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[Loyal]

The thing is, he doesn't quite know what she's capable of right now. After everything else that's happened (and given how Parson reacts to the rules, conciously or otherwise), Stanley believes he is losing power. While he is content, he will probably do nothing to Wanda, but if she turns obviously hostile (by, say, croaking and decrypting the one guy who could possibly help Stanley if Wanda DOES turn), that's going to shake him into action.

Wanda, who knows Stanley better than anyone, is surely aware of this. Whether she is content to remain in his service or not, ruffling his feathers while she's in the middle of leading a war charge would be highly inadvisable.

[Fifthfiend]

Re: Wanda and Stanley, he's afraid, jealous, and also she's the only reason he has an army right now, so he kinda needs her.

Re: Parson and Stanley, it's interesting how even being able to misunderstand an order makes him a threat. Hypothetically Stanley could order him to disband and he just wouldn't know how.

Re: Ansom and Wanda I thought it was interesting that he's got a surprising degree of free will in terms of disagreeing with his 'mistress'; he's probably not much more mind controlled post-decryption than he was as one of his own side's units.

[Dracorion]

New comic.

And here I thought Ossomer was the brains.

[Kim]

This does not bode well for our heroes.

[Loyal]

And here I thought turnamancy was overpowered. Good grief.

[01d55]

Originally Posted by Loyal

And here I thought turnamancy was overpowered. Good grief.

Well, so far we've seen casters produce A. Parson, B. Most of Gobwin Knob's pre-arkenpliers army C. veils, which are crazy good D. instant communication between any two points in the world, which is not available otherwise.
And if you link 'em, you get the live battlemap and a goddamn volcano.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Expect them to be patched in v 1.2.

[Loyal]

Originally Posted by 01d55

Well, so far we've seen casters produce A. Parson, B. Most of Gobwin Knob's pre-arkenpliers army C. veils, which are crazy good D. instant communication between any two points in the world, which is not available otherwise.
And if you link 'em, you get the live battlemap and a goddamn volcano.

Which, compared to cutting the production time of otherwise expensive things by a third PLUS being able to convert powerful units to your side, or creating a literal "blot out the sun" moment and doubling pretty much everything, ever... is rather lacking.

I mean, I expect casters to be powerful and useful since they're supposed to be prohibitively costly and rare, but holy shit.

[01d55]

Originally Posted by Loyal

Which, compared to cutting the production time of otherwise expensive things by a third PLUS being able to convert powerful units to your side, or creating a literal "blot out the sun" moment and doubling pretty much everything, ever... is rather lacking.

I mean, I expect casters to be powerful and useful since they're supposed to be prohibitively costly and rare, but holy shit.

Cutting production time almost certainly doesn't cut the shmuckers cost. Converting units requires capturing them first.

There's also the "juice" mechanic - a dittomancer can't just keep doubling everything forever.

Also new text update wut.

[Loyal]

New comic update.

Even in Erfworld, "brotherly love" and "sibling rivalry" are not mutually exclusive.