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Working on putting multiple terrain layers into my erosion simulation. Put a max where I meant to put a min. The result was all the soil on the map liquefying into a grey substance which constantly tried to deposit itself back on the rock layer and roiling ferociously.

Computer simulations evoke the same feelings in me that I imagine ancient humans felt when they saw monstrous natural disasters or unexplainable phenomena. It fills me with awe, but I also have this weird urge to hunt you down for your terrifying witchcraft.

Like, that all started with code and systems built to understand and execute code and something about transistors, which there's apparently a lot of? I'm just gonna call it magic.

Seriously, that's awesome, well done!

I think they probably find Pax Americana suitably evocative but I'm sure Historians appreciate the suggestion.

I find this kind of question interesting, though not neccessarily for the US, NATO, Russia and all that. That IS interesting, and this thread is interesting, but it's not what gets me interested most. It seems to be that with the existence of a hyperpower in a globalized world with weapons of mass destruction, many, many armies of states that fall outside of the heavy hitters - France, the UK, China, etc. - are becoming more of a 'department of public works' staffed by extremely dangerous people who get to use weapons. Take Oceania for instance - Australia's army, whilst it tags along with the US a lot of the time and does in fact deploy overseas a fair bit - is mostly geared towards disaster relief and peacekeeping, as well as being a place advertised as great for learning a trade or making a career. Killing people for some greater purpose isn't ever, ever the focus or the public image of the military because killing people often isn't the job, even if you don't consider the massive extent to which support staff outnumber combat troops. Australia doesn't have ads where a marine in dress blues fights a dragon. They have ads about how cool it is to buikd airfields in Micronesia. Seeing combat and being in a warzone isn't something I'd assume is a driver for people signing up.

New Zealand, even more so. Who wants to invade NZ? Their army has 10,000 people in it. That's not good for anything a war involving NZ would entail, unless they're being invaded by Lesotho. It's not going to defend the country for any length of time, it's barely able to deploy overseas and simply couldn't do so on its own. Joining the armed forces there is a means by which you learn a trade on the government's dime with a slightly above average chance of death or injury. Most of this is due to the US footing the bill - if someone decides for some ungodly reason to turn on NZ, either the rest of the world helps out or there's nothing they can do anyway. Geopolitics, increased interconnectedness and general irrelevance makes 'national defence' a bit of a dumb term for states like NZ. Currently many states are gearing their armed forces more towards providing a place to learn skills whilst assisting the government through things like rebuilding disaster areas or delivering aid. I don't see that as such a bad thing. This isn't to say that this kind of thing is the natural end-point of war or the world's nations' attitude towards one another will stay the same forever or even for our entire lifetimes. War isn't predictable. But it seems low key enough for developed nations right now that the armed forces of most states would be having a strange day if they had to shoot someone.

But, of course, it does by and large require a hyperpower like the US. They're almost paying for peace in that respect, as everyone's pointed out.

I would assume it's taken up in pieces and assembled up there. It's deployed before the battle, so you can abstract a way a lot of stuff.

Oh, well, that wasn't helpful of me. It's actually on The Greek States Pack page, specifically when it mentions : "Polybolos Repeating Scorpion – [Siege Deployable available to all Greek, Roman and Carthaginian factions].

Now, this is just a deduction, but since the siege weapon in the screenshot has wheels, I'm assuming that it's usable on the offense, too, but I can't see a logical way of getting it up there during the battle, which makes me think that it's possible to deploy it on the walls pre-battle when you end up defending whilst it's in your army. Specifically, this screenshot is of the tutorial, which means it's probably possible to do this in the regular game, and either the walls are indestructible because parts of walls always have been in Total War (excluding Shogun) and he just moused over one of those parts or it's set to indestructible for the purposes of the tutorial.

So yes, I think it's entirely possible that if you have a siege weapon in your army, you'll be able to deploy it on walls before the battle. I didn't notice the unit tab switching though, which could either be a quick way of accessing artillery during a siege or the death of my argument.

Wow, that's really disappointing. I mean, if you wanna get roleplay-y, it wouldn't be strange to assume the goblin gets lost and dies in the bowls of the earth but if they do actually managed to teleport back to base upon exiting the map, in gameplay terms I'll always know they got away.

I need to put some spikes down there or something.

Quote from: krisslanza on August 12, 2013, 04:01:13 pm

I'm always annoyed they just won't make actual Amazon faction in Rome 2. IN ANYTHING

FTFY. Mods of certain paradox games excluded; there's been absolutely zero effort at giving South American natives a fair shake. It's almost to the point where I think developers exclude it on purpose..

What with EU IV having been released, if you convert a Crusader Kings 2 save that has the Sunset Invasion DLC, both the Aztecs and Incas will wreck your shit from here to forever, all the time, always.