Dammit, *I* Get To Start a Friday Thread This Time!

[bayonetbrant]

lol - You're normally meant to start off telling people what you're playing 

it has potential but its a piss poor thread starter, no musical link, no video, no friday in caps to denote its officialness

suckit both'a'yas!

*I* got to use the spiffy new thread icon before any of you!

[Barthheart]

Warlock.  In preparation for the dismantling of Banzai_Cat.  That is, if he shows up for his beating ;)

Hey B_C is my puppet.... err... neighbour! You'll have to steal his stuff from me.... err.... get past me to get at my little friend.

Beyond Earth
Warlock
Yard work

[undercovergeek]

lol - You're normally meant to start off telling people what you're playing 

it has potential but its a piss poor thread starter, no musical link, no video, no friday in caps to denote its officialness

suckit both'a'yas!

*I* got to use the spiffy new thread icon before any of you!

lol, is that the 'order of the hex' symbol?

[Bison]

I honor of my ship sent hurling into the unknown full of French-Spanish settlers....

Sid Meier's Beyond Earth
SWTOR (I'm taking advantage of the 12X XP bonus to level a Jedi Guardian.)

[undercovergeek]

havent seen anything about the Beyond Earth demo yet

[bayonetbrant]

lol, is that the 'order of the hex' symbol?

Not directly. We just use the hex all over the site so I thought a thread icon would be cool.

[BanzaiCat]

That MP game of Warlock is the second-worst starting position I've had, including all of my single-player games. If I get killed I'mma blaming that, so prepare yourselves for when I go down. :P

Otherwise...I'm prepping for my conference in Vegas next week and worrying about minor minutia such as going sans cash, but I suppose that will just keep me out of the Bunny Ranch.

I'm hoping I can take a game or two but I'm probably going to have to go with a carry-on bag and not a full-size one for check-in, so I don't know if I'll even have room for that.

I WANT to take Field Commander Rommel, Cruel Necessity (have had it for months and not played it once yet), Ottoman Sunset (ditto), and Phantom Leader with me. Phantom Leader is easily the monster of the three and I doubt it's going anywhere. CN is pretty large too. FCR only takes up half a box worth of space so if I pack creatively in another means...OS is pretty packable I think.

I'm already driving myself crazy. 

I still hope to make it to the MP game Sunday morning. I have a lot going on that day but I will set the alarm Sunday morn so I can let youse guys kick my ass.

[Tuna]

I finally finished my Xenonauts campaign so now it's on to my Hobbits campaign in Age of Wonders III.

Hopefully we'll get some more PBEM turns in for Pride of Nations but things are screwed up right now and I can't make the game recognize orders from UCG or Tuna.

If you need, we can try and go back to the last turn again? Or is that possible (just wondering if the ORD file get's screwed up)?

[Nefaro]

Command - More scenario work. Spent a good portion of last Sunday plotting out he locations of former soviet air bases in Google Earth. Now I need to find out what ones I'm going to use as targets in my RSR Dreamland scenario and bring them into the game.

I always had to spend more time researching historical scenarios than actually working on them in various game editors.   >:(

Has anyone done specific period/area map templates that already have some bases located on them for CMANO yet?  That kind of stuff always made it pumping out scenarios notably faster.

For me research is one of the things I really enjoy but most of my play time as been creating scenarios in editor mode on an ad hoc basis. One of the things I love doing is loading up one of my US carrier battle group import files, load up the Kola peninsula bases and defenses, add in some opposing air craft and ships, and then just hit play and see what happens. Also done similar things for other countries defenses. Taking out a countries defenses with a battle group is one thing, doing it with a SSGN or two is in some ways more fun.

I was going to release the bases I had plotted out as a import file consisting of single unit airfields. I built the airbase at malminkle (yes, Clancy got it right, there really was an airbase there) as a multiple unit air base in GE and was going to release that as an import as well. I'll be building out the other air bases as multiple unit airbases on an as needed / time permitting basis. If you haven't already, check out the stock import / export files. There's probably a file or two that will give you a head start for most scenarios.

blh42 has done some amazing import files to. World and US cities for both the CWDB and DB3000, World Airports, ans US bases and squadrons. blh42 Imports

Thanks for the info.

Tracking down all the bases in a scenario's area was always a big time sink so it's good to see there are resources to help get a head start.

[undercovergeek]

I finally finished my Xenonauts campaign so now it's on to my Hobbits campaign in Age of Wonders III.

Hopefully we'll get some more PBEM turns in for Pride of Nations but things are screwed up right now and I can't make the game recognize orders from UCG or Tuna.

If you need, we can try and go back to the last turn again? Or is that possible (just wondering if the ORD file get's screwed up)?

yeah, this last turn worked for me and its the next logical one but we can roll back not a problem - i have all the saves if needed

[bbmike]

Nothing but Civilization Beyond Earth as far as the eye can see!

[edit]  I will also try gameleaper's new starship battles mod for his game .  ;)

[Gusington]

BC your avatar is not showing up for me, FYI.

Star my sister looks just like me, but with hair. You will enjoy.

After getting bitchslapped by AoW III I may start a sandbox game. Definitely starting a campaign of Shadow of Mordor. Rome 2 Macedon and Armenia both beckon. And the new Wings game is calling to me as well.

[Cyrano]

Lessee...

CM:RT with Judge and PanzerDe.  The former is wrapping up in a way that would have made Sam Peckinpah proud.  The latter presently involves tanks hunting for each other in forests...which two geniuses thought THAT would be a good idea?

A couple of CM:BN games.

P&S with PanzerDe...note to self: volunteering to be the French at Pavia goes down in the "bad idea" column.

Campaign: Leipzig for AAR purposes

Grimrock II with the boy...discovered that the AI has figured out the "run for the nearest closable door" trick and will send MOBs around behind you to cut off your retreat.  Nothing more glorious than getting shellacked by ratlings.  Then again, when you're wielding a femur for a weapon, what does one expect?

Best,

Jim
"Cyrano"
:/7)

[BanzaiCat]

BC your avatar is not showing up for me, FYI.

Thanks, Gus. Fixed.

[LongBlade]

Rome II

Assassin's Creed III

Going to decide on a paint scheme for my Dropzone Commander minis and start painting.