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Man O' War It is not a direct translation of the board game to the PC. It is an action adventure sailing game on the lines of PIRATES!, Sea Dogs, Black Flag etc. It is early in Early Access. (As in a couple of days of Early Access) What do you do in the game: You are a captain of a ship, and sail around the Old World doing stuff people do who sail around the Old World. You can trade between ports, fight other ships, do missions. At some point a campaign will be added. Controls are fairly straight forward: W unfurls sails, S gathers them up. A and D turn the boat port or starboard. G uses the spyglass. You aim cannon with the right button, which overlays a red arrow so you can decide on distance with the mouse wheel. Then you shoot with the left. Pretty straight forward, and it means that nothing gets in your way of just doing stuff. I guess it is for sailing how Freelancer was fun for space games. You just played. You can buy different kind of ships. You can upgrade ships. My Bretonian Corsair has a Streamlined Hull for greater speed. Additional port and starboard cannon batteries, and has replaced the common cannons with longer range ones. I also have a sharpshooter up on one mast. I am also now kinda broke. Later on you will be allowed to hire allied captains, slowly building a fleet for you to command. That hasn't made it into the public game yet. Actually there is a fairly neat roadmap: http://steamcommunity.com/games/344240/announcements/detail/950630211387713183 So far the game shows fun and potential. But it is still early. There are bugs. It needs optimization. It needs content. So for a lot of people it will be too early to buy. But what is there already makes me feel good about what is to come.

I'll make a proper write up about Manowar in the What are you playing thread later on Quickly posting screenshots, then off to some tiny local comic convention.

A wolf and a character's back, Bendu? I can do that!

Mordheim (obviously) and Manowar. Manowar just entered Early Access, so it still needs work. I upgraded my starting ship with a streamlined hull, allowing me to outrun most other ships I have encountered so far. So far I have only been up north in the Sea of Claws, so there has been a lot of fog and even snow. I wonder how the weather will be once I get to Tilea. I hope they manage o fill it with a lot of random things to do, because distances may become quite big. Sea monsters are definitely fun the first time you encounter them. Game is off to a good start, but a bit early still for anyone not really into the warhammer world.

Still have mine. Expires in 6 days

Still first hours of Early Access. So it has some way to go. But so far it is Sid Meier's Pirates meets Warhammer, without the dating governors' daughters mini-game, but with giant sea monsters.

I did not yet manage to get any good screenshots of the two new hired swords in Mordheim. Until I do, I'll post something else. Hints about what game it is are in the screenshots

Yeah, people have commented on that. And the tentacles.

Finished Epistory. Cute game. Very much recommended for anyone who wants to type enemies to death.

Not playing, but having a good laugh reading the store description: http://store.steampowered.com/app/402880 Age of Barbarian Ex is a Sword and Sorcery game, a genre that can't miss such items as the big and muscular barbarians, the succinct girls...

what game is that? I am just curious, not calling dibbs or anything I'm trying to come up with good guesses ever since he posted

I thought about getting it for the Homeworld Remastered collection and Victor Vran. But I just bought Greedy Greedy Goblins yesterday and ordered Conquest of Planet Earth. So my luxury budget is already stretched. On top of that there is an airport strike, meaning I just lost 400 euros in reservations because my guests' flights got cancelled

Dibbs! Since Victor Vran just showed up on humble bundle

I think more or less it was on the same lines as the old ones plot-wise (after all they copied most plot points from those), with the difference that then we hadn't been saturated with that kind of images and settings.

I re-watched Johnny Mnemonic recently. Still a better love story than Twilight.

Watched 50 Shades of Kryptonite last night. As others mentioned, the editing was terrible. I am amazed there even are deleted scenes. Most scenes could have been cut to half the length and would have been better for it. Most of the (here fake) drama has been done better in other movies. Just because a large part of today's audience wasn't even born for the Michael Keaton movies for example, doesn't make this Batman good. My trip to the cinema wasn't a complete waste though: there was a pinball machine outside and I got the true Arcade experience: it ate my coin. I truly felt young again. Then I felt old when all those young people thought this was a good movie. Also a bat flew past me on the way home. Warned it not to watch the movie just because it has "bat" in the title.

This may sound childish, but I wanted to beat Keyrock to posting these Oh, nearly forgot to add a combat screenshot

Damn. Things, huh? Why do things always have to mess everything up :/

Anything but playing DA2. The rest of us are trying to forget that story so we can play DA:I.

Played some Deity Quest. It is obvious it was made for touch screen devices, but still plays fine. A bit strange this game. I foresee a lot of grinding if I want to level up more followers.

Didn't feel like playing anything in my steam library, so fired up GOG Galaxy and started a new Chaos Gate campaign. Did the first mission. I think I can go to bed now

Just a shame they did not call it Total Warhammer

I have one as well, so second person can have mine.