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More TF2. Got 1600something kills on my Strange Direct Hit now

Tonight I might boot up Rome 2 (Radious Mod).

I'm currently agonising over whether to invade Knosso, thereby securing an alliance with Sparta (who controls all Greece and Macedon) but risk pissing off the Seleucid Empire (the second world superpower after me, they control a huge swathe of land from Egypt to Jerusalem to Turkey). Or do I ignore Knossos and invade Greece instead, thereby making a potential ally of the Seleucids?

Currently I control all Italy, 90% of Iberia (my Arverni allies grabbed a few settlements during the war with Carthage) and West Africa, from Morocco to Libya.

 GrimDork wrote:


Playing the newest rules or an older edition? Have fun, don't forget to loot all of the bodies

5th Ed. D&D. I'm playing a Ranger.

Driveclub.

it's been a long time since I've played a racing game, and did have my eye on this, but it had such a rocky release that I wrote it off. I found it for $30au second hand, and had heard the recent updates had fixed a lot of the problems, so I gave it a go.

If it released like this, rather than take months of patches and server instability to get here, it would have made a much bigger impact. Such a great racing game.

Been playing reccetear

Got back into Mount and Blade cause you jerks kept talking about PoP, which I played way back when it was new.

So now I am playing again, going to go the Empire route and do some legions backed by crossbows.

I have a three day weekend, so Alexios Komnenos begins his slow rise to power.

Reinstalling Oblivion on a whim.

Don't want to get too much mods this time. Only the necessities. It's too easy to go mad.

Just cleared Nassau and Havana in AC:Black Flag. Still have some missions to do in Nassau, but I find I enjoy clearing each area 100% of the side objectives before I do.

Samurai warriors 4. Some times you just want to kill 1000 of something.

Completed Black Flag enjoyed the pirating but the actual main story is weak. Now playing Tomb Raider.

 toasteroven wrote:
Reinstalling Oblivion on a whim.

Don't want to get too much mods this time. Only the necessities. It's too easy to go mad.

So no Shivering Isles, then? :p

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Tonight I might boot up Rome 2 (Radious Mod).

I'm currently agonising over whether to invade Knosso, thereby securing an alliance with Sparta (who controls all Greece and Macedon) but risk pissing off the Seleucid Empire (the second world superpower after me, they control a huge swathe of land from Egypt to Jerusalem to Turkey). Or do I ignore Knossos and invade Greece instead, thereby making a potential ally of the Seleucids?

Currently I control all Italy, 90% of Iberia (my Arverni allies grabbed a few settlements during the war with Carthage) and West Africa, from Morocco to Libya.

 GrimDork wrote:


Playing the newest rules or an older edition? Have fun, don't forget to loot all of the bodies

5th Ed. D&D. I'm playing a Ranger.

Somehow i feel like by lore you should be against persia though i don't know much about history. Something about the west and middle east fighting a ton.

Been playing civ 5.


Can anybody recommend the monster hunter series, I've been thinking of picking up the new one.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

Can anybody recommend the monster hunter series, I've been thinking of picking up the new one.

Yes, I would fully recommend the Monster Hunter series. I got the new 3ds specifically for the new one and its great. Must admit I am a bit stuck now, done the 2* quests and the 3* quests havnt unlocked. I must have missed something....

But yea been playing Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and Omega Ruby on 3ds and a bunch of really old games(Crash Bandicoot and Spyro being the main series).

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Tonight I might boot up Rome 2 (Radious Mod).

I'm currently agonising over whether to invade Knosso, thereby securing an alliance with Sparta (who controls all Greece and Macedon) but risk pissing off the Seleucid Empire (the second world superpower after me, they control a huge swathe of land from Egypt to Jerusalem to Turkey). Or do I ignore Knossos and invade Greece instead, thereby making a potential ally of the Seleucids?

Currently I control all Italy, 90% of Iberia (my Arverni allies grabbed a few settlements during the war with Carthage) and West Africa, from Morocco to Libya.

 GrimDork wrote:


Playing the newest rules or an older edition? Have fun, don't forget to loot all of the bodies

5th Ed. D&D. I'm playing a Ranger.

Somehow i feel like by lore you should be against persia though i don't know much about history. Something about the west and middle east fighting a ton.

At that time Persia wasn't really a thing. The grand campaign starts in 272 BC, at which point the Seleucid Empire - one of the most powerful states in the world at the time ruled Persia. They were a Hellenistic state succeeding Alexander the Great's Empire. In actuality there were a number of "Persian Empires", the next 'Persian' Empire to emerge was founded by the Parthians a few decades later. You can of course play as them in Rome 2 and hasten their ascension.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Tonight I might boot up Rome 2 (Radious Mod).

I'm currently agonising over whether to invade Knosso, thereby securing an alliance with Sparta (who controls all Greece and Macedon) but risk pissing off the Seleucid Empire (the second world superpower after me, they control a huge swathe of land from Egypt to Jerusalem to Turkey). Or do I ignore Knossos and invade Greece instead, thereby making a potential ally of the Seleucids?

Currently I control all Italy, 90% of Iberia (my Arverni allies grabbed a few settlements during the war with Carthage) and West Africa, from Morocco to Libya.

 GrimDork wrote:


Playing the newest rules or an older edition? Have fun, don't forget to loot all of the bodies

5th Ed. D&D. I'm playing a Ranger.

Somehow i feel like by lore you should be against persia though i don't know much about history. Something about the west and middle east fighting a ton.

The Seluecids are not Persia. Though I think Persia might be one of their Satrapies. You're probably thinking of the Parthians - an eMpire which rose in the east and became a thorn in Rome's side. Crassus (the third member of the first triumvirate with Casaer and Pompey) campaigned against them, but was defeated and killed (iirc they poured liquid gold down his throat. Not sure f true or just a legend). I think Mark Antony also campaigned against them.


I chose the latter option in the end.

The Seluecids are actually the first world superpower currently. They're stronger than me (3/5 of the bar), with all their Satrapies ( about 7 or 8), their empire stretches from Turkey, to Persia, to Egypt and Libya. I have Italy, the Alps, Iberia, Africa (right up to Libya, and Greece. Next up is Pannonia and Dacia. (Suebi and spartan territory).

im going to need a lot more territory and income before I can take them on. May need to take Germania too.

Invading the East will be the End Game. Until then I want to stay on the Seluecids good side. I'm scared of them.

That's how Rome2 is ending for me. Between me and my Spartan client states, I controlled everything west of the Crimea. Armenia, allied with Parthia and a good half dozen satrapies control everything to the east. When the war started it was like the opening of WW1 but in ancient times.

I ended up being quite sneaky and ceasefiringb Armenia while I took chunks out of Parthia.

The problem now is not enough armies and too big a front line.

Now i think i do remember hearing the germanic tribes actually being a thorn in rome's side. Something about losing a good many guys when trying to take sections of it.

Anyway like i said i don't know history too well. I am after all a science man. Ask me about anti-matter and not about who did what in some book detailing the past. Let's just hope they didn't write the history books without being too biased but i think we all know the writers most likely were ;P.

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@Compel: Do you have any characters/heroes that can sabotage enemy armies? I'm not sure how it works in rome 2: total war but in my shogun 2: fall of the samurai campaign i just started a whole bunch of uprisings in enemy territory and sabotaged their armies so the rebel uprisings would take their provinces without any resistance. I even managed to finish off and wipe out some factions by doing this. It was quite funny and underhanded but i felt like patting myself on the back for something so underhanded and fairly clever. Besides if they can't bring heroes out to counter mine as a proper defense then clearly they deserve some of these shenanigans.

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I've been playing endless space. Oddly enough i had more fun as the sophons than as the amoeba.

Amoeba are supposed to be more diplomatic yet oddly their victory conditions felt a bit boring even if their trade is enhanced for alliances and cooperation agreements. I looked in the manual on steam and found them saying human players could take advantage of diplomatic victories and ruin them from happening (doesn't help a timer shows up). That said i find diplomacy in the game works better if you keep the other players on a dependency of you with possible military reprisal on your part. I won a diplomacy victory but only just barely. I was closing in on various other victory conditions as well with science victory, wonder victory and even to an extent economic victory and expansion victory. Really i could've just conquered the galaxy with amoeba but that would've been awkward and i wanted achievements and almost lost because of them. Turns out you also don't need unspent dust to get the economic victory. You just need to have made enough dust.

With sophons it's much easier. You get all these science bonuses. The only terrible part is it's totally true that they're terrible fighters. You can still make up for it by researching everything much faster though. I won with sophons with a science victory (big surprise).

I have to say Endless Space is an interesting game and each factions has pretty interesting features. Perhaps i'll play the vaulters or the pilgrims next. Vaulters are a rather strange faction. They can hold huge amounts of land easily with their warp portals allowing them to reinforce just about anywhere they command but it's interesting when you take the land of vaulters as when you have enough of it and possibly destroy them you can use their portals after the fact which is really neat and sometimes super annoying.

I'm curious about the pilgrims though as pilgrim AI never seems to do very well. On the complete flip side horatio AI always seems to do really ridiculously well and command a very large empire.

So yeah i'm just going to say some factions are probably OP but maybe some are just more straightforward than others. I get the feeling with a skilled opponent vaulters would be really freaking annoying to face as you can never bottle them in or cut them off. In case anybody wants an idea of the vaulters think of them as futuristic amazonian warrior women with tribal tattoos.

FTL: Faster than Light as the Mantises' ship.
Truth be told, I'm terrible at this game, but it's just so much fun - plus the Mantises' teleporter allow me to board people, which is honestly my favourite tactic.

Anvildude wrote:

 toasteroven wrote:
Reinstalling Oblivion on a whim.

Don't want to get too much mods this time. Only the necessities. It's too easy to go mad.

So no Shivering Isles, then? :p

...That took me about five minutes to long to get. Well done!

One of the first things I remembered on loading up Oblivion: While I was annoyed that Skyrim removed some things, the removal of acrobatics and athletics? That I was ok with.

Just being playing ZombiU (which is awesome! Much prefer to H1Z1 and DayZ, although they are different types of games) and a bit of Elite Dangerous. Picking up the new 3DS Pokemon games next week, friend and I are buying one version each so really looking forward to that!

 Zarjaz! wrote:
FTL: Faster than Light as the Mantises' ship.
Truth be told, I'm terrible at this game, but it's just so much fun - plus the Mantises' teleporter allow me to board people, which is honestly my favourite tactic.

That is a good game, a lot of fun!

BF4.
And at times frustrating.
But Operation Locker on the other hand..
That's a meatgrinder of a map.
A Tunnel Rats dream come true. Corridors, ambush sites.
Claymores and incendiaries for shutting down corridors.
Shotguns for crowd control.
My absolute FAVE map.

 Tjomball wrote:
BF4.
And at times frustrating.
But Operation Locker on the other hand..
That's a meatgrinder of a map.
A Tunnel Rats dream come true. Corridors, ambush sites.
Claymores and incendiaries for shutting down corridors.
Shotguns for crowd control.
My absolute FAVE map.

^ this exactly. I just love defending the central chokepoint. Explosions and dust everywhere, frustration levels rising as death comes out of nowhere.. Absolutely brilliant.

Also, just won a TF2 hat on tf2r - yay!

Im playing a mixture of Xcom Long War mod and world of tanks, both provide equal amount of frustration and nerdrage. One more aimed the sheer incompetence of my soldiers, and the other at the Ork brains that my team mates often seem to be

Saw someone earlier show some love for the support class..
For me that is my least used class.
Engineer with the ACE 52 CQB with prisma 3.4X scope, Canted Irons, supressor and stubby grip.
Shorty 12 G secondary. M2 slam and SRAW for gadgets.
My normal loadout.
Or my recon.
M40A5, DAT GLOCK, radio beacon and C4 for busting armour.
Assault on locker gets a shotgun and DAT GLOCK (G18) and medbag and defib.

I'm only Rank 6 so far, but I've hardly played anything other than Support.. My k/d is 52% and I've won only 11% of all my games (only really played Conquest so far).. I do get quite a lot of assists usually, though.

What I'm currently using:

Type-88 LMG
-Magnifier (x2)
-Muzzle Brake
-Stubby Grip
M412 Rex
XM25 Airburst
Ammo Pack (prefer it over the box)
Tanto Knife

I'm a bit meh level wise atm..
My best score in locker is so so..
Only 38-12
With recon class of all things..
Normally I run around 30 kills on locker on a 400 ticket conquest round.
A bad round is around low 20 something kills.. And around 10-15 deaths..

Re:FTL the mantis ship is great Boarding is a viable strategy throughout the entire game and, though difficult in this case, can make the final battle loads easier. You've got to make sure you progress your ship the rest of the way, getting upgrades and weapons and so on...but most of that is easier with the extra scrap and resources you get for wiping out the enemy crew. The slug ship with the bio-beam can do it too, and sometimes that's even more amusing

Yeah, if I remember right, the less hull damage you do, the more resources you get at the end of the fight.

Therefore, killing crew is the easiest way to accomplish that.

Phone/Tablet - Clash of Clans - TH8 currently... done maxing out anything requiring elixir for upgrades at that TH... just working on stuff that requires DE for upgrades... as well as walls...

PC - Warframe - Just leveling up a pistol right now... I forget what its called... think this is like my 3rd or 4th pistol... next up going to level up the rifle I have... a Gorgon... fun thing to play around with.

PC - 100% Orange Juice - finally got around to trying it last night... fun cute game.

Had a terrible run with the pilgrims faction in endless space. I think part of it was the shape of the map and the fact i started to expand in the center which may have accidentally triggered the computer opponents to all attack me since they were in my sphere of influence and probably couldn't move through it. I thought i'd allowed them too but either way for some reason they attacked me. It was quite dumb being overwhelmed by two powerful and allied AI opponents. Sad thing is i could handle one but not both.

I tried hissho again and man did i play them right this time. Hissho get ridiculous once they have the momentum. If you invade enough planets and win enough space battles at a time they must be super hard to stop because nobody could stop me. In case you guys don't know they get battle bushido every time they win those types of battles and whether it's in space or a successful invasion on land it gives different bonuses which really boost fighting power of the fleet and production capability. At one point i just overwhelmed with numbers but then i got bored of that and went for straight super powerful ships with super strong boosted weapons.