@Musaki Hajime It's so annoying. Been trying to get it to work for about 2 hours now. About to give up and set a 3 month repeating reminder to change my password.
Edit: Never mind. The asshole who hacked my War Thunder account makes that back-up plan impossible because he's made my account require it. I've submitted a support ticket to disable the feature on my account temporarily, with an explanation why. But I've got a sneaky suspicion that it's not going to get resolved.
Goods news everyone! I got my hacked account situation worked out. All is good and I have my accounts back.
Also, @Zarkun Feel better soon? I'm not good with this kind of stuff. Just make sure you eat while at the hospital. I slowly became malnourished because I refused to eat anything other than the ice cream cups I got in my meals.
I like what they did with adding more strategy stuff to it (the original demos were just button mashers it seemed), buuut... I miss not-WWII. Swords? Magic? Flash stepping ninja girls? GTFO of my valkyria game. Oh well, it's just a spin off.
@Raven_Operative Indeed, I really want to know how they're gonna explain away some of this stuff. Like it feels they're placing core fantasy deep in this war game which can be fine. I'd have to play it myself to see how it all feels
@Musaki Hajime From what I can tell, it's the 'long time ago in a land far, far away' thing. Set on the other side of the globe, and apparently at a time where Valkyrur were more common (they litterally have a unit devoted to hunting them), it's probably set long before the whole 'darcsen calamity' and conquest of europa by the valkyrur. I guess that's how they explain it all away? Magical properties of ragnite, the knowledge of which has been lost to the ages (sorta like greek fire).
Either way, I'm not a huge fan. Especially because instead of fighting on the side of the REDICULOUSLY TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED NATION with GUNS and HUGE MECHS, you get to work with swords, magic and the occational bolt action rifle... I really want a game set the other way some time. Fighting magicians with glorious ballistic weapons and human technology.
I'd buy a game set in a dystopian post-magical girl society where they all got drunk on power and enslaved mankind. Hell, Harry Potter and the US Army would be a laugh.
@Lennon79 I need this in my life. Gritty war story, but all the enemies are (dirty and scarred) magically powered lolis. Up for running another RP, Lennon? This needs to happen lol.
--- Edit: Nazi style regime. Massive banners of girls in cute dresses, everything is covered in a fine dust of glitter. Loud speakers are constantly blaring about the powers of love and friendship. Of course, part of that is loving your magical girl 'protectors' more than yourself. You'd do anything for them, wouldn't you?
Purges are put in place, rounding up those not found to be peaceful and loving enough, the justice system's verdicts are all determined by which side wore the most cute outfit and spouted the most lines about love and friendship.
Deep inside massive industrial factories, populations are hypnotised to work endlessly for their magical girl overlords, either by slaving away endlessly on the mass production of cute dresses/magician staves or by being hooked up to huge mana siphons (like the matrix) to fuel the magical girls' world shaping spells. Of course, sometimes people break out of that hypnotism, so if they do...
Our story begins in the depths of one of these factories, where an unhypnotised factory worker has been smuggling out parts for his own secret project. He was a gun-smith before the war and still remembered his craft. He had been creating and stockpiling bullets, rifles, machineguns, grenades, all the tools of a military from the bygone age. The magical girl overlords were squabbling amongst each other. They had turned their wards to ones against magic to protect against the fireballs, lightning bolts and friendship rays being used against each other. With any armed resistance long since crushed, they would not expect an attack by 'primitive', 'inelegant' and 'icky' weapons such as firearms. In addition, they were too reliant on frontal confrontation, rushing ahead, announcing their presence and demanding to meet the 'evil doers'. They would not expect a guerrilla warfare campaign, long ranged assassinations, or other acts of subterfuge.
War was brewing... not from any outside threat, but from a resistance lurking in the shadows and slowly growing in power. And now it was time to strike, in....
Magical Girl Rampage: My evil overlord can't be this cute!
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And yes, happy new year to everyone. I would normally double down and write a new years themed post (as I have in the past), but I'm hitting writers block on that particular subject.
