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[Tawa]

Oh my god, I can get membership without shelling out? Guthix above, I'm going to get cracking! :O

[Twinwolf]

I'm usually against class changing people out of their starting class (not counting promotions). But the Villager class is literally made with that in mind, so I saw no issue with turning Mozu into an archer with a Heart Seal. She was mediocre, compared to her time as a villager. And then I finally completed the free DLC with Chrom and Lissa alive, and thus got the bonus items. I saw that the Great Lord class that was unlocked by one of them used Lances, and wanted Mozu to be viable again, so I used the item on her.

Cue the next fight and her single-handedly wrecking promoted units that my (former) best units could only kill with support from several other units. Found my new best unit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright. Hard/Classic.

[A Thing]

After many many adventures (IE combat encounters, calling Ascension Peak and the Rapax areas a slog is a gross understatement) my party has ascended to the Cosmic Circle and killed the Dark Savant (yes that is his name and no, it doesn't make much more sense in-game) and accidentally destroyed the universe. It's all cool though, we're making a new one with ghost preevilification-Savant man. All in all, for what was apparently supposed to be a escort job for some dude, pretty good deal if you forget all the murder and pain.

Spoiler: And he was victorious! (click to show/hide)

Wizardry 8

[Flying Dice]

Spoiler: OP as shit (click to show/hide)

The ability is Suika's (they're both immune to it), the moves are Rin's. Suika in first, the sandstorm persists for the whole battle. Use her until she's about to faint, then switch to Rin. Burn + Fire Spin + Confuse Ray each enemy 2hu in the appropriate order, then Dig and reapply debuffs & DoTs until they faint. Rinse, repeat until the whole enemy roster is dead. The only thing that can stop it is something immune to both Fire and Earth.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Touhoumon Purple, the best and most balanced of the Touhou romhacks, still home to some OP shit.

[itisnotlogical]

Utterly destroyed a Difficult abduction mission. The enemy couldn't do anything once my sniper could see them via Squad Sight, and the last two tried to hide behind a brick wall. Thanks to my heavy's upgraded rockets, that wall wasn't around for long.

XCOM. I see what people mean when they say Squad Sight is overpowered

[Twinwolf]

It's mostly that there's no aim penalty for it, so the snipers get the bonus of their weapon's optimum range on anything with Squadsight. They nerfed it in 2 by giving it an aim penalty the further away they get, but even then it can be compensated for by height advantage and scopes.

[Greiger]

My first time playing the game and I wanted to see if I could figure out how to tame a critter without looking up how to on google.  I already had some basic stuff, so I figured it was a good as a time to try as any.  After I successfully tame one (or give up)  I was going to look up how you actually do it and see how I did.

Spoiler: my steps taken (click to show/hide)

1) There was some kind of giant turtle swimming around in the pond behind where I put my house. It did not try to eat me when I got close.  That seemed like a good plus in the tameable category.
[seems that they are decent things to try and tame, apparently excellent when near water, according to the wiki. Which I seemed to be surrounded by.]

2) I made a club because that item claimed to render stuff unconscious. And lacking any other obvious bets for taming that seemed like it would work.
[I had a slingshot but failed to realize I needed rocks in my inventory to make it work]

3) I walked up to it and started bludgeoning it in the face.[A club is apparently one if not the WORST tool to try to tame these things with]  It did not like that.  And kept biting me I ran away into my hut, and it decided it wanted to break my hut, so I ran out and started throwing spears at it.

4) After a few spears to the face it started running away, and I followed it with my club beating it on it's tail until it fell over.  Success! I knocked it out by bludgeoning it's ass! I guess that's where dinosaurs keep their brains.

5) All I had was berries so I dumped my entire inventory of berries into it's inventory.  The numbers are counting down and there is a little tame meter now.  Clearly I am doing it right!

6) Wow this is taking forever.
[I had a few special purple berries, I should have noticed if it ate those first and went and got more, I guess if I must use berries to tame those are the ones to use.]

7) It seemed to be waking up faster than the tame meter was going up, so I beat it in the head with a club a few times.
[Worst possible way to do it apparently. I was supposed to force feed it narco berries, which it had in it's inventory but it won't eat unless I make it.  Beating it with a club did indeed keep it's torpor up, but it also pretty much literally beat it stupid.]

And then yay! after nearly an hour I had my own brand new turtle named daisy!

9) In our travels immediately after I find another turtle with a heart over it's head.  As I'm trying to get them as close as possible to see if it means what I think it means we get attacked by compies.  A stray spear hits romeo and Daisy starts attacking him.  I'm too busy stabbing little demon lizards to notice.  Male turtle kills daisy.  I GTFO.

In short I did indeed successfully tame a critter (in the most inefficient and worst way possible) and then immediately got it killed.   I'm still calling that an own since I did it all without looking up how.

Ark Survival evolved. (singleplayer til I know what I'm doing)

[EnigmaticHat]

The last enemy base on the map was the tribal keep of the free mutants.  They'd attempted to attack multiple times by setting up hidden camps to use as supply bases to reach my headquarters, but each time I located and bombed them, then bombed the army and engaged.  Unfortunately, one of the generals, a geneticist named Mycorr, escaped his defeat.  Not only that but he escaped with a dangerous creature called a Mauler, a huge dinosaur that not only has the highest attack value possible but attacks twice and does double damage.  Since his failed offensive, Mycorr healed the beast back up in the keep and recruited a large number of decent mutants, mainly giant Skull Crushers.  The keep was located at the top of a mountain, with tunnels dug into it, giving it a ridiculous defense bonus (every defender would gain half the possible defense value on top of their normal defense).

Fortunately the AI isn't that bright and had Mycorr patrolling instead of sitting in the keep for a final stand.  My forward air controller saw that there were only two units of very weak mutants defending the base.  First, I launched multiple bombing runs on the defenders.  Then, in the same turn, my main army with six units of Imperial Marines (human soldiers with power armor and jetpacks) air attacked into the keep, easily overwhelming the heavily wounded and outnumbered defenders.  Mycorr now had no supplies and was forced to try and retake the keep.  Using the mutant's own defenses against them, the marines annihilated the entire enemy army without any damage taken at all.  As a last insult, the marines captured Mycorr and he joined a mutant scout commander rotting in prison.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Armageddon Empires

[itisnotlogical]

I killed three Mutons, a Cyberdisk AND a Drone with one rocket. Colonel Fong has an absolutely absurd 44 kills to his name. He has proven himself able to tank several plasma hits, and is at the front line of every terror mission and UFO assault. I think I might have to quit this run if he dies.

XCOM.

[Arx]

Spoiler: 300 Intensifies (click to show/hide)

Participants
Rondan II Balkopan	Hjalti
Initial Troops
17 medium infantry                      73 light infantry     35 archers     1 noble	16 medium infantry            13 heavy infantry     8 archers     2 heavy cavalry     1 noble

Combat
Ranged Phase

35 shots fired                19 hits     4 enemies killed     5 enemies wounded

8 shots fired                5 hits     3 enemies killed

Melee Phase 1

123 soldiers fighting                6 enemies wounded     3 enemies killed	32 soldiers fighting     11 enemies killed     3 enemies wounded
Melee Phase 2
109 soldiers fighting            7 enemies wounded	25 soldiers fighting     7 enemies wounded     7 enemies killed
Melee Phase 3
95 soldiers fighting              1 enemy killed     7 enemies wounded	18 soldiers fighting     4 enemies wounded     6 enemies killed
Melee Phase 4
85 soldiers fighting     5 enemies wounded     2 enemies killed     1 enemy routed	11 soldiers fighting     3 enemies wounded     2 enemies killed
Melee Phase 5
80 soldiers fighting     2 enemies wounded     1 enemy routed	6 soldiers fighting     5 enemies wounded
Melee Phase 6
75 soldiers fighting     1 enemy wounded     1 enemy routed	4 soldiers fighting     2 enemies killed
Melee Phase 7
73 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting     2 enemies killed
Melee Phase 8
71 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting     2 enemies killed     1 enemy wounded
Melee Phase 9
68 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting     2 enemies killed
Melee Phase 10
66 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting     1 enemy killed     1 enemy wounded
Melee Phase 11
64 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting     2 enemies killed
Melee Phase 12
62 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting
Melee Phase 13
62 soldiers fighting     1 enemy wounded     1 enemy routed	3 soldiers fighting     1 enemy wounded

Melee Phase 14     61 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed     2 soldiers fighting     1 enemy killed Melee Phase 15
60 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	2 soldiers fighting     1 enemy killed     1 enemy wounded
Melee Phase 16
58 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	2 soldiers fighting
Melee Phase 17
58 soldiers fighting     1 enemy routed	2 soldiers fighting     2 enemies killed
Melee Phase 18
56 soldiers fighting     1 enemy wounded     1 enemy routed	2 soldiers fighting     1 enemy killed

A hundred and thirty-five walk in. Fifty-four leave. I took fourteen casualties. Remember, guys, it's not the size, it's how you use it.

For reference, running past four or five melee phases is unusual, and those casualty ratios are absolutely obscene for anything other than an attempt to storm a fortification (which this wasn't).

Also, in case you didn't want to read through hundreds of lines of table, three soldiers fought for a good twelve phases, taking out seventeen enemies. This is why you don't pit light infantry against heavies, guys. Those plate/warhorse knights will mess you up. It's just a pity they weren't better armed, or they'd have been causing a casualty each per phase, and I don't know if Balkopan would have made it out with much of an army left.

Might and Fealty

[SOLDIER First]

[GlaDOs voice] You monster.

[Tawa]

Stole a bunch of expensive weapons from a shopkeeper and sold them back to him the next morning. Then I went to the bank, took out a $100,000 loan, and never came back.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Elder Scrolls: Chapter II: Daggerfall.

Now this is fun. I'm a millionaire due to my efforts in walking into pawn shops in the dead of night, stealing a cartload of priceless artifacts, then ditching town and selling them to a pawnshop-owner in the next town over. Now I'm mostly just riding from town to town looking for a dwarven dai-katana.

[SOLDIER First]

That's impossible; everyone knows stolen items are instantly recognizeable as stolen by the floating hand icon every time you look at one.

[Akura]

That's impossible; everyone knows stolen items are instantly recognizeable as stolen by the floating hand icon every time you look at one.

Clearly, you have not been to the Illiac Bay region.

Spoiler: List of security capabilities by game (click to show/hide)

Arena: Guards kill on sight of you assaulting someone, possibly if B&E. Justified given that the big bad is in control and is a total asshole.
Daggerfall: Guards cannot spot stolen merchandise; nor can merchants even if it's their own. Guards can however identify you by blood once the alarm is raised(any injury including fall damage and sunlight damage results in the arrest dialogue - at this point you've been ID'd and lost legal rep).
Morrowind: All guards everywhere, even though every group of guards are on opposing sides(Imperial, Great Houses, Ordinators...) can instantly identify you as criminal scum, but will happily immediately take your money(and stolen goods) to clear the bounty unless it's over 1000 gold(then it's kill kill kill on sight). Shopkeepers are deluded into thinking that if something is stolen from them, then ALL instances of the stolen good are their stolen merchandise. Besides this, they will happily trade other people's stolen goods - after all, their competitors aren't making money off of it!
Oblivion: Stolen goods have a bright red hand painted on it. Merchants see this hand and refuse to trade it, but will ignore it even if you stole it's theirs. Guards are telepathically aware of cries of "Help! Help! I'm being attacked!", will immediately tell you to "Stop right there, criminal scum!". Upon arrest, instead of immediately taking your money, they teleport you to the local castle, then take your gold. Guards are incapable of solving ANY murders. Even ones they commit.
Skyrim: I don't have a lot of information on Skyrim's justice system. I haven't run too afoul of the law there.

[SOLDIER First]

Skyrim: Morrowind, except crimes are tracked on a hold-by-hold basis and being a serial murderer in Whiterun will have zero repercussions in, say, the Reach.
And you need to become a Master Trader to sell stolen goods to anyone who isn't a fence, regardless of whether the item in question is an apple or a priceless sword that slayed the World Eater.
And horses can bear witness to crimes, accruing a bounty with the local guards.