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Oh, I definitely consider Zsinj a villain, not an antihero. He forcibly brainwashed people into committing acts of murder and terrorism, was willing to kill his people over breaches of discipline (such as playing a game while on duty), was happy to destroy non-military targets like bacta convoys... he's solidly in villain camp as far as I'm concerned. But he's the best kind of villain, one that still has a code of sorts, one whose great successes came from brilliance rather than raw strength, one who is ruthless rather than sadistic, one who makes you wonder "in his shoes, would I truly do all that differently?"As much as I enjoy the Marvel series of movies, they tend to present pretty crappy cardboard cut-out villains, with the exceptions of Loki and Magneto (Magneto especially). They could learn a lot from a character like Zsinj.
As it goes if I were an Imperial in post Endor main Galaxy, I'd have placed my flag in the camp of Zsinj due to his aggression against the NR, then Kaine due to his Imperial Ideals and stability, Thrawn for taking the fight to the NR again and Pellaeon for the same reasons respectively in that order.
Almost exactly the same. I can only wonder what would have happened if Kaine and Zsinj would make an alliance, and cooperate. I think the whole galaxy would have lied at their feet.
Couldn't agree more in this respect. As mentioned, he felt his ends justify his means so as long as it was for hie 'greater good' any action was justified. As to executing personel for derilection of duty, well considering the things Vader and other Warlords executed their men for Zsinj seems rather urbane by comparison and he did balance this with greatly rewarding soldiers who did excel in their work.
Oh, very true. Even Thrawn, arguably the moral high ground of Imperial warlords, executed a man for incompetence.
And both knowingly and willingly kept the Noghri in permanent indentured servitude.
Yeah, but that was so artistically done...
I don't want to be impatient, but... WHEN WILL THAT RELEASE COME?I can't wait...
I'd say that Zsinj's greatest mistake was not using diplomacy enough with the major govts that were left. He had a great carrot+stick approach with individual planets, but I don't know that he tried at all to seek even temporary peace with the IR or the NR, and what undid him was those two govts working together to defeat him. Had he held back from attacking the NR, tossed the Provisional Council an offer of peace (or even alliance against the IR), he would have had more time to expand and secure his borders while focusing his military might against one enemy at a time. Instead he got stuck in a two-front war.
Good points all there. I retract my objection.
Incidentally have there been any updates for the sub mod? I've been out of things for a bit.
No new updates. I've been too busy with other stuff to do anything here. I'll try to get things started for Eriadu Authority and the second Post-Endor GC once my Christmas break starts rather than releasing the Zsinj-Kaine-Teradoc GC alone (which is like 95% finished) since those two are a connected.
No idea if this is a vanilla bug (probably) but I've been playing the Art of War GC as Empire of the Hand. At a certain point on week 101 the game hangs and freezes, forcing me to CTR+ALT+DEL to exit the game. Is there any solution or is this game lost?