I am so rarely up to start the Friday thread. Tonight, though, I'm keeping Starfury safe from the salty injections of Matthew, so that I can start the Friday thread.
It makes sense if you think about it.
Anyways, hoping y'all have power and can even game!
For me: sticking with
Scourge of War:Gettysburg totally pimped out with mods, and maybe Crusader Kings 2. Mount and Blade multiplayer...all the usual stuff for me this weekend.
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And I thought you were a hardcore surfer? Good song by the way - I like The Verve O0
Seriously though - good luck to everyone going through the storm.
Gaming this weekend...one word
MAFIA III
Beta testing Afghanistan '11. Other than that I have no idea. I think I'm going to pull Pocket Space Empire off the backlog and finally give it some serious attention. I may also grab Stars Into Shadow. Also keeping an eye on sales.
Well, if anything, I'm consistent with my affair with World of Tanks - it may not be the sexiest game on the market, but danged if it don't punch my fun buttons.
Other than that, who knows?
Stay safe, U.S. Southeast coast Grogs.
PBEM with Sengoku Jidai, WITE and DC:B
Playing some Panzer Corps and BA2 scenarios
Thats it for me.
Have a nice weekend everyone.
I'm going to paint some Warhammer 40,000 miniatures :D
Continuing my Fallout 4 campaign, still enjoying it but have no clue how close or far I am from finishing the main storyline. Hope to get back to HoI4 and WitP:AE as well.
Thanksgiving Weekend up here in the Great White North so Monday is a holiday! :D
Saturday it's supposed to rain all day, so that will be gaming day:
PBEM's of Plan Orange with SDR and Flashpoint Campaigns with OJs Dad.
Need to get some VASSAL work done.
Pine away for Civ VI to release... :(
Maybe we'll start the Nappy Newbie fest in the play by forum.
Maybe paint some more MERCS: Recon figures.
Sunday is early morning gaming then drain down and winterize the pool and equipment. Then lots of turkey and stuff and wine... early to bed....
Monday is early morning gaming then finish off clearing the deck of summer furniture and decorations for winter.
Another round of minis gaming tonight - Savo Island.
Quote from: mirth on October 07, 2016, 07:46:14 AM
Another round of minis gaming tonight - Savo Island.
Pics! :D
Well besides finishing Stranger Things on Netflix and a ton of activities with the kiddies I'm in a bit of a gaming rut.
Maybe continue to try to learn an AgeOD game...or HOI4... Or maybe Pillars.
Try Alea Jacta Est. Just finished my first campaign of it and I understood. May not be able to carry it to some of the other AGE Engine games I have, but, I will at least go back to it and maybe try some others.
Just finished my second ever PC build (the first was over 20 years ago!) so I'm not sure what I'll play. I'll probably try bits of everything just to see how it looks maxed out. :) I already tried the new Doom and was blown away by the quality of the graphics and how smooth it ran. Temps also stayed really low and the fans never ramped up. It runs very quiet!
I built this system from pcpartpicker.com (https://pcpartpicker.com/b/MvzMnQ). The only changes I made was I used Corsair Dominator Platinum Series 16GB RAM and a MSI GAMING GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 DirectX 12 VR Ready card instead. I bought everything through Amazon and paid $1200 due to gift cards and a few parts costing less.
Quote from: MetalDog on October 07, 2016, 08:10:17 AM
Try Alea Jacta Est. Just finished my first campaign of it and I understood. May not be able to carry it to some of the other AGE Engine games I have, but, I will at least go back to it and maybe try some others.
Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a go O0
Quote from: jamus34 on October 07, 2016, 08:40:10 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on October 07, 2016, 08:10:17 AM
Try Alea Jacta Est. Just finished my first campaign of it and I understood. May not be able to carry it to some of the other AGE Engine games I have, but, I will at least go back to it and maybe try some others.
Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a go O0
I just finished my first one and I lost.. Thoroughly enjoyed it thought though I was kicking ass, but I guess I should've been paying attention to the VP total and done some VP accumulating 'decisions' a lot earlier in the game.
It is getting increasingly more difficult for me to predict what I will end up playing. It seems as if the last few Friday's I ended up focusing on games that were not even on my radar.
So, I would say going into the weekend, I'll probably play Elite, ARMA 3, Endless Space 2, Wargame: Red Dragon and likely some VR games.
Quote from: Barthheart on October 07, 2016, 07:25:22 AM
Maybe paint some more MERCS: Recon figures.
Those have been sitting on my painting desk since last month. Only finished a set of five guards, and started on a second set. Thus far.
Needed to get more parchment paper for my wet pallet. Now that I've had it for a couple days, I've still not got back to it.
Quote from: Nefaro on October 07, 2016, 11:13:41 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on October 07, 2016, 07:25:22 AM
Maybe paint some more MERCS: Recon figures.
Those have been sitting on my painting desk since last month. Only finished a set of five guards, and started on a second set. Thus far.
Needed to get more parchment paper for my wet pallet. Now that I've had it for a couple days, I've still not got back to it.
Mine have been sitting around for longer than that... :P Partly because I'm lazy and partly because I suck at painting and don't want to screw them up.
But now my want to play the game is fighting with my OCD in the eternal battle of "Just paint the damn things and play. They'll look fine from 3 feet 'cause yer old" vs "Don't screw up these nicely detailed models with a rush paint job." :idiot2:
...
Fast painting is slowly winning though....
Oh and check out this guy's blog for nicely painted figure and colour schemes for the Mercs.
http://sync-wargaming.blogspot.ca/2016/02/eu-inc-recon-squad-repainted.html
More 'Pillars' for me. I just found a new NPC- The Devil of Curoc. She's an animated, cold, metal construct Rouge inhabited by the soul of a murderess. Reminds me of my Ex. :coolsmiley: Oh, and AJE is really a great game too.
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 07, 2016, 12:58:50 PM
More 'Pillars' for me. I just found a new NPC- The Devil of Curoc. She's an animated, cold, metal construct Rouge inhabited by the soul of a murderess. Reminds me of my Ex. :coolsmiley: Oh, and AJE is really a great game too.
Hmmm....If your ex was to create an NPC character that was you, what do you think it would be like?
Another weekend where I'll be pulling some major OT at the office. Assuming I get to leave I plan to continue my love affair with World of Warcraft and Elite. If I'm lucky I may even get around to redoing my Elite control scheme and setting up Voice Attack. Been meaning to start a Crusader Kings 2 AAR so that is a possibility as well but that may have to wait another week or two for work to slow down a bit.
THE WITCHER 3.
And beer.
4-day weekend for me.....so likely some Mafia 3, F1 2016, and who knows what else:)
Endless legend
Airland Battle
Will have a peep at endless space 2
Working nightshifts. Conducting sleep deprived naval operations against Barth in Plan Orange.
Quote from: undercovergeek on October 07, 2016, 05:36:20 PM
Will have a peep at endless space 2
I know I said I wasn't going to buy yet, but does look nice, may be rethinking:)
DO IT
Ok, so far tonight I've commanded 3 divisions in the 1806 Prussian army, a motorized rifle brigade of Russians in 1985, and the USN in 1932.
Not bad on a bottle of red wine followed by some 10 year port.
:D
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on October 07, 2016, 09:19:30 AM
It is getting increasingly more difficult for me to predict what I will end up playing. It seems as if the last few Friday's I ended up focusing on games that were not even on my radar.
So, I would say going into the weekend, I'll probably play Elite, ARMA 3, Endless Space 2, Wargame: Red Dragon and likely some VR games.
With the kids: ARMA3, Project Cars and DCS. I'll be looking into the Grand Tactical Series 2.02 rules. For that series, Crete is coming and after that (you guessed it) Something involving the Battle of the Bulge.
FYI Sniper Elite 3 on a free weekend on Steam.
Multiple headshots, heartshot and testicular shot all in one night - I can go to bed feeling complete.
Ouch.
Rayfer if my Ex created an NPC based on me, while it would be a warm and caring personality, his name would probably get this site closed-down for language. The first name would begin with 'CheapSonofaBitch' and go down hill from there. Not saying it wouldn't be accurate mind you. O:-)
Going to make some videos. Got to do the next two missions for children of a dead earth, maybe take a look at the battle pack of seven years war.
Unfortunately ive been diagnosed with fungal pneumonia. Woo
Rest up and take yer drugs Hof... we want to see more of yer vids! O0
Quote from: Hofstadter on October 07, 2016, 11:47:55 PM
Going to make some videos. Got to do the next two missions for children of a dead earth, maybe take a look at the battle pack of seven years war.
Unfortunately ive been diagnosed with fungal pneumonia. Woo
Rest up man. Fungal pneumonia can be some serious shit if not treated quickly and aggressively.
Quote from: Sir Slash on October 07, 2016, 11:20:52 PM
Rayfer if my Ex created an NPC based on me, while it would be a warm and caring personality, his name would probably get this site closed-down for language. The first name would begin with 'CheapSonofaBitch' and go down hill from there. Not saying it wouldn't be accurate mind you. O:-)
LOL....! I have two ex's so I'd have to create multiple NPC's.
Quote from: Barthheart on October 07, 2016, 08:38:50 PM
Ok, so far tonight I've commanded 3 divisions in the 1806 Prussian army, a motorized rifle brigade of Russians in 1985, and the USN in 1932.
Not bad on a bottle of red wine followed by some 10 year port.
:D
Nice!
Just SoW for me so far. Goofing off in the sandbox.
Fungal pneumonia?? Eek.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's not good to have fungal inside of you. Especially your lungs.
Quote from: Barthheart on October 07, 2016, 08:38:50 PM
Ok, so far tonight I've commanded 3 divisions in the 1806 Prussian army, a motorized rifle brigade of Russians in 1985, and the USN in 1932.
Not bad on a bottle of red wine followed by some 10 year port.
:D
You had me at 10 year old port
So Wednesday facing work Thursday morning I took a executive decision and bought a trip to Berlin instead of slaving for the man. So no games this weekend. But so many blisters on my feet. Sometimes I felt like my right shoulder would fall of and my right hip hurt. So I guess i'm getting old. I hope you all have a great weekend and hf.
^ Nice!
I just wrapped up a good two-hour Army v. Army sandbox battle in Scourge of War: Gettysburg. Used the Antietam map and OOB, playing as Little Mac. Great battle, a nailbiter for a while. I'm using couriers only and had a pretty good plan. The Confederates surprised me a bit by coming from the east instead of the north, but I had a good reserve and was able to plug the hole The main objective changed hands about 5 times, but I finally pushed them off and it looked like I had it wrapped up so I ended the battle early.
Random shot taken from the bad guys' side about halfway through the battle.
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Just flew my first mission in a FE-2b for the RFC's 11th Squadron in Rise of Flight's career. Offensive patrol with four other planes. Only contact was a German balloon that was winched down before I could reach it. Otherwise uneventful flight using TrackIR to scan the skies.
Hiya Toonces! :)
As for me, between working, (not too bad just some short hours this week...) and playing the "Fix the car game" (OUCH!!!)
I have been playing Skyrim, mostly watching Kikoskia's Youtube play through of Eye of the Beholder so I have been getting that Dungeon Master old school itch.
Picked up Baldur's Gate Enhanced Ed and BG2 EE for 10.00 last weekend on GOG.com (but that RTS/Pause is gonna be hard to grok).