I figured. I had played a little bit of the 3rd game when it fell into my backlog, and it seemed like it was more focused around the humor than anything else.
burning the entire city of Topeka
Point of order, it was Lawrence that was burned, not Topeka. It actually got attacked twice in fact. Once during Bleeding Kansas as it was the Free State capital, and the second time by William Quantrill and his raiders during the Civil War (like you said, because they blamed us for there even being a Civil War because we didnt just roll over and take it).
Also considering the fact that many Hamas leaders were found to be living in the UK without suffering consequences despite being members of a banned group.
What is the context that line is said in though? After all, you are playing as the villains in that game, so if it is one of your people saying it: duh? You're the bad guy.
Definitely applies for their Age of Sail game, and I do enjoy that one too. but I was talking about Pre-Dreadnaught steam ship warfare. The ships like this, or this, or Semi-Dreadnaughts like this. And while they have a bad reputation, I love the ugly French bastard fleet.
This was before autoloader systems really existed, before long range fire control existed, and ships that were only barely considered stable in calm water. And as much as I like the Dreadnaught-era warfare for its large fleet battles at long range, there is something to the "Get in close and slug it out" style of the Pre-Dreadnaughts that I find more entertaining. It is also more about positioning since your secondary's make up the bulk of your firepower in those ships. And you will learn to fear Torpedo Boats, because in an era before effective anti-torpedo and flood protection systems existed, I have absolutely lost battleships to a single torpedo that caused it to capsize before I could even do anything to save it.
I would also recommend it for the simple fact that I dont know of many pieces of media (never mind games) that cover the Pre-Dreadnaught era of naval warfare. Which I honestly find more fun in the game than when you get to the Dreadnaught era, even if I enjoy the game as a whole.
I think Dreadnought allows you to build your own ships.
Basically, it works like this. You start with a hull from one of the major navies from the 1890's-1940's. That hull, in addition to intrinsic ratings on things like tonnage limited, passive stability, default damage resistance, etc with all hulls being based on IRL designs of their time period (ie: The hull for an Iowa, the hull for a Queen Elizabeth, the hull for the Massina, etc). You then have a budget and are supposed to use that budget to design a ship that does not exceed the max tonnage for the hull, and can add whatever guns and armor you like. So if you want to make an Iowa that traded some armor for 18" guns, it is possible. Subsystems like autoloaders, fire control, and advanced armor schemes also count but can give pretty substantial boost so can not be ignored.
At the moment, there are three modes to play with it. One is the Naval Academy, where you are given pretty tight limits on ships and funds to wargame out a scenario (ex: "Build a battlecruiser to rescue a convoy that has been ambushed by an enemy fleet of cruisers, with your battlecruiser starting several dozen NM from the convoy"). There is a campaign mode, where you pick a nation and are effectively the Lord of the Navy in charge of the fleet through your wars, where you are limited by your shipyard capacities and the budget given to you by the government. And multiplayer capable single actions where the rules are a bit more flexible.
I didn’t say it wasn’t. What I am saying is you shouldn’t allow the lack of such laws to keep you from voting. “But what if they cheat?!” Then that is one more vote they have to override.
Additionally, we probably lost because people just didnt show up. I saw that in Ohio, the amount of Dem voters was largely the same as the 2020 election, but Rep voters were half of what they had been.
This "blaming everything on rigged elections" is starting to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and people really need to stop or less this will keep happening.
If it means anything to you, the same thing happened here in Kansas in 2022. Because people didnt like the Republican option for governor, but they did like the down-ticket Republicans or at the very least just did the rest of the ticket as R. So its not as unusual as you think. And ironically, it results in said Dem governors hands being tied on a lot of the stupidest things because the rest of her cabinet is calling her an idiot.
They also mass executed Catholics and Catholic leadership.
Even this kind of undersells the things they did to the Catholics. There are many occasions of them digging up the corpses of dead priest and nuns from graveyards, and then placing them "on trial" for "crimes against humanity", and then destroying the bones.
This is why people considered Franco at least tolerable compared to the Socialist.
Possibly. I know that she is on Thrawns Origin comic right now, and she seemed interested in some of the other EU characters I talked about like Mara Jade (as well as the Vong as an enemy).
You want to know what is the fun part? For all of them pushing this sort of stuff, my fiancé just recently discovered Thrawn through second-hand Ahsoka stuff. She like him enough to look up more stuff, and then discovered the Original Thrawn. And now that has become her autistic obsession because she likes the OG more than Disney Thrawn.
This is probably why they try to pretend all of that stuff doesnt exist.
I am reminded of TF2 where you get an achievement for causing someone to ragequit.
It was actually confirmed in canon (or at least, very heavily implied) it was Palpatine who killed Padme. The TLDR is that even with the medical tech, Anakin was too far gone to be saved. So he used the force to siphon Padme's life force into Anakin. Why? Because Anakin betrayed the Republic, the Jedi Order, his best friend who was like a brother to him, everyone just to save his wife. And in the end, his vision ended up happening and she died anyway, except now Anakin had ruined the entire galaxy.
Therefore, this knowledge would further break Anakin and force him into being Darth Vader, Palpatines nice obediently little dog. And at least in the old EU, Palpatine even told him this at one point and dared Vader to strike him down in hatred. And when he instead bowed because he felt he wasnt strong enough, Palpatine was just like "That's what I though, bitch."
Because, you know, even if that wasnt entirely written down on paper yet in Ep. 6, it does make it that much more important when he finally does betray Emps to save Luke.
True, but they were typically never counted in the Comic Book sales list IIRC.
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That is another reason they didnt stand a chance. With comics, your options are "Superheroes", "Superheroes", and "Action packed fighter things".
Meanwhile, with Manga, you have actiony from mechs, actiony from insane fighting, slice of life, romance, ghost stories/horror, and sometimes a combination of multiple.
And even with doing that, all evidence points to the fact they have hit their peak and are on the backslide. Their industry is leaving for new places, their money is worthless (which is why they keep having to crackdown on its trading, and dont let it leave the country). They are spending trillions of dollars for trains and roads to nowhere because they have to keep people employed. It still isnt enough and there is absurd unemployment in the youth (30%+). Their military is still unproven and the handful of times they have tried to commit it it has lost (to African warlord militias no less). And the BRI is slowly falling apart as nations that joined it realize it is not working for them, only China.
But dont worry. When it eventually collapse, it wont because of Communism.
And yet people still ask why DC and Marvel sales are so low.
Marvel and DC wish they were merely low. It has gotten so bad for them that new comics sell almost as much as back-issues, while Manga makes up almost 90% of all new comic/graphic novel sales.
or power armour so we can duel with chainswords.
Me, the Imperial Guard main: Lol. Lmao. calls in Basilisk barrage
After that, they'll literally just leave. They are globalists. They aren't going to fight to hold the ground under their feet when they can go somewhere else.
To that end, I am sure it is merely a coincidence that there are reports that a lot of the usual suspects in the Corporate and Political world are buying up so called "doomsday bunkers" for millions of dollars in New Zealand.
Meanwhile, for as massive of a misstep that they made by firing Blain Pardoe, Catalyst Games Lab has been handling the Battletech/Mechwarrior franchise surprisingly well. Because at the same time GW was squashing their fan animations, CGL took the creator of a popular fan series and had him help with their newest game, or at least on the trailer. As well as canonizing the character and micronation of one of their most popular community members ("Tex" of the Black Pants Legion, with his character Randolph P. Checkers of Van Zandt).
What, the SJW's lack imagination? Perish the thought. Next you are going to tell me that the only thing they can do is tell literally the same story over and over again but only changing which skinsuit they wear to tell it, because no one wants to listen to them and they think a new skin will work.
The funny thing is, there are already fan-theories and alt-timelines of things like the Dornian Heresy and the superior Roboutian Heresy.
But those are fan-theories, and you dont see any fans pushing to make them canon. Like I said though, luckily GeeDubs seems to know better and is sticking to their guns on the topic.
Honestly, as schlocky as they are, I kind of wish there were more Musou games. Every once and a while, I enjoy just firing up a game where it is just me vs billions and you cut through them like a hot knife through butter until you eventually find an enemy commander who then gives you an actual fight. But right now about the only options are Dynasty Warriors or Samurai Warriors.