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[Gusington]

^Attila: Total War, Age of Charlemagne campaign.

[Kushan]

There's been no gaming at all for me this weekend. Been a pretty event full weekend for me. I took Thursday and Friday off work so I could move into my new house. Got most of my stuff moved but still have a few minor things. Was on my way back to my apartment last night on what I was hoping would be my last run when I got into car accident.

Was driving down the road when an a**hole decided to pass me with a car coming at us. He barely got passed me and cut me off, I slammed my breaks and locked them. Missed going head first into a mailbox and drain ditch on my side of the road but when I turned the wheel left I spun 180 and went backwards into the ditch on the other side of the road. Bastard kept flying down the road. Luckily car coming at me stopped. Me and my car are a little banged up. Car might be fixable. ER doc last night said I was going to hurt today, be hurting worse tomorrow but should start feeling better after that.

All things considered it could have been much much worse.

Hope I can get the desktop back up the next few days and maybe get a little gaming in this week in between unpacking.

[undercovergeek]

holy crap Kushan - glad youre ok - take it easy man and get well soon

[Gusington]

Jeez Kushan get better soon. You are not alone...I totaled my old Subaru back in January.

[Jarhead0331]

There's been no gaming at all for me this weekend. Been a pretty event full weekend for me. I took Thursday and Friday off work so I could move into my new house. Got most of my stuff moved but still have a few minor things. Was on my way back to my apartment last night on what I was hoping would be my last run when I got into car accident.

Was driving down the road when an a**hole decided to pass me with a car coming at us. He barely got passed me and cut me off, I slammed my breaks and locked them. Missed going head first into a mailbox and drain ditch on my side of the road but when I turned the wheel left I spun 180 and went backwards into the ditch on the other side of the road. Bastard kept flying down the road. Luckily car coming at me stopped. Me and my car are a little banged up. Car might be fixable. ER doc last night said I was going to hurt today, be hurting worse tomorrow but should start feeling better after that.

All things considered it could have been much much worse.

Hope I can get the desktop back up the next few days and maybe get a little gaming in this week in between unpacking.

FUBAR. Sorry you didn't get the bastard's plate, but glad you are ok. Rest up.

[Boggit]

Blimey Brandon, that was a close one. :o Well at least you are pretty much OK. A car you can replace. Look on the bright side - lightning rarely strikes twice... ::)

Like JH said, it's unfortunate you didn't get his number, but the chances are things will catch up with him if it's the way he drives...the stupid git. >:(

[airboy]

There's been no gaming at all for me this weekend. Been a pretty event full weekend for me. I took Thursday and Friday off work so I could move into my new house. Got most of my stuff moved but still have a few minor things. Was on my way back to my apartment last night on what I was hoping would be my last run when I got into car accident.

Was driving down the road when an a**hole decided to pass me with a car coming at us. He barely got passed me and cut me off, I slammed my breaks and locked them. Missed going head first into a mailbox and drain ditch on my side of the road but when I turned the wheel left I spun 180 and went backwards into the ditch on the other side of the road. Bastard kept flying down the road. Luckily car coming at me stopped. Me and my car are a little banged up. Car might be fixable. ER doc last night said I was going to hurt today, be hurting worse tomorrow but should start feeling better after that.

All things considered it could have been much much worse.

Hope I can get the desktop back up the next few days and maybe get a little gaming in this week in between unpacking.

I'm glad that you are ok.  Sounds very scary.

[ghostryder]

My weekend has been spent mostly on 4x space games. lots of stardrive2 and Polaris. Stardrive the simpler of the two regardless of having far more planet options. Even with the new DLC it's really a simple affair and you still reach the end of the tech tree before there's any real expansion. Polaris is a strange beast. At first I thought the GUI was Obtuse at best-but it makes sense to me now---what the game lacks GUI wise is feedback--I suppose they figured everyone would just let the planets go fully automation-because there's no screen that lists the planets like stardrive has were you can easy build and move population around-- and you can design ships to the whatnot but good luck figuring out how they actually perform in combat. You may play several hours before you even get into combat--I've expanded nearly into the third of the galaxy---on the highest star setting--and have only met 2 races that have done nothing to wage war- but I'm designing and building up fleets to be ready when they do. Not far enough to make any judgement calls on the game dispite having played 20 hrs.

Did some brief quests in Pillars of Eternity-I'm determined to finish the main so I can experience the expansions I bought. But the 4x games pull me away,

[bob48]

holy crap Kushan - glad youre ok - take it easy man and get well soon

What Geek said - cars can be mended / replaced, as long as you are ok, that's the important thing.

[Rayfer]

^Attila: Total War, Age of Charlemagne campaign.

Gus...just curious. I've only ever dabbled in the TW games. Do you fight out most battles manually or auto-resolve.  When I did play I found myself using auto-resolve more and more to move the campaign along.

[JasonPratt]

Kush not crushed = cushy cuss. Or something like that.  O0

A downburst nearly pushed Mom's car off the road in the rain coming back from Easter services last night; and did apparently push a couple of cars off about a mile in front of us. Lots of people had already stopped to help (with three police), and the people seemed all right as we rolled past. Both cars pretty much totaled; one of them apparently jumped back out of the ditch before diving back in again, leaving grass carved into grooves in the road! (From flipping would be my guess.)

[JasonPratt]

Meanwhile, Easter eating and services tanked a lot of my gaming, as expected, but I did finish my short Regicide AAR (well, short by my standards), and I've gotten Soulstorm running again on my rig through Steam, preparatory to modding up with 40K Ultimate Apocalypse. And I've nearly finished Act I of Regicide's actual campaign. Bit of a 40K kick this weekend (somewhat ironically ;) ).

[Gusington]

Hey Rayfer - when pressed for time or when I'm tired after work I auto-resolve. When I can think more clearly and have some more time to spend I play the battles out.

I also tend to play them out when the stats are more in my favor because I don't enjoy watching my troops get destroyed in real time :/

Also - battles that are more meaningful and have consequences to my overall campaign I always try to play out, no matter how tired I am.

So...it depends :)

[Gusington]

Dammit it all to hell if this isn't the most difficult TW campaign I have played in a long time and I now see why...

Denmark is rated as 'Hard' difficulty when first starting out in the Age of Charlemagne campaign. That explains why civil war breaks out every few turns, every world power hates me and basically every negative effect feels twice as strong as it usually does...because it is. So now I have to make a choice...suffer through this campaign and attempt to get to the end even though I am not enjoying it or just rip the bandage right off and start a new campaign.

I am thinking of starting a new campaign as the Lombards...they are rated as 'Normal' which is much more my speed. I remember reading up on other previous Attila TW games and the difficulty levels in general were seen by players over at TWC as generally one level higher than they were marked in the grand campaign...so I don't feel as bad here in Age of Charlemagne :) I suppose I can restart the Danish campaign and lower the difficulty to 'Normal' but that may not be as fun as starting fresh.

I may also cleanse my palette for a bit and try out Pillars of Eternity for a few days, then come back to Age of Charlemagne. Hmm...

EDIT: I've also found an Age of Vikings complete game overhaul mod for Age of Charlemagne...it takes place 100 years later than the regular Danish campaign and is available in the Steam workshop for those interested. May try that...

[MetalDog]

That's a mighty love affair you have with that game, Gus!  As long as I've known you, it's been about that TW.  Awesome!  And you always make it sound like a game I want to be playing right at that very second!!!