Made it most of the way through the week. What random stuff is on my mind?
- I like wargames with clever rules. This one, Race to Berlin, is a two-player game, the Allies vs. Russia. How do you handle the Germans? The Allies play the eastern front Germans, the Russians play the western front Germans. This prevents the old issue with 3-way games, which is the losing player deciding to play kingmaker and throw in with one side to let them win. In this case, that can't happen. Nice. Clever.
- I finally broke down and bought Battle Brothers. So far, it's a lot of fun. I expect to get my money's worth in the long run. I didn't sprint for any DLC but it came with one free one that adds a monster and a banner, IIRC. I'm playing my first game on easy for everything except combat, which is on Expert. It's fine and doesn't feel unfair or especially difficult to this point. I do get the occasional issue of not really having a clear idea of what to do next. Whatever. For now, the Cheat Commandos ride across the lands of whatever this land is called.
Enjoyable game, and I finally had some time . . . and it clearly wasn't going on sale for less than $14.99 so what the hell.
- Under Tenkar's Tavern, for levels 1-3. I love it.
I've played like 800 hours of Battle Brothers... First step, get a bunch of expendables and everyone a shield (1 or 2 2-handers that you don't mind see dying) or polearms that stay behind. Second step, get everyone on chaimail (by day 20-30). Only then start to include better dudes and slowly get everyone with the best armor you can buy/loot.
ReplyDeleteAlso, get everyone a dagger. Easiest way to collect good armors.
I didn't manage the dagger thing, but even without, I was able to get most of my guys mailed and have a lot of success even on the highest combat difficulty. It's a fun game, although it has the usual video game annoyances - bows with ludicrously short ranges, enemies fight to the death or flee (no surrender), and so on. Still . . . it's really enjoyable.
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