Love Friday

[Dammit Carl!]

CJReich46, you are so right and I was remiss in not mentioning Pluto TV.

MST3K, Rifftrax, and Classic Dr. Who all right there too.

-not a shill but would be for the right price

[MengJiao]

Think I've hit my wall on Ubi's shooters, so time to take to the skies via DCS  and IL2 and back to the seas through SH4.

  I'm pretty much going to do my usual: World of Warships, DCS, BoX, Attila1212, and some HLL

How do you decide which post to quote in your response in the Friday threads? I've always wondered that.  There is not always an obvious connection.

  I try to say something positive.  I love DCS so that triggered a positive response.  I try to float the positive waves and avoid propagating the negative waves ( sort of quote Donald Sutherland when he played a Sherman tank commander):

[MengJiao]

I really need to play Attila 1212.

    Attila 1212 definitely has its moments.  Like when my Knights of Antioch crested a hill somewhere near the headwaters of the Tigris and confronted some really heavily armored horsemen of a type I'd never heard of.  They looked horribly authentic and unusually serious.  You could almost hear my whole army saying "Who are those guys?"  Luckily the Knights of St. John were on hand to just flat out charge them while I found some Templars to go round up their ax-happy infantry.  In my role as King of Antioch, I carefully hid behind some Knights of Antioch til the situation got clarified.

[Tripoli]

Wars of Napoleon the 1806 campaign. Should be fun. Maybe a little Rome 2 if I get the time. Have a great weekend Grogs.  :bd:

The two Civil War 2 games going on have inspired me to take a pdf of the manual on my next trip.

I WILL GET the Civil war game AAR done this weekend (I've been bad about getting the AAR updated).  However, it will have to wait until after my taxes are mailed to the accountant.   :(    Regarding the manual:  The Aegod manual is okay, but as a newbie to the ACW II system, I found that the following video series were very helpful, as the manual is a bit sparse:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh627jSGoobxkOAb_CYadIQsmsXKpDv-z


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnJCQYk0tWc3GPGOou9ILntl_1sAdqKD8

[Pete Dero]

I'm playing HOIV with the resistance DLC.   But so far I can't say I am overwhelmed by it.  I feel most intelligence operations take a long time to complete and the rewards aren't that great.

[Sir Slash]

Those are great videos Tripoli, helped me a lot. The manual is good too but doesn't cover everything unfortunately. So far I've found WoN to be very stable and bug-free unlike what the complaints of it said, but I haven't tried the full campaign yet and that's probably where most of the problems will arise with so much for the AI to think about. The biggest gripe I have so far is the lack of scenarios, there's just a few while there are 3 different starting points for the Grand Campaign.  :o  Come on guys, where's the Spanish Campaign or the Russian 1812 slugfest?  :hide:

[Gusington]

'Horribly authentic and unusually serious'  \m/

[Sir Slash]

Hey, that's my professional name when I do my Drag Queen show. 

[Gusington]

Fitting. Like your skirts.

[Sir Slash]

They do get pretty tight by the end of a long night. But it's the heels that really get uncomfortable.

[Gusington]

HA

[Anguille]

Finished my first Total War campaign for a long time (Italian Campaign in Napoleon Total War). Already started the Egyptian campaign. Also made some progresse in my current Stellaris campaign (integrated a friendly nation and met another major race)...

[al_infierno]

This weekend I'm going to try and wrap up this writing project I've been working on for the last 8-ish years.  Finally got around to sending out emails looking for cover artist commissions, which is exciting.  The only problem is I'm about 95% done, and anyone who's worked on any kind of creative project knows the last 5% is the hardest and most time consuming.   

The weekend's gone and I'm only 96% done, as to be expected  ^-^

I've officially got one more weekend before Panzer Corps 2 releases and all my free-time productivity tanks... so to speak...

Really though -- I can't be the only one who's unrealistically excited for PC2?!?

[Gusington]

NO  :dreamer:

[CJReich46]

CJReich46, you are so right and I was remiss in not mentioning Pluto TV.

MST3K, Rifftrax, and Classic Dr. Who all right there too.

-not a shill but would be for the right price

Yeah. I tend to watch MST3k off the Shoutfactory TV site. No commercials and Pluto is terrible for repeating the same ones over and over and over. I remember watching Apocalypse Now Redux. Right when the famous "Flight of Valkyrie" scene,  all the Huey gunships are lined up for the attack on that village....COMMERCIAL!  and even if you go to their site On Demand, there is no way to avoid the commercials. Even if you wanted to rewind to see a scene over. UGH.

So if there's something I really gotta see on there, I'll tolerate the commercials or mute them.