Banger soundtrack for that film. I was actually exposed to the soundtrack first by my marching band contemporaries decades back, I then went and found the movie cause it was so good.

I don’t think you’re wrong, but it is interesting that in the 2nd edition release, the area is about 2 miles across and 3 miles tall. Which means you spend a couple of hours to walk from the keep to the caves.

This is, unfortunately, exactly what is intended. There’s even a dungeon, cave of the unknown? That’s intended to be a blank space for the DM fill in as they see fit.

Its mainly based off of Napoleon, which I liked, but never felt right to me. I dont think Im crazy to feel that the system
Is designed for melee brawls with ranged combat as a supplement.

My go to in the newer total war games was to hit anything that looked at me funny with two full stacks, because they would let you control the full 40 units. It’s not bad with a few control groups. But I agree that they’d really have to rethink their basic RTS controls as it creaks at that scale.

I almost think the answer is technological in a way. My first total war was rome 1, and it blew me away at the time just how many little dudes were on the screen at the same time. I think they need to jump the numbers of people in a battle up to 10k or more. Give us that sense of grand sweep again!

It makes me wonder where you *would* take the total war franchise from here. Gunpowder warfare isn’t a great fit for them, and they’ve covered the highlights from 1500BCE TO 1500 CE in at least broad strokes. Maybe a 30 years war adjacent setting? You’d still have heavy shock cav and the like.

You could go with Seldon Crisis, which is still pretty terrible and your editor would hate it for different reasons.

Great thread! Im excited to see you tackle B2, the keep on the borderlands. It is my favorite module, I’ve run it and the silver anniversary sequel (return to the keep on the borderlands) several times, such a wonderful low level playground.

We’re living through an information revolution thats equivalent to the printing press, we’re just in for a lot of violence and chaos until we develop institutions that can deal with the new environment.

Materialist rather than spiritualist, bouncing along the military sci-fi edges of the universe. Rogue One remains one of the pieces of star wars cinema to center that sort of story. And it landing unevenly, and with less than the craft anyone would like, leads to different views on its sins.

We saw these at the zoo once, in the farm animals exhibit. I appreciate that their name translates as fat and round. 10/10 piggy name, no notes.

The real question is how deep is the vat at the mountain dew brewery, can we ever truly know?

It was a gross feedback loop, consumers were confused, frightened and angry. If you tried to actually help them make good decisions they’d hate it and wander off to go buy from the POS who harassed the women in the office but could make strangers like him for the time it took to do the sale.

I sold insurance for a bit, and one of the major reasons I left that is consumers are incredibly bad at making insurance decisions. The best salesmen in the office avoided policy and insurance specifics like the plague, if you tried to explain that it wasn’t magic sky money they’d go buy elsewhere.