Is it live or is it Friday?

[GDS_Starfury]

I thought this was a family friendly site.

[spelk]

Can you elaborate on Disciples: Reincarnation?

Reincarnation is another iteration of Disciples III, jazzed up a bit.

When I bagged it, you could buy it from Gamersgate, and get a Steam key, but you couldn't get it directly from Steam.

http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/DD-D3REIN/disciples-reincarnation

[Greybriar]

It looks like I will be playing mostly XCOM: Enemy Within this weekend.

I'm not sure what else.

[MetalDog]

Good job by you, Bison!  I hope you liked it well enough to play some more.

[BanzaiCat]

I did play some XCom on my iPad last night, waiting for my daughter to get back from a field trip. Today I'm going to unbox several board games and do some writing this afternoon. Tonight I hope to try a few new maps on Civ V (new to me, anyway) to shake up my mid-game doldrums for that title.

[MetalDog]

I have decided on Civ V that I will wait for all the expansions to come out before purchase and play.  It gives me a viable excuse for not having played it up to this point.

[Bison]

I'm mixed on Warlock.  Clearly it's good enough for me to play for the next turn over several hours.  But it's missing something or I'm not seeing something, either way it's a decent game.

[BanzaiCat]

I've read a few of you guys loving on Warlock, but the game looks meh to me.

[MetalDog]

I find the best challenge in the game is clearing the Underworlds.  All of the most poweful creatures and rewards are in there.  Otherwise, it's just spamming cities and making sure you have enough troops to mop up the occasional, random, outburst and AI incursion.

[MetalDog]

It works better in MP.  The problem is the amount of time turns take.  Especially in a mature game.

[Bison]

Otherwise, it's just spamming cities and making sure you have enough troops to mop up the occasional, random, outburst and AI incursion.

This is it right here.  Get a couple of geared heroes and some heavy units like Minotaurs supported by some archers and roll the board.

[MetalDog]

I won't deny that.  A lot of the charm for me is just maxing the settings and seeing how long it takes to complete the VC.  Holding 50% of Holy Sites is difficult on a Huge map.  And defeating an Avatar is a good one, too.

[Jarhead0331]

Any impressions of Adapt and PA that you can share?

I'm only on the third mission of Adapt.  They are good missions and still much better than anything in Arma 1 or 2 campaign-wise, but I'm still a little frustrated by the limitations imposed by the plot. NATO heavy forces pulled out in the beginning of the first chapter Survive, and you have been cut off and on the run against superior forces ever since. The situation has only gotten worse in Adapt. I'm sick of being forced to play a some survivor struggling on the brink with a ragtag group of under armed rebels. It's just getting a little old. I'd like to see more conventional battles with larger groups of opposing forces with ground and aviation components like we saw in Operation Flaspoint.

I suspect we'll see this in the third and final chapter of the campaign.

As for PA, I'm frustrated by what the game is not and what it could have been. It totally lacks the complexity of SC while also lacking the tactical nuance of TA. They recently rebalanced everything making everything faster paced. You can build advanced buildings and units very early on in a game and very quickly. There is no way I will ever be able to seriously compete against a competent adversary, AI or human. I just can't build multiple factories and have them constantly producing hundreds if not thousands of units, while still maintaining organization and control, no matter how good the UI nods up being. The mechanic of being able to get into space and expand to other planets seamlessly is awesome, but the game overall is so far not my cup of tea. We'll see how it continues to develop.

[Bison]

The game I won.  I had one geared hero that brought down a great mage alone.  He sieged and captured 3 cities basically alone.  I'd occasionally send in an archer, because I had nothing better to do with them.  Every 5 turns or so, I'd throw a heal on the hero and basically forget about him other than to click attack on the city.

[MetalDog]

Heroes and powerful units in combination, especially once you can cast Levitate (Levitate=fly), there isn't anything that can stand in your way.  The only bump in the road is how mature the cities are that you are trying to take down.  Cities < 4 only have 50 HP.  It's 150 for 5 to 12 and 250 or 300 for cites 13 and above. Try it again with the Holy Sites VC or defeat an Avatar.  And bump your map up one level and see what you think then.