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^^ Just put the subs on, he's mastered the game pretty well.
What Video Games Have You Been Playing? Five-and-Twenty: I Used to Play, But then I Took an Arrow to the Knee
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reddishrecue
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I haven't been on this forum in a while and I have been playing some new games. I recently got Nintendo Switch 2 because I thought Zelda Fall of Hyrule would be out but what came out was Mario Kart World so far. I also have been playing Caesar 3, got promoted to Caesar and passed it! I also have been playing Cities Skyline 2. I also got to play Trials of Mana which I got to pass with Duran. I plan to get GTA to play online as well. I also have been playing Pharaoh which is like Caesar 3 but instead of being in Rome its in Egypt.
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This game reminds me of Immortal Phoenix Rising which I also got to play even though I got to the last boss I haven't passed it yet.
amadeus
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Picked up OpenTTD again. This time in a multiplayer game.
Ordnael
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After a successful Kupe deity run on CIV VI I tried going Maya but map generation got me mad after endless reloads and some turns. If you don't get something to farm and plantations, forget about it!, if most of the 6 ideal city placements are tundra or desert or impossible because of mountains or water, forget about it! Back to Xenoblade Chronicles X!
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Let's see, over the past two months...
June was a lot of EU4, playing as Genoa. It's now in snowball mode as Italy, only coalitions and the need to keep Britain on my side (to help counter coalitions) are slowing me down at all. But it was fun early on, balancing those Aegean and Black Sea colonies' protection with local growth in Italy. Perhaps the key point was establishing naval superiority over Venice, at high cost, in an early war with them, and then continuing to build up the navy to protect against both Venetian and Ottoman attempts to control the Mediterranean. I also enjoyed an alliance with Spain for quite some time, which survived one conflict with them, only to eventual go down in flames as both of our ambitions grew. Oh well. I have Poland and France as vassals, and while Poland is somewhat reduced from their heights (they had one province when we vassalized them, since significantly restored) and France much reduced (they had two, and remain a shadow of their former selves), so I can survive Spain not being friendly.
July was mostly Out of the Park baseball, which I revisit every few years. Trying to lead the 1970s Cleveland Indians to better success than they had in real life, and I'm not sure if it's working. I started in '72, the year they acquired Gaylord Perry as their ace pitcher; as my almanac of team history notes, his excellent performance that year was one of the few bright spots of the season. Through trades I added Phil Niekro, the famed knuckleballer, and, mid-season, Luis Tiant, for a fairly good top three starting pitching group. But the last two pitching spots have been a revolving door, and the bullpen is known for giving up leads. My batters can manage to get hits, but have little power and not a lot of speed, so runs are a bit more elusive. I'm hoping next year, with the introduction of the designated hitter, helps a bit. We've got a power-hitting first baseman in Triple-A who will probably split DH duties with our .320-hitting (but low-power) current first baseman. There's some bullpen help on the horizon, too, with Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabovsky, another trade acquisition, posting a sub-1.00 ERA in triple A and likely to be a September call-up. But our only really promising starting pitching prospect, a guy named Eckersley, is still in single-A and a few years from the bigs.
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Lately I've also started a Rome II: Total War: Rise of Rome game. I'd never done that campaign and man, is it difficult. I chose Hard difficulty because regular Rome II is easy, but not this campaign! The game starts in 399 BC, with Rome at war with Veii. As Plutarch said, Veii was not inferior to Rome, either in number of arms or multitude of soldiers, and I could not gain the upper hand. Eventually, Veii took our port of Ostia, and we retook it, but could not mount an offensive, and then they took it again... finally, we decided to let Veii keep it and sent our dictator, Marcus Furius Camillus, to take the City of Veii. This he succeeded at, and in the meantime the defenders of Rome turned back Veii's attempt to take Rome, all while Veii's other town revolted to join the Etruscans at Tarchuna.
Sounds good, right? But to our south, the Volscians had declared war on us, and were becoming a juggernaut. The friendly Hernici were quickly conquered by them, and right after we repelled Veii from Rome, the Volscians attacked Rome, capturing all of it save the Capitoline Hill. Furius returned to Rome and repelled them, but by that point both of our cities were in disarray, the plebes were furious with the Senatorial ruling class, our wealth was depleted, and the Volscians had captured Ostia and were preparing to attack both Veii and Rome (again). Thus Furius was send to capture the Volscian capital, attempt to undermine them, and hopefully give us the upper hand.
Here, he met something he couldn't do. Although the Volscians suffered high losses, Furius was forced to retreat, and his army was soon vanquished. There were no reserves of any size, the Volscians were marching on our cities, and all hope looked lost.
But a hope emerged - from Etruria. Tarchuna was willing to declare war on the Volscians, for about half of our meager treasury. We readily agreed, and within months, Ostia was Etruscan, but friendly-Etruscan. Thanks to that, we had a bit of time to prepare before the Volscians attacked Veii, where we committed our entire army and it was very nearly a disaster. But one of our consuls, Medillinus, pulled a rabbit out of the hat of the chaotic battlefield and saved the day. Soon thereafter, Tarchuna helped us push the Volscians back from both Veii and Rome, conquered two more of their cities, and now, a year or two later, we've rebuilt, our cities have calmed down, and we're preparing to march into the Sabine mountains to take two cities than the Volscians took in that area. That will give us a countryside that, hopefully, will allow us to become a regional power, and not just a city-state scrambling for its mere existence.
Now there is the issue that we've helped Tarchuna become the dominant regional power. But at least, unlike the Volscians, they are a friendly dominant regional power.
June was a lot of EU4, playing as Genoa. It's now in snowball mode as Italy, only coalitions and the need to keep Britain on my side (to help counter coalitions) are slowing me down at all. But it was fun early on, balancing those Aegean and Black Sea colonies' protection with local growth in Italy. Perhaps the key point was establishing naval superiority over Venice, at high cost, in an early war with them, and then continuing to build up the navy to protect against both Venetian and Ottoman attempts to control the Mediterranean. I also enjoyed an alliance with Spain for quite some time, which survived one conflict with them, only to eventual go down in flames as both of our ambitions grew. Oh well. I have Poland and France as vassals, and while Poland is somewhat reduced from their heights (they had one province when we vassalized them, since significantly restored) and France much reduced (they had two, and remain a shadow of their former selves), so I can survive Spain not being friendly.
July was mostly Out of the Park baseball, which I revisit every few years. Trying to lead the 1970s Cleveland Indians to better success than they had in real life, and I'm not sure if it's working. I started in '72, the year they acquired Gaylord Perry as their ace pitcher; as my almanac of team history notes, his excellent performance that year was one of the few bright spots of the season. Through trades I added Phil Niekro, the famed knuckleballer, and, mid-season, Luis Tiant, for a fairly good top three starting pitching group. But the last two pitching spots have been a revolving door, and the bullpen is known for giving up leads. My batters can manage to get hits, but have little power and not a lot of speed, so runs are a bit more elusive. I'm hoping next year, with the introduction of the designated hitter, helps a bit. We've got a power-hitting first baseman in Triple-A who will probably split DH duties with our .320-hitting (but low-power) current first baseman. There's some bullpen help on the horizon, too, with Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabovsky, another trade acquisition, posting a sub-1.00 ERA in triple A and likely to be a September call-up. But our only really promising starting pitching prospect, a guy named Eckersley, is still in single-A and a few years from the bigs.
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Lately I've also started a Rome II: Total War: Rise of Rome game. I'd never done that campaign and man, is it difficult. I chose Hard difficulty because regular Rome II is easy, but not this campaign! The game starts in 399 BC, with Rome at war with Veii. As Plutarch said, Veii was not inferior to Rome, either in number of arms or multitude of soldiers, and I could not gain the upper hand. Eventually, Veii took our port of Ostia, and we retook it, but could not mount an offensive, and then they took it again... finally, we decided to let Veii keep it and sent our dictator, Marcus Furius Camillus, to take the City of Veii. This he succeeded at, and in the meantime the defenders of Rome turned back Veii's attempt to take Rome, all while Veii's other town revolted to join the Etruscans at Tarchuna.
Sounds good, right? But to our south, the Volscians had declared war on us, and were becoming a juggernaut. The friendly Hernici were quickly conquered by them, and right after we repelled Veii from Rome, the Volscians attacked Rome, capturing all of it save the Capitoline Hill. Furius returned to Rome and repelled them, but by that point both of our cities were in disarray, the plebes were furious with the Senatorial ruling class, our wealth was depleted, and the Volscians had captured Ostia and were preparing to attack both Veii and Rome (again). Thus Furius was send to capture the Volscian capital, attempt to undermine them, and hopefully give us the upper hand.
Here, he met something he couldn't do. Although the Volscians suffered high losses, Furius was forced to retreat, and his army was soon vanquished. There were no reserves of any size, the Volscians were marching on our cities, and all hope looked lost.
But a hope emerged - from Etruria. Tarchuna was willing to declare war on the Volscians, for about half of our meager treasury. We readily agreed, and within months, Ostia was Etruscan, but friendly-Etruscan. Thanks to that, we had a bit of time to prepare before the Volscians attacked Veii, where we committed our entire army and it was very nearly a disaster. But one of our consuls, Medillinus, pulled a rabbit out of the hat of the chaotic battlefield and saved the day. Soon thereafter, Tarchuna helped us push the Volscians back from both Veii and Rome, conquered two more of their cities, and now, a year or two later, we've rebuilt, our cities have calmed down, and we're preparing to march into the Sabine mountains to take two cities than the Volscians took in that area. That will give us a countryside that, hopefully, will allow us to become a regional power, and not just a city-state scrambling for its mere existence.
Now there is the issue that we've helped Tarchuna become the dominant regional power. But at least, unlike the Volscians, they are a friendly dominant regional power.
bene_legionary
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Ever since my flatmate got a Wii for the flat, so much Mario Kart Wii (and so much swearing...)
For me, the problem with Odyssey was the idiotic story.
I was hoping I might be able to pick a side in the war. Instead I was prodded to just massacre soldiers of both sides for... I don't even recall why.
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