Friday of a long weekend: The possibilities are endless!

[smittyohio]

Played some CaW after buying it in the weekly Matrix sale.  Enjoying it so far, though the small number of scenarios makes me glad i got it on sale.

Played some AoW:SM... Enjoying it but I'm a little put off by having to try to cover so much territory with a limited number of units.  Playing the first non-tutorial scenario, and am having to chase down enemy units making bee-lines for lighter defended cities.   The upkeep system is making it hard to build enough troops to cover everything, and until you get a level 3 (?)  wizard tower you can't teleport units around as far as I can tell.

Also played a little PC:Ostfront...  I need to give this game more playtime. 

[Kushan]

For the most part I played what I had originally intended to. Didn't have enough time to get to Vic2+HoD, but I did spend a few hours on Friday watching Das24680's HoD Lets Play on YouTube.

Finished off the weekend with Wargame: AirLand Battle. I actually lost to a medium difficulty AI last night (with an AI teamate), I feel so ashamed......

[PanzersEast]

Went through and played round robin of Distant Worlds, CK2, FE Legendary Heroes, Vic II and surprisingly played RO2... which I liked.

Was ging to learn Dominions 3, but I have made myself set down and learn FM 2013, which I have always started to learn but then got distracted.

Picked up Iron Fron and DLC and hoping to play with the SimHQ guys are any other group I can find.

Plus got a lot of sun this weekend with the wife<!>

PE

[Huw the Poo]

Was ging to learn Dominions 3, but I have made myself set down and learn FM 2013, which I have always started to learn but then got distracted.

Verily, thou shalt learn Dominions 3, then thou shalt join our multiplayer games, whereupon I will finally have an opponent even greener than me! 8)

[Sir Slash]

Sorry Huw. You're right. It was Judge's wife that was abdominally- challenged. My wife only throws-up old girlfriends on me.

[Huw the Poo]

The game is clearly in the same style as the Cossacks games. The most similar game, imho, is the Alexander game (made for the movie) which has a big focus on the story around the hero. Heroes of Annihiltated Empires has strong RPG elements....the hero gains in experience, can use weapons and other stuff, and buy potions. The Hero also has magic spells which are crucial to win. If you like the artwork of Cossack games, you will also like this one. It's the most advanced engine GSC has produced and is solid. There are 16 scenarios (i have just started number 7) which can last more than hours each. Some are very difficult...i even had to use a cheat code (never do this) to win scenario number 5 (more money). An interesting thing is the presence of a lot of mythological creatures (like centaurs). If you like elves, it's a game you should enjoy.

I need this game.  I assume there's a skirmish mode?  How's the multiplayer?

[Nefaro]

Sorry Huw. You're right. It was Judge's wife that was abdominally- challenged. My wife only throws-up old girlfriends on me.

Ouch.


You need a wonderful tool called....

Tranq Dart!



.. for such situations.

[PanzersEast]

Was ging to learn Dominions 3, but I have made myself set down and learn FM 2013, which I have always started to learn but then got distracted.

Verily, thou shalt learn Dominions 3, then thou shalt join our multiplayer games, whereupon I will finally have an opponent even greener than me! 8)

lol... yea I keep telling myself to do it, maybe I will stay up one night and just go through the entire thing....

PE

[Sir Slash]

Do they sell the Tranq Darts at Wal-Mart?

[Huw the Poo]

lol... yea I keep telling myself to do it, maybe I will stay up one night and just go through the entire thing....

It couldn't be a better time to join our games, actually.  At least half of us are noobs, and we're cheerfully discussing our strategies and swapping tips with each other.  I only barely know enough to be able to use the interface, but that hasn't stopped me raging happily across the maps of all three games I'm involved in! :)

[bob48]

Lock up yer sheep, the Welsh are upon us! ;)

[Huw the Poo]

Lock up yer sheep, the Welsh are upon us! ;)

Don't think you're off the hook Bob, me old china.  I'll be hassling you to join in too. ;)

[panzerde]

Turned out to be an ancient Rome weekend here.  Despite a determination to get well into a game of DW: Shadows, I fired up my first game of Alea Jacta Est on Friday night, and only stopped long enough to switch over to HPS' Roman Civil Wars to get some tactical action in.

It looks like I'm to the same point with the AGE engine games that I am with Tiller's engine and Paradox's Clausewitz engine: I've played enough with each of these that the game mechanics have become second nature and I can really focus on and enjoy the games.  I really am enjoying the subject matter and scope of AJE.

For about the first hour I tried it, I thought I'd made (another) HPS mistake in buying Roman Civil Wars.  I was afraid that like POA 2 and  Decisive Action that I had a game that was interesting in concept, but with a game system so broken as to be unplayable.  I can certainly get why people feel that the interface in odd and clunky, but suddenly it clicked with me and I just didn't have any trouble with it.  I passed many a happy hour Sunday learning just how difficult it really is to control your cavalry after a charge.

Congrats to our new fathers, and here's to hoping Dredd leverages his "good fortune" to the hilt!

[Nefaro]

Turned out to be an ancient Rome weekend here.  Despite a determination to get well into a game of DW: Shadows, I fired up my first game of Alea Jacta Est on Friday night, and only stopped long enough to switch over to HPS' Roman Civil Wars to get some tactical action in.

It looks like I'm to the same point with the AGE engine games that I am with Tiller's engine and Paradox's Clausewitz engine: I've played enough with each of these that the game mechanics have become second nature and I can really focus on and enjoy the games.  I really am enjoying the subject matter and scope of AJE.

For about the first hour I tried it, I thought I'd made (another) HPS mistake in buying Roman Civil Wars.  I was afraid that like POA 2 and  Decisive Action that I had a game that was interesting in concept, but with a game system so broken as to be unplayable.  I can certainly get why people feel that the interface in odd and clunky, but suddenly it clicked with me and I just didn't have any trouble with it.  I passed many a happy hour Sunday learning just how difficult it really is to control your cavalry after a charge.

I, too, keep coming back to the AJE and Ancient Warfare series lately.  They've become my 'go to' turn-based wargames when I'm not sure what I feel like playing.

[Anguille]

The game is clearly in the same style as the Cossacks games. The most similar game, imho, is the Alexander game (made for the movie) which has a big focus on the story around the hero. Heroes of Annihiltated Empires has strong RPG elements....the hero gains in experience, can use weapons and other stuff, and buy potions. The Hero also has magic spells which are crucial to win. If you like the artwork of Cossack games, you will also like this one. It's the most advanced engine GSC has produced and is solid. There are 16 scenarios (i have just started number 7) which can last more than hours each. Some are very difficult...i even had to use a cheat code (never do this) to win scenario number 5 (more money). An interesting thing is the presence of a lot of mythological creatures (like centaurs). If you like elves, it's a game you should enjoy.

I need this game.  I assume there's a skirmish mode?  How's the multiplayer?

There is skirmish.

Never play multiplayer though (no time and noone i know who would play against me anyway).