A Boy Named Friday

[Kushan]

I got fed up enough with Elite that I uninstalled it. Game can only troll me for so long before its no longer enjoyable and it hit that point several hours ago.

Got my Prepar3D v3 install sorted so tomorrow I'll be doing some flying around in that. Looking forward to seeing, if any, the performance improvement from v2.

[Gusington]

Sandman:

<Mr.Burns>
excellent
<Mr. Burns>

[undercovergeek]

I am King Fernando VI de Villena and i have played EU4 Castille all day!

I have stolen princesses back from Neopolitan kings. I burned down the city of Lisboa. I have spent the night with Catherine of Aragon and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the African continent at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.

You may have heard of me.

[bob48]

No.

[MetalDog]

I am King Fernando VI de Villena and i have played EU4 Castille all day!

I have stolen princesses back from Neopolitan kings. I burned down the city of Lisboa. I have spent the night with Catherine of Aragon and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the African continent at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.

You may have heard of me.

My name is Inigo Montoya.  You killed my father.  Prepare to die.

[Gusington]

I have heard of you, actually. I hope the infection clears up quickly.

[Nefaro]

You may have heard of me.

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

..?

[Dammit Carl!]

Been reupholstering crap for  days now; is it the weekend yet?

:'(

[W8taminute]

Happy New Year guys.


I too have been playing Shogun 2 FOTS since picking it up on Steam last week.  Great addition to the Shogun series.  Only complaint is that unit speed (for the ai that is) during tactical battles is quite fast.  By the time I position my troops they get flanked six ways to Sunday and I haven't won a manual battle yet.  My sabre cavalry can't even outrun the enemy spearmen!  How can a man carrying a spear run faster than a man holding a sabre on a horse.  Anyway great game, maybe there is a Darth mod out there that has more realistic unit speeds.

I've also been putting a lot of time into AGEOD Civil War 2. 

Football Tactics is a surprisingly addictive turn based soccer game with an excellent 'just one more turn' feel to it.   O0

[undercovergeek]

No.

Dammit - that'll be the -36 prestige

[undercovergeek]

seriously, had a great session - went thru the Castillian civil war, which i clearly wasnt supposed to win, and lost complete control of the country in approx 3 mins of game time, 103000 rebels??? Gave into their demands which werent that different than my own anyway just a change of ruling family. The first 15 years mainly involved me, Aragon, Portugal, France, Austria and England all tied up by mutually supporting and non supporting alliances waiting for the first one to make a mistake. Portugal blinked first and attacked Morocco bringing in Aragon as an ally, I waited for them to get tied up in North Africa and then declared on Portugal. Aragon was too busy and England was fighting the War of the Roses, only Naples was left to attack me and they were decimated by Austria who joined me in the struggle - and so began a 40 year on and off war with Portugal.

I diplo annexed Navarre and got claims on France and england but the politics is too complicated to attack at the moment. In one peace deal with Portugal i took their African colony which basically shut down their African and Cape ambitions. They landed in Brazil shortly after me, I had a plan for Portugal so left them to South America and went after the Carribean - i own Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and shortly Cuba and will sort out the trade there.

In Africa ive discovered the Cape and slowly working my way towards it with coastal colonies. This is pretty much most of Plan A and then we'll look at India and North America. The Iberian Wedding fired a while ago giving me Aragon and Naples in a personal union, and in about 6 years i should be able to form Spain.

Thats it for now

[Gusington]

W8 try the Radious mod for FOTS. I am no Clausewitz but it has helped me win manual battles. And the manual battles in FOTS are fantastic!

[W8taminute]

Thanks for the tip Gus.  I'll check it out!

[Sir Slash]

I played Shogun 2 and FOTS with the Darth Mod and loved it. It improved both battle and campaign AI a lot. FOTS With the Darth Mod my all time favorite TW campaign.

[Jarhead0331]

I spent the vast majority of the weekend playing GTAV on my new rig. I messed around with a law enforcement mod that basically turns GTAV into a police simulator, but then I got back into the standard story missions, some of which are truly great. Its really a great game.