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That's a mood.

Behold, the truth:

Bannde dessinée.

Wololo Wololo Wololo

Banned because wearing sunglasses while it's dark is absolutely appropriate, as long as you're 106 miles from Chicago, have a full tank of gas, and half a pack of cigarettes. Hit it.

Maybe the greatest opening lines in any science textbook come from "States of Matter" by D. L. Goodstein: That said, it's a bit dishonest by omission as well - Ehrenfest's death in 1933 was a murder-suicide, shooting his son Wassik (whose trisomy 21 Ehrenfest apparently struggled to accept) before killing himself.

King Arthur: "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man." (The idea of a round table at which everybody is equal would rather fit the average, not-too-feudally-thinking FE lord, too)

In the time leading up to the English Civil War, the king Charles I. had great trouble raising money. By law, he was not allowed to raise taxes without consent of parliament (to which purpose the king would call in the parliament), but because Charles and the MPs, let's say, didn't exactly fell in love on first sight, the king dismissed parliament without being allowed to raise taxes. In the follow-up, Charles got creative in how to get some cash without having to assemble parliament again, with one of his tricks being the levy of "ship money". By precedent, in case of emergency and war, the king had the right to order coastal counties to supply him with ships, or pay a monetary fine if they weren't able to. Charles, of course, was very much looking for the latter. He first used it in 1628, demanding ship money from every county in England, already causing serious opposition - no wonder, since I'm pretty sure that there was no war or emergency other than another parliament being dissolved without allowing Charles to raise regular taxes. Charles repeating the demand in 1634 and 1635 and 1636 (you know, looking a little tax-y from over here), while he was still refusing to assemble parliament, was a significant contributor for the imminent outbreak of the civil war.

Misspelled the E-word, sneakily displaying disloyalty to the empty husk's cause. Well done. Have a cookie.

The Rachel is really funny, definitely. Mechanically, I like her a lot in randomised class/recruitment, but that doesn't really fit the question asked. In vanilla, "low-leveled, late-joining, slow-growing" isn't a particularly fun combination of traits, unfortunately, since that last point takes away what makes Est-y characters enjoyable to use.

Will be a heretic, once the cookie dogma has been elevated to orthodoxy.

OK, but that's art.

Probably Priscilla and PoR!Mist. I like non-Cav horse units in general, for whatever reason, so that's a start, and promoted Priscilla with her high AS, Res-targeting combat is quite fun to use. For Mist, getting the weapon rank to use the Sonic Sword is very very unoptimal, but very satisfying, as well. "Sword+Spell" is a cool aesthetic, too.

Would clean the Emperor's shoes at least twice a day, if a decaying husk of a man would need to (or be able to) wear them. Also is deadly afraid of delicious cookies.

"Doubleyu-doubleyu-doubleyu" takes longer to say than the thing it's supposed to abbreviate.

Here, have a nice, delicious heretical cookie.

Banned because the real question is why it didn't happen earlier. Assuming that this is about Boris fuckin' finally resigning

Hehe, that's a nice hot take to introduce yourself to the forums Personally, as somebody who thinks that Roy is quite overhated, I still think that he's probably the weakest lord overall. You can probably argue some specifics - Lyn might be worse if you skipped her own mode, because she gets two-shot by every non-thief enemy on her joining map and is liable to be one-shot by some enemies very quickly SD!Marth might be worse if you don't credit him for getting literally every single village in the game, but I find that if you credit thieves for the items they get, Marth ought to get credit for his village utility, as well Eliwood in his own mode is comparable to Roy, but the much more reasonably-timed promotion in Hector Mode, plus the horse, plus the useful high Aid stat, make him a fair bit better there - but if you look at any lord as a whole, I think they'll come up on top compared to Roy. I broadly agree with @Dark Holy Elf's rundown on the matter. I'd maybe add that PoR!Ike generally gets a bigger XP share than other lords. A "forced" level-up in prologue; only four combat units in ch.1-2, one of which sTeAlS xP ( ), he's the only character that you'd actively want to feed XP in ch.3, then ch.4 only adds Soren as a unit you'd want to invest into, and then he's probably already higher-leveled than Oscar and Boyd when they return for the defense map in ch.5. Not that it does anything but reinforce the point that PoR!Ike is, despite his same-ish base stats, stronger than Roy.

Hurray! Kicked a bunch of Iberian butts along the way, so that was nice. With apologies to the Iberians in the thread, but Castile/Spain in particular is a rather kickable backside in EU4 because of how incredibly annoying it can be when they've been colonising for a couple hundred years. Related to the achievement: The UI does not allow to just type the number of money that you want to gift to another nation. You can't click and hold the up-arrow to quickly get to 10000 ducats. You actually have to click FOUR HUNDRED TIMES because the maximal increment is 25 ducats per click. Oh no, excuse me, it's FOUR HUNDRED AND ONE TIMES because the achievement's description is faulty and you have to give away more than 10k ducats.

Banned because der Manni is a swell guy.

Banned for making it scholarly.

Serenes doesn't let me edit my post, so I'll doublepost for an important clarification: Apologies for the incovenience.

Heck yeah! I, for one, welcome our cookie-distributing false deities. By the way, interested in some delicious bakery products? --- "Seas of blood" is a popular piece of imagery to attach to particularly nasty massacres. My first instinct when having this rather morbid thought was that, obviously, this would be a gross exaggeration that wouldn't hold up to any scrutiny, but... Well, let's do the bloody maths: An adult human has a blood volume of 4.5-6 litres. A moderately-sized lake, let's say 10 hectare (or 100'000 m², a round lake with a diameter of around 360 m, which means a lake that you'd need like half an hour to hike around) and on average 3 metres deep has a volume of 300 million litres (or 300k m³). If, for ease of calculation, we assume 5 litres of blood per human, that kind of lake would require 60 million dead bodies - which is actually lower than the total number of casualties caused by WW2, which is estimated to be between 70 and 85 million people (50-56 million directly caused by the war, 19-28 millions caused by war-related famine and disease). Anyway, I think this is an interesting visualisation to bring up when somebody rants how "we need a war so that those gosh-darn millenials with their avocados toughen up a little". A literal lake of blood.