Long holiday weekend for us here in the states. After eating copious amounts of food tomorrow I plan to lock myself away in the man cave and do nothing but game for the rest of the weekend.
EUIV (Austria) - I've got both Hungary and Burgundy locked in personal unions. I killed off all my man power in the war with Burgundy
and manged to piss France off. Hoping they'll wait for my man power to recover before attacking me.
Distant Worlds - Continue with my AAR. Repair and refuel my fleets, then its off to pick another fight.
Xenonuats - Starting a new heavily modded play through. The modding community for this rivals KSP and the Elder scrolls/fallout games. Using the Community Edition as a base, I'll be using the Armored Warfare, Dynamic UFO, and Enhanced crash site mods along with the various map packs.
Skyrim - Something about this time of year makes me want to start a new character. Just about completed the transfer to Mod Organizer. Once that's complete all I have to do is decide what mods I'm going to use this time around.
World of Warcraft Continue the grind to 100
There probably be a couple hours devoted to KSP, Command, and Diablo 3 as well.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
And because I know you barbarians like bad music
Star Trek Online and some Endless Legend.
Not sure what exactly it will be, other than fretting about locking down the last playoff spot in my fantasy football league. I am the defending champ and noone will be sad if I don't make it, but me. Any gaming time spent will most likely be another run at Civ IV BtS on Monarch or EUIV again, although, I feel like that itch may have been scratched. We'll see.
Airline passenger simulator
^^ Seriously, that's supposed to be the worst Steam game ever... ;)
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Training up as a newly minted leftn't in the Steel Legion in case, oh, that floating space hulk drifting through the system possibly hides some trouble.
I've got some Warfighter to do with my son this weekend. Might break out some other board games as my mother comes to town, some old non-wargamy stuff like Ticket to Ride or that temple game Brant turned me on to that I can't recall the title of offhand (lol). Was thinking of even breaking out World of Warcraft: The Boardgame and playing it finally.
I'm finishing Allied Corps of all things. Got it on a recent Matrix sale. Also working on a manuscript that is work related.
Decisive Campaigns: Case Blue after Decisive Campaigns Case Turkey. And dressing, Pumpkin Pie, a few drinks and football with a nap somewhere in there. ::) God bless those Pilgrims.
So far it's been CK2. I've been considering going back old skool, though, maybe M2TW or King Arthur.
I, too, am getting an urge to go back to Skyrim yet again. I might try the character I got with the Alternate Random Start mod. Or maybe continue Morrowind.
Plenty of choices.
Working night shifts all weekend.
I just finished Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was dragged kicking and screaming into the ground forces aspect of War Thunder and now that I've gotten past the horrid first Soviet tank, I'm actually having a lot of fun playing. I'd still rather be flying than driving, but the tank stuff is still good fun and the shell penetration cam is a nice feature.
The Pride of Nations PBEM sessions with Tuna and Undercovergeek continues to unfold.
I farted around with Enemy Front for a bit tonight. The gameplay seems like a bog-standard shooter but the Cry-Engine graphics look great and the story seems interesting. You play as a reporter fighting with the Polish resistance.
Going to play (again):
- Omerta city of Gangsters: the Japanese Incentive...chapter 2
- Horizon
- Endless Space with a new game.
- Storm over the Pacific still with Japan in 1942
Now that the new update is out, plus I've purchased a bunch of the DLC for it, I've been playing the hell out of Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes the last 24 hours -- and will continue to do so.
For space 4x gaming, either will fire up Horizon or continue my Romulan campaign in Birth of the Federation (BOP mod). Tension between us and the Klingons is starting to flare up, and they have the upper hand at the moment...
Am also pining away for Rome II.
Of course, I work the next three nights, PLUS I'll be gone Sunday. ::) Argh!
I plan to start a new game of Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes with the latest DLC and now that Company of Heroes is on Steam I keep getting sucked into playing skirmishes using the latest Blitzkrieg mod.
Traveling to be with family for the holiday so no gaming until I'm back late on Saturday. I keep trying various space 4x games, i.e. Endless Space, Galactic Civ 2, etc. but keep going right back to Distant Worlds...the best of them all in my humble opinion.
Quote from: Toonces on November 27, 2014, 12:42:52 AM
So far it's been CK2. I've been considering going back old skool, though, maybe M2TW or King Arthur.
I, too, am getting an urge to go back to Skyrim yet again. I might try the character I got with the Alternate Random Start mod. Or maybe continue Morrowind.
Plenty of choices.
Quite a list of games are in the hopper: CMANO (or Byzantium 1949); Mig21; Far Cry 3;CK2;WitpAE PBEM; some boardgames
WOFF v2 campaign(s)
Maybe some of the new Endless Legend update, ROF multi-player when Wargrounds is populated, and perhaps a little tabletop gaming with a few of the family.
Still flyin' crates! 8)
PBEM Normandy 44 with Cyrano.
Hopefully some Warlock MP if Bob's back....
More CK II.
Modding my Wings of War planes and flight stands with magnets and ball bearing to allow for some attitude eye candy.
Continuing the Ambush! play by forum... things are coming to a head there.
Quote from: Barthheart on November 27, 2014, 08:31:03 AM
Modding my Wings of War planes and flight stands with magnets and ball bearing to allow for some attitude eye candy.
I have at least
three different WW1 tabletop games that could use some Wings of War minis. I suppose that would end up being four games if I got that. But I'm already backed up with quite a few stands, magnets, and aircraft to mount and paint. I should probably get that done first before moving on, no matter how much easier this would be. :buck2:
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on November 26, 2014, 11:23:39 PM
I've got some Warfighter to do with my son this weekend. Might break out some other board games as my mother comes to town, some old non-wargamy stuff like Ticket to Ride or that temple game Brant turned me on to that I can't recall the title of offhand (lol). Was thinking of even breaking out World of Warcraft: The Boardgame and playing it finally.
Temple game - Tikal?
As for WoW, I can only assume you have a dedicated room of tables for setting up and playing it.
I'm kidding!
Sort of...
Well, there is no long weekend here. But since FedEx is pretty much going to be dead tomorrow in terms of freight load to and from the US, it'll be an easy couple of days. When not 'working', I'll probably dive further into
Far Cry 4, unless something pops up on sale that I must have RIGHTNOW.
Oh, and I'll be helping my sister and brother in law move some furniture in the -29 or so expected Saturday temperature. Wheeeeee!
Well I've had the fantastic revelation this week that one of my all-time favourite games, Sins of a Solar Empire, works perfectly with WINE (that means I can play it on Linux)! So this weekend I'll mostly be playing that. Not sure what else yet. I will almost certainly get some more Din's Curse in, but now that I've finally started using WINE I may well investigate what else from my Windows-only library I can play. :)
I think I might be burning out on CK2 a bit. Might be time to move on to something else. I'm afraid my M2TW time has passed, but I might just try and see if I can recapture the magic.
Quote from: Shelldrake on November 27, 2014, 06:49:45 AM
I plan to start a new game of Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes with the latest DLC
If you think of it and/or have the energy for it, would you mind sharing your thoughts on the
Battlegrounds DLC (once you've had the chance to play it a bit)? I almost pulled the trigger, but ended up holding off at the last minute.
Besides the usual Wings Over Flanders Fields v2.01, I picked up two new(to me) games, Ultimate General: Gettysburg and Port Royale 2. I'm enjoying both very much!
Got several Steam games from the sale, including a port of the classic Metal Slug 3. A combination of a power outage yesterday and Thanksgiving meals kept me from playing anything until recently, but the first thing I did was play that game. Very goofy yet challenging.
oompf.. I'm too stuffed to play!!!.. .Although I did just return a PON turn to SdR..
Been eyeing Divinity on the Steam sale... Also the FSX taxi2Gate KCMO Airport..
Quote from: Nefaro on November 27, 2014, 08:23:58 AM
WOFF v2 campaign(s)
Did you get your Pedals figured out yet?
Quote from: Slick Wilhelm on November 27, 2014, 09:33:20 PM
Quote from: Nefaro on November 27, 2014, 08:23:58 AM
WOFF v2 campaign(s)
Did you get your Pedals figured out yet?
Yes. Had to sacrifice an extra chicken before doing the dance.
Quote from: airboy on November 26, 2014, 11:28:27 PM
I'm finishing Allied Corps of all things. Got it on a recent Matrix sale. Also working on a manuscript that is work related.
Finished the game. It was pretty fun - but I think the original Panzer Corps is a better deal for those interested in the series.
Picked up the Witcher Adventure Game from GOG. Hopefully a good turn-based game for a coffee drinking spree.
Despite initial reviews looking good, it sounds like there are some multi-player disconnect issues at the moment so it looks like single-player for the moment.
Hit a sweet spot with Dragon Age: Inquisition. Will savor that for a bit and then finally move on to the Rome 2: Total War Armenia campaign :)
I have resumed playing Strategic Command: WW1 Breakthroughs that I'm doing an AAR for. I've picked up where I left 2 years ago. Sounds strange, but when I do an AAR I have a lot of screenshots and a detailed word document that enables me with a little review to get right back where I was.
I've now completed 1914 and am in January 1915. My strategy is based on Grey Tide in the East and a rereading of several classic WW1 books including the Guns of August.
I've been playing some Dominions 4 and a game of Conquest of Elysium 3 to round out the weekend.
stuck playing wot as usual I just cant stop playing, the more it annoys me the more I play aarrggghhhh
Quote from: Bison on November 30, 2014, 12:13:08 PM
I've been playing some Dominions 4 and a game of Conquest of Elysium 3 to round out the weekend.
Are you even close to becoming competent in Dominions 4? Are there any good player guides out there for Dominions 4?
I beat Conquest of Elaysium 3 twice. Interesting game that really requires patience until you get your forces built up.
Been messing around on several games, but have finally gotten far enough in Shadow of Mordor to find the Batman Easter Egg.
Now I badly want a 'skin' where Talion or whatever his name is dresses up like a bat man to stalk and terrify the orcs...
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Quote from: Bison on November 30, 2014, 12:13:08 PM
I've been playing some Dominions 4 and a game of Conquest of Elysium 3 to round out the weekend.
Are you even close to becoming competent in Dominions 4? Are there any good player guides out there for Dominions 4?
I beat Conquest of Elaysium 3 twice. Interesting game that really requires patience until you get your forces built up.
I really enjoy CoE3. It's simple, but there is more depth to the game then one would expect at first. My last game I played a Necromancer and didn't understand the insanity rules at first. By the end of the game when my two most powerful Necromancer were insane about 2 out of every 3 turns, it really slowed down my march to conquer the opposing kingdoms.
I'm not at all competent at Dom4. I replayed the step by step tutorial and finished out that game after the tutorial ended. The tutorial helped to set up a pretender start that wasn't broken by my input. Otherwise I've found the most helpful information by watching walk throughs on youtube. There are a couple of guys who post very through walk throughs and strategy guides on youtube. The biggest challenge is thinking through a long term goal as you build your pretender and then how the map changes that long term goal. Dom4 is great in that sense of a need for a long term strategic plan. I've found it much more unforgiving than other 4X when I attempt to shift my plan on the fly, because it requires so much time and resources to make a shift in the big picture strategy.
Tell me more about the Batman Easter Egg in Mordor!
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Played mostly Omerta: city of gangsters and finished the second chapter of the Japanese Incentive. The addition of active enemy gangs makes the game more interesting as well as some of the deadly weapons (like the flamethrower)...which are fun in an awkward way :knuppel2:
The addon is really a must for those who want to play that game.
Short non-spoilery version: shoot a Mordor bat (or Morgul bat, I can't recall offhand), and then read the unlocked description.
Spoilery version LOOK AWAY NOW!
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However, long-term exposure to the poison at secondhand eventually drives the orcs who harvest and process it crazy. Well, crazier. Specifically, the orcs inevitably develop a paranoid fear of a man-bat stalking them from the shadows ready to pounce on them and beat them senseless for their evil deeds.
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Quote from: MengJiao on November 27, 2014, 07:43:12 AM
Quote from: Toonces on November 27, 2014, 12:42:52 AM
So far it's been CK2. I've been considering going back old skool, though, maybe M2TW or King Arthur.
I, too, am getting an urge to go back to Skyrim yet again. I might try the character I got with the Alternate Random Start mod. Or maybe continue Morrowind.
Plenty of choices.
Quite a list of games are in the hopper: CMANO (or Byzantium 1949); Mig21; Far Cry 3;CK2;WitpAE PBEM; some boardgames
It was CMANO;WitpAE; and DCS F86.
Spain is mopping the floor with the Antipope in CMANO in 1949. I think I should put him in a bunker. You are all probably too young to remember the "Entrench the Antipope!" publicity. Even the little buttons have faded. I can still remember the radio jingle, I think.
Little ashamed to say it turned out to be mainly WoW all weekend. Forgot how addicting MMO's can be.
I did get some KSP in Wednesday, and some Distant Worlds Sunday night but that's about it.
I found my old Dragon Age Origins Prima Game Guide and made the mistake of reading a page or two. I'd always played the human noble warrior path but now, I was inspired so I fired it up last night and played a City Elf (a warrior again, but still). Two hours later I'm remembering why DAO is so immersive and fun to play.
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on December 02, 2014, 07:21:04 AM
I found my old Dragon Age Origins Prima Game Guide and made the mistake of reading a page or two. I'd always played the human noble warrior path but now, I was inspired so I fired it up last night and played a City Elf (a warrior again, but still). Two hours later I'm remembering why DAO is so immersive and fun to play.
Heh! I picked up DAO Ultimate during the sale because I only had the original (no DLC). Even started a new game a couple days ago. As an Elf, of all things. ???