No Friday thread? You make Toonces sad...

[Barthheart]

Beta testing WWII turn based tactical hex and counter computer game.... you guys are going to love this!  8)

Thats just mean.  You shouldn't tease us like that.  :P

lock and load mentioned anywhere?

Why yes.......  ;)

[Staggerwing]

You wouldn't have been visiting any tractor factories lately, now would you?

[Barthheart]

You wouldn't have been visiting any tractor factories lately, now would you?

Maybe....  ;)

[Staggerwing]

Were you wearing the GH t-shirt? I've heard it adds +1 to each attack...

[Barthheart]

Were you wearing the GH t-shirt? I've heard it adds +1 to each attack...

Sadly no.....

I hear Heroes of Stalingrad is due out around christmas... at least according to a recent FB post by Mark Walker.  8)

[Bison]

Well I ended up playing a couple of quick scenarios of Conflict of Heroes and messing around with some of the smaller scenarios in WIA.

[LongBlade]

Were you wearing the GH t-shirt? I've heard it adds +1 to each attack...

Sadly no.....

I hear Heroes of Stalingrad is due out around christmas... at least according to a recent FB post by Mark Walker.  8)

Actually I've heard that, too, from Mark. But there's more. Slitherine has the code in hand and it is being massaged through the publication process. The odds are quite good that it will be under the tree in time.

[Barthheart]

Were you wearing the GH t-shirt? I've heard it adds +1 to each attack...

Sadly no.....

I hear Heroes of Stalingrad is due out around christmas... at least according to a recent FB post by Mark Walker.  8)

Actually I've heard that, too, from Mark. But there's more. Slitherine has the code in hand and it is being massaged through the publication process. The odds are quite good that it will be under the tree in time.

I'm in on the beta... and it's good......  8)

[LongBlade]

Were you wearing the GH t-shirt? I've heard it adds +1 to each attack...

Sadly no.....

I hear Heroes of Stalingrad is due out around christmas... at least according to a recent FB post by Mark Walker.  8)

Actually I've heard that, too, from Mark. But there's more. Slitherine has the code in hand and it is being massaged through the publication process. The odds are quite good that it will be under the tree in time.

I'm in on the beta... and it's good......  8)

I know who was working on it and I never had any doubt :)

[Martok]

Martok, Warlock is very Civ like and led me to buy Civ V, my first foray into the series in 15 years!

Martok, not that it will persuade you if you like diplomacy, but the story behind WARLOCK is that all of the wizards have been tasked with taking over the world and destroying the other wizards. With that I'm mind, the lack of diplomacy fits into the game for me. I am either fighting you or you are extorting me until we do fight. It's not really a simulation of running a civ....its a strategic fantasy war sim.

Thanks for the input, guys.  It certainly does look & sound like a fun/awesome game, and of course the (generally favorable) comparisons to Civilization doesn't hurt its appeal any. 

...And yet I hesitate. 


I'm not sure why the simplistic diplomacy in Warlock bothers me so; it's certainly not that I have any aversion to a fantasy wargame.  Perhaps (ironically) *because* it resembles Civ so much, and that I therefore (subconsciously) expect it to have a fully fleshed-out diplomacy model as well? 

I wonder if that's what my hangup is.  Perhaps if Warlock looked more like a traditional wargame and less like a Civilization title, I wouldn't unconsciously/automatically have certain expectations of it...such as (relatively) complex diplomacy.  I dunno.  :-\ 

[Anguille]

This weekend, it's mostly gemini wars (mission 12 is real hard) and madagascar with my boy. Of course armada 2526 supernova pbem. :D

[undercovergeek]

Were you wearing the GH t-shirt? I've heard it adds +1 to each attack...

Sadly no.....

I hear Heroes of Stalingrad is due out around christmas... at least according to a recent FB post by Mark Walker.  8)

i thought i was going to have to send the boys round to pummel this from you!

Sounds good, i held back on CoH because this was in the pipeline and just seems to look more like the kind of game id enjoy

[Nefaro]

I'm not sure why the simplistic diplomacy in Warlock bothers me so; it's certainly not that I have any aversion to a fantasy wargame.  Perhaps (ironically) *because* it resembles Civ so much, and that I therefore (subconsciously) expect it to have a fully fleshed-out diplomacy model as well? 

I wonder if that's what my hangup is.  Perhaps if Warlock looked more like a traditional wargame and less like a Civilization title, I wouldn't unconsciously/automatically have certain expectations of it...such as (relatively) complex diplomacy.  I dunno.  :-\

Look at it more like a beefed-up Fantasy General.

[Bison]

Played Act 1 of Diablo 3 starting hard difficulty with my Witch Hunter.

[Gusington]

I said this to Bison while in game in Diablo 3 yesterday...the game really starts to feel like a supernatural war after the first chapter. I am a Level 23 demon killing badass.