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Other Games / Re: How did you last die?
« on: February 28, 2017, 12:55:49 am »
Me: "Shotgun's a good weapon for Sledge."

Immediately lose track of where I am on map and sledgehammer a wall infront of a long hallway.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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Other Games / Re: Total War: Warhammer! It's out!
« on: February 28, 2017, 12:47:01 am »
Quote from: Tack on February 28, 2017, 12:27:45 am
Playing as Brettonia currently.
Is fun.
AMA

Why do you follow a watery tart instead of Sigmar's holy light. And gunpowder. Mostly gunpowder.

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Other Games / Re: Blood Bowl (FUMBBL, Cyanide, Tabletop)
« on: October 28, 2016, 03:28:13 am »
The one thing that really puts FUMBBL above the retail game is that by having the game and community hosted in a single place, you get a lot more banter, memorable moments codified in blogs and such, and teams that becomes household name, such as the WMD's or Blood Sea Buccaneers, who have 3028 and 1385 matches (and yet not a player older than 100 between them excluding the Ogre who got a magic sponge during the server replacement donation drive) respectively.

For instance, I can see this match being remembered for quite a long time.

https://fumbbl.com/p/match?id=3845890

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Other Games / Re: If you combined the last two games you played, what would you get?
« on: October 28, 2016, 03:20:47 am »
Blood Bowl and Total Extreme Wrestling.

Oh.. oh god.. I've re-created Vince McMahon's XFL....

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Other Games / Re: Desura Revival
« on: October 28, 2016, 03:01:55 am »
You knew they were doomed back in the day when almost every game sold on there would usually offer you a Steam or GoG key as well. Literally going "We know you don't actually want to use this platform".

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Other Games / Re: Wargame: Red Dragon (war game + RTS = the ultimate geeky mil-sim)
« on: October 23, 2016, 12:29:59 am »
Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on October 23, 2016, 12:25:51 am
PTW. I just picked up the whole Wargame series + all the DLC for like 15 bucks the other day.

I'd recommend playing the first game and possibly skipping the second. MP is all in the third game of course, and the SP of the 2nd game is head and shoulders above the second. The first game's SP is a conventional one after the other mission thing with unorthodox objectives though, so it's worth a go.

Also on the main screen, click the chat channel, and then there's a red (I think) button on the computer panel. It'll mute chat.

Trust me, you'll thank me.

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Other Games / Re: Blood Bowl (FUMBBL, Cyanide, Tabletop)
« on: October 22, 2016, 10:05:37 pm »
Quote from: MrRoboto75 on October 22, 2016, 09:57:40 pm
I'd play, but that would mean re-buying the (sequel) game, which apparently is like 80 dollars total just to have most of the teams I did before.

Yeah missed the boat unfortunately. They were running a thing where as long as you owned the game before the DLC came out, you'd get it free, so I got all 5 (+1 unreleased) DLC races free. Now all you'd get is the Nurgle team free.

There's still the free java one though.

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Other Games / Re: Total War: Warhammer! It's out!
« on: October 22, 2016, 09:29:20 pm »
You'll want to play as Empire then. Pike and Shotte is basically their byword, as they don't have the muscle to go man to man with big nasties like the Dwarfs do. Pretty solid gunpowder based roster from top to bottom, although the crossbowmen are trash and I'd ignore them. An empire army ideally wants the enemy dead before they even reach mele range, and if not to meet them with halberds that can tear through armor like butter.

That said if you don't own it yet, don't get it. I can't see it not being a winter sale game. Same for DLCs. Probably be able to pick it up for at least half off.

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Other Games / Re: Total Extreme Wrestling: Wrestling Promotion Simulator. Discussion Thread on B12
« on: October 22, 2016, 09:22:45 pm »
The best RW database for this is probably Rising Storms, it's set in 1991, just before the wrestling industry steroid scandal, which means there's a ton of never heard of promotions you can take hold of to challenge the big two. I'm running Herb Abrams UWF, which is more known for it's owners death (see below) than it's actual wrestling quality. Somehow it had an hour of tv for a few years it squandered, and trundled along barely alive most of it's existence, kept afloat only by the fact that the owner was a major money mark. I've currently got a young Steve Austin who I don't think I'll be able to keep hold of once he reaches his potential, as well as later fan favorites La Parka and Cactus Jack. We're slowly making progress to Cult size, where WWE and WCW are right now becuase of the horrible scandals constantly rocking the industry right now.

As to the owner. Herb Abrams IRL was a complete nutjob. He was known as a colorful character with big ideas on wrestling, ideas firmly planted in the previous decades. He also paid Dr Death Williams $500 to break a jobbers nose because he thought the jobber slept with his wife. His death came when after being arrested "covered in a Vaseline like substance, coated in cocaine, and chasing hookers with a baseball bat" his heart gave out from an OD and he died in custody.

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Other Games / Re: Total War: Warhammer! It's out!
« on: October 22, 2016, 09:13:12 pm »
In all honesty, the freeLC lord (The Orc Shaman) is the most interesting. He's a mix of a combat monster and a spellcaster, and his personal bonuses encourages you to field a savage orc based stack, as they are 50% off upkeep in his personal army only, making them actually cheaper than their equivalent Boyz unit. And Savage Orcs play a bit different from their "civilized" cousins because the complete and utter lack of armor but more hurty weapons.

Also RadiousMod died because the developer got married or something, which normally I wouldn't care much about becuase radious mods are always sorta bloaty and don't care about faction flavor (everyone gets everything is the order of the day), but now I'm seeing radious users flock to other mods I do like and demanding radious like changes, and I really, really hope the modders stand their ground.

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Other Games / Blood Bowl (FUMBBL, Cyanide, Tabletop)
« on: October 22, 2016, 09:03:15 pm »
So, I've noticed we have a dozen dead threads about various offshoots of Blood Bowl, and figured it would be best if we just had one singular thread for it, especially as necroing the old threads is an issue. So here we go.

What is Blood Bowl? Blood Bowl is a old Games Workshop game about Fantasy Football, namely fantasy as in Warhammer Fantasy. Orcs, Elves, Dwarfs, horrible mutants, and if you're a sad boring person, humans! All playing against each other for glory, honor, and of course money. Mostly money.

There's currently 3 versions of Blood Bowl out there worth your time. The first is the retail product by Cyanide, Blood Bowl. It's currently on it's 2nd edition, with improved graphics and user interface, and although it doesn't have all the teams yet, it has the biggest player base. The previous edition, Chaos Edition, has dwindled down to nearly nothing now by player migration, and isn't worth your time tbh.

The second edition worth mentioning is FUMBBL. A freeware java based client with a dedicated website, all of the teams, and better private league management tools. However, the playerbase is smaller and as a consequence the skill floor is a lot higher, so new players will see their teeth kicked in repeatedly. In addition, it's 2d nature and java based means not only is it not as graphically good as the commercial product, but the interface in many ways is less good (although it was far superior to BB1's trainwreck UI). And of course requires the java runtimes installed.

Both editions thankfully have a good player base to play against, with the commercial product recently separating it's Matchmaking into a casual and competitive one, the difference being the competitive one runs for 3 months at a time, and 5 concessions = ejection till next season.

Third is the actual tabletop game. Although discontinued by GW when specialist games shut down, the NAF eventually coalesced into existance, and is the defacto governing body of tabletop Blood Bowl. Many third party miniature and board/dice makers have sprung up in recent years to make "fantasy football" sets. However, GW is using Blood Bowl to spearhead it's revival of the Specalist division, and as such a new official box set is due later this year, with the same core rules but new optional rules and the return of special card inducements.

So I've rambled long enough, anyone else still play this?

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Other Games / Re: Total War: Warhammer! It's out!
« on: May 29, 2016, 05:34:57 am »
Quote from: umiman on May 29, 2016, 12:38:53 am
Frumple:

1. I don't really like a lot of Total War lets plays because they hurt my brain like you mentioned. If I do watch any, I like those that are more for humour than seriousness. The Yogscast did a bunch of videos on it, but mostly just multiplayer battles. I don't like Legend of Total War because he just cheeses every battle and acts like he's good or something. Seriously, I beat all the Total Wars on legendary and never needed to cheese to that degree, why exactly does he think he's so great for cheesing every single bleeding battle? So yeah, I never watch them.

2. Archers get an accuracy penalty if they're lobbing shots instead of shooting directly. In this game they nerfed friendly fire a lot though and you really only have to worry about artillery doing friendly fire (which they will, a lot). I don't like using guns because they can't arc over troops and they're not as fearsome as Napoleon or Fall of the Samurai. I like the outriders a lot though, mostly because they're mounted so they actually can shoot over your troops, but they can run around very fast to shoot flanks. They also carry gatling guns.

3. There's no attack move command as far as I know. You're referring to them using the advance, retreat, turn, etc. commands? (movement keys) The downside to using it is your units don't charge targets when they get in range, rather they will just walk or run into them without the charge bonus. Using formation move and those commands are great for minor tweaks to formation or just generally moving in a group when you can't be arsed to reform everything.

4. There are good reasons to put off the initial quest that gives you a hero. The hero costs a lot in upkeep and you have to waste time running there to get what amounts to a pretty silly reward. You also have to waste turns healing the damage back from the quest. For the Empire one I never bother with it until I'm done conquering Reikland and another province.

To clarify, the nerf from FF came in two things primarily. One, getting rid of the frankly amazing awful system Attilla used where for FF purposes your units actually had an expanded hitbox. And 2, units will now refuse to fire if they don't have a decent shot, which when Autofire is on often results in them choosing better targets.

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Other Games / Re: Total War: Warhammer! It's out!
« on: May 26, 2016, 10:59:42 pm »
Quote from: Mech#4 on May 26, 2016, 10:58:22 pm
There's not really early heavy cavalry for any of the factions. Empire have Pistoleers as early cavalry but they're ranged and not for melee since they have low leadership. Marauder Horsemen are better at melee but they're not heavily armoured. Bretonnia have the closest with the mounted yeoman but Bretonnia aren't playable yet.

Orcs have boarboys which are heavy cavalry but I don't know how early they can get them. There's also chariots for Chaos and Orcs that are used as heavy charge units. Chaos chariots are a pain to deal with since they have good health and armour.

Empire have Reiksguard, which very much fit the bill, and can be gotten somewhat early (turn 40ish) if you rush them.

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Other Games / Re: Total War: Warhammer! It's out!
« on: May 26, 2016, 10:10:10 pm »
Quote from: Vendayn on May 26, 2016, 09:52:18 pm
So, tried out Vampires. I tend to play really slow in strategy games (well any game actually, even RPGs I take my time. Literally took me around 800 hours to beat Skyrim's main quest rofl.) Tycoon/city builder games I build up so slow (it took me 50 or so hours in Cities Skylines to get a 10k pop city lol. I just like to sit back and relax).

And chaos.

Yeah, they appear vastly too fast. It also didn't help that I actually didn't like playing Vampires as much as I thought I would. However, I have one game as Chaos (they are tons of fun, and I didn't even like any Horde nation in Attila, so they made chaos a lot more fun than in attila), Greenskins (they are my 2nd favorite) and Dwarves (by far my favorite race currently in the game, but their book of grudges is kinda annoying. Greenskins mechanic is a lot more fun to me).

Attila horde I thought appeared at a much better time. He didn't appear so fast it felt like I have to blitz everything like I'm playing one of those league of legend strategygames (blitzing is my least favorite thing to do), but he appeared not so far down the line that I was already really strong (this is speaking of playing as Western Roman Empire), so he still posed a challenge

Luckily there is this mod

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?731027-Delaying-Chaos-invasion

It feels like playing Attila with it and dealing with Attila's horde, and if you follow the steam link, there is an even slower speed that he made as well. My next game will be with the even slower speed, but also with Dresden's 2x build and research time. So chaos will appear a lot further, but it will still take more time to do stuff so I won't be OP.

There is of course a lot of mods for 1 turn stuff. Guess a lot of people like to blitz. But personally, I prefer really long, drawn out games. So I think adding the even slower speed and Dresden's mods (can find his stuff on steam workshop), will make the game a lot more fun. Plus add that mod where AI can't spam agents (though I'm kinda waiting to see if a mod just doesn't make an agent limit, cause I still like them using agents and I'd want to be limited to)

But for the races themselves. Only race I probably won't play is Empire, cause...chaos, dwarves and greenskins are better :P I can pretty much play empire in a different total war game lol. But for dwarves/greenskins, I kinda find them equally fun, but Dwarves just edge out a bit since their units are so deadly (balance changes in the future might change that) and I like to play defensive and get tons of money, which Dwarves are all about.

Spoiler: Chaos Arrival Code Triggers (click to show/hide)

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Other Games / Re: Total War: Warhammer! It's out!
« on: May 26, 2016, 09:15:20 pm »
There's also the fact that GW keeps trying to pretend Kislev doesn't exist. I don't even think they even ever got an army book in WHFB.

As to east of the mountains, smart money would be on the New World being the second game in the triology, as it's the one containing the other Major Races that aren't already on the Old World map, ie Lizards, Amazonians, and High/Dark Elves. But as to weather they'd go east or south for the third one is anyone's guess.

Lastly fuck Marienburg. Literally everything they do was to vex me. My first empire campaign they ran off to Brettonia and refused to help with Chaos. This time they managed to let the starter empire Orcs (Skullcrushas) retake that little settlement to their west, and thus the greenskins have a full stack now. If it wasn't for their absurd port I'd just raze the city when I took it from them this time, I hate them that much.,

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