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Anything that requires me to escort a npc or an npc to drive me around.

Saints Row had an absotely awful one where you’re driven around an airport and there’s guys with rpg’s shooting at you.
And because you’ve got an idiot AI driving you and the enemy has pin point accuracy … you’re f*cked.

I was playing SR3 recently and one of the side-missions had you being chased by a ton of cops with the moron AI at the wheel.
Combine physics with wonky path-finding … and net result was that the moron got stuck behind a wall with enemy AI spawning all around us. I couldn’t do anything … until we finally died.

And then there’s the missions / quests that need you to complete objectives against ridiculous tight time limits designed for kids fueled by red bull or something. I just can’t be bothered and tend to quit the game if I can’t finish it at my pace.

I remember Skyrim having missions that involved doing favours for various ‘evil’ gods.
If you complete them you get goodies. I suppose that’s where the cannibalism was ?
I only did the ‘wrong’ thing in one of them. In the rest I pretty much ‘won’ whatever goodie there was to be had by being evil.

I don’t remember what I did with the cannibalism one (google says ‘a taste of death’)
I was playing a Khajit so I didn’ feel too loyal to the weirdos up north 😉
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Mel the Terraintutor is back :

I’m currently tinkering with my soviet army list.
If I want to use the BT-5/7 tank that was part of the ‘soviet surprise’ I’d have to make it an early war soviet list.
2nd Battle of Kharkov appears to be the latest possible.

1. junior Lt + 1 soldier (regular): 60 points
2. Major (regular) : 150 points
3. Guards squad (regular, 1 NCO + submachinegun, 7 infantry with submachineguns, 1 LMG + loader (rifle) : 144 points
4. LMG squad (reguler, 1 NCO with rifle, 8 infantry with rifle, 1 LMG : 120 points
5. Commissar (inexperienced) : 15 points
6. Medic (regular): 25 points
7. Forward Artillery Observer (Regular) 100 points
8. Shtrafbat squad (inexperienced) 1 NCO + 8 infantry rifle : 63 points
9. MMG team (regular) : 55 points
10. Sniper team (regular) : 50 points
11. AT Rifle team (regular) : 30 points
12. medium mortar team (regular) + 1 spotter : 60 points
13. BT-7A tank (regular) 125 points
    (7A variant has a light howitzer)

Total 997 points …
I’ve got 1 box of 40 soviet infantry, standard HQ blister, Soviet Winter support pack (MMG + Medium mortar), BT-5/7 tank
So I think I’ve got everything already. Not quite sure if it is an effective force and if I’m missing anything.
Easy Army didn’t list a free squad .. so I suppose that is only in the generic soviet army list …

Not sure if the link works :

https://wg.EasyArmy.com/BoltAction/ViewL/13c95475-a178-42a2-a792-0519bd96ea73