>>51816
Soooo....
Watched one and a half episodes. It's silly and they should have not made it. Perhaps it will become entertaining. Perhaps it won't. For now I'll watch it for curiosity's sake.
In general I can't say much positive about it, it's flat. I laffed at:
>Vault-Tec Plan D
poison on a table a family's corpses sat around
That shit was funny.
Cute dawg.
That's about it.
I have not found anything too annoying either. What I can mention is the vault's population is about 20. In the games they had that many dwellers for the games/engines limitations. If they put the hundreds of people that should occupy a vault, that shit have lagged like hell. Same with TES games. Some of these vaults should support couple thousand people. In the games these handful of people look ridiculous, but we give them a pass because we know they just represent a population of unnamed NPCs, which would be annoying to have anyway for they couldn't say anything and wouldn't have any meaningful role. In the telly show, it looks ridiculous same, but hard to forgive this.
Meh.

Considerable changes on the Avdiivka-Pokrovsk axis since the last time here: >>51865
What operationally important is the northern advances along the railroad, towards Ocheretyne for they can flank the next line of defense (along those rivers) at Sokil-Soloviove.
I do think they have to take Novokalynove and Keramik first, and ofc Ocheretyne itself, but by the time the units at Berdychi-Orlivka reach the riverbend they just might be ready. Or won't.

Two days old article but we lost nothing yet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/19/ukraine-us-weapons-house-aid-bill/
The article is behind paywall, which can be disabled by disabling JS on the page. Made screenshots for Bernd, I hid the empty fields for images and advertisements.
Why the politics in the Congress was politicized and the limelight was directed on it, the Department of Defense put together the material package they'll send, or some of it at least.
>depending on where they are stored.
I assume they already have those depots in Polan filled.
They'll send 155mm shells, and missiles for medium-range rocket artillery, should alleviate the urgent need for those. 7 to 14 days from now we might expect stronger resistance on the frontlines.
>It is also probable the Pentagon will provide Ukraine with a fresh tranche of air defense equipment and ammunition
Patriots? I heard Russian planes performing close air support, so they are basically free to do whatever at the moment.

After watching the new Dune movies (2021 and 2024 ones) I checked out the vidya scene what they have.
I found some dudes are developing an open source cross platform engine for the old Dune 2, the Dune Legacy. The player needs the original game files to play. It's liek OpenMW basically.
Here's a link to the project: https://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/
Have not tried it yet.
Two more finds are:
Dune Spice Whores Wars (released in 2023 Sept.), and
Dune Imperium (2024 March, very recent), which is board game adaptation, uses cards and tokens as far as I can tell from screenshots, have not tried.

Dune Spice Wars is an RTS, and has the classic elements that reminds me of Dune 2. It has that map where you select the next mission, and then you mine spice, build buildings, and produce units and you send your units to fight the rival factions who do the same.
The game goes beyond this however. The battle map consist of smaller segments, villages, you occupy with the resource in that specific region. The buildings are built around the villages.
There is an abundance of various points and resources to generate and track, which is used to do whatever needs doing, from building, recruiting, voting in the Landsraad, doing spy missions and whatever. Spice, money, plascrete manpower, batteries, water, authority, influence, knowledge, intel, hegemony, landsraad standing, guild favor, scraps. What the fuck. Percentage hell. You research stuff to earn bonuses, unlock buildings, units, whatever. You buy CHOAM shares. Generate agents to do intelligence missions and counterintel. Trade with sietches, to make them friendly and ally and send agent to them to get some other bonus. Recon with ornitopters (they can set to auto) to discover villages and resources, and researchable sites with also provide resources and whatnot. Uhh, stuff. Can do without battles fine.
Did three missions from the campaign with the House Atredies. I failed the first for I got assassinated. Won the next two with hegemony. Different missions have different goals, only in skirmishes can win however you want.
It's really an okay game. It already is repetitive despite all the details, but as far as RTS games go, it doesn't lack in anything. I think it is still unpolished, and perhaps imbalanced.