Feels like we need to reconsider our building methods, many of our houses were built to shelter people from icy winters but basically become large pizza ovens in modern heatwaves
Firstly - the basis of the argument is that if you only had one unit to make a whole double-stack army, Scythian horse archers beat out anything else. Infantry and regular cav, even jav cav, can't catch them - and foot archers might give as good as they get in missile fire for a while, but after a wearing-down you can always melee charge them with the horse archers (a weak charge but if you're only facing foot archers it will do the trick).
As they're L1 you can retrain them pretty much anywhere, and so keep the same units for ages - meaning they get those silver XP chevrons fast.
Also, you're relatively close to Macedon, and once you take a city with a temple of Artemis, you can make gold-damage missile weapons for your already high XP horse archers. At that stage you can wipe out full armies of Armoured Hoplites or Legionary Cohorts, which is wild for something you can train in a L1 Barracks.
As for the Scythian unit specifically - the fact they have the good stamina trait puts them above Parthian and Armenian horse archers. So much of that style of battle is about stamina, especially as sitting still while firing their bows still exhausts it.
Aside: Tbh it feels like the Parthians got done dirty by the devs. Historically their horse archers were feared by the legions at the height of Roman power, but in the game they have no XP or weapon temples and need a bit of grinding to make them as powerful as they should be.
So what dyou reckon? Do you prefer German spear warband or militia hoplites?
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Largely your life is pretty miserable, there is no such thing as privacy, you live and eat and sleep and shit in a wooden box the size of a swimming pool, which sounds okay except there are 399 other men living in it. It's mostly monotonous routine but still hard labour and then sometimes you see the enemy.
You see the enemy as a small dot on the horizon, then hours pass as you creep ever closer together. While this is going on you go on about your chores, eat your meals, maybe even get 4 hours sleep, wake up and go holystone the deck, and the enemy ship is still there drawing closer.
Then you drop the daily routine and all of a sudden your mates are getting decapitated and maimed by cannonballs, people are getting impaled with massive wooden splinters, your captain is shouting "tis but a scratch" and laughing
Then it enters another phase and you're stabbing strangers as fast as your hand will move because they're trying to stab you, you're slipping in their blood, then all of a sudden you've won, you have one 74th of one-eight of the equivalent of a couple of million quid, your captain is pouring a glass of wine for the guy who he was trying to kill 15 minutes ago, and they play a little Boccherini together and wish each other good luck.
It's ... pungent. Got a whiff last night but it's coming on in waves this evening. I'm hoping it's the farmers taking advantage of Sunday's rain and muck-spraying and not something that has crawled inside my cavity wall and shuffled off its mortal coil
It would be cool to post some images of the ships in question [or something very like them], videos of how sailing ships worked and of historical encounters like those described in the books.
Or even to invite discussion by posting a full page from one the novels that one found particularly enjoyable, stirring, or (let's face it, occasionally) incomprehensible; without having to type the whole thing out.
Wondering if the Scottish and Northern Irish redditors feel the same
I swear the worst time of year was the early July heat combined with the early July sunset times of 10.30PM and sunrise times of 4.30AM, I found myself feeling shell shocked for a couple of weeks.
I'm weird but I like the sun to set around 7PM and rise about 7AM, feels like a healthy balance.
I get why people like Kneecap but I feel there's some disingenuousness going on about why. This is not good music. View it as rap, as punk, as whatever you want, it fails on every level.
EDIT: I'm told this is not Kneecap but my point stands, as far as I'm concerned they're indistinguishable from Kneecap. Fuckin hell as if one wasn't enough.
My least favourite part of these heatwaves is that lingering effect on ambient and indoor temperatures.
Man I don't know why but it hit me right in the feels. Pure 4AM euphoric stuff. When Sasha is on it, there's no other DJ quite like him.
Listen to Sasha All Night Long Denver | Recorded Live 12.28.24 by Sasha on #SoundCloud
Am I right in saying it was a kind of way to lend formality to a sentence, by men who weren't very comfortable with formal social situations?
I know Killick isn't trying to address Jack formally as such when he does it, but for Killick it indicates him being a bit sniffy, and Killick always addresses Jack in that sniffy tone. For other sailors it's them trying to sound as formal as their language allows.
Is that the gist of it or have I been reading it wrong?
OOOO-YYYAAAWWWWW-HHHHOOOOO
Seriously what were they thinking with this. Every new playthrough, it makes me think of abandoning it. A cheesy Disney Movie got dropped into our tale of god-killing and brutal violence.
Do you aim for top-tier units which take a shitload of technology, and max them out with your [also technologically expensive] temples and armouries?
Examples would be Sacred Band, Urban Cohort, Armoured Elephants, Gothic Cavalry ...
Or do you settle on cheaper units which you can spam - and retrain - much more effectively?
Examples are innumerable but the most powerful cheaper units would be horse archers, round shield cav, wardogs, horse archers, barbarian warband, horse archers, Roman auxilia, base hoplites, and horse archers.
I kinda like horse archers NGL. You can have an army of them by mid-game that have built up gold XP chevrons, not even with temples but just with battle experience, that will merk high tier armies.
(The pic shows some Persian Cav which are mid-tier but honestly given the choice I'd as soon go with a double stack of base horse archers)
I reckon I'd have lost it completely by now otherwise
The writing for the first Pirates Of The Caribbean movie was better than any movie based on a theme park ride had any right to be.
And delivered by Geoffrey Rush? Sublime.
It's so satisfying. The Guardian Justice big percussive shield thump was insanely powerful, but my own personal favourite was Agile Strike.
Just a tap forward on the stick and R1 but it's a fast and frankly brutal liver punch and it never ever gets old.
You know how we're always saying the houses trap warm air and take a while to cool down - the temperature has dropped enough that you can feel that happening. Every other respite up to now hasn't been enough for the indoor temps to drop much.
It's glorious, it's been drizzling for the past hour just to round it off.
Consider moving to Belfast my friends, we have low salaries and occasional recreational rioting, but we also have cheap houses and cool temperatures.
It's set to be 19C with a low of 9C on Thursday here which NGL sounds like bliss.
I unironically love British weather and the prospect of getting back to it fills me with quiet happiness.