Gorth

Hahaha. You wont get old here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darklands_%28computer_game%29

I seem to remember having downloaded a mod by that (or a similar) name not that long ago. Perhaps I should give it a try Edit: It sounds a bit like playing Icewind Dale in Heart of Fury mode.

The only ones I remember beeing able to overrun a well trained milita were the Crepax (Sp?) critters that would ocme out of the mines at night. And that only until I kill the bug queen. Otherwise, a militia with both veteran and elite troops in it will be able to hold off pretty much anything the queen throws at them. Goes for SAM sites as well.

What difficulty setting are you playing on? Just curious if that affects the militias skill when fighting off enemy troops.

You are joking?

69 years old... I guess it was a race against time to get him hanged before he died of natural causes.

I've only tried Heroes of Might and Magic (V I presume?) of those on the list, and frankly, I'm not sure that is a recommendation. While technically, it might be very good, I found it completely lacking in the "Soul and Atmosphere" department. Jagged Alliance is more than just turn based combat to me.

I think that goes for more than just games development. There is a reason why good project managers costs you a fortune. And why they are worth the investment

I just noticed something slightly amusing on my cloth map. It looks like the location of crossroad keep is called "Helms Hold" on the map. I wonder if they were "borrowing" a bit of inspiration from The Two Towers. Anyway, I had the "oddest" combat with a duo of dragons that I can remember (ok, so it's the only game where I've ever fought two dragons at the same time but never mind that). Trying to do less powerplay and just bring a mix of party members to see Nolaloth, I brough Zhjaaeve (Sp?), Grobnar, Sand and Elanee (and myself, an Eldritch knight). As it turned out, it wasn't much of a fight. Sand brought down the hitpoints of the first enemy with two well placed Meteor Swarms. Easy kill, even for a non combat oriented party. Now for the real killer... Sand killed the second dragon outright with a finger of death spell. They hadn't even chewed their way through my first stoneskin yet before they were lying on their backs, all four limbs jutting into the air. I guess even dragons can fail their fortitude save...

Translation: We can't be bothered to do a JA3, because, frankly, we don't know how to get the mix right that creates a total greater than the sum of it's parts. Yet another mediocre squad combat game in the horizon. I'm surprised that they didn't throw in real-time action too, just to rub some salt in the wound. Jagged Alliance franchise...

I tool more than 0.004 seconds for me to realise Kreia wasn't wearing her hood in that fight scene... I must be getting old. Looks awesome :D

Unless you are married to your cousin, in which case your cousins daughter could also be your daughter

Christmas is seriously overrated. As is mothers day, fathers day, valentines day, every crappy artificial "Go spend more money" day You would think people were wiser than falling for the massive spam attacks. Oh, and I bought myself some nice furniture for Christmas (I'm a hypocrit) :">

I only have two major problems with MOO2. One is that "Creative" is massively overpowered/underpriced and the other one is some of the reproducable bugs that crashes the game (hitting enter without entering a filename when saving and when having the warp interdictor device when the computer AI tries to retreat from a losing battle springs to mind). It's still the best of it's kind around though. The only two runners up I know of is Reach for the Stars for Commodore 64 and Space Empires IV. The first is from before half of the people around here were born and the latter just isn't as fun as MOO2

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39 minor issues left... It's curious that the single "text" issue can stay around for so long :D Speaking of curious (or rather curiosity), what are "tweak" issues?

I've got a rogue (to be assassin) lined up for my next game, once I complete the current one. I'll probably find out then :D

What's the story with this Axel guy. I seem to be missing something

I just checked, it's Orlen I'm not sure, since I simply did "the grand tour" after getting the keep and talked to everybody. Wasn't the armour smith the guy from fort Locke?

Soon after you get the keep, go visit West Harbour. Was it "Orden" ? he'll decide that there is nothing left for him and go to Crossroad Keep. You can have both Deekin and the dark elf merchant. As for the armour smith, one of the armour smiths you run across is not really happy with where he is, but he can't afford to move to Waterdeep or wherever it is he wants to go to some day. He'll upgrade armour the same way the weapon smith upgrades your weapons. I've only sided with the neverwinter nine so far, so I don't know if the tower has other purposes. Same thing for the the church. Next time, I'll try to let the monk have the building.

Regarding the armour, didn't you get both the weapon smith and the armour smith? Add to that 1 Dancer, Deekin, A dark elf merchant, Sal the barkeeper, two miners, the farmer from west harbour (the one who complained wbout the cheater with the enlarged pig). I'm not very good at remembering names Edit: The dancer is Light of Heavens sister of all things.

Heavy spoiler warning:

Under the best voice acting category: "Oblivion is filled with high-quality voice acting throughout the many dozens of hours of adventuring it has to offer. " The voiceacting was so bad, that I had them under suspicion of using a speech generator that would just read and parse the dialogue text files, so flat and unemotional was it. If that makes it into the top 5...

I had Qara buff up my PC before the battle and then used Word of Changing right after talking to LoH. Her Knockdowns simply bounced of my Horned Devil's 32 STR and the 5hp/round regeneration pretty much negated any damage she managed to do. Still, it took me a long time time to defeat her because she seemed to have several uses of Lay on Hands for some reason and thus kept healing herself to full health over and over again. So the horned devil deal works? When I tried that spell with Ammon Jerro, it didn't work terribly well for him. I was thinking of investing in the negative energy eldritch blast that drains levels, but it wouldn't work against undead, and LoH might have immunity. I don't know if it is too late for you, but having the Dash feat is pretty handy. You can outrun her, and if you have a ring of regenration, it is just a test of patience, not of skill.