Just re-installed FSX and Air Hauler and REX2 and TrafficX and UTX Terrain and FSX Passengers...so might fly a couple of jobs over the weekend.
Finishing my Band of Heroes AAR this weekend. The US lost (simply a case of confirming it this turn) in case you weren't following.
Rugby is on pretty much all day Saturday, so I'll likely get nothing done (apart from the aforementioned AAR) and Sunday I'm going to see Man of Steel for Fathers Day. There should be some time left to try some more Wargame:AirLand Battle
That's it - Judge is out.
The Occult Chronicles!!!! Maybe a bit of
Skyward Collapse... and
Defiance or
FUSE.
I'm going to have to go back to
Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge after watching Pewpewchewchew's latest AAR on the Return to St. Vith.
No matter how long I stay away from BftB, as soon as I see someone play it, I instantly want to play it there and then!!!!
The Plan:
7 Grand Steps - just one more turn....
Distant Worlds: Shadows - getting the 4x itch again.
SimCity - new patch to try
testing HoS
Start Unconditional Surrender - board game setup for weeks now
Of course if the weather is nice I'll be outside doing yard stuff and won't get any of this done.... :P
Quote from: spelk on June 14, 2013, 04:36:32 AM
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I'm going to have to go back to Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge after watching Pewpewchewchew's latest AAR on the Return to St. Vith.
No matter how long I stay away from BftB, as soon as I see someone play it, I instantly want to play it there and then!!!!
Damn you Spelk! ;)
It will be HOT, HOT, HOT here all weekend (central Texas), so in between swimming I plan to finish stickering the rest of expansion pack #6 for Commands and Colors: Ancients (The Spartans) and I also want to try a solo game of CC:A. My son is on his summer vacation down at the coast and so I won't have my usual playing partner until late July.
Also on the play list is Combat Commander. A buddy wants to teach me how to play it (via VASSAL).
I've also been itching to get in some ASL, so I may work on finishing up my AAR as well (inspired by Dredd).
CIV III Complete - loving it playing CCM mod and worldwide mod
Maybe a little bit of W0Ts
Continue my Napoleon TW campaign (which I picked up again recently after not playing for like 6 months)
More Distant Worlds
Maybe some WoT.
Some CMBN pbem turns with Con and Grim Reaper
Like BarthHeart mentioned the sun comes out tomorrow, may be doing a lot of yardwork... Cellar's got a nice puddle where my gaming PC is, so have to vacuum that up first.
Also my stepson is coming home from NYC for the weekend, bringing his new GF, so that may be a lot of disruption from the schedule as well.. all good..
Vacation is over today. Back to work on Monday. But I won't let that dampen the gaming enthusiasm! I've had a great week playing Crusader Kings II by myself and then various episodes of Civ IV BTS with friends and some Warlock with bob48. Oh, yeah, there's been a couple of days of Medieval 2 Total War, too.
Driving to Paris to work at the Air Show but im armed with laptop so there will be
AOW - Shadow Magic til my eyes bleed (there isnt a lot to do at the show)
Dom III PBEMs - down to just the 4 now and really enjoying 2 of them - tried some SP but its so souless as an SP experience - theres such an air of trepidation and wonder about sending in a turn for PBEM but SP theres none of that magic
Send in a CMBN turn
Im driving down at 250am, so its an early night, but before i go to bed there will be a quick bash on Airland Battle on 10 v 10 now JH has told me how to call in airstrikes
My 1600 MSP card arrived in the mail the other day from Best Buy so I will be using that this weekend to pickup State of Decay for XBOX 360. I also picked up Walking Dead as well and will fire that up over the weekend sometime.
On PC the plan is to play some Dominions 3 (I've got a PBEM going on and another in the works). I'll probably fire up Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes at some point as well.
Driving. Not a game - Raleigh to Columbus and back - ugh!
I went over to the Forums at Gamesquad and was delighted to see a forum for JTS Napoleonic Battles - as someone referred me to there from here i think or at Wargamer, i forget.
So today i am organising to have my first PBEM game with Campaign Austerlitz - i look forward to it.
Go back a few years i would never have considered turn absed gaming as it felt so slow but nowadays i find it most convenient to fit in a turn or two between work and home life and everything else that comes with reluctantly growing up.
I am interested in AGEODs rise of prussia game too and am considering today whether it is worth getting. If Napoleons Campaigns 2 ever gets released it will be great if it has at least the scale of Rise of Prussia or greater
Not really sure what this weekend will hold game wise. I really need to get back to painting some minis and then there is my stack of boardgames that are always calling to be played. We'll have to see what catches my interest.
Probably more Lords of the Realm 2 and beta-testing.
Continue on with The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing. And continue to get smacked around by Shelldrake in a PBEM game of Commander: The Great War. May start the Smoky Skies campaign of Civ V. And continue patiently counting down the seconds for the Company of Heroes 2 release.
Quote from: Martok on June 14, 2013, 07:17:17 AM
Probably more Lords of the Realm 2 and beta-testing.
Wow. That's a nice throwback!
Quote from: LongBlade on June 14, 2013, 07:33:14 AM
Quote from: Martok on June 14, 2013, 07:17:17 AM
Probably more Lords of the Realm 2 and beta-testing.
Wow. That's a nice throwback!
...and a great one at that. I LOVED that game back in the day.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 14, 2013, 07:55:59 AM
Quote from: LongBlade on June 14, 2013, 07:33:14 AM
Quote from: Martok on June 14, 2013, 07:17:17 AM
Probably more Lords of the Realm 2 and beta-testing.
Wow. That's a nice throwback!
...and a great one at that. I LOVED that game back in the day.
Aye. It's a fun little beer-and-pretzels medieval strategy game, which is what I'd been in the mood for the last few days.
A little non-computer.... more Disc Golf Probably will visit these, although probably will be a short time:
CK II - The Old Gods
Xenonauts
Distant Worlds Shadows
OOTP 14
I wished Dominions 3.....
PE
Quote from: agathosdaimon on June 14, 2013, 06:34:56 AM
I went over to the Forums at Gamesquad and was delighted to see a forum for JTS Napoleonic Battles - as someone referred me to there from here i think or at Wargamer, i forget.
If you like PBEM, I highly encourage you to join one of these sites.
Napoleon Game Club
http://www.wargame.ch/wc/nwc/Napann1.htm
Link to various Tiller Game Clubs
http://www.wargame.ch/
The blitz host HPS/Tiller, as well as several other games for PBEM and IP gaming.
http://theblitz.org/
I've actually been replaying some 1776 and French and Indian War to look at getting back into some PBEM.
I'm not sure what I'll play this weekend. Far Cry 3 and one of my HPS titles most likely.
Rift - if I can even get in or dailies/events in GW2.
CardHunter - just got the Beta invite, got check this out.
Quote from: undercovergeek on June 14, 2013, 06:17:46 AM
Driving to Paris to work at the Air Show but im armed with laptop so there will be
AOW - Shadow Magic til my eyes bleed (there isnt a lot to do at the show)
Dom III PBEMs - down to just the 4 now and really enjoying 2 of them - tried some SP but its so souless as an SP experience - theres such an air of trepidation and wonder about sending in a turn for PBEM but SP theres none of that magic
Send in a CMBN turn
Im driving down at 250am, so its an early night, but before i go to bed there will be a quick bash on Airland Battle on 10 v 10 now JH has told me how to call in airstrikes
Get plenty photo's mate!
I've got one more city to capture to win ETW's American Revolution campaign and I think every guy in the British army between me and it. I also have been to make another honest try at finishing Icewind Dale 2. There's this giant Black Dragon who won't let me get past him. Or her. I haven't gotten close enough to tell yet. But if I see one Father's Day war movie, I may chuck it all and play CMFI.
Quote from: PanzersEast on June 14, 2013, 09:04:26 AM
A little non-computer.... more Disc Golf Probably will visit these, although probably will be a short time:
CK II - The Old Gods
Xenonauts
Distant Worlds Shadows
OOTP 14
I wished Dominions 3.....
PE
Ah! Yes CKII. I will be playing that. Why it seems only yesterday I was a craven Khazak Khan who was clubbed into incapacity by the Byzantines on a field of victorious battle. Since I had been hit in the head, I let my son out of jail and died and then he got all the credit for
beating the Byzantines. BUT he had the Duchy of Novograd so now the Khazaks are expanding up there and giving up on Georgia.
I'm really fascinated with the endless, fairly plausible narratives the game generates.
Otherwise the usual: ARMAIII, the Burning Blue and CLOD.
So far i have in mind playing WINSPMBT & WINSPWW2; Strike Fighters 2; RTW (Rome Total Realism Mod Platinum Ed); and some flights in FSX.
I will be checking out the VoidDestroyer playable alpha (http://www.voiddestroyer.com/download.html) now that I've got it working...and not sure what else.
I'm sitting on the fence on this one.
On the one hand I'm thinking of hooking up the wheel and pedals to get some F1: 2012 in. On the other hand, I have an urge to feed my inner Civil War general with Scourge of War and/or HPS: Gettysburg, as well as my usual late-night Rising Storm gaming.
I wish there was an easy way to plug and play the wheel/pedal combo.
Screw it, I'm going to hook up the wheel and pedals now and it will be waiting for me when I get done work.
Maybe a little SCII Zerg campaign. I confess I am having trouble getting into it. The campaigns in SC1, including Broodwar were great. SCII was pretty good. This one feels a bit like a rat in a maze. It is all too narrowly scripted (im on 4th or 5th mission). I have tended to kill the game to play vs AI maps in custom games.
1) A few more turns with Tuna for our PBEM for CMBN.
2) In the spirit of watching the US Open, continue to play Action PC Golf...at least I am good at golf in this game versus real life:)
3) Gunslinger - besides Action PC Golf, might be my game of the year so far.
Just picked up Warlock Master of the Arcane from Gamersgate for the low low price of 4.99! MetalDog, you've got another potential game partner here. ;)
As I've been reading With Frederick the Great a Story of the Seven Years War (G.A.Henty) as a very light and rather fun introduction to the period (think Sharpe in jackboots :) ) I've been playing some Rise of Prussia Gold starting with the Saxony scenario as that is where I'm upto in the book.
Quote from: W8taminute on June 14, 2013, 06:43:55 PM
Just picked up Warlock Master of the Arcane from Gamersgate for the low low price of 4.99! MetalDog, you've got another potential game partner here. ;)
Any time, my friend. Any time :)
Quote from: Wolfe1759 on June 14, 2013, 06:53:05 PM
As I've been reading With Frederick the Great a Story of the Seven Years War (G.A.Henty) as a very light and rather fun introduction to the period (think Sharpe in jackboots :) ) I've been playing some Rise of Prussia Gold starting with the Saxony scenario as that is where I'm upto in the book.
Good book actually. Very light and fairly predictable but a good read. There aren't a whole lot of books on the subject unfortunately.
I am finishing up my Distant Worlds campaign
Other than that, not sure what I'm in the mood for
Quote from: W8taminute on June 14, 2013, 06:43:55 PM
Just picked up Warlock Master of the Arcane from Gamersgate for the low low price of 4.99! MetalDog, you've got another potential game partner here. ;)
For that price, I picked it up to.
My sprained ankle is prevent me from enjoying the sun like I want to this weekend. Would love to get out shooting or fishing but it ain't going to happen unfortunately. On the bright side that will leave some open time for gaming.
Distant Worlds: Shadows: I went from having no colonies to four. Now I'm having a bit of trouble defending them. I only am able to afford two fleets of about 14 ships a piece and a few loners flying around as escorts. Had to give up a few mining stations to get one empire to like me. Its a little disappointing that my mining stations were there before they colonized a planet, and I have to give them up or they will attack me. Pirates are being a huge pain. One faction has 125 ships and several more have 75+ ships. Not sure how I can compete with that. Combined with the several hostile factions, think I'm in for an interesting time.
Will also be playing some
Xenonauts,
Birth of Rome,
Crusader Kings 2, and
Warlock.
will be outside if the weather permits as much as possible, maybe some croquet and ladder golf with the kids followed by family badminton and barbeque. That will have to be after the yard chores are done. PC game wise I will be finishing Alan Wake, then probably starting F.E.A.R. and mixing in some CIV 5 gods and kings. Although i'm getting the itch to get back to wargaming.
Ghost Division expansion to Conflict of Heroes and some Civ 5.
Finished the new Call of Juarez last week. This weekend will be all about Far Cry 3 : Blood Dragon.
That's IF I can claw myself away from the goddamn Card Hunter beta. That thing is like digital crack.
Worked in a solo game of Great War at Sea: Mediterranean last night using the basic battle rules just to get a familiar with things. Need to re-read the rules again as I think I did a couple things wrong but it was fun. Thinkning about breaking out Flying Colors for a small test game next.
Well I ended up spending my Friday evening installing a bunch of HPS/JTS games that I'd been procrastinating on doing since getting the new rig a few months ago. Actually I had to dig through a bunch of boxes to find a few discs I thought had been lost a couple of moves ago. Thank God I found them. I was starting to worry I'd have to repurchase them. Anywho all is good except I'm waiting on a couple of reactivation codes from JTS. Not worried about it though since the JTS crew is great at customer service. Gearing up to re-enter the PBEM fray.
Had a nice morning of playing some Squad Battles Eagles Strike and JTS support came through just like I knew they would and resolved my issue.
Quote from: Kushan on June 14, 2013, 09:14:10 PM
Quote from: W8taminute on June 14, 2013, 06:43:55 PM
Just picked up Warlock Master of the Arcane from Gamersgate for the low low price of 4.99! MetalDog, you've got another potential game partner here. ;)
For that price, I picked it up to.
My sprained ankle is prevent me from enjoying the sun like I want to this weekend. Would love to get out shooting or fishing but it ain't going to happen unfortunately. On the bright side that will leave some open time for gaming.
Distant Worlds: Shadows: I went from having no colonies to four. Now I'm having a bit of trouble defending them. I only am able to afford two fleets of about 14 ships a piece and a few loners flying around as escorts. Had to give up a few mining stations to get one empire to like me. Its a little disappointing that my mining stations were there before they colonized a planet, and I have to give them up or they will attack me. Pirates are being a huge pain. One faction has 125 ships and several more have 75+ ships. Not sure how I can compete with that. Combined with the several hostile factions, think I'm in for an interesting time.
Will also be playing some Xenonauts, Birth of Rome, Crusader Kings 2, and Warlock.
The game is so much better without pirates . I miss the errands and stuff but I don't miss this: killed off all pirates and late game a new pirate group spawns with 50 high tech ships, attacks and can't be bought off...argh . Turn then off
Rift
Rift
...and yet more Rift.
Oh, and Dominions 3, I guess. 8)
Quote from: mikeck on June 15, 2013, 11:43:42 AM
Quote from: Kushan on June 14, 2013, 09:14:10 PM
Quote from: W8taminute on June 14, 2013, 06:43:55 PM
Just picked up Warlock Master of the Arcane from Gamersgate for the low low price of 4.99! MetalDog, you've got another potential game partner here. ;)
For that price, I picked it up to.
My sprained ankle is prevent me from enjoying the sun like I want to this weekend. Would love to get out shooting or fishing but it ain't going to happen unfortunately. On the bright side that will leave some open time for gaming.
Distant Worlds: Shadows: I went from having no colonies to four. Now I'm having a bit of trouble defending them. I only am able to afford two fleets of about 14 ships a piece and a few loners flying around as escorts. Had to give up a few mining stations to get one empire to like me. Its a little disappointing that my mining stations were there before they colonized a planet, and I have to give them up or they will attack me. Pirates are being a huge pain. One faction has 125 ships and several more have 75+ ships. Not sure how I can compete with that. Combined with the several hostile factions, think I'm in for an interesting time.
Will also be playing some Xenonauts, Birth of Rome, Crusader Kings 2, and Warlock.
The game is so much better without pirates . I miss the errands and stuff but I don't miss this: killed off all pirates and late game a new pirate group spawns with 50 high tech ships, attacks and can't be bought off...argh . Turn then off
Is this occurring even after you've checked the "pirates do not respawn" box?
Yes it is. They didnt "re spawn" really. It was a brand new pirate faction. Just appeared on the outskirts of my empire. Wouldn't talk to me, was very aggressive and had a huge fleet. Very annoying
Hmm. Yeah, that's irritating all right. :-\
Quote from: MengJiao on June 14, 2013, 10:51:21 AM
Quote from: PanzersEast on June 14, 2013, 09:04:26 AM
A little non-computer.... more Disc Golf Probably will visit these, although probably will be a short time:
CK II - The Old Gods
Xenonauts
Distant Worlds Shadows
OOTP 14
I wished Dominions 3.....
PE
Ah! Yes CKII. I will be playing that. Why it seems only yesterday I was a craven Khazak Khan who was clubbed into incapacity by the Byzantines on a field of victorious battle. Since I had been hit in the head, I let my son out of jail and died and then he got all the credit for
beating the Byzantines. BUT he had the Duchy of Novograd so now the Khazaks are expanding up there and giving up on Georgia.
I'm really fascinated with the endless, fairly plausible narratives the game generates.
Otherwise the usual: ARMAIII, the Burning Blue and CLOD.
Strangely -- just CKII TOG all weekend with only an hour or so of The Burning Blue. Gad. in CKII TOG I was a Khazak. One Khan was bashed in the head by the Byzantines and one died of Stress fighting the Byzantines. The third Khan barely avoided being killed by the Byzantines and has now declared all areas near the Byzantines independent so as to stay out of trouble when the Byzantines come in to join another mass rebellion. So now the Khazaks are centered around Moscow and Moyzhansk.
I ended up grabbing The Witcher 2 from Steam's weekend sale, and played about 6 hours of that. I also played Football Manager 2013 taking Farnborough FC through a season, which saw us at the top of the table going into January only to fall back to 5th by the end. Currently in a playoff for the 2nd promotion spot out of Conference South. Since the board expected a mid-table finish I guess it was a good year. I should have looked at the club more before I took the job though, horrible finances with no money to improve the team at all. I also upgraded my Title Bout Championship Boxing to the latest version since it was only $10 if you had a license from an earlier edition. Hopefully now it will finally get the management/career mode stuff that people have been waiting years to get. I only did a quick test to see what it looks like, having Hagler face off with Leonard for 12 rounds. I also upgraded to Out of the Park 14, but didn't have time to play with it yet.
I really did not get a chance to game much... played a little Iron Front w/ Simhq group but had to leave early and OOTP 14. I played over 72 holes of disc golf this weekend and some practice... arm is worn out.
PE
Just lost my first PBEM game of Commander: The Great War to Shelldrake. I played as the Central Powers and he won by May, 1915 :(
Well you were just shy of the historical finish of the actual war by a few years not too shabby. Chin up and give it another go General.
Commander: The Great War is pretty addictive in PBEM. I just wish the tech research wss quicker. I would select something to research like chemical warfare and forget about it, amd then as I was just about to lose the game I got word that research was complete.
The timing was pretty close to historical though as were a lot of other aspects of the camaign, even if I did not last long enough to watch new nations enter the war. Turkey did suprisingly well even as their infantry got the snot pounded outby of them by British artillery and naval guns.
Quote from: Gusington on June 18, 2013, 07:22:03 AM
Commander: The Great War is pretty addictive in PBEM. I just wish the tech research wss quicker. I would select something to research like chemical warfare and forget about it, amd then as I was just about to lose the game I got word that research was complete.
That
was something that seemed to be a bit slow to me too. While you shouldn't be able to research all the goodies, the large belligerents had many of those techs researched by the end of the war (historically). Investing in more tech research is also expensive so boosting rates well enough can cripple your army & replacements. I've not played the latest version(s), however, so maybe it's been adjusted.
^ I don't think it has. Maybe playing against the AI doesn't make it that big of a deal but against another human it is worse.
Hey Gus. How's the naval combat side or the game?
Not bad...players get naval research and upgrades amd there are a fair amount of relevant ship types available, plus transports and naval supply are modeled. Combat is modeled just like land combat. Naval units are very expensive too.