Monte Carlo

That's all very well, but to reiterate my earlier point most of these countries are awfully dull. Maybe dullness is the secret metric of happiness.

With the exception of Australia, they're all pretty dull countries, right?

Calm down love, it wasn't aimed at you.

So basically BW sold their souls and he refused to. A bit stretching it, aren't we? I was checking out the bio forums yesterday, and now understand what D. Gaider was replying to. I think the gist was that the original plan for DA2 was indeed to make it fantasy mass effect, but they've scaled back (squad control is still/again in)... I wish I had the time to find that specific thread, but am late from work as is. I'm actually looking quite a lot forward into seeing the demo in a couple of weeks, because I want to see what the new combat system is like (and I can compare it to both DAO ps3 and pc)... And, verily, the fanbois squealed and poureth forth their accusations of 'hater' when the unfaithful pointed out that the intention was 'Dragon Effect' all along. LOL.

Brent Knowles:

^ Congratulations RPGMasterBoo, you are now entitled to call yourself a true grognard / padawan dual-class. We now walk the same bitter, path. Welcome

^ What he said +1

Blitz is good but you have to choose the right commander abilities - infantry scavenge is surprisingly good because it allows an early MG to harvest MP so you can... spam more infantry units. By the time your mortars and nebs are included and you are taking out enemy blobs you start earning serious MP and even munis. I've invested a lot of points in it, it also allows you to build a low fuel strategy which is useful if your opponents are going rifle / ranger spam. They sprint over the horizon expecting to bash up your armour but instead face MGs mortars and MP44 armed stormies who are stealthed up and using bundled grenades. I've also got rockets, which are good for area denial on VPs (I've got aftershock x 2). I made a mistake and invested in heavy armour support, OK I can summon a Tiger, StuG and Ostwind for 1600MP but it's a late game gambit and the Tiger, even buffed, is difficult to micro and inevitably hits pershings, RR armed paras and (yes) elite rangers. Against less skilled players it can be a win button, though. My Blitz strategy is usually - MG / Volks / MG / Volks ... Straight to T3 and a quick puma. The up-gunned puma is ideal for taking out the inevitable early Greyhound. By this point I'm fielding stormies so I didn't need to go T2, they've got 'shreks and stealthed up make short work of Greyhounds and halfies. By this time I've gone StuG x1 and a Neb then start building T4 for armour. The problem is 3x3 when you get an American combined-arms team and you get overrun by superb Ab and ranger infantry. Engie spam is also endemic. I've tried Terror and Defence but I like to get up close and fast in the enemy half of the map, blitz for my money is the best for that. In a 3x3 two blitz and a defence commander work well too.

I've been playing as a Wehr (Blitz) Commander, I'm now level 25 which is where you start unlocking pretty decent army items and hero units. But I'm on a six-game losing streak against endless swarms of infantry and ranger blobs, engie spam, MG nest sim cities and all the other US tricks that give them crucial early game advantage. So I've made a US (Infantry) Commander, concentrating on Rangers and Infantry Attrition. Inf. Attrition basically replaces units killed in battle immediately at your base, it allows you to pile-drive human waves of seriously tooled up ranger spam into the enemy. And my rangers are now pretty buff, can throw grenades, have cheap SMGs, are difficult to suppress. I'm destroying Wehr commanders of higher levels without even cranking out a tank. Am I really good? Not really, although poorly micro'd ranger spam is definitely vulnerable. But there's a balance issue here. Still, there are more Wehr player so maybe it's that my playing style is more geared to USA than Wehr.

Nazis in tight red jumpsuits? Kinky.

Like I was saying, Steam is evil, all of you this-is-the-future moonbats.

Agreed, but try it again after a drink and it staggers into so-bad-it's-good territory.

Robin Hood. The Ridley Scott / Russell Crowe effort. My wife pulled a face at the end and said "there was a big hole in that movie somewhere" and I think she was right. The characters were under-developed, the actions scenes were meh, the plotting was all over the place. It was just... OK. I don't expect just OK from the calibre of people involved. I usually enjoy anything Crowe stars in. The best character was Kate Blanchett's Marion, but she's another one of those actresses who manages to transcend anything she's in, even that Indiana Jones distaster.

I think nightshape is being wilfully obtuse, although I don't think he'd claim history was his strong point.

^ Medieval Australia wasn't noted for it's Christianity.

That graph is so meaningless it's not even funny.

My next project, after not making one for twenty years, is a 1/32nd Scale half-track. A German one.

Fargo and the Big Lebowski were great. The rest are meh. I don't buy into the hype around the brothers.

Strange, because I was enjoying the movie for about an hour then it scurried, in my opinion, up it's own arse. The ending was awful to this callsign.

At least Bio is consistent, they appear to treat mods the way they design their games for players. Big Brother Bio is watching you and helping you make the right decisions.

DISCLAIMER - I do not have any real-life armoured fighting vehicles in my den, it simply isn't that big. I do have a pretty big RC Tiger tank and some 1/32 scale AFVs though.

I like a physical copy for three reasons: 1. I view games in much the same way as I view books. If I like a game I put it on a shelf. It sort of says "these are the games I like, this is the sort of gamer I am." Rational? Probably not. But that's how I feel. Games are a big part of my den, as much as my esoteric collection of tanks, cognac, cigars and movie posters. This is why I am getting into collector's editions. 2. Convenience. As others have said, I like to install stuff offline and when I freaking well like and I simply don't trust Steam et.al. 3. I'm an old fart, cranky grognard. If I buy something I want to be able to pick it up.

I'm only here for the lulz, I'm not buying it. But it's like buying tickets for watching a slo-mo car crash.

By the Coen Brothers. They don't listen to questions. The Coens do whatever the heck they want, and with good reason. What, overblown and pretentious dreck like No Country...? What does that mean?

I like to own a physical copy of a game. I also like, like any other rational human being, to pay the most competitive price. So, yes, I've bought games at supermarkets although I'm a long-standing Game loyalty card holder and buy stuff there too. Specialist retailers have to offer more to offset the competitors, the most obvious one for Game is the trade-ins for console gamers but even that doesn't appear to be working. And please don't talk to me about Steam, their prices are scandalous. I'm now shopping for games online, mainly, nowadays.