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My main concern about my ability to enjoy Fall of the Samurai is I *suck* at using and fighting guns. My basic military strategy is:
Yari Ashigaru and Naginata Samurai at the front.
Archers behind.
Yari Samurai and Katana Cavalry on the flanks.
Yari and/or Katana Cavalry just hanging around.

And to basically march through the enemy. The Ashigaru and Naginata lock them in place and grind through them (The Naginata are also a moral block, they help stop chain routs), whilst the Yari Samurai and Cavalry keep the flanks clear and flank the enemy to hammer and anvil them. The Yari/Katana cavalry meanwhile slam into enemy archers/gunners to keep them distracted and drive them off, hunt down broken units so they don't regroup, and generally cause havoc.

It works fine fighting early armies, but when they get guns I usually suffer huge losses to walls of the things because I just can't have my cavalry take them out fast enough...though this is the basic strategy (Spears, Archers, Flank Guard, Chaos Causers) I've been using since the original Medieval: Total War so I probably need to start experimenting xD

A Precision F-Strike does have more impact if you don't swear every sentence anyway. But I consider it fine to swear if you, for example, stubb your tow (since that damn well hurts!)...also I don't consider "damn" or "bloody" to be swear words since they are so bloody-damn tame xD

So I can't hope but notice that there are only two days of January left -_-

Only just noticed that Medieval II was using my Integrated Card -_- Bloody Optimus technology >.< Well, that explains how the game wasn't topping 30fps...kinda impressed by how it was getting 30fps off of just the CPU with all graphics settings at maximum actually 0_o

At least Microsoft will let you play around freely with their hardware.

Apple are more "No, you can't play with us! No! Oh fine, if you insist, but only if this large burly man in a dark suit and glasses can watch, spit on you every five minutes and take you into a dark room and violate you in every imaginable way whenever we decide it would amuse us".

In contrast Microsoft will just put a small man in a priest frock in the room who sits in the corner and just stares at you, never saying anything, never moving, never even blinking, barely breathing. One day, you know he will rise out of his chair and when that day comes your world will either explode in fire and pain or cookies, but for now he is just there, sitting and staring.

Linux just runs around offering to take its clothes off to everyone it meets, but does so in a strange alien language so that you don't realise what the offer was until it is too late and Linux has already ran up to the next person.

Nope, I don't understand these metaphors either xD

A man does a thing. This thing does another thing. This thing does another thing. Then everybody died.

I'm not sure where the logic lies in statements deliberately constructed to be as generically useless as possible...

How about "Bobby practices X. X doesn't hurt anybody in itself any more than practices Y and Z do. Johnny believes Q and practices Y, Q doesn't itself hurt people but it encourages a social attitude that leads to the dehumanisation of a specific group of people who practice X, causing them to be treated as sub-human and often suffer immense personal pain that can go to great extremes."

Quote from: MorleyDev on January 27, 2012, 07:03:45 pm

Quote from: Max White on January 27, 2012, 06:58:25 pm

And so it is, that the information age comes to its knees and rioting and violence become the voice of the common man, when everything else has turned a blind eye. And what bought about this state of anarchy? Not kings, nor generals, nor gods themselves, but the very information we prized, being covenanted by those that see it as not enlightenment, but a commodity.[/i]

Totally read this in Morgan Freeman's voice xD

Ron Perlman for me.

Now I keep switching between Ron Perlman and Morgan Freeman. I have never been so confused, and yet so aroused...