Screenshots!

[Smellincoffee]

I installed an old favorite, Mafia, on my PC tonight and started playing the game through so I could unlock all the cars and such for the sandbox/Free Ride mode. In the fourth mission or so, the player character and two friends visit a motel to pick up some protection money, but a rival gang is trying to take over. A firefight ensues. One of the last guys to be shot is a man wielding a tommygun who hide behind a bar. Usually, I just make him waste ammunition by moving in and out of the doorframe, and then kill him when he's reloading. Tonight, though. something new happened.

I accidentally shot a prop that started a fire. I've been playing this game for six years, and have not seen that happen once.

The fire rapidly expanded, catching the guy with the tommygun. The poor guy ran around the room on fire until he collapsed.

Sort of a freak incident. I love that the designers included a random prop that can go off like that.

 

[Captain2]

Nice, I tried that game once but ended up passing on it when I reloaded a level and my ammo disappeared, I had to beat a dog to death with my bare hands

 

[Maniacal]

Huh, I always just practiced shooting the guys really quickly when i pop around a corner.

I've probably played through Mafia 3 times.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Apparently there are two props I hit: first, one of the bottles, and two, the lamp. I guess the sparks from the lamp ignited the alcohol.

 

[Captain2]

My second game as the Byzantines, last time I took all of Africa and the middle east and this time I've gone a different direction.

I was pretty impressed they had an event that destroys the papacy if you take Rome and a couple other provinces and turn them orthodox

 

[GenMarshall]

Captain2, don't let Mathalamus see that or he'd flip

 

[Tee Kay]

Captain2, don't let Mathalamus see that or he'd flip

He'll need to settle an American colony as well.

 

[PhroX]

With the 1.4 patch out, I decided to have another game of HoI3. Playing as France, WW2 broke out at the normal time, and since then, well, not much has happened...

(actually, I've played for another 6 months or so after the screenshot, but nothings changed, so...)

 

[e350tb]

Why did Germany invade Switzerland?

 

[Jos Ballenbak]

Because they can!

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

They wanted to secure a vital supply of ****oo clocks?

 

[IronMan2055]

This is where a human German player would be spending loads on innfluencing Spain. =P

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I was rereading my old German AAR and remembered that, originally, I hoped to have a game where I was eventually beaten as the Germans. That never happened (ironically it was one of my best games as Germany) so I've started a game with some self-imposed rules. Namely that I'm not allowed to create any new land units (with the exception of garrison troops) after I launch Barbarossa (May 1941 in this game) and I've purposely made the Atlantic Wall much weaker than I normally would.

1941 went well - I captured Leningrad and Moscow and made good gains in the south.

However 1942 has seen me capture...well, bugger all. The Soviets have built up a massive force to hold me back, and the battles around Moscow have prevented any sort of offensive campaign on my part. I redeployed my forces for 1943, then this happened.:

14 divisions? Normally it's just a crappy 2 or 3 of them! So now I'm shifting units from the Eastern Front, which can't be good as it effectively ends my plans for an attack towards Stalingrad, and the Soviets have launched their own offensive near Moscow...with 50+ divisions.

I am loving this

 

[PhroX]

Why did Germany invade Switzerland?

Because for some reason the Swiss decided they wanted to join the Allies in early '41.

This is where a human German player would be spending loads on innfluencing Spain. =P

Spain is actually part of the Axis, but neither them, nor Italy, have actually joined the war (in fact, only Germany and Slovakia are at war with us in Europe. Japan and it's various puppets are in a seperate war against the Allies, and are doing rather well, having nearly taken all of India...).

I'm only about 5% neutrality away from being able to attack Spain though, which I'll probably do just to break the tedium. I should have the forces to take them out.

 

[Jos Ballenbak]

I would say it is going quite historically for you Kan, Germans invade Russia being halted near moscow and now D-Day. Lets see if you can change history

 

[cardgame]

quick, develop some superheavy tanks

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

It took about 3 months of heavy fighting (the Americans/British landed a total of 24 divisions eventually) across Belgium and northern France, but we eventually pushed them back to the sea. I'm allowing myself a strengthening of the Atlantic Wall as well as the construction of several 'fast-response' mechanised units for the future.

The entire campaign has probably cost me the eastern front though - the Soviets now overwhelm me in numbers at least 2-1, and nearly the entirety of my forces which were set for the Stalingrad push had to be redeployed west.

There's always 1944, eh?

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

Sounds cool!

 

[bigdog5994]

Warband

what program are you guys using to take screens? FRAPS wont work on my computer

 

[Synobun]

Download a program called FSscreen. That works nicely.