'I won Ride Like the Wind yesterday. My thoughts:
I liked the rock-paper-scissors combat system. You can become really powerful with the right choices and blessings. Raiding itself feels underwhelming. Looting treasures is nice, but forcing a tribute is usually more hassle than it is worth. Exploration and venture system are both better than similar mechanics in KODP. Foraging is pretty powerful and regular exploration tends to be rewarding. Heroquests are easier and shorter. I think it's mostly fine, but I would like one or two harder, endgame, heroquests. Treasures., with a few exceptions, are more situational. The game can be too short. Skyquake happens barely a decade after the fire magic children and then it's a short road to the wedding. In that last game, I won even before I could give back the Herder bones to Elmal. You can win the game with your starting chief, assuming she (usually it's a woman for some reason? I guess both Nyalda, Ossara and maybe even Gamari give high leadership skill) is young enough. The game could use another decade of gameplay, just to space things out a bit. Ancestral enemies only appear in the handful of events and a few raids. Defending against raids has no additional benefits, no captives, no battlefield loot and the Wheels still mock me after I kill half of their charioteers, kill thirty footmen and wound another fifty. You can get magic from it with the right treasure, which is nice, but I would like something more. I lost one game, because I had low skill Erissa worshipper, not even on the circle, and then the battlefield healing event fired, which involved Beren. You can guess the rest. I would like some alternative, non-canon ways to form a kingdom. Let me unite the Solars, even if it means offscreen doom a hundred years later. Now excuse me, it's getting darker and I have the stead to guard.';

'>>1704803
>I liked the rock-paper-scissors combat system.
It's not actually RPS. Some actions just have a higher or lower chance of success in exchange for lesser or better gains. Some actions are straight up better than others but aren't always available or require higher combat skills.';

'Are blessings/magic more important than leader stats?';

'>>1705209
Warleader's stat is by far the biggest factor. The rock-paper-scissors system matters at the margins, likewise blessings, likewise treasures. But the stat is the central component.
If you have a heroic warleader and are not profoundly outnumbered, it is kind of hard to lose a battle.
Similarly, if you have less than renowned and do not profoundly outnumber your enemy, it is kind of hard to win a battle.';

'Just lost my Lights Out game due to the lack of horses, despite doing pretty great in all the other areas. I'm slightly peeved. I guess the game was cursed. Beren's wedding fired before I had the chance to return the god bones to Elmal and send the Fire Child, with him, and then, during the wedding the blessing I got from that Stormnigger Orlanth was sparing Beren's life for standing up to him. In LO, I also accidentally sent Elmali guy to do the Cragspider's heroquest.';

'>>1706844
I recently lost an LO game to Chalana Arroy dying and getting 2 disease spreading events in a row. Don't think there was anything at all that could have been done.';

'>Teller of Lies comes to Berenstead
>He tells me to name a clan he should destroy
>He must be bluffing
>I picked the virtue of selflessnes
>"Destroy our clan"
It turns out, he wasn't bluffing';

'>>1704706
Please, my people always die in heroquests with maxed blessings and I'm always low on cows';

'>>1711456
>my people always die in heroquests
Don't do heroquests unless you need to.
>with maxed blessings
You probably have the wrong blessings.
>I'm always low on cows
Just steal them.';

'>>1711456
Do Uralda's, it's really safe and easy, just cows doing cow things.';

'>>1711683
>Just steal them.
I now understand why Greg changed the lore such that Orlanthi are dark skinned';

'>>1711688
I kept failing this one until I sent my Heroic combat leader in.';

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'>>1704706
>visual novel with some bare bones resource management
>videogames/strategy';

'>>1711689
Plunder was the easiest and most reliable method of wealth acquisition until the Industrial Revolution';

'I don't get the cow economy. Am I supposed to hoard them or use them up as soon as possible?';

'>>1717330
I've found trying to maintain about 1200 to be optimal.
More and you start having non-stop problems with pastures, less and their natural growth is too low to keep up with sacrifices and other normal usage of cows.
You should prefer using goods to solve problems though, since goods don't passively generate food like cows do.';

'>>1716605
>bare bones resource management
And yet it still surpasses every popular RTS/GS on the market';

'>>1717330
Kinda situational, hoard them but don't be afraid to throw them at situations whenever you get the chance, don't be stingy but always try to keep more than 1000. Spend "silver" (goods) first.';

'>>1704706
I've tried getting into this game a couple of times but got filtered. Any good tips for a newbie?';

'>>1719435
>Get blessings
>Get trade routes
>Use the goods from your trade routes to get more blessings
>Cattle raids over normal raids until you're really confident
>Don't send your leaders off to explore
>Don't play the GOG version on Hard';

'>>1719435
Also read the manual, there's a ton of information you can't really intuit just by playing.';

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'>>1719444
>>Don't play the GOG version on Hard
Why?';

'>>1725326
It's really hard.';

'>>1722990
What are the conditions for successfully convincing the walking dead to pass on?';

'>>1704706
NOT a strategy game, glorified visual novel at best.';

'>>1726448
I imagine it's either based on how active chaos is or one of the hope/insight/etc stats.';

'>>1726321
I mean, I get that much
hardest diff has been busting my balls on GOG version recently, there just seems to be a lot of random, heavily impactful bullshit all the time
Like, one run the first event I got upon literally finishing up my clan options from the start, was the black cloud of smoke or whatever event killing off 20-30 of my herds
again, this was before I even got into the regular game interface
and to top it off, Elmal rejected a 15 goods worth sacrifice to protect my clan against it
But what is it about GOG version in specific that's hard, or is it equally as bad on steam?
Also, dont get me fucking started on battle earth lizard bullshit
>pummel a clan into submission via raids because they keep stealing my shit and acting like little bitches
>"lol we have a magic lizard now fuck you"
>insta lose 90% of the following battles, even with heroic war leaders and 2x more efficient warriors + combat training venture
now that is some grade S bullshit, it's such an asspull counter against you dominating in warfare
I might as well try playing fucking Gandhi next since full raids just ain't fucking worth it';

'>>1726539
>But what is it about GOG version in specific that's hard
The Steam version toned down the Hard difficulty considerably with a bunch of different tweaks, like by making it so that you can't get raided during your first year. In the GOG version you can get raided multiple times as soon as you advance to the next half of the season.

I managed to beat Hard a few times, but I haven't discovered a strategy to do it consistently.';

'>>1704706
Is it just me or is this guy more of just a petty dickhead then genuinely threatening?
Like he pulled up to Berenstead in person several times and each time I just told him to fuck off. One of those times Korestene just rode out and sent his ass packing. He cursed my guys with sickness after Chalanna Arroy died but I already had medicine and a healing spirit so it went nowhere and at all times I had 2 heroic combat people so every time I just sent him or his lackeys packing. In the epilogue Venef the 60yo coward put him down like a dog, he failed to be threatening at every turn I see him as the comic relief chaos god.';

'I love Runequest, got a year long gonna of RQ:G going, I love it so much I spent hundreds of my surplus dollars on long out of print rule and source books to fawn over and read. But I can't seem to get into the CYOA games. Does anyone have any advice to give about how to play them and make them "click"?. I'm not some 50 year old boomer. Please and thanks. Also are the games cannon? Can't be right given the multiple endings?.';

'>>1727010
>year long gonna of RQ:G
Year long campaign.
Fuck auto correct.';

'>>1726803
KWAB';

'>>1727010
The Six Ages games are more or less canon, you're kinda railroaded into a single ending that has a couple of variables that can change if you want to win. Redalda and Beren get married canonically, Venef is the one who remakes the world in place ot Time and leads the Berentheli to rebuild, even if you choose a different character to survive they choose to rename themselves to Venef the Stallion in his memory.';

'>>1726803
The Virgin Veggie merchant VS The Chad Frozen vole enjoyer.';

'>>1705209
Starting to think that blessings are more important. I could not set up a single trading route on OG's Hard mode until I activated the trading/diplomacy blessings, then it succeeded first try.';

'>>1726539
Raiding only once every few years to keep your war magic active is probably more optimal on hard.';

'>>1704803
>Defending against raids has no additional benefits
Unless you get the horselord enemies, very useful to defeat their raids

>(usually it's a woman for some reason?)
Almost never was led by woman

> Treasures., with a few exceptions, are more situational
I broke the game into being very very easy by just getting big issaries temple, trading for treasures with goods and using all the bonuses for insane economy bonuses. Then using that to go questing and boosting my leaders' stats.';

'>>1729330
This sounds like KODP, not Ride like the Wind';

'Six Ages 2 is the Dark Souls of KODP-likes.';