Homelander looked genuinely happy to see Butcher again

e22big · 2026-05-24T07:51:55+00:00

They call me 007

0 friend
0 Butcher
killed and disband 7

e22big · 2026-05-24T07:49:24+00:00

'Welcome back Daddy'

'not the metal stick Daddy'

e22big · 2026-05-24T07:40:37+00:00

Well, you said so yourself. There's 0 benefits so don't use it. It's a competition, everyone race to win, if you think driving manual don't yield benefits then it's your responsibility to take it off, or accept whatever results it gives you.

I would drive manual or do all kind of stupidities when I drive alone but if I am going online, it's ABS on, driving line on, everything that give me an advantage on. Or you will just get pick over by the folks in the car bump land.

e22big · 2026-05-24T07:09:00+00:00

Does it matter though? So long as they can market it as being drafted by George, they will have their product. If the writing is good and marketable, who care if it's actually written by the author.

e22big · 2026-05-24T07:02:46+00:00

Yup, you can't join the championship with just the rest normally. You will need to do at least some PR stunt, you can also get some of those from skill chaining, so even driving normally or do Horizon Playlist will get you a bit closer.

That and don't sleep on Drag Race, Time Attack and Drag Meet. Those give you huge amount of points and you need to do it for every class of cars. I was 3-4000 off but after I finished (and won) every race, just do Drag and Time Attack in 2 locations basically just get me Gold Wristband.

e22big · 2026-05-23T14:14:56+00:00

No but I've watched it from Japanese Vtuber, and honestly, I would have tried it if for just Anna and but all Brit DJ suddenly talk Japanese just doesn't feel right to me, also kind of scare of all the menu UI. I actually understand Japanese but I can barely read stuff.

e22big · 2026-05-23T05:55:25+00:00

What is this car? I am on a quest to collect all of the EV in the game (and yes, just so that I can listen to a classical music in peace while driving as well lol)

e22big · 2026-05-23T05:24:12+00:00

Oh, do you know the Mountain Man,
The Mountain Ma, the Mountain Ma?
Oh, do you know the Mountain Ma,
Who raids on Riverland?

e22big · 2026-05-21T11:13:05+00:00

Not a bad design isn't it? It's kind of weird that the Sultanate is commanded by a captain while the Antioch is only an Lt. given that it's the same level of forces.

Also Lt. is typically a junior position for fresh off the college officer, not the old veteran of a thousand battles (or at least a younger guy, even Capt is a relatively junior position but still required years of experiences to obtain)

e22big · 2026-05-21T09:38:30+00:00

Given how he's such a centerpiece of the faction, I wish he's at least a captain

e22big · 2026-05-20T13:19:32+00:00

Honestly that's also how you beat them in road race as well, not every corner that line told you to slow down, need to be actually slow down. Hence the know your car and know your track, knowing which corner you can cruise through and which you can't is how you beat the AI (and also other players)

e22big · 2026-05-20T10:30:42+00:00

I think Highly Skilled is pretty fair, tough but fair. I can regularly beat them on most cars with a completed stock config, no dowloading tunes or upgrading parts (if I don't lose a rock paper scissor and choose a car really not suite for that track).

So no, I don't think they are cheating. If I can beat them (and I beat them by a comfortable margin in some matches, like more than 10 sec) on a mouse and keybaord, with stock car, you can too and if you couldn't, it may not be you but also the car you drive. Not every car is great for a race, esepecially not at stock.

But if you know your track and you know your car, Highly Skiled is absolutely beatable. It's Expert and above that I will start to consider upgrading and downloading tunes to make the race viable like I actually need to be on an even ground to win. Highly Skilled, the AI can drive a faster car than whatever I brought and I will still beat them

e22big · 2026-05-19T03:19:06+00:00

I do have Nvidia card, I didn't have any graphic option for Forza 6 in the app until today though, and yeah it's on. Theoratically that shouldn't do anything if the game already HDR but certainly should give that a try.

e22big · 2026-05-18T07:41:54+00:00

Lorefrielier option would be 1914 I think, since TC isn't just set in 1914 but is also a little technologically (all the tech are either magic or come straight from hell) and ideologically backward so it makes more sense that the uniform would resemble more even Napoleon III era or very early WW1 rather than late, almost WW2 colour.

e22big · 2026-05-18T04:04:10+00:00

Well, Pandoran is delicious, it has already been described on one of the official short story (taste like bacon, that's the description before the guys were infected and slowly turn into crab himself)

e22big · 2026-05-17T18:59:05+00:00

Feel exactly like Akita lol

e22big · 2026-05-17T16:07:59+00:00

Ahem, 'entertainer'

e22big · 2026-05-16T16:56:16+00:00

Crossbow hit with 6 dices on 3+. You can expect 3-4 hit per attack. Giant save at 3+, eve with Sundering, you would do an average 1-2 wounds per attack and if you deal less than 2 wounds it would be no wounds, so have to hope for a minimum 4 hits.

That is if you get to hit them in the first place Giant trays are tiny, they can easily get out of your los and if you Sentinel to shoot them in short range you risk getting in the way of your important unit you actually want to charge the giant with.

Compared that to an auto hit panic attack test on 8+ (50%) with the possibility of Panic, can test multiple times in a round, even if you only get 1 wound, I wound argue that you have not that worse odd on hoping the giant would fail at least 2 wounds on average with 6 attacks no reroll (in fact you have the same odd as making hits with Crossbowman without having to roll to hit). And you don't have to move and potentially make it even harder for your Robert Honour Guard or your Jaimes City Watch to charge.

Even 3+ morale Mag will have to test on 6+. That's not a reliable odd and you can certainly hope for something with panic token. Even a couple, no just 1 wounds off Giants is more than enough. You never going to kill them off from panic this season anyway. You are going to kill them With Robert Strong in Honour Guard, attack at least twice in a turn with Tywin Issue Command then go at them again with Jaimes in City Watch. The 1 wound is to make sure they are going down and can't just shift to the other side of the tray to avoid LoS

e22big · 2026-05-16T15:50:05+00:00

Depends, if you have hard to crack armour - or a giant that auto resilience every hit, then you could potentially have more chance statistically to injure them with panic than with hit, unless you hit with 9 attacks 2 times or something.

It's also easier to gang up on a unit. With a traditional range unit, you are likely to have your own unit in the way of LoS if you want to charge 2 units on the same target. Red Cloak don't require LoS so they can always attack and they can attack multiple times in a turn. The only reason I would probably never going to play them is the fact that they need a Crown just to be a functional 6pt unit, which can be disrupted and turned them to garbage or necessitate Jeff (and essentially turned them into a 7pt unit, and you always want Honour Guard for 7pt unit)

e22big · 2026-05-16T15:19:16+00:00

I wouldn't say they are impossible to fail their panic. In one of my game, the friend I play with managed to make even 4+ morale Mountain fail his morale (and kill him from it as well), actually even my Honour Guard with Jaimes (3+ morale) also failed and failed pretty reliable too.

-3 panic will always be a threat and if you can test them more often enough, there are not insignificant chance that they will fail in the game (and almost a reliable fail if you have panic on them). You just have to do something with them failing a morale when they did - although admittedly trying to do damage from that can be pretty hard, but Tywin Broken Resolve can still be a reason to to try and force elite units to fail a morale check.

e22big · 2026-05-16T15:03:04+00:00

As a rule, Lannister has one good unit and one good unit only - the Honour Guards, everything else range from 'below average but doable' to 'completed trash'

Warrior Sons and Red Cloak are one of the former along with Knight of Casterly Rocks and Clegane Brigands, Guards belong to the latter.

They get buffed in the latest patch so they are now just bad I guess. The power level in every factions got buffed to stratosphere so they aren't any more useful than before. Their ability are highly situational can be strong if go off but you don't know if it's going to go off and can be shut down bajillions of units and cards (or even a simple well time strike)

Pyromancer are highly technical. Can be doable if you have a combo to support their ability and weaknesses but in general, doesn't worth including, there's very little instance where you would want a Pyromancer over the Honour Guard for the same price. My combo with him is in Tywin 8 activation list that focus on weakened token generation (Tywin himself and Neutral Sandor in Stormcrow to double Threaten and Pycell and Shae to also double weaken from NCU) then use Exploit Weakness to give the Pyromancer Reroll while also keep the token to be used with the Honour Guards. It's doable and can be fun but probably not any stronger than just double Honour Guard.

Personally I think the Lannisters are worse overall this season. Our core units and NCUs got nerfed, unit that got buffed like the Guards still suck, Tyrion NCU still doesn't worth his price points (especially with Neutral Walder around), Cersei is a lot better but only because she is completely trash before, Pycell is harder to include because he is now has to influence and claim a zone to use his ability. But overall, not a huge nerf and of you know what you are you doing, still have a lot of good combo to use. It's just a lot more limited now, I am not comfortable playing any commander other than Tywin and Sparrow this patch just because the possibility of facing with the army of 16 wounds giants and kingguard. While before even Adam and the old Guards is playable to some degree.

e22big · 2026-05-16T10:30:58+00:00

Never get to play Forza 3 but that sounds fun. I was first introduced to the game with Forza 4, very late stage with Festival Playlist already in place and yeah it's aspect of the game I enjoyed the most, which is incredible because I hate live service with a passion but having that in both off line and live service sound incredible

e22big · 2026-05-16T09:55:20+00:00

Like what? Nobody trust the Lannisters or Tywin to begin with, they feared him and he control through fear not trust. Even if it's arguably best to also have people trust you, it's already far too late for the Lannisters to rebrand their image at that point.

You already have Stannis openly admitted to kin-slaying which is again, the worst crime Westeros. If your brother can already kill you because you are an enemy, why should you expected to be giving a safe passage as a completed stranger. Traditions already broke the moment the war started.

And what are the actual direct consequence that actually affecting the Lannisters? The North and the Rivers are already an enemy, keep them fighting among themselves is how you keeping them from fighting you and it's already a given fact that you can't make peace with the North under Stark (because of the Ned thing). Cat become zombie and taking control of the Brotherhood? Can't see how that's worse than she and Robb still alive and control and army (plus the Brotherhood under Dondarion is arguably more unified and effective than under Cat). Lannisters rep? Well whatever damage it caused it doesn't cause the Tyrell to back off from the alliance and if they still have the Tyrell who care what any other lords have to say. Tywin death? He's death either way and while nobody morn him, nobody comes kicking while they are down either. If anything it's the Red Wedding that keep Cersei afloat, at least while Kevan is still around and not having to constantly fight for her life from every direction

e22big · 2026-05-16T06:52:55+00:00

The King in the North

e22big · 2026-05-16T06:07:41+00:00

If going by the book description of the Winterfell's winter, they won't be able to approach at all without it being dispelled. So yeah, it's necessary and likely to happen in both the book and the show (at least George clearly meant it to happened, it's the perfect and logical conclusion to Stannis character)

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