ARMA III, Star Citizen, Cold Waters and buying a lot of crap I don't need on Steam.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 23, 2017, 04:58:47 AM
ARMA III, Star Citizen, Cold Waters and buying a lot of crap I don't need on Steam.
Good plan! ARMAIII check. MAybe Naval action and Ultimate Civil War General (on sale at STEAM!). Meanwhile, for those of you who like to keep track of Civil War generals -- Hoke and Ramseur are buried in Lincolnton NC.
Odd song choice - but you are not alone there ;D
Cold Water
I might also try some Tabletop Simulator with Warfighter DLC if I can work out what I'm meant to do - as well as try and recall the rules for Warfighter.
Farming Simulator 2017 if I bite.
I believe my daughter and I will probably, at some point, be concluding our 3rd game (4th?) of Star Wars:Rebellion
Playing Hoi4 with the 1.4.1 beta update. JH...love your posts and game videos but your song choice today was a head scratcher.
This is a classic song. You guys need to get out more often.
In a first, I bought a game, installed it and started playing all in one evening - Fallout 4. I've read complaints about it being a 'Fallout shooter' but to be honest that description sounds pretty good to me. Also may begin a Kingdom of Jerusalem campaign in Medieval II - Crusades if Fallout doesn't grab me by the yarbles.
Minis gaming tonight.
For the rest of the weekend, I am going to ponder the Steam sale and how much I want to buy Cold Waters. Then I am going to look at the list of games I already own and am not currently playing.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 23, 2017, 06:10:44 AM
This is a classic song. You guys need to get out more often.
I made it to 43 seconds!!!
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 23, 2017, 06:10:44 AM
This is a classic song. You guys need to get out more often.
^Nimoy's Bilbo Baggins would have worked better there.
Still fighting the Con Plague I picked up at Origins so I'm off work again today.
If I can work through the fever haze I'll try to get DC1: Warsaw to Paris back to JP.
Trying out some of my new loot as well.
Put in Strikes is already on the table so i try to learn the rules and then play Doug on VASSAL.
I also want to try and tech my wife another new game, Dead Reckoning. Is a zombie vs humans game Andy she likes Walking Dead so maybe there's hope.
More Cold Waters and SD44 as well.... if I'm still alive..... :P
Quote from: bbmike on June 23, 2017, 08:06:14 AM
^Nimoy's Bilbo Baggins would have worked better there.
I try to use it sparingly.
Wife and kids have a surprise bday party that I'm not attending. There shall be major game playing this weekend.
Quote from: Barthheart on June 23, 2017, 08:07:41 AM
Still fighting the Con Plague I picked up at Origins so I'm off work again today.
If I can work through the fever haze I'll try to get DC1: Warsaw to Paris back to JP.
Trying out some of my new loot as well.
Put in Strikes is already on the table so i try to learn the rules and then play Doug on VASSAL.
I also want to try and tech my wife another new game, Dead Reckoning. Is a zombie vs humans game Andy she likes Walking Dead so maybe there's hope.
More Cold Waters and SD44 as well.... if I'm still alive..... :P
That's what you get for drinking free beer. :P
Quote from: bbmike on June 23, 2017, 08:26:08 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on June 23, 2017, 08:07:41 AM
Still fighting the Con Plague I picked up at Origins so I'm off work again today.
If I can work through the fever haze I'll try to get DC1: Warsaw to Paris back to JP.
Trying out some of my new loot as well.
Put in Strikes is already on the table so i try to learn the rules and then play Doug on VASSAL.
I also want to try and tech my wife another new game, Dead Reckoning. Is a zombie vs humans game Andy she likes Walking Dead so maybe there's hope.
More Cold Waters and SD44 as well.... if I'm still alive..... :P
That's what you get for drinking free beer. :P
Jealous... of the beer not the plague...
The hell with all you and your boring music tastes. Next time I suppose I'll just do "Smoke on the Water". :arr:
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 23, 2017, 08:53:32 AM
The hell with all you and your boring music tastes. Next time I suppose I'll just do "Smoke on the Water". :arr:
Please, not that!
At least everyone would have known what Smoke On the Water was.
BB and Mirth are asking for some RuPaul.
Quote from: MetalDog on June 23, 2017, 09:02:01 AM
At least everyone would have known what Smoke On the Water was.
a song about Cleveland?
Quote from: MetalDog on June 23, 2017, 09:02:01 AM
At least everyone would have known what Smoke On the Water was.
Does that involve a floatee......I'm down.
Quote from: jamus34 on June 23, 2017, 09:52:05 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on June 23, 2017, 09:02:01 AM
At least everyone would have known what Smoke On the Water was.
a song about Cleveland?
Quote from: -budd- on June 23, 2017, 09:53:34 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on June 23, 2017, 09:02:01 AM
At least everyone would have known what Smoke On the Water was.
Does that involve a floatee......I'm down.
It's the song that just lost to Rocket Man in the 1972 Decades Feeder Bracket Championship. Check the sig line for directions ;)
Quote from: MetalDog on June 23, 2017, 10:05:39 AM
It's the song that just lost to Rocket Man in the 1972 Decades Feeder Bracket Championship. Check the sig line for directions ;)
Don't fall into the trap of voting in those things. Fools actually vote for Rush.
Quote from: MetalDog on June 23, 2017, 09:02:01 AM
At least everyone would have known what Smoke On the Water was.
Huh? :-\
Quote from: Tuna on June 23, 2017, 07:58:57 AM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 23, 2017, 06:10:44 AM
This is a classic song. You guys need to get out more often.
I made it to 43 seconds!!!
You outlasted me!
Quote from: mirth on June 23, 2017, 10:07:28 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on June 23, 2017, 10:05:39 AM
It's the song that just lost to Rocket Man in the 1972 Decades Feeder Bracket Championship. Check the sig line for directions ;)
Don't fall into the trap of voting in those things. Fools actually vote for Rush.
Well l voted for DP, like both the artists but both those songs I got tired of.
Mirths either anti- Canadian or has never been on the Thailand Express, love me some Rush.
I'm definitely not Anti-Canadian.
Quote from: mirth on June 23, 2017, 10:51:41 AM
I'm definitely not Anti-Canadian.
That definitely narrows it down \m/
Mirth's musical tastes are questionable at best.
Quote from: Gusington on June 23, 2017, 11:21:26 AM
Mirth's musical tastes are questionable at best.
I love a good polka.
Me too but we're talking music.
Nice to see you can still hit the softballs.
'Meatballs'
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 23, 2017, 06:10:44 AM
This is a classic song. You guys need to get out more often.
I never had you pegged as a New Wave fan, JH. Do you like Gary Numan? I love this fan made video.
Quote from: Ubercat on June 23, 2017, 11:49:17 AM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 23, 2017, 06:10:44 AM
This is a classic song. You guys need to get out more often.
I never had you pegged as a New Wave fan, JH. Do you like Gary Numan? I love this fan made video.
Nice! I'm an old dude...this reminded me of the Velvet Underground when Nico did some of their vocals rather than Lou Reed.
Quote from: JudgeDredd on June 23, 2017, 10:13:17 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on June 23, 2017, 09:02:01 AM
At least everyone would have known what Smoke On the Water was.
Huh? :-\
One of the most (I thought) recognizable opening riffs of all time.
Good lord.
AAAAAAANYWAY
playing Cold Waters which got me back into Dangerous Waters. Man, I wish I could drive a Virginia class Sub.
Also blowing up Soviet pinko commies in Command Modern Naval. Playing all the "War that never was" scenarios
Quote from: Ubercat on June 23, 2017, 11:49:17 AM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 23, 2017, 06:10:44 AM
This is a classic song. You guys need to get out more often.
I never had you pegged as a New Wave fan, JH. Do you like Gary Numan? I love this fan made video.
Numan is good. I love all that 80s New Wave stuff. The Cure, The Smiths, Missing Persons, Sparks, The The, Thompson Twins, New Order, Erasure, Depeche Mode...its probably my favorite genre.
Knew I recognized that song...
Intended playing more Gal Civ 3 Crusade and a bit of Sengoku Jidai or Monkey Island that I've just picked up on the Steam sale but then went across to GOG and picked up all the Smugglers V DLC / expansion for a couple of quid and have started up a new career/campaign as a Bounty Hunter in the base game.
Just checked out Sengoku Jidai Gold - lot of good content in there @ 66% off! Think that will be my next purchase.
Quote from: jamus34 on June 23, 2017, 06:58:24 PM
Knew I recognized that song...
One of the greatest films ever made. Rivaled only by this one...
Got a lot of not much done, but did help some fellow Grogheads (from and off site!) work through getting into Tabletop Simulator over the weekend. Gave a couple lectures on how to play Churchill and Fire in the Lake (the rules for the latter being not as permanently wired into my head now as I thought! :hide: :-[ ::) ), and then a number of us got together to start learning Warfighter (thanks to Nefaro if I recall correctly, right?) with quite a number of expansions.
Currently our three-specialist kill-team is traipsing a catwalk clearing it out and looking for a way off, on our way to rescue some hostages. Explosives are already running a bit dry, but fortunately we can't use explosives to save the hostages anyway. :))
What happens if we run out of regular ammo? How again do we know when we have to reload?
Quote from: Tuna on June 26, 2017, 08:30:46 AM
What happens if we run out of regular ammo?
Use harsh language.
Quote from: JasonPratt on June 26, 2017, 07:41:41 AM
Got a lot of not much done, but did help some fellow Grogheads (from and off site!) work through getting into Tabletop Simulator over the weekend. Gave a couple lectures on how to play Churchill and Fire in the Lake (the rules for the latter being not as permanently wired into my head now as I thought! :hide: :-[ ::) ), and then a number of us got together to start learning Warfighter (thanks to Nefaro if I recall correctly, right?) with quite a number of expansions.
Currently our three-specialist kill-team is traipsing a catwalk clearing it out and looking for a way off, on our way to rescue some hostages. Explosives are already running a bit dry, but fortunately we can't use explosives to save the hostages anyway. :))
O0 Thank you. Very informative and Fire in the Lake looks good.
And sorry I couldn't stay - it was late here (11 I think when I left)
Quote from: Tuna on June 26, 2017, 08:30:46 AM
What happens if we run out of regular ammo? How again do we know when we have to reload?
(Lol'd at Mirth's
Aliens joke, rip Bill!)
I think if we run out of regular ammo we are basically screwed. I mean, we could try to continue hand-to-hand, but what we carry is what we've got.
The reload rules are a bit goofy (giving results like Nef offloading everything in his shotgun in the first round at a guy who popped up in our staging area at range 0!)
Every weapon has a reload factor printed on the card next to "reload", which might be different at different ranges. In my case, my SCAR has a reload factor of 2 for both ranges (0 and 1).
When we're rolling the attack dice, we're always rolling at least one 10 sided die. Sometimes more, like when I go full auto and roll three d10s with my SCAR.
If any of those d10 on an attack roll a 1 or a 2 (because I have a reload factor of 2 at any range), then I've burned through my clip. There can be skills or items or maybe action cards to help adjust for this.
I think the same 2-factor applied to your M16, but you also had a single-shot grenade launcher underslung. Every shot of that was burning up one ammo. I suspect however that we were supposed to be flipping your chips over to "empty" requiring to to spend an action point (or a card or skill or item or whatever) reloading. I don't think (upon consideration) you were supposed to be getting a free automatic reload for something that bulky!
Quote from: mirth on June 26, 2017, 08:39:25 AM
Quote from: Tuna on June 26, 2017, 08:30:46 AM
What happens if we run out of regular ammo?
Use harsh language.
Ask the UN to send a somewhat critical letter.
Note: rolling a 1 or 2 on a d10 is almost certainly going to be a miss, too! -- whether for killing or for suppressing. (The d6 which is typically rolled with every attack, tells us whether a hit kills or only suppresses, depending on whether it rolls higher than the target card's cover factor.)
Nef: you should drop a note to DanV, about designing a joke "diplomacy" expansion pack (Steam DLC only). <:-)
Quote from: JudgeDredd on June 26, 2017, 08:41:05 AMO0 Thank you. Very informative and Fire in the Lake looks good.
And sorry I couldn't stay - it was late here (11 I think when I left)
Thanks, it was great to hear from you! :bd:
In hindsight it might have been better if I had just assigned everyone a faction and brute forced a couple of sample turns, covering topics as they came up. :-[ :D
The cards and rolls do generate some great anecdotes, tho, don't they? Like after you emptied your shotgun clip for nothing at close range, just about the next thing you did was stealth into the side street and blast someone's face with the shotgun. We joked that this worked because the enemy had been deafened by you offloading everything at once the prior turn!
Tuna meanwhile used some xp he had earned up, to elite-shoot that 40 mm into an armed crowd allowing the refugee nearby, who had been preventing that action previously, to scramble away.
We were definitely removing my grenade launcher ammo with each shot. That's why I only have one left. But the gun ammo, I've only done one. Lol and forgot what the circumstances was that initiated the action.
Yeah, but I think in hindsight we were supposed to be flipping your grenade ammo over with each shot requiring a reload. :-[
Quote from: JasonPratt on June 26, 2017, 09:06:19 AM
Yeah, but I think in hindsight we were supposed to be flipping your grenade ammo over with each shot requiring a reload. :-[
Depends on the keyword for the 40mm.
If it says "Expend(ed)", then you just discard it. Unlike magazines.
Perhaps the action to take one-shots like that already include reloading afterward?
Best way to find out is to look & see if the flip-side of the 40mm grenade ammo has "Empty" listed on it. If not, then we did it right. I don't recall see it on there (same as hand grenades and LAWs).
EDIT:
BTW - I posted links to the udpated manual and Keyword sheets in the Tabletop Simulator thread, a short distance below this one.
From what I remember you still need an action to reload the 40mm. Not for Grenades or LAWS, both one shot weapons.
Finally broke Fallout 4 wide open tonight. I had Minigus 2 sitting next to me, she must have been my lucky charm.
Became much more survivable, better at combat, cleared out a couple of buildings (police station, some offices) took on and won against a variety of enemies who had been kicking my ass, collected tons of loot, tons of new weapons, discovered the weapons table, the chemistry table, took on a ton of synths and raiders and had my finest hour in the Malden T Station. Even got a bunch of Stimpaks and some fusion cores for my armor. Think I got this now and can up the difficulty some.
Now I just have to decide whether I am going to go back to the story missions and clear out what was giving me so much trouble, or go to Diamond City (Boston) first. I've read online that most players should just make their way to Diamond City first, then go back out into the wastes but I am not sure. Had a ton of fun tonight just getting the hang of things.
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