Talk:Nelson Server/Quotes/@comment-27031093-20161226035820/@comment-27031093-20161227120432

Yup. That's exactly why I find him so compelling. The game makes no attempts at hiding his utter incompetence as a leader and lack of any real goals for his organization. Liberate the Motherland is so unbelievably flawed as a plan that only the most shortsighted and uninformed people would think of it as a good idea.

The Conversation skill is basically the Leadership skill minus the actual skill at leading others. Rather than being able to competently direct people under you like with the Leadership skill, Conversation just allows you to be really, really good at influencing people into siding with you. Kanami puts it best when she describes it as brainwashing.

All that and the fact that he still manages to remain relatively sympathetic as a character in spite of being a misguided and angry idiot are what make him so great. The Pentagon overall are pretty underrated characters.