Iron Age

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Who was toungless and why was he in that cell?

Who really poisoned the love knight?

Why did Octavia erase lysander's memories and what was so important for him to not know?

Did lysander really see appalonious on mercury?

What is at oculus and why the secrecy?

Where has Mickey been?

What is quicksilver's secret project?

What is the figment and what can it do once repaired?

Did Cassius really escape or was he let go? And by whom?

Or maybe something I missed?

-It creates more danger around Hulk like in the first movie, where he truly is a danger to the team (FYI he lost every single fight following this one in the MCU, except against the stupid Wolf)

-It gives more dramatic weight to the schism between Tony and Bruce following the fight, and more justification for Bruce to leave at the end of the film

-It adds wayyyyyy more drama to the poorly executed Bruce/Natasha romance, and wouldve given it more of a tragic element than the shoehorned sterility plot point which was in really bad taste

Some will say it was necessary as a setup. I disagree. Lysander and Eph’s pov were necessary plot wise but not Lyria with the sole exception of the Sophocles foreshadowing which could have been included in other ways (maybe in Darrow’s pov before he takes off). Without Lysander’s pov, it would’ve been jarring for him to be included in Dark Ages. Likewise for Eph. There would be a lot of missing pieces of the puzzle without them. This does not apply to her given how closely her plot is intertwined with Eph’s pov. Like, isn’t that why we don’t have Sevro’s or Mustang’s pov in the earlier books because we see enough of their involvement via Darrow’s pov? These are characters that a lot more central to the plot than Lyria. It isn’t necessary and detracts from the pacing.

All her pov really contributed a bit of worldbuilding and a lot of whining of a clueless teenager.

Mustang’s pov in Dark Ages shows that it isn’t necessary to have a whole introduction/origin to have an interesting pov. We could’ve simply come to learn about her part in the plot via Eph’s pov and then have her pov introduced in Dark Ages. It wouldn’t have changed the story at all. Heck, I think I would’ve liked her more in Dark Ages if I didn’t have to deal with all the edginess she had in Iron Gold. It was a lot more fun to read her pov in Dark Ages.

Yes, we got some worldbuilding. Yes, we got to see what the revolution was like for a regular red but I think Pierce is skilful enough to weave those aspects in if he wanted to without the need of creating her pov in Iron Gold. Was her pov completely useless or terrible? No. But the amount of chapters and word count spent on her was not worth the payoff at the end of Iron Gold. If all we needed was worldbuilding then I would’ve loved to see the povs of other central characters in Iron Gold as opposed to her. I also stand by my point that her pov could’ve been simply injected in Dark Ages and it would’ve been fine, if not better.

Further clarification;

I've been living my entire life in Barbarian lands away from civilization. Ever since I was young I used to love hearing stories about 'cities' - large villages full of people, food, things and giant stone houses - from the local traders brave enough to trade with my people.

One day, tired and bored of my barbarian life, I have decided to see the world for myself. I took a sword, a spear, a dagger and other necessities necessary for survival with me and set out on a journey towards the closest city. The journey took weeks, but luckily I'm a good survivalist, warrior and a respectable hunter. Over the course of the journey I ever acquired some valuable furs I hope to maybe trade for a cool iron helm or something similar.

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The city this barbarian will enter will be based around Greek/Roman setting, and as such it would have similar customs to their historical origins. Thing is, despite my research, I have yet to stumble upon records of lone barbarians entering civilized cities to either see them, or to trade or to acquire something etc.

My gut is telling me that a lone barbarian traveler, even if he's good warrior - as barbarians typically were at that time - will most likely meet his demise on the street. He doesn't know anything, and it will show, at which point some people might try and take advantage of him, which will inevitably end up in a conflict where the barbarian cuts down someone. Then the soldiers come and clean up the mess together with the culprit - dead barbarian right there.

He might wander to a district where unwanted people of society congregate and attract to him unnecessary attention which will end up in trouble etc.

My question is, even if all results point towards a bad outcome, is there a way to get lucky, survive and even thrive in these circumstances knowing the character? Like maybe finding a kind guide who's willing to teach the basics for a neat coat of fur you have acquired on your journey? What's preventing him from fucking over the barbarian though?

All in all, I'm quite 'raw' when it comes to imagining one such setting - barbarian entering civilization for the first time all alone. There are just so many things that can go wrong on so many fronts that I'm having trouble coming up wi

Hi reddit, I’m wondering if any history nuts on here could help me reflavour the default list of dnd armour into something that fits better in an ancient setting.

I need a replacement for ring and chain mail in particular as these came into use later and have a distinct medieval feel to them imo.

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Thank you so much for considering helping.

Except this time for the corporations and their current monopoly on force exercised through the same thing.

The Hittites, Mycenaeans and many globalised Bronze Age central governments with professional armies essentially lost their monopoly over force for the first time during that event. All kinds of societies emerged that were previously smothered by them, there was even room for some societies that were more ‘Anarchist/Egoist’ for a time during the dawn of the Iron Age I think.

Historically speaking, you had poor unskilled ‘sea people’ who were able to dispatch chariots with ease and they could raid the Bronze Age elites due to that loss in monopoly of force.

I’m guessing it could also be financial and not necessarily militarily. Will there be another great equaliser next time?

Some people thought Bitcoin would end the financial monopoly of force but it never happened.

I'm still new to this game so sorry if this does not sound as good as I thought.

I started a new world about a month ago with the goal to be ready for the winter event. I'm not sure which direction I want to take the city but then I was reminded today that sleigh builders exist. I'm assuming that I can get 10-15 sleigh builders this event (two years ago I got 13 SoK during the winter event so I'm using that as a probable range). If I only get 10 then every day I would get 150 goods of my age. If I camp in Iron Age, would this be a decent strategy for participating in GbG or Guild Expeditions, or is it a complete waste of time and event rewards?

>Join Howard The Duck and solve the case of Spider-Man's missing Aunt May! Wait, really? Yes, really!
>Is the absent Aunt May kidnapped by the Kree? Is she just at the store at the store? I mean, no. It's a third thing. Did you think we'd really spoil for you here?

This is 3-day event with 24-hour subs.

• You've got H.A.M.M.E.R. goons on day one
• Maggia on day two
• both of them plus Symbiotes on day three

With the omnipresent Dark Avengers scattered among each day's nodes and adding Doc Ock on day three.

Join Forces nodes are on the sub-event pages.

Wave nodes are

• Trivial 2 & Heroic 3 on day one
• Trivial 3 on day two
• Heroic 3 & 3*Essential on day three

There is a random Howard the Duck cover as a reward at the end of the third sub!

#Rewards

###Progress:

• 5*: Magneto (Age of Apocalypse) SHARDS^^scl8+
• 4*: Iron Fist (Danny Rand) SHD^scl4-10 GRN^scl7+
• 3*: Loki (Dark Reign) SHD^scl1-9 PRP^scl6-10
• 2*: Magneto (Marvel NOW!) RED^scl1-4 BLU^scl3
• 1*: Storm (Modern) GRN^scl1-2

###Placement:

• 5*: name (sub) SHARDS^^scl8+
• 4*: Elsa Bloodstone (Monster Hunter) BLU^^scl6-10 PRP^^scl7-10
• 3*: Hawkeye (Hawkguy) BLU^^scl2-10 BLK^^scl3-9 PRP^^scl4
• 2*: Daken (Dark Avengers) PRP^^scl1-4 BLK^^scl1-4 BLU^^scl3-4

###Alliance:

• 4*: Elsa Bloodstone (Monster Hunter) BLU^^scl9-10
• 3*: Hawkeye (Hawkguy) BLU^^scl5-9
• 2*: Daken (Dark Avengers) PRP^^scl3-4 BLK^^scl4
• 1*: Venom (Dark Avengers) BLK^^scl1-2

Progress Rewards Milestones:

• First CP Reward*: 43,000
• Second CP Reward*: 62,500
• Maximum Rewards: 64,500

^*CP ^rewards ^only ^for ^SCL4+

#BUFFS

##Required Characters:

• 5-Star*: Heimdall (The Gatekeeper)
• 4-Star: Iron Fist (Danny Rand)
• 3-Star: Loki (Dark Reign)
• 2-Star: Magneto (Marvel NOW!)

^*only ^required ^for ^SCL7+

##New Characters:

• Elsa Bloodstone (Monster Hunter)
• Red Guardian (Alexei Shostakov)

##Weekly Buffs:

###4-Star

• Domino (X-Force)
• Kate Bishop (Hawkeye)
• Spider-Gwen (Gwen Stacy)
• Thanos (Endgame)
• The Hulk (Totally Awesome)

###3-Star

• Daredevil (Man Without Fear)
• Doctor Doom (Classic)
• Gamora (Guardians of the Galaxy)
• Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)
• Rocket & Groot (_Most Want

I’m currently using Byzantine civilization and I got a civilization change token and I was wondering which was the best civilization to switch to.

So far I’ve started a bunch of diamond farming worlds, all with 25-30WW.. needs work I know. Is it worth building Zeus/CoA/Cdm and try to do GE too? Or am I better offer getting an Arc for medal expansions and just aging up as I need more space?

*GE mainly by auto to 3 and then I guess Neg 4

I have heard that Bronze is actually pretty difficult to create, since it require a lot of Tin in addition to Copper, and since Tin is fairly rare that control on supply of Tin could be a life or death issue for Bronze age states. I've even heard that the extensive use of Iron in the first place was because of the major disruptions in the Tin trade around the time of the Bronze age collapse, being more of a last resort since Bronze was nearly impossible to manufacture in large amounts.

And yet Iron quickly seemed to establish itself as by far the most useful metal, being more robust and much more common than Bronze, some areas of the world never even really had a Bronze age, going straight to iron, notably Sub-Saharan Africa.

So, why was there a Bronze age to begin with? Why didn't people learn to work Iron earlier? It seems like it has less issues than Bronze, especially in terms of availability.

I’m just trying to find on average how many goods would be used to negotiate 50ish attrition a day, I’ve been saving fp and goods and buying and trading for bronze goods and have roughly 35k of each bronze good, how much would that last me? I know I can battle when sieges to save on attrition but I haven’t quite started my traz yet so troops wise I’m short

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