Father Christmas give us your FRIDAY

[panzerde]

Great song! I hope that scum who got away with killing Kirsty has a slow and painful death in his future. >:(

That was some Mexican justice, huh? If there's any fairness in the world a certain Mexican billionaire is getting a load of ass cancer for Christmas. 


CJ, very happy to hear you're getting Christmas in your own place this year. I hope you have a great holiday weekend!

[Sir Slash]

Ditto CJ. Everybody should be able to call someplace 'home' at Christmas.

[MetalDog]

Enjoy Christmas in your own place, CJ.  Nothing better.  Glad you liked the Kinks song.  A great band and super underrated.

[Gusington]

Godspeed CJ and Merry Xmas.

[bbmike]

That is awesome, CJ, as I believe everyone needs a Fortress of Solitude.  ^-^

[BanzaiCat]

Congrats, CJ - sounds like it's been a long and rough road but things are finally coming together for you!

For gaming this weekend, I've done some Warfighter WWII yesterday and posted a few pics to FB's Solitaire Wargamer page. Once I realized I was screwing up the rules I stopped and got U-Boat Leader out to try that. Continuing my U-Boat Leader game from yesterday, today, after we go get some groceries for next week.

After U-Boat Leader I want to get either Shadows of Brimstone or Fortune and Glory to the table - I have expansions for both (Frontier Town for the former, Treasure Hunters for the latter). I also want to maybe try Firefly: The Boardgame; Gale Force Nine sent me the Kalidasa expansion. I bought the base game and the Esmeralda expansion on my own, so that's another one. Finally, I have Star Trek Ascendancy I want to give a try this weekend, too.

If I can pull it off I want to get a few more expansions for Car Mechanic Simulator 2015, but that's about the only gaming I've been doing lately on the computer.

[JasonPratt]

Have finished Christmas wrapping. The nieces shall be receiving from their Groguncle:

* Star Blazers Season 1

* the Big Box Alhambra collection (I supported the kickstarter a while back) -- they already know how to play the mere card game version very well

* the new card game adaptation of Castles of Burgandy (which is also sort of a more complex version of the Alhambra card game.) I'm hoping that this will be a useful gateway to the board game, and thence to related games in the future.

(PS: the forum engine knows how to spell Alhambra, but not Burgandy. That's crazy-random.)

* the new Isle of Skye game (sort of a Carcassone variant with a bit more detail; oldest one can play Carc)

* Love Letter, Legend of the Five Rings variant

* a few other things less groggy

[bbmike]

Those are some lucky nieces!

[Kushan]

Merry Christmas All. Congrats CJ, happy to hear things are working out for you. I'm off for a week. Got my niece a Lego Disney castle that I plan on helping her put together this afternoon. More or less everything on my HD is a possibility the rest of the week.

CMANO: My next scenario is very close to being to a point I can release it for testing. One more script to write, set up AI missions, set up a few events, and it'll be done. In addition I'll be playing around more with the beta cause putting laserz on sharks never gets old and its completely realistic as well.

Hearts of Iron 4: I was hoping it would bring me into the HOI series like CK2 and EU4 have done but it just bounced off me at release. Noticed this week I got the first DLC for free, because I'm a sucker and got the field marshal edition. Been playing Italy so far every thing is going ok. Its clicking a little more. Managed to bumble my way through the initial war with Ethiopia and the Spanish Civil War. Tried to launch an attack on Yugoslavia tonight and completed botched it. My great plan was to have my infantry break a hole in the front line, then let me armor corp exploit it. None of that ever happened and I just ended up with a slugging match at the border. My infantry attack went as planned, but when it came time for my armor corp to advance, they attacked along a broad front rather then busting through the hole in the enemy line. From there they got involved in the border slug fest and I was wasn't able to figure out how to disengage them. Reloaded and tried around  with the difference between offensive front and spearhead and the both appeared to be the same. Going to keep pounding at it until I figure it out.

I'm really frustrated at the fact there seems to be no information on why a battle is going the way it is. In CK2 and EUIV you can click on a battle and it will show you the bonuses/negatives for both sides, troops numbers, etc. I can't seem to find any of that in HOI4. It just says you're winning or losing a battle but not why.

Elite: Been a few weeks since I've played. Mainly because of CMANO and HOI4. Continue working my way towards the galactic core on my main account. Need to play more of my second account. Played it for a few hours then got distracted exploring.

After avoiding getting anything the last few Steam sales I'm definitely going to fail this time. Will be getting the Rights of Man DLC for EUIV, and (probably) the new Cities Skyline Disasters DLC. Few other things on my wishlist calling to me as well; Tabletop Simulator, Stardew Valley, Hegemony II, and Attila Total War. Attila TW is out because I've sworn off every TW game as CA can't put together a good game if they tried, but one or two...or three... of the other three games are possibilities.

And lastly, I'm finally going to be opening my box of Falling Sky. Its been sitting on my bookshelf unopened since summer. Thinking of doing an un-boxing article or video of it.

[bob48]

Love you bob

HUG? :hug:

[undercovergeek]

Always for you you magnificent bastard

[Hofstadter]

Went to my partners for christmas, got drunk of....god awful paint thinner vodka (if it can be called that it tastes like sunscreen) and played the board game dead of winter with his housemate.

Nothing much to play, I really wanna make some videos but im kinda dead on ideas and am releasing a video of week. Touch depressing. All ive got is s SOW: ligny campaign and continuing the children of a death earth series.

Although now the sale is on at LnL i may get a command ops 2 module and do a series on that to promote it.

[Martok]

A belated Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to my fellow Grogs!  8) 


Despite having a three-day weekend (huzzah!), I've not had a whole lot of time for gaming.  (Saturday was spent finishing my gift-shopping -- yes I'm terrible :P -- and I spent most of Christmas Day proper with the family at my mom's house.)  What few spare hours I have had thus far has been spent playing either Stars in Shadow or continuing my Northumbrian campaign in Medieval Total War/Viking Invasion. 

[Father Ted]

Went to my partners for christmas, got drunk of....god awful paint thinner vodka (if it can be called that it tastes like sunscreen) and played the board game dead of winter with his housemate.

Man you paint a lovely picture...

Although now the sale is on at LnL i may get a command ops 2 module and do a series on that to promote it.

...that would be something cool to see

[bbmike]

Went to my partners for christmas, got drunk of....god awful paint thinner vodka (if it can be called that it tastes like sunscreen) and played the board game dead of winter with his housemate.

Nothing much to play, I really wanna make some videos but im kinda dead on ideas and am releasing a video of week. Touch depressing. All ive got is s SOW: ligny campaign and continuing the children of a death earth series.

Although now the sale is on at LnL i may get a command ops 2 module and do a series on that to promote it.

Hope it wasn't that Russian vodka bath lotion.  :P