Good Friday gaming goodness!

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

SDR, you ought to get in some Warlock one of these days, too.  Thanks to Tuna for a couple of hours tonight.  Turn 84 and I've got over a dozen cities and wars with two of the three Mages on the board.

Thanks but MP has way too much downtime between turns for my ADD riddled mind to handle. 

[Gusington]

^I totally agree there.

[MikeGER]

i will work this extended Easter WE on my impulsive buys from the last time first

so its:
Phantom Leader PC (maybe streamed to tablet for love-seat wargaming ;-) )
Kerbal Space Program with ISA Mod (already have a probe in a polar orbit around Kerbal now up to the Mun)
will take a look at Dead Space 3  (which 'came' with Sim City)

and either CM:I  or  CM:BN  for the tactical wargaming fix (...and finally get to witness the gameplay difference introduced by the last patch concerning the suppression by MG fire changes, and stuff)


       

[Huw the Poo]

Thanks but MP has way too much downtime between turns for my ADD riddled mind to handle. 

This is actually proving to be more of a problem to me with my Dominions 3 games than I'd anticipated.  I'll load up a turn and wonder what the hell I was thinking in the previous turn.  Why did I send my army there?  Oh, we've researched that?  Great - what the hell was I planning to do with it?

I guess I should start making notes...

[undercovergeek]

Thanks but MP has way too much downtime between turns for my ADD riddled mind to handle. 

This is actually proving to be more of a problem to me with my Dominions 3 games than I'd anticipated.  I'll load up a turn and wonder what the hell I was thinking in the previous turn.  Why did I send my army there?  Oh, we've researched that?  Great - what the hell was I planning to do with it?

I guess I should start making notes...

lmao - a notepad and a pen is your friend

[MetalDog]

SDR, you ought to get in some Warlock one of these days, too.  Thanks to Tuna for a couple of hours tonight.  Turn 84 and I've got over a dozen cities and wars with two of the three Mages on the board.

Thanks but MP has way too much downtime between turns for my ADD riddled mind to handle.

^I totally agree there.

There are ways to alleviate the boredom/down time.  If you play in Windowed mode, you can surf the web whilst playing.  Or you can watch tv.  Or you can connect through Steam and Voice Chat.  A myriad of distractions to while away the time between turns.

[Barthheart]

SDR, you ought to get in some Warlock one of these days, too.  Thanks to Tuna for a couple of hours tonight.  Turn 84 and I've got over a dozen cities and wars with two of the three Mages on the board.

Thanks but MP has way too much downtime between turns for my ADD riddled mind to handle.

^I totally agree there.

There are ways to alleviate the boredom/down time.  If you play in Windowed mode, you can surf the web whilst playing.  Or you can watch tv.  Or you can connect through Steam and Voice Chat.  A myriad of distractions to while away the time between turns.

They are all just girls afraid of your Warlock prowess.... but you do take long turns!  ;D

[MetalDog]

I agree with both your assessments.  And I try to not to be "that guy" either.  I would dearly like to get a look at how each of you conducts your Turn.  To see if I am just taking too much time or that I have more of everything to move.  If the latter, then y'all are just jealous.  If the former, then I would continue to look for ways to improve my time.

[Tuna]

I apologize for last night, a couple times I hit enter, then went to my other monitor browsing, not realizing that it was paused waiting on a unit or something. Another fault in the game, when I say End Turn I mean End Turn!

Also would be nice like we discussed last night if you could do stuff during the other player's turns like mouse over NME units to check out specifics on them.. I think Civ IV and V allow that..

[Huw the Poo]

Also would be nice like we discussed last night if you could do stuff during the other player's turns like mouse over NME units to check out specifics on them.. I think Civ IV and V allow that..

Agreed.  I think it's absolutely mental that Warlock doesn't allow this.

[panzerde]

Probably some more Skyrim (my go-to when I'm mentally kind of cooked), and maybe some more attempts to learn Dom 3.  I also just picked up Graviteam Tactics: Operation Hooper.

[MetalDog]

I apologize for last night, a couple times I hit enter, then went to my other monitor browsing, not realizing that it was paused waiting on a unit or something. Another fault in the game, when I say End Turn I mean End Turn!

Also would be nice like we discussed last night if you could do stuff during the other player's turns like mouse over NME units to check out specifics on them.. I think Civ IV and V allow that..

Pressing Enter on your keyboard will force end the Turn regardless of what you still have pending.  I like that the game will stop me if a unit still has movement points or options before my Turn truly ends.  Units that you set to heal and become full power again, do not end up in the unit queue during your Turn but at the end after you pressed End Turn.

[Toonces]

I'll definitely be doing some DCS A-10 Warthog

Nearly forgot that was on sale.  Snatched it up before it's over!  ;D

Anyone get the Combined Arms module?  Since it is doubtful I'd try to control ground forces from up in the air (I've enough trouble as it is just synchronizing the head pat and tummy rub- not a ephemism! ) I'd like to know if it is worth $20 bucks as a stand alone only.

Hey SW-
I got the CA module.  It's hard for me to say whether it's worth $20 to you or not.  I will say that it has been worth it to me so far.

Basically, in SP mode, it is very much a beer-and-pretzels armor simulation.  It's sort of like a slimmed down ARMA2 armor sim.  What I like about it is that you essentially have a monster sandbox of stuff to play with.  You can put all sorts of neat land and air units into the game and play it like a RTS, but you also have the ability to drill down and go into FPS with many of the tanks and vehicles.

Yet, in FPS mode it really isn't very hardcore.  However, it's fun.  I wanted something that was like an old-school arcade shooter, and in some ways that's about as hardcore as it is right now in FPS mode.  Sometimes it's nice to not have to sweat things like in Steel Beasts if you know what I mean.

So, if that's what you're looking for, I say go for it.  The potential for really fun PvP is amazing. 

[Staggerwing]

Thanks, Toonces. I believe I'll treat myself then.  :)

[MengJiao]

If I have time, XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

I just bought the Halberstadt IID in RoF....so some of that over Inspiration Island.  Some ARMAIII on STRATIS island and some of PQ-17s PQ-13 between the Island of Iceland and the Islands of Zembla Something.

Islands seem to inspire aggession somehow.

What really happened?  RoF mostly and no ARMAIII and some PQ-17.   I was running a heavily revised PQ-13 (and QP-9 is the convoy of ships returning from having unloaded in Murminsk) -- the KM has fuel! -- The RN plan has a fake convoy (historically possible) and they have deliberately leaked the convoy routes and schedules (which was done historically in hopes of catching the Tirpitz).  The Germans have their idea inteception plans and boom!  The convoy nobody was interested in gets spotted shadowed torpedoed and bombed.  Yes, QP-9 runs afoul of  dozen floatplanes carrying torpedos and about 30 Ju88A-4s and has one merchant crippled and 2 sunk.  First sinkings out of 8 convoy runs.