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Blink and die.

BLINK AND DIE.

Them run around a nutty facility desperately utilizing various artifacts to stave off the dying some more.

I wonder if the toaster artifact is in the game somewhere...

Writing. Eating paste. Being in a cell. All more fun with an audience.

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum...

50 Forum Games You Will Miss Forever!

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You won't believe your eyes!

But, for the actual important parts, huzzah! Some well needed and interesting developments.

Unitard, nooo! Why is it always the retarded ones who get thrown in the woodchipper of life?

Is admission to Hell City permanent? Otherwise, got people wandering in for a spate of murdering and puppy kicking, then head home for groceries. HC is their adrenaline rush. Basically, if there's such a hard divide between law, and lawlessness inside, going to be a lot of spillover around the outskirts. Like a company building a mining town in the middle of nowhere, going to change the enivronment and economy, and have non-affiliated people making a buck on the outskirts.

Aside from that, sounds an interesting enough starting point.

When you have necromancy, every problems looks like a future corpse waiting to be raised. Re-raised, in this case.

5 pink cannibals, malnutritioning

Step by step it is increasing.

One thought up such a wonderful stunt

And he called up another cannibal.

4 pink cannibals, malnutritioning....

They've still got to live in the world. 5000, is a huge number of people. That's, crowds in large stadiums of people, type numbers. When they come within weeks of places, they're going to be known, from travellers, from neighbours, from bunches of news sources. If they can keep themselves hidden, or cloaked, then they might as well knock over the chessboard, because an army that can appear on a doorstop of an unwitting castle? Is enough to form an empire in the length of time it takes them to march to enough towns to plant a flag.

Making them more powerful (and yes, mercenaries is a better description then bandits in this case), makes some things worse. Suddenly, you've got to keep together large numbers of people who could at will, disappear from the camp and carve out a nice chunk of land themselves. You might keep a hundred or so together, by dint of personality, by relations, by curiousity, by something shared. More then that, and you'll have three people get together, decide they could do it better, and knock the head off the army and run it themselves. And this would happen several times a week, until you did have a manageable number.

Big numbers are wonderful things. But they come with responsibility. If you want to say  they have an army of 5 thousand, say they have an army of 5 thousand. But they need a good reason to be together, and that's a challenge for the writer to overcome, not a valid reason to throw up hands, shout TOO HARD and go back to tanks.

There's a bunch of reasons why an army of 20 thousand is not twice as effective as an army of 10 thousand. And the main one, especially in a defensive situation, is that there's only so much space for them to fit, so much room for them to maneuver, so much for them to actually do which wouldn't hinder more then help.

Visual cue, the Battle of Bastards in the latest Game of Thrones season. There were some skirmishes, some maneuvers, and they all required room to move. Even the idiotic lone charge by Snow required room, if he'd have been cheek to jowl in the mess he could barely have started to walk out of sync, let alone run.

Picture a warehouse, with a large roller door. Sure, you could have 10 people walk through it holding hands, side by side. Now throw some pallets in the middle so it's not level, stacks of wood to make the doorway smaller, have a fire alarm going off, with smoke from the fire. Situation like that, not unlike a pitched battle, you'd be lucky to get 3 people through at the same time, and they'd certainly not be a problem for a small group of defenders to pick off with spears.

Back to GoT, remember when a large fraction of the Northerner force is trapped in the middle of a circle of shields? And how the character routinely acknowledged as the best swordsmen around, highly trained in personal combat, a very important and noticeable character, nearly dies smothered by corpses, without a single blade touching him? When 3000 of your troops are Joe Muggins, recently retired from dung farmer, he's not going to fare well either, when push comes to shove.

5000? 5000 bandits (defining bandits as "lightly armed, lightly armoured, lightly trained, lightly cohesive raiders who want easy loot, not to attack a solid defense) would be eviscerated. 1000 defenders could sally forth, and annihilate them. Rome Total War is a good demonstration of this, Roman heavy infantry vs gaellic light infantry, even a 5:1 ratio on open plains easily results in a Roman victory. Add in confusion, boredom, sitting outside the castle walls starving for a few weeks (unless they routinely carry around a month of food for each person, they'll be on bark rations quickly. And, go to the fridge and pull out what you'd like to eat for a month. And a fridge to keep it fresh in. And a generator). Increase the numbers, just makes it messier for the attacker. 50 thousand versus 1 thousand? Yeah, if they throw 30 thousand away on constant attacks. You ever signed up for a job where to get a paycheque, you had a 60% chance of dying in a field?

Not least, the biggest problem, is the biggest problem. A force of 5000, isn't a bandit force, it's not raiders, or reavers, or nothing. It's an army. And when an army of 5000 comes knocking, they don't move fast, and they telegraph where they are going. And then, the defenders friends with 15000 meets them at a bridge.

In short, you *might* get away with being a bandit company of 100. Provided you keep in mountainous areas, or forest, anywhere where it'd be too much of a pain to send in the troops, and no idea if they'd get you. After all, the best defence in this situation, is to not be where the enemy army is - they kinda take an axe to problems like bandits. And bandits want to have a good chance of good treasure, good drink, some excitement, and to live to do it again tomorrow. If they don't know and respect (or fear) their leader, and think there's a good chance he's watching at any given moment for deserters, then why would they stick around?

The only way the beetles lied, is if you're a horrible person built on lies and shame. Author and character,

And dude, seriously, if the weather is that shit AND tempestuous all year around, just fucking move. Theres a lot of lattitude in the world, that dont require four different seasonal wardrobes.