Grip
Keeps
Both words in one sentence
- Fly believes there is a single intelligence that keeps them on the same side and sometimes it loses its grip on the minions.
Source: Enemy Civil War -
Not with the Safety on, You Won't: In Captain Vorpatril's Alliance Ivan jumps a mook who's holding him at stunner-point after he notices that the mook is holding Ivan's own stunner ... which has a personally-coded grip that keeps it from working for anyone other than Ivan.
- While this is more foolhardy or risky rather than stupid, the AI normally keeps such a tight grip on its Settlers that they'll sometimes march an entire army out with their first Settler, leaving only a single defending Archer or Warrior to defend the city and you can guess what happens next.
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