Tag: PC Games

05/3/13

Wargame: AirLand Battle – AAR

Developer: Eugen Systems

Publisher: Focus Home Interactive

Author: Jim Zabek

The closed beta has been released for Wargame: AirLand Battle and I’m having a blast with it. The sequel to Wargame: European Escalation, it builds upon the strength of the land units and adds a robust air power component. Gameplay resembles a tactical RTS, but the units are modeled after historical NATO and Warsaw Pact units. This provides a great mix of real-time tactical action with hard-hitting Cold War units. The beta has only released the multiplayer part of the game, and in this one I jump into a six-player game in the last available slot as the Warsaw Pact. I select an East German force just to see how it plays. While I did play Wargame: European Escalation I didn’t spend much time with the multiplayer game and this aspect is new to me.

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04/30/13

Tuesday Screenshot

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Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai

It was almost poetic.

My clan, the last supporting the Shogunate, was being destroyed by the invasion of new cultural ways we fought so hard to resist. Overlooking the courtyard I did not feel sad but proud that we had survived as far as we did.

But then grief did overtake me…would Japan, or the world, ever see men like us again? Would we be totally snuffed out? It just couldn’t be true. I could not accept that this was the final battle of my kind. I hated to think that we would disappear forever. I could not accept it.

Then…from what must have been miles away…great deep-sounding, booming shots, like a volcano erupting, were fired at my keep from the great iron ships in the harbor, destroying one of the towers and killing dozens of my samurai in just one salvo. I jumped from the wall, landing in the high grass and ran uphill away from the inferno my fortress had become.

I never looked back.

04/11/13

Prosciutto – Hamming it up with the di Parmas… Part Sixteen


By Undercovergeek, 11 April 2013

The diParmas are back and it’s WAR!

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In Part 15 the War of Independence started proper. Oberto is 4 – 0 up in the battles, the heart of Matilda’s forces have been decimated and her castles lay open to siege. Now Oberto takes the war to Matilda’s coffers in a bid to pay for the war…………..

 

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Our Chancellor Biagio, with a skill level of 20 that has brought most of Southern Italy within Oberto’s grasp is dead – post mortem investigations will show ‘suspicious circumstances’ – a plot! Dammit

 

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