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I have a question about WitE as well, actually. I noticed Arkangelsk isn't on the map, but there's a railway depot that should connect to it. Does cutting off the Soviets' access to Arkangelsk cause them supply problems? It really should, shouldn't it? Edit: I cut off Lord Windy's question: Lord Windy posted:Right, I bought War in the East and I'm currently playing the Axis side in the 1941 campaign.
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Lord Windy posted:Right, I bought War in the East and I'm currently playing the Axis side in the 1941 campaign. From what I gathered you really should play the smaller "Road to" scenarios first, but yeah the campaign is huge and it does take hours for you to move your poo poo. Like a guy in the Flash of Steel podcast said: "Hey I just spend the last four hours and here is the 1/3 I managed to do so far"
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| # ? Jan 18, 2011 13:24 |
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quote:Is it normal to have turns take hours to resolve Yes. You can speed it up by pressing 0, which sets the message detail level to 0, although you won't get to see the results of the battles as they happen. You can then switch to F11's "Recent Battle" view mode to see what happened during the inter-turn. quote:what the gently caress do I do with my planes? I usually just set the Percent Required to Fly to 5% then leave it to auto. The only plane management I do is making sure any planes in the National Reserve get assigned to an airbase and moving my airbases to make sure they're in range of something. Pro-tip: DO NOT move your airbases until the very end of your turn, when you're done making all other moves/attacks. Moving an airbases prevents most of the air missions from firing. quote:Does cutting off the Soviets' access to Arkangelsk cause them supply problems? It really should, shouldn't it? It should prevent any industry / manpower from Arkhangelsk from being added to the production pool, but I can't find in the manual if you can affect Lend Lease North's contributions in this manner.
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| # ? Jan 18, 2011 13:47 |
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Mecharasputin posted:Unless someone does it before me I'm starting a Solium Infernum revival topic as soon as my exam session ends. This game deserves So Much More recognition. I've been trying to recruit players for a multiplayer LP, but its slow going. Hint Hint.
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Grey Hunter posted:I've been trying to recruit players for a multiplayer LP, but its slow going. As long as you're doing it PBEM and not with some other utility, I'd be more than happy to participate.
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Riso posted:From what I gathered you really should play the smaller "Road to" scenarios first, but yeah the campaign is huge and it does take hours for you to move your poo poo. Lol, I played a few of them and did alright. Couldn't take Leningrad right away but I could take minsk in one turn and defend most of my land in the 3 turn one. gradenko_2000 posted:I usually just set the Percent Required to Fly to 5% then leave it to auto. The only plane management I do is making sure any planes in the National Reserve get assigned to an airbase and moving my airbases to make sure they're in range of something. I suppose they'd do a far better job than I anyway.
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| # ? Jan 19, 2011 03:39 |
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Grey Hunter posted:I've been trying to recruit players for a multiplayer LP, but its slow going. Ooh! Please do an LP of that game. It looks great, but when I tried the demo I couldn't make heads or tails of what was going on. Having a much more grognardy person go over it in detailed fashion would probably make me buy it. 
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| # ? Jan 19, 2011 04:05 |
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I love MP games, so I'll probably take a good look at it after I'm done with WitE
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| # ? Jan 19, 2011 04:28 |
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Grey Hunter posted:I've been trying to recruit players for a multiplayer LP, but its slow going. I'll be happy to play as well. Also anyone that owns Shock Force or Field of Glory and wants to play a game hit me up anytime.
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| # ? Jan 19, 2011 05:14 |
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I'm up for playing anytime! Up for running a separate game/thread myself in a bit over two weeks. Let's get it started  Slaan posted:Ooh! Please do an LP of that game. It looks great, but when I tried the demo I couldn't make heads or tails of what was going on. Having a much more grognardy person go over it in detailed fashion would probably make me buy it. The game's mechanics are really simple, vast majority of the complexity comes from player interactions. Best way to learn the game is to go to http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/SI/SI_tutorials.html - read the AAR to get a feel for the game and a general overview of the mechanics, blitz through the tutorial and you're set to go!
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| # ? Jan 19, 2011 06:58 |
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dtkozl posted:I'll be happy to play as well. Latest version of Shock Force? I'd be up for that.
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| # ? Jan 19, 2011 08:46 |
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Grey Hunter posted:I've been trying to recruit players for a multiplayer LP, but its slow going. I actually have the game but never really played more than a handful of games, and I definitely didn't expand my repertoire past conquest.
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Alchenar posted:Latest version of Shock Force? I'd be up for that. What modules do you have?
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dtkozl posted:What modules do you have? All of them. My time is a bit limited right now (and I'm a Brit) so it would have to be PBEM. PS. It would be best to do one of the Red vs Red scenarios because that's the only way to get rough force equivalence.
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Yeah I've played a few times and seen how bad it can get. I have all them but as of now only have marines installed, do I need to install the rest?
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dtkozl posted:Yeah I've played a few times and seen how bad it can get. I have all them but as of now only have marines installed, do I need to install the rest? Go ahead and install them because they add content (well, Marines adds the T90 which is what you need to even have a chance of equivalence in a Red vs Blue scenario), but the important thing is to make sure you are at 1.31. e: specifically I'd like to start with 'Al Huqf Engagement' and then 'Strength and Faith'. It might be interesting to LP it. Alchenar fucked around with this message at Jan 19, 2011 around 10:31 |
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Yeah I just got a friend that I play occasionally and he only has marines, I was wondering if I installed the other modules whether he and I would no long be able to play together. I'm up to date otherwise, and if I need to just bite the bullet and install nato and british to play with you that's fine. You can email me at my forums name at yahoo.com to set this bad boy up.
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| # ? Jan 19, 2011 12:48 |
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Slaan posted:Ooh! Please do an LP of that game. It looks great, but when I tried the demo I couldn't make heads or tails of what was going on. Having a much more grognardy person go over it in detailed fashion would probably make me buy it. I'd love to see an LP of Solium Infernum myself but it would be really hard to pull it off, given that the entire game revolves around scheming and deception of your opponents--you can't exactly post about that in an LP thread, because then your plans are out there for the world to see which kind of negates the purpose of the game. Unless you did it like they did over at RPS and played the game in its entirety first, then posted the results--that might work.
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| # ? Jan 19, 2011 16:26 |
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That's how it's going to work. Dibs on envy!
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Slaan posted:Ooh! Please do an LP of that game. It looks great, but when I tried the demo I couldn't make heads or tails of what was going on. Having a much more grognardy person go over it in detailed fashion would probably make me buy it. why not just read the rock paper shotgun one that's already been done? it's quite detailed and really long.
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I've read the manual, and I may just be thick but how do you evacuate your factories as Russia? I mean, I've gone into Rail Transport mode, but I just can't see how you do it. EDIT: Huzzah, you had to click the name of the town you were in. Stupid manual was a touch vague on that point. Of course, does it matter where you dump your industry? I went and just put it in small towns towards the east. Lord Windy fucked around with this message at Jan 20, 2011 around 05:17 |
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Shock Force PBEM game vs dtkozl update: Turns out PBEM is slow and boring for the first few minutes.
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| # ? Jan 20, 2011 15:26 |
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Lord Windy posted:Of course, does it matter where you dump your industry? I went and just put it in small towns towards the east. I think the distance influences how much "damage" the factory takes, and consequently how much less stuff is being produced until it gets back to full. I don't really care though, like you I just dump everything in Siberialand.
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pesty13480 posted:As long as you're doing it PBEM and not with some other utility, I'd be more than happy to participate. Mecharasputin posted:I'm up for playing anytime! dtkozl posted:I'll be happy to play as well. Lord Windy posted:I love MP games, so I'll probably take a good look at it after I'm done with WitE This leaves us one LPer short of a full set! (the game is 6 players, and no one wants to play Sloth anyway!)
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Two questions. What's the plan to balance the contrasting needs of openness in the thread to keep the LP readable, and secrecy to keep the game winnable? I'm only mediocre at Solium Infernum, would that be a problem?
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Mystic Mongol posted:Two questions. Well you have several options: 1) Do as the Dom 3 LPers do and play enough in advance so that your updates don't give anything critical away. 2) Play the whole game out and then just string out the updates. 3) Update as you play, with everyone emailing their updates to a third party who then posts them, with everyone giving scout's honour that they won't look in the LP thread.
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Option 1 invalidates chargen secret plans like King Maker and Power Behind the Throne, and option 3 would mean we wouldn't be able to answer questions or pretend we're popular.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Option 1 invalidates chargen secret plans like King Maker and Power Behind the Throne, and option 3 would mean we wouldn't be able to answer questions or pretend we're popular. Well the guy posting the updates can relay questions and you call all 'appear' in the thread for the conclusion and retrospect.
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I prefer 2, get the game done and dusted then start posting. Any information can be crucial in this game. It would also remove the time constraints on updates. As for skill levels, that matters little, as long as your willing to put up a fight and write some entertaining updates.
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| # ? Jan 20, 2011 18:48 |
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Sounds fair enough to me; I have no problem with writing out what I'm doing either before or after the fact. Maybe some combination of both. I'll PM you.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2011 18:03 |
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Prince Zoidberg Truly the lp from hell.
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andrew smash posted:why not just read the rock paper shotgun one that's already been done? it's quite detailed and really long. Read through it last night, good stuff. It made me understand a lot more, but the interface is unintuitive. It seems there are no popups, you need to rely on the manual to explain some things (like what the stats change, how to get more orders, etc.). I'll probably buy it, but at $30 I need to know if people still play multiplayer. I couldn't find a thread for the game 
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V for Vegas posted:Flash of Steel has a podcast Three Moves Ahead, which is a pretty good weekly podcast covering strategy games in general, including wargames.
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| # ? Jan 21, 2011 21:54 |
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I'd love to get in on a Solium Infernum game. I got it a few months ago and the drat thing's just been languishing on my hard drive.
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Slaan posted:Read through it last night, good stuff. It made me understand a lot more, but the interface is unintuitive. It seems there are no popups, you need to rely on the manual to explain some things (like what the stats change, how to get more orders, etc.). I'll probably buy it, but at $30 I need to know if people still play multiplayer. I couldn't find a thread for the game I've had some really enjoyable hot seat experiences with this game. If you've got 5 willing friends and a laptop to pass around I'd say hot seat beats pbem. Pressing space gives you a recap of whatever happened this turn, with decent enough options for sorting the events. A really, really useful undocumented feature that everyone playing should know of: right clicking the resource tab automatically sorts all your resource cards. It's not mentioned anywhere, but is absolutely priceless.
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Grey Hunter posted:This leaves us one LPer short of a full set! (the game is 6 players, and no one wants to play Sloth anyway!) Ohhh, I'd love to play. But I have a feeling there are more capable players than I in the thread xD
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Mystic Mongul has already got in contact with me, so It looks like a full set, but we should have an IRC session to sort things out. Any ideas on a channel and time people? I'm a noob when it comes to setting up channels.
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| # ? Jan 22, 2011 07:25 |
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Gah, a Solium Infernum revival and I didn't see it until it was full! Keep me in mind if someone needs a spot taken over.
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| # ? Jan 22, 2011 08:01 |
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I'm GMT+1, but am rather flexible with my sleeping schedule:)
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Right, I'm on IRC on irc.synirc.net/SolinumPlanning for the next few hours, if anyone wants to find me to discuss the game.
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