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1 hour ago, Pony Queen Jace said:

So the minute sure leaves town you're going to cheat on her with some Bioware slut!?!

Haha, exactly. In my first playthrough I went for Dorian. I think it's Iron Bull time!

(But also she was very patient with me as I played way too much of Breath of the Wild, and I don't think I have it in me to put her through me playing another gigantic open world game right now).

Radiant Mode of Darkest Dungeon sounds more enjoyable for me- I'll play it that way when I give the game a try!

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1 hour ago, Caligula_K3 said:

Haha, exactly. In my first playthrough I went for Dorian. I think it's Iron Bull time!

(But also she was very patient with me as I played way too much of Breath of the Wild, and I don't think I have it in me to put her through me playing another gigantic open world game right now).

Radiant Mode of Darkest Dungeon sounds more enjoyable for me- I'll play it that way when I give the game a try!

Your consideration of your SO is touching.

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Does any of you Hearts of Iron 4 nerds know if the USSR can put females in the field? 

I could never lead communists, but I would be willing to let them live if the game recognizes the only Soviet virtue.

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3 hours ago, Caligula_K3 said:

Radiant Mode of Darkest Dungeon sounds more enjoyable for me- I'll play it that way when I give the game a try!

It's every bit as punishing and obnoxious as the regular difficulty, but quicker!

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Picked up Chaos Reborn this morning from the Steam Summer Sale for 5 bucks. From the guy who made the first 2 X-Coms back in the day. A cross between Magic the Gathering and a turn based strategy game on a grid map. Really fun thus far. I've just been playing the AI up to this point as the game is really deep strategy wise, and I'm not yet ready to get my ass kicked by another player.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/319050/Chaos_Reborn/

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6 hours ago, Pony Queen Jace said:

Also, can I kill all of the communist citizens? 

In Darkest Dungeon? :P

 

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Picked up Chaos Reborn this morning from the Steam Summer Sale for 5 bucks. From the guy who made the first 2 X-Coms back in the day. A cross between Magic the Gathering and a turn based strategy game on a grid map. Really fun thus far. I've just been playing the AI up to this point as the game is really deep strategy wise, and I'm not yet ready to get my ass kicked by another player.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/319050/Chaos_Reborn/

 

I live for the day his next game, Phoenix Point, is released.

 

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My wife complained that I was spending too much time in the basement during my ME:A playing sessions over the last few months.  Said she wished her husband would just come to bed.  So I get the brilliant idea to get a PS Vita and play in bed while she reads/goes to sleep.  I try it out for the first time last night and everything is going well until she turns off the light and rolls over... about 5 minutes later she's complaining that the buttons click too loudly.  :bang: 

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I gotted the Hearts of Iron IV, and am glad I did so. My first campaign has been loads of fun, despite my misgivings. You see, I knew before I even bought the game that I might have a bit of difficulty in choosing who to play as. The Brits and Frenchies controlled most of the world in the 30's, the Americans are off doing their own thing, and I'll put a bullet in my head before playing as a Red. So that pretty much leaves me with Axis powers or weird offshoots. So needless to say, I'm playing a damn fascist Nazi. 

Anyways, it was a lot of fun. I reorganized my military and took advantage of what would be half a decade worth of peace to research both the Panzer 4 (the famous one everyone thinks of when they say Panzer) and the Tiger like 3 years early. Because I had peace agreements with the Soviets I got gigantic armor research bonuses that offset the early research penalties. I was determined not to be engaged by the Allies, having identified a course of action that could allow me to befriend Poland instead of invading them on my way to destroying the hated USSR and everything seemed to be going fairly smoothly in that direction. Until Greece...

I re-militarized the Rhineland, annexed Austria, chopped up the Chechz, and backed Itally in claiming Yougoslovia. All the while I avoided open war myself while lending out Rommel with a few panzer divisions to my friends engaged in conflicts abroad. I assisted Italy in overthrowing Ethiopia, ensured the Fascists took control of Spain, and broke through the Chinese lines for the Japanese (a MASSIVE undertaking with just four divisions). 

About this time, my Tigers and Mk IVs were available and I completely refit my armored units to include support companies of artillery, engineers, maintenance specialists, recon, and a field hospital to supplement 3 battalions of light tanks, 3 battalions of Tiger tanks, 5 battalions of Mk IVs, and four battalions of motorized infantry. I called these unholy forces of destruction 'KaiserPanzer' divisions. Then of course I set about to motorizing and adding armor to my infantry along with updating their equipment with anti-tank support. 

Then the Italians declared war on Greece. Which meant I declared war on Greece. We crushed them, myself sending the 4th Panzer Army under General Manstien, but before I'd finished squashing Makedonia and Epirus the whole of the Allies declared war on the Axis. 

This was not ideal, my forces were very badly deployed to defend against a French invasion but General Hoth was stationed across from the Maginot line and did an admirable job of holding off Jaques long enough for Rommel to bring the 2nd Fast Response Army to reinforce. But as I was deploying to the border of France, the English invaded NorthWest Germany with an amphibious landing. I redirected Rommel and scrapped together the 7th Motor Supported Army under Field Marshal Model and was able to split most of their forces off from the beachhead. Model surrounded their landing point while Rommel slowly constricted the trapped army further inland as they withered from attrition. 

I'd just managed to capture the entirety of the inland forces when the British landed again on NorthEast German soil, not a half-dozen provinces from Berlin! Rommel's exhausted and frankly under supplied 2nd turned and raced along the Autobahn as Model forced the English off their Western beachhead and Manstien (Greece being subdued) turned the entirety of the 4th to subdue France. 

Rommel stopped the British landing fairly quickly, and Model was set about securing the coastline against future assaults with relatively little incident. I had a bit of a problem, though. The French were constantly pushing against the WestWall from their strong Maginot line, I was holding them off just fine with the 1st, 3rd, and 5th holding their ground (the 6th, having been stripped of manpower to support Model, was my token Eastern force) but there was no way across the Maginot and I didn't care to invade Belgium. 

So I sent Manstien and the 4th into Italy. They traveled parallel to the Alps to where the Italians had pushed the French back into their own country. And in Southern France, Manstien's 4th Panzer Army (now being reinforced with my new KaiserPanzer divisions) absolutely smashed the French. Within two weeks he had the entirety of southern France conquered from Switzerland to coast, and a week later Paris was under siege. 

About this time, those treacherous Soviets declared war on my friend the Poles. I sent the aforementioned 6th to help them hold their border and set Rommel to fighting the traitorous Romanians who had just turned Communist and launched into my more or less undefended extreme southeastern territories while I wrapped up my French campaign. 

And that's where I am now. France just fell, Rommel is hours away from crushing the Romanians, Model has the coastlines secure, and all of my forces except for the badly weakened 1st Western Defense Army will turn to stop the Soviet menace which has quite overrun most of Poland and has had the disgusting nerve to set foot on sacred German soil near Vienna.

Not one step further.

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Pony Queen Jace

Yes!!!!! After having just now split the Soviet Union in half as Germany with my friends the Japanese (we didn't defeat them until 1952), I would be very disappointed if you didn't drive them back to the Urals.

Not one step back!

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1 hour ago, A True Kaniggit said:

Pony Queen Jace

Yes!!!!! After having just now split the Soviet Union in half as Germany with my friends the Japanese (we didn't defeat them until 1952), I would be very disappointed if you didn't drive them back to the Urals.

Not one step back!

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Operation Vertreibung will commence in 1 hour.

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15 minutes ago, Pony Queen Jace said:

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Operation Vertreibung will commence in 1 hour.

Outstanding. I'd appreciate a full report on the outcome of the campaign once the fighting has drawn to a close. Best of luck commander.

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1 minute ago, A True Kaniggit said:

Outstanding. I'd appreciate a full report on the outcome of the campaign once the fighting has drawn to a close. Best of luck commander.

Ivan took Vienna, but I cut the city off from resupply when Rommel returned from France. It's the new Stalingrad. He has something like 22 divisions in about a 8 province area (including Vienna) surrounded by 21 of Model's infantry Army and an additional 9 units on loan from Rommel's newly organized 1st Panzer Army. 

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The Soviets have been pushed out of German territory for good. The attack recommences to force the Red Menace out of Poland and all they way to Siberia.

Correction to previous record: 46 Soviet divisions were trapped in the Vienna pocket. None will ever return to their communist homelands. 

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26 minutes ago, Pony Queen Jace said:

The Soviets have been pushed out of German territory for good. The attack recommences to force the Red Menace out of Poland and all they way to Siberia.

Correction to previous record: 46 Soviet divisions were trapped in the Vienna pocket. None will ever return to their communist homelands. 

46 divisions. So a little over 500,000 men. The Reds have a lot more where that came from. (When my war with the Soviets ended, their casualties surpassed 12 million)

Be careful when trying to take their cities. Moscow, Kiev, Sevastopol. All of them are probably heavily fortified by now. I'd recommend surrounding them first and then hitting them from every direction with overwhelming numbers, preferably with panzer divisions.

Edit: Oh. And if you happen to just show up at these cities and are able to occupy them without much of a fight, then just ignore my advice.

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11 minutes ago, A True Kaniggit said:

46 divisions. So a little over 500,000 men. The Reds have a lot more where that came from. (When my war with the Soviets ended, their casualties surpassed 12 million)

Be careful when trying to take their cities. Moscow, Kiev, Sevastopol. All of them are probably heavily fortified by now. I'd recommend surrounding them first and then hitting them from every direction with overwhelming numbers, preferably with panzer divisions.

Their war casualties are currently at 4.6 million! Good gawd! Right now I've basically reestablished a continuous line from the North Sea to Hungary against the Reds now that the pocket has been reduced and I have enough divisions. Before I was forced to let the Poles fend for themselves along stretches of the line and, predictably, the Soviets were making good headway towards Warsaw and were almost on the point of being a potential threat to cut off my entire Army Group North.

Meanwhile, I've sent Heinz Guderian and Rommel to double-trouble pincer on Romania through Makedon and Epirus. They'll make short work of the Romanians and then continue with a section of Model's infantry to drive to Kiev and link up with a planned push by Army Group North that will cut off some 100 divisions of Soviets in central Poland. 

A Picture of the current field. That giant spearhead through the middle of Poland is what's going to get cut off when Guderian and Rommel move on Kiev after subduing Romania. 

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Arkham Knight is fun, but it's really just Arkham City with a car and a couple more elaborate fight moves that you use like once and never look at again. It's fun and the story's reasonable, but after four games the formula is really running dry (and arguably it never really advanced that far beyond Arkham Asylum, which really worked the best for its tight, more claustraphobic setting). I can see why Rocksteady wanted to do something different.

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Wolfenstein: the New Order really is brilliant huh? Had been sitting on my steam library for a while until the trailer for the sequel prompted me to play it. Its like if Tarantino wrote and directed a videogame. The over the top B-movie violence combined with very human characters in an absurd situation featuring villains that have licence to be as cruel and evil as possible without justification, all of it really comes together well. 

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