Red Dead Redemption. A guy at work suggested I play the original before I play the new one...so he's lent me his XBox to play it.
Also, perhaps some
Steel Divisions which I fired up yesterday and rather enjoyed and a flight or two in
XPlane (is it possible to do a loop in a 747? Because I managed it in XPlane - just asking because the general consensus is that it's highly realistic)
F1 2017 to continue my career in anticipation of buying
F1 2018 on the inevitable Steam sale - Malaysia next after finishing a disappointing 12th at Singapore - a circuit I dislike intensely and therefore never race - which showed in my performance. I think this is the first time I've got into the second part of the season and definitely the first time I've got to the final 5 races in an F1 game - with the exception of the exceptional Microprose Grand Prix 2 where I did finish a season...the one and only time - and I've had them all!
Enjoy your weekend everyone
Steel division
War thunder ships
Total war arena
Perhaps some naval action - which is I think getting closer to release. At the moment it kinda looks like a christmasish release to me.
The weekend is the great unknown for me again. After playing a lot of Theatre of War and Steel Division, I'm feeling a little WWIIed out. I may switch to Wargame Red Dragon. I've also reinstalled the entire Strike Fighters 2 series and will be applying the great Vietnam and ODS mods. Dunno...just had the urge. Other than that, probably something with lasers, spaceships, aliens and power armor.
Endless space 2
Hearts of Iron IV (unless my installed mods are once again obsolete by a new update :pullhair:)
JD I think you'll like Red Dead Redemption. It's not repetitive like a lot of other open world games are and the story is interesting. I can't wait for the sequel to come out.
Meanwhile I'll be playing Phantom Doctrine, Heroes & Generals, Grand Kingdom, and maybe some Nino Kuni 2. It's a long weekend for me so I'll be spending some time doing some cleaning in our basement. I'm going to try to get started on turning it into my man cave.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on August 31, 2018, 07:04:05 AM
Other than that, probably something with lasers, spaceships, aliens and power armor.
Space Hulk Tactics releases Sept 1, iirc? I've been messing with Ascension to get in the mood (and to appreciate any improvements. That game gives me a headache due to the visual design.)
Well, I did buy TOAW IV so still trying to relearn/grok that.
Need to get back to some racing games so maybe Dirt Rally or F1 2017 - which I haven't even tried since buying it. :P
Wild Blue Yonder still on the table. The campaigns look really interesting so will start one of those up.
Finishing touches on my garage reno. Last little bit is on the top of a 10 foot ladder... not my favourite place to be.... :(
Computer war: Scourge of War Waterloo
Combat Mission - Red Thunder
Panzer Campaigns Budapest '45 (Tiller)
Board war: Night Fighter Ace (Compass)
Computer sim: Open Rails
My plan for the weekend: Oriental Empires and Aggressors: Ancient Rome
Quote from: JasonPratt on August 31, 2018, 07:38:00 AM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on August 31, 2018, 07:04:05 AM
Other than that, probably something with lasers, spaceships, aliens and power armor.
Space Hulk Tactics releases Sept 1, iirc? I've been messing with Ascension to get in the mood (and to appreciate any improvements. That game gives me a headache due to the visual design.)
I wish. October 9. Battle Fleet Gothic Armada 2 comes out in September, though...you should start playing the first title to get into the mood. lol
(Well, gosh, what's coming out on the 1st? Maybe I'm just imagining that date... ??? )
I do like GothFleet, but I haven't played it much yet.
Quote from: JasonPratt on August 31, 2018, 08:25:53 AM
(Well, gosh, what's coming out on the 1st? Maybe I'm just imagining that date... ??? )
I do like GothFleet, but I haven't played it much yet.
OUCH! Just read Gothic 2 is delayed to January 2019. :(
HOI4.
Quote from: stolypin on August 31, 2018, 07:51:08 AM
Board war: Night Fighter Ace (Compass)
Is this out already? Excellent! Post impressions. This one's on my definite maybe list.
Steam just put up a new scenario for Mansions of Madness
2nd Edition called Altered Fates. It looks inventive so I want to get the gaming gang together to play it this weekend.
Also, I just received the two player game Spirits of the Wild
which my girlfriend & I will try on Sunday.
And for some late night gaming I want to start a TOAW 4 scenario. Not sure which one yet.
Groggy
Honey-Do's are #1 on my list for weekend activity, but when not busy with them, I'm going to play with the bevvy of survival-horror games I've collected over the past few years; 7 Days to Die being the most recent (as of yesterday). Got my eye on Scum and Mist Survival too and knowing my weak will, I'll probably cave on getting one of these two soon.
Sad thing is, when looking at the games that I've got of this genre, there are danged few still in operation: Just Survive is kaput come this October, Infestation appears to have kicked the bucket sometime in '17 as well as Romero's Aftermath which passed onto the great unknown in '16. Miscreated and the old stalwart, DayZ seem to be hanging on, but I wonder by how much and for how long?
Starting a week's vacation at the beach on Saturday! Discovered that a nephew bought Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire so that will get to the tabletop at some point. There's hope for the next generation! I also have Nations: The Dice Game and some various RPG's with me. But mostly it will be sun, sand, and a drink in my hand!
First weekend of college football and my local team is on broadcast TV so I'll be watching that game Saturday night. Will most likely cook out Saturday afternoon. Need to work on cleaning the garage Saturday morning.
Trying to keep Sunday and Monday quiet. May get some stick time in my SF2: Israel campaign or go hunting in Cold Waters.
^Went to my team's opener last night (West Florida). It was so much fun, glad college football is back. O0
Long weekend, not much family this Labor Day, soooo...!
Keeping an eye on the Crisis Grogs mp of Falling Sky, to see if I can pull out a win this weekend (and/or prevent someone else from doing so).
(Relatedly, I'm probably not going to start the next round of the Strategic Command Grogfest mp tournament until next week, but I might start this weekend anyway.)
The Grogpublic of Rome game won't start until after the FS game finishes, since most of the players will migrate over from there (or that was the plan originally) We'll still have four or five slots open for other Grogs to join when the time comes (not this weekend surely), so anyone interested can catch up on information about the game and how I'm planning to run it on asynch here at this thread (http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=22819.0). The game system is quite unique, and should be reasonably easy to time-manage as long as one person sacrifices himself to be the umpire (me ;) ) rather than 'play' a spot.
Relatedly, I expect I'll keep plugging at testing the release of Aggressors: Ancient Rome, although I'd rather wait until the random-map generator has been fixed. But maybe that will have happened this weekend.
Fiddling with it last night made me want to check in on how Genesia Legacy: Ultimate Domain is doing, a turn-based survival 4xer I was very impressed with last year but as usual got distracted with other shiny things (plus it's still in beta).
Plugging along on a campaign of Space Hulk: Ascension in anticipation of the next iteration of the game to be released in mid-October. Wish I could edit the marine names, and make a Groghead party for an AAR!
Which sort of reminds me of Modheim, for which I was doing that once upon a time, but which I switched off to play other things back when it was still in late beta.
Also making time Saturday night to team up with some fellow Grogs on Space Hulk: Deathwing 4 Dead ;) . I haven't played the new mega-update (or even loaded it I think) yet, so I'll be very curious whether it's significantly better than I remember. (Last time I played it, there had been several substantial patches already; and my old gfx card simply couldn't run it the first time I bought it, around release time.)
Quote from: JasonPratt on August 31, 2018, 12:05:57 PM
Also making time Saturday night to team up with some fellow Grogs on Space Hulk: Deathwing 4 Dead ;) . I haven't played the new mega-update (or even loaded it I think) yet, so I'll be very curious whether it's significantly better than I remember. (Last time I played it, there had been several substantial patches already; and my old gfx card simply couldn't run it the first time I bought it, around release time.)
I don't think you will be disappointed. It is noticeably better! :bd:
Warhammer: Gladius and college football.
ARMA III, either KOTH or Escape / Combat Patrol. I played the hell out of KOTH a while back, and am trying to give it a second chance. If I don't do ARMA III, I will likely play some FTL...trying to complete all ships / versions on the "hard" campaign setting.
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
CHEERIO
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on August 31, 2018, 07:04:05 AM
The weekend is the great unknown for me again.
Looks like maybe DCS, JT Seven-Years-War, and probably Post Scriptum.
Quote from: MengJiao on August 31, 2018, 05:21:11 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on August 31, 2018, 07:04:05 AM
The weekend is the great unknown for me again.
Looks like maybe DCS, JT Seven-Years-War, and probably Post Scriptum.
Yep...so far:
^ Nice pics, IanC!
Cold Waters sounds pretty good. I have a hankering for something old timey, maybe CK2 or Rome 2...maybe pick up that Rome DLC?
Ooops, I forgot, I bought The Bard's Tale the other day. I'll probably give that a look, too.
Quote from: bbmike on August 31, 2018, 12:03:56 PM
^Went to my team's opener last night (West Florida). It was so much fun, glad college football is back. O0
+1
Quote from: JasonPratt on August 31, 2018, 08:25:53 AM
(Well, gosh, what's coming out on the 1st? Maybe I'm just imagining that date... ??? )
Oh, I remember now! It's
Panzer Strategy! -- the ludicrously unimaginative title (much as "Fantasy Wars" was) for what amounts to
Fantasy Wars for Panzer General instead of for Fantasy General!
........or words to that effect! :D :smitten:
Nice pics Ian C. I'm playing Decisive Campaigns: Warsaw to Paris one more time-- I won the campaign once and lost once so this will be the 'rubber match'. I'm up to Plan Yellow: France 1940 and not doing too badly. This is probably my favorite wargame scenario of all-- lots of units to push around! Happy Labor Day to Grogs everywhere.
Okay, just finished loading Panzer Strategy, and.... I like it a lot so far. (Not the voice acting so much, but English is clearly not the actors' primary language. Everything is understandable at least, and the actors/narrator will occasionally translate terms past the written dialogue.)
Granted, I've barely even started the tutorial mission, which is helping Franco against the Republicans by the way, but as a Panzer General successor this game makes me grin uncontrollably. (And cringe somewhat at overly-rational Hitler who doesn't sound anything like Hitler. >:D Still, I appreciate the effort at setting from the German Nationalist perspective!)
I'm playing Fallout 3 - at least for a little while longer. The GoG version has run smoothly on a new Falcon Talon using Windows 10.
I tried doing a live broadcast of Aggressors: Ancient Rome, but it stopped recording/broadcasting for no clear reason after about 5 minutes (without telling me), so that video's gone. :buck2:
I did learn pretty quickly this afternoon that the random map generator does work, at least when the game resolution is 1080 instead of 720.
(https://i.imgur.com/W1LdssL.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/yzy15iU.jpg)
Three friends are coming over today to re-live our youth.
Quote from: trailrunner on September 02, 2018, 09:35:52 AM
Three friends are coming over today to re-live our youth.
Panzer Leader was my first board game. Blitz was probably my second. Great games.
Who won?
You are taking me way back Trailrunner. WAY BACK! O0
I've played World of Warcraft most of the weekend. Broken up by finishing up my Operation El Dorado Canyon scenario for CMANO.
Played only Oriental Empires....I still have so much to learn in this game.
Not around much of the weekend but been playing Two Point Hospital and Endless Space 2 when I can.
Coming in on the tail end, but it's labor day so what the hell.
I've been playing a lot of Field of Glory 2 both singleplayer and multiplayer. The modular nature of the game and how customizable/moddable it is is easily half the fun. I've nearly finished reading Vegetius' De Re Militari and was thinking about putting together a small campaign in FOG2 that would follow a hypothetical "Vegetian Reformation" of the late Roman military, a la the Marian Reforms of the late Republic.
I've also been playing some Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy and working on a small video for it. Hoping to have that done soonerTM rather than later.
Lastly, I've surprised myself by reinstalling and playing some Total War: Attila with the Terminus Total War - Imperium mod. It's been enjoyable so far. I'm really not a fan of the new Total War games for a whole host of reasons that include game mechanics and design, but every now and then I reinstall them and give them another go. Most of their appeal to me is their accessibility and graphics. Plus, I'm obsessed with operational/strategic layers. We'll see how long Attila lasts before it is inevitably uninstalled again.
Hope everyone who has a long weekend is enjoying it.
CAPT, I've downloaded a user made full campaign on the Marian reforms a few months ago. It's available among the user made mods in-game for download. IIRC it's a 5 or 6 mission campaign.
Quote from: Gusington on September 03, 2018, 02:55:07 PM
CAPT, I've downloaded a user made full campaign on the Marian reforms a few months ago. It's available among the user made mods in-game for download. IIRC it's a 5 or 6 mission campaign.
I'll have to give it a go. There's a lot of good user made content for Field of Glory 2.
Btw, love your profile pic. Big Alice in Chains fan, and if I'm not mistaken that pic is taken from the music video of "Would?" which is my favorite Alice in Chains song.
^You and I must be brothers. I am only a SGT, but I'm working on it CAPT. A gift for you. Would? is one of my top ten songs of all time...I probably listen to it 1-2 times a day. :notworthy: