Announcing the new “Royal Stables” DLC: “Marauders & Massacres” is sure to spice up your medieval farm simulation!
Announcing the new “Royal Stables” DLC: “Marauders & Massacres” is sure to spice up your medieval farm simulation!
They were also rare. To effectively pull off horse archery, you needed good horses, good riders that also happened to be good archers (both of which weren’t trivial on their own, let alone combined) and good coordination. Bows are more effective the closer you are, so to get the most out of your arrows, you’ll want to close in, but then you also need to wheel off again without your riders getting in each other’s way, so you needed to drill maneuvers for that.
So you either need to have a sufficiently large body of soldiers with the leisure to train both archery and riding instead of working the fields, or you needed a society that treats them as basic skills anyway and only needed training in the military application. Nomadic peoples like the Scythians or Mongols often had the former, so they were notable sources of dangerous mounted archery, particularly where the raising and support of a professional army wasn’t feasible. Rome had the Equites Sagitarii, but they were part of the distinct social class we would call Knights, so not your rank-and-file soldier (and those were already more professional than later levy- or retinue-based militaries).
So if we were concerned about accuracy*, these units should be expensive and require good management to make the most of them, but be very dangerous too. The point about open / closed terrain certainly fits as well.
What’s a bit more foggy is how games usually handle bow effectiveness at range, but that’s its own topic.
*I do care about accuracy, but not at any cost - games need to be fun too, and that’s worth sacrificing some accuracy for.
…and hope that the actual P doesn’t bite the dust on his own?
Or maybe that’s the gamble at this point
Es regnet, es regnet Blut
Es regnet den Spielmannsfluch
Hach, das hab ich auch lange nicht mehr angehört. Danke für die Erinnerung!
For the right jobs, it’s a good tool.
This isn’t the right job.
Sounds like they did the lookups by hand actually
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Whoever decided to make dates a manual entry text field without validation should be forced to write SQL by hand, without syntax highlighting, autocompletion, syntax checks, reference or looking up stuff, querying a database with no schema or data dictionary.
Well, it’s ““This””, not “This”, so I’d say it’s fine.
And if you’re not comfortable with people seeing you topless, just head further north, where there’s no people anymore
I share your hope. I’m just offering the caveat that it might not go as quickly and smoothly as you expect (unless I’m reading your comments wrong - do correct me!)
It’s my perpetual gripe with many of those open tools that I love ideologically, but practically find lacking in some respects, typically UI/UX (including the pre-experience of the decision whether to use them). I don’t have all the skills or knowledge to fix the issues that bother me, as it’s often far eaiser to know what’s wrong than how to fix it.
I understand and endorse the philosophy that it’s unfair to demand things of volunteers already donating their time and skills to the public, but it creates some interdisciplinary problems. Even if capable UX designers were to tackle the issue and propose solutions or improvements, they might not all have the skills to actually implement them, so they’d have to rely on developers to indulge their requests.
And from my own experience, devs tend to prioritise function over form, because techy people are often adept enough at navigating less-polished interfaces. Creating a pretty frontend takes away time from creating stuff I’d find useful.
I don’t know if there’s an easy solution. The intersection between “People that can approach software from the perspective of a non-tech user”, “People that are willing to approach techy Software” and “People that are tech-savy enough to be able to fix the usability issues” is probably very small.
…oder einfach einen anderen Geschmack? Ich mag bitter, vor allem wenn noch andere Noten mitschwingen.
Is nicht für alle, das seh ich ein, aber ich bin bspw. mit Wein* oder Sekt nie warm geworden; Wirkung hin oder her. Das alleine kanns also nicht sein. Da bevorzuge ich dann doch ein leckeres Bier.
Über Geschmäcker will ich hier gar nicht streiten. Gibt bestimmt Dinge, die dir schmecken, mir aber nicht. So sind Menschen eben unterschiedlich, was ich auch gut finde:
Dann bleibt mehr für mich :p
*Außer einem guten Honigwein. Gibt aber auch da welche die nur widerlich sind. Vielleicht müsste ich nur mehr Weine probieren um einen zu finden den ich mag?
It’s so big that it can take a lot of bleeding before it dies. It doesn’t help that there is no significant enough consensus yet on an alternative.
It seems like some people are flocking to bsky, probably because it has better visibility and seems more accessible than Mastodon (“What’s an instance? How do I pick?”). Others are heading to Threads just because it’s there already.
If enough people move to some other platform to generate a critical mass, they’ll pull others too. Until then, inertia will keep X rolling a good while to come.
I prefer Mastodon to what is ultimately still a for-profit corporation (“public benefit” notwithstanding), but both are better than Twatter.
Ich iel: Gewalt sollte die letzte Lösungsmaßnahme sein, wenn alles andere versagt.
Ich in Zivilisations-Spielen: Mist, mit Gewalt komm ich nicht weiter. Dann muss ich es halt mit Diplomatie versuchen bis ich wieder genug Militär hab.
Echt so. Wogegen soll der läuternde Zorn der heiligen Kriegsmaschinen entfesselt werden? Wofür überhaupt eine Fabrik bauen, wenn sie nichtmal Feinde anzieht und damit Gelegenheiten für Verehrung des Geallesten* durch Zerstörung seiner Feinde? Nachher wird den Maschinengeistern langweilig…
*Laienversuch, Omnissiah irgendwie zu Verzangendeutschen - ggf gerne korrigieren
The value of distributed redundancy
Skirmishers as in “Light Cavalry”, designed to catch closing archery and ride them down? I’m not big on RTS (I suck at multitasking), but I’m always fascinated by gamified implementations of historical dynamics.
I don’t suppose they also support “recruit auxiliary specialists” as option?