Cornuthaum
Be kind to each other.
- Location
- Austria
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Nations of Steel and Sabre
- Thread starter Theravis
- Start date
- OOC Fantasy Alt. History
THatWhichWillBe
The Squiddly One
- Location
- In The Darkened Deep
Oh my god, it's alive!
Theravis
A Knight for those Suffering
- Location
- West Michigan
NSS Fltagn! That is not dead which can eternal lie!
THatWhichWillBe
The Squiddly One
- Location
- In The Darkened Deep
could we get some kind of ETA for it's awakening, then?
THatWhichWillBe
The Squiddly One
- Location
- In The Darkened Deep
THatWhichWillBe
The Squiddly One
- Location
- In The Darkened Deep
So, uh, how do you guys like my IC post?
THatWhichWillBe
The Squiddly One
- Location
- In The Darkened Deep
Of course it lives, you and the other GMs have been working hard at coming up with the next Turn Reports like you told us... right?
THatWhichWillBe
The Squiddly One
- Location
- In The Darkened Deep
You mean 'will drop', right?
Oh yey.
BTW, as an aside, what exactly was the theme of Swedish National Magic/Magitech? Or did it not really have too much of a theme?
I'm just curious because I can't find where the 'Magic' portion of the Swedish 'Magic SAMs' originates from.
THatWhichWillBe
The Squiddly One
- Location
- In The Darkened Deep
Azecreth
Giant Monster All Out Attack
- Location
- United States of America
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Pics or it didn't happen
THatWhichWillBe
The Squiddly One
- Location
- In The Darkened Deep
You've got a point.
Has anyone seen a Swedish SAM and an Iranian Djinn in the same place? The Truth is out there.
Theravis
A Knight for those Suffering
- Location
- West Michigan
Okay.
I'm pulling the plug on this.
Truth be told, Poland is... not going well. I can't find the info I really need, my guessing at it is shit, and it's just too complex of a system for this to work anymore. I love this setting. I love it to little bits. But it needs to end. Maybe I'll come back some later time, with a system that works. Maybe not. But I think it's just dead now.
I'll post the Poland event, but it has no casualties. The only casualty is the game.
I'm pulling the plug on this.
Truth be told, Poland is... not going well. I can't find the info I really need, my guessing at it is shit, and it's just too complex of a system for this to work anymore. I love this setting. I love it to little bits. But it needs to end. Maybe I'll come back some later time, with a system that works. Maybe not. But I think it's just dead now.
I'll post the Poland event, but it has no casualties. The only casualty is the game.
THatWhichWillBe
The Squiddly One
- Location
- In The Darkened Deep
:_:
I didn't even get to see my World Event.
The Tragedy. The Horror.
THatWhichWillBe
The Squiddly One
- Location
- In The Darkened Deep
BTW, Theravis, since the game's over anyway, what was wrong with the System anyhow?
Theravis
A Knight for those Suffering
- Location
- West Michigan
You were gonna have a Bodhisattsiva show up to help you fight irem.
We had a neat system and everything, just dear god, the military system in this killed it.
I think the real lesson here is to let tenfold write systems from here on out.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
It was a fun game while it lasted. I enjoyed playing as end of evangelion Russia and Verne's Netherlands, for what little time I did.
Theravis
A Knight for those Suffering
- Location
- West Michigan
The military system was too big and unwieldy for mods to use. So then every time war broke out, we busted our asses trying to get them written. Then I burned out. Then everyone else burned out cause I was burned out and busy. Then I showed up again and we had no plans or ORBATs for half a war.
THatWhichWillBe
The Squiddly One
- Location
- In The Darkened Deep
...
*inconsolable weeping*
Maybe next time instead of doing a Military System that is based on massive spreadsheets, we could just.... wing it more?
Like, instead of having X number of Mil points being X number of men, we could have 1 Econ Point = X Number of Armies, each Army being roughly X number of men, and everything around the Army composition is just abstract? That way you could handle armies of stuff like Rakshasha without having to deal with giant amounts of accounting.
Yeah, honestly, it was hell for me to keep track of my own military compared to Iran's military, because of how unwieldy it was. A lot of the issues with the military system were because, in my opinion, it tried to be too detailed. IT didn't really have a way to summarize things.
Like, I made a giant spreadsheet, and I realized at that point that the spreadsheet didn't really tell me anything about what my army was, it was just a bunch of numbers.
A single sentence, like: "My Army is a horde of infantry with a core of elite shock troopers with magic" gave me more information about what my army was like and how it handled than my spreadsheet.
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Theravis
A Knight for those Suffering
- Location
- West Michigan
See.... I have this issue.
Every time I try to do that, my brain goes "But what about X weird edge case?"
"But when would that ever happen?"
"You'd do it cause it's badass and you know it."
"You're right. I'd better write in a rule for that."
*4 hours later*
"And now with this auto calculating spreadsheet to keep track of things, I can... goddammit."
That and I love Miltech to the point where even in Kizil's narrative game, I'm currently going through cancelled German WW1 fleet plans and ship designs to put together an itemized list of my entire fleet, with period-appropriate naming scheme
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just, don't write rules for the edge cases
you're the god mod
god mod it
you're the god mod
god mod it