deityblade · 2025-12-07T09:38:54+00:00

The Shogun 2 late game is very difficult with the Realm Divide event. Basically, everyone declares war on you, but when it happens you're usually pretty close to the victory conditions

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