#TF2 Duke

[artoatsblog]

Doom guy is soldier tf2 slightly to the left and Duke nukem is soldier tf2 slightly to the right, both in terms of personality and looks.

[baguettefeels]

Help Me Pay for My Wedding! Commissions Open!

Hello friends!

I got engaged about a few months ago and now have started wedding planning my wedding! To help not get into further debt I'm opening up portrait commissions! Fully Colored! Any character of your choosing!

Message me on discord at animejesus (yes, that's the name)

Or if you'd like to donate you can follow this paypal link!

Please spread!

[flowersandbirdsflyingfree]

Hey, I’m proposing something very different this time around! I’m calling these Pep-Talk Matchups!

What’s a pep-talk match up? Well, you give me a fictional character you love and I help reassure why they would be a perfect match for you! Sometimes life is tough and we need that extra reassurance even in the little things

My expertise is in the following fandoms:

-TF2

-Call of Duty Zombies

-Boomer Shooters (Doom, Half-Life, etc.)

If you are not in these fandoms, I’m still willing to give it a try! Entries are open from 50/30-6/3

Basically treat this as a regular matchup (interests, personality, etc.) and add some worries for me to extinguish

This is a very experimental kind of matchup so I’ll leave this open for a few days. I await your requests!

[tyrianluda]

tbh I would let them all pass me around like a blunt.

[lunatic-pudge]

Henlo, it's me. My super cool fren from AO3 asked me if I'd ever write for Freak Fortress, and I figured I'd make a list of characters I'll write for. So here's the list! Movie Dude and Franklin will be written for soon, I promise. And, as usual, requests are always open! Will update the list as time goes on. And I'll see about making a masterlist and special tag for my stuff also. K, bye!

Team Fortress 2:

-All nine mercs

-Miss Pauling

-Merasmus

-Saxton Hale

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Freak Fortress:

-Painis Cupcake

-Ass Pancakes

-Christian Brutal Sniper

-Piss Cakehole

-Cakehole Piss

-Christian Pure Spy

-Tentaspy

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Postal:

-P1-P4 Dudes

-BD and Alt Dude

-Movie Dude (whenever I finally get to watching the movie)

-Corkscrew Dude (Shtopor?)

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Grand Theft Auto:

-Trevor Philips

-Michael De Santa

-Franklin (at some point I promise)

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Duke Nukem:

-Duke Nukem

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Will do SWF and NSFW stuff. Just nothing illegal or too weird please!

[szeengames123]

(via https://comic.studio/s/9138)

The RED Soldier and RED Sniper runs but teleported by the Duke Nukem wallpaper and kills instead. taken off TF2′s Deathrun map, Boomershooter

[mabelistrans]

i've gotten back into tf2 !!! here's my pyro loadout

oh also

[very bitcrushed] damn... those alien bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my medic

[allgermedup]

i made a lil gUY his name is MINK CAT !!!

he is SILLy !!! he is also SOLDIER TF2,POSTAL DUDE, AND DUKE NUKEM 💥

[t3m-official]

Kate's Art Dump #0

Warning; This post will contain mentions of mentions of sex & nudity

"A Bite At Freddy's Thumbnail" This is the thumbnail for my playthrough of the FNAF fan game, A Bite At Freddy's.

"Bois And DJs" I have an AU/OU(Alternate Universe/ Original Universe) called WarScream, a massive crossover AU i have been working on since 2019. Here we have my versions of Duke from Duke Nukem, Pinnhead from Hellraiser, Daft Punk's Guy Manuel, and Marshmello.

"Chibi Kate And James" These are chibified versions of these characters that represent me and my boyfriend James.

"Two Himbos, One Nightguard" Am i a simp? Yes, if this happened to me irl would i enjoy it? YES! But i doubt this will ever happen in real life so instead of being upset that this will never happen irl, i just decided to draw it.

"V For Vengeance" This is a comic series that has three planned entries and will be about V, a man(Or ball) who must avenge his family after his baby was killed and his wife was kidnapped by a cult that caused the death of his baby. I actually posted this on another blog...But because i have decided to just stick with one big blog, you will eb seeing this content here!

"T3M TV Logo" T3M TV is a project of mine that will be a combination of different series i have on my channel(T3M Productions).

"T3M Productions Christmas Special" This will be a part of a Christmas 2023 merch line for my Youtube channel(Here is the store if you're interested ^^). And to explain the lore this has for my Youtube channel(Yes, my Youtube channel dose in fact lore), basically Kate and the others have spent all of November and most of December working on a massive Christmas special with 200+ hours of content!

"Springtrap And His Family" So in my AU, Springtrap is not only trans male, but is also hecking chonky! And Clowntrap and Toxic Springtrap are two alternate personalities. Spring Bonnie is Springtrap's adoptive son, and the one who is blushing a lot is Springtrap's husband Fiv(This is a version of Fiv, a character that belongs to one of my best friends, @facadesinternalveil).

"Sociallly Rejected Pizza Plex Logo" SRPP(Aka, Socially Rejected Pizza Plex) is my animation brand and this is the logo you will see at the end of all of my animations. The two characters here are Rixanne and Pixel Kate, two trans bisexual animatronics who love each other.

"Shiz'N'Shank Save Christmas" Shiz and Shank are two characters that originate from a Tik Tok account of mine and eventually showed up on my main channel during The Plush Kate Arc(Will explain that in a different post), They are both puppets in my main channel, with Shiz being bought from a store called Island Style and Shank being found half berried in some sand.

Originally the two were frenemies but eventually became lovers! I plan on expanding their story more with comics and maybe even a animated series down the line, who knows.

"Radioactive Foxy" Now you may look at this and be thinking Kate what the actual fuck is that?! , and to explain, because i wanted to. I wanted to give Radioactive Foxy a bizarre design(And also to clarify my version of Foxy is trans female and Radioactive Foxy is one of Foxy's forms). Besides, me and normal have been divorced since i turned 13.

"Lupin Blue And Patra Pink" Now i haven't really watched that much Super Sentai in a bit, mostly because i have had some burnout with Kingohger and how fast it feels like the story went for that show and how early certain things have shown up in the show. But i have decided to post this art of my versions of Lupin Blue and Patra Pink from Lupin Ranger Vs Patra Ranger.

"Kitana" It's Kitana and one of my friends(Who doesn't have a tumblr yet) is a massive simp for them.

"Ghostface Power Up Forms" One of the things i like to do is give characters these fun or crazy or wacky power up forms. So here we have Ghostface and three of his power up forms. Metal Ghostface makes Ghostface fire proof and gives him these two flamethrowers and a flamethrower knife thing(This form is based off of a scene in a Stab movie in Scream 2022(Aka, Scream 5) ). Next is Space Quartz Ghostface, this let's Ghostface breathe in space and fly really fast!

And finally there is Galactic Lion Ghostface. Ok, so this requires me to explain my version of Ghostface. My version is a man named Sharely King, he was the baby of a space god and was adopted into the Kruger house hold when Freddy's dad found him in a Forrest. Years later. Ghostface would gain The Galactic Lion Driver, a device that gives Ghostface the power he would've had if he was never sent to earth.

This power up gives Ghostface the ability to:

Fly

Levitate

Run at lightspeed

Create blackholes with his claws

Can make the planets align so he can use a devastating attack called The Solar Blast

Can turn into a lion made out of stars and space itself that has a blackhole stomach

Gives him access to a giant mecha ship called Don Lio(Note he dose not have to have the power up active to summon Don Lio)

Can summon a giant mecha clone of himself called Obake no kao(Which is Ghostface in Japanese)(And this mecha requires the power up to be active)

Can summon a thing called a Planet Clone(He has a total of 9 of these) that can assist him in battle

And if you think that makes Ghostface the most powerful character in my AU...Welllllllll just you wait(Because he ain't the only brokenly over powered one in WarScream).

"Funtime Freddy Simp" Look i know the man is canonically a sadist who kills kids, but that's because of his programing. Poor boi just wants to entertain people but instead he gets reprogrammed to kill. So if you just removed that coding, he would go back to being a nice friendly boi who would give lots of hugs and cuddles!

And as we see, Funtime Freddy has taken a liking to my OC because of her seemingly being part Funtime Foxy.

"Fredbear(W/O Suit)" In my AU, Fredbear is this mecha armor being piloted by a man named Kung Jin(Note that he is never called this and is called Fredbear because any trace of his old name is erased). Kung is this armored man with no memories of his past, and he seems to be happy about that. So whenever Fredbear needs to be faster or fight better, he comes out of the mecha suit(His transformation goes like this).

"FivTrap(Redesign)" The original version of FivTrap was just a combination of Fiv and Springtrap. But i decided to give it a redesign and add in Clowntrap, Toxic Springtrap, and Spring Bonnie into the mix, so that means this combination is bassically the power of one family coming together!

"Final Spartan Sheets" Just some spartan OCs.

"Engineers Little Helpers" Engineer has two little helpers in the form of Helpy and Fixy. Helpy and Fixy are partners and help Engineer with repairs and even can be used as a power source for Engineers weapon, The Fixer Upper.

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[Merch]

[antisolanum]

[SFM] There are two sexes

[cyborg-franky]

Hi OP I hope you’re doing well! ❤️ Can I request some hcs of one piece characters favorite video games?

Man this might seem so biased because I like/hyper fixate on only a handfull of games but lets see... [Yes, most of these are games I am into WOOPS]

Ace - Loves FPS - He plays games like Overwatch, TF2, L4D and Dead by Daylight. - He enjoys shoot first ask questions later type games. - DPS for life. - Borderlands is also a game he likes. - Saints Row, GTA, Duke Nukem. DOOM. Anything along these lines. - Action with a dose of horror element. - Explosions and fire are a huge bonus. Sabo - Sims - but on chaos mode. He loves to play God, and he’s the type of person who would build a pool without a ladder. - He might be against capitalism, but that doesn’t mean he won’t use a few cheat codes and pirate versions so his sims can live out their best lives.

Luffy - Pokemon games. He mostly plays Pokemon GO so he can go out and be social with his brothers and friends. He and Usopp do all the raids together. - Anything easy and brightly colored has his attention.

Nami - Mobile phone game queen. - Literally anything tycoon. - Where you can buy and sell and build. - Is like level 90000000 on every ‘swap something’ or ‘merge’ game. - Plays while making money at her job. Sanji - Dating sims, obviously. - Also, hentai games. - And Animal Crossing. Usopp - Minecraft, Strawdew Valley. Anything that's open and fun. - Also big into Pokemon and plays with Luffy, - He also loves point-and-click adventures like Monkey Island. Zoro - Pokemon sleep. - Streetfighter, TEKKEN, Mortal Kombat. All those sorts of games. - Shinobi games also.

Chopper - Cute, easy games or hardcore doctor simulators. - Animal Crossing. - Nintendogs, cats, anything silly and cute with animals.

Brook - Dating games - Hentai games - Among Us - Really dumb meme-bait games like I Am Toast and Goat Simulator

Franky - Minecraft, Roblox, anything that’s building and making. - Retro games, like Golden Axe, Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, Toe Jam, and Earl. - Older platform and side-scrolling games.

Jinbei - Games you can farm and fish on. - Also racing/driving games. - Is a beast on Mario Cart Robin - Fantasy games like Skyrim. - Indie horror like FNAF, SCP, Zoochosis, I have no mouth, and yet I must scream. - All the really intense horrors like Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and Condemned. - Just anything with awful, horrible monsters and lore, and she is all over it and thinks the monsters are cute.

Corazon - Candycrush mom. Kid - GTA, Bulletstorm, the most bloody and violent games you can get your hands on. - Ones that are banned in countries. - Wolfenstein. -  Also partial to the Guitar Hero/Rockstar type games. Killer - Cooking Mama - Guitar Hero/Rockband Marco - He doesn’t game alot, but if he sees an old-school arcade, he’ll go and play things. - House Of The Dead, Packman, Space Invaders, Time Crisis. He often gets dragged to the arcade by Ace.

[tylejandro]

If the TF2 mercs were on Total Drama Island, I think this would be the elimination order:

Scout's gone first. It's almost unanimous, only Heavy and Engie tolerate him.

Soldier's loud and annoying too. Engie, Demo and Pyro like him but it's not enough.

Medic's flown under the radar until now but his love for messing with peoples' organs can't be ignored forever, he's out third.

Sniper pisses in jars and kinda hates everybody. Needless to say he's not winning a popularity contest. Maybe he votes himself out.

Engie's friendly -- too friendly... Spy conspires and gets a couple of the other guys to vote him off. This is where the EngieSpy ship fuel ends after building them up for several episodes but that's just me. Spy may have tried to bring Sniper on his side last time but that epically failed.

Demo and Pyro are upset to see Engie go after all, thinking about it, or maybe this was their plan all along, and Spy's out next.

The three left are all kind of floaters and like each other, so the Administrator makes Pyro and Heavy duke it out. I'll let Heavy win just this once, and it creates some tension between them since Demo liked Pyro more than he likes Heavy.

Who wins is up to you, but let me set the record straight: it's a bloodbath. Total bloodbath. People die. Demo wins in Scotland obviously.

[lunatic-pudge]

General Medic Headcanons (Requested by poker_face_12)

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Am happy to be putting some TF2 stuff out. It was feeling wrong giving Postal so much attention and not TF2. I'm also thinking about writing some stuff for Duke Nukem. I know there's not really an audience out there but he and Nick from L4D2 have been holding me in a chokehold recently

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SFW:

-My baby boy, Medic, I feel like I don't give him enough attention.

-I promise, he isn't as crazy as you think he is. Maybe. He does care about his teammates, he'll never admit it though. Always trying to make sure they take care of themselves. Sometimes it can feel a bit preachy, but he means well, truly, he does. You just gotta look past his "I'm the doctor and know what's best" attitude. But he tends to neglect listening to his own advice, like the hypocrite he is

-I'm 85% confident he has a jar of lollipops in his lab. He sometimes has to use them as a bribe, and other times as a reward, but they're actually for him cause he has an insatiable sweet tooth. That sweet tooth of his will be the cause of his downfall also. He get rather excited when Pyro bakes, cause homie knows how to make some amazing hard candy and cakes. Pyro has even made Medic a cake for his birthday, and now Py gets special treatment when in for checkups and experiments

-Loves traveling. He's a nerdy German tourist and would clear out a gift shop if given the opportunity. When, he has time, he likes to go out and travel a bit. He's so nerdy when he's out and about, it's adorable. Probably takes Heavy with him as well cause why not

-God, this man would be petty for no reason. Also very good at holding a grudge. Ain't no way this man gonna forget what Scout did to him 3 years, 5 months, 2 weeks, and 4 days ago. He will forever hold that against him. I think Medic is just being a drama queen, but that's just me. It can be hard to make it up to him. The best way is to spoil him in desserts. Only then will he CONSIDER letting the grudge go.

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NSFW:

-Medic is one horny merc. Practically ready to have a little bit of fun. He's very good at hiding it, though. It's dangerous, man. Once you sleep with this man, you'll never be the same (the medussy be crazy)

-I also wouldn't out it past him to have some rather intimate moments with each merc. Nothing full on sexual, but it most certainly borders on that line. I blame it on him being fine as fuck. He really is one of the most attractive mercs (they all are but work with me here), and combine that with the German accent, not even someone like Spy could fight the charm Medic has

-Also one kinky motherfucker. This man is willing to try almost anything and everything. Some of his kinks are doctor/patient roleplay, blood, needles, BDSM (huge sadist with a little bit of masochism in him), bodily fluids, thighs (especially think ones in thigh high stockings), high heels, whips, restraints, biting/marking, and sounding to name a few.

-Man's a freak and I love him for it

-He's very much a dom, rarely will he ever be a sub. When he's a sub, he's such a brat. He likes to be so defiant cause he lives for the punishments he'll recieve. He knows the type of games he's playing. Sly bastard

(That's all I got for now. Will post more when I get ideas)

[demonir]

What I’ve learned from going thru the postal game tag for a few minutes

- people REALLY love long hair postal dude (I think that’s postal 1 dude?)

- there is one person out there who’s slamming out some incredibly well made fanart of postal dude x pyro tf2 which would have never occurred to me

- the overlap between tf2 fans and postal fans is quite bigger than I initially thought

- at least 70% of people are hoping that by next game postal dude has gay intercourse

- there are genuine honest to god postal dude x reader stuff out there and no I am not shaming any of you for this, I am genuinely impressed that you’d want a relationship with him of all people (I can’t say a lot because I DO have postal dude in my “hear me out” list of characters)

- people ship postal dude and duke nukem????? Honestly hilarious to me, do not stop

- postal fandom has very talented artists!!!!!

- now this might just be virtue of the platform we are in but by god everyone’s fucking gay or trans in the tag and I love it, I find it hilarious and highly intriguing when such problematic sources like that get eaten up by the lgbt community. What is it that we find so enticing about it? If you’d like to tell me what it is that you yourself like about it please do!

- postal dude is like a tumblr sexyman for people that watched happy tree friends as a child and haven’t been the same since

- some people like to draw one specific postal dude with roach antennae and I’m honestly obsessed

[loshed]

DNI list!!!!!!!!!!

french

if ur apart of any of these fandoms;

Bocchi The Rock, Sonic/Shadow, Super Sonico, Pac Man, Mario, Lookism, Haikyuu, Blue Lock, Spy x Family, Sally Face, Mystic Messenger, Katamari, Kill la Kill, Garfield, Aggretsuko, Pokemon, MLP, Monsters Inc, Lilo & Stitch, Monster High: 13 Wishes, The Lion King, WALL-E, Monsters vs. Aliens, The Last Unicorn, Rio, Gremlins, The Book of Life, 21 Jump Street, Deadpool, The Little Mermaid, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Super Mario Bros Movie, Don't Look Up, Little Miss Sunshine, A Silent Voice, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Inside Out (1 + 2), Ice Age, Fear, E.T. Clueless, Despicable Me, Spree, Back Street Girls: Gokudols, Reacher, Breaking Bad, Death Note, Hunter x Hunter, Mob Psycho 100 (I, II, III), The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, Demon Slayer, Beastars, Kotaro Lives Alone, Spy x Family, K-ON, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Maid Sama, Parasyte, Assassination Classroom, Nanbaka, One Punch Man, Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto, The Millionaire Detective – Balance: Unlimited, The Way of the Househusband, Lucky☆Star, Handa-kun, Angels of Death, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Stars Align, Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, Mashle: Magic and Muscles, Bucchigiri, Ouran High School Host Club, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, My Love Story, My Hero Academia, Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online, Ahiru no Sora, The Promised Neverland, Blue Lock, Salaryman's Club, Romantic Killer, Buddy Daddies, Angel Beats, Psycho-Pass, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, Prison School, How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, Sarazanmai, High-Rise Invasion, Akiba Maid War, Sword Art Online, Aoashi, Reincarnated as a Sword, How to Win My Husband Over, Roxana, Semantic Error, Shutline, Under the Greenlight, Villainesses Have More Fun, The Guild Member Next Door, From Acting Genius To Top Idol!, My Delicious Dream Boy, The Fallen Duke & the Knight Who Hated Him, Little Mushroom, Duchess's Lo-Fi Coffeehouse, Odd Love Netkama PUNCH, The Player Hides His Past, The Fed Up Office Lady Wants To Serve The Villainess, I'll Save This Damned Family, Nan Hao and Shang Feng The Odd Couple, Master Villainess the Invincible, Park Hanhoo's Manager, 100 Ways to Seduce the Villain, I'll Just Live on as a Villainess, It Was Love at First Sight, Mr. Villain, Saving the Doomed Idols with my Touch, This Villainess Wants a Divorce, An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess, Lout of Count's Family, I'm Not Cut Out to Be a Princess, so I'll Elope With the Villainess, How to Survive as a Maid in a Horror Game, Surviving In A Harem, The Villainess' Slow Prison Life Began with Her Broken Engagement, My In-laws are Obsessed With Me, Killer Crush, Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom, Someone Possessed My Body For 10 Years, The One Within the Villainess, Please Don’t Come To The Villainess’ Stationery Store, 19 Days, Villains Are Destined to Die, The Perks of Being a Villainess, Who Made Me a Princess, Resetting Lady, Cheeky Habits of My Rabbits, Debut or Die, Newsies, Bye Bye Birdie, Christmas Carol, Wonka, Little mermaid, Shrek, Wizard of OZ, Anything goes, Sponge Bob, Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, Hamilton, Six, The guy who didn’t like musicals, ride the cyclone, Les Mis, The lighting thief, into the woods, Kinda bat boy, Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Zac McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders, Twisted Wonderland, Ultimate Shark Simulator, Hogwarts Mystery, KOTOR, Star Wars Assault Team, Minecraft, Jedi Fallen Order, Wild Kratts, Octonauts, TMNT 2012, Odd Squad, Dinosaur Train, Lego Friends, Monster High, Ever After High,Avatar the Last Air Bender, Sofia the first, Elena of Avalore, Overwatch, TF2, Hetalia, JJBA, Punch Out, Keeper of the lost cities, Riordanverse, The inheritance games, Heartless, Gifted clans series, Project hail mary, The martian, The illuminae files, The hunger games, The pandava quintet, Osemanverse, Wings of fire, Amari and the night brothers, The folk of the air, Deathcast, The song of achilles, DSMP, Bungou Stray Dogs, ROTTMNT, Tokyo Revengers,

System of a Down, The Smiths, Mindless Self Indulgence, Radiohead, lamp, Bruno Bars,Rory in Early 20s, Lana Del Rey, Usher, Pitbull, The Weeknd, Michael Jackson, P1Harmony, C418, Serani Poji, Mitski, Zella Day, Deftones, The Cardigans, Serani Poji, Chief Keef, The Neighbourhood, Block B, Mayo, Foo Fighters, The Killers, No Doubt, Coldplay, Allie X, Korn, Duster, The Smashing Pumpkins, FNAF, Danny Gonzalez, Kurtis Connor, Drew Gooden, Agent 00, Yumi, Jacksepticeye, Izzzyzzz, Slmccl, GunnarTV, Danny Motta, DanTDM, Temprist, Kubz Scouts, Berleezy, Flamingo, Good Pizza, Roblox, Shoujo City 2D, Fruit Ninja, Slipknot, Persona, Ace Attorney, Billie Eilish, Melanie Martinez, Beabadoobee, Sabrina Carpenter, Gigi Perez , Caparezza, Hannibal, $uicideboy$, Genshin Impact, Wuthering Waves, Hi3, ZZZero, Honkai Star Rail, Animal Crossing, Phineas and Ferb, Dogman, Detroit become human, Tears over Fears, Loathe, Fleshwater, The cranberries, The Sundays, Bulldog Eyes, Boy Fantasy, YAOI, YURI, BOYS LOVE, GIRLS LOVE, Gravity Falls, Zero Day, GTA, Crane Wives, Salad Fingers, Hidamari Sketch, Squid Game, Jschlatt, Girls Band Cry, Gabba Friends, Lalaloopsy, Life is Strange, Last of us, Diva Starz, Shopkins, Barbie, Vocaloid, PJSK, Pewdiepie, Markiplier, Cry of fear, Dramatical Murder, South Park, After school lessons for unripe apples, Komi Can't Communicate, Yume Nikki

let me know if you can still interact so that i can get RID OF YOU!!

[qedmirage]

Chapter 14 awaits! Let's go go go!!! As ever, gameplay thoughts first and then story thoughts below the cut. Which means...first off, disappointment!

Up until 13-5 instead of new mechanics you're dealing with Londinium Second Defence Artillery again, my least favorite arc 2 mechanic! At least I have a lot of practice dealing with it now. It was just kinda disappointing to see it come back...in my head I know it allows for a few interesting ways to handle things as you deliberately cause blue-on-blue incidents (for them) but I've never liked how it seems like the targeting can switch last second because a single scrimblo touched your defender. Once past that though we get a new mechanic, centered around these guys:

Bloodborn Spawn and Blood Ambers are hilariously tuned to be countered by Hoederer exactly. But enjoyably there's a bunch of ways past them. For those not familiar, the spawn deal arts damage and lifesteal; they also deal increased damage the more of them a single target is blocking. That makes them really good at chewing through defenders and really awful at fighting Crushers exactly; their enormous HP pools mean they're the best at tanking these guys. When defeated, Spawn turn into Ambers, which have enormous defences (3k Def, 90 Res) and negative taunt. If they're within the range of a Bloodcalling Altar, they'll die and spawn a Bloodborn Spawn at the altar when it activates its skill (every 20 seconds). So, many stages revolve around managing this endless tide of respawning arts-damage scrubs. And enjoyably, there's a ton of ways to deal with them! Some examples: - Hoederer's True damage to burn down Ambers - Virtuosa S3 to necrosis-> True damage Ambers - Ceobe S2 Mod3; with 3k defence she does enormous damage to Ambers - Manticore + Ascalon, who can infinitely stall the respawning horde - Pushers or Pullers to shove Spawn into holes, preventing respawning And I'm sure there's more. This was also the first episode I played entirely on its Hard (Adverse) mode, and it was a fun experience, with only 2 or 3 stages (13-5,13-15,13-21) giving me enough trouble that I felt the need to refer to a guide for ideas. The TF2 bomb-pushing mechanic is incredibly funny ('so then I rammed a VBIED into him') and gives Marksmen a day in the sun as the game's gradually inflating defences slowly leaves them behind. I suspect Exusiai would actually be good at killing phase 2 of the episode boss, if you could time it so her skill activates after a bomb hits him. The other new enemies are interesting enough; special mention to the Fluxcaster, which slowly grinds down my Ambusher Stall strat; and the Boneguard Torturer, who gets you thinking about splitting enemies up or using truly insane numbers of DPS. The Welfare op, Delphine, is cool and one of the few I've leveled, though I'm a known Mystic Caster partisan. I wish her last talent was just an anti-sarkaz one instead of a chapter 13 only one, but alas. Her animations and art are great though, 6* levels of glam on a free 5*. On to the story below the cut. Spoilers abound!

There's a lot that happens in this one, so much that it's kinda hard to pull out a specific overarching thread - it's an ensemble story alright - but I'm gonna be my boring self and start with the milhist portion. Which is, the Victorian Dukes get owned. This whole chapter is a gradually escalating military disaster that will be taught in Columbian war colleges to illustrate the perils of divided command.

For four goddamn years the Dukes have been locked in a stalemate with the KMC and each other. In that time they failed to stop enemy resupply, they failed to exert tactical and strategic pressure on their foe, and they failed to even begin to understand their opponent's strategic and political goals. In the earlier conversations the dukes and their staff are focused mostly on their future wars with each other, not the present war with the Sarkaz. They underestimated their foe and they paid dearly for it; because they gave Theresis time, time enough to build an airship that could blow them up at his leisure, time enough to construct the Shard, time enough to organize and then transport the Nachzeherer Legions via the Lifebone. This isn't actually unrealistic, imo, there are plenty of people IRL who have been way dumber - look up the battle of Bien Dien Phu. But it's striking how much their political infighting cripples them. Even with Caster's intelligence network penetrating Londinium, the Victorian Dukes didn't grasp that Theresis was going to go on the offensive and had the capability to do so. They didn't manage to find the Lifebone and its logistic network before an entire legion had appeared past their interdiction. They didn't even grasp the tactics of the Sarkaz military, until after Theresis's offensive started. The time factor is also truly unforgiveable when you keep in mind a remark that 75% of their armies are conscripts. For people who aren't huge nerds, that means they've been redlining their economies to support field armies full of workers who go and sit in trenches and stare at the Sarkaz while fields and factories go untended back home. For four years! Meanwhile Theresis has been conserving his strength, and only pulls a full mobilization of his best soldiers from Kazdel when he's ready for the decisive moment. And when that decisive moment comes at the end of the chapter, he commits all his forces in a singular thrust. If the Victorian Dukes had done the same at any point in the preceding four years, they'd have taken heavy losses, they may have lost their lives to the next duke to roll in - but they'd been able to win, instead of ceding the strategic initiative to Theresis and letting him choose to fight only when he's sure he can succeed.

They should have listened to Windmere. Anyways, on to other things - the Lifebone!

I love The Lifebone. It's kinda funny how each arc 2 chapter seems to have Theresis get a new mystical superweapon, but in a fun break from pattern the focus for this chapter is... a logistics vessel! It's weird and fantastical and somebody cared about logistics, I love it. Skeleton whale that dives through history to teleport cargo? fuck yeah. Other story bits... It's cool to see Siege step up and become a leader, though it's kinda sad to see the Self-Salvation Corps implode to make room for her to do so. Still, the Exemplars are cool and it's nice to see them fight. I like Amiya's final showdown with the Sanguinarch:

That's our king! She's very fierce!!

I also love the Logos Trans moment ('I thought all banshees were supposed to be girls?' 'correct.' 'oh ok'). But don't forget that in the same scene, Logos flashes back to the first time he used his bone whistle to mark a passing - for himself, and for the old identity of the Sarkaz, just before he left home. Symbolism!

The lives of the Brentwood civilians under occupation, and the Sarkaz officer's attempts to make it better, really ring to historical incidents for me. Alas, the KMC was not aiming for occupation so much as annihilation. The Reunion stuff this chapter was good to see too, their focus on being an all-hands liberation movement really gets to the core of the story past all the wizard nonsense. Not sure what Nowell's doing with them, I guess we'll deal with him later.