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Hard to do that when said 200-man armies are besieging your own towns and castles :|

Thankfully, this doesn't seem to be as much a problem in Warband.

Holy hell, that was fast and dead-on 

Thanks muchly, Cthulhu. I'll be sure to name a dwarf after you in my next fortress.

I love this game. I even have a dwarven civilization :3

(Literally, the species is very short and they have beards)

Quote from: Sirus on September 20, 2011, 02:52:18 pm

Quote from: tompliss on September 20, 2011, 02:40:30 pm

sounds like Mount and Blade : Fire and Sword

Bingo. I'm sorry, I honestly forgot to mention the game name ._.;

I read up. The review says it is an excessively complicated game that takes an extremely long time to learn.

FUN

In some ways, it's like Adventurer Mode 3D except everyone is human. You start with some basic equipment, get assigned quests from local leaders, and gain companions in a vast, living world full of wars, commerce, and characters. Combat, even with guns, is physics based - the game tracks individual bullets as they fly through the air, and mounted combat is brutal thanks to the horse's speed adding to your melee damage. The battlefields are procedurally generated.

My small army of about 5 musketeers, three horsemen, roughly 15 infantry of various skills, and me, finally catches up to a group of bandits we'd been chasing. Unfortunately, another group of bandits was in the area and joined the fight, bringing the total up to 60 bandits versus my army of roughly 25.

As luck would have it, we were positioned on top of a small hill (more of a bump, really), and the bandits had to charge through open ground to get to us. I ordered the entire army to hold position while I went in to harass and delay the enemy. Firing a few carbine rounds managed to get their attention, and I soon had roughly fifteen infantry chasing me while bandit musketeers did their best to hit me. I had to keep attacking them however, or they'd give up the pursuit and go after my troops instead. A few tried, only to get cut down more or less simultaneously by an exceptional round of shooting.

All this time, I'm firing my carbine whenever I have a decent shot, and swooping in with my sword whenever a nearby bandit was busy reloading. I order my men to charge the decimated scum, only for the bandit reinforcements to arrive. I can't disengage long enough to order them back to their places, and the musketeers are nearly out of ammo anyways, so I charge directly into the new bandit army, breaking their ranks enough for my fellow horsemen to punch through as the infantry move in as fast as they can.

When the final totals came in, I had only lost a single mercenary halberdier. All 60 bandits died.

Playing adventurer mode as a hammerdwarf. Tut was growing increasingly more badass, with almost 200 kills and a solo cyclops kill to his name. At one point, a wolf ripped out his left eye in the opening rounds of an ambush. I thought that was the end, but good old Tut entered a martial trance and survived.

Tut met his end in the forest north of a desert. He and his two human companions had been hunting giant scorpions in the desert, and were doing fine, until one of the cursed arachnids severed his left leg at the hip. Poor Tut kept passing out from the pain, even after traveling. His companions would warn of an ambush, and next thing Tut knew the battle had been won.

Finally, a mere day from the safety of a human town where Tut could retire, his throat was ripped out by a grizzly. Tut fought as hard as he could, even breaking one of the beast's legs, but in the end his companions delivered the final blow mere seconds before the dwarf bled to death.

(Honestly, my best dwarf adventurer to date)

Quote from: Tarran on September 14, 2011, 08:52:25 pm

Game Parameters>Reduced Height Windows.

Quote from: Necro910 on September 14, 2011, 08:50:18 pm

I tried the reduced height option, but that doesn't do anything for me. All it does is make the window resize-able, but I'd have to make the window go past my screen for it to work 

Something is screwed up on your end. Reduced height windows does NOTHING to make windows re-sizable. All it does is allow the game to be run on lower resolutions. Either something went wrong on your computer, or you're not listening to directions, or you're trolling.

@ Gabeux: Did you install it to the Windows 7 equivalent of the C: drive? Lots of people have had nothing but trouble installing Aurora to the default path on Vista/7. Something to do with the administration rights.

EDIT: Eye tipe gud when irritated 

You don't even need that much CO2.

As long as you have no toxic gases (like chlorine), at least 0.1 atm of oxygen, just enough nitrogen, CO2, or other gases to avoid the toxic oxygen levels, and are the bare limits of temperature, it's habitable. Worlds with 0 Celsius, 0.1 Oxygen, and .3 Safe Greenhouse Gas is a common sight in my games