The revolution has failed. Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform. The only way we can destroy it is to refuse to compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class.
George Jackson, born on this day in 1941, was the revolutionary author of "Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson" and co-founder of the Marxist-Leninist Black Guerilla Family.
In 1970, Jackson was charged, along with two other Soledad Brothers, with the murder of prison guard John Vincent Mills in the aftermath of a prison fight. The same year, he published "Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson", a combination of autobiography and manifesto addressed to a black American audience. The book became a bestseller and earned Jackson personal fame.
Jackson was killed during an attempted prison escape on August 21st, 1971. Quoting communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, Jackson freed twenty-six prisoners and took hostages at gunpoint. Jackson and five other men were killed.
Fay Stender, George Jackson's former lawyer, was shot and paralyzed for her alleged betrayal of Jackson by Black Guerilla Family member Edward Glenn Brooks. Brooks entered her home, tied up her family, and forced Stender to say "I, Fay Stender, admit I betrayed George Jackson and the prison movement when they needed me most" before shooting her several times. Left paralyzed and in chronic pain, Stender testified against Brooks and committed suicide a year later.
"Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution."
George Jackson
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Thinking about how in turn based games it's way more optimal to destroy one enemy unit rather than damage without destroying several in an AoE attack because it reduces the amount of attacks going towards you, reducing overall strength more even though logically several damaged units would affect that more but due to the fact that most games don't implement a system where damaged units are proportionally less effective its better to just focus fire on one at a time
And I wish it was different I guess
Civ has damaged units deal less damage, but the combat meta there is taking out ranged units first. Generally combat is structured around ranged units and units guarding them. maybe you'll get cavalry involved as a way to get to ranged units, but even that seems too costly for how much it helps.
All I want is Civ 4 but with hexes (and honestly maybe limited stacking on hexes, maybe of only like-units; the hexes takes hella long to move everything around but is more tactically interesting than the ball of death)
Civ vii may have a partial solution. Seems like "generals" can now stack units (up to some limit), though they unstack for combat. Not sure 100% how it works, but it may be a good way of decreasing unit micro while not bringing back stacks of doom.
It might be better for game-fun mechanic, but actually that's a pretty effective lesson on dialectical materialism. Confront the primary contradiction to expose the lesser. Imprudent focus and decisiveness toward the most primary and sharpest contradiction means defeat and being overcome.
Also in the Age of Gun it isn't entirely without merit. a legless man with scurvy shooting an AK74 at you will kill you just as dead as an antifa super soldier with one. Would be less mobile though, and recover from wounds slower. Those could probably be worked in if the game system were complex enough.
I like AoE in those strategy games games when I played them to area-denial or finish off wounded; or more often for soft targets (high templar storm drop goes bzzztztztztztz)
It's similar in RTS too. Letting your units spread damage rather than focus firing down individual units is very inefficient
Solid point. The best AoE tends to do is either raise a ticker for a finisher or game the AI on certain enemy support units.