ulm black forest

[Oversway]

ascii diagrams rule

[High_Priest_Naresh]

what does ascii stand for
and are you being sarcastic sometimes it is hard to tell...

[Oversway]

ASCII stands for 'American Standard Code for Information Interchange'

No, not being sarcastic. I have a nostalgic appreciation for ascii (and similar) diagrams.

[Endoperez]

ASCII is a way of saving/encoding/keeping track of the letters of the alphabet, both big and small. ASCII and its predecessors are needed to make writing possible. Roguelike games, like Adom or Dungeon Crawl mentioned in the Newbie's First Impressions thread, use ASCII instead of graphics. Player character is presented by @, orc might be o, ogre O, dragon D, Demons in Crawl are presented by numbers 9-through-1 with smaller being more powerful, etc.

[Oversway]

I often send my wolves to attack archers...especially if I'm facing crossbows. Wolves tend to die fast but they at least keep the crossbows from firing a few turns it can help.

[Truper]

I'm going to disagree that Sanguine Heratage is necessary or even desireable for BF. By the time you can get Counts, what are they going to do, exactly? They need a lot of equipment if you want to use them as thugs, so you risk all that equipment even if you only use them in your own dominion. As mages, they aren't especially useful.

[Oversway]

Hordes of vampires led by Counts seems to be a common trick.