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Episode 10: 6/41 So this is essentially my first strategy, except I ended up not killing Devil Gundam to shave a turn. Episode 11A: 3/44 Yes Episode 12A: 7/51 Spent 3 turns to get the spots, set up Belzelute so Archangel and Blue Earth can support attack off it on turn 4. Dagger and cohorts are dealt with on turn 4, Belzelute heads over to intercept the northern ZAFT forces. The ZAFT are sent packing on turn 6, Archangel and Blue Earth run into the lower ZAFT bunch and send them away on turn 7. Episode 13A: 6/57 So Blue Earth decides to vanish, but plot restrictions are lifted for THE HAWK OF ENDYMION, and he can pilot his Moebius again. Yuu and Hime send Kanan, Shiela and a Grand Cher to the principal by turn 3 EP. Reinforcements spawn and move, Yuu and Hime head to soften up some more Grand Chers on turn 4. Turn 5 sees most of the Grand Chers sent to the principal's office. Turn 6 sees Jonathan softened up, Edgar getting oneshot, and Jonathan has to report to the principal as well on EP. Episode 14A: 7/64 Archangel is now equipped with +3 move, Blue Earth is still missing. Turn 1 is moving up, turn 2 THE HAWK OF ENDYMION and Archangel set up for Gale and Karla, Calvina heads to off the initials. EP is busy. Turn 3 Mwu pops a cartridge and deals some damage to Gale, sending Karla into a hissy fit, which the Archangel then neutralizes. Turn 4 finishes everything up, Mwu loads into Archangel, and Archangel and Calvina H&A towards the SEED crowd. The following three turns are used to send them away. Episode 15A: 6/70 So, Blue Earth is still missing, and THE HAWK OF ENDYMION decides he wants to fly a skygrasper again. Archangel is equipped with parts for +5 move. Calvina jumps into the AA, which sets itself up to counter a few grunts. Turn 2 sees Calvina popping out, placing her in a spot where she'll get EP combat, same with AA. Turn 2 EP the reinforcements spawn, and Blue Earth returns to the fold. Turns 3 and 4 consist of attacking grunts, Calvina chipping Dagger. Turn 5 sees Dagger going down, Calvina running up to intercept Karla, Nadesico and Blue Earth setting up once again for counters. On turn 6 Karla is sniped. So, in the end, I saved 5 turns by going Archangel route. Current upgrades: Belzelute: +9 EN, +10 weapons Nadesico: +6 EN Blue Earth: +8 EN, +8 weapons I upgraded Belzelute to +10 weapons for ep 10, to cleanly send Devil Gundam packing. Blue Earth had EN problems in 12, and also needed more power to properly clean up the first batch of enemies.

Punishment for dealing drugs is already extremely harsh in the US. And even the europeans will generally give you several years of forced vacation.

I would be more worried about crystal meth than heroin. Hey rezzy what do you think of social Darwinism?

So I redid the Nadesico route and got 6, 6, 8, 8, 6 turns for a total of 34 turns on the routesplit. My previous run of Archangel route cost me 32 turns, and after replaying the first two stages of it (3, 7) I'm not sure if I should expect a much improved turncount.

I'm fairly sure you have more muscle at your disposal in 11N, yea. Mazinger and the buttercups are good force multipliers to have. I hadn't considered using Akatsuki though, will look into that. I can see you getting 5 on ep 12, but not myself: there's simply too much ground to cover before I can finally attack the last enemies. You might also cut 2-3 turns off 13, by upgrading Great Mazinger so he clears the initials in one turn, and because you have more damage at your disposal.

Episode 10: 7/42 Akito and Akatsuki are put in Artillery frames for range. Nadesico loads up Blue Earth and Akatsuki, and heads up, Calvina heads up, Akito moves into position for Devil Gundam. Turn 2 sees attacking, Nadesico unloading. Turn 3 consists of mopping up remaining enemies, and setting up Nadesico and Calvina for the Death Army grunts. Turn 4 consists of dealing with those, and Calvina H&A's to set up for Devil. Turn 5 sees Devil Gundam turn up, Nadesico moving in and initial damage happening. Turn 6 and 7 are needed to send Devil Gundam away. I went Nadesico route, which is unfortunately the longer of the two by a decent margin. Episode 11N: 8/50 Calvina is equipped with +2 move, and runs up to the Walking Stick in 4 turns, everyone else sets up for Master Asia. From then on I have to kill Master Gundam, which takes a few turns, and on turn 7 and 8 deal with the third wave of enemies. Episode 12N: 6/56 Mazinger runs up to Baron Ashura, IIRC with a +1 range part, so he can counter on turn 3 EP, which spawns the Nadesico. Unfortunately, none of the enemies move toward me. Calvina heads off to deal some damage, Akito and Akatsuki load up. Nadesico accels away. On turn 5 Nadesico moves into the thick of the packs, as does Calvina, and after that it's just clearing up. Episode 13N: 10/66 Ugh this map. Ruri gets H&A for this map. Tetsuya goes off to deal with the initials, then on turn 2 Combattler spawns, and I have to make sure to spawn the reinforcements on turn 3, to avoid penalties. I then need three turns to off Lanstar, after which Calvina and Ruri H&A towards Baron Ashura. Ashura is then offed on turn 8, after which I have to off his Mazinger impersonation and Mazinkaiser, resulting in 10 turns taken. Calvina even ran out of EN on turn 9, which luckily didn't matter. At this point I am seriously considering just going Archangel route and seeing the turns I can get there.

Are you insured under ACA in a state that fought against it, properly implemented it, or are you insured the normal way?

Episode 8: 4/31 This one again took some fine tuning to get down. Everyone loads into Nadesico (again), and the battleships move up(again). On turn 2, Belzelute unloads to attack the initial group. On turn 3 a few more units unload to help Belzelute mop up the remains on turn 4. On turn 4 Creuset shows up, is damaged and then sent packing on EP to maximize money gains. Episode 9: 4/35 Everyone loads into the Nadesico (again), the battleships move up. Turn 2 Belzelute heads over to deal with the group on the right, Archangel moves straight up, Nadesico parks itself near the left group of enemies, and finally the HAWK OF ENDYMION and Blue Earth set up next to it to support defend -move away. Turn 3 sees mopping up of initials and the appearance of Dagger, and setting up to off him. Turn 4 Dagger is offed and all the grunts are cleaned up. Upgrades: Belzelute: +9 EN, +8 weapons Nadesico: +6 EN I put the extra weapons on Belzelute at first because I thought I would need it for the gundams in ep 8, and it turned out necessary for the kill on dagger in ep 9. Edit: I did some playing around in map 10 but I seem to lack the damage output to clear in six turns.

Episode 4: 5/16 Getting the five turns here was fairly easy, as I had a few units to go around and do some miscellaneous fighting. Episode 5: 4/20 This one took some real finagling to get the four turns. Nadesico heads west and Blue Earth parks next to her, to support defend the -move attacks away. Belzelute goes south. Turn 2 sees Nadesico make for the south, and then Belzelute has to snipe one Radam beast, and Blue and Akatsuki have to kill one other so Nadesico doesn't suffer the -move on turn 3. Belzelute heads to set up for the reinforcements. Turn 3 sees Blue Earth and Akatsuki on clean up and Nadesico and Belzelute again head to set up for the reinforcements. The reinforcements spawn on enemy phase, and turn 4 is spent dealing with them. Belzelute has weapons and EN upgraded to improve the reliability by a bunch. Episode 6: 3/23 I once again have the units to do some miscelaneous things, so Nadesico could move its full move and attack Creuset on turn 2, who was sent off in a counter. Episode 7: 4/27 Everyone loads into Nadesico except for the Moebius, Nadesico moves up. Belzelute and Moebius attack on turn 2, after Nadesico moves up again. On turn 3 I get the reinforcements spawned and set Nadesico up to MAP them on turn 4. Blue Earth unloads to give Nadesico a few support defends and my Aesties go and do whatever. On turn 4 I kill a battleship for cash and then MAP the X gundams away. Upgrades: Belzelute: +9EN, +5 weapons Nadesico: +6 EN

Lol I thought it would be about the dildos and it turns out its about the dildos.

The prince must forsake his morality and ignore his sense of justice to unite Italy into one state. He must do this because a sister fucking bastard son of the most corrupt pope in history failed to do so. The ends justify all means! (Deus Vult!)

I am interested in another draft. Just not A portable until its translation is released. Hella stoked for SRW W draft though.

You could also have a bicameral system where in one chamber the people with the most votes across the country combined get in, and in the other there's an equal amount per state. And then make it so a law can only pass with a majority in both chambers. You know, like the US has. You'd almost think they put some actual thought into this.

It can be fairly easy to prevent identity fraud with identity cards that are difficult to counterfeit with simple authenticity checks, and running a check on a living persons database. Or by sending voting passes to persons who are allowed to vote, and only allow them to vote if their ID matches the one on the voting pass.

In order; you're free to post a challenge to a general audience, and its the right of individuals of this audience to say no, individually. I'm really not interested in baiting, regardless. Leviathan is crap, principe is crap, conflict of visions I don't know about. Also recent discovery of mine, all economic "systems" are ideological variations on concepts of ownership, decision making, distribution and allocation of profit. Also a not so recent discovery of mine is that the world is not run on capitalism on a variation thereof, but is a mix of various ideas of economic organization coexisting, and all of it is a small variation of some sort of basic economic behaviour.

I'm not interested in listening to your Randist memes on skype. Also if you're going to defend capitalism(lol), why not read Hegel or Locke.

Well considering it seems Trump's children aka the people who are mostly taking over his company are now sitting in on meetings with other politicians from abroad, and he's calling the Argentinian president to get permits for his hotels, we might end up seeing some real bourgeois government going on. "Hey John how's it going" "Pretty good, Donald. Say, listen. I'm trying to get some stuff built in Mexico, and I'm having some issues with the permits. Could you do me a solid and see what you can do about it?" "Sure thing. Hey, how about you and I and some friends have a little get together next saturday? We'll hire some hookers, snort some coke and do some fishing" "That sounds like a lot of fun. I'll make sure to be there. By the by, should I pay the usual amount to your company for services rendered" "Yea, that'd be great" ... Is what I'm imagining will be a conversation between Trump and one of his business friends during his presidency. Why did the christian fundamentalists vote him again? Oh right they were off their pills and all thought Hillary was the devil and lol who ever votes for a third party amirite.

While I will agree China was essentially an agrarian society well into the sixties, Russia under Lenin saw strong industrialization.

Atlas Shrugged is dogshit and ironically its' philosophy is completely wrong for the same reasons why communism is wrong.

@ping: Essentially yes. Socialism as proposed by marx is a way to transform a classist society into a classless society, which is essentially a community without any regulations and where everyone tolerates each other, problems are always solved, nobody commits any crimes etc. It's an anarchism, and historically, around the early 1900's communism/socialism and anarchism were used interchangedly. Further onto economic models; yes, the point you make about forcing people to work is somewhat true, but Life's point is also just somewhat true. The truth is that if you want to apply orthodox supply and demand logic to reality, you run into problems, and these problems get very bad very quickly. The first problem with supply and demand rationale is that suppliers can manipulate demand and supply; they can market their products(rather effectively, says Apple), and they can also decide to simply supply less to drive up relative demand.(happens with oil cartels etc)(if they have enough market share) Demanders on the other hand are usually not capable of influencing supply (as manufacturing goods is always capital intensive, which is not easily available in the needed amounts), can't usually easily decrease demand(especially if supply is critical), or might not even be aware they're overpaying. In some other cases, like the job market, supply is not easily adjusted to demand. In case of large supply, like in early industrial, urban areas, the amount of people needing to work to sustain themselves is greater than the demand for them. What happens in this case is that the demanders can lower what they pay for the supply of workers, which can and has gone below the point needed for self sustenance.(the majority of Indians right now feed on food sold to them at 1/10 the market value because they earn too little to sustain themselves, as an example) (this also happens in various other markets, like agriculture and mining) What would happen in this case is that suppliers have to work to at least partially sustain themselves, until demand increases or until they starve to death or go bankrupt. In case of workers, some might opt to leave the supply and demand economy and produce their own sustenance. In case of companies, they might reduce their production, or try to reduce spending so they can survive. In any case, demanders of these supplies are not always interested in or capable of adjusting their demand. They might not have the funding to increase their production, they may not want to increase production out of fear of losing profitability on their own products, or they might just want to pocket their profit and not care.

Mountains = iron is not a reliable statement at all.

Don't forget that Krushchev's agricultural reforms were disastrous, and that his push to export produce ended up creating internal shortages, which had to be compensated for by import (or simply by leaving people to die, like in China). It doesn't matter though, Russian land is decently fertile. And humans only settle in fertile land to begin with. As far as I know, there've only been settlements in infertile regions if they served as major trade nodes, or if there are valuable goods to be found. Ilia as I understand from Fe6 would be like Lapland or the northern territories of Canada. There should not be settlements.

I wouldn't say lobbying or professional lobbyists are truly the problem. Ultimately they only find listeners in those willing to listen to them (and after that, willing to push their agenda). And it's of course a natural right of yours to try and make your case heard by politicians. That is even a cornerstone of the political process. What Im most surprised about is what seems to be the willingness of the American audience to vote these people into congress or the presidency.

You do realize that civil law is a part of people getting along, right?

One dumb truth about the engineers is also that they knew nothing of the environmental impact of their designs and know little of it today. Extracting gold from ore with quicksilver (and then just dumping that) is a good historical example, the large tracts of land around the old Dutch tin mines (which are unfit for human habitation) are another. The good old smog around London, cause of death for thousands, is perhaps one of the most extreme. Secondly, engineers as a general group know next to nothing of what happens when their workings fail, and don't understand how they can fail. Or even think of putting multiple failsafes into their designs. Or they totally ignore them. Chernobyl was a good example, every oil spill ever is a good example, lots of airplane crashes are a result of faulty safety design. A more recent example is a group investigators looking at safety locks and concluding virtually all of them can be picked with simple tools like paperclips, hairpins, and small pieces of plastic, within seconds, completely bypassing the failsafes. Thirdly, engineers do not always care (or are paid to care) about the consequences of their products. Just look at the smog covering Beijing. There's plenty knowledge of the effects of smog, yet we did not see Chinese businesses care. Until the government stepped in, that is. Like always.