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Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Trondheim wrote:

Overlord Thraka wrote:

Anvildude wrote:
What's interesting is that, back when people fought face-to-face, the French were some of the most BA people around. Their country is named after a battleaxe after all, and French Knights were some of the most feared.

I remember in all the Historical strategy games I would play that the French typically had he best Cavelry. Case in point: Age of Empires II, where Frankish Knights got %20 more HP. There was even a Hero unit called "Frankish Paladin"

No single cavalry unit in Total war has a chance in hell against the Gerdaminers of France. And yes, France generally rock in Total war and AoE

I always found them to be easy pushovers with my massed English Longbowmen.

Lol I should have seen that comming

Avatar 720 wrote:I've always found France to be a complete non-issue in M2. I've yet to use them myself, but I have a strategy thought out. As opponents, though, Milan is a far greater threat, as is the HRE. France has never been worse than an annoyance--a thorn in my side as I'm fighting the HRE. They just throw stacks at settlements hoping to starve them out, because they've no hope of winning a siege, and I have to spend time sallying out to deal with them. Not difficult, just time-consuming.

HRE is easymode brother, and no wonder since France starts sandwitched between England, Milan, HRE and to some degree Spain

Got Chivalry the other day and I'm quite pleased. Not only is it beautiful, and sounds great, but my Internet handles it quite nicely. I even managed to snag 16 kills in my first game of a free for all. (Granted, I died like 24 times, but who's counting, right?)

Playing Hat Fortress 2. I have yet to have get any new hats. I should write a complaint letter to our lord Gaben.

Treated myself and bought Warhammer Armageddon. On the one hand, I loved Panzer General, and it's nice to have a game that scratches that itch after all of these years.

On the other hand, I want more playable Ork scenarios, dang it.

 toasteroven wrote:
Treated myself and bought Warhammer Armageddon. On the one hand, I loved Panzer General, and it's nice to have a game that scratches that itch after all of these years.

On the other hand, I want more playable Ork scenarios, dang it.

I really enjoyed that game, and it was cool to see so much of the Forgeworld stuff brought in and used.


I just finished the PC version of Space Hulk, which was a pretty much identical copypasta iteration of the board game, and had lots of fun with it after picking up on sale dirt cheap a few months ago. However, some of the DLC missions were absolutely absurd and far too luck dependent (particularly all of the Messenger of Purgatory missions and the first Harbinger of Torment mission) and with very limited viable routes to success and too many "gotcha" setups, I don't think they could be beaten against a competent player-controlled Genestealer opponent. Stupidly, frustratingly hard and way too easy to have one bad dice roll easily result in disaster and any turn where you're stuck with just 1 CP means you're just going to have to restart the mission. That said, I did like the Defilement of Honor, Sword of Halcyon, and Fangs of Fenris DLC's.

Yeah, I've been having a lot of fun overall. There's definitely a feeling when I win that it's because I made the right choices, not just that I got lucky.

Aye, if you've tried some of the DLC, the Space Marine campaigns end up being a bit difficult, I need to get the Ultramarines DLC, the BA one was pretty hard as you're having to fight through lots of built up stuff where CC's you're only option and you lose units very quickly, but lots of fun anyway.

Heroes of the Storm.

Got 38 kills with only 1 death and 2nd best XP as Valla

Started playing Dark Souls since it was on sale. I have no idea what I'm doing.

Still completely hooked on Hearthstone. I'm trying to build a better deck, but it's hard when I don't want to spend any actual money on in-game purchases.

 Vaktathi wrote:
Aye, if you've tried some of the DLC, the Space Marine campaigns end up being a bit difficult, I need to get the Ultramarines DLC, the BA one was pretty hard as you're having to fight through lots of built up stuff where CC's you're only option and you lose units very quickly, but lots of fun anyway.

I've got through the first two BA missions; they were tough, but a good sort of tough. I've got a favorite unit already; one of my dreadnaughts who held a bridge against a constant assault for quite a few turns, tying up orks who would have caused a lot of damage elsewhere. And I found that you can rename them! He's Wilberforce now.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is free on Steam now.

Go get it and play.

Edit: Or maybe it was free. I have not checked and the offer may have run out.

It's still free as far as I can tell. Never got the chance to try it, let's see if I can get over my general distaste for horror.

Deadfall Adventures, it's 90% off right now. It's.. okay I suppose.

Picked up Amnesia. Free on Steam until 10pm GMT tonight.
Great sound on it, especially with earphones. GFX are a bit dated but you cant have everything.
Really interesting mechanic, you cant really fight enemies at all, they'll whoop you, so you have to hide, run or try and lock doors on them.
Puzzle elements involved too.
Quite engaging thusfar.

Did a bit more Chivalry. (Some pretty hilarious deaths. Man I love these animations)

I also did a little bit of Civ 5, which was also pretty fun.

Finally finished Resident Evil 6 (and on Veteran difficulty, yay!). I was at the final campaign for the longest time and after recently beating Pillars of Eternity, I decided it was time to finish yet another game from my Steam list. Slow and steady wins the race

Besides that, I'm getting into Hearthstone again.

Now, to choose another game from my Steam list to complete ....

The Community Mission in Battlefield 4 was to get 3 defibrillator kills. So I did that, it's ridiculously easy, managed to get them all in one game I joined halfway.

Now it's back to some Heroes of the Storm.

I am enjoying Mortal Kombat X.

After the horrible trainwreck that was Deadfall, I needed something more familiar, so back to Rainbow Six Vegas 2 it is!

I'm back to my love, Attila: Total War.

The new Empires of Sand faction DLC was pretty neat. Also introduced some new Horde mechanics and in game events that may be precursors to how stuff will play in Total War : Warhammer.

If I'm not playing Attila, I'm sniping weapon arms off of mechs in MechWarrior Online in my Raven.

 nels1031 wrote:
I'm back to my love, Attila: Total War.

The new Empires of Sand faction DLC was pretty neat. Also introduced some new Horde mechanics and in game events that may be precursors to how stuff will play in Total War : Warhammer.

If I'm not playing Attila, I'm sniping weapon arms off of mechs in MechWarrior Online in my Raven.

Holy crap did I just play against you in 'Act of Aggression' or did somebody have a similar name? Anyway that game is nuts terminators for chimera are stupid strong and stealth bombers are super stupid.

Other than playing 'Act of Aggression' I've been playing 'endless legend' with a friend which is amazing.

They had a similar name. I avoid RTS multiplayer, as it really puts into perspective how bad I suck at those games and it forces me to reflect on my life choices.

Act of Aggression is a cool game though, I purchased it on release and had some fun with it. Unfortunately it came out , or I bought it, around the same time as Mad Max and that took all my attention before I got into MechWarrior.

Even more Chivalry: Medieval Warfare (leveled up enough to get a new sword now!)

I also did some DC skirmishes. Free for all eldar against 7 necrons. Put those robots back in their Graves where they belong.

Gonna play some Elder Scrolls.

I've been messing about, making a few low lvl characters for each alliance to see which faction regions and classes I prefer. I've got a lvl 15 Aldmeri Alliance Bosmer Nightblade (focused on archery), a ~lvl 7 Ebonheart Dunmer Nightblade (focused on dual wielding and stealth) and a ~lvl 5 Daggerfall Covenant Redguard Dragon Knight. So far I'm enjoying the Dunmer Nightblade the most, she's a fething whirlwind of death. That leap ability is fun to use, the dual wield flurries do a lot of burst damage and the animations look cool.

And its great to be visiting Skyrim again and Morrowind...sort of - I've played an hour or two of Morrowind but couldn't really get into it. But thanks to Shoddycast I'm so familiar with Dunmer lore and history that I expect at least some degree of nostalgia despite not having played much of the game.

Having stupid amounts of fun in MKX. Sub-Zero is like Ashiraya in a fighting game. Amazing.

Been playing Act of Aggression's campaign. I've tried Skirmish a couple of times, but it appears that the beta Easy AI is now the Very Easy AI, and I'm still not up to taking out the Easy AI.

I've also been playing Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence. I'm currently slowly working through the historical quests for the Oda clan. The new Ashikaga Shogun just asked me to help him get his power base back.

Decided to try out Age of Empires II HD.... so far just doing the 'learning' campaign.

It's pretty fun... I'm just missing some modern conventions that you see in most rts games now like centering on your unit when you click on its portrait or when you get an alert you can somehow click it and the camera will center on the situation. I still have one part to go with the learning campaign. After I finish that, I'm not sure if i'll continue with this game. I'm going to give Age of Empires III a try next.

Eumerin wrote:
Been playing Act of Aggression's campaign. I've tried Skirmish a couple of times, but it appears that the beta Easy AI is now the Very Easy AI, and I'm still not up to taking out the Easy AI.

My suggestion is don't play multiplayer until you can probably handle hard A.I. on your own. The USA A.I. is a bit OP on hard difficulty though. If you play cartel build the amos and get the special upgrades as soon as you can as those torch through tanks. You'll still need some back up units though to take hits and hit them once they're weak though.

The game is often weird in that some units are must have's and others just sorta suck. Spectres are good, amos are good and a few other units for cartel but scorpios (early tanks) suck pretty hard with only 7 hp. I know infantry with more hp than that. For usa they have their tanks and nlos as well as nukes and esp. stealth bombers. Not to mention that heavily spammed plane rush they always love. Finally for chimera their most potent unit is probably the terminators and maybe a couple ninjas if there's air units.

I watched this one crazy game (as I died early into the game from ridiculous plays) and some of my allies were just awesome. Vextras (big stealthed apc with lots of health, decent guns and speed) just attacked and destroyed a lot of bases en masse. Not to mention the guy killed some of the anti-superweapon structures in some of their bases which opened holes for the other guy to launch superweapons into his base. I'd like to think the big brown/black crater left was the size of our opponent's anus after taking it up there so hard.

I'm watching HD cuts of MGS3 and Peacewalker in preparation of getting MGSV. I'm hoping the lesser amount of time put in understanding the story will mean the apparent twist/disappointing ending won't be so bad.

I'm also contemplating picking up a refurbished ps3 to play some of the last gen games I missed out on as an xbox user - Valkryia Chronicles, KH remixes, Demons Souls.

And to anyone with an Android who wants a mobile game that'll suck up your time, get Shattered Pixel Dungeon.