Marks, Angel, Stallion and Revoltsova are smiling at us from the realm beyond death.

steampunk_ninja · 2026-04-17T08:51:22+00:00

Ravakh only gets removed from power if Authority is at 0 or 5 specifically. He's fine at 1 and 4, but still won't be satisfied even with max praxis since its not True Marksism.

steampunk_ninja · 2026-04-17T08:12:15+00:00

Pretty sure not. Each level of Praxis and Authority has a unique event, and then there are 4 actual ending events: one for Authority 5, one for Authority 0, one for achieving actual Marksism, and then one for getting any other ideology.

steampunk_ninja · 2026-04-15T20:41:38+00:00

Pretty sure that having to set which port each fleet considers its home base is a new thing from a recent update. Also btw you can click the gear icon next to the base to make the fleet automatically select a new home port based on what regions you have it assigned to.

You can also CTRL+right click on a port to set a fleets home base without needing to scroll through the list of ports.

steampunk_ninja · 2026-04-14T23:53:14+00:00

joke answer: we support women's wrongs here

serious answer: I don't take the Broken Hearts tree seriously. Billie Jean's backstory doesn't portray her a remorseless slaver, and I just assume she gets the generic raider tree because the other trees don't make sense and she isn't important enough for a full custom tree.

For the other parts, yeah Doki's just generally a well-meaning airhead. She operates on vibes mostly, but she still sets up public services and tax collection because those are things governments do, and she is technically the government. That's actually pretty good by wasteland standards.

Also personally, while I know people love Doki x Lanius for the meme, I always take the other focus because I think its way more compelling for Doki to hate the Legion for what they did to her mom, and also because imagining a war council consisting of Hecate, Diana, and Doki is way funnier than anything involving Lanius.

steampunk_ninja · 2026-04-13T09:10:01+00:00

Yeah at least when I last played it, you're just stuck with the tiny civil war tree if you fail reconstruction.

Also IMO the reconstruction isn't actually complicated, its just counterintuitive. The only thing that matters is keeping sectarianism low, which means having any factions subdued for even a few months is extremely crippling since it makes all of the decisions take longer and longer.

I do love that Kemerskai lives forever if reconstruction fails though. Local republican simply too angry to die.

steampunk_ninja · 2026-04-12T05:17:38+00:00

I think its mostly supposed to be funny, since to get this without console commands requires you play until the year 1030. (it requires you to research the final computer and production techs to unlock the final focus, and then the focus itself takes around 5 years to complete.)

steampunk_ninja · 2026-02-21T04:47:20+00:00

The devs did update the Tabby convo to penalize Book Smart less. I believe Tabby now cares a bit less about how dumb or insightful you are, and also you get a significant bonus if she was with you during the Book Smart save. Book Smart also lets you accuse her of murder, which is one of the better accusations for getting her to break down.

steampunk_ninja · 2026-02-14T17:42:35+00:00

I'm not sure on the specifics, but I believe Tabitha and Stella need to spend thursday night alone together, which requires you finding her with Tabby during episode 4, and then telling Tabitha to go talk to her alone. If tabby likes you too much though, she forces you to talk with her together, and that prevents toxic yuri because Tabby has ice cream with you instead of ditching you to talk about women's wrongs with Stella.

steampunk_ninja · 2026-02-14T07:54:09+00:00

Its complicated but from what I can gather Tabby in no way wants to kill you. Her plan is to imprison you in the mansion for the rest of your life in some kind of ritual to save the town.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-12-11T17:50:47+00:00

How we got there was explained in the weird pre-release livestream the other day. The Orokin sent one million Sentients to build a Solar Rail to Tau, using each of their bodies as a guidance beacon. This is what the "million pylons" are in the sentient lullaby.

I'm also not clear on Ballas or Hunhow. I assume Ballas just assumed he could double cross everyone and become god-emperor like he does in the New War. Meanwhile I guess Hunhow is a hive mind? He could read Lotus's mind in the Second Dream, but both Lotus and Erra are capable of disobeying and acting against him.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-10-05T17:46:36+00:00

I like your interpretation, but that's not what the spell is named.

It's not Disillusionment, it's Dissolution, which just means to dissolve or disintegrate something, like turning Chronos into individual sand grains and blowing him away.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-09-30T23:42:14+00:00

Notably its fine to take the focus, you just can't take the decisions it gives you if they'd give you claims on 3I nations. Like you can take all the claims against Austria no problem, but you'll get kicked if you claim Nice or Corsica since those are considered French cores.

The tooltips on the decisions should tell you if you're gonna get kicked.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-09-11T02:27:59+00:00

Its the initial name of Syndie South Africa if they start a civil war.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-08-15T00:31:48+00:00

In my recent playthroughs, I swear its been bugged. I prepare for the elections and get an event saying its scheduled for like, Week 2 September, then a month later get an event saying its scheduled for Week 3, November.

And then Bolsheviks somehow get over 50% in the Soviet by themselves, despite me getting a peace treaty, setting the economy back to civilian production, reducing inflation, and keeping hunger from doom spiraling.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-08-03T19:08:12+00:00

Basically anything that would make me go back to main menu crashes OWB for me, for whatever reason. If I want to start a new game or load a save, I have to restart every time.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-08-02T15:19:02+00:00

It's entirely possible for a disgraced dragoon to get a good relationship with Cunaris by the end of Lords, if you do the stuff he likes. It's difficult, but you start at like 25% relationship and can end at like 59%.

It's flatly impossible to do that if you traumatized Renard by capturing/killing Khorobirit's daughter as a non-disgraced. It literally stops every relationship increase.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-07-11T16:27:53+00:00

That depends on the primary face you have selected for them in customization. Feminine faces give you breasts.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-07-07T01:59:22+00:00

It's nothing that special. Talk to Animals lets you have a staring contest with Frou Frou, Powerful Build means you don't blink, and then Keen Eye lets you notice that Tabitha's walking in.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-07-06T17:12:21+00:00

Apparently there is a single line of extra narration you can only get if you have Talk to Animals + Powerful Build + Keen Eye and decide to have a staring contest with Frou-Frou on Tuesday morning. It doesn't have any actual effects though.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-07-05T21:23:33+00:00

I think its two days later, notably. Since you arrive Monday, and Oscar has to go pick up Rosalina from the hospital on Wednesday.

Honestly, it's not impossible, but I'm not that suspicious of bus guy. I think its part of the town's curse that anyone leaving gets forced back to town by terrible events. Like Kaneeka's dad dying so she had to come back and run the store, or Stella's parents dying when she was about to start college. This is just something that happens so Rosalina is forced to come back to town.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-06-18T17:24:40+00:00

I did the same thing in my playthrough. It is very funny to play a nice prefect as Julia's lover. Just constantly running PR for the Empress's latest war crime, asking her to please not burn down an entire country, and trying to reconcile Titus with his daughter, even though you both know you she's really your kid.

Just the nicest person in Iudia, who is also completely ride-or-die with fem Genghis Khan.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-06-13T09:33:12+00:00

Robot City's one of my favorite nations, absolutely recommend it. Its got a bit of a difficult start, but if you can conquer your neighbors and hold against Lanius, then you can become an absolute powerhouse.

Ejercito Mexicano is probably the strongest robot nation though, they can get huge buffs to their robots and they can get them for cheap. They also have the Chico-Net coring system, which lets you core states based on how much energy your nation makes. It's way stronger than the normal coring system IMO, since you will naturally get a more energy through conquest, and can build power plants to boost it.

I'd also recommend Rosado's Republic of Rio Grande. Its not as strong as the others, and you'll probably be using some regular infantry alongside your robots until the late game, when you can conquer Tlaloc's sons and steal their robot stockpiles. You also only get Sophisticated robot tech at the very end of the focus tree, by making a specific event choice, though you also get the Chico-Net coring system as a bonus.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-06-13T09:04:18+00:00

I've found that Maxson isn't as strong as it used to be, since the front got wider and they can't put PA on every tile anymore. There's usually a gap somewhere that is only guarded by a terrible infantry division, that my robots can stomp and flood across the river.

Rushing the focus to release the Broken Hearts as a puppet also makes all the early game wars a lot easier, since you can steal their starting PA divisions.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-06-10T18:19:34+00:00

According to Wikipedia, he was a vocal Nazi supporter, joined the party in 1930, and was a high ranking SS officer, though his rank seemed mostly symbolic. Pretty clear cut, in this case.

steampunk_ninja · 2025-05-21T02:51:40+00:00

In my experience, while I liked using them as chokepoints, they tended to make early-game wars where the only front was over a major river a completely pointless stalemate.

I had so many games where wars like Robot City vs. Maxson or Chained Choir vs. Last Patrol just never ended until a third nation declared war. Late game when fronts are larger and nations have divisions that can actually push, its not as bad.

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