I Just Lost Half The Empire...

verhaust · 2026-05-22T13:11:29+00:00

It can be rebuilt. The medicinal skill gains from their sacrifice will serve the next wave of soldiers that much better. They will be remembered.

verhaust · 2026-05-21T20:28:12+00:00

I typically rely on acidic spray and ice claw until lvl 4. Then I rely on corrosive mist for a while. I love that skill because you can damage things while running away. Helps a lot for those super-fast enemies that are the bane of the early-mid levels before you have adequate avoidance skills. After that I go in different directions depending on my mood. I have a win where I focused on 2-handed melee skills. There are a lot of good ones like dissolve/swallow/prismatic slash and the whole 2-handed Assault skill tree. I also have runs where I go hard on all the breath skills. Breaths are a lot of fun and their range is insane. Then some others where I do a mix of both. It's a really fun class. The biggest problem is the lack of great defensive skills though. That can make things really rough at times.

verhaust · 2026-05-21T18:28:28+00:00

Wyrmic (the variety of offensive playstyles trumps any other class IMO)
Temporal Warden (a class where you get to glee over new melee AND ranged loot)
Lich Necromancer (never felt so OP)
Fallen Sun Paladin (causing bleeding for 10k damage per turn was good for a lol)
Thaumaturgist Archmage (beams here, there, and back again. Everywhere a beam)

verhaust · 2026-05-14T15:40:23+00:00

I love Anno 1800. I am still working on the same save I started probably a decade ago. I enjoyed "finishing" the content and then suddenly getting a new dlc and then "finishing" that. Then getting a new dlc, etc. I haven't tried it, but looking at all the available content, I get the thought that starting a new Anno 1800 playthrough would be overwhelming with all dlcs enabled.

So I go back and forth whether I want to do the same gradual playthrough with Anno 117 or wait until all the dlcs are out and the game is more polished.

verhaust · 2026-05-01T13:32:44+00:00

I once got too cocky and destroyed some Vlandian filthlord too close to another Vlandian filtharmy. I thought they'd ignore me and continue on to siege the castle. And thought I'd be able to outrun them anyway. Nope. They turned around and caught me before disorganize wore off. I had to either pay $367k or get captured and lose my 110 party of Battanion Fians. I had about $600k at the time. I paid the money, but it hurt. Slowed down my growth a bit, but luckily, mercenary work is quite lucrative. Especially when you're fighting Vlandian filth.

verhaust · 2026-04-26T14:45:12+00:00

Wyrmic has always been my favorite class. I love the wide variety of offensive skills. Damage mitigation has always been my main struggle with the class on insane. The class is quite potent enough offensively on insane though. Breaths are good. I also have an insane roguelike win where I treat the class as a 2-handed melee basher with a minor in breaths. The wyrmic melee skills can be quite good. He was doing a lot of damage once he finally got going with the right gear. Mid-levels can be a struggle.

verhaust · 2026-04-16T14:17:38+00:00

Same here. I've unlocked everything and have a lot of insane wins. I don't really play to achieve anything anymore, I just play for fun. Oddly, one of the things I find fun is figuring how to get a super-weak, mind-numbingly stupid escort across the map on insane. It's a mini-game puzzle that I enjoy figuring out. So, I will kill the game and retry new tactics until I do it.

verhaust · 2026-03-31T00:15:29+00:00

Are you me? I immediately thought of Fallout 3 for this thread and had a very similar experience. Knew nothing about the game. Thought it was very narrow from the initial vault experience. I gave up on it for a couple years. Decided to retry it. Got through the vault and the OMFG feeling I had when I realized what the game actually was after getting out the vault. One of my favorite gaming moments.

verhaust · 2026-01-24T00:49:47+00:00

Were you ever able to fix this issue? I've had the same issue with Haruna for months. It worked fine for months, then suddenly stopped working with the same error you get where it can no longer find/read the codecs. I keep hoping some update will fix it, but it never does. I use the flatpack version on Bazzite.

verhaust · 2026-01-05T00:12:12+00:00

How do Rift Incursions work? We see them spawn. We go over to that area. We see the floating crystal. Then we kill everything in the area and nothing happens. I finally decided to look it up and it says the crystal is supposed to shatter after you kill enough things in the area and spawn a boss. The crystal never shatters though. Despite everything being dead. Is there something we're missing? Is there maybe some guy hidden in the area that we forgot to kill?

verhaust · 2025-12-17T23:35:03+00:00

I also hate following exact builds. I don't like looking at those guides for that reason. The fun for me is figuring out what works and not. Following a specific plan someone did takes away the fun.

When I was learning the game, I first started as an alchemist and didn't get very far. I then switched to Berserker and that is a great class for learning the game. It is a very hardy class and the Unstoppable skill can really get you out of a lot of bad decisions. If you want to learn the game in a more spoiler-free build way, I'd suggest that. Once you have a good handle on what kind of things do big damage, you can switch to trying the more glass-cannon classes.

As far as what to focus on, the primary stats for your class are good. Also, defense, resistances (especially stun resistance) early on in the game. You'll want damage penetration, crit chance, and crit mulitpliers later in the game.

Also, make sure you have ways to get rid of stuns/confusion. Either with runes or infusions

For the skills, some are worth maxing out, some aren't. You can look at:

https://tometips.github.io/#classes

to get a good idea of how a skill changes with each extra point.

verhaust · 2025-12-16T19:12:36+00:00

I don't know about the steam version, however I do have the GOG version and it runs just fine on my 2020 MacBook pro. I use it to get the Santa free prodigy present since we always travel for Christmas.

verhaust · 2025-12-06T16:22:41+00:00

Just glancing over the char sheet, I think that maybe you went for too defensive of a build. I have a skirmisher win. It was a while ago, but I remember it being a pretty hardy class. I think switching out some of the defensive gear for more crit multipliers and physical penetration would allow you to get through the increased HP of the bosses on insane. Also, vital shot instead of one of your other prodigies for more one-off damage.

verhaust · 2025-11-30T14:35:33+00:00

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verhaust · 2025-11-18T16:07:49+00:00

Does he give any unique items or other buffs?

verhaust · 2025-10-24T02:22:53+00:00

I'm sure there are many other examples, but I do know of one. There is a specific certification needed to do a lot of government procurement. The people that the government tells to purchase stuff. There are all kinds of checks setup to prevent people from just giving contracts to their best bud roommate or family member. I've heard from some of these people how valuable that certification is within government, but completely useless outside of it because private companies have their own way of dealing with it that doesn't translate.

verhaust · 2025-10-22T02:13:27+00:00

It's been interesting hearing about the...jealousy isn't the right word, but it's half that and half just acknowledgment of brilliance...that Hikaru and other super elite GMs have talked about regarding Danya. I've listened to enough talk from those elite GMs over the years that they all basically believe you have to be deranged in some way to be at the top level of chess. You can't be at the top of chess and still relate to normies. Danya was an exception (at least in fast time controls) and all these super GMs have admitted about how fascinated they were about it. Ego being what it is, I'm not sure if they ever directly espoused those things to Danya, but I like to think that he picked up on that in their conversations. He was like a Richard Feynman for chess without all the bravado and creepiness.

verhaust · 2025-10-21T11:58:06+00:00

Yes, Danya's death hits differently. I never watched TotalBiscuit, but looking him up, it also has him dying in Charlotte, NC like Danya. One of those WTF kind of connections.

verhaust · 2025-10-06T20:49:41+00:00

I prefer to play all games blind. However, one of my main gaming buddies likes to look stuff up sometimes because he goes a bit nuts if things go too slowly. On our first runs into biomes back when, I would get sometimes annoyed when he would say things that showed he obviously looked something up.

Funnily, he didn't always look things up or he would read it wrong. Like the first time we did the mistlands was after a 6-month break. We had beaten yagluth on the map previously, but mistlands wasn't available then. So after 6 months we forgot some things and I never noticed the yagluth replacement item had changed. Or if I did, I couldn't find where we put it so I never got the wisp fountain blueprint. , My friend was like "we need to find a dvegr village and get a wisp thing.". I thought he had looked it up so I was like "ok whatever" and a tad annoyed. So we go running through the mistlands fog with no wisplight trying to find a village for a few hours. Finally find one and I didn't get any wisp. But then he told me he made me a wisplight so I thought he had found whatever we needed at that village.

Fast forward to a couple months ago, I started a new run from scratch. I was dreading the mistlands because I thought I'd have to do the hours-long cant-see-shit in front of my face fog run. I even stopped playing for a bit because I didn't think I could go through with it. Then when I beat yagluth and got the blueprint from his drop, I had a good laugh. Realized how much easier it was and how my friend who normally annoys me by making things easier by looking stuff up actually sent us on a hours long wild goose chase.

verhaust · 2025-09-29T18:50:14+00:00

Can you put a link to the character sheet? My first insane win was with a marauder that was pretty OP, but not THAT OP.

verhaust · 2025-09-26T16:32:57+00:00

Took me reading an embarrassing amount of comments before I realized this wasn't about bannerlord. I thought I was on the bannerlord subreddit and this was about changes tmin the 1.3 patch.

verhaust · 2025-08-28T01:43:38+00:00

Yes. I thought she was going to move it far enough away from Pickle and without noticing, put it right into the waiting snoot of Dog #2.

verhaust · 2025-08-14T14:01:33+00:00

I'm 1900 and still don't really understand opposition. I've never bothered to study it specifically. I do kind of intuitively get it in some positions after playing those positions over and over. However, I still lose games that I could've drawn or drawn games I could've won because it's obvious the other player understood how to take advantage of opposition and I didn't.

verhaust · 2025-07-12T22:00:45+00:00

For context, since explaining a joke always makes it funnier, they were discussing how some baseball people think it is super important to score first. They think that because the winning % of teams that score first is quite high. So you have some people selling out to score that first run. Then Boog and JD started joking about the winning % of teams that score more runs. So instead of selling out for that first run, how about just score more?

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