The significant other is out of town this weekend, so it will be Civ IV MP and CK II (the same as it would be if she was IN town, just more :-)
Civil War Generals 2:
29 june 1862...after losing too many battles, i had a brilliant victory today. Next battle is Savage's station. I intend to consolidate my position and ambush the Union reserves.
Gemini Wars:
We are striking back. The Garks will be defeated (mission 14).
Tin Soldiers: Julius Caesar:
Didn't have time to play last weekend. Hopefully i will manage.
Homeworld:
Playing mission 3 of the campaign....
12 hours on a plane tonight.... :P
Try to get some Phantom Leader iPad in between trying to sleep.
Wife is also going away this weekend, so will have plenty of 'extra' playing time!.. Haven't decided yet.. "What to play, what to play" ;D
This weekend, Borderlands 2, perhaps some CoD Modern Warfare 3 in between (to be prepared for Blops 2) - all on the 360
WITH the wife :P
Combat Mission Normandy, purchased two weeks ago thanks to Brants brilliant sale hint. will try it tomorrow!
SOTS II - PC
Halo 4 - xbox
Assassins Creed III - xbox
Phantom Leader - iOS
SotS 2 - PC
Forza Horizon - Xbox
Guild Wars 2 - PC
Armada - PC
Crusader Kings 2 - Youtube (still learning)
DCS A-10C - PC
Fallen Enchantress - PC
CMBN/FI PBEMS
CKII Parma and Brandenburg
Anno 1404
Naval War
hopefully playing Bob at Bloodbowl
ootp13
anno1404
skyrim
I've got lots of catching up to do on the gaming front this weekend but who knows what I'll actually get around to playing. I am hoping to get in some CKII and perhaps some multiplayer L4D with some of you guys.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on November 09, 2012, 07:42:38 AM
SOTS II - PC
Halo 4 - xbox
Assassins Creed III - xbox
Phantom Leader - iOS
How is AC3? I heard there was some long load times, is that true? Trying to decide if I should hold off for the PC version, assuming it is a good game.
I picked up Scourge of War: CV this morning so will likely be playing that this weekend...especially since I have the next 4 days off:) Will also likely try to squeeze some time in with Just Cause 2, Sleeping Dogs, and Xcom.
CK2 - Continuing my Kingdom of Italy game. Have a really bad king stat wise and all my vassals hate him.
Skyrim - Starting a new play through. My last few characters have all developed game breaking bugs, through my own fault I think. Want to actually complete the main quest this time around. Not sure what I'm going to play, either another wizard type or as an assassin.
Diablo 3 - Started playing again recently to try out the new patches. I'm almost to paragon level 10. I really like how you can now scale inferno difficulty with monster power. Too bad it doesn't work with public games, yet. The only real gripe I still have is how inflated prices on the gold auction house are. If you look hard and get lucky you can some really good pieces for cheap, but most of the really good pieces are insanely overpriced. And blacksmithing is useless. Bought some gold from blizzard, 40 million for $20. Really hate to do it, but most of my friends that still play are far enough ahead of me where I need to do something to catch up.
X-Com - Play testing a mod I'm working on.
Was hoping Amazon would deliver my copy of SOTS 2 early, but don't think its going to happen.
Quote from: Kushan on November 09, 2012, 09:12:02 AM
X-Com - Play testing a mod I'm working on.
Details, por favor.
I'm so jealous of you guys that will have your time to yourself this weekend. Have fun!!! :)
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Great game port to the XBOX. This is one of the few RTS games that works well on a console. Enjoying this title very much.
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I have recently got that Ghost itch again and have revisited playing both Single Player and Multiplayer this week. I'll continue mucking around with this title over the weekend.
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Yes I know this is an oldie but I got my XBOX almost a year ago. Recently picked this title up used for 5.99 and I did love Gears of War 3 so...
GoW1 ist still a great game and still looking badass 8)
I'm gonna make a real run at finally finishing Icewind Dale 2. I usually get distracted by something you guys are talking about here and wander off elsewhere. And maybe a little CMBN or Skyrim if I get distracted. But I'm not going to get distracted this time!!! ;)
:) Icewind Dale is one of those games that I have had the intention of playing for years now. Haven't come around to it still, not 1 nor 2.
I think I'm very close to the end of Risen 2. At least I hope I am. Does anyone else find the end game of RPGs just seems to drag? Yeah, I get that I'm at the lair of Evil Incarnate. No, I really don't feel like grinding through 200+ high level undead baddies just to get to the final battle. Now would be a perfect time for a montage.
Quote from: MetalDog on November 09, 2012, 06:38:14 AM
The significant other is out of town this weekend, so it will be Civ IV MP and CK II (the same as it would be if she was IN town, just more :-)
I'm looking at an assortment of possibilities, roughly in this order:
Moscow '42
Crecy
Fontenoy
CarrierCommand
Not sure what exactly, but plan on messing around with:
Fallen Enchantress - Reboot
X-Com
Alea Jacta Est
Process some turns/time to keep them moving:
SOTS 2
CK II
CIV V
HOI III
PE
Definitely playing some War of the Roses and Chivalry.
I may also spend some time with CK2 and Dark Souls.
Guild Wars 2
And thanks to a recent birthday, I am now the proud owner of Crusader Kings 2! Sadly I'm going away for some of the weekend, but I'll try and at least play through the tutorial.
I may well be playing Bloodbowl on line with Geek, or so rumour has it - and hope to find some grogs in L4D2.
I think it's time to continue revisiting games I haven't played for awhile...perhaps Gal Civ 2 will be up next.
I'll probably continue playing Torchlight II.
And I may return to the Kohan series.
Quote from: Huw the Poo on November 09, 2012, 01:47:52 PM
Guild Wars 2
And thanks to a recent birthday, I am now the proud owner of Crusader Kings 2! Sadly I'm going away for some of the weekend, but I'll try and at least play through the tutorial.
Happy Recent Birthday Huw :-)
Thanks Bob! :)
Quote from: Huw the Poo on November 09, 2012, 01:47:52 PM
And thanks to a recent birthday, I am now the proud owner of Crusader Kings 2! Sadly I'm going away for some of the weekend, but I'll try and at least play through the tutorial.
Happy birthday Huw. I would skip the in game tutorials and look for some on youtube. The in game tutorials are more of a wall of text then anything useful.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on November 09, 2012, 09:13:22 AM
Quote from: Kushan on November 09, 2012, 09:12:02 AM
X-Com - Play testing a mod I'm working on.
Details, por favor.
I started playing with the Warspace extension mod about halfway through my second game. I'm not a huge fan of what hes done to how a countries panic increases. So I'm modifying his file to restore vanilla panic levels. He basically made panic pointless, alien attacks only increase a target countries panic and not the entire continent. Your missions reduce all of a continents panic. You will never lose a country to do panic, and that takes away a huge part of the strategic game.
21 again Huw?
Congrats buddy, enjoy the game and have a great weekend away
Thanks guys!
Quote from: Huw the Poo on November 09, 2012, 01:47:52 PM
...thanks to a recent birthday....
Happy recent birthday, Huw.
Quote from: Arctic Blast on November 09, 2012, 04:03:29 PM
....I may return to the Kohan series.
Now there's a thought. I may play a little
Kohan, too. Otherwise I will probably just play a bit of WoW, Civ5,
XCOM, and
Warlock: Master of the Arcane.
Quote from: Yskonyn on November 09, 2012, 07:46:34 AM
Crusader Kings 2 - Youtube (still learning)
I'd be glad to meet you online and help answer any questions that I am able to. I use Steam and my handle there is stophro. Tomorrow morning would be a great time for me. You can PM me to synchronize time.
Happy recent birthday, Huw! I'd be glad to extend the same CKII offer to you as well when you get back.
I think I'll check out the WWI Breakthrough demo and also Solar War.
Wel, I finally to into X3 Albion prelude after about four tries. Having a blast setting up my illegal space weed smuggling operations.
Will also dig into Scourge of War: chancellorsville. Good AI, courier system and huge maps...yummy
I'm going to do some painting and then see if I can get some preview code installed for a couple of games that I have in the works.
In no particular order...
Fields of Glory MP
Panzer General MP
Shogun 2
Still learnig Armada 2026
Ditto with CK2
Thank you for the birthday wishes (and advice) everyone. :)
Last night I was too tired to play CK2. I've had a look this morning, however; as with all Paradox games, I spent an hour without even unpausing the game, looking over the massive array of screens and options! We're going away now but we'll be back tonight, so I shall settle down with a few glasses of wine and have a good old bash at it.
Quote from: Huw the Poo on November 10, 2012, 04:00:18 AM
Thank you for the birthday wishes (and advice) everyone. :)
Last night I was too tired to play CK2. I've had a look this morning, however; as with all Paradox games, I spent an hour without even unpausing the game, looking over the massive array of screens and options! We're going away now but we'll be back tonight, so I shall settle down with a few glasses of wine and have a good old bash at it.
And so it begins
Quote from: Greybriar on November 09, 2012, 07:25:40 PM
Now there's a thought. I may play a little Kohan, too.
Now that is a great game, about the only real time strategy game that I've ever become addicted to.
Have there been any releases in this series since Kohan II?
Quote from: Bill101 on November 10, 2012, 07:06:09 AM
Have there been any releases in this series since Kohan II?
No, I believe Kohan II is the last in the series.
Huw,
CK2 isn't that bad. It seems overwhelming, but if you spend about an hour watching those tutorial videos, you'll find the game isn't all that hard.
Heh, I didn't mean to sound negative. I like that I didn't even get as far as unpausing the game!
Thankfully I've played Sengoku which gives me a bit of a headstart. I couldn't really get involved with the characters in Sengoku though, perhaps because of the era and location. But playing (or at least starting a game) as a Welsh duke I'm finding it a lot easier to sort through the characters and remember who they are.
Played a lot of Xcom Friday.. Including on my lunch break (since I worked from home)..
Yesterday... lot's of time was put into CIV IV and Napoleon Total War also tried the demo for Barbarossa.
What to play today?!
Playing some CKII last night reminded me why I enjoy it so much. My ruler gets married to this girl who really helps out in the stewardship department the only problem is nobody actually saw her before the wedding and she turns out to have the dwarf trait. Apparently my vassals aren't really down with this. Before I can decide what to do about this she starts having kids. One boy and one girl, both who have the dwarf trait. Well this is not going to go well. How am I suppose to become a great dynasty when all my heir needs step stools to see anything. So I decide its time to go shopping for a new wife. The only problem is my current wife. She was easier to take care of then I thought, apparently most of my court aren't fond of her dwarfism and were eager to join my plot to "retire" her. My, get this, court chaplain even arranged for her carriage to be attacked by "highway men" and things just so happened to get out of hand and my poor wife got an arrow in the back. So now I find another wife and we have two sons back to back, unfortunately the son from my earlier marriage is still my heir. So needless to say I am not plotting his untimely death... ;D
Did I mention that while all this was happening the world around my duchy, which is part of the Byzantine Empire, was going to crap. Apparently a number of the Dukes and Counts got together and rebelled against my liege and it fractured the lands around me into a number of independent realms. As I was busy offing my dwarf wife I never got in on this faction's plot. So naturally I did my duty for my liege and took a couple of counties that just so happen to aid me in creating the Kingdom of Bulgaria. Now I'll just have to figure out how to do that without incurring the wrath of the huge stacks of Byzantine armies.
This game is just awesome!
ha, good tales CommandTent, i have never played 2 games alike
Amidst stabbing my relatives and building little villages in Anno i bought the Civ IV package from steam this weekend - thought id give this BTS add on that everyone loves a try
Should be able to start tonight - im opting for Winston Churchill and leading the English to greatness
^What difficulty, ucg? I just started Monarch after years on Prince. It's a pain in the butt, however, I am learning to build cities and improvements in the proper order. Otherwise, you fall WAY behind in the Tech race.
Quote from: MetalDog on November 12, 2012, 06:49:37 AM
^What difficulty, ucg? I just started Monarch after years on Prince. It's a pain in the butt, however, I am learning to build cities and improvements in the proper order. Otherwise, you fall WAY behind in the Tech race.
iirc id opted for warlord - is this a bit of an easy level? i think warlord is 3rd and then its Prince - having played away my mid 20s on Civ 2 it was always warlord, but then again i always won!
do you recommend Prince
Quote from: undercovergeek on November 12, 2012, 04:25:21 AM
ha, good tales CommandTent, i have never played 2 games alike
Amidst stabbing my relatives and building little villages in Anno i bought the Civ IV package from steam this weekend - thought id give this BTS add on that everyone loves a try
Should be able to start tonight - im opting for Winston Churchill and leading the English to greatness
My only issue now is I can't seem to assassinate my one son who I don't want to take over when I die and time is running out. Do you know of anyways to improve the odds besides sending the Spymaster to his province? Also I would like to start a plot to off him but there is not option for that in the intrigue menu. Do you know if there is a way to create a plot?
Quote from: Grim.Reaper on November 09, 2012, 08:42:25 AM
How is AC3? I heard there was some long load times, is that true? Trying to decide if I should hold off for the PC version, assuming it is a good game.
I have only played through the opening sequence and I'm really enjoying it so far. Its pretty tight and linear until you get to the Colonies, but then it really starts to open up. There are a lot of loading sequences, which does get annoying, but they aren't too long so its acceptable.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on November 12, 2012, 08:33:12 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on November 12, 2012, 04:25:21 AM
ha, good tales CommandTent, i have never played 2 games alike
Amidst stabbing my relatives and building little villages in Anno i bought the Civ IV package from steam this weekend - thought id give this BTS add on that everyone loves a try
Should be able to start tonight - im opting for Winston Churchill and leading the English to greatness
My only issue now is I can't seem to assassinate my one son who I don't want to take over when I die and time is running out. Do you know of anyways to improve the odds besides sending the Spymaster to his province? Also I would like to start a plot to off him but there is not option for that in the intrigue menu. Do you know if there is a way to create a plot?
can you change the succession laws?
I did not have a lot of time this weekend, however oddly enough I got back into Blood Bowl after cleaning my games and stuff up. I deleted a ton of stuff and decided to just stick to those things I enjoy without having to feel like "I wasted money" and probably did but I am not going to force this issue... anyway I picked this back up after only play it a few times and really enjoyed it.
I started a campaign with Chaos and am (Legion of Chaos 1-0-1) right now in my tournament. I know there was some gripes about the AI, however if you play by house rules and with the randomness of the dice it is pretty fun.... although the AI can do some questionable things.
PE
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on November 12, 2012, 09:06:35 AM
Quote from: Grim.Reaper on November 09, 2012, 08:42:25 AM
How is AC3? I heard there was some long load times, is that true? Trying to decide if I should hold off for the PC version, assuming it is a good game.
I have only played through the opening sequence and I'm really enjoying it so far. Its pretty tight and linear until you get to the Colonies, but then it really starts to open up. There are a lot of loading sequences, which does get annoying, but they aren't too long so its acceptable.
Thank you...at this point will likely hold out another 7 days and just get the PC version, but glad it looks promising.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on November 11, 2012, 08:45:52 AM
Playing some CKII last night reminded me why I enjoy it so much. My ruler gets married to this girl who really helps out in the stewardship department the only problem is nobody actually saw her before the wedding and she turns out to have the dwarf trait. Apparently my vassals aren't really down with this. Before I can decide what to do about this she starts having kids. One boy and one girl, both who have the dwarf trait. Well this is not going to go well. How am I suppose to become a great dynasty when all my heir needs step stools to see anything. So I decide its time to go shopping for a new wife. The only problem is my current wife. She was easier to take care of then I thought, apparently most of my court aren't fond of her dwarfism and were eager to join my plot to "retire" her. My, get this, court chaplain even arranged for her carriage to be attacked by "highway men" and things just so happened to get out of hand and my poor wife got an arrow in the back. So now I find another wife and we have two sons back to back, unfortunately the son from my earlier marriage is still my heir. So needless to say I am not plotting his untimely death... ;D
Did I mention that while all this was happening the world around my duchy, which is part of the Byzantine Empire, was going to crap. Apparently a number of the Dukes and Counts got together and rebelled against my liege and it fractured the lands around me into a number of independent realms. As I was busy offing my dwarf wife I never got in on this faction's plot. So naturally I did my duty for my liege and took a couple of counties that just so happen to aid me in creating the Kingdom of Bulgaria. Now I'll just have to figure out how to do that without incurring the wrath of the huge stacks of Byzantine armies.
This game is just awesome!
If you want to make things really interesting, try and have 2-3 successors have no diplomacy and stewardship skills. I've gone from having my rulers be marshals, stewards, and chancellors of the HRE to having total incompetents.
In my game the Spanish have formed the Hispania empire and have taken all of Spain and a huge amount of northern Africa. Last I checked they were cutting there way through the desert towards the southern most provinces on the map. The HRE has taken Carthage and is working its way towards Egypt's flank. The Byzantines have gone ape sh*t. They hold most of southern Italy, and all of turkey and Anatolia. They've also taken a good chunk of the provinces around the black sea and have starting cutting into southern Russia. They haven't made anymore progress towards the holy lands in awhile. There's been 4 crusades for Jerusalem, but they have all failed. Some have had some minor success but have all been beaten back. The Muslims in that area are still a little to monolithic IMO. From what I've read one of the major reasons the 1st crusade had any success was that the Muslims at the time were divided. Not so in CK2 and I think the sword of Islam DLC has made that even more worse. The Muslims also don't seem to be as affected (if at all) by the low supply limits of the provinces in the area. I went on one crusade, but lost half of my 20k+ troops before I even made contact with an enemy army.
Quote from: undercovergeek on November 12, 2012, 07:01:11 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on November 12, 2012, 06:49:37 AM
^What difficulty, ucg? I just started Monarch after years on Prince. It's a pain in the butt, however, I am learning to build cities and improvements in the proper order. Otherwise, you fall WAY behind in the Tech race.
iirc id opted for warlord - is this a bit of an easy level? i think warlord is 3rd and then its Prince - having played away my mid 20s on Civ 2 it was always warlord, but then again i always won!
do you recommend Prince
I would play a few games on Warlord to get my bearings then go to Noble. I'm pretty sure Noble is baseline-no bumps for either you or the A.I. If you decide you like it and want some MP, I'm always up for that. We can prolly scare up a few more, too.
Quote from: undercovergeek on November 12, 2012, 09:51:39 AM
Quote from: TheCommandTent on November 12, 2012, 08:33:12 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on November 12, 2012, 04:25:21 AM
ha, good tales CommandTent, i have never played 2 games alike
Amidst stabbing my relatives and building little villages in Anno i bought the Civ IV package from steam this weekend - thought id give this BTS add on that everyone loves a try
Should be able to start tonight - im opting for Winston Churchill and leading the English to greatness
My only issue now is I can't seem to assassinate my one son who I don't want to take over when I die and time is running out. Do you know of anyways to improve the odds besides sending the Spymaster to his province? Also I would like to start a plot to off him but there is not option for that in the intrigue menu. Do you know if there is a way to create a plot?
can you change the succession laws?
I could but I like them they way they are, I just don't like the son who will inherited everything. :) Perhaps I won't ever let him get married so his brother takes over when he dies :)
Quote from: MengJiao on November 09, 2012, 11:41:38 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on November 09, 2012, 06:38:14 AM
The significant other is out of town this weekend, so it will be Civ IV MP and CK II (the same as it would be if she was IN town, just more :-)
I'm looking at an assortment of possibilities, roughly in this order:
Moscow '42
Crecy
Fontenoy
CarrierCommand
The three-day week-end actually went:
Crecy (the French lost!)
Fontenoy(training exercise (I gave up!))
And then surprisingly, I became interested in how well the Churchill IV with
a 6-pdr and APDS can do. It did very well in a ATS (Scottish Corridor) training exercise
so I checked it in CMBN: CWF (which seems more reliable than ATS) and again: the
Churchill IV does okay against STGIIIs and Marders at least on defense.
So I ordered ATS Stonne Heights. Maybe the Char B-bis will do okay. Nowhere to
check that really (outside of reality where it didn't do so well).