Each spring, my company makes us work a mandatory Saturday. Tomorrow is my day. So, I will be playing harder with less time. The games will be Warlock and Civ IV BTS MP. Beyond that, there might be some D&D Online.
I've been thinking of a round or two of Shattered Union. Ironically, While I know I bought the game as a DD, it's not on my 'puter atm and I can't find who I got it from and whether I'm entitled to re-d/l it. :-\
EDIT: just found it. I had gotten it from D2D. Now it's Gamefly. Looks like I'm ok to grab it again but I'm shocked to see how many games I have there that I'd forgotten about! Looks like I'm gonna need some kind of App or spreadsheet to keep track of where my stuff is, between GOG, GamersGate, Steam, Impulse, and now Gamefly I'm worried I'll lose track completely. I have a suspicion there is even a fifth place that has some of my stuff. Maybe Strategy First? I'll have to have a look tonight.
Going to try some War in the East this weekend - see if I can't break into it. I will continue with my Los Angeles Angels OOTP13 game and perhaps fit some DCS...who knows - I might layout for the Huey this weekend.
Also - continue my slaughter that is the US advance in Carentan in my AAR for Band of Heroes
Almost done with my conquest of Western Europe as France in M2TW with Stainless Steel 6.3...just can't pull myself away to get to Diablo III like I wanted or Skyrim. Also looking for some way to get the Khartoum and Zulu mod for NTW without using creepy torrent seeders. If anyone has the mod files please let me know and perhaps we can make an arrangement!
Wot's and Neverwinter Online for me
Hopefully some DDO with some fellas around here. Also trying to finish up my Far Cry 3 campaign and getting some more minis painted.
Working 12hour day shifts, fri-sun.
I need a break from killing things with magic-AOW Shadow Magic, and from 500+ meters away in CMBN. So it's back to Skyrim for me, to stick a blade into something up close. Of course if I had an 88mm Exquisite Bow--- that'd do too.
Fortunately server is going to be down at work, so no I won;t be working. Going to split my time between starting my next Skyrim playthrough, do some Skyrim modding, and try out neverwinter online. I may play some Diablo 3 and Dishonored as well.
Quote from: Sir Slash on May 03, 2013, 08:09:33 AM
I need a break from killing things with magic-AOW Shadow Magic, and from 500+ meters away in CMBN. So it's back to Skyrim for me, to stick a blade into something up close. Of course if I had an 88mm Exquisite Bow--- that'd do too.
I started playing Red Orchestra 2 -- just against the bots so far, but I'm already remapping keys so it looks like I'll be
shooting the Gefrieter unter dem Refuerhergeratormachinen zoon. This will be a catastrophic waste of time, but maybe I'll do so
poorly that my derranged late-night laughter will not be waking the neighbors too much.
Really, my only hope is that the German players have improved since Red Orchestra Original Flavor and that they shoot me often
enough to put a quick end to this silliness....but a little spectating on the servers seems to reveal they are still mostly the immobile, unimaginative snipers they always were. The mindless run-and-gun crowd and I will be swarming over them soon or zoon or both.
Quote from: Sir Slash on May 03, 2013, 08:09:33 AM
I need a break from killing things with magic-AOW Shadow Magic, and from 500+ meters away in CMBN. So it's back to Skyrim for me, to stick a blade into something up close. Of course if I had an 88mm Exquisite Bow--- that'd do too.
I just bough shadow magic and started on the campaign...how do you like it? Is it as deep as everyone says? Should I forget the campaign, grab a mod and start doing random maps instead?
Work for me unfortunately, but a turn of CMBN, CMSF and Dominions 3 are going out no matter what!
Wot's and Neverwiner Online for me.
Wargame: AirLand Battle.
For some reason Star Trek won't work so I'll be troubleshooting that to get it fixed. Maybe some Hitman: Absolution, too.
Trying to finish up my Moddig of Skyrim and may start a new play through or continue with the one I have.
I have Oblivion I am starting to mod next so I may look into it. A couple of FSX flights and not sure if anything else.
PE
This week will be DCS world, more KA-50 training and maybe some Eador 2.
Might get Leviathan now I've read what some of you guys think of it, although I would have liked more single player options. Other than that, I've still got Shaddow Magic on my wish-list, so who knows.
I plan to play Heroes of Annihilitaded Empires. I may also play some rounds of the Great Battles and Forge of Freedom which i bought this week.
Masters of the Broken World and more testing of Lock n Load - Heroes of Stalingrad
Probably Shogun 2 and some beta-testing.
Dark Souls - great RPG for both PS3 and XBOX360
Bioshock Infinite - started a 2nd play through on 1999 mode. I'll chip away at this as much as time permits
Halo Wars - playing primarily for achievement hunting
Dominions 3 - ongoing PBEM game 'Groghammer' as well as my own single player campaign
Hey Mikeck. Love the campaign for Shadow Magic even if it's a little light. The AI's quite good and there's alot of surprises and it doesn't feel scripted at all. Don't really like starting over each new mission with out all the stuff I just built in the last one. I did the tutorial campaigns first. Let me know how you like it.
Quote from: PanzersEast on May 03, 2013, 10:00:07 AM
I have Oblivion I am starting to mod next so I may look into it.
PE
IMO your better of sticking with Skyrim then going back to Oblivion. Oblivion was crap when it was released, and its even crappier when you compare it to Skyrim.
Quote from: Sir Slash on May 03, 2013, 01:47:13 PM
Hey Mikeck. Love the campaign for Shadow Magic even if it's a little light. The AI's quite good and there's alot of surprises and it doesn't feel scripted at all. Don't really like starting over each new mission with out all the stuff I just built in the last one. I did the tutorial campaigns first. Let me know how you like it.
Yeah, like Eador, I hate starting over with new heroes throughout a campaign. I will give it a go. I'm on Norwood now ...is that still part of the tutorial?
I really want to have a battle with other wizards for control over a map. Lots of mods for that but which one is best? Dwiggs or brave new world?
Poker Night 2 probably gets some more play. I picked up Fez this week, so I may play a bit of that. Out of the Park 14 for sure...I keep restarting as a new damn team! I need to really start rolling in to a franchise.
After working through the honey-do list (mow, plant some maters and herbs, etc), I'm going to try to get in some Masters of the Broken World, Leviathan Warships and also hope to check out the latest pre-alpha release of RawBots.
Quote from: Arctic Blast on May 03, 2013, 03:34:43 PM
Poker Night 2 probably gets some more play. I picked up Fez this week, so I may play a bit of that. Out of the Park 14 for sure...I keep restarting as a new damn team! I need to really start rolling in to a franchise.
I'm currently 23-19 with .548 PCT (no idea what that means...win percentage?) but with a last 10 of 5-5 (had a bad time against Detroit I believe). 3rd in the ALR for Home Runs and 6th for the Batting Average in the AL.
I "real time" at x10 speed all games...so it takes me a while to get here
Quote from: Yskonyn on May 03, 2013, 09:10:13 AM
Work for me unfortunately, but a turn of CMBN, CMSF and Dominions 3 are going out no matter what!
Did you hack one of the MFD's in your 'office' to play Dominions on?
Quote from: JudgeDredd on May 03, 2013, 03:47:50 PM
Quote from: Arctic Blast on May 03, 2013, 03:34:43 PM
Poker Night 2 probably gets some more play. I picked up Fez this week, so I may play a bit of that. Out of the Park 14 for sure...I keep restarting as a new damn team! I need to really start rolling in to a franchise.
I'm currently 23-19 with .548 PCT (no idea what that means...win percentage?) but with a last 10 of 5-5 (had a bad time against Detroit I believe). 3rd in the ALR for Home Runs and 6th for the Batting Average in the AL.
I "real time" at x10 speed all games...so it takes me a while to get here
Detroit's a nasty opponent. They have a pretty impressive rotation and a downright absurd batting order.
I think I've finally decided on the Braves for myself...unless I take a go as the Rangers...
Still entranced by War Thunder here....I really suck at it....but still like it.
Doing some board gaming this weekend as well.
Friday nite I got my ass handed to me playing Axis & Allies Pacific. I was playing US/China. I lost three carriers loaded with 2 fighters each in a single kamikaze attack, using all of the Japanese allotment of kamikaze attacks for the the entire game in one shot. There was no coming back from that result though.
More boardgaming in the works for Saturday night. I'm pulling for either FAB The Bulge or No Retreat. A couple of GMT games.
Having a great time in pbem cmbn cmsf and dom3 - all the games have my full attention, I keep meaning to finally blast into a shogun II campaign but never get the chance - I'm shortly cutting back on MP games so should get the chance soon
I've decided to play the Civ 5 Game of the Month TSG58: Austria on emperor going for a culture victory. Always fun to compare scores and strategies, though this is a little over my head, king being my current standard.
Quote from: Arctic Blast on May 03, 2013, 11:36:58 PM
Detroit's a nasty opponent. They have a pretty impressive rotation and a downright absurd batting order.
I think I've finally decided on the Braves for myself...unless I take a go as the Rangers...
No kidding. I'm in the second season playing the home team (Royals) and those bastids are in my division, so I see the Lions all the time. It wasn't a complete trouncing over the course of the first season, but it's getting worse in the second. >:(
I'm working half a day in San Antonio today and then driving back home to (North) Austin. I bought a new wargaming table. I had plans made on a "cat proof" table with a retractable lid when I stumbled upon this table at a local Goodwill. It has a removable lid in three pieces (center and two larger ends) and it's recessed about 3" I'd say on the inside. The lid that removes is a lightweight wood with a nice finish. Not pine. Birch maybe? I'll post pictures later. I need to modify it just a bit however, it's about 1" too narrow to house all of the map for AH Third Reich so I'm going to take the risk of cutting the table down the center and adding an extension of about 6". I can then replace the center lid portion with one that is also 6" wider. Shouldn't be difficult.
Also plan on playing some more Blood Bowl (tabletop). I found a like new 3rd Edition game for $50 at Half Price Books in Austin. I'm not much into fantasy gaming (WH40K and the like) but for some reason football with death and mayhem always intrigued me (in this game that is) and plus I knew that Blood Bowl was a rare game so went for it. We have been having a blast with it! I suppose next I'll get the paints, et. al and start actually painting the cheap little mini's that came with it.
Also playtesting and wargame graphics on the must-do list for the weekend, so I have a fairly busy one planned.
By the by, sorry you have to work today
MetalDog. As someone who works weekends more often than not, you have my full sympathies!
Quote from: Rekim on May 04, 2013, 01:13:29 AM
Friday nite I got my ass handed to me playing Axis & Allies Pacific. I was playing US/China. I lost three carriers loaded with 2 fighters each in a single kamikaze attack, using all of the Japanese allotment of kamikaze attacks for the the entire game in one shot. There was no coming back from that result though.
Ouchie.
Quote from: MengJiao on May 03, 2013, 08:52:49 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on May 03, 2013, 08:09:33 AM
I need a break from killing things with magic-AOW Shadow Magic, and from 500+ meters away in CMBN. So it's back to Skyrim for me, to stick a blade into something up close. Of course if I had an 88mm Exquisite Bow--- that'd do too.
I started playing Red Orchestra 2 -- just against the bots so far, but I'm already remapping keys so it looks like I'll be
shooting the Gefrieter unter dem Refuerhergeratormachinen zoon. This will be a catastrophic waste of time, but maybe I'll do so
poorly that my derranged late-night laughter will not be waking the neighbors too much.
Really, my only hope is that the German players have improved since Red Orchestra Original Flavor and that they shoot me often
enough to put a quick end to this silliness....but a little spectating on the servers seems to reveal they are still mostly the immobile, unimaginative snipers they always were. The mindless run-and-gun crowd and I will be swarming over them soon or zoon or both.
Got online since the players are little easier to work against than the bots (the bots are suicidal -- generally the players are more circumspect).
I was pretty dismal for the first few minutes on most maps, but I did find just the kind of Gefrieter that can be such fun to shoot -- only the best Gefrieters seem to be
the O Gefrieters -- there was one called {LS}OGefreter Klaus Morgenstern* -- yes ! Presumably the LS and the Asterisk mean something in the
secret language of Gefrieters. He got me once or twice and I never got him, but what a fine target!
I've discovered that ARMA 2 has helicopters you can fly, so I'll be screwing around with it using Planned Assault.
I'm also thinking of modding up Skyrim and continuing on my second playthrough.
Quote from: MengJiao on May 04, 2013, 07:07:27 PM
Quote from: MengJiao on May 03, 2013, 08:52:49 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on May 03, 2013, 08:09:33 AM
I need a break from killing things with magic-AOW Shadow Magic, and from 500+ meters away in CMBN. So it's back to Skyrim for me, to stick a blade into something up close. Of course if I had an 88mm Exquisite Bow--- that'd do too.
I started playing Red Orchestra 2 -- just against the bots so far, but I'm already remapping keys so it looks like I'll be
shooting the Gefrieter unter dem Refuerhergeratormachinen zoon. This will be a catastrophic waste of time, but maybe I'll do so
poorly that my derranged late-night laughter will not be waking the neighbors too much.
Really, my only hope is that the German players have improved since Red Orchestra Original Flavor and that they shoot me often
enough to put a quick end to this silliness....but a little spectating on the servers seems to reveal they are still mostly the immobile, unimaginative snipers they always were. The mindless run-and-gun crowd and I will be swarming over them soon or zoon or both.
Got online since the players are little easier to work against than the bots (the bots are suicidal -- generally the players are more circumspect).
I was pretty dismal for the first few minutes on most maps, but I did find just the kind of Gefrieter that can be such fun to shoot -- only the best Gefrieters seem to be
the O Gefrieters -- there was one called {LS}OGefreter Klaus Morgenstern* -- yes ! Presumably the LS and the Asterisk mean something in the
secret language of Gefrieters. He got me once or twice and I never got him, but what a fine target!
I was disappointed in my desire to shoot heaps of Gefriters. Indeed, I did quite badly on most of my excursions online. But why:
1) the game has improved and my run-and-gun stuff doesn't work?
2) my memory is faulty and I only did well on certain maps?
3) I'm out of practice?
4) the bots are smarter?
5) the gefrieters are smarter?
6) I don't know the maps?
Anyway, not doing well on my first excursions is probably the best outcome since it means I will keep playing, but not too much and in any case RO2 is a better game than RO original and the Rising Storm thing should be a lot of fun.
Spent the entire weekend playing Landscape Tycoon... moved 7 cu. yds. of dirt, dug out 2 new flower gardens, moved 96 3 lbs decorative stones, opened pool for the summer.
Niec to be back at work just to sit down. :P
Quote from: Barthheart on May 06, 2013, 12:12:38 PM
Spent the entire weekend playing Landscape Tycoon... moved 7 cu. yds. of dirt, dug out 2 new flower gardens, moved 96 3 lbs decorative stones, opened pool for the summer.
Niec to be back at work just to sit down. :P
I think I played a very similar game this weekend...
My planned weekend gaming turned in to "Holy crap, it's nice out! Time for beer, barbecue and more beer."
Quote from: Arctic Blast on May 06, 2013, 07:33:35 PM
My planned weekend gaming turned in to "Holy crap, it's nice out! Time for beer, barbecue and more beer."
Well, that was my plan... until I got home and found a mountian of dirt in the driveway..... ;D
Quote from: Barthheart on May 06, 2013, 07:42:43 PM
Quote from: Arctic Blast on May 06, 2013, 07:33:35 PM
My planned weekend gaming turned in to "Holy crap, it's nice out! Time for beer, barbecue and more beer."
Well, that was my plan... until I got home and found a mountian of dirt in the driveway..... ;D
Stupid dirt. It's never, ever on your side.
And it NEVER moves itself!!! >:(