I'll be playing some more Crusader Kings 2 and Team Fortress 2.
Just about to fire up my CC: CoI mod of the German advance into Poland. Day three of the battle and so far all goes as planned.
Shogun 2, Skyrim and trying to not buy Crusader Kings II
RGW
Going to grab Shogun 2 by the rice balls.
Try out 1st and Goal and keep working on my mini-game.
My PBEM campaigns in Armada 2526 Supernova, of course. And I'm definitely spending some more time with the Crusader Kings 2 demo. Possibly some Star Trek Online, depending on my energy level and (especially) time constraints.
World of Tanks (can't pass up the Kasserine special), Shogun 2 and my Supernova PBEM game with Martok.
Some Steam and Iron
And maybe a little ME2
But too tired last night after long week, and out tonight to a Korean restaurant for my wife's birthday, so not much gaming this w/e.
Quote from: Hartford688 on February 18, 2012, 07:22:32 AM
Some Steam and Iron
And maybe a little ME2
But too tired last night after long week, and out tonight to a Korean restaurant for my wife's birthday, so not much gaming this w/e.
Man, I wish people would stop talking about Steam and Iron...really tempting me to pick that up, but I am just trying to resist:)
Invictus mod for Civ IV.
Maybe some board gaming... just got Arkham Horror and am trying it solo.
Quote from: Barthheart on February 18, 2012, 07:48:03 AM
Invictus mod for Civ IV.
Maybe some board gaming... just got Arkham Horror and am trying it solo.
My friend has Arkham Horror, and while I've never played solo it was a ton of fun. Me and him have gotten two games in. The first we narrowly won thanks to good team work and a lucky die roll and in the second game the monsters destroyed us. Lots of fun and so many things that can happen.
Civ IV around new girlfriend time. I'm hoping that Barthheart and Gus will have the time Saturday night to join me and W8taminute. Anyone else want in?
Quote from: MetalDog on February 18, 2012, 09:25:35 AM
Civ IV around new girlfriend time. I'm hoping that Barthheart and Gus will have the time Saturday night to join me and W8taminute. Anyone else want in?
With your new girlfriend????? :) Seems like an interesting time.
Op. Sealion, Men of War, Steam & Iron
I just won my second Steam & Iron battle-- Otranto 1915, a great scenario. So, I'll probably be up to my neck in dreadnaughts all weekend.
Quote from: Sir Slash on February 18, 2012, 10:33:28 AM
I just won my second Steam & Iron battle-- Otranto 1915, a great scenario. So, I'll probably be up to my neck in dreadnaughts all weekend.
Have you ever won with HMCS Rainbow?
Quote from: SCDJ on February 18, 2012, 08:57:31 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on February 18, 2012, 07:48:03 AM
Invictus mod for Civ IV.
Maybe some board gaming... just got Arkham Horror and am trying it solo.
My friend has Arkham Horror, and while I've never played solo it was a ton of fun. Me and him have gotten two games in. The first we narrowly won thanks to good team work and a lucky die roll and in the second game the monsters destroyed us. Lots of fun and so many things that can happen.
I've played one partial game, in which I got creamed, and am about to start a second game where I control 4 investigators.... hope to do better this time out. This is all in preparation for our up coming gaming weekend that my friends and I have 3 or 4 times a year. Needed a new game that could handle up to 8 guys.... and not be too complicated when we're really loaded.. :o
Quote from: Grim.Reaper on February 18, 2012, 09:45:35 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on February 18, 2012, 09:25:35 AM
Civ IV around new girlfriend time. I'm hoping that Barthheart and Gus will have the time Saturday night to join me and W8taminute. Anyone else want in?
With your new girlfriend????? :) Seems like an interesting time.
It never ceases to amaze me how the English language can be interpreted :-) No, I don't share and neither does she, but if you would like to join us for some Civ, you are certainly welcome.
Quote from: Bismarck on February 18, 2012, 10:26:36 AM
Op. Sealion, Men of War, Steam & Iron
Which Men of War are you playing Bis?
Quote from: Bismarck on February 18, 2012, 10:37:42 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on February 18, 2012, 10:33:28 AM
I just won my second Steam & Iron battle-- Otranto 1915, a great scenario. So, I'll probably be up to my neck in dreadnaughts all weekend.
Have you ever won with HMCS Rainbow?
Haven't tried that one yet but it looks good. In the middle of the 1912 battle and Bosporus 1915. Lost the Goeben scenario when the Breslau was sunk.
Quote from: Bison on February 18, 2012, 02:05:31 PM
Quote from: Bismarck on February 18, 2012, 10:26:36 AM
Op. Sealion, Men of War, Steam & Iron
Which Men of War are you playing Bis?
The first. I picked up all three in an Impulse sale a few months ago.
Civ IV online with some Grogheads around here.
I also picked up Horus Rising by Dan Abnette from Barnes and Noble and I got Fallen Angel by Mike Lee from the local library. Gonna be a Warhammer weekend of reading baby!
I've also got my sights set on picking up Armada Supernova over on Gamersgate.
Now I've also got Warhammer: Space Marine, Gears of War 3, and Magic 2012 to play on my Xbox.
"Only in death does duty end."
I'm trying to finish the campaign in Trapped Dead....I'm starting to get a little tired of killing zombies. Take on Helicopters is tempting me bad !!!!!
Long weekend equals long night of board gaming last night.
Kicked it off with Settlers of Catan with 6. Moved on to King of Tokyo with 5...it's a great little simple, quick, easy to learn dice roller about giant monsters smacking the Hell out of each other that you can rip through in half an hour. Then we got in to the real meat for game night, playing 5 player Galaxy Trucker (which was, as usual, chaotic and ridiculous fun) twice. A 6 player game of Survive! broke things up a bit, and then 4 of us finished up Cyclades. Good stuff!
Tonight, I am finally going to attempt to solo Arkham Horror and start figuring it out. And later this weekend...not really sure. Maybe some more Kingdom of Amalur?
World of Tanks. With the free day of Premium account status from the Valentine's Special (http://worldoftanks.com/news/1023-valentines-special/) combined with the 5x experience for the first victory of the day on all of my tanks from the Battle of the Kasserine Pass Special (http://worldoftanks.com/news/1030-battle-kasserine-pass-special/), I will be busy all day (I have over forty tanks in my garage).
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi41.tinypic.com%2F2lww20p.jpg&hash=336ee0dcc55a2d3ce710394b885195e34924ce30)
Best arty battle ever!
Quote from: Greybriar on February 19, 2012, 10:17:42 AM
I will be busy all day (I have over forty tanks in my garage).
40 tanks! :o That's not a game, that's a full time job!
Congrats on a great game. 10 kills with arty! Wow!!!
Quote from: Shelldrake on February 19, 2012, 11:07:22 AM
40 tanks! :o That's not a game, that's a full time job!
Congrats on a great game. 10 kills with arty! Wow!!!
Thanks, Shelldrake.
Most of the tanks in my garage are elite and I seldom use them. And the high tiered ones that aren't elite are too expensive to run without a Premium account or some kind of special. Today I have both--Premium account status and a 5x special. So I'm planning on using every tank in my garage for one battle today and after the server resets tonight. It
will be a full time job today for sure.
Quote from: Arctic Blast on February 18, 2012, 08:01:23 PM
Tonight, I am finally going to attempt to solo Arkham Horror and start figuring it out.
How did Arkham Horror get on?
Would you recommend solo? With others? is it too scary to play with a 12 year old? Is it too scary for a 45 year old? Will I go mad?
Played a bit of the Hospital RPG with my daughters, i was a baby with a bleeding leg. once they were able to bandage my leg all of a sudden i started to bleed out of my ears. they managed to fill the ears with some wool when suddenly my eyes started bleeding. not before long i had a bloody coughing going on and had to puke all over the place.
remember: none of this was my initiative, it was the two doctors detecting all this. i think i need some time to get ready for some more kid games. the hardest part was the puking followed by a violent rubbing in the face with some half clean towel. maybe they were thinking of a tchetchenian war lazarett.
Quote from: Keunert on February 19, 2012, 02:59:59 PM
Played a bit of the Hospital RPG with my daughters, i was a baby with a bleeding leg. once they were able to bandage my leg all of a sudden i started to bleed out of my ears. they managed to fill the ears with some wool when suddenly my eyes started bleeding. not before long i had a bloody coughing going on and had to puke all over the place.
remember: none of this was my initiative, it was the two doctors detecting all this. i think i need some time to get ready for some more kid games. the hardest part was the puking followed by a violent rubbing in the face with some half clean towel. maybe they were thinking of a tchetchenian war lazarett.
Now THAT was too scary and made me go mad. Never mind any Shub-Niggurath.
Shubb-Niggurath? What kind of shrubbery is this?
Quote from: Keunert on February 19, 2012, 04:51:32 PM
Shubb-Niggurath? What kind of shrubbery is this?
This kind:
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F8%2F8f%2FShub-Niggurath.jpg%2F300px-Shub-Niggurath.jpg&hash=0cabe2bd7c4c9a1a0efd795467960d5f09890306)
Quote from: Hartford688 on February 19, 2012, 01:36:31 PM
Quote from: Arctic Blast on February 18, 2012, 08:01:23 PM
Tonight, I am finally going to attempt to solo Arkham Horror and start figuring it out.
How did Arkham Horror get on?
Would you recommend solo? With others? is it too scary to play with a 12 year old? Is it too scary for a 45 year old? Will I go mad?
Pretty well...well, the 2nd attempt.
First game was a disaster. Lots of little mistakes, but after a few turns I had figured out where I was doing things wrong. So I put it back in the box and started again today. This time, things went a lot better. It isn't that it's a really complicated game once you get in to that, there are just a number of little things that you need to remember to do. And for rolling checks, you'll be looking at an investigator's base ability, whatever minus the monster/gate/whatever provides, any alteration given by the slumbering Ancient One you're against that game, and anything you gan from equipment/weapons/spells/etc. So miss one and it throes everything off.
Anyway, I ran 3 characters solo. Lucked out massively on the initial card draw when all of them ended up with useful gear. Was stomping monsters like a champ and closing gates, but kept having to spend clue tokens to add to my rolls so I could never seal locations. It all quickly went pear shaped, one investigator ended up in the Asylum after dropping to 0 sanity, and then Azathoth awoke once his doom track filled. And once he emerges, that's it. Still, I REALLY enjoyed it.
As for your questions, Hartford :
It is a good solo game (most co-ops are), but there is no way you could possibly do anything with just 1 character on the board, so you'll need to run a few. I actually haven't played it with others yet, but I know I have a few friends who should be totally in to it.
As for a 12 year old...it isn't a game loaded with visual horror, so there isn't a lot of blood splatter and that sort of thing. It IS creepy and bad things DO happen pretty much every turn. As long as you were comfortable with how the game worked before playing with anyone else, it should be fine.
You will need a fair amount of space. It has a 6 panel board, there are short encounter decks for each district (9 of them), about 10 decks of small cards for items, spells, bank loans, etc. (of those, only 4 are really all that high a pile), and there are Mythos and Gate decks. You also need space for an Ancient One card, a card for every investigator (with room for their money, sanity and stamina tokens, and cards they have gained), a small stack of gate tokens, plus the main storage of sanity, stamina, clue, and doom/elder sign markers.
Lots of stuff in the box. Lots of randomness when you draw makes for a lot of replayability. And there are 4 big box and 4 small box expansions available, too.
I posted this at wargamer too. I hate to crosspost but I figure some people might not check Wargamer anymore.
This weekend it was War in the Pacific PBEM with Jomni, but I've also begun a solo game to try and learn some better tactics. (I must find a way to stop Jomni!)
I played some World of Tanks. I recently "upgraded" from the T-34 to the T-34/85. I use quotes because I find it to be both less capable gunwise (so far) and also puts me in more difficult matches. I used the T-34 with the 57mm ZiS-4. It has excellent accuracy, decent penetration, and the 30 rounds per minute make for a perfect standoff tank. I can fire quickly and accurately enough to sometimes time my salvos to screw up the enemy's solution on me. Because of the matchmaking system I find the T-34/85 is useless unless you can be hull down, and the gun I have currently isn't accurate, fires slowly, and does not penetrate well for its matchmaker opponents.
I plan this week to play some Crusader Kings 2 demo, and Armada 2526 to prepare for a PBEM game soon (I hope)
I broke down an got Combat Mission Battle for Normandy last night. Great game. I've posted an AAR in the GH AAR section.
Quote from: Bison on February 19, 2012, 08:09:36 PM
I broke down an got Combat Mission Battle for Normandy last night. Great game. I've posted an AAR in the GH AAR section.
I've had that one for some time but it rarely gets played. I'm kinda hoping the Commonwealth Module will respark my interest in the game. Guess we will see.
Quote from: republic on February 19, 2012, 07:47:08 PM
I played some World of Tanks. I recently "upgraded" from the T-34 to the T-34/85. I use quotes because I find it to be both less capable gunwise (so far) and also puts me in more difficult matches. I used the T-34 with the 57mm ZiS-4. It has excellent accuracy, decent penetration, and the 30 rounds per minute make for a perfect standoff tank. I can fire quickly and accurately enough to sometimes time my salvos to screw up the enemy's solution on me. Because of the matchmaking system I find the T-34/85 is useless unless you can be hull down, and the gun I have currently isn't accurate, fires slowly, and does not penetrate well for its matchmaker opponents.
I am liking my T34-85 with the tier 7 85mm gun but it is definitely a hull down sniping tank. Brawling will get you killed...fast! Don't bother with the 100mm gun. Its increased damage and penetration don't make up for the poor accuracy and lower rate of fire.
Quote from: Bismarck on February 18, 2012, 10:37:42 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on February 18, 2012, 10:33:28 AM
I just won my second Steam & Iron battle-- Otranto 1915, a great scenario. So, I'll probably be up to my neck in dreadnaughts all weekend.
Have you ever won with HMCS Rainbow?
Hey Bismarck. I tried the Rainbow scenario over the weekend and only lasted about 15 min. vs the Leipzig. Got some good hits on her but the poorer shell quality just didn't result in any great damage. Gonna try it again.
I finally got a minor vic by jinking and firing from a distance.
Arctic Blast:
Thanks very much for taking the time for the detailed feedback - very helpful indeed. I'll certainly add this to the list - just about to place an order for a couple of games and trying to figure which will get the most use/best reception.
Hartford688
Quote from: Hartford688 on February 20, 2012, 01:03:07 PM
Arctic Blast:
Thanks very much for taking the time for the detailed feedback - very helpful indeed. I'll certainly add this to the list - just about to place an order for a couple of games and trying to figure which will get the most use/best reception.
Hartford688
No problem, Hartford. It really is a great game, and a challenging one (though not to the ball busting degree of Ghost Stories. That's a great co-op, but I'm convinced that it actively hates all who are playing it).