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Hehehe, this'll be fun.

I managed to get the game to run.
It's very entertaining... the flamer is a lot of fun.

I find - like most games of this type, such as XCOM - its most fun when things go wrong and you're desperately trying to salvage the situation!

Yeah my flamer guy got covered in cultists and ended up hacking his way out.
6 melee kills XD
He also got 100% accuracy with his flamer, firing 8 times and hit 12 targets...

Not sure what to do regarding Tac squads for the next mission...

Do I run squad III and put in some Marines from squad II to fill the numbers (this is my probable choice), or run squad II with Marines from squad III?
Or do I run squad II and hope that by the next mission squad III is complete?

Just send squad 3 in will get the job done (also who do I give my death letter for my family to).

Now starting the 3rd mission. No bandicam yet I'm afraid, as my internet's not working properly.

Deployed are Librarian Ignatius, Tactical Squad III, Devastator Squad and the Assault Squad:

Tactical Squad III:
1) Sergeant: thenoobbomb/ Noobimus Maximus
2) Marine: Commissar Rhodes/ Leonardius Rhodes
3) Marine: Purplefood/ Purple the Magnificent V
4) Marine: CthuluIs Spy/ Otto Von Swanzstucker III
5) Veteran Heavy/Special Weapons: Doctadeth/ Doctadeth (Flamer)

Assault Squad VII (can have assorted CCW's):
1) Sergeant: DA's Forever/ Maxima Trauma (Plasma Pistol/ Power Axe)
2) Marine: Necroshea/ Isaac Hexen (Hand Flamer/ Power Fist)
3) Marine: Super Ready/ Maximus Porkpious (Bolt Pistol/ Power Fist)
4) Marine: n0t_u/ Nu (Plasma Pistol/ Conciliator Power Sword)
5) Marine: Medium of Death/ Medius Ex Decimus (Purifier Hand Flamer/ Power Sword)

Devastator Squad VIII:
1) Sergeant: JakeCWolf/ Securim Fulmen
2) Marine: Position open
3) Marine: Position open, temporarily occupied by Trondheim/ Rasputin
4) Veteran Heavy Weapons: Skarwael/ Herius Pertinax (Heavy Bolter)
5) Heavy Weapons: SilverMK2/ Silver (Missile Launcher)

Librarian I: Dr What/ Ignatius Avalon (Vortex Psychic Power)

I've tried to equip people as desired: people the assault squad and Doctadeth's flamer. I figured Pertinax did too well with the HB to lose it, so Silver can have the benefit of the doubt and be given the missile launcher in the hopes he actually hits something.

My version of Chaos Gate is really unstable, it stops working at the drop of a hat :(

YAY! I will see how my guy does....if he's good with the flamer, then stick with it. I think either flamer or go plasma....lol misfires

My guy gets a deserving break day... Worshipping at the shrine of the emperor.

My guy finally gets to see combat....

And now expecting the pistol to explode and take out a hand.

Well... lets hope the rocket explosion are really big

Ere we go!

 SilverMK2 wrote:
Well... lets hope the rocket explosion are really big

Yeah, with luck you might kill something in the blast radius when you miss

(Hopefully not me)

I'm off for lunch and then to do other stuff, but hopefully I'll have more updates for you guys tonight.

Highlights so far... SILVER HIT SOMETHING! Pertinax missed a lot of things. Someone died. Someone is really not leading by example. Someone got set on fire. An enemy got set on fire. Someone shot a corpse. And someone has to fight off the 5 Khorne Berzerkers and the Chaos Sorcerer charging at us.

I've restarted it once too: Doctadeth set 3 teammates on fire, then Ignatius killed Isaac Hexen (and 2 zerkers) with his psychic power... You guys are awesome!

purplefood wrote:My version of Chaos Gate is really unstable, it stops working at the drop of a hat :(

Yup. Mine too. Thankfully it autosaves at the beginning of every turn. Let me know if you find a way to fix it though?

Doctadeth wrote:YAY! I will see how my guy does....if he's good with the flamer, then stick with it. I think either flamer or go plasma....lol misfires

n0t_u wrote:My guy finally gets to see combat....

And now expecting the pistol to explode and take out a hand.

FWIW, I'm not sure Plasma Guns can actually misfire in this game (sadly), and I'm not sure if flamers can actually miss! Plasma Guns are less powerful and useful all-round than they are on the tabletop or in the fluff though. Plasma Cannons and Melta weapons are where its at.



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Also, a predator pilot may be needed soon.

As both a capable and skilled pilot (I have references) I hereby request transfer to the predator pilot division.

Bwah ha ha ha! That does sound like me

Burn and purge baby!

I'm probably the one who got kilt...

I probavly killed you :S

Well....setting 3 teammates on fire does take a bit of talent.

I'm fighting off the beserkers?

If I remember correctly I copy and pasted final liberation off of the disc and then it worked pretty much ok.
How did you get past the 16bit installer on chaos gate?

I'm probably the one who definately doesn't lead by example

Run it in compatibility mode with the 1.2 patch seems to be the big answer...
Even then it's still unstable.

What OS are you guys using to get Chaos Gate and Final Liberation working? I couldn't get either of them running in XP, but I've not tried them out on my son's Windows 7 machine yet...

It works on 7 and XP (Kinda) but you need to run it in compatibility mode...
Just right click on it and go to properties. The compatibility and set it to the appropriate thing.
It works but it's not very stable...

Ta.

One tip -- although the super-hardcore difficulty level (no saving the game except when you log off) is fun, and is indeed super-hardcore, it has at least one bug that can leave you unable to finish the mission (and thus, the game) if anything goes wrong. Won't be trying that again...

Thanks Just Dave. Since I couldn't play this on my PC, I've started playing Dark Crusade again!

Follow me into battle!

Though, if it works out like any other time a lead in an RPG, I may be the only one to make it out alive.

Well, it was nice knowing you all...

Any chance of a after action report today?

I hope I didn't die in my first outing, unless it was a glorious death.