Song of Swords: I came here to laugh at you edition

>The Grow
Do you maybe mean the Crow?

It's just a combination of stereotypical Bong names and Slavic town names.

I did precisely mean that. Arcturus is called "The Crow" because he is only 5'9. Ravens are bigger than crows. Most of the Unkindlies are in the 6'2 range, they recruit for size and fearsomeness. Arcturus was so brutal that they let him in despite him being less than six feet. He was an extremely capable and ruthless fighter, but his height was often a source of mockery from the other Unkindlies. Now he is Grandmaster, by unanimous vote, and they still call him "Little Arthur" or "The Young Master," but he is not too upset. Everyone is shorter than him when they're bowing.

Prophesy of Pendor, mothafucka.

>Play a faction other than the Romans
>Make me
>5000000000 dark undead demon cultists late

Fuck PoP dude. I don't know how people played it. It's like Long War 2 if the battles were somehow even less fair.

Obviously with the SoS kickstarter development you don't have time now, but if you were to work with a game company that's not Taleworlds to make a tie-in vidya, who would you want to work with?

Blood taint?

When you get ass-raped so hard that the blood drips down and pools behind your balls then dries there (or at least starts to) before you get off the bed. Really itchy and annoying.

>Venezuela

I heard the protestors literally burned down Hugo Chavez's childhood house.

How common is it for all four masters and a grandmaster to preside over blood honors Jimmy? Do Unkindlies do a Witcher thing where they all gather for a season before going back out on their grim task? Or are they all kind of semi-permanently together? Apart?

Someone will link you Blood-Magic, it's an Unkindly thing. Basically as you empower yourself with the blood of monsters it has a lasting effect on you, slowly turns you into a beast yourself.

Virtually never. The Unkindlies are basically at the beck and call of the Crown, and they have internal agendas, AND they each have personal agendas. The result is they're mostly constantly out hunting shit or delivering messages or otherwise busy.

During the winter months they tend to congregate in the Four Keeps, where they get really drunk and troll each other for several months until spring comes and they can go kill monsters again.

For the entire command staff of the organization to be in the same place at once would necessitate a huge event--maybe if they were trying to induct a Din into the order, or if the kid were some kind of prodigy.

Used to be that the masters would gather each winter and discuss events, but Arcturus, the current grandmaster, disappears each winter. They say he goes off into the woods to kill and eat hibernating bears.

They are grey-wardwitchers?

Basically. They're rapidly becoming my favorite faction in game.

Hey Jimmy, is there organized crime in Vosca?

The Unkindlies in SoS and the Rahoos in CotV are the two best factions.

Other than the Chiron gun monks are there any other magical societies in COTV?

>Literally Jimmy's words in the Disco
"I'm don't know if I'm a Socialist, but I do know I'm a Nationalist
"Wait, what happens if we combine the two... OH NO"

I can't wait for the Dickstab Putsch in California. Jimmy and an army of sword-enthusiasts will march on the capital and behead the entire government.

But Rome at War has no elves in it.

Isn't Jimmy like a mega libertarian type?

He did a political compass test in the disco and came out as an extreme Authoritarian. He thought he was an ancap but he's actually a fascist.
Pretty much the story of /sos/.

It's cause he has friends in Manchester. He's fucking pissed about the bombing. Jimbo turns into a fucking nazi every time this shit happens.

youtube.com/watch?v=oGNsLD9hW1Y

Literally nothing wrong with hanging.

Maybe you should git gud. PoP is for experienced players.

People get upset some times, there's no point in judging.

But we're talking about the best, not one of the worst.

The real Holy Trilogy of the Best, 1257, Gekokujo, and Brytenwalda all have no elves.

>no Eagle and Radiant Cross
Shit list m8.

Brytenwalda is legit good, haven't played the others. I remember that being at sea was totally shit back then though.

>people caring about M&B
I've never been able to get into it. I like the idea of it, but the implementation is lacking a whole hell of a lot of polish.

But Floris doesn't have any elves in it.

>Literally nothing wrong with hanging.
Brits hanged people, there's one thing

It's a ten year old game made by a husband and wife team in a Turkish basement. It was the best mounted combat game on the market for the better part of a decade and has an amazing mod community.

>it was
It still is. It has no competition. No one has tried to make another Mount & Blade in the ten years it's been out. I've been stuck with this awful AI for 10 fucking years and no one is fixing it I am so mad

What even is an elf? In SoS, they're basically just races. The only thing that unifies elves is their immortality. I'm not even sure that they all have pointy ears, or that all other races don't. It's like saying the Sí* are elves and so are teh Ælfar, and so are Santa's little munchkins while we're at it.

*sidhe in the oldest spelling, or sìth in an intermediate one (as Cait Sìth), but nobody pronounces it like those.

>They say he goes off into the woods to kill and eat hibernating bears.
The foolish ursas. They let their guard down. Now is the time to feast.

Meanwhile in Discord
Manchild avers that dueling should be legal so that he can shoot liberals who disagree with him, and then gets mad when people make fun of him.

If humans are also Din, it seems like in SOS "elf" is actually just a broad term for hominids.

>dueling should be legal so that he can shoot liberals who disagree with him
Why though? Just legalize helicopter rides.

>I basically like the idea of being able to provoke a liberal into challenging me to a duel and then set the terms and make them regret it
t. Someone other than Jimmy for once

>Pls do not send me dragon dildos
t. Jimmy

That man is a fool. He's missed the entire point of Song of Swords. What is the central tenant that Song of Swords teaches you? What is its moral? Its lesson? Its takeaway? It is that fighting fair is the stupidest thing you can ever do. In any duel, in any fight, in any equal struggle, you have a chance of losing. Losing means you die. Your story ends. If you don't have children your lineage dies too, buried in the same shallow grave as your corpse. If you want to win, you do not fight fair. You do not square up to your enemy at high noon. You do everything in your power to avoid this situation. Song of Swords teaches you this through its mechanics, if you just look. Your chances of winning a Red/Red are almost never better than 90% -- meaning you die 10% of the time you try it. Any time you are attacked, you may be hit. The only way to ensure you are never hit is to never get attacked. To never get attacked, you must not fight people who realize they're in a fight. If he hasn't realized this truth at the heart of Riddle of Steel's system, he's a headstrong cuckservative who doesn't realize the idiocy of fighting openly.

Does anybody have any pic references for 13th century Byzantine soldiers, and the stuff from between the sack of Constantinople and the imperial restoration like the Despotate of Epirus, the Latin Empire, and the Nicaean Empire?

>in any equal struggle
I guess the point of provoking a challenge is that defender traditionally held the right to choose weapons and conditions of a duel. Thus he can turn the fight to his favor from the beginning.

Truly the hero we need.

How are you guys feeling about Bannerlord, based on what you have seen? If you've taken a look at it.

It was vaporware 5 years ago and it's vaporware today
It's been in development longer than SoS and that's been an eternity
When it actually releases I may have an opinion

Tonight Jimmy said he would tell us about his vodka distilling project after he got home from his AA meeting, and then he didn't.

Oh yeah, I took a nap. Process wasn't ready to continue yet but it looks like it's working.

It looks great, but I hope it actually comes out.

The setting has that quality to it, where the world is completely fucked but there are organisations that give you a bit of hope. The Unkindlies are one such. They kick the shit out of eldritch horrors and they aren't even a military organisation. The Volkodavs or other military orga must fuck Monsters up hard.

It takes a while, and can be messy

A recurring and interesting theme in SoS is that governments are uniformly the most powerful things in the setting. The Dark Watchers pose no actual threat to humanity because of the traditions which repel them. Goblins, Elves, even monsters and demons don't even register on the scale of national threats.

The most powerful thing in Tattered Realms is a group of humans with a common goal. Even a shithole like Dace would absolutely BTFO any of the monsters or calamities described so far. Ten thousand men with cannons guns and halberds will rekk any dragon or abomination that could possibly drag itself out of the abyss, it isn't even a question, it's just a fact, and ten thousand men would be considered a pathetically small army for any country.

The world is thus one not of giant monsters and people desperately evading them, but of whatever horrors manage to leak through the cracks between states and their fuckhuge arrays of cannons and rockets and warships and pike formations. The real threat has always been other humans. Monsters are just a garnish on a world whose chief feature is that it is as fucked up as our own.

It's actually an interesting take on HFY, because it's so understated. Humans are consistently described as inept, stupid, ignorant, violent, uncooperative apes, but they're still there, and they're not going away.

There are races that are objectively better than humans. Big organized groups of those races would be better than humans. They're just written by fiat to not be organized.

The Helians are organized, and they basically rule the world. That's sort of beside the point though, because the portrayal of "humans" can be extended to the portrayal of "people" in general.

The point remains that mortals, bipedal mortals who are more or less human whatever their abilities, are the dominant lifeform because of their cooperation.

The exception to this is the Ohanedin, who wreck humans every day despite being totally disorganized, but they're a race of Aryan waifus.

Now I crave rules for a Burdinadin Air Wing contesting Dark Watchers in glorious aerial combat.

Jimmy seems to swing between being a massive lolbertarian and a fascist, so it makes sense that to his perception the government simultaneously the ultimate hero AND the most deadly villain.

>Bad shit is happening
>The government shows up
>Things either just got way worse or way better

Imagine you have this battle, the last alliance of men and elves. Humans and Ohanedin desperately struggle against tides of bestial darkness. Their sabers flash and shine in the dying light, but they are losing ground. The cannons thunder but even their massed grape shot cannot repel the hordes of slavering otherworldly creatures.

Then there is a sudden drop in air pressure. Distant music. A beating of steel wings. The entire army turns as one, stunned, as the Burdinadin arrive.

The rocket pods open up, screaming, fiery death erupts to Wagner's heavenly trumpets.

The Burdinadin have mecha so it would be accompanied by this.

youtu.be/z1KB5HUSO9g

>Touch elves
>Get your flesh ripped from your body by successive waves of 7.62

The Elves are this setting's immune system. They snap and then mcfucking kill everybody.

jimmy is going to make a castle in alaska

So the kickscammer rises its head, finally.

Yeah, but it's a more pleasing thing to have in a central plaza than public "art".

>Jimmy seems to swing between being a massive lolbertarian and a fascist
When nothing bad is happening, he wants liberty, but when there's premonitions of danger in the news, he prefers security. Naturally, he deserves neither.

Sir, you are mistaken.

What other M&B entity induces such terror like a squad of Noldor Rangers? It's tough, it's long, it's a challenge to your ego, but it still is the best mod out there.

What if it's art of people hanging?

>The average Han would wade through six miles of human blood if there were a plate of dogmeat at the end.

quoted from?

Jimmy, on Chinese controlling Africa.

Good mod. The creator is an asshole, though.

Why are all our heroes such unrepentant assholes?

Jimmy, how do the different cultures of vosca feel about polygamy?

We're chanscum, those are the heroes we deserve.

>Trenchfoot but from blood
That's terrifying.

Who do you fucking think?

>chanscum
Who made this shit up?

>chanscum
What a retarded fake term.

File's too large for Veeky Forums, so here:

i.imgur.com/aNgVPV4.gifv

The Venezuela protests are getting upstaged by ISIS vs Duterte in the southern Phillipines.

That's actually pretty accurate, if hyperbolic. When the Chinese get their mind set on something they don't stop. Ever.

Genosism doesn't explicitly forbid it, but it isn't really a part of any of the Western Voscan cultures, with the exception of the Ohanedin of Iber. The Ohanedin see it as perfectly natural (probably because the men of their society regularly suffer considerable attrition) and generally four or five women share one husband, with the number rising as the individual rises in status.

The one crime which carries the punishment of death in an Ohanedin society is murdering a member of your own family. An easy way to prevent powerful women from scheming against each other is to marry them off to the same man, or to brothers, etc. This theoretically prevents potential conflict between them by technically making them into the same household. Needless to say this doesn't actually work.

>cannibal elf harems
Dark Fetish God strikes again.

>ISIS vs Duterte in the southern Phillipines
Wait, so US now tries to move pet Taliban 2.0 closer to Chinese borders?

They can try, but Rodrigo Duterte makes Rade Sark look like fucking Ghandi. He's going to slaughter them like pigs.

Jimmy, in the Orredin eugenics program, what happens if one of the half elves fucks a human?
What happens to the child?

>tfw Jimmy is openly challenging the entire Guns of Icarus community to a duel

Who would win, one AnFash, or the entire community of an MMO? Two guesses and the first one doesn't count.

Jimmy fucking slaughtered my MGSV defenses. I'm terrified of what the entire company could do in another game. Who even is the rest of the team?

karthack delenda est?

Clan [ZELL]. They have a fantastic W:L ratio.

Soon

Jimmy pilots the ship, the rest are just guys from the Roll20. If you were taught how to play SoS, you probably learned from a member of the Zell Clan.

he pilots one of the ships, I can't remember who piloted the other but it sure as hell won't be me. Fuck flying, there's a reason I named all my ships the slow crash.

Speaking of Din, how to the population sizes compare in Vosca. Do zells make up 70% of all din and 30% of the total pop? Are dwarves more prevalent than orredin? What is the rarest race to see?