Star Wars: Dark Empire, SSD ON LIFE SUPPORT! (Empire at War Thrawn's Revenge) EP21

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@theoverseer3880 Ай бұрын

GULP That thumbnail and title are BEAUTIFUL!! And moderately horrifying for the poor SSD XD Can't wait to watch this!!:D

@GG8820YT Ай бұрын

Grunger should be reprimanded for his Failure, he not only cost the Empire resources but man power as well with his tactics, he is but a weakling in the Empire. My Lord will deal with him.

@HawkeyeTM Ай бұрын

Uh oh. Huh, good to know that the firing point for Ground to Space Weapons does change depending on the skybox (9:31), I hadn't even considered that let alone thought it was possible, I assumed it was stuck firing from the 'bottom' of the map. I know that ship names are pulled from a selection of sources, but seeing a Bothan Assault Cruiser with Forward Until Dawn as its name (14:01) will never not crack me up, as I'm sure it would any other Halo fan watching or playing. Ah yes, the Nagai-Tof War (20:02), a semi obscure conflict from the Star Wars comics that Marvel ran from 1977 to 1986. Despite how goofy it looks and sounds, it has been accepted as part of Legends for quite some time. I want to say there might be plans to include it in TR, but I can't speak with confidence on that. Congratulations, you got discount Boba Fett (24:32). Jokes aside, Dej is probably a good roll if you're after Boba, since he also has a Firespray and vaguely similar weapons/abilities on both ground and space. Also I typed this comment before you started calling him Discount Boba as well, double funny considering I think that was the intention to begin with, seeing as he's from an old RPG adventure. Not Black Sun but Thyrsus Sun Guard (25:54), but they certainly do resemble the KoTOR era Mandalorian in terms of uniform, I wonder if we'll see them in Revan's Revenge so we can better tell how similar the two models are, it's almost uncanny. Going from the costly battle on Seijo (38:52) to Grungers' folly over Bomis Koori (41:02) feels almost like a prologue to the main event, a sign of things to come as it were. Of course, we begin this paragraph by tallying down both Terro (from the Tatooine Group) and Lobax Resuun (A Eraidu hero), before getting to the meat of the section; I am honestly surprised that Grunger managed to survive such an assault, being knocked down to just a few remaining hardpoints and being unable to retreat would have spelt doom, were it not for his ability to continue tanking the damage via his regenerating shields. As you correctly noticed at 55:00, larger ships like SSDs can generally be fired upon from further away than standard weapon range, mostly because of their large size and as a balancing thing, which is quite the downside when you aren't able to fire back (such as 55:42). The fact that many of the ships forward mounted weaponry had been destroyed in the earlier engagement obviously didn't help; the stat card doesn't list how far each weapon fires from the ship (58:49), but instead how far each weapon can fire from its individual hardpoint, which would be why you had to get in so close to the station. Reading back on that paragraph I do seem to come off as a bit negative, but that couldn't be further from the truth; I very much enjoyed seeing the tension spike and wondering if our first dead hero would also be our first dead SSD as well, but you managed to pull through and tank the defences to bring the entire thing to a suitable victory. Also the irony of Grunger almost dying because he got a bit too ahead of himself is awfully close to how he died in Legends, ramming a fellow Grand Admiral and his Torpedo Sphere that later exploded, killing the two of them over Corellia. Onto a lighter note, we move to Tatooine and some very green looking Cloud Cars (1:06:50), I can only guess that the entire unit is set up to reflect team colour, rather than a small little stripe or marking. Also I'm going to gush about how much I enjoy the Tatooine and Hypori map; the former because of how it captures the Boonta Eve Podrace track, the latter because I'm a big fan of the long runway it has near the Victory point condition, there's just something about it that grabs my interest. If you find yourself with a lot of money and not enough infrastructure score (1:10:28), it might be worth spending it to upgrade space defences and build ship yards/colony structures, as every un-upgraded primary defence and unbuilt shipyard/space eco structure contributes to your infrastructure score being so low. You gotta maximise the potential of every one of your planets to get the most out of it, especially if you're planning to go around conquering new planets often. And to finish off this comment, Treuten finally shows up (1:17:38), although I may have accidentally called him Kosh when I first watched this episode as I get the two of them confused often. You are also correct, 13X is the name of his ship, although it would be pretty funny (if very broken) if he did spawn in 12 other Crimson VSDs as an escort instead. Looking forward to you smashing through the Hutts again next episode, although you can probably except me to comment later than normal considering how busy I am on Monday (should it come out then).

@mateuszzych3564 Ай бұрын

The range is fine. Remember that your cannons were at the back of the ship hence they didn't shoot

@TheStarrySky66 Ай бұрын

Not sure if it got included since next episode was a nightmare to piece together but at one point I show how the sovereign is getting outraged by everything else despite it having better range even for the hardpoints at the front ( having basically 10km range ) but feeling like it's max range is like 3-4km

@mateuszzych3564 Ай бұрын

@@TheStarrySky66 ok then it's totally weird. I feel like the devs focus completely on adding fancy lore content and forget about making the gameplay fun and WORKING

@Catazuhl Ай бұрын

The Sun Guard is the privat army of the Sith. Later on they became the first Royal Guard of Emps Palpy and was the first trainer of the next generation of the Royal Guard.

@BLUE_KINGS Ай бұрын

ive always love big space battles

@cptviper9905 Ай бұрын

I like how every episode you have more echo in the intro

@aeternuseldritch9545 Ай бұрын

That opening monologue has me DYING of laughter!

@andreacaramaschi9056 Ай бұрын

Building shipyards will help with both population and infrastructure score

@chaseroland6086 Ай бұрын

58:21 an audio recording between Grand Admiral Josef Grunger and the head engineer of the SSD Aggressor after the battle G-A "so your best estimate on repair tim-?" H-E "Repair time ? I can't even tell you if it could be fix within our life time !" G-A "don't use that tone on me, it can't be that ba-" H-E "sir your wearing an O2 mask because life support is out in like 85% of the ship including your office !" G-A "well life support goes out on ships all the tim-" H-E "sir I'm currently in an EVA suit on the upper hull and can look down and see the planet below us" G-A "....okay just...*sigh* just tell me it at least repairable without a major dock yard ?" H-E "*groaning for a solid three minutes* I'm deadlining it for about three weeks so we could at least jump to a station without losing half of out crew plus the ship along with them-" G-A " that good enough for me Grunger out"

@TheStarrySky66 Ай бұрын

Then proceeds to get on a call with high command to tell them it's not that bad.

@TheStarrySky66 Ай бұрын

This was hilarious to read glad you wrote that I hadn't even thought about this interaction, since I assumed most if not the entire crew besides the bridge and rear gunners were dead

@ritubhattacharya9537 Ай бұрын

thats exactly why i told you not to turn on cruel

@TheStarrySky66 Ай бұрын

It's still off by ya not turning it on until i take down eriadu as a faction

@enjash326 Ай бұрын

@@TheStarrySky66 #fuckeriadu

@deshonbrown7284 Ай бұрын

Damn them traitors they shall pay for that!!

@opalzard325 Ай бұрын

The Range is not from the ship but the range of the gun/module itself

@TheStarrySky66 Ай бұрын

Ya it's more that the guns at the front are still outranged by the ai while for some reason the ssd has like 1/3 of that range even if the hardpoint has a range of almost 10km