Probably one of my favorite videos from the 90's...and a halfway decent band that filled in when Reznor decided to take 6+ years between albums. and the NSFW depends on you place of business's policy of a female in underwear...c'est la vie.
This weekend will be
Stellaris...a lot of
StellarisAlso want to check out
Empyrion as it is on a free weekend on Steam (plus on sale).
Beyond that
CMANO has been dying to be looked at again...I've ignored
Factorio for way too long and
Stardew Valley is always up to steal time from me.
Maybe some
Offworld Trading Company too.
So...many...choices...
Stellaris, Stellaris and yet more Stellaris. When I'm not watching the Eurovision final anyway. :D
Well it has to be Stellaris and now I have the TrackIR I have to do some DCS...what, I don't know. I like the A-10 with all it's weaponry, but the "foot dipping" exercise will be to get used to systems...so I just have to choose a platform.
I'll probably do F1 2015 as well.
And I have (at some point) got a Vassal game with Bawb (if he can tear himself away from his moderator tasks) and Band of Brothers board game system.
F1 is on obviously at Catalunya in Spain so I'll be tuning into that too.
And of course, I have to get back to my Su-27SM model and get it painted...I now have the replacement paints.
Ah everyone's doing Stellaris.
I'll by flying X-Plane and maybe some Supreme Ruler.
I plan to play the following games:
- Finish my current Master of Orion campaign. I play as the Darlok. I've been taken by surprise by the Meklars who have built up a much bigger fleet than i expected and i am on the defensive. Looks like i am going to lose that one. I've wrongly thought that the AI hadn't improved so much.
- Grand Ages: Rome. At least one city.
- Oriental Empires
- Stellaris as soon as i finish my MOO campaign.
Anguille:
Are you in the Oriental Empires beta? Shortly after applying, I was told by Bob that it would be run by Iceberg, and I would get an email when it became available. I haven't heard anything since.
Anyway, Stellaris and Twilight Struggle for me.
That Eurovision stuff is always a hoot, so thanks for the heads-up on that one.
Verdun found its way to my hard drive, so into the trenches I go, lads!
...until I have to leave for the weekend, so bluah :-[
Quote from: tgb on May 13, 2016, 06:21:16 AM
Anguille:
Are you in the Oriental Empires beta? Shortly after applying, I was told by Bob that it would be run by Iceberg, and I would get an email when it became available. I haven't heard anything since.
Yes but i got my key directly from Bob as it was before the decision by Iceberg. Make sure to check your spam folder.
Cheers
WitP:AE and Stellaris. Ps. jamus34...for some unknown reason the video you posted to start this thread won't play on my rig?
Video don't play fer me either.... :(
Well rain all weekend and my wife is working all day tomorrow so.... >:D
Catch up with PBEMs with Jason.... cause you know... Stellaris.... sure glad he's patient with me... O:-)
Lots of VASSAL work to do ... cause you know... Stellaris...
Lots of car work to do.... cause you know.... Stellaris.....
Stellaris will be played... will try to get in on Kushan's MP stream....
Quote from: tgb on May 13, 2016, 06:21:16 AM
Anguille:
Are you in the Oriental Empires beta? Shortly after applying, I was told by Bob that it would be run by Iceberg, and I would get an email when it became available. I haven't heard anything since.
Anyway, Stellaris and Twilight Struggle for me.
Yeah I applied for it and havnt heard back yet either. I think the first round is in because theres one or two steam threads that indicate so.
For me, like everybody else, I'll be playing a bit of Stellaris.
Also doing Decisive Campaigns Barbarossa, soviet campaign.
Also replaying Dark Souls III as an INT build. But the game is so stupid. I have no reason to switch from a broadsword, very little weapon choice
Weather last few days : 24°c (75° F) and sunny
Weather tomorrow and next days : 12°c (54° F) and cloudy
So there will time to play Stellaris (like the rest of the world it seems)
How did I fudge that up... I hit the YouTube button and then pasted the link...did I miss a step?
Stellaris. Also finish entering my Gamma World and Prime Directive campaigns into The Keep 2.0
Quote from: jamus34 on May 13, 2016, 07:26:07 AM
How did I fudge that up... I hit the YouTube button and then pasted the link...did I miss a step?
Worked for me (Firefox).
Quote from: jamus34 on May 13, 2016, 07:26:07 AM
How did I fudge that up... I hit the YouTube button and then pasted the link...did I miss a step?
Some videos can only be seen in specific countries....
I kneel before Jamus' musical taste! Well done.
More Pillars of Eternity and perhaps some AssCreed...Rogue or Black Flag.
And for the guys who can't see it look up Stabbing Westward "Shame" on your video streaming service of choice to see what you are missing
Quote from: jamus34 on May 12, 2016, 09:49:22 PM
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Beyond that CMANO has been dying to be looked at again...I've ignored Factorio for way too long and Stardew Valley is always up to steal time from me.
Maybe some Offworld Trading Company too.
So...many...choices...
Cmano ...I'm still working on simulating an attack by EMP-using Dragons.
AND back to CLOD. I'm thinking flying the Beaufighter or the Dewitoine 520 will be worth the painful wait for TF 5.0 PLUS maybe I can get my C# up to a level where I can work on the MOD myself.
AND back to CMFB.
World Of Warships
(just got a Fletcher)
aaaaaand Stellaris for any single-player urges.
Quote from: Anguille on May 13, 2016, 07:34:36 AM
Quote from: jamus34 on May 13, 2016, 07:26:07 AM
How did I fudge that up... I hit the YouTube button and then pasted the link...did I miss a step?
Some videos can only be seen in specific countries....
Mistake made by many (including me).
The trick is to click on the link itself to make sure it loads. (you wouldn't know of an issue if it was a country thing though as mentioned above if you were actually in the correct country).
For the record, this wasn't a "not available in your country" thing, it was a VEVO thing where they want you to watch it on their Youtube channel.
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1160.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq499%2Fwmar1967%2FSnap16_zpsggp6cqkc.jpg&hash=f2109c91ed81afbb500fdda32ab2d9537a79c8c2)
And it gives you a link to view it
Watched it - good music! O0
Some Stellaris for sure.... and I am moving X-Plane so I am starting to gather all necessary information and downloads and putting together an initial setup.
May have to fire up Falcon BMS as well.
PE
Stellaris which might in turn prompt me to have a go at DW:U or if I want something a bit different maybe Civ City Rome or Panzer Corps or possibly Legions of Steel which I picked up in a bundle deal last weekend (I'll try to remember to put the other parts of the bundle I already had on the Groghead Game Donation thread later).
Stellaris tonight. Going to play Stellaris MP on my stream tomorrow. After that I'm going to play Stellaris single player. Going to continue my current game but I might also start a new campaign using an Honor Harrington inspired setup.
Sunday....Well you can probably see a pattern developing.
In my Stellaris downtime I'm going to try and fit in Elite and some CMANO scenario work.
Quote from: jamus34 on May 12, 2016, 09:49:22 PM
Also want to check out Empyrion as it is on a free weekend on Steam (plus on sale).
I liked Empy a lot, even though I kinda rushed through it so as to complete a feasible AAR series here on the forum.
Quote from: JasonPratt on May 13, 2016, 02:47:07 PM
Quote from: jamus34 on May 12, 2016, 09:49:22 PM
Also want to check out Empyrion as it is on a free weekend on Steam (plus on sale).
I liked Empy a lot, even though I kinda rushed through it so as to complete a feasible AAR series here on the forum.
Your AAR is what pointed me to check it out!
I'm not sure what I'm going to play, but I know I have 234 choices in my Steam library. ::)
I may start with ARMA 3 and/or Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising and take it from there. I'm in a shooty-shooty mood right now.
Maybe some Wargame: AirLand Battle. Round it out with CK2?
Going to try EU4 long awaited patch.
Also, I got Battle Fleet 2 from steam sale, going to try it.
And I feel some itch to play more hexy wargame stuff: WitE, DC:B and Operation Flashpoint: RS.
Stellaris, Offworld Trading Company, Ashes of the Singularity, Diablo 3. Possibly BF4, Armored Warfare, WoT/W.
My internet is being wonky, so I ended up sinking almost 3 hours into Scourge of War: Gettysburg with the 3 Days in 7 Hours mod, which carries over your losses from one day to the next. It starts out really slow, with just a few troops on the field, but true to real life, your troops (playing as Lee) keep arriving and the battle gets progressively more difficult. It was pretty grueling and I had to take a break finally. I'm at the point where my army is converging on three points into Gettysburg, slowly pushing the Union armies back to the south.
I'm having a real bitch of a time coordinating my artillery, though. I need to revisit that because I'm definitely doing something wrong with commanding them. I'm using 100% couriers for this playthrough, which does make it harder.
Following all the Stellaris stuff in the forum got me in the mood for some 4X gaming, my personal policy with paradox is too wait until the DLC drops and get it in a bundle. Besides looking in my games list I had a lot of choices that I haven't given much time to, Warlock, Civ 4 & 5, Endless legend, and just picked up Pandora in the bundle( not sure I'm gonna use the key yet). Started with Civ 5 with that mod posted in the other thread, it's just not grabbing me after 12 hours. Thought about going back to 4 but went with Endless Legend and so far it is grabbing me. I like the art style and the uniqueness of the races and the fact you can have some input into the models of the units you can build, Im also digging the quests angle. So ill be watching some videos and consulting wiki in between play sessions. Ill probably put some time into legions of steel which I also got in the bundle. I got a little time in it and I like it, turn based tactical with a simple effective UI and it seems like a decent challenge. Don't know how long it will last with limited amount of enemies and scenery and mission types but it's fun for now. Lastly I'm sure ill be checking in with 7days to die, the complex needs some looking after , I've upgraded it to a complex from a compound, calling it a compound just didn't cover it anymore ;D
I am playing Stellaris. Not really. I just didn't want to be left out. ^-^ ACW 2 Still for me when I've got the time and Pillars of Eternity when I've not. First, I'll be cleaning out the Gutters of Eternity and the Garage of Unlimited Stacking followed by a nap.
Whelp, I finished out Day 1 of the Gettysburg campaign. It turns out you need to score a minor victory to do the carryover. I barely scratched out a draw, so no carryover. That's kind of a bitch- I wish I had read the fine print on that before I booted it up. About 3 hours total play time- it was quite brutal and not easy. I wouldn't call it a relaxing gaming session.
Quote from: Toonces on May 13, 2016, 10:30:04 PM
Whelp, I finished out Day 1 of the Gettysburg campaign. It turns out you need to score a minor victory to do the carryover. I barely scratched out a draw, so no carryover. That's kind of a bitch- I wish I had read the fine print on that before I booted it up. About 3 hours total play time- it was quite brutal and not easy. I wouldn't call it a relaxing gaming session.
It is definitely a challenge. In particular, the first day as the Confederate corps arrive piece meal from the north and northwest. The numbers of units and number of engagements does challenge one's knowledge of and skill at managing the game's command and control. My first time out, Rhodes was checked by a Yank div that aggressively went out to challenge about 1-1/2 miles out; not only checked but damaged him enough he had to regroup and was useless by the time he arrived on the main battleground. I did not recognize what was happening until too late as I concentrated on Early and Hill engaged on the North.
Definitely a grind, but definitely not boring and more fun the second time around. It certainly gives one the feel of how truly difficult it was to coordinate large bodies of troops "in the saddle".
So far I have played a lot more of Grand Ages: Medieval than might be strictly healthy for me. ;) :crazy2: :smitten:
But I love (in principle, and usually in practice) the original Sid Meir's Pirates game, and the updated remake/expansions which Ascalon has been making for, what, over ten years now? -- and seeing the mechanics ported over to what would otherwise be a medieval strategy game, is a great taste mix for me.
The campaign is the best so far in Ascalon's series, too, with a start that's even less-developed than their lowest-tier sandbox start, and a structure that basically gives you story rewards for doing what you would have been doing anyway. Although as previously noted in other threads, the first combat goal is a thousand percent ludicrously underpowered and the game gives you no hints or direction in learning how to deal with it, which can leave new players thinking they're just doing something wrong when it is literally impossible to win with the advice and goals provided at that point. That's a goofy mis-step in the campaign; but as others have said, you should really be playing the campaign like a sandbox and staying well ahead of the story requirements, once "Chapter 1" officially starts. In my case, since the campaign hobbles enemy military activity until various story points are passed, including for that story point, I just pulled back my slaughtered basic mercs to rebuild them; spent a tech point I had been holding onto in case I needed it here (being forewarned by other Groghead players) in developing archers; built archer training upgrades to a couple of nearby barracks; built three archer units; and then went back to pin those sword-and-shielders with my basic inept mercs while my archers whomped them.
Then marched my stack around picking up bandit loot I had previously discovered on the map but couldn't reach so far, sending units back to reinforce for a few weeks' vacation when necessary. By now I already had 10 or more towns, so I could easily keep the troops up.
Once nice secret the devs included for the campaign (I doubt it's random, but maybe it is), is that a tent in the wilderness west of Sophia has a veteran who once a year (I think??) will bring any of your units to full veterancy (for about 20,000 gold); and I've been exploiting that in recent game-years since discovering that he resets occasionally.
When the story put the Normans at war with me, trying to invade Greece from Italy, I just picked up my little army and since they weren't strong enough to really take a town yet, I plopped them on the road to the ferry across to Italy to intercept and raid the Norman trade caravans trying to resupply the town. Every once in a while they'll send one or two sword units to try to butt me out, and I give them the pointy sticks; every once in a while my basic mercs get a bit depleted stonewalling for my archers (or my archers get into a melee -- commanding troops in this game sucks badly), and I send them home to reinforce for a few months before putting them back on raiding post. I'm going to work on teching up to better spearmen soon, though, and buying two or three units of them, because the Norms are starting to send more troops.
Along the way I figured out that the best way to get a caravan through such raiders is to sacrifice a cheap scout troop to tie up a whole mob on the road -- the AI has done this to me several times, although I think it's by accident as the computer hasn't been even slightly consistent about using that to run his convoys safely in and out of his Greek city from Italy.
Anyway. I've recently started Chapter 2 by winning the heart (and apparently some other parts ^-^ ) of the cute Empress widower, although my Plotty-sense along with the story's art style and some knowledge of how East Rome politics worked for about a thousand years, suggests that she's just pulling a typically byzantine ploy on me, and will eventually be revealed to be behind the death of her elderly husband and my dad. :buck2: I'll be surprised if this plot twist doesn't show up around the time of the switch into Chap 3. ::)
Quote from: JasonPratt on May 14, 2016, 09:21:36 AM
So far I have played a lot more of Grand Ages: Medieval than might be strictly healthy for me. ;) :crazy2: :smitten:
But I love (in principle, and usually in practice) the original Sid Meir's Pirates game, and the updated remake/expansions which Ascalon has been making for, what, over ten years now? -- and seeing the mechanics ported over to what would otherwise be a medieval strategy game, is a great taste mix for me.
The campaign is the best so far in Ascalon's series, too, with a start that's even less-developed than their lowest-tier sandbox start, and a structure that basically gives you story rewards for doing what you would have been doing anyway. Although as previously noted in other threads, the first combat goal is a thousand percent ludicrously underpowered and the game gives you no hints or direction in learning how to deal with it, which can leave new players thinking they're just doing something wrong when it is literally impossible to win with the advice and goals provided at that point. That's a goofy mis-step in the campaign; but as others have said, you should really be playing the campaign like a sandbox and staying well ahead of the story requirements, once "Chapter 1" officially starts. In my case, since the campaign hobbles enemy military activity until various story points are passed, including for that story point, I just pulled back my slaughtered basic mercs to rebuild them; spent a tech point I had been holding onto in case I needed it here (being forewarned by other Groghead players) in developing archers; built archer training upgrades to a couple of nearby barracks; built three archer units; and then went back to pin those sword-and-shielders with my basic inept mercs while my archers whomped them.
Then marched my stack around picking up bandit loot I had previously discovered on the map but couldn't reach so far, sending units back to reinforce for a few weeks' vacation when necessary. By now I already had 10 or more towns, so I could easily keep the troops up.
Once nice secret the devs included for the campaign (I doubt it's random, but maybe it is), is that a tent in the wilderness west of Sophia has a veteran who once a year (I think??) will bring any of your units to full veterancy (for about 20,000 gold); and I've been exploiting that in recent game-years since discovering that he resets occasionally.
When the story put the Normans at war with me, trying to invade Greece from Italy, I just picked up my little army and since they weren't strong enough to really take a town yet, I plopped them on the road to the ferry across to Italy to intercept and raid the Norman trade caravans trying to resupply the town. Every once in a while they'll send one or two sword units to try to butt me out, and I give them the pointy sticks; every once in a while my basic mercs get a bit depleted stonewalling for my archers (or my archers get into a melee -- commanding troops in this game sucks badly), and I send them home to reinforce for a few months before putting them back on raiding post. I'm going to work on teching up to better spearmen soon, though, and buying two or three units of them, because the Norms are starting to send more troops.
Along the way I figured out that the best way to get a caravan through such raiders is to sacrifice a cheap scout troop to tie up a whole mob on the road -- the AI has done this to me several times, although I think it's by accident as the computer hasn't been even slightly consistent about using that to run his convoys safely in and out of his Greek city from Italy.
Anyway. I've recently started Chapter 2 by winning the heart (and apparently some other parts ^-^ ) of the cute Empress widower, although my Plotty-sense along with the story's art style and some knowledge of how East Rome politics worked for about a thousand years, suggests that she's just pulling a typically byzantine ploy on me, and will eventually be revealed to be behind the death of her elderly husband and my dad. :buck2: I'll be surprised if this plot twist doesn't show up around the time of the switch into Chap 3. ::)
Great to hear! Glar you're enjoying.
Watch out for one of the steam achievements coming...i really had to smile about it.
Btw, love your current SBY avatar, Anguille. :smitten: O0
Quote from: JasonPratt on May 14, 2016, 03:20:15 PM
Btw, love your current SBY avatar, Anguille. :smitten: O0
Me too ;)
Thanks
I finally found time to watch the movie.
I can't understand Japanese, and my experience with buying Taiwanese and Malaysian English dubs has been mixed at best. (By which I mean mediocre to mind-killingly bad.) So I'll probably wait a while longer to see if they'll localize it in North America, or maybe for a region free Australian release.
I ended having a MOO only weekend.
Finished a MOO4 campaign (lost to the Klackons who had built up a huge Empire thanks). Started campaigns as the Psilons in MOO2 and MOO4 (much more advanced in MOO2). In my new MOO4 campaign, i toggled off Pirates (just annoying imho) and minor races (who are going to be removed temporarly in the next pach).
I'll keep Stellaris for next weekend.