Broke down but not quite the way I'd have guessed. Morgan renounced our Pact then a while later attacked me. Deidre staying neutral with Pacts with both of us still in place. Kind of annoying but Yang is the real threat so w/e. Morgan will probably offer truce after my air superiority hurts enough.
That snake.
I read this while imagining you [SEETHING]
Unlike Yang throwing needlejets at my bases and losing ~3 for each of my interceptors killed since I have the Cloudbase Academy and Cyborg Factory is a straight up disaster, not the cost of doing business.
And the 'copters, lol, Thinker Mod nerfs their range a bit but still absurdly good for aggressive defense. He can't hit my bases with anything but needlejets bc the copters will pick ground units off in route. Plus all his formers and crawlers near the border are dead af.
Thankfully, pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses. Hopefully he has learned to control the input
What is the Thinker Mod?
Massive upgrade to the "AI" for non-player factions, as well as some mechanics tweaks and added customization options. github.com/induktio/thi...
The really noticeable ones imo are the other factions stop sending probe teams at you if you build Hunter-Seeker Algorithm (until they can get algorithmic enhancement), they'll launch competent amphibious invasions and terraform land bridges to nearby continents late-game.
Oh but I like it when they send the probe teams into the jaws of the hunter seeker lmao. (This seems like a reasonable modification)
Definitely a hold off the tide ending. Luckily Deidre, Morgan and I hugged it out so I just need to not get overrun as I set up transcendence.
the great defender of humanity's need to advance in order to survive: a sensible air force defense will carry us over towards a new future Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, eyeing a comically large red button labeled "one hundred percent of our planet-buster nukes":
Fletchett defense system at every base and some orbital defense pods on standby but hope it doesn't come to that.
Now you say you fucking love science, but do you 2000 research a turn fucking love science?
Santiago get stomped early?
Yeah, Yang got her. She had been just across that strait to the west of me.
Just about there for transcendence but actually turned Yang's advance back. Turns out the secret sauce was tons of Locusts of Chiron sent behind his front lines.
Some people might say "with Voice of Planet finishing next turn and 23 Locusts of Chiron already on the field you don't really need 6 of your 10 bases building more." Those are the people you toss into the brood pits.
