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Still grinding away on Warthunder, and getting somewhat tirred of how fragile my American tanks are. Granted faceing t 34/85s and what not is oh so amusing now that I can acctually kill the damned tin cans. Also the Sherman 105 is rubbish!

Logged into Urban Dead after two years away, and by some miracle.. Morathi is still alive, hidden in the same Junkyard I left her in, still heavily barricaded. I'm guessing no zombies come that way.

 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
Logged into Urban Dead after two years away, and by some miracle.. Morathi is still alive, hidden in the same Junkyard I left her in, still heavily barricaded. I'm guessing no zombies come that way.

That's totally awesome!

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Finished my daily for Hearthstone rather quickly... I felt bad because I was playing as a priest using that cheese 'buff minion life + have life equal attack' combo... first match I nixed a with one hit for 35 damage... Its cool and sad at the same time. 2nd match i didn't rely on that... but at least I'm done with it.... at least for today. Still need 350g more for the last wing in blackrock.

Got through the 2nd part of Diablo 3 with my Season 4 Barbarian... then the system alerted me of a server reset that was imminent...bleh...

Terraria got a bunch of tungsten ore... made enough bars for tungsten armor but I'll save up until I can finish a complete set for the bonus.

Tried playing MW3 multiplayer... kept getting dropped... 'cannot connect to host' type errors so I nixed that.

Next up this evening probably Dawn of War 1.

Was persuaded to buy H1Z1. 20.00$. I hope it's a good game.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Stating to get really back into Lord of the Rings Online. I've got some of the most nice and helpful Kinship (Guild) members ever.

I loved that game when it was first released but with each expansion it lost a little more of its charm, I just don't like the game past Moria. At least its mostly free these days.

I just got tired of endless grinding every time a new expansion comes out.

Meh. It's not bad with Netflix on in the background. I play it mostly to relax in the evening. But I still enjoy it very much

Dino Run!

Played some wargame earlier and that was fun.

After that I played some 'act of aggression' and the campaign was hard. I managed to beat the 2nd last cartel mission which was giving me a lot of difficulty. Then I played the game with online people against AI and holy crap this game gets nuts on the explosions at the late game. Cartel has these late tier artillery tanks that cost a bunch of cash and like 500 rare earth and they just torch buildings esp. amassed. Then you get the aircraft and those are ridiculously powerful. In this game far as I know one of the only good ways to counter aircraft (not helicopters but actual aircraft) is to use other aircraft. Anyway I had a lot of fun turning each of our enemy's bases into multiple smoking craters. I got the most in resources and in kills but my deaths were also fairly high (infantry is rather fragile sometimes but it can be useful if it's in a building or has range).

This should give you an idea of the craziness that the game had (by looking at the craters) and I didn't even snap the craziest in action photos.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Stating to get really back into Lord of the Rings Online. I've got some of the most nice and helpful Kinship (Guild) members ever.

I loved that game when it was first released but with each expansion it lost a little more of its charm, I just don't like the game past Moria. At least its mostly free these days.

I just got tired of endless grinding every time a new expansion comes out.

Meh. It's not bad with Netflix on in the background. I play it mostly to relax in the evening. But I still enjoy it very much

The biggest reason (well, only reason really) why I played it was to explore Middle Earth.

Returning to Destiny with the Taken King coming out, but I've got to wait through all the updates I've missed out!

Went back to Civ5 this week. Forgot how engaging and fun it is.
Great production values from the map detail to the faction background voiceovers.

Just got started in Medieval 2 with *insert big gasp* the French.

 sing your life wrote:
Just got started in Medieval 2 with *insert big gasp* the French.

"WE SURRENDER!" ~Loads of French people

"Greetings Mechwarriors this is THE B33F Speaking" and "EZ PZ" ~The greatest frenchie alive today
(Seriously look him up on youtube. Even if you don't play Mechwarrior Online his stuff is hilarious)


So I tried Saint's Row III on the Steam free weekend. It's was fun, but holy moly was is CRASS. I just can't stand that level of... everything.
GTA it is then.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
Just got started in Medieval 2 with *insert big gasp* the French.

"WE SURRENDER!" ~Loads of French people

I find that's an over-done joke about the French. Personally I prefer to joke they're 'smelly French-men'. Not sure if that has any truth to it.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
Just got started in Medieval 2 with *insert big gasp* the French.

"WE SURRENDER!" ~Loads of French people

I find that's an over-done joke about the French. Personally I prefer to joke they're 'smelly French-men'. Not sure if that has any truth to it.

Depends on what they ate for lunch.

I love French style Mussels in a garlic butter sauce, but when I eat it my mom has to fumigate the kitchen by opening all the windows, opening the back door and turning on the extraction fan over the oven because she fething hates garlic.

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.

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"

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.

They still are pretty fearsome. Anyone really paying attention to the news knows that the French perform successful military interventions in various parts of the world, such as the Ivory Coast. At the lower levels, their military is no joke. The problem for the French has always been their leadership dropping the ball.

Eumerin 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.

They still are pretty fearsome. Anyone really paying attention to the news knows that the French perform successful military interventions in various parts of the world, such as the Ivory Coast. At the lower levels, their military is no joke. The problem for the French has always been their leadership dropping the ball.

Not just dropping the ball, but in many instances, the manner in which they were organized spelled disaster

Yeah but they failed at Vietnam and then so did the usa. It took us longer to pull out though (to my knowledge anyway).

It's also kinda strange how I imagine their interaction with the united states led to the French revolution as well which ended with napoleon killing a crap ton of people (and he was a fearsome opponent considering how many allied against him). All the craziness of the French revolution aside it's nice not to have monarchy where somebody gets power based on birth. To an extent even the british gave that up to let parliament have more power. Not saying democracy is the greatest either with people not versed in the details of something before voting on it but I'd prefer some of that to a leader that can never understand the standpoint of a common man because they grew up as royalty their whole life.

Anyway back on topic I was having issues playing as cartel in 'act of aggression'. I decided to play against some easy or very easy AI and checking out the tech tree, abilities of my faction and different units at my leisure. I found out the repair add-on building has some pretty sick upgrades and I didn't use it before which would explain why I was doing so poorly. The Amos artillery unit in particular has nasty cluster AOE that can kill a mass of vehicles. Seeing the usa players always playing and always throwing down a crap ton of tanks means this will be super useful in the future. It still might take some time though. To my knowledge the amos is bad at close range so chances are you want to defend with other units (possibly even anti-tank infantry in buildings) while the amos attacks from a distance. I also found out the repair building features an anti-missile defense ability on otomatics which is really nice and makes them good. I will use them a lot more in the future now that they can knock down missiles. The Grinch infantry are still infinitely better at taking down air units but having a detector that can destroy missiles and shoot air is nice.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

"WE SURRENDER!" ~Loads of French people

Verdun is just one example of why you are very, very wrong and as you are American read up about the Kesserine Pass to see just how well US troops fared against their first taste of Blitkreig (hint not well);I'm sure you know how well the US did in Indochina. The French reputation for cowardice is completely undeserved.

I am currently playing the latest alpha/beta/early access (delete as applicable) build of Clockwork Empires. Still lots of bugs, broken/missing features and general balance issues but at least it works (to an extent) now.

Psh. Anyone who's ever played a Paradox game knows that France is, in fact, the most terrifying country in the world.

I'm playing Crusader Kings right now, and... Karlings. Karlings everywhere. Why is there a Karling petty king in England? Why?

 toasteroven wrote:
Psh. Anyone who's ever played a Paradox game knows that France is, in fact, the most terrifying country in the world.

I'm playing Crusader Kings right now, and... Karlings. Karlings everywhere. Why is there a Karling petty king in England? Why?

Just wondering what country paradox is situated in. That might explain why the French are OP possibly in said game.

Oh and played more 'act of aggression'. It would seem the U.S. army is OP in the game. Kind of funny in a way. It's almost hilarious how much the hard enemy A.I. likes to drop nukes and just how potent all their units are. I mean if the usa was like this in the real world with their liberal use of nukes I'm pretty sure all life on earth would've been extinguished by now.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 toasteroven wrote:
Psh. Anyone who's ever played a Paradox game knows that France is, in fact, the most terrifying country in the world.

I'm playing Crusader Kings right now, and... Karlings. Karlings everywhere. Why is there a Karling petty king in England? Why?

Just wondering what country paradox is situated in. That might explain why the French are OP possibly in said game.

Oh and played more 'act of aggression'. It would seem the U.S. army is OP in the game. Kind of funny in a way. It's almost hilarious how much the enemy likes to drop nukes and just how potent all their units are. I mean if the usa was like this in the real world with their liberal use of nukes I'm pretty sure all life on earth would've been extinguished by now.

Swedish.

I'm still playing Heroes of the Storm, I'm really surprised this one hasn't gotten old. It really is a solidly made game. If you've never tried it and have always kind of liked the idea of a MOBA but have never found the execution works for you it's worth a trying.

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

Silent Puffin? wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

"WE SURRENDER!" ~Loads of French people

Verdun is just one example of why you are very, very wrong and as you are American read up about the Kesserine Pass to see just how well US troops fared against their first taste of Blitkreig (hint not well);I'm sure you know how well the US did in Indochina. The French reputation for cowardice is completely undeserved.

I am currently playing the latest alpha/beta/early access (delete as applicable) build of Clockwork Empires. Still lots of bugs, broken/missing features and general balance issues but at least it works (to an extent) now.

Agreed on all accounts

 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.

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.

I've been playing Mount and Blade Warband: Viking Conquest. I'm targeting the Mons Islands for a start to a large kingdom as they are small enough that I should easily conquer them, and they already are fighting 4 different kingdoms. (First battle was 49 v 200 something, my elite veterans curbstomped them). All I have to say is when did I paint my armor red?

A good chunk of Diablo III today. Finished off Act III and Act IV and working now on the Reaper of Souls stuff for my Season 4 barbarian.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
I've been playing Mount and Blade Warband: Viking Conquest. I'm targeting the Mons Islands for a start to a large kingdom as they are small enough that I should easily conquer them, and they already are fighting 4 different kingdoms. (First battle was 49 v 200 something, my elite veterans curbstomped them). All I have to say is when did I paint my armor red?

I've been playing the story in that game. It's actually surprised me! Some of the choices it forces upon you are hard choices, if you've not made them before.