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Holy Paladins have neat abilities now, got a scroll from a friend. The talent where you heal yourself with any spell or judgement will get nerfed hard, such is the bait and switch of releasing the talents early, heh.

Two of my friends are intending to play. It'll be funny to see how long it takes for them to get bored again. Paladins have changed quite a bit, I hear.

Kind of funny how I've ended up with Siam, Germany and Arabia all randomly stating I must die even though we've been buddies off and on. Now Germany's been cleaved and Arabia's dead, and my empire is still my cities and a whole host of puppet states. Really dislike that global happiness and the effect of annexation.

That does seem to be a flaw in Civ V, with the schizo AI.

Hate the Brutii. In my last game, I killed and lost about 10-15 armies in Greece, swapping Athens, Thessalonika, etc constantly. Eventually they just ran out men. Was great fun though, fighting the Julii in Gaul and Spain at the same time I'm fighting the Brutii in Greece and the damn rebels in Judea.

Mucking around with Civ 4 this weekend.

I miss that feeling in University. Course, sitting in the lab cursing yourself does make you look insane. To some.

Don't forget Bofors and Saab. Edit : Well ok, I mean the military Saab, and Bofors is owned by the British, hm. Stupid me

What, sliders ? I wish they had left naval transports in, never really found them to be an enormous problem. As for racials, I think Suleiman's (sp?) is pretty garbage.

Modern Warfare was just hard due to facing an unending horde of Arabs/Russians. I must have killed an entire company in that Pripyat level, heh. Regen'ing health is fine for games like COD, but it's terrible when it finds its way into games like Rainbow Six.

Thanksgiving here, I should have taken Tuesday off, but I figure I'll take next Friday off. 3 day work weeks are such fun

Weird, can't really get hooked on this game.

I concur with Operation Flashpoint, it was something fresh aside from other FPS games. Shame the fools at Codemasters keep pumping out garbage with the OpFlash name attached though.

Funny to think of it as a young person's thing when you look at the ages of the members of the groups. Wonder what effect publishers dropping all their DRM would have anyway, other than saving RELOADED time.

Alpha Centauri. They need to make a sequel to that

Right now listening to some Sabaton. Cheesy-ish music at times, but can't beat subject matter like Simo H

Legionnaire is one of their best, I find.

Matrix Revolutions. But I concur with the statement her husband is one lucky SOB

Oh it's not bad at all, but I'm in need of a fiction book to read anyway. Interesting writing style too, telling a story and then notes on what he learned from it. His notion of digging in if you're hanging around in an area for more than 10 minutes seems pretty obvious nowadays with hindsight, likewise the "don't bunch up in an open field" during an artillery strike.

The NFO files are sometimes very helpful, seen some that provide links to the tools needed, etc. Although it is amusing to read the comments sections and boggle at how many people are failing to RTFM.

I love the squeaky voice guy that yells "Victory is ours!"

Instead of working, looking up books to read. Well trying to read Infantry Attacks by Rommel right now, but figure a good fiction book will also do well to have on the go.

I'm still not liking the global happiness, nor being able to adjust my tax, science, etc. spending. The finite resources is a nice touch though. Really wish that instead of doing away with the stacks you could form stacks of limited size, so you end up with a force that's linked. Also, wonder why there's no foreign trade, would be a nice addition to the diplomatic system - it could stand with some. All in all, it does remind me of Civ 3, new concepts but still in need of tweaking.

Can I get your autograph ?

Yeah Arenas are just garbage, the game could do without them. I really do miss the old AV, hour long struggles, using the cavalry, etc. Ah well. I'll have to avoid getting suckered back in by my friends who need healing