This post is intended to be a reference for myself and others I am trying to help get the most value out of Talon Voice (with community config) and Cursorless. I will try to cover things that other places do not mention or emphasize.
For instance, my experience is that the semiofficial community documentation does not properly emphasize that adding stuff to additional_words.csv and words_to_replace.csv in the "settings" folder is extremely useful and one of the first customizations you should do. There are nice commands like "customize additional words" and "customize words to replace" to launch a text editor on those files (currently does not work on Windows 11). It is also my experience that they do not even mention that you should change the gitignore file to source control all of the settings/*.csv files except for system_paths.csv. I wish I had known these things earlier, so I'm mentioning here to help others and also to record them for myself.
This post is intended for people who are computer savvy and I will probably not go into depth about git stuff unless it is specifically requested.
This post captures some advice that I find myself giving repeatedly to new free-to-play players of Tacticus, especially the stuff that I don't see other people saying. Lots of very knowledgeable players giving advice are also older players that have forgotten what it's like to be a new player without Yarrick, so there's a niche for me to say useful stuff. I will also try to say some stuff these guides don't. Those guides say a lot of very useful stuff, so I don't have to say those things.
This advice will mostly assume you are fairly new, completely f2p, and have not been lucky getting characters from requisitions. On occasion, I will try to cover the possibility you have Yarrick.
