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5 mos ago
Current i'm not sure the appropriate use of an OLED TV is to play random scenic train videos but here we are
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7 mos ago
swish
8 mos ago
Being truly on my own is a bit of a weird feeling. It's never really happened.
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9 mos ago
Let it never be said that sometimes extreme brevity isn't the most appropriate post, though. Everything is a tool.
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11 mos ago
a loaf is a surprisingly hard thing to make
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Once I get home! If I get home!


You lead the right flank. We need caution.

Particularly because you are every bit directly opposite "CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE"
I always seem to blob massively and become this all-devouring empire of doom once I get going.


This is what happens when you put a modicum of effort into defeating constipated AI. I like conclave. Suddenly there is a reason to care about internal politics aside from micromanaging faction opinions.

However, not relevant. ONWARDS WITH SLAYING MANY BANDITS.
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I just want to play Age of Empires II again and summon an army of machine gun cars


I think you can ever try to mess with virtual machines (including Dosbox)

Or buy the HD edition off steam and get it with textural improvements but everything still in place.

WAIT DID I MISS THE DISCUSSION ON CK2


There was no discussion. Continue turning your family tree into a line.
I couldn't really get into EUIV, but that's mostly because "WAH, CHANGE SUCKS" EUIII feels more arcade-y and slightly less railroaded, where you can really just kind of mess with the world with abandon without butting heads with the game mechanics.


At that point, I start using the console and making stupidly cheating decision files. I will mess with the world, whether it wants me to or not. :D
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Crusader Kings is pretty amazing, although I personally put it behind Victoria II and Europa Universalis III for Paradox Interactive titles.

As for Shogun, I wasn't personally too impressed by it, at least not compared to Rome and Medieval II.

EDIT: Plenty of people love Shogun though.


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Crusader Kings is pretty amazing, although I personally put it behind Victoria II and Europa Universalis III for Paradox Interactive titles.

As for Shogun, I wasn't personally too impressed by it, at least not compared to Rome and Medieval II.

EDIT: Plenty of people love Shogun though.


I was talking about Shogun I, there.

Shogun II is, personally, my favourite Total War game. The strategic map is not the fucking trolling from Medieval where you had to randomly specialise cities to produce actual units or be an undefended morass that pays you, and the battle is an update from Medieval II etc. graphically and informatively but not damn sunset on pike-and-shot dullness. Anything is better than Rome's "please take many turns to produce this ONE unit" insanity.

CKII is fun. I have got to oneday stop buying DLC. EUIV and Victoria II... so hard for me to get into at times. Victoria devolves into randomly trying to turn things communist or fascist for the hilarity.
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Et tu Tyaethe?


She's Shogun Total War's weird rebel general hack shenanigans. She can't die of old age.
Generals always die of old age at the most inconvenient times.
Giving people instructions is for people whose best attribute as a commander is 'not going to die and break morale mid battle'.
Tyaethe started off walking sedately towards the camp but, as they drew within a range where the group's archers could begin following, picked up her pace. She slid the shield onto her arm in order to free the appropriate hand. A hand that wrenched the spear out of its fleshy lodging! With disturbing ease given the gaping wound, the paladin launched it into the mass of bandits already reeling from attacks on multiple flanks.

That was when she launched into a full sprint, heedless of the men behind her. They knew what to do and the heat of a battle was no time for fancy commands. Instead, they got treated to the sight of one of their reliable elders apparently doing a suicidal recreation of a cavalry charge on foot.

Against a disciplined wall of soldiers, it was quite likely that even her immense sword would have been repelled and the spear bounced off harmlessly. Instead, against bandits trying to gather up their weapons and rush to deal with the captain's charge, the spear got one man in the side and the already-horrified bandits were treated to a wordless raw as Tyaethe slammed into their position. A disciplined massed force was a threat but an undisciplined one? A target-rich slaughter.

The paladin was in her element, until the others caught up. Her later training and fighting style focused on two things: going forth and destroying her enemies or providing more than ample protection for a single person. Experience tempered it somewhat but the paladin's fighting style was very unfriendly to fighting in an infantry wall and, back when she was a newly-minted paladin, it was expected that it might end up as her against a necromancer. It did a lot to explain using a weapon that could go through multiple people before stopping.

Nevertheless, she was doing an admirable job of keeping to her promise to break the enemy position for her group to exploit the gap as she fought forwards, slamming her shield into one bandit and smashing the edge down on his neck when he tripped. Though she would have preferred a challenging fight, bringing justice to these murderous cretins was satisfaction enough... for now.
Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine. She had her sword in that. D:
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