The Friday Thread

[MetalDog]

I should call this the Saturday Thread as I have to work tomorrow, so today is like my Thursday.  In any event, my weekend will be taken up with various Warlock games, solo and MP and some Civ IV BTS MP goodness.

[FlickJax]

Saturday xmas shopping all day :( Sunday hopefully WoT's and Fallen Enchantress

[undercovergeek]

for me its the 'December' thread - todays my last day until Jan 8th, ive broken up with GF unit Mk IV - theres a whole month of gaming and turkey to be had. In no particular order:-

1. CMFI PBEM, just about to finish one, i presume my opponent will want a rematch
2. Get back into CKII
3. Civ 4 BTS - good egypt campaign going right now
4. Ravenshield 3 - completed first mission, love the planning stages
5. Dabble with Waking Mars, Earth 2160, FTL - all of which cost less than a fiver
6. Some Simcity 4 and Anno 1404

[Gusington]

I know I asked you this before Geek biy where the hell do you work??

I will definitely be playing Warlock, amd I hope to fire up RoF for the first time...maybe I should wait on that until I get the TrackIR....

Also looking to start my Commander: The Great War campaign as the Central Powers.

[undercovergeek]

I know I asked you this before Geek biy where the hell do you work??

conference and exhibitions management - they usually start on a sunday, if i work a weekend day i get a day in lieu, those lieu days have been enough for me to have not used any holiday this year - now its pay back time!!!

[TheCommandTent]

I know I wont have much time this weekend but I hope I get some sort of MP game in.  On my own probably some Civ 5 and CMFI.

Oh and I still need to find some time to try and learn SOTSII.

[Barthheart]

Hopefully some Warlock MP.
I picked up a few on sale this week so should at least fire them up:
Eador - looks good so far but I've only done the frist bit of the tutorial so far
Hegemony Gold - looking forward to this.
Defcon - on sale yesterday fer $2.50, anyone else playing this? It would be a blast Gorg style.

[tgb]

Eador: Genesis

Visit wife in hospital

[LongBlade]

Black Ops II
Warlock
Space Marine
Maybe get into Rise of Flight, but I'm hesitant since everyone says it's best with TrackIR...which I don't have.

[Gusington]

Tgb what's up with your wife? LB let me know if you play Space Marine MP. I am also in the same boat as LB for Rise of Flight, but I am shopping around. Would I be making a mistake if I gof the TrackIR 4? Also...if I get a TrackIR does everything I need come in the box? I have seen a thng called the TrackClip for sale...what is that?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Rise of Flight if Gus doesn't puss out. 
Iron Front MP tomorrow.

And, if the rumours are true, Shogun 2!  Yes, word is that the latest beta drivers from AMD may have finally fixed the freezing bug that's plagued the game since FOTS was released.

[Sir Slash]

I've finally made it all the way to the end of the CMBN campaign-Road to Monteborg. The last of 16 battles, a Battalion-sized assault and exit fight. The Germans have a battery of Flak 88's in a wood that pretty much dominates the whole map, several Stug's and a whole lot of infantry. This has been a great campaign and I think I'll miss it when it's finally over, if I win that is.

[Oche]

For sure: WINSPWW2, WINSPMBT, SHIV, MIITW: Brittania Rule Mod.

Looking forward to: FSX , Strike Fighters 2, and anything else i decide to venture into.

[republic]

Visit wife in hospital

My prayers are with you friend.


As for gaming, I broke down and bought Kerbal Space Program.  The game has REALLY advanced.  I like tinkering and watching my poor Kerbals faces as things go horribly spectacular.  :)

[JasonPratt]

Probably more XCOM.

Definitely more Great Invasions. I'm still in May 350. Last week, still struggling with learning the interface and quirks, I learned that those grey territories aren't just empty with negligible population, after I sent small expeditionary forces from minor kingdoms (Ireland, Frankland, and Ghassan) to claim them. I may be able to recover the Frankland force, though bloodied, but I probably won't get back the Irish expedition (to the Orkney Isles north of Scotland), and the Ghassan troops were not only destroyed but I only just barely held off a raid from nearby Lahkmid bedouins into one of my territories. I'll have to reinforce them with EastEmpire funds and troops, but I spent a lot of initial cash on infrastructure this year (mostly farms and mines so I'll have more income later) and I'm still scrambling to throw back an opening invasion from Persia (with opportunistic raids from their Lahkmid lackeys into a territory I had to strip to meet the Persians elsewhere).

Phew.

Since part of the purpose of the game is to test how hard it would have been practically to even survive (much moreso thrive) treating my neighbors as peacefully as possible during the period (I'm running the game as a cooperative 'counselor' Let's Play at a theological forum I help admin), I've had to come up with protocols outside the game for deciding when I can legitimately expand into unclaimed territories, now that I've learned that in-game there's no possible way to claim them peacefully. This will make things tougher.  ;)

Anyway, I'll try to get through summer at least this week without losing my Ghassanid client kingdom outright. (For those who don't know, Ghassan is a small Christian kingdom east of the Jordan river and Galilee lake, roughly where the modern nation of Jordan is now; far western Arabia.)


I may fiddle around with some of the things I've picked up on sale recently at Gamersgate and Steam, too, starting with Dungeons.