DCS to mess around with my new winwing Orion2 throttle with F-16 grip...Star Citizen 3.17.2...some VR FPS pew pew pew stuff...and some other assorted strategy potpourri.
Everyone enjoy.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Rome 2: Total War with the DEI mod (set to 'don't hurt me difficulty') as Pontus for a test run.
If I survive, hoping to play as Ptolemy's Egypt.
Hey ho let's FRIDAY! Testdriving my brand new LnL Tactical Scenario Editor together with Heroes Against the Red Star module this weekend :nerd:
Finally my resistance was broken down, and I bought
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnought (or whatever it's called) last night. Presumably to play this weekend, or else to sit next to
Naval Action which I bought back in the Christmas sale or some time ago. ::)
Time to design me a beast made of steel; put him into motion to be {beat} KING OF THE OCEAN! HE WAS MADE TO RULE THE WAVES ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS! :D \m/
....oh, uh. Wait. I got distracted while looking for Minniva's cover to Bismarck. Today I learned that Rimworld has 40K mods that can stack together.
Relatedly, I may have just found a compelling reason to buy Rimworld at last.
Back to my originally scheduled topic:
Need your impressions of Dreadnought post haste, Pratt!
Trying to get in a little time with WitE 1 and Rome 2 but Life's not cooperating with me. Things, things, and more things to do. :pullhair: Who thought an old washed-up reprobate would be in such demand?
Ramones :smitten:.
No Man's Sky
As of 10:01am I am officially retired. In a few weeks I'll be single again. But for this weekend it's keeping up with the few PBEM's that I have ongoing and playtesting. For a fun break I'll be working on Campaign South Vietnam tutorials and WDS Guadacanal that I just picked up with some of the odds and ends bonus money I received.
Just finished up the current event in Mechwarrior Online. Got a free hero mech of my choice, lots of lewt, and 36 days of premium time so I'll be playing this for the next few weeks.
Congrats nelmsm!
And Geezer, of course.
BoC work. And trying to locate/validate acoustic info for CMO. I recently broke my streak of getting my butt kicked in the FoG2 and FoG2-Medieval tournaments by actually winning a couple of games, so at least I won't be dead last in the tournaments. Possibly some CM Black Sea.
Hope I get my part in for my damn riding mower so I can mow the damn grass then I got those damn hedges to trim.
Otherwise, I'm still bee-bopping around with tanks and boats in my World of ___ way and going over that huge pack of Star Trek Adventures rpg stuff I got a few days ago - while binging on Star Trek Discovery and Lower Decks at the same time!
Live long and stay thirsty my friends.
Hoping to play some B-17 Flying Fortress leader on Vassal. Detailed simulation of 8th Air Forces campaign over Germany - first impressions are 8th air force is a little overpowered, but I'll see how it goes.
I will continue my first campaign in Shogun 2 as the Takedas. Maybe some 4x space games.
^How are you liking Shogun 2?
Quote from: Gusington on July 29, 2022, 02:31:02 PM
^How are you liking Shogun 2?
So far one of my favourite TW games... :)
The Ramones have always made me want to be sedated. Good choice on a video.
Last night I re-installed Hex of Steel as I want to see how it's evolved since it's release last year.
Gonna do some moar Heroes & Generals. I almost have 4 million credits saved up which will pretty much allow me to buy several tanks, planes, small arms, and custom camo for a lot of my characters. Just need to grind some more.
Nice Anguille - definitely try out the Fall of the Samurai campaign...probably my favorite TW campaign of all time :)
Quote from: Gusington on July 29, 2022, 09:31:44 AM
Need your impressions of Dreadnought post haste, Pratt!
The tutorial is... odd. Threw me into the deep and told me to look around and learn. It certainly lights up all my Mechwarrior/Battletech designing neurons! {g} (All I need to do for Tutorial 1 is design a(n 1890s) battleship, no torps allowed, to sink a stationary 11" armor battleship within 14 minutes, which won't be shooting back at me in any way. All right, time to do some min-maxing! :D )
Music is pleasant, unless I want to listen to podcasts while I'm plotting.
I noticed that the next two tutorials will feature the Monitor and the Merrimack! :coolsmiley: The campaign doesn't start that far back, so their stuff would only be available for a custom battle (aside from the tutorials whatever those are).
Damn, it's been a while since I played...there was not any music in the game when I was going through tutorials and missions.
Finally getting into Shadow Empire with the newest beta. Finally have a game where I am able to at least produce everything and defend myself. I will confess and say I am playing with easy supply on. But you have to start somewhere and am finally enjoying the game. If I do well this game I will try and figure out the complicated supply system the next time. There is a lot to love about this game it is so deep. Many call it their favorite game ever and for good reason.
This is what got me back into it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GuRW1RNXJmk-mm8QmOx8VEO67QhKINbr-CEY9-zU9Q4/edit
Quote from: Tanaka on July 29, 2022, 10:12:46 PM
This is what got me back into it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GuRW1RNXJmk-mm8QmOx8VEO67QhKINbr-CEY9-zU9Q4/edit
I tried saving this large AAR on my PC but it just doesn't work. Downloading (PDF, Word, ...) does nothing and printing does the same. Tried Firefox and Edge with the same result.
Out of nowhere I just completed the main quest line of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. Took 90 hours for me to do that. And there is a metric ton of content left, with all the DLCs, etc.
I've only been playing Dominions 5 the whole week.
I started a EA Helheim campaign this friday and so far so good.
Xibalda was conquered by me, Formoria got eradicated by Ulm. Ur is slowly falling before the might of Atlantis and possible others.
The whole game i have been skirmishing with Yomi while i was fighting Xibalda, skirmish phase is about to end.
My imprisoned pretender arrived a few months ago. I am summoning a banelord to enter the lake by my home castle with a retinue of wights, draughs and corpse men. It will be the site of a new fort (#9 or 10).
Hopefully i can raise some decent water troops to prepare for Atlantis who alongside Ulm look the scariest. Also T'chien arrived on my border a while back. Fun times.
Shadow Empire
Quote from: Gusington on July 29, 2022, 02:46:46 PM
Nice Anguille - definitely try out the Fall of the Samurai campaign...probably my favorite TW campaign of all time :)
Will do! I just lost my first campaign but am already trying a second one.
Quote from: Fetrik on July 31, 2022, 06:57:50 AM
I've only been playing Dominions 5 the whole week.
I started a EA Helheim campaign this friday and so far so good.
Xibalda was conquered by me, Formoria got eradicated by Ulm. Ur is slowly falling before the might of Atlantis and possible others.
The whole game i have been skirmishing with Yomi while i was fighting Xibalda, skirmish phase is about to end.
My imprisoned pretender arrived a few months ago. I am summoning a banelord to enter the lake by my home castle with a retinue of wights, draughs and corpse men. It will be the site of a new fort (#9 or 10).
Hopefully i can raise some decent water troops to prepare for Atlantis who alongside Ulm look the scariest. Also T'chien arrived on my border a while back. Fun times.
Interesting situation you're in there. I might have to fire up Dom5 again and play around with it myself again. :)
@Anguille - sounds like the Shogun 2 I know and love.
Quote from: solops on July 31, 2022, 08:50:18 PM
Shadow Empire
You probably don't need to tell us this ;)
I grabbed Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts too and have been working through the various tutorial battles.
I figured "you only live once." and decided it was time. I have been learning the fine art of ship design ( I seriously wish there was a guide or a manual explaining this) and yesterday I did my first fleet action in Naval Academy: Pre-Dreadnoughts. I took two pre-Dreadnoughts, (BB) , a light cruiser (LC) and an armored cruiser (AC) and two torpedo boats (TB) against a fleet of two BBs, 1 LC, and AC, and two TBs. ( I think??)
My first go round, I blew it badly. I over managed my Divisions. (Plus no tutorial in explaining how to manage them). So I went back to the drawing board, and built two new Pre-Dreadnoughts the German Brandenburg and Nassau, and my fleet was set.
I managed to sink the ENTIRE enemy fleet, and it was a long slog. I lost two torpedo boats, and the damage sustained by my battle line fleet (Brandenburg and Nassau) was minor at best. Two of my ships sustained almost no damage at all.
Good Show CJ! :clap: