Happy weekend fellow, Grogs!! And it couldn't have got here sooner! It's been one of those weeks where time plays tricks on you and a four day work week feels like forty :( Fear not! FRIDAY is finally here!!!!! The weekends festivities will include lawn mowing! Laundry doing! House cleaning! Oh, and some game playing ;) And that's what concerns us :)
Along with the usual Civ IV, single and multi-player, I have taken up an old campaign in Hearts of Iron II as Italy. I think I have backed myself into a corner, I have Turkey, Syria and Lebanon in a bid to outflank the Brits, but, now that I have them where I want them, I realize that I don't think I have enough materiel to complete my outflanking maneuver. I may just declare war to see what happens anyways.
RotTK XIII, Twilight Struggle, and perhaps back to HoI IV.
Test driving cars 1.03
Stellaris
HoI4
Maybe some Heroes, Factorio or PoE.
Getting ready to start a new campaign of Attila TW as Aksum (Ethiopia).
To borrow liberally from Elvis with a few things changed:
Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
Arma's always on my mind
Arma's always on my mind
I think it was Jarhead who said that this game fills his FPS itch and then some, and I can (now) see where he is coming from.
VASSAL work cause I'm waaaaay behind.
Maybe some Stellaris.
Maybe some Polaris Sector.
Twilight Struggle PBEM with Jason. Good back and forth battle here... and not because we're good at the game... :idiot2:
Need to get Old School Tactical on the table.
Reading and punching out The War, next on the table if OST ever leaves...
Quote from: Barthheart on July 08, 2016, 07:05:22 AM
Reading and punching out The War, next on the table if OST ever leaves...
Don't forget to trim those corners!
....watch those corners..................WATCH THOSE CORNERS!
I will probably play the following games:
- Grand Ages: Rome
- Horizon
- Armada 2526
- Field of Glory (pbem)
- Oriental Empires
- Civil War: 1863
I will also watch the final game of the Euro on Sunday (Portugal against France), a western with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill and one or two episodes of Deep Space Nine.
Quote from: mirth on July 08, 2016, 07:31:04 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on July 08, 2016, 07:05:22 AM
Reading and punching out The War, next on the table if OST ever leaves...
Don't forget to trim those corners!
NEVER! >:(
Quote from: Barthheart on July 08, 2016, 07:05:22 AM
VASSAL work cause I'm waaaaay behind.
Maybe some Stellaris.
Maybe some Polaris Sector.
Twilight Struggle PBEM with Jason. Good back and forth battle here... and not because we're good at the game... :idiot2:
Need to get Old School Tactical on the table.
Reading and punching out The War, next on the table if OST ever leaves...
In your opinion, which is the better game....Stellaris or Polaris Sector. Or better yet, if you could only keep one, which would it be? I'm asking because I am enjoying Stellaris but haven't bought Polaris Sector yet.
Quote from: Rayfer on July 08, 2016, 08:17:37 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on July 08, 2016, 07:05:22 AM
VASSAL work cause I'm waaaaay behind.
Maybe some Stellaris.
Maybe some Polaris Sector.
Twilight Struggle PBEM with Jason. Good back and forth battle here... and not because we're good at the game... :idiot2:
Need to get Old School Tactical on the table.
Reading and punching out The War, next on the table if OST ever leaves...
In your opinion, which is the better game....Stellaris or Polaris Sector. Or better yet, if you could only keep one, which would it be? I'm asking because I am enjoying Stellaris but haven't bought Polaris Sector yet.
Hmmmm.... loaded question.... Stellaris in polished and will only become greater the longer PDox supports it. Polaris Sector is still a bit rough and not as deep... yet... but I think it still gives a better feeling of the vastness of space and the proper time scale feeling to building space ships.
But I haven't been back to PS since Stellaris came out... though that might change with the lasts update for PS.
So, in summation, I don't know.... weak I know but there ya go... :crazy2:
My wife used to tell me to trim my corners but now I'm just round all-over so..... It's been scorching here this week and what I really need is a computer game I can play in the pool. But since I can't find any of those, it'll be ACW 2 where it's Nov. 1862 and at least the map looks like fall and cool weather. Have a good one Grogs.
writing more CK2 AAR until my PC comes back to life - i had the best 10 year opening to the game, everything came to plan and i saved it because it couldnt get better
CMBN PBEM
Playing as Austria in Empire: Total War using Darthmod.
Playing as the Catholics in Ageod's The Thirty Years War.
Some World of Warships, and maybe some more World of Warships, maybe something else but not sure about that. :crazy2:
Quote from: Tuna on July 08, 2016, 10:47:47 AM
Some World of Warships, and maybe some more World of Warships, maybe something else but not sure about that. :crazy2:
You need to keep 2ndACR company.
I'm beginning to think someone needs to go on deathwatch, as much as he's been lamenting having to solo matches lately. :crazy2:
My digital gaming has been approximately nil in the past couple weeks. Another long burnout break.
Quote from: Nefaro on July 08, 2016, 11:03:13 AM
Quote from: Tuna on July 08, 2016, 10:47:47 AM
Some World of Warships, and maybe some more World of Warships, maybe something else but not sure about that. :crazy2:
You need to keep 2ndACR company.
I'm beginning to think someone needs to go on deathwatch, as much as he's been lamenting having to solo matches lately. :crazy2:
My digital gaming has been approximately nil in the past couple weeks. Another long burnout break.
We miss you on the open seas!
Quote from: MetalDog on July 08, 2016, 05:40:07 AM
I have taken up an old campaign in Hearts of Iron II as Italy. I think I have backed myself into a corner, I have Turkey, Syria and Lebanon in a bid to outflank the Brits, but, now that I have them where I want them, I realize that I don't think I have enough materiel to complete my outflanking maneuver. I may just declare war to see what happens anyways.
Are you using any of the HOI2 mods, or just vanilla?
Panzer Campaigns Sicily with Panzerde & Cyrano
Field of Glory with Anguille
CM SP and Civ 5
Maybe some Distant worlds too?
Quote from: Tuna on July 08, 2016, 11:26:06 AM
Quote from: Nefaro on July 08, 2016, 11:03:13 AM
Quote from: Tuna on July 08, 2016, 10:47:47 AM
Some World of Warships, and maybe some more World of Warships, maybe something else but not sure about that. :crazy2:
You need to keep 2ndACR company.
I'm beginning to think someone needs to go on deathwatch, as much as he's been lamenting having to solo matches lately. :crazy2:
My digital gaming has been approximately nil in the past couple weeks. Another long burnout break.
We miss you on the open seas!
I'll return eventually.
Didn't want to grind it into the ground. I'm not used to playing one thing for months straight. When I've done so in the past, the burnout eventually gets so bad that I never return. Didn't want that to happen with WoWS, so I'll wait until they've expanded it a bit & come back with a fresh interest. O0
I anticipate lots of struggling in the twilight with Barth!
...
........
...wait. Let me rephrase. Lots of Twilight Struggle with Barth.
I can pretty safely guarantee the game will declare one of us the winner sometime in the next fortnight. Maybe even sometime in the next week. (Whether we'll be able to continue after that, I don't know.)
I've experimentally figured out the most efficient way to proceed as Qinghai (nation 131 out of 131) in Victoria 2, so I may do a few more years with them. Since they started with literally only 3 points of civ research (out of the 10 thousand plus necessary for even one of the preliminary researches to westernize), it's mainly sitting around watching super-obscure tiny nations developing science things and going to war with each other and major powers. The Ottoman Empire did demand that Holland release Belgium as a nation, though -- that was insane, and triggered a brief war among some of the Greats before it got resolved.
Moved my Sleeping Dogs campaign forward a few notches yesterday; might do so again this weekend.
I played quite a bit of Goliath last weekend, but I'm not sure I'll continue with it. You'd think a survival(-lite) pre-steampunk mecha design game would be awesome, and I think a lot of people do like it, but... I dunno. Just seems like too many gamey mechanics, and the humorous tone rubs me the wrong way for no clear reason.
Might try plowing through the next mission of the original Company of Heroes campaign (Cherbourg I think). Each mission is so super-epic it tires me out fast; like a Dawn of War campaign where every single mission is equivalent to final assault on an enemy base.
(Relatedly, I'll probably DoW:SS a little if I can swing it.)
I haven't played Ortus Regni or Redcon yet; got those during the sale.
Might try the Warhammer: Man-o-war campaign again, depending on where / whether the autosave got me last time. I've had fun in my limited time there, but forgot to save and got wiped by an orc boarding party when I foolishly went down to help with defense instead of staying high to shoot.
Somewhat relatedly, I haven't gotten back to 40K: Battlefleet Gothic in a while.
I'd like to start a Rome 2 campaign -- or at least finish the "Rome origin" tutorial campaign! :crazy2:
Not far from finishing my next step in my Grand Ages: Medieval campaign for that matter -- surely I'll get to marry the Empress and that'll be a good thing in relation to Byzantine plots, right? ::) :P
Quote from: JasonPratt on July 08, 2016, 11:59:59 AM
I anticipate lots of struggling in the twilight with Barth!
...
........
...wait. Let me rephrase.
No need. We got your meaning.
Musket and Pike Campaigns - including PBEM with panzerde.
Quote from: bob48 on July 08, 2016, 01:32:15 PM
Musket and Pike Campaigns - including PBEM with panzerde.
I have that game too if you want to do a PBEM game sometime.
More Pride of Nations. No idea what else but maybe Stellaris or Polaris Sector?
Quote from: Boggit on July 08, 2016, 02:02:37 PM
Quote from: bob48 on July 08, 2016, 01:32:15 PM
Musket and Pike Campaigns - including PBEM with panzerde.
I have that game too if you want to do a PBEM game sometime.
Definitely - just nudge me when you're up for it.
After three aborted starts I'm again taking a crack at Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition. I hate the first main quest in the city to solve the murder. Hoping to get through it this time. Otherwise, it's a great rpg.
Quote from: Barthheart on July 08, 2016, 09:15:36 AM
Quote from: Rayfer on July 08, 2016, 08:17:37 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on July 08, 2016, 07:05:22 AM
VASSAL work cause I'm waaaaay behind.
Maybe some Stellaris.
Maybe some Polaris Sector.
Twilight Struggle PBEM with Jason. Good back and forth battle here... and not because we're good at the game... :idiot2:
Need to get Old School Tactical on the table.
Reading and punching out The War, next on the table if OST ever leaves...
In your opinion, which is the better game....Stellaris or Polaris Sector. Or better yet, if you could only keep one, which would it be? I'm asking because I am enjoying Stellaris but haven't bought Polaris Sector yet.
Hmmmm.... loaded question.... Stellaris in polished and will only become greater the longer PDox supports it. Polaris Sector is still a bit rough and not as deep... yet... but I think it still gives a better feeling of the vastness of space and the proper time scale feeling to building space ships.
But I haven't been back to PS since Stellaris came out... though that might change with the lasts update for PS.
So, in summation, I don't know.... weak I know but there ya go... :crazy2:
Thanks for you input. I suspect I'll wait for the winter holiday sales and hope it's on sale then.
Quote from: Boggit on July 08, 2016, 11:30:43 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on July 08, 2016, 05:40:07 AM
I have taken up an old campaign in Hearts of Iron II as Italy. I think I have backed myself into a corner, I have Turkey, Syria and Lebanon in a bid to outflank the Brits, but, now that I have them where I want them, I realize that I don't think I have enough materiel to complete my outflanking maneuver. I may just declare war to see what happens anyways.
Are you using any of the HOI2 mods, or just vanilla?
Vanilla. I never play any game with mods. Not that I play a lot of different games. AI difficulty usually means nothing to me as I am crap at most stuff.
Easy Princess
Quote from: mirth on July 08, 2016, 06:52:00 PM
Easy Princess
Depending on your luck at the bar, you may get to play that one co-op.
Easy Princess is a great game coop or solo.
Polaris Sector and TW: Warhammer. Might do some Musket & Pike or Rule the Waves.
Working Saturday. But have off Sunday.
Might be digging into Mount and Blade Warband - Just native, but its fun. Might try out a mod or two but Just learning the ropes here.
I did get CK II Charlemagne so I might be checking that one out too.
Otherwise ghosty's recommended Star Trek New Horizons mod for Stellaris.- Love the mod. The sound effects, even the new designs for hulls, different races etc.
My one thing with Stellaris is I seem to fall behind the fleet strength. No matter who it is, I'm always dealing with someone with overwhelming fleet power, and I'm struggling to get up to 18 ships? I'll have to dig into it though.
Stellaris. I usually have trouble getting into space strategy games. But this one is really grabbing me.
Barth and I have finished our struggle this twilight! (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=16763.msg441095#msg441095) -- and not by the gameclock running out early either. ::) :P
The link to his thread can be found in the first post.
Now we shall need a poll to see what to play next. (We may also set aside an hour or so to meet up on Steam and play it again soon.)
It occurs to me that since I have never played any AGEOD game to amount to anything (WW1Gold doesn't count for several reasons), perhaps our next game should be one of those...
Relatedly, I might be persuaded to start a new mp game with someone else, with or without a new Barth game.
(But not picking up UGeek's side of his epic slugging match with Kyz, even though I'd love to see someone continue in his place as the Japanese in WitP:AE. Pretty much everything Kyz was doing at that point, Geek knew about, so reading Kyz's thread wouldn't eliminate someone from contention. But I've played very little of that game, and taking the reins of that stampede mid-stream seems like a bad way to learn it.)
I hate Tevinter Blood Mages.
I went to LibertyCon and played:
A lot of cutthroat Spades
A lot of Munchkin Marvel
Revolution by Steve Jackson Games
I also spoke with Steve Jackson. I saw the Kickstarter versions of Ogre and Nuclear War which were very impressive.
Lots of fun.
I managed some quality gaming time this Saturday. I made some real progress in CMFI's Conrath's Counterattack Campaign and in Pillars of Eternity my Paladin-guy made Level 12. Here's the newly promoted hero.
He looks way more badass than my avatar in PoE :/
He's not really that tough. He seems to fall for every Sad Story about friends and or family in trouble and hands-out cash to poor beggars. He even feels sorry for Bears and Lions and tries to sneak past them when they're not looking. But not those damned Trolls. They have to die. He wears a helmet because when Damsels and Serving Wenches recognize him, they all want him to father their babies. He doesn't talk much because.... he doesn't need to. :knuppel2:
Quote from: Sir Slash on July 11, 2016, 09:49:55 PM
He's not really that tough. He seems to fall for every Sad Story about friends and or family in trouble and hands-out cash to poor beggars. He even feels sorry for Bears and Lions and tries to sneak past them when they're not looking. But not those damned Trolls. They have to die. He wears a helmet because when Damsels and Serving Wenches recognize him, they all want him to father their babies. He doesn't talk much because.... he doesn't need to. :knuppel2:
He is....the most interesting man in the world
I was tempted to say that but just couldn't bring myself to. :P
Hey, I have no shame... You want to toss up a softball I'll go yard on it.
I thought Sir Slash (the actual guy) was The Most Interesting Man in the World...
That was before Bob grew a moustache.
Shenanigans
Yeah. NOTHING is as old as bob!
Quote from: MetalDog on July 12, 2016, 09:01:39 PM
Yeah. NOTHING is as old as bob!
Oh you call everyone old! :crazy2:
Says the guy who goes to bed when the sun goes down....
Quote from: MetalDog on July 13, 2016, 05:48:45 AM
Says the guy who goes to bed when the sun goes down....
Hey it's a school night! Or work, since I'm old..
Quote from: Sir Slash on July 12, 2016, 06:48:39 PM
That was before Bob grew a moustache.
It was a Christening gift - its a family heirloom that belonged to my Great Grandma.
It's great you've kept it in the family. Some things BELONG in the family. Whether they want them to or not.
..you mean like uncle Vera's boots?
I'll probably go mountaineering this weekend :) this will delay my CMANO experience though :-[
I really hope Bawb's great gram's name is Mary.
Actually, it was Cyril.
Lie to us and say it was Mary.
That will do you know what to Gus's loins!
When we visited, Bawb showed me the Elizabethan case his mustache came in, and the impressive Victorian stand he keeps it on at night.
The 'stache itself though was apparently unearthed during a dig at a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall. Apparently belonged to a German auxillary stationed there with Legio IX.
^I've got you now. Bawb never takes the Luftstache off, it's a night/day fighter. Imposter!
Bawb doesn't take off the 'stache. The 'stache takes off Bawb and heads out on its own at night.
Hmm...
*checks references*
I had a moustache one time many years ago. I was kind of paranoid in those days and I thought if I grew one long enough, nobody secretly watching me would be able to read my lips. Didn't work-out too well. The neighbor's Scotty dog thought I was it's mother and kept trying to nurse off me. Which didn't help my paranoia I tell you.
Quote from: panzerde on July 13, 2016, 08:08:12 PM
Bawb doesn't take off the 'stache. The 'stache takes off Bawb and heads out on it's own at night.
This is all true, as Doug knows.
The 'stache was also the first to be fitted with Lichtenstein radar so that it could operate at night.
Quote from: Gusington on July 13, 2016, 05:06:37 PM
I really hope Bawb's great gram's name is Mary.
Going that far back in time I imagine it was eve
She of the first moustache
I don't think that's a mustache...
Does that mean it's NOT where you're supposed to kiss her at? It's right under the moustache right? ???
Nope, you are good to go on that. O0
I am slightly confused and slightly more nauseous.
Quote from: Gusington on July 14, 2016, 07:34:35 PM
I am slightly confused and slightly more nauseous.
So, like the first time you got laid?
Maybe, with less sweat but more fear.
Quote from: Gusington on July 14, 2016, 07:49:17 PM
Maybe, with less sweat but more fear.
Ha! Well played.