Well, most folks are off tomorrow for the 4th of July here in the states, so I figured I'd kick this one off early...
I'll be playing some Empire: Total War, Batman: Arkham Knight, Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri and maybe some ARMA III.
Plowing through Vandals on the way to Carthage--- The Last Roman DLC.
Distant Worlds: Universe
Parade, fireworks, carnival rides, and some delightfully delicious and unhealthy carnival food.
Most likely some Wars in America and either restart Pillars of Eternity or finally breakout Dragon Age Inquisition.
Should be doing some board gaming tomorrow afternoon. Maybe some Prophecy (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=14087.0), either multi or solitaire depending on scheduling.
Playing Liver Damage And Explosives Saturday, as will many of us. 'Murica! After doing some pool cleaning during the day. Will probably be a bunch of damn paper and bottle rocket sticks raining down into it that night though... it never ends!
Not sure if I will be doing anything Sunday due to my binge drinking tendencies. Once that train starts, it doesn't stop until it derails!
May squeeze in some Marvel Heroes or some other f-to-p MMO here & there. And either some minis painting or another solitaire tabletop game, given an extra stretch of free time.
Well - in celebration of my country screwing up and letting the most powerful nation in the world slip through it's fingers I might well crack open my Civil War box set courtesy of Ken Burns and then go for some Civil War 2 which I have never played.
I'll also be playing (online with TGC) some fantastic Project Cars and I might even fire up GTR 2 which is still the benchmark for racing games.
My PBEM with UCG for CM:BS where I have all but run out of effective troops.
And more than likely some of the excellent Witcher III - though I am in more of a racing mood this weekend as I haven't played a racing game for a week or more.
I will also be completing (yes - still) my tutorial game of Combat Commander:Europe
A brand new purchase...Blood Bowl Chaos Edition. I was going to wait for Blood Bowl 2 in September..but I read that there will only be 8 teams to start, and with LOTS of DLC to follow. Been playing the board game for a loooong time.
Still kinda burnt out on PC games so I'll probably just play a few rounds of Breach and Clear or Sunless Sea.
Going to play the Paths of Glory board game on Saturday and Star Wars: Armada on Monday night.
Going to go to a nerd party at a cafe on Saturday evening and watch Battle Beyond the Stars and The Time Tunnel while drinking a few cocktails.
Was it the Empire/Napoleon thread that inspired the Empire choice? it almost did for me but i have too many to play ::)
Ill be making more baffoon like mistakes in the WitP PBEM with KyzBP
ill be making more baffoon like mistakes in the CMBS PBEM with JD
and im seriously considering some Rimworld
Modding Pike & Shot
Quote from: undercovergeek on July 03, 2015, 03:55:27 AM
Was it the Empire/Napoleon thread that inspired the Empire choice? it almost did for me but i have too many to play ::)
Ill be making more baffoon like mistakes in the WitP PBEM with KyzBP
ill be making more baffoon like mistakes in the CMBS PBEM with JD
and im seriously considering some Rimworld
Absolutely...I've tried to get into it again a few times over the years, but always had trouble. This time I started the road to independence campaign, instead of the grand campaign, and I'm really enjoying it again. The focused mission based objectives are really helping to get me started.
Hoping you get rimworld and give some impressions. I'm really curious about it too. Would have got it already if it had been on steam.
Victory at Sea Pacific Campaign as the US and the Halfling Campaign for Age of Wonders 3 should keep me busy.
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 03, 2015, 01:20:26 AM
Going to go to a nerd party at a cafe on Saturday evening and watch Battle Beyond the Stars and The Time Tunnel while drinking a few cocktails.
If it's the old TV series you're watching, that's some good, mindless time travel fun right there! The addition of a few cocktails while viewing is certain to make it better. 8)
As for PC gaming, I'm feeling something in the space 4x category this weekend but I have so many games I don't know which one.
Taking the kids to a fireworks display with a million dollar view here at the military academy tomorrow night. Still unpacking boxes at the house, but I plan to finish up the CMANO Northern Fury 2 scenario and my AAR, and then move on to Northern Fury 4: A cold and lonely place.
Insurgency is my current, maddening focus (too long playing more forgiving games has ingrained some bad habits and fps preconceptions). Just getting to where I can tag bots regularly and figuring kits I like.
As far as other stuff goes, we'll see.
Been knee-deep in GalCivIII all week, so between continuing my take-over of the galaxy there and putting in some time in OOB Pacific. Also, 7 Days to Die is updating to Alpha 12 today and it looks amazing. Minibikes, weather, bears...... With over a thousand hours in 7DTD already (on a damn ALPHA, no less!) I can't imagine how good this game will be when it goes gold. I'll come up for air to have some BBQ for the Fourth!
Screenshots? Certainly! http://joelhuenink.tumblr.com/ (http://joelhuenink.tumblr.com/)
Been off from work all week and haven't done nearly the amount of gaming I had planned to. Started fixing that yesterday by playing the World of Warships open beta all day. Normally multiplayer only games are not really my thing but so for I'm having fun with Warships.
Rest of the weekend will be more WoWS with some Elite, EUIV, CMANO, and maybe some Skyrim thrown in.
Quote from: Sir Slash on July 02, 2015, 09:54:25 PM
Plowing through Vandals on the way to Carthage--- The Last Roman DLC.
Produced the Western Roman Empire as the Visigoths (the Ostrogoths joined us). So having re-engineered the Western Roman Empire as an Easy Visigoth, I decided to see if I could do the same thing as a Normal Frank. Yikes!! and I was nearly wiped out by the Burgandians, Basques and Bretons (triple B hit) before I could even get my food supplies going. Fortunately the Ostrogoths don't like the Burgundians either and my King Theodric (I think) was saved at the last minute by them. Yikes again. And this time I know the volcano is going to blow, so I'm not going anywhere much until that is over.
And there will be some vassal PBEM. And maybe some FPS-ing of some sort. And maybe some flight simming of some sort.
Fireworks tonight.. hopefully no smashed mirrors on the cars tomorrow like last year (love it when the riff raff come to mess up the neighborhood)!
Not sure if I'll get in any gaming in, but maybe after they're over..
Been playing Blackguards, Beyond Earth and AOW III
Just back from a little holiday. Some more days off are coming so that means game time.
Probably DCS World, some Combat Mission and Rome 2: Total War, Gaul Campaign start.
And if I have some more time I will restart my EU 4 journey, but I doubt I'll get to that in these coming days.
CMRT PBEM
Continuing my now 6-9 season as the Washington Nationals in MLB2K12
Playing as Austria in the Darthmod Early Campaign for Empire: Total War
Man, you guys are dangerous. Now I'm itchin' to start up an Empire TW campaign myself. Haven't touched the game in a few years. Pretty sure I have Darthmod installed but no idea what version. Of course, who to play? I tend to default to Great Britain, although I know that's kinda lame. I loves me some naval superpowers...
Always preferred Empire to Napoleon, if only because of the availability of non-European theaters, esp. love India.
'Course, I should probably just spend time learning recently purchased Scourge of War - Waterloo.
Will definitely find time for more CM Black Sea. Fourth mission of the US/Nato campaign is pretty spectacular. Such a brilliant game overall. Just wish CM could somehow visually model air units, a la Wargame Airland Battle or some such.
Off since yesterday so happy to have an early start...
Downloaded the World of Warships Open Beta...like what I see so far...these guys must have magic simcade design water that they hide in that bank they own...
CMBS PBEM
Campaign: Waterloo PBEM...playing the really big scenario, if nothing else, gives you an appreciation of how kludgy moving troops in this era must have been -- especially over long distances. I don't expect to have much of a chance against Doug's French if I can't get the bloody British to, you know, move...
Commander: The Great War...what a horror show this was...
And some Napoleonic boardgaming, i think me...
Best of the Holiday! (For those what have one...)
Definitely still in my Napoleonic obsession.
CMBS with Jim and a friend from across the pond, who is actually an old friend of bawb's.
The other side of Jim's Commander: The Great War, which in mid-1916 is getting plenty ugly.
JTS/HPS Campaign Waterloo where I am playing engineer trying to rebuild all of the damn bridges Jim's Prussians have torn up.
Hoping to get in some co-op Scourge of War: Waterloo.
Definitely some Napoleonic board gaming using Fading Glory and maybe poking at OSG's 1806 and 1809 games.
What Napoleonic board game are you playing, Jim?
Oh, and also some John Tiller's Campaign Series PBEM.
@Doug: Currently torn between Napoleon's Triumph, C&C:N, and Napoleon 4th Edition using Eagles to resolve the battles.
Then again, Fading Glory's Waterloo scenario doesn't suck...
Almost forgot:
1: Boggit has been found and his Allies are still trying to climb that damned hill at Gallipoli.
2: Vance is still sipping that weird tea he likes so much rather than firing up his tanks and driving on Messina...
Quote from: Cyrano on July 03, 2015, 11:37:23 AM
@Doug: Currently torn between Napoleon's Triumph, C&C:N, and Napoleon 4th Edition using Eagles to resolve the battles.
Then again, Fading Glory's Waterloo scenario doesn't suck...
Well, if you want to give Waterloo 20 a spin via VASSAL, i'm up for it. In between JTS Waterloo and SOWWL, of course...
Hmm. I might actually play some Civ 5 this weekend.
Quote from: Tuna on July 03, 2015, 10:08:52 AM
Fireworks tonight.. hopefully no smashed mirrors on the cars tomorrow like last year (love it when the riff raff come to mess up the neighborhood)!
:o
>:(
Quote from: Nefaro on July 03, 2015, 01:51:46 PM
Quote from: Tuna on July 03, 2015, 10:08:52 AM
Fireworks tonight.. hopefully no smashed mirrors on the cars tomorrow like last year (love it when the riff raff come to mess up the neighborhood)!
:o
>:(
At least it was covered by insurance with no deductible, but still a PIA!
Find out where the Riff-Raff live. Though they usually don't have car mirrors.
Currently loading up the client for World of Warships and Star Wars Battlefront (Closed Alpha) so I will probably be spending time with them today. Tonight will be gaming, and trying to keep my 2 year old from being scared if people are setting off fireworks.
Other games possibly up for playing this weekend:
Diablo 3
Distant Worlds: Universe
Fallout 3
Baldur's Gate
Football Manager 2015
Star Ruler 2
Galactic Civilizations 3
Age of Wonder 3
Endless Legends
XCOM
Battlefield 4
I've been playing replace bathroom faucet, break pipe in wall and flood 1/3rd of the house. Now with the fan, blower and dehumidifier DLC. If anyone else has played this game I'd love to hear from you. Live in FL...it's hot as balls and now I'm worried that the AC is going to blow up from running 24 hours a day.
You need the "Plumber" DLC ASAP. Hope it works out for you because it is hot here in Fl. Especially without water.
Quote from: Sir Slash on July 03, 2015, 02:51:45 PM
You need the "Plumber" DLC ASAP. Hope it works out for you because it is hot here in Fl. Especially without water.
Everything's fixed now it's the 5 days of constant fans, blowers and dehumidifiers to look forward to... :tickedoff:
I'm thinking of going fairly retro this weekend: B-17 The Mighty Eighth, Medieval 2 Total War, and perhaps Mount and Blade: Warband.
I would really like to get back into Carrier on Vassal, but I just don't think I have the mental energy to tackle it this weekend.
I reserve the right to change any or all of those options...honestly none of them are really appealing to me all that much at the moment.
I'll be working at my new second job this weekend, next weekend, and probably most weekends for the next few years. You see, I entered into a PBEM game of War in The Pacific:AE with UCG and then I thought it'd be a good idea for us to write AARs :idiot2:. I love it and am having a blast but man does it take up some time.
The good news is all the current $49.99 games will be $4.99 on Steam by the time I'm able to play another game.
Just got back home from seeing my brother and his family. 2,200 miles since last Saturday. Probably try for some Warlock 2, AoW III, or Civ IV. I'm up for some mp if anyone else is.
Quote from: KyzBP on July 03, 2015, 04:47:37 PM
I'll be working at my new second job this weekend, next weekend, and probably most weekends for the next few years. You see, I entered into a PBEM game of War in The Pacific:AE with UCG and then I thought it'd be a good idea for us to write AARs :idiot2:. I love it and am having a blast but man does it take up some time.
The good news is all the current $49.99 games will be $4.99 on Steam by the time I'm able to play another game.
lol
Finishing up my AoW3 undead campaign and then it's on to the Attila: TW Last Roman campaign, either as the Vandals or the Romans.
And tomorrow we bring home our new Swiss mountain dog pup. At 8 weeks he is 20 pounds. A year from now he will be ~150 :)
The family is excited.
Happy 4th everyone! And no hard feelings towards the Brits.
Quote from: Toonces on July 03, 2015, 04:26:17 PM
I reserve the right to change any or all of those options...
Denied. You are irrevocably committed. Besides, if you don't fancy those games, you can always get drunk and entertain us again. :)
Quote from: Gusington on July 03, 2015, 05:59:30 PM
Finishing up my AoW3 undead campaign and then it's on to the Attila: TW Last Roman campaign, either as the Vandals or the Romans.
And tomorrow we bring home our new Swiss mountain dog pup. At 8 weeks he is 20 pounds. A year from now he will be ~150 :)
The family is excited.
Happy 4th everyone! And no hard feelings towards the Brits.
My dog is 12lbs, full-grown. You had your chance, so now you can just suck it. Good luck with your new, two-human-sized dog. Are you starting a college fund for it, too? ;D
Quote from: Huw the Poo on July 03, 2015, 06:29:54 PM
Quote from: Toonces on July 03, 2015, 04:26:17 PM
I reserve the right to change any or all of those options...
Denied. You are irrevocably committed. Besides, if you don't fancy those games, you can always get drunk and entertain us again. :)
Well, I've already had to revise my gaming list to what is actually installed on my computer; my bandwidth is way too low to install something like M2TW here. However, that doesn't mean I'm going to start dancing on tables for your enjoyment. :-X
Quote from: KyzBP on July 03, 2015, 04:47:37 PM
I'll be working at my new second job this weekend, next weekend, and probably most weekends for the next few years. You see, I entered into a PBEM game of War in The Pacific:AE with UCG and then I thought it'd be a good idea for us to write AARs :idiot2:. I love it and am having a blast but man does it take up some time.
The good news is all the current $49.99 games will be $4.99 on Steam by the time I'm able to play another game.
Make sure the game runs on Windows 2025. It would be a shame if you had to stop playing for technical reasons.
I don't know why it took me so long to start playing Civ 5 but I'm glad I did. I've been glued to it so far.
Quote from: Pete Dero on July 04, 2015, 03:27:18 AM
Quote from: KyzBP on July 03, 2015, 04:47:37 PM
I'll be working at my new second job this weekend, next weekend, and probably most weekends for the next few years. You see, I entered into a PBEM game of War in The Pacific:AE with UCG and then I thought it'd be a good idea for us to write AARs :idiot2:. I love it and am having a blast but man does it take up some time.
The good news is all the current $49.99 games will be $4.99 on Steam by the time I'm able to play another game.
Make sure the game runs on Windows 2025. It would be a shame if you had to stop playing for technical reasons.
LOL....a lot of truth there, it's not a game, it's a job.
Damn Gus. When your little pup gets as big as a VW Beetle, you'll just have to let him hump your leg whenever he feels like it. But on the good side, you won't have to call AAA to get your car pulled out of the snow this winter.
So far I've ended up playing a good bit of AGEOD's Napoleon's Campaigns, which was the first AGEOD game I ever bought. I have to say that the AGEOD engine really works for this period and scale, much like it does for Rise of Prussia. It's admirably filling my need for an operational scale Napoleonic computer game until the next patch for Campaigns on the Danube is released.
Pup is home and he is attached to me by the hip. Family very happy. We got the 'multiple crates' DLC as well to house break him.
After driving about 450 miles today to get him, I'll be happy to get in an hour of AoW3 later on tonight.
What's his name?
450 miles to get him? I would only drive that far if it were a pug. 8)
His name is Clyde. He's 16 pounds right now. Next July 4th he's expected to be around 150 :)
I like pugs but it would take about a dozen of them to equal one Clyde.
Quote from: Gusington on July 05, 2015, 07:21:14 PM
His name is Clyde. He's 16 pounds right now. Next July 4th he's expected to be around 150 :)
I like pugs but it would take about a dozen of them to equal one Clyde.
Gus, you realize with your relative sizes...well, you can start your own Regiment of Canine Cavalry now?
When do we get a "Clyde-Total War" AAR with lots of pics? Even if they ain't pugs.
All part of the plan as far as the canne cavalry. I need a proper hat, though.
Feeling the pain of puppy ownership that I haven't felt in 10 years...didn't get much sleep. Clyde does seem to have a good instinct for going to the bathroom outside the house though, which is a huge plus.
Quote from: MengJiao on July 03, 2015, 09:12:17 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on July 02, 2015, 09:54:25 PM
Plowing through Vandals on the way to Carthage--- The Last Roman DLC.
Produced the Western Roman Empire as the Visigoths (the Ostrogoths joined us). So having re-engineered the Western Roman Empire as an Easy Visigoth, I decided to see if I could do the same thing as a Normal Frank. Yikes!! and I was nearly wiped out by the Burgandians, Basques and Bretons (triple B hit) before I could even get my food supplies going. Fortunately the Ostrogoths don't like the Burgundians either and my King Theodric (I think) was saved at the last minute by them. Yikes again. And this time I know the volcano is going to blow, so I'm not going anywhere much until that is over.
And there will be some vassal PBEM. And maybe some FPS-ing of some sort. And maybe some flight simming of some sort.
So there was more boardgaming in various forms than expected. For example, in No Question of Surrender, KG Voltz of the 90th Light was shot to bits by the French in the Region dite en V. Sneaky, but blown to bits. Similarly, Ionian skirmishers obliterated some Persian Chariots.
The Franks in the last Roman, also survived. Insurgency versus bots has proven quite intense enough of an FPS experience for me. So I played it a lot. Especially the Buhriz_night map in firefight mode.
I managed to clear Africa of the Vandal scum in the Last Roman DLC for Attila TW and now working on the Goths in Italy. I really like the story driven theme and the unpredictable nature of the events that occur. But if they are a constant occurance, then that would limit replay interest and I hope the events don't get too frequent or too crazy to fulfill. I definitely do not like the map going dark because of "Climate Change". That seems a cheap trick to make the game seem dramatic. More drastic weather effects would've been more appropriate. The AI seems smarter and more of a challenge. And at the big fight for Carthage, The Emperor Justinian himself showed-up with a whole fleet of ships to help out. I really wanted to smack him right there because I really don't like that guy from history. Like he would ever get out of his bathrobe to do any fighting. :knuppel2:
But that's the whole reason for being a Roman Emperor in the first place!
Prototype Gus/Clyde dog cavalry for the TW: Medieval "Pooches Gone Wild" DLC.
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fnynerd.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2007%2F10%2Fpethalloween5.jpg&hash=e7a2b60f17ef3ab1d159385f988fea11ec965971)
Quote from: panzerde on July 06, 2015, 05:29:24 PM
Prototype Gus/Clyde dog cavalry for the TW: Medieval "Pooches Gone Wild" DLC.
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fnynerd.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2007%2F10%2Fpethalloween5.jpg&hash=e7a2b60f17ef3ab1d159385f988fea11ec965971)
Cool! The scale is right and everything.
It needs a Star of David coat of arms. But I like where it's going.
Slash, if you're going into Italy, there's an old novel on this. "Lest the Darkness Fall" by L. Sprague deCamp.
Quite imaginative.
Well it's damned dark there Besilarius. And the Goths like to wear a lot of black clothes and body paint and it makes it awful hard to see them in the dark. So I light them up with flaming arrows. That works pretty well. Gus, I'm not sure if I trust this little guy with his funny crown and gay( happy)- colored ships sailing around while I do all his work for him. I might just take that damned crown off his head and put it on my own. But I'll let him keep my boot where I put it. :coolsmiley:
Quote from: besilarius on July 06, 2015, 09:29:52 PM
Slash, if you're going into Italy, there's an old novel on this. "Lest the Darkness Fall" by L. Sprague deCamp.
Quite imaginative.
Since I remember when this was a paperback I could buy out of the wire book rack at my local supermarket, I think that makes me officially old. ;D
Excellent story though, and well worth picking up. It was very influential on SF and laid the groundwork for similar stories later.
Quote from: vyshka on July 03, 2015, 02:22:43 PM
Currently loading up the client for World of Warships and Star Wars Battlefront (Closed Alpha) so I will probably be spending time with them today. Tonight will be gaming, and trying to keep my 2 year old from being scared if people are setting off fireworks.
Other games possibly up for playing this weekend:
Diablo 3
Distant Worlds: Universe
Fallout 3
Baldur's Gate
Football Manager 2015
Star Ruler 2
Galactic Civilizations 3
Age of Wonder 3
Endless Legends
XCOM
Battlefield 4
I ended up playing a little bit of
World of Warships and the
Star Wars Battlefront alpha, but most of my time was spent in
Diablo 3 and
Hearthstone. I finally dove into Torment 1 and did some greater rifts. I also finished my season with Tamworth in
Football Manager 2015 and proceeded to get fired because we finished mid table instead of in the playoffs.
Started a new game as Swansea in the EPL.