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@CollectorOfMyst

Kinky.

Mass Effect: Borealis

Firuzeh, Cafe

"Ah, but not as lovely as you, my gallant friend. Apologies but, which side was the scarred one, again?" Firuzeh playfully teased, sipping silently from a sweet, non alcoholic cocktail of fruits and a fizzy drink - it was surprisingly good, despite the cheesy name the drink had been given. "Everything in safe and sound!" She declared - albeit quietly, so that merely Vellios and other crewmates within her immediate vicinity could hear. Even so, she took no risks, refusing to speak of the smuggled weapons directly. "All the parts and components are finally in - and security didn't even bother shaking me down over having my uniform folded the wrong way for company policy or something!" She crowed, cramming as much innocent relief into her words as she could without her acting being obvious. "So how's our friend? Still feeling sick? Guards were still grumpy so I've not been in the loop for the stomach flu he picked up in Omega." She raised an eyebrow, looking around. "Everyone else seems to be doing fine, though."

Game of Thrones : The Pact of Ice and Fire (Always Open)

@MrDidact

Never thought I'd feel so bad for Lannister soldiers. Them helmets do a good job of dehumanizing them right up until you zoom in and see their eyes.

Doesn't stop me from slaughtering them en masse in modded Warband, buuut...

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@Rtron

If such is the case, I should probably be suffering some sort of heinous punishment for my total lack of productivity.

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@Abefroeman

I'm about to pass out so this'll be like a sentence

Admittedly, I always imagined the Tyrell forces as being something of a quantity over quality as well - but with a solid backbone of knights and trained retainers. The Tyrells are rich, if say... 5-10k of those 80-100k Reachmen are truly well trained, high quality soldiers, they can do the heavy lifting. You use your rabble to absorb some losses, pad the line - and if they falter, you have your shock troops ready to prop them up.

Also, the Soviets didn't really go quantity over quality to that extent. It's a common notion that Russia merely drowned their enemies in bodies - they usually did have the numerical advantage, but never to the extent of being like the hordes of vodka loving lemmings many people like to portray them as.

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@kingkonrad

Not called the Queen of Thorns for nothing.

Game of Thrones : The Pact of Ice and Fire (Always Open)

@Abefroeman

Also Episode 3 Stuff

I think it was more a matter of them being caught off guard. Clearly, the Tyrell armies have some bite to them - if only by sheer size, but from the looks of things the Lannisters caught them completely off guard. Highgarden probably had a minimal garrison at best, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Tyrell forces were off somewhere completely different, mustering to repel a more... conventional assault - rather than something that deep within their territory.

Of course, Tywin's training certainly would have helped a great deal - Mace Tyrell was kind of... a crap military commander, to put it bluntly, and if he was in charge of the overall training, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if that meant the Reach armies were sorely outmatched by those of the Westerlands. However, we don't know for sure how extensive Mace Tyrell's incompetence extended, sooo...

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@Lyla

We'll miss you, but life comes first. Good luck.

Ianus Congreatio: Secret societies, horror, and mystery in the shadows of Prague.

@Astarael42

I am here!

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@MrDidact

I've been checking in, just not wholly sure what exactly I should be doing.