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Alright, logging off for the night, so It seems the Warlords have it by a vote. I've gone and made our Battlegroup named "The Council of 12" (12, not Twelve, character limits are apparently our greatest enemy) for the African Warlords. My character name is Ukuduma, Google Translate Zulu for "Thunder". Hope to see you guys there.

As of now the Warlords seem to have major operations against the Soviets and the Rupublic, as well as a possible skirmish with the Junta. So plenty of variety for who we'll fight at the moment. My one piece of advice for new players is the Warlords units favor getting up close and personal, and if you can afford one, a well placed Bomb Truck can singlehandedly turn a battle around.

Right, Steam link is here, as well as the non steam link.

Looks like it might be Junta, but I'll leave the voting up for awhile longer, maybe till end of Saturday.

No idea, just started tbh. However the Junta appears to have leadership issues currently. Lot of bitching in the public news comments about the guy who just stepped down signing a treaty with the Republic after they marched all the way down to Venezuela. As well as accusations about rogue generals in Australia hitting the Shogun. Not that the other faction's don't seem to have that mind you, just seems to be disproportionate amounts of Junta leadership bitching going on. Junta now seems determined to kill Europe of all places with the Soviets help. Meanwhile Africa seems to have retaliated against a Republic attempt on the Congo by swarming over the Eastern Seaboard while the Shogunate takes the west.

That said, Junta has a few tanks and a Mech now, so if they didn't have any of that last you played, that will at least tell you what they've done since.

So, recently I've been playing March of War, a neat little F2P Turn Based Game currently available on Steam. The battles consist of one of three modes, destroying the enemy's command vehicle (in one mode each side has one, the other mode only one side has the vehicle, but far more defenses) or capturing all of the command points on the map. Each unit gets two moves (with an exception), and ends it's turn immediatly upon firing, much like in the new X-Com for lack of a better comparison. The exception is hit and run units, which can move-fire-move all in one turn.

In each, each match, either PVE or PVP, contributes to the "battle score", which determines which faction gets to eventually claim that territory on the over world map. Score per battle is weighted by active players, so the populations of the factions don't really come into effect much, other than how difficult it is to become a top player, and thus get votes in your faction's overarching strategy.

Of course, the upper levels of each faction is filled with the usual backstabbing, scheming, spying, and political infighting, but you can ignore this and focus simply on fighting the battles if you choose.

The basic back story is an alternate WW2, where the world is divided up among six superpowers. Those powers being the United Republic, a coalition of the United States and Canada, The Latin Junta, which in the backstory formed as a defensive measure against Republican aggression in Central America, The European Alliance a single nation state composed of the various European nations united against outside aggression, The African Warlords, which is a confederation of various minor African factions, all following the call of those above them, The Shogunate Empire, the sprawling Asian empire ruled over by Japan, and lastly, The Soviet Union, who seems to have survived the alternate history with most of itself the same as always.

Each faction has it's own strengths and weaknesses of course, both by it's units, and the level of meta game political infighting that exists. You research and unlock units by playing battles, although it's recommended you wait until level 10 to do PVP, both because of getting your army ready, and learning the game mechanics.

So, I was wondering if anyone else plays this, and if so, should be get a Bay12 group going?

Damn, if I didn't read some of your LPs I'd never click on that link.

EDIT: Hehe, that's the kind of game I'd drive the opposite way. Tell me you have done that, it's more fun than the normal game. I know this from old Playstation 1 and N64 racing games. It's funny because those stupid ai bastards just keep going the 'right' way while I'm smashing up their cars and the announcer is yelling like crazy telling me to turn around. That moment of expectation in a Nascar sim when you are closing at 200 mph on a straightaway towards them lasts just about the right amount of time before you smash into them and cars start flying. I'm unsure if it's more fun to be in an invincible car or if it's better played like bowling where you try to wreck all the cars for a strike in your own destructible car. Both play modes have their charm.

It's especially satisfying because there is a Nascar track a short distance from where I live.

Also I think in your clip one of those cars' physics glitched out right at the end and rocketed it into the stands. Good times.

Nah the physics didn't glitch out, the guy's ping dropped like crazy. He was intermittently lagging in and out the majority of the race up to that point, ignoring people telling him to get his ass off the track.

Also it's MP only, and being a douche and driving the wrong way is the quick road to an account suspension if not perma-ban.

So, yet another bump for a reason. I accidentally was messing around, and managed to create a league. Since I already went through the trouble of that, not to mention $10 credit I earned last year down the drain, I decided to see if anyone was interested in a Bay 12 Cup league using only the subscription content, plus maybe 1 paid car/track combo. We'd probably have 2 drop weeks, so that means you can miss the paid content race and one other without suffering any standings issues (Other than the chance to improve your points by doing better than your 2 worst races mind you).

Unfortunately the old promo code for the free car no longer works. The current promo code is PR-JoshWise98 which gets you 3 months for the price of 1, as well as sends 90% of the proceeds from that first 3 months to Josh Wise's race team. Josh Wise being the driver who got sponsored by Dogecoin.

Anyway, if enough people have interest in this, I'd love to do such a thing. I know many of you may not be comfortable linking your name with your forum identity, so anyone who joins is under no obligation to tell us who they are on the forums if they aren't comfortable with it. Wanted to make that clear, although my identity is pretty much out there as league founder I suppose.

Anyway if you have any questions, feel free to ask. If you decide to sign up, this link will take you to the league page.

I wish I had been recording it at the time, but all I got was the replay of it after the fact, so the audio isn't there. In iRacing the seasons are 12 weeks, on the 13th week anyone can race anything (providing they own the content of course) regardless of their license level, which means the races tend to be complete wreck fests. Well, in one of the races, one guy managed to lose control exiting turn 4, but managed to come to a complete stop before anything bad happened (I dodged him by maybe an inch).

As he settles in to pull to the apron, a car brushes him, but he's mostly fine. Then the next car slams into him full on. Over the microphone this guy is screaming his head off in terror. However as soon as it seems it's over, in comes Laggy McBadConnection who hits him square on, warping through him, and causing him to ricochet off another car and fly into space before crashing into the pavement.

Hearing him panic combined with the lagging guy goes "WHERE DID THAT GUY COME FROM" as I cruised safely along the backstretch was perhaps the moment that made all the damage to my ratings week 13 did worth it.

Here's the video sans mic audio

Alright, clutch, downshift, release clutch, hit the brake to bring down the RPM to a safe level, then... oh god no that wasn't right, why is my engine at 0RPMs, and why is there a giant smoke trail. Oh......... oh no I screwed that up.....