What are you playing? (Redux)

[sbr]

Is the Witcher: Enhanced worth $10?

yes

I would agree even though I wasn't a huge fan of the game.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Cool, I'll check it out.
But first I need a HD upgrade. 15GB install? That's almost all the remaining free space on my drive!

[Syt]

OOTP12. 64 team European league.

My Vienna Wolfpack are playing against the Istanbul Sultans. Istanbul's Milutin Kotic hits a grand slam, just as last.fm plays "Sultans of Swing" by the Dire Straits.

[Razgovory]

I downloaded the Demo of Dungeons - the Dark Lord, but the game just didn't work.  Wouldn't even start.  I went to their boards to see if there was a solution but I didn't see one.  So I guess I'm not going to buy that game.

[Ideologue]

Man, I cannot do shit with Lorraine in EU2.  Playing as Granada's usually no big problem (well, so long as I cheat and restart if I get grossly unfavorable random numbers generated on the first major combats in Andalusia ).  I actually think it might be the hardest non-island minor in the game.  You are stuck between two extraordinary belligerent power blocs, and aligning with either is either inadvisable (getting a stable alliance with Dauphine is hard and increasing Dauphine's power is a bad move in the long run anyway) or unhelpful (you start allied with Burgundy, but you have no say in whether England establishes a vassaldom upon them and your only real avenue of exapnsion is Burgundian territory).

Also your armies suck because of the 9 serfdom slider setting.

I actually had one good iteration going--massive inflation but that's par for the course, and I'd managed to seize most of the Burgundian lands and Ile de France--but I fucked up when I invaded Strassburg before finishing Dauphine/France as a competitor.  I thought it would be a simple, quick annexation but I wound up drawing the ire of Switzerland and eventually some other HRE states, and France hit me when I was fighting in the east.  I wish I'd saved before committing to attacking Strass.

[garbon]

Why did you decide to take on your vassal? (Strassburg)

[Ideologue]

Why did you decide to take on your vassal? (Strassburg)

Because it's not really my vassal.  It's Tyrol's vassal as well, and is in an alliance with Tyrol, and I know from experience playing as Austria that eventually it will fall to Tyrol and then to the Habsburgs, whom I didn't want to fight until unifying France.  I wasn't sure about the date, so wanted to do so at the earliest opportunity.

Actually, I can't recall if I attacked Strassburg or Tyrol.  I think it was actually Tyrol.

I did try a few tests where I attacked Strass immediately but that doesn't seem like a good opening move (Tyrol's army tends to fuck me up, and it's full of badboy even if I win).  That's the other problem with Lorraine, the other avenue for expansion is in the HRE--but Luxembourg and the Palatinate have territories unreachable until they're surrendered.  Luxembourg also winds up with Burgundy very quickly, so a limited war against them is impossible to win early on, and turns into a general Middle Francia war later.

How these losers stayed independent till 1766 is beyond me (well, actually it's just beyond the scope of EU2 game mechanics).

[garbon]

Yeah that was a mistake from poor implementation - for some unknown reason they had Strassburg standing in for two different political entities.

[Ideologue]

Yeah that was a mistake from poor implementation - for some unknown reason they had Strassburg standing in for two different political entities.

What is it supposed to be?  The Duchy/County (or whatever?) of Strassburg and the Margraviate of Baden?  The province Baden's ruled directly by Tyrol.  I dunno what the County of Tyrol's relationship with the Margrave was, although I believe the County had direct holdings in that general area.  To be honest, I don't know what the Duke of Lorraine's relation to the [whatever] of Strass was.

I'm considering cheating and just giving Burgundy German.   What, Luxembourg is German.

[garbon]

No idea - however I believe that the change was going to be that it was Lorraine's so as not to give too much to the Hapsburgs.  I think there is a lack of clarity given that no one state really dominated that entire province.

[garbon]

Actually found it. There is some odd confusion that the duchy of Bar could be in that province - certainly not the case! Will have to think about what to do with that.

[Syt]

One of my weirder games yesterday - Vienna Wolfpack @ Kharkov Tanks. My star pitcher issued 4 BBs in the first three innings (i.e. before I took him out), and beaned two consecutive Kaharkov batters. In ca. 60 pitches he threw 15 in the strike zone. Fortunately, the reliever was a bit steadier. In the 8th inning, with the score 3-3, the Kharkov reliever handed me the victory, because he botched throws to his 2B in two consecutive plays, allowing two of my people to score.

[Ideologue]

Actually found it. There is some odd confusion that the duchy of Bar could be in that province - certainly not the case! Will have to think about what to do with that.

I figured out how to win as Lorraine: play vanilla.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Just beat Portal 2.
What the fuck?

Now to get my brother to play Coop.

[crazy canuck]

Pretty much off computer games now.  I hate first person shooters and there are no strategy games out there worth playing.

If I need a fix I will probably look up some old titles at gog.com but for now I think I am done until something good comes along.  I will of course rely on Languish to let me know when that happens.