WHOOP!

No wars. Female rulers only. Reconquista complete in four generations.

@CrusaderKings isn't just about conquest. You can do as much or more by understanding how inheritance works, and with a bit of kidnap and murder...

New challenge next week! twitch.tv/gariusthebrit ck3 screenshot showing empire of hispania complete.
That was doubly critical here because most of Spain is male-only succession at game start.

But with the right culture, and knowing who you CAN kidnap (and convert) and who you can't, then you can influence who inherits what.

Then it's about being a wee bit murdery.
How murdery? Well...

We killed five people with ducks.

Spidered nine people to death.

Assassinated six people.

Killed three people with forests.

Killed three people with gravity sweets.
We killed one person with a knitting needle.

Walled up four people in a basement.

Banditted two people to death.

Killed one with baked goods.

Mobbed two people to death.

But it worked, and Spain is whole once again...

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with John Bull

John Bull Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @garius

7 Dec
It's important to understand HOW you reach a point where animals are evacuated ahead of people.

It's not due to malice, but of addressable issues all organisations need to watch for in their productive narcissist leadership:

I call it the "Skeletor's Minions Problem"

/1
The Skeletor's Minions Problem (SMP) happens when you have an insecure populist narcissist in politics, or a productive narcissist in business, in charge of an organisation. But the org lacks:

1) Top level understanding of what happens on the ground
2) ANY senior staff pushback
If, as is alleged (with growing evidence), Boris Johnson specifically ordered the evacuation of animals from Afghanistan then there likely wasn't a moment where he thought people would miss out.

He thought that he could shout "do something about this!!" with no consequences.
Read 16 tweets
6 Dec
What's beyond funny about the Uber case is that they brought it on themselves.

If they hadn't been so high on silicon valley bro-ness, and so ignorant of E&W Employment law, they'd have just chucked the drivers a few quid.

Instead they got themselves done by the duck test. 🦆
What's DOUBLY funny is not that Uber then accidentally set themselves up for the easiest tap in HMRC ever scored, but they lit a beacon to the rest of Europe on how to legislate for bad-faith disruptors.

Which is why the European Commission is wiring the duck test in there, too.
So Uber fucked their London ops. Opened themselves up to a massive RETROACTIVE and future VAT bill AND have probably screwed themselves in a bunch of other markets too.

All for the sake of lowballing a few drivers so their investee deck looked better.

Quack quack quack.
Read 4 tweets
6 Dec
Fun fact: For the price of an X-Wing you can buy 2.5 TIE fighters.

And that's even before we get to maintenance overhead.
An A-Wing is about 3 TIEs.

Even a B-Wing (twenty year old tech at the time of New Hope) is equivalent to 2.2 TIE fighters.

And the reliability/maintenance overhead on those is HUGE.
This is before we get into working in astromech costs and pilot training costs.

Essentially, your logistics overhead on the Rebel fighter programme is fucking huge.

It's Tigers vs T34s.
Read 6 tweets
6 Dec
My mum used to love doing "Star Wars days" in the school holidays when we were kids.

We'd get all the star wars toys out that we'd bought at car boot sales for a pound and play with them, while watching all three films back-to-back.

Now I get to write (and write about) Scifi.
My mum also used Star Wars AND Doctor Who to get me reading early.

I remember we had to do a reading test at school with an external assessor in (now) Year 6.

ASSESSOR: Want to pick a book off the shelf?
ME: Can I read my own? <pulls out Target novelisation of The Dæmons> 😆
My mum and dad also made me go to Cubs and Scouts every Friday, which eventually I came to enjoy a lot and taught me to be more confident and build up practical skills.

So I'm with @S_Mittermeier. Accept that kids can enjoy varied things and they can ALL develop them, with care.
Read 4 tweets
26 Nov
Meet the 1,800t destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she faced down the 16,000t German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, plus escorts, single handed.

The action earned her captain one of only three WW2 Victoria Crosses recommended by the enemy /1 Sideview of HMS Glowworm, a british destroyer with two funne
In April 1940, HMS Glowworm was escorting the battlecruiser HMS Renown during minelaying off the Norwegian coast.

The weather was terrible, and one of her crew was swept overboard in high seas. Her captain, Gerard Roope, was given permission to fall back and search for them. Cleanshaven destroyer captain (roope) in uniform looking you
Glowworm spent a day searching for her lost crewman without any luck, before getting underway again and heading off to rejoin Renown.

It was at this point she spotted two destroyers amid the rain and seas.

When hailed, they claimed to be Swedish.
Read 28 tweets
26 Nov
We've hit the point where Johnson knows his survival depends on starting an actual war with France.

As any EU4 player knows, this is going to end with them taking Kent and 10% of our annual income as war reps.
Which is going to be super fucking annoying, as I don't see why the Brexity people of Chatham should get to be EU citizens again while I don't.
Mind you, the French will probably also force Johnson to release Cornwall. So it's not all bad news.
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(