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I'll stipulate that Dark Colony, while not great gameplay wise, tried to do good things in the genre. The Warlords Battlecry series had the most evolved main characters. Battle Realms had the most involved systems. Spellforce the most hybridization with RPGs. (and Spellforce 1 the most ambitious story (though too complicated for PC Gamer UK to understand) Dune 2 not only pretty much birthed the genre, but also started it off the bat with unique faction units (the Harkonnen missile launch being very different to Atreidis Fremen units), and with spice booms moving the battle unpredictably across the map. Dawn of War 1 had very fast gameplay - a rusher's dream. edit: and Earth 2160 had the most city builder base building

At the very least they could update these posts for you.

That's the problem with those rich people. They give their kids all the money to buy whatever they want, but, as the Beetles know, money can't buy 'em love. (edit: mind you, the Beetles dude still worked like a dog to get her money to buy her things (but that's OK because the things she do, they make him feel alright))

On that note, say what you want about those shows, but I wouldn't have gotten my diploma without them. Spend so many nights working on projects for uni with those shows playing on late night TV.

You just know that he'll get dragged in for questioning in some Law and Order episode. If he is lucky, not SVU. Benson and Stabler would hate him. Then again D'Onofrio would have been all clever on his ass. Of course it could be a Cold Case. Then Lily Rush would keep seeing his young self as flashbacks.

Does he belong to a fraternity and gets drunk all day instead of going to classes?

Did you see a dog while arguing about these camshaft things? If not, can't beat Skazz's day.

Hey, I have that wishlisted. It's just that I am broke and Shady hasn't put it on the giveaway list yet

Old flame called me on the phone after four years. Computer throws up a BSOD. Don't worry PC, she called for something work related. No, I will not double my fee as a broken heart tax

Total War: Troy will be free for 24h on launch day on the EPIC store (13th August)

Skazz likes Civ6, so he is saddened that nobody else here seems to do

Age of Wonders: Planetfall has a new expansion. It adds a new race, the Shakarn. The lizard aliens have an Infiltrator who can copy enemy units, becoming that unit for the duration. In one battle my Infiltrator copied a Heritor Drained. Drained have an ability Mind Possession, which allows them to enter and take control of other units. And the Infiltrator copied the Drained, he also got this ability. Which he used on the Drained, possessing it. Now I no longer have an Infiltrator. Looking forward though to possess some cool unit.

Oh, it's your mouse-hand that's broken? That sucks even more

They are launching with Goliath (vat-grown bodybuilder foundry workers), Escher (scifi amazon gang with a DNA defect that leaves the men of the bloodline feeble and weak), and Orlocks (pretty vanilla biker gang without bikes). They left out Cawdor (garbage collectors and religious zealots), Van Saar (high tech but wearing suits because of weakened immune system due to constant rad poisoning), and Delaque (bald spies with goggles and trench coats). That would have been the core gangs. The new tabletop version also has: Chaos Helot Cult (average chaos cultists who do rituals in their spare time) Corpse Grinder Cult (workers at the Soylent Green factory turned to Khorne worship and cannibalism) Genestealer Cult Enforcers Venators (bounty hunter templates for people who like to convert miniatures) Ogryn Slaves The original tabletop had (and those will not make it into the new) : Spyrers (rich kids with super advanced alien tech hunting poor people for sports) Ratskins (native Americans wearing giant rat pelts) Scavvies (the poor scavengers living below the bottom of society, and often mutating in the refuse) Ash Waste Nomads living outside the hives were teased for the tabletop game. So were Brat gangs (the original rich kids gangs with hoverbikes in Confrontation and Ian Watson's Space Marine novel)

In other news, Necromunda (read: scifi Mordheim) went up for pre-order for a launch 28. August, then had the date changed to Summer 2020. The news is: @melkathi isn't buying it (at this point in time) as they are launching with just 3 out of the 6 core gangs of the setting, even less than the 4 initial warbands of the Mordheim launch. Game Devs: Because last time we launched Early Access and that gave people an incomplete experience which impacted reviews and sales negatively, we will not do so again. Also Game Devs: We will do a full launch, not Early Access, with perceived less content than our previous Early Access release.

Breaking the Vodyani blockade at Ghykra: Bomber squadron on attack run on Vodyani Ark in the Sirius system: Invading Dursay to force the Lumeris to pull back from the invasion of Hissho space: The Vodyani trying to break through at Rigel: The battle marked the end of Vodyani significance, as they were left with two small colonies hidden in Lumeris space.

There are quite a number of small breweries here in Greece now as well, and apparently they are good.

It should say "slain". Slayed is rapidly gaining popularity, but there are still enough of us around who know that to slay is an irregular verb. You had a quest to slay the monster. You slew the monster. The monster was slain.

"Slayed!" ? Ugh.

OK. So Hurlshot doesn't need to type, is there anyone who can do a good Hurlshot impression and take over for him for a while?

Glad people helped you, Hurly. So many people would drive by.

I have allergies. Can't go out without sneezing. Damn trees. Now that summer starts proper that should get better. Of course, exactly because my sneezing is allergies, it isn't actually dangerous, I guess?

Haven't really watched anything since I finished She-Ra... It was a bit obviously girlish, but when they finally wrap up the romance arc in season 5 and end the show, it all works. Probably the best romance in a cartoon. Made the mistake of trying to catch up with The Flash after. God that show is bad. How did I manage to watch 6 seasons of it? If She-Ra's Catradora romance is well written, Flash's attempt at drama is *shudder* so bad it even overshadows Black Lightning's daughter.

I think she likes likes me.

Civ6 is very Civilizationy. Because of the way resources were distributed - there was hardly any iron on my starting continent - I built my first airport at the same time I trained my first knight. By the time the knight reached the front line to charge Viking crossbowmen, my privateer fleet was being refitted to submarines. I also couldn't get any oil (there was one oil resource on my continent). In the second war against the Vikings I grabbed their port with oil (I felt very US American, even though I was the Roman Merchant Republic at the time). But when I got the oil rig up and running my tech had advanced so far that I didn't need it anymore. Suddenly I needed Uranium. Uranium held by my friends the Japanese (not trading for it), and my "It's Complicated" Egyptians (I swear, the way Cleopatra kept insulting me one turn to praise me the next, she had the hots for me). The Spanish (kept denouncing me since the early middle ages when Gandhi converted the Roman Republic to Hinduism) and Chinese (kept insulting me because I built more wonders) were faster than me in sending settlers to the two unclaimed uranium spots (though the Spanish, still using catapults and pikemen, didn't know what uranium was). The Chinese made peace with the Egyptians and declared war on me alongside my backstabbing friends the French. That blew my uranium trade deal with the Chinese. They were followed by the Egyptians ("What did I do?" "If you loved me you wouldn't need to ask.") and the Spaniards, who really should have known better after their failed attempt to conquer Hong Kong. I grabbed two small Chinese villages (using bomber jets, mech. infantry, machine gunners, and a balloon), which just happened to be their uranium mining operations, while my fleet blockaded Wuhan, where the Chinese army was embarking to return from their war with the Egyptians. Having secured access to all the game's resources I offered the Chinese peace. With the majority of their army a the bottom of the sea, and no more uranium to build their armor, they gladly accepted, sent me the last 10 tourists I needed and gave me cultural victory. Overall, was rather meh, since a lot of the time I was waiting for the AI to move the countless units it had spammed across the world, just so I could click Next Turn once more.