The weekend is here, and in honor of the Warlock AAR going up, it'll be a Warlock weekend! My buddy W8taminute has been playing a lot recently and I hope to shepherd him along to a MP place ;) I'm sure there will be lots of Civ IV MP as well. I might even sneak in some CKII or M2TW.
Occult Chronicles has it's hooks into me big time, now that I really understand it.
Deep into a Civ V campaign as Spain. This is using Play the World mod for G&K, on a massive earth map with true start locations, and on marathon.... turn ~680 and only up to 1540AD. I control Iberia, most of North Africa, Madagascar, and am starting in on Java. Took out the Songhai so far. Closest point rivals are France and the Iroquois.
Maybe try some DW: Shadows.....
I just started a new Shogun 2 campaign so I will probably be playing that most of the weekend, unless the 1.6 patch for Minecraft comes out and in that case I will start a new world in that game.
so how many of you are this guy:
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^I so would like to be that guy however I would be setting a bad example for my kids if I sat in my underwear at the computer/XBOX all weekend. ;D
Quote from: MetalDog on June 21, 2013, 05:40:59 AM
...My buddy W8taminute has been playing a lot recently and I hope to shepherd him along to a MP place ;)
I was so tempted last night to Steam chat you asking if you wanted to play but got sucked into my SP campaign. :)
I'm not sure what my plans are yet during the evenings this weekend but do you have any other days during the week you and I and whomever else could get together for some Warlock MP? 8)
Trying very hard to resist the GOG sale. Been struggling all week to make slow progress in FOTS with Darth mod and ETW as Russia so I need a break from all that stress. Time to take some heads off in Skyrim and pick some flowers afterward.
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so how many of you are this guy:
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Heck yes, especially since the wife is out of town this weekend. ;D
Quote from: W8taminute on June 21, 2013, 09:23:12 AM
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I'm not sure what my plans are yet during the evenings this weekend but do you have any other days during the week you and I and whomever else could get together for some Warlock MP? 8)
I'll take a piece of that action! 8)
Quote from: TheCommandTent on June 21, 2013, 07:23:40 AM
I just started a new Shogun 2 campaign so I will probably be playing that most of the weekend, unless the 1.6 patch for Minecraft comes out and in that case I will start a new world in that game.
Lots of possibilities including Shogun2:
CKII TOG
BattlesFromtheBulge
CLOD
ARMAIII
The Burning Blue
Filling sandbags and building berms. Wheeee!
Investigating weird sh*t in F.E.A.R. .......man that Alma girl is starting to get on my nerves :)
Trying not to buy anymore at GOG ..... just picked up Deus Ex GOTY so far...sh*t just check GOG they have a bunch of bundles up.
Gotto go 8)
Who knows :(
Band of Heroes ARR to complete - this will need to be done on Sunday.
Challenger II 1/35 scale model to get moving on - maybe some Sunday time here too
Sea Harrier 1/48 by Tamiya waiting in the wings (pun intended) - whenever - I'm not starting it until I've completed the Challenger II. I only bought it because it was 2/3rds off at £14!
And so many other games to get into still...and yet I STILL loaded up Mafia again (the first one) to play through...AGAIN...for the 5th(?) time!! Great game mind.
Of course I have drinking all day tomorrow which kind of wipes out 1 day of gaming...rugby is on with the first proper British and Irish Lions test against the Wallabies - pub here I come - closely followed by Scotland v Italy.
A couple of Vietnam squad battle pbem turns and the "panic! The wife is coming home and the house needs cleaning" dlc for the left alone for a week husband game.
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I'm not sure what my plans are yet during the evenings this weekend but do you have any other days during the week you and I and whomever else could get together for some Warlock MP? 8)
I'll take a piece of that action! 8)
Excellent! Since Wednesdays usually are our Civ IV session how does Tuesday or Thursday look?
Oh god knows. I guess I'll play something. And Dominions 3.
Out of my SciFi mood and into a modern combat mood.
Playing Combat Mission Shock Force
Trying it Graviteams "Shield of the Prophet". I like the engine... Very immersive.
And just like Jello...there is always room for Scourge of War
Continuing with The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, may start the Empires of the Smoky Skies campaign in Civ V, and looking forward to the release of Company of Heroes 2.
I caught a bit of a Shogun Fall of the Samurai bug as well...trying to prevent it from spreading.
The 3 main contenders for my time this weekend will be Distant Worlds Shadows, Rift, and State of Decay on my 360.
Probably play some Xenonauts as well, but I want to either look for a few mods or do some data editing myself. I love the game, but having such short LoS on my soldiers means that all it is is my guys creeping forward a few paces until I get shot at from the fog of war.
Some more Rise of Prussia Gold and a bit of Civ V probably.
Probably alternating between AJE, ROP Gold, and CMBN. And maybe some Ancient Warfare games if I get bored.
Unless I get derailed and spend the entire weekend wandering around Skyrim again.
Quote from: tgb on June 21, 2013, 06:00:04 AM
Occult Chronicles has it's hooks into me big time, now that I really understand it.
Same. Once I figured out how the spells, psionics, weapons, etc could manipulate the 'trick taking' card game then it became more enjoyable. Did you ever get a save of that bug you found?
I've also been flying the new F-15 and Su-27 in
Flaming Cliffs 3 and it's been enjoyable (when I don't get blown out of the sky rather abruptly!). I can see myself jumping into some multi-player with those at some point. And getting blown out of the sky quite abruptly! :)
I also want to fire up a fresh game of
AI War this weekend. I'll need to brew a pot of coffee to juice up for that one.
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I'm not sure what my plans are yet during the evenings this weekend but do you have any other days during the week you and I and whomever else could get together for some Warlock MP? 8)
I'll take a piece of that action! 8)
Excellent! Since Wednesdays usually are our Civ IV session how does Tuesday or Thursday look?
Any night next week should be good as the old lady is out of town until next Sunday. Tuesday is the Warlock AAR game, so, Thursday might be best.
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I'm not sure what my plans are yet during the evenings this weekend but do you have any other days during the week you and I and whomever else could get together for some Warlock MP? 8)
I'll take a piece of that action! 8)
Excellent! Since Wednesdays usually are our Civ IV session how does Tuesday or Thursday look?
Any night next week should be good as the old lady is out of town until next Sunday. Tuesday is the Warlock AAR game, so, Thursday might be best.
Thursday it is then. Barthheart does that work for you?
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I'm not sure what my plans are yet during the evenings this weekend but do you have any other days during the week you and I and whomever else could get together for some Warlock MP? 8)
I'll take a piece of that action! 8)
Excellent! Since Wednesdays usually are our Civ IV session how does Tuesday or Thursday look?
Any night next week should be good as the old lady is out of town until next Sunday. Tuesday is the Warlock AAR game, so, Thursday might be best.
Thursday it is then. Barthheart does that work for you?
Ya man. Revenge will be mine! 8)
Going to the folks for the weekend with junior, between now and then and upon my return there will mostly be:-
CMBN PBEMs - one tournament and one for fun, winning both, for now
Dom III PBEMS - 4 left before i start winding down the PBEM count for all strategy games in my inbox - its been an education, and I have had me eyes opened to the wider gaming world - needless to say beyond a select few my future lies in single player - i just need to refine my game choices for those with a good AI
Endless Space - i hope to hit Huw up on Sunday night to kickstart our ES campaign - i like the game and am lulled into a warm, cosy place by Huws dulcit tones in my ear
Im downloading Ghost Recon Online - i liked the PS3 version when it came out and thought it was brilliant, now my PC can play it too ill be right in there and am looking forward to dropping in and out and stealthily killing folks
Watching some deck building vids and lets play vids on youtube to refine my Wargame Airland Battle skills
Slowly watching the clock tick towards EU4, Rome II and BF4 (my reason for not buying BF3)
Last weekend I preordered 'New House: The Real Deal'. This weekend I'll be installing it for a friends&family multiplayer event. It did require a preinstallation patch known as 'U-Haul-17footVan' which I was able to download locally.
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 21, 2013, 07:50:09 PM
Last weekend I preordered 'New House: The Real Deal'. This weekend I'll be installing it for a friends&family multiplayer event. It did require a preinstallation patch known as 'U-Haul-17footVan' which I was able to download locally.
I feel your pain. At least there will be help to share the load. Enjoy the pizza and beer. I haven't had a decent slice since I left there :(
@Barthheart -
Bring it biz-atch!!
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 21, 2013, 07:50:09 PM
Last weekend I preordered 'New House: The Real Deal'. This weekend I'll be installing it for a friends&family multiplayer event. It did require a preinstallation patch known as 'U-Haul-17footVan' which I was able to download locally.
Make sure your character wears the "back-brace of fortitude" and watch out for the "Awkwardly Large Furniture" boss I hear he is tough to beat.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on June 21, 2013, 08:06:11 PM
Make sure your character wears the "back-brace of fortitude" and watch out for the "Awkwardly Large Furniture" boss I hear he is tough to beat.
I was just thinking that I might need that particular bit of armor loot to complete the quest but it's a bit late now. The Boss Fight near the end will likely consist of a particularly old (though viable) antique wooden clawfoot couch that has become a family heirloom of sorts.
Quote from: MetalDog on June 21, 2013, 07:57:43 PM
I feel your pain. At least there will be help to share the load. Enjoy the pizza and beer. I haven't had a decent slice since I left there :(
I got the beer covered but I don't get into New Haven much anymore so I have to make do with the local 'zza. Not bad but not Sally's, Pepe's, or Modern. Still, getting the goods in a fraction of the time it takes to watch an episode of 'Castle' has a charm of it's own... :D
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Quote from: MetalDog on June 21, 2013, 07:57:43 PM
I feel your pain. At least there will be help to share the load. Enjoy the pizza and beer. I haven't had a decent slice since I left there :(
I got the beer covered but I don't get into New Haven much anymore so I have to make do with the local 'zza. Not bad but not Sally's, Pepe's, or Modern. Still, getting the goods in a fraction of the time it takes to watch an episode of 'Castle' has a charm of it's own... :D
That's mana of the gods right there :)
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Quote from: Staggerwing on June 21, 2013, 08:45:38 PM
Quote from: MetalDog on June 21, 2013, 07:57:43 PM
I feel your pain. At least there will be help to share the load. Enjoy the pizza and beer. I haven't had a decent slice since I left there :(
I got the beer covered but I don't get into New Haven much anymore so I have to make do with the local 'zza. Not bad but not Sally's, Pepe's, or Modern. Still, getting the goods in a fraction of the time it takes to watch an episode of 'Castle' has a charm of it's own... :D
That's mana of the gods right there :)
For the rest of you, possibly scratching your heads:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally's_Apizza
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pepe_Pizzeria_Napoletana
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Apizza
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:'(
Sorry, that was very thoughtless of me... :-[
First time I've gotten hungry reading a thread on this site. I like mine like I like my women....thin & crispy.
I don't know what's wrong with me- nothing's grabbing my attention.
I might just need some food and a beer and an attitude adjustment.
Finally started my first full-on, "no-messing-around" campaign in
Shogun 2. I'm going with the Hojo clan, my traditional favorite from the original STW; I love that they have cheap castles again (just like in the first game). :)
For my 4x fix, I think I'm gonna fire up
Armada 2526 Supernova. I've had a certain craving for it the last couple days, and I finally found & installed the bloody disks!
Quote from: Toonces on June 21, 2013, 10:30:40 PM
I don't know what's wrong with me- nothing's grabbing my attention.
I might just need some food and a beer and an attitude adjustment.
Well food & beer often helps with that. ;D
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 21, 2013, 09:31:25 PM
Sorry, that was very thoughtless of me... :-[
It's all good my friend. Just been a long time.
The nieces and nephew are up and need to be entertained, so I see a lot of board gaming taking place between excursions to the park and what not. Bring forth the King of Tokyo, Survive! Escape From Atlantis and D&D Adventure Series!
Most likely I will continue my Football Manager game. After being top of the table halfway through the season with Farnsborough in Blue Square South, we dropped to 5th, and got knocked out of the promotion playoffs by Dover in a penalty shootout (I guess away goals weren't used). The board refused to up the salary budget, and all the players want more money. So I resigned and then got offered a job at Tamworth. Other possibilities for the weekend:
Wargame: Airland Battle
SpyParty
OOTP14
Title Bout Championship Boxing
Carriers at War
Distant Worlds
Panzer Command: Ostfront
Quote from: Nefaro on June 21, 2013, 05:25:51 PM
I also want to fire up a fresh game of AI War this weekend. I'll need to brew a pot of coffee to juice up for that one.
I really need to take some time and learn this game.
Quote from: vyshka on June 22, 2013, 02:11:50 AM
So I resigned and then got offered a job at Tamworth. Other possibilities for the weekend:
my office is based in Tamworth - you dont want to see your home ground!!!
I abandoned a game some months ago with Harrogate after doing BS North, BS Premier, CC League 2, and up into CC League 1 in consecutive seasons - great fun
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So I resigned and then got offered a job at Tamworth. Other possibilities for the weekend:
my office is based in Tamworth - you dont want to see your home ground!!!
I abandoned a game some months ago with Harrogate after doing BS North, BS Premier, CC League 2, and up into CC League 1 in consecutive seasons - great fun
The game was rating their pitch as much better than Farnsborough. It did also tell me they were ok financially, but they are over $300k in debt.
Probably one of my best gaming moments ever was gaining promotion to conference national with Cambridge City years ago.
i took scarborough to champions league glory once but i couldnt find them in the latest FM (mind, im playing '10) - i dont know if they went out of business
I ended up finishing the tutorial scenario in Combat Mission: Battles for Normandy.
You all need to look out now...I figured out how to call artillery! 8)
I've been playing some Rift. I think Bison should join me.
Starting a Civ 5 game with the European Map Mod with the civs placed geographically. I'm playing as Rome. Looks well done in the early going.
I've been wanting to try that mod out too, in a later era.
Quote from: vyshka on June 22, 2013, 02:11:50 AM
Most likely I will continue my Football Manager game. After being top of the table halfway through the season with Farnsborough in Blue Square South, we dropped to 5th, and got knocked out of the promotion playoffs by Dover in a penalty shootout (I guess away goals weren't used). The board refused to up the salary budget, and all the players want more money. So I resigned and then got offered a job at Tamworth. Other possibilities for the weekend:
Wargame: Airland Battle
SpyParty
OOTP14
Title Bout Championship Boxing
Carriers at War
Distant Worlds
Panzer Command: Ostfront
Quote from: Nefaro on June 21, 2013, 05:25:51 PM
I also want to fire up a fresh game of AI War this weekend. I'll need to brew a pot of coffee to juice up for that one.
I really need to take some time and learn this game.
So with all those games being considered for play this weekend plus all the other games in need of playing, I ended up spending most of my gaming time finishing a career in the old OOTP developments game, Inside the Park Baseball. It basically is the OOTP engine with an rpg thrown on top. There was talk of there being another edition of the game, but it never materialized. Every once in a while though I start it up and play through a career.
Interesting that Carthage declared war on my Rome about 300 BC. The main point of contention was my founding a city near the toe of the boot that began to encroach on Sicily.
Ended up playing DW, WoT and Alea Jacta Est. Saturday was at a graduation party, so not much gaming then. Also watched a few episodes of the Sopranos in remembrance (think I'm going to watch the whole series, he was a great actor).
I made some real good progress in Skyrim, completing a few quests and exploring new territory. I still haven't made it to my player home near Solitude, always getting side-tracked somehow. Got into to some really tough fights too and had to re-start quite a few times. Now I've got a whole bunch of new stuff to go with my old stuff and I've got to decide what to keep and what I can't do without. :-\
Played a little Rift, Friday night. Which was all my gaming until yesterday afternoon. Played a couple hours of Distant Worlds and a few turns of a new 1st Punic War game in Birth of Rome.
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I just started a new Shogun 2 campaign so I will probably be playing that most of the weekend, unless the 1.6 patch for Minecraft comes out and in that case I will start a new world in that game.
Lots of possibilities including Shogun2:
CKII TOG
BattlesFromtheBulge
CLOD
ARMAIII
The Burning Blue
It turned out to be a Rise of Prussia Gold Week-end. I've been Prussian and the AI Austrians have more-or-less beaten me in the first 3 campaigns. The region cards are pretty neat and some of them relate to seiges.
I was considering shelling out for Combat Mission Fortress Italy/Gustav Line when it occurred to me that I'd never really played CM Battle for Normandy. I fired it up and enjoyed a couple of games (and realized that it's a very, very different game from CMSF). After reading on the Battlefront Forums that most people play it turned-based and not real-time like I've been playing it, I decided to give that a try.
There went the rest of the weekend, and probably the rest of at least this week. I've always enjoyed the CMx2 games, but this is an entirely different level of play.
Yup, Combat Mission Normandy is pretty good fun! I blew most of my gaming time on that this weekend as well.
I have to purposely leave it alone to have a week or weekend. When I feel like I'm winning, that's when I get worried it's about to put on it's Ass-Kicking Boots.
Has anyone tried the ACW Brothers vs. Brothers mod for Empire Total War? If not you should. Spent way more time on this than the other games I was going to play this weekend but it was totally worth it.
Haven't tried it. How is it?
I really like the attention to detail. From the background biographies and various event descriptions to the unit cards and uniforms. Battlefield sound effects blow the vanilla game out of the water and the tactical ai is no pushover even on 'normal' difficulty. The only weakness I see so far is the strategic ai. I wonder though, if I bump the difficulty up to hard what would happen?
From what I read about this mod I believe Darth Mod worked on this mod as well and it shows.
Quote from: W8taminute on June 24, 2013, 10:06:58 PM
I really like the attention to detail. From the background biographies and various event descriptions to the unit cards and uniforms. Battlefield sound effects blow the vanilla game out of the water and the tactical ai is no pushover even on 'normal' difficulty. The only weakness I see so far is the strategic ai. I wonder though, if I bump the difficulty up to hard what would happen?
From what I read about this mod I believe Darth Mod worked on this mod as well and it shows.
Have a link?.. is this for Empire?
I haven't tried it. Empire really left me cold. Although, in fairness, I never gave it much of a chance. Same with NTW. And I think I have about 5 minutes total in Shogun 2.
I love the Total War series, but what I REALLY think I love is M2TW. I keep buying the rest because I'm such a fan of Medieval.
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Quote from: W8taminute on June 24, 2013, 10:06:58 PM
I really like the attention to detail. From the background biographies and various event descriptions to the unit cards and uniforms. Battlefield sound effects blow the vanilla game out of the water and the tactical ai is no pushover even on 'normal' difficulty. The only weakness I see so far is the strategic ai. I wonder though, if I bump the difficulty up to hard what would happen?
From what I read about this mod I believe Darth Mod worked on this mod as well and it shows.
Have a link?.. is this for Empire?
For empire and here is link.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/american-civil-war-the-blue-and-the-grey
Damn you people....now I need to check this out. Does the mod run well? Is it polshed? Are there any other factions besides USA/CSA?
Hi Gus,
I've played about 2.5 hours worth of this mod and aside from slightly longer load times for when you start up the campaign and when you enter manual battles the mod runs smoothly. I'm using version 3.4 though, not the 3.5 beta which I've read has bugs in it.
You can only play as either the USA or the CSA. The map shows only the North American hemisphere with plenty of minors to trade with but you cannot play any of them.
This was one I was going to follow. I don't know how the newer versions got past me. W8taminute, does the mod interfere with Empire TW at all?
^It does. The mod comes with what's called a Mod Installer. Basically the Mod Installer will move the vanilla files required to run ETW for you and replace them with the files required to run ACW. Upon exiting the Mod Installer after you've exited the main game you will be asked if you want to either keep the mod installed or reinstall the vanilla files to go back to vanilla ETW.
The process is not complicated and it does not take too long. I think it takes less than 5 minutes for the file transfers to complete. I could provide more detailed instructions if you decide you want to try out the mod. It's a simple procedure that I could write up for you.
Thanks W8, I am going to try it out.
Thank you W8. It sounds a lot like the mod manager for the ETW mod I use now. I'm very tempted but then I am easy.
Slut.
I'm NOT a slut. I just have an Open Door social policy that's all. ::)
"I'm not easy, just popular"? :P
Being easy used to be popular by itself. ;D
When did it get unpopular??
Quote from: Gusington on June 26, 2013, 06:54:55 AM
When did it get unpopular??
when they realized it was you ;)
(trying to think of clever retort....failing)