It's Friday my Groggy Gamers

[Nefaro]

It's been three weeks since I've played a PC game. 

Don't get me wrong, I've tried a couple times.  But I just stared at the screen for a minute and then Meh.  Tabletop gaming not getting a whole lot more attention either.

What the hell is wrong with me?  Am I losing it in my advancing age? 

If I still lived in the backwoods, I'd just go on a 2-day bender with some interspersed gunplay to get my head straight.  Like Spike Jonze's "Day Job"  in Three Kings:

[Sir Slash]

Watch some youtube vids of people playing games badly and you'll be right back in the zone.

[WallysWorld]

Thanks to encouragement from WallysWorld, I've gone back to CMFI's Conrath's Counterattack Battle #3 and now am making some decent progress there.

Glad to hear that. I haven't started the fourth battle yet, but maybe later today. My armor is really depleted so I have to be super careful with what I have left.

[sandman2575]

eh, I'd take The Cure over DM any day of the week and twice on Friday 'I'm in love' -- (see what i did there?)

anyhoo...

OOTP 16 continues its stranglehold on my playing time. I only discovered OOTP with version 14, and maybe that's a good thing considering how obsessed I've become with this game... making up for lost time, maybe.

Distant Worlds -- can't remember last time I got so drawn back into a game I originally bought years ago. Finally making the effort to learn after countless aborted attempts.  Playing from the very beginning, on pre-warp era, with everything set to 'manual' helps a ton with getting into it. So often before I just felt like the game was essentially playing itself. Amazing depth.

[MengJiao]

Blowing up con and jomni some more and writing about it in the aars

And this week I shall be jumping balls deep into CMANO, it's a game that deserves my love

  Maybe some CMANO, maybe some PanzerBattlesKursk PBEM, definitely some Attila and DCS and boardgames -- which will be Enemy at the Gates Little Saturn.  I think I'm sort of getting the hang of OCS -- it gets pretty interesting when you do breakthrough -- and then what?  You can drive off deep and get wiped out fast or you can orchestrate bringing up the Guards infantry and the Kaytushas and supplies or something slightly more daring.  Badanov got to Tatinskyia, but was promply wiped out.  seems like there's a better way maybe.

[Cyrano]

Barth, Doug, and I will NEVER get to hit the beaches of Sicily unless the former sends me a TURN...selah...

PBEM Leipzig, CMBS, and wrapping up PzC with Doug.  In the latter, the LAH tried its very best to punch through at Kursk, but, alas...

Radio show on Saturday.

And, very likely, a couple scenarios of "Heroes of Normandie".

Best,

Jim
"Cyrano"
:/7)

For whom the crux of the biscuit will always be the apostrophe...

[Barthheart]

Barth, Doug, and I will NEVER get to hit the beaches of Sicily unless the former sends me a TURN...selah...
...

Ya, ya.....  :P

[Slick Wilhelm]

I'm reading an e-book about WWI on the Eastern Front, so I'll be continuing to learn and play World War One: Centennial Edition. I also tried to play To End All Wars, but I'm just not convinced that the AGE engine is a good one for operational combat in WWI. I'll probably give that another go, however.

[KyzBP]

Since it looks like it's going to be an 80's music weekend, I thought I'd include what I consider the greatest song of the 80's and one of the top 5 songs ever:

I was so smitten  with the girl in the video.

I'll continue working my way through Eastside Hockey Manager:EA.  They've opened up a few more leagues so I'll be giving the German Elite League a spin.  I also hope to revisit Vietnam 65.  I haven't played since the updates so I'm curious to see the improvements.

Also, at some point in time, I'll probably drink too many beers and watch 80's music videos on YouTube.

[TacticalWargames]

GTAV, Black Sea, Red Thunder.

[W8taminute]

Watch some youtube vids of people playing games badly and you'll be right back in the zone.

QFT and +1.  This is how I psyche myself up whenever I'm in a gaming rut.


Cool tuneage KyzBP.   O0

Here's my contribution:

Gaming wise:  I'm just about to come out of my second attempt at the harsh first Russian winter of War in the East and I'm happy to say my lines held up well.  Had to give up a lot of ground but my men are still alive.  Now to bring in my Panzers that have been refitting in Poland to deal a death blow to mighty Joe!  (Stalin that is)

Then I'll play some Sovereignty Crown of Kings

[Huw the Poo]

Am I the only one here who thinks music gets better as time goes on?  I love some of the better bands of the sixties and seventies as much as the next man (Pink Floyd were my first true love) but I'm constantly discovering new music by new bands that absolutely knocks my socks off.

Anyway.  I'm in a gaming funk right now too.  Not for lack of games - I just don't feel like playing anything.  If I get around to playing, it will be one or more of:

Worlds of Magic
Solar War
Interstellar Marines
Starbound
VoidExpanse

[sandman2575]

Have you cooled on Star Ruler 2, Huw?

[bob48]

It was imo the best decade for music - even the bad had some good vibe.

70 rock for me....Zeppelin, Floyd, Skynard, CCR, Purple, Wings, Sabath etc etc etc

Good man! Excellent tastes in music.

[Huw the Poo]

Have you cooled on Star Ruler 2, Huw?

Ah, no, I just forgot about it for a minute there!  In all honesty, I'm not likely to play anything this weekend. :(