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Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:21 PM (SyKbw) 2
Mr Moxie loved Squad Leader.
Posted by: Y-not at January 25, 2015 03:21 PM (9BRsg) 3
BOLD
Posted by: Y-not at January 25, 2015 03:21 PM (9BRsg) 4
I can't get block quote to work so fuck it
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:22 PM (SyKbw) 5
Where do I get a battlepod, how much, and is it on gimbals?
Posted by: Inspector Cussword at January 25, 2015 03:23 PM (scgac) 6
The hamsters are unhappy.
Posted by: Y-not at January 25, 2015 03:23 PM (9BRsg) 7
and yeah, Squad Leader shaped quite a bit of my childhood. Never really got into ASL, was too obtuse for us at a young age
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:24 PM (SyKbw) 8
Squad Leader was a masterpiece. RIP John Hill.
Posted by: Fritz at January 25, 2015 03:25 PM (dVmLD) 9
Didn't Kurt Schilling buy out all of the rights to Squad Leader and ASL?
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 25, 2015 03:26 PM (4oSLk) 10
Didn't Kurt Schilling buy out all of the rights to Squad Leader and ASL?
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 25, 2015 03:26 PM (4oSLk) yep, dunno who owns the rights now after bankruptcy Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:27 PM (SyKbw) 11
oh and HuniePop, not that bad of a game that gets extremely hard as hell after sleeping with the first girl.
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:30 PM (SyKbw) 12
I ain't buying it until it looks like Geordy's VISOR.
(although that still reminds me of an air filter.) Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 25, 2015 03:32 PM (RZzX3) Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 25, 2015 03:33 PM (RZzX3) 14
I'll cop to pre-ordering Dying Light from amazon. I am looking forward to it and hope it will not be a buggy mess. From what I have seen of the stuff on youtube it looks a bit more polished than the dead island games.
Here's hoping. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 25, 2015 03:34 PM (wt/Oq) 15
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 25, 2015 03:33 PM (RZzX3) 2 jpegs 7 youtube vids tho Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:34 PM (SyKbw) 16
oh yeah, episode two of Game of Thrones this week. Kinda surprised the season pass price hasn't gone the typical TellTale way with massive discounting
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:36 PM (SyKbw) 17
I stand corrected.
And chagrined. I just saw all these big pics. Didn't see they were vids. Can't overload the front page like that. Put it below the fold. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 25, 2015 03:37 PM (RZzX3) 18
other than the pic of John Hill, everything is below the fold
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:39 PM (SyKbw) 19
John Hill: RIP In Heaven, there are no more morale checks http://boardgamegeek.com/image/2194385/squad-leader?size=large Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 25, 2015 03:39 PM (kdS6q) Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 25, 2015 03:39 PM (RZzX3) 21
wish we got a release of his original vision of Squad Leader with miniatures
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:41 PM (SyKbw) 22
got my
Total War: ARENA Closed Alpha Invitation email this past week another free-to-play game coming up Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 25, 2015 03:42 PM (IXrOn) 23
Oh, and what the hell does AR stand for? Alternate Reality? Artillery Required?
I know what VR stands for (or think I do, anyway), but ditto on that. Some of us are not only Morons, but actual morons, and could use a nudge occasionally. Ya know, back in the old days, reporters would always spell out acronyms on first use, then use the acronym throughout the rest of the story. Posted by: jwpaine at January 25, 2015 03:43 PM (a3NCX) 24
it's Augmented Reality. My mistake, AR is a common known acronym ergo why I didn't spell it out
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:45 PM (SyKbw) 25
thanks. btw, I'm an avid gamer, but not a First Adopter, so AR meant dick to me. You don't have to write for the Candy Crushers, but jeez, don't assume because you know it, it's common knowledge.
just sayin'. Posted by: jwpaine at January 25, 2015 03:48 PM (a3NCX) 26
...or "just whinin" may be more factual.
Posted by: jwpaine at January 25, 2015 03:50 PM (a3NCX) 27
yeah, I suffer from that a lot (one of the reasons why I stopped writing esport recaps on here)
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:51 PM (SyKbw) 28
My brother and I got to meet John Hill back in 1978(?) when he promoting Squad Leader for Avalon Hill. He spent a long time talking to a couple of teenaged kids interested in military history. My brother still has his 1st edition that Hill autographed for him.
My brother and I played a lot of Squad Leader and even used the rules as the basis for a miniatures game. John Hill's game was one of the very first boardgames to consider morale; prior to that, the troops tended to fight to the death in wargames. John Hill was a very good game designer. He will be missed. Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 25, 2015 03:52 PM (wQYNW) 29
never got to meet him but that's always been the consensus, extremely nice dude who had no problem talking anyone's ear off
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:54 PM (SyKbw) 30
Anyone play "Hearts of Iron"? Great WWII grand strategy-type game. Smallest tactical unit is division level.
Posted by: SFGoth at January 25, 2015 03:58 PM (uqHUH) 31
yep, prefer Hearts of Iron over it's older brother, Europa Universalis
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:59 PM (SyKbw) 32
Squad Leader was my first war game. Played the hell out of it.
Posted by: Hoosier Hobbit at January 25, 2015 04:02 PM (ppaKI) 33
I was all over the Grim Fandango re-release until I discovered that Tim Schafer has been working overtime channeling his inner SJW. Well done, Sir. If the custom from your slavish SF coterie isn't sufficient to put food on your table, I suppose there's always Patreon.
#GamerGate Posted by: JR at January 25, 2015 04:07 PM (bKxJO) 34
RIP John Hill.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2015 04:10 PM (sdi6R) 35
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 03:45 PM (SyKbw)
I didn't know what AR meant either. Assumed the R stood for "reality" but had no guess to the A. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 25, 2015 04:11 PM (GDulk) 36
I didn't know what AR meant either. Assumed the R stood for "reality" but had no guess to the A.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 25, 2015 04:11 PM (GDulk) sorry, I fixed it though I know I've done this before which IS something I need to stop doing Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 04:16 PM (SyKbw) 37
I dreamed I saw John hill last night, alive as you and me...
Posted by: deepred at January 25, 2015 04:39 PM (xv5cf) 38
My first war game was AH's Tactics II followed by Blitzkrieg. The change from squares to hexagons was -radical-
I did pick up a copy of Squad Leader later on because one of my younger brothers had moved on from Panzer Leader to Squad Leader, and he recommended it. Posted by: mrp at January 25, 2015 04:45 PM (JBggj) 39
Gotta love the stomp.
In other news, Squad continues to make bad choices with Kerbal Space Program since maxmaps got hired. Not saying correlation /causation, but he keeps claiming credit for things so, yeah... Anyway, we found out Friday that apparently there will be no more beta releases (that's right, one whole release was beta), and the next release will be "1.0". This...bugs me. I'd personally prefer the 1.0 release to be a smaller update, focused exclusively on bug fixing. I'm afraid that for the last few updates they've let a schedule dictate releases rather than completeness, and we'll see the same thing again. Last several updates have had things not make it in that were very close to done. Still was a good $15 spent though. Posted by: dudenolongerinsantacruz at January 25, 2015 04:46 PM (PGXA8) Posted by: Arthur at January 25, 2015 04:47 PM (h53OH) 41
way too many Denno Coil jokes during the reveal
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 04:52 PM (SyKbw) 42
R.I.P John Hill. "Squad Leader" (1977) was a seminal game, but "Tactics" (1954) by Charles S. Roberts - Avalon Hill's founder - was the first modern commercial wargame.
Posted by: Chas C-Q at January 25, 2015 05:01 PM (Y0Piu) 43
Posted by: Chas C-Q at January 25, 2015 05:01 PM (Y0Piu) yeah but for modern wargaming, I'd put on Hill with the systems he built with Squad Leader. His systems are still being used today. The shift from where it was at to after Squad Leader's release was a huge shift in how wargaming was looked at Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 05:08 PM (SyKbw) 44
Nosgoth moved from closed beta to open beta this week. Its a 4v4 Deathmatch. two 10-minute rounds. one team plays as the vampires, the other as humans, and after the 10 minutes (or after one team gets 30 kills, whichever comes first) the two teams switch. whichever team has the highest combined score between the two rounds wins. Its a lot of fun, though pretty tough (though I'm probably just really bad at it, not having played these types of games), and the vampires have a huge advantage (I've won about 2/3 of the rounds I've played as vampire, and lost about 2/3 as human, so often it becomes a game of which team can lose by less when they're humans, though its not entirely uncommon for the gap in skill of the teams set up by the matchmaker to be wildly different, and one team may just steamroll the other, which is frustrating).
there's also a new game mode in beta called Flashpoint (I think) that is basically a king-of-the-hill style match. the map has 6 locations (though I've only seen I think 2 that are active at a time). the humans capture those locations by staying near them, the vampires deny them by killing the humans before the timer fills up, at which point it starts going down again until it empties or the humans can push back and start capturing again. the round timer starts at I think 5 minutes, but is extended by a minute every time the humans capture a checkpoint. the round ends when the timer runs out or the humans capture all 6 locations, then the teams switch sides as in Deathmatch. there are currently 4 human classes and 4 vampire classes, though there are new classes in the works. game is free-to-play on steam. you start out with 2 human and 2 vampire classes unlocked, and every 5 levels you gain you can unlock one of the remaining classes, or you can buy them in the store if you're impatient, along with different skills/weapons and vanity skins. everything except the vanity skins I believe can be purchased via ingame currency rather than the real money currency, though acquiring ingame gold is an extremely slow grind. fortunately from what I can tell, there's no huge advantage to having the skills that are initially locked, so you don't need to pay to be competitive or have fun with the game I have a friend from an old kinship in LoTRO that worked on the art for the game so that's kinda cool if anyone else decided to get into it, lemme know. I'm tomiathon on steam, feel free to add me Posted by: tintex at January 25, 2015 05:19 PM (INip5) 45
re: Squad Leader Travel kits, because of all the boards, counters and rulebooks you might need on a moment's notice: http://www.desperationmorale.com/asl-museum/travel-kits/ And 3-D map hacks. No words, poetry: http://www.desperationmorale.com/asl-museum/mapboards/ Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 25, 2015 05:27 PM (kdS6q) 46
refuse to believe you can fit ASL in a single suitcase
Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 05:32 PM (SyKbw) 47
Hello Gaming Morons!
Had a pretty good Board/card game day yesterday. Learned a new card game, Coup. Is a bluffing game. Each person is dealt 2 role cards, "Influence". Those are also your life points. Your role cards give you actions; but you can attempt to use any action you want as long as no one calls your bluff. Actions include collecting money, using money to assassinate other players (removing an influence card), stealing money, blocking assassinations, changing role cards, and performing a coup with money, which removes an influence card with no counter. If someone calls your bluff, you lose an influence card; but if they call incorrectly, they lose the card. You're out of the game when you lose both influence cards, and the goal is to be the last player standing. You'll want to bring your best poker face. Was an entertaining, simple, and short game. Not too fond of bluffing/deception games, but it was very accessible for the less gaming-inclined folks. Posted by: CM at January 25, 2015 05:39 PM (0NdlF) 48
actually seen Coup quite a bit at Target and Barnes N Nobel but never really looked at it close.
Just saw that it's part of The Resistance, a game I really dig. Tempting Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 05:43 PM (SyKbw) 49
And in other news, inXile announced that their next game will be Bard's Tale 4; going from the original trilogy and not the 04 comedy one-off. IGN kids were disappointed.
Posted by: nobody at January 25, 2015 05:51 PM (cnGxy) 50
Came in second on Carcassonne, after not playing it for the better part of a decade.
Not bad, and if our gamemaster had explained the scoring rules properly, I might've been #1. Posted by: CM at January 25, 2015 05:51 PM (0NdlF) 51
Advanced Squad Leader carries on through Multiman Publishing set up by Shilling. Still healthy with a number of conventions each year. I've got 4 foot lockers containing nothing but ASL and I'm still incomplete. Glorious, glorious game - but as my brother described it: it is like playing calculus.
Posted by: Todd at January 25, 2015 05:54 PM (lrkg9) 52
Played both of the Walking Dead games and enjoyed them greatly, the GOT ep 1 is very good 2, look forward to ep 2 in a couple of weeks. Hope there will be a season 2 of Wolf Among Us.
Look forward to a remastered Grim Fandango, I had a much higher appreciation of it. I keep moving the goalposts, but may get a PS4 when the 2015 The Show comes out, haven't played baseball on a console in some time. Posted by: waelse1 at January 25, 2015 06:12 PM (FrKDq) 53
I keep moving the goalposts, but may get a PS4 when
the 2015 The Show comes out, haven't played baseball on a console in some time. Posted by: waelse1 at January 25, 2015 06:12 PM (FrKDq) The Show is not a series to buy a console for. Take Two did bad with the MLB license and Sony has had a product on that level of brokenness for the last few years Posted by: The Dude at January 25, 2015 06:19 PM (SyKbw) 54
Thanks for the gaming thread!...I haven't had a chance to play any games in a while...work has been super busy.
Posted by: CanaDave at January 25, 2015 06:41 PM (5c6al) 55
No one went to Pax South? Figured someone here would have
Posted by: Zakn at January 25, 2015 07:40 PM (q/891) 56
I played Remember Me. It was a cool concept, but I suspect the current technology can't really do it justice. So the game wasn't able to run with it.
Watching the Life Is Strange trailer, I noticed that it was compared multiple times to Gone Home. And that's setting off all kinds of flags... Gone Home, for those not familiar with it was an example of the things that Gamergate was a complaint against. The game got excellent reviews in the media. But the players hated it. Apparently the only good thing about it was the soundtrack. The numerous comments comparing Life is Strange with Gone Home tells me that I probably don't want to be an early adopter of this new game. Posted by: junior at January 25, 2015 08:16 PM (N+HLW) 57
55 No one went to Pax South? Figured someone here would have
Posted by: Zakn at January 25, 2015 07:40 PM (q/891) I heard it was going to be in San Antonio and so was considering going, but then I forgot all about it/when it was until I saw I think yesterday that it was going on. maybe next time (idk if its always/regularly going to be here though) Posted by: tintex at January 25, 2015 09:33 PM (INip5) 58
I've wanted to check out Dying Light since I first heard of it, but I've stayed firm on not getting it until it's been out for at least a month or two to get past all of the horrific problems I expect it to have. Life is Strange looks interesting though. I haven't heard of it until now. I'll probably wait until the series is complete before adding it to my list though.
If anybody has Playstation products they're having a pretty good flash sale this weekend, especially if you like indie games and own a Vita. I bought Joe Danger, Guacamelee, The Unfinished Swan, Olli Olli, Shadow Warrior, and Costume Quest 2 for about $25. Some of them were cross buys so I can play on my Vita or PS4. Posted by: digitalbrownshirt at January 26, 2015 01:18 AM (IbjZr) 59
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