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Music! (also not Dominions 4)
I am eternally after people to drag along to gigs, so probably it's best to mention this fact with at least a fair amount of lead time in order that they might be approximately free on those days.
So. In the next couple of months there are some decent folk acts coming to the Junction. Namely:
Miranda Sykes and Rex Preston on April 15th (Tuesday ( Read more... ) -
Not a Dominions 4 post (well, not really)!
Something I've been turning over in my head the last few Games Evenings is different styles of playing (strategy) board games. The majority of people at Games Evening are what I'd term analytical players of games, in that they mostly seem to evaluate a fairly full range of options from the present situation and choose the one that seems likely to ( Read more... ) -
Dominions 4 evangelism, final part, third chapter
So, at the end of the last update Midgard's troops had expanded across a moderate swathe of the map, merrily slaughtering the independent forces which stood in their way and taking relatively light casualties as they did so. That has largely been the order of the day for the vast majority of turns 7-11, and you don't really need to see all of the ( Read more... ) -
Serendipity...
One feels given the tone of my recent posting here that I really ought to mention that Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension is currently on a 75% off deal on GamersGate, meaning you can fight the undead legions of Rome Ermor with zeal, faith and flaming crossbows, lead hordes of sentient monkeys against Cthulhu, and crush the world under the heel of ( Read more... ) -
Dominions 4 evangelism, final part, second chapter
When last we left our merry bunch of Vikings and werewolves (caution: may Vike without warning), they were about to go for a relaxing stroll in the countryside which might have incidentally involved some light conquest and annexation. Let's see how that went...
( Cut for length, images etc - Let's Play multiplayer Dominions 4, turns 3 to 6 ) -
Further Dominions 4 evangelism
A very short illustration of a bit of problem-solving/strategy in Dominions, by way of explanation as to why I enjoy it so much.
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In which I geek excitedly...
33. Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension (Illwinter, 2013)
Dominions 3: The Ascension Wars had a modestly-sized but close-to-obsessive fanbase who maintained that a one-and-a-half man developement team in Sweden had produced the best game ever. So when they junked their distribution agreement with publisher Shrapnel Games and went for online-only ( Read more... ) -
Blatant Bribery...
Should anybody reading this happen to be possessed of a motor vehicle or other mobile device for jump starting the same, and additionally be desirous of more biscuits, then the opportunity exists to acquire the latter. For I will happily provide anybody who is willing to jump start my car (I have the necessary cables, just not a car that starts. ( Read more... ) -
Shoot the arrows then set up the target...
The above is, essentially, my reason for not writing a 2013 review post - not having actually established any kind of standards to judge by, making a review would be an exercise in making things up as I go along and entirely dependent on my current mood. Since I'm currently feeling fairly happy, I would argue that things went relatively well, but I ( Read more... ) -
On acoustic versions, cover versions, and generally not playing the song the way it was written
Yeah, I'm musicposting again. You have been warned. Links in this post probably go to music videos on Youtube unless otherwise stated.
This post was primarily instigated by listening to this acoustic song video from one of what I call my guilty pleasure groups despite not feeling remotely guilty about them (warning: Asteroids Galaxy Tour. ( Read more... )