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PSA: Game Discounts

Started by vinraith, April 28, 2009, 02:49:48 PM

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Habbaku

Syt, did you ever play any of the Decisive Campaigns series? I've enjoyed them all, but have precious few people to PBEM against.  :hmm:
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The Minsky Moment

I've been eyeing Last Train, any reports on gameplay?
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Syt

Quote from: Habbaku on September 17, 2024, 11:58:58 AMSyt, did you ever play any of the Decisive Campaigns series? I've enjoyed them all, but have precious few people to PBEM against.  :hmm:

I've never really broken into them. They seem ... big and clunky? Though I guess that Ardennes is most accessible (Steam says I have 13 minutes in it. :D I have 5 hours in Warsaw to Paris - much of that doing the tutorial two or three times, similar for Barbarossa :lol: )
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Habbaku

They are big, to be sure, but I've not found them all that clunky! The number of decisions seems daunting at first blush, but I think it's actually quite channeled for such a complex game.

If you ever want to give one of them a real shot, let me know.  :P
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Josquius

Last Train is on my list to get someday. But time....

Mashinky is also one  I'm eying up in this promotion (albeit not on sale?). That looks potentially very good.

I really should learn how to play A-Train someday.
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grumbler

I think that the management aspects of Last Train look good, but the real-time combat is a no-go.
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Syt

On Matrix/Slitherine taking over Battlefront: if you bought any of their "new" Combat Mission Titles (Shock Force or later) through their Battlefront website, you can register them on your Matrix account and get Steam keys.

Log in here to review your orders: https://battlefront.com/matrixgames.html

Go here to redeem your serials (activation codes): https://www.matrixgames.com/member/registerserial

Note: It seems if you bought a bundle of main game and expansion, it only seems to let you register the expansion of the bundle - Steam forums indicate you will have to hit up Matrix support to redeem the main game. Alternatively, it seems that if you bought single game upgrades (the $5 "engine" upgrades also count as serials for the main game if you bought those).
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.