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Yeah, they don't get xp so you end up farming missions a bit to get them to keep up.

I had one of each class to swap in to try something new. Prototype is a good tank. Engineer didn't fit my playstyle.

What's your line-up? I mostly used a Force Psyker (Hurlshot) for shielding, a Hacker (Labadal) for healing and then a Cyberninja (Shadysands) and my own Void Psyker for the damage. Basically I took out their shields, Hurlshot gave us shields, Shady cut them into ribbons, and Labadal made sure we staid on our feet.

Didn't pay attention to the mission description and walked into a Brutal Difficulty Scattered Deployment. First round this happened: Nearly lost the Necromancer and two ghouls as well, but we managed to get out on top.

When I was a kid I started digging one in the yard. My parents let me. An 8 year old with a shovel will not dig far they thought. They were right. But the house was a rental, so even had I persisted, I'd only have given the next lot a free secret base.

It is very different. Alpha Centauri and Age of Wonders are my favourite 4X titles, but they each have their very own spot that doesn't antagonize the other. AC is a Civ in space done right. I don't think one should expect any similarities to it from Planetfall. They have far different background to draw from gameplaywise.

My money is on TrueNeutral breaking them up eventually because the argument will reach the post limit for the thread .

Talking about nudity and suggestiveness, I still need to try the DLC for Age Of Barbarian.

I'm not touching this discussion with a barge pole. Or a stripper pole. I'll just be over here playing Saints Row 3.

Thanks

And now we can start the back and forth of "yes, they did" "no, they didn't"

They had said they were working on something, and that it was not AoW4. So in retrospect the announcement makes perfect sense.

Same here.

Age of Wonders goes to space:

Who came up with these long travel sequences? They are worse than Mass Effect elevators...

Disappointed so far. Didn't expect too much from harebrained, but still realising I had hoped for more. Overlooking some performance issues, there is how tonnage only really functions as inventory space. Then that ejection is only a story thing. In the mech commander games if a pilot lost their cool, they'd eject. Here they are just a secondary health bar.

I missed that, which bios did they write? Random mechwarrior hirees? Yeah, random mechwarriors will have a little K symbol next to their name.

That seems to be what people describe it as. Still early access. My first three attempts all ended up in defeat extremely early on.

A wasted opportunity for some risk/reward choices

Does Tonnage affect the cost of my drop? It says the harder the mission the more tonnage I should bring, but is there an incentive to bring less? Do I want to drop in with just a couple of mechs so I earn more money? Or should I always drop in with all my acitves, so I can take out enemies faster and thus limit return fire?

Roses are red Violets are blue Give the game to someone else Because I won't write a Haiku

I have only played the first couple of missions. But I already miss my Mech Commander 2 swarm of Swarm LRM Ants. Fire Ants with the flame throwers replaced with Swarm LRMs. Tiny, fast, and as they'd deploy in numbers, would often take out the opposition's legs in the opening salvo.

That isn't all that strange or unethical. You give finances and accounting to the person you trust with the money. And a lot of firms do this out of house. I have a close friend who is an accountant. He has his own little accounting firm and handles a number of big clients, including shipping companies and foreign investors. He doesn't "join" the company for the business. They hire his services. And if I had a larger business so would I, because he is the person I'd trust with such large sums: because he has a proven track record, but yes, also because we have been friends for 20 years. Would you employ that friend even if that friend is charging much more than another business which also has a good reputation on the market, but doing the work for e.g. 70% of the price? Because that would be pretty bad management. That was never something claimed in the Codex stuff linked. We have 0 information on how much was charged by the accountant and how much competitors would have. We have no actual information on how competent that person is. So your question is mood.