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I duno about Rule the waves but in S&I its a bit of a shitshow. They are way more keen to fire them off when set to AI and under the 'flotilla attack' command than just manouvering them in close to the enemy.
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For Rule the Waves I take it the order number is not the registration number, correct?
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Jul 11, 2015 20:22
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ArchangeI posted:Still waiting on the guy who sends out the keys to get to my mail. Truly the tip of the spear in 21st century e-commerce. Edge of the knife. You know you are in grog valley when you have to wait for some dude to personally email/mail you your key/product from his personal führer bunker in rural Alabama. (Waiting for my code  )Half expecting a beaten up package to arrive at my door in a month, containing the game on floppy disks.
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Pimpmust posted:You know you are in grog valley when you have to wait for some dude to personally email/mail you your key/product from his personal führer bunker in rural Alabama. I bought it last night after reading this thread but I got my key instantly 
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Jul 11, 2015 20:33
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Welp, there goes another one. Are they sending keys out in regular batches or just whenever? E: also it seems they have managed to fix the file extension at least.
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Jul 11, 2015 21:00
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It seems like it's just a dude mailing the keys so if you order when he's sitting down you get it in a few minutes otherwise it's whenever.
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Jul 11, 2015 21:16
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I've been waiting on mine for a couple hours now, not expecting much since it's a Saturday.
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Pimpmust posted:Half expecting a beaten up package to arrive at my door in a month, containing the game on floppy disks. There's a port of the boardgame D-Day at Omaha Beach that's been tempting me, but they have to physically mail a CD. International shipping plus not having a CD drive anymore...
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Jul 11, 2015 21:37
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I just won against the USA and my choices for territory were Maine, Alaska, Guam, Philippians, Aleutians, and Hawaii. Who would want Maine?
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Jul 11, 2015 21:52
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And there's your answer for why they keep trying to offer it 
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Jul 11, 2015 22:07
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Just wanted to let everyone with whom I play games that the wife and I just got a PS4, so turns may be a little slower.
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Jul 11, 2015 22:09
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Shame on you, I want to see if you can take back Paris before 1917.
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rchandra posted:There's a port of the boardgame D-Day at Omaha Beach that's been tempting me, but they have to physically mail a CD. International shipping plus not having a CD drive anymore... Ditto, plus it looks awful for the price. But that's our hobby I guess!
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Jul 11, 2015 22:14
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I'm waiting for my RTW cdkey...
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Jul 11, 2015 22:25
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Chump Farts posted:Just wanted to let everyone with whom I play games that the wife and I just got a PS4, so turns may be a little slower. Clearly indicative of the higher processing power of our PC computers. I doubt any game listed in this thread has controller support.
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Stupid question but how do I make my destroyers actually do a torpedo attack? I was in a little 1 B - 2 DD v 1 B fight and I couldn't figure out how to actually get them to launch... The manual said get close but I drove them right on top and still nothing  . loving grog game interfaces.
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Jul 11, 2015 22:35
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Haven't had a chance to play myself yet, but reading up the thread a little you don't do anything as such, just set up the conditions. Maybe you need to make sure your ships heading is right to let them use their tubes?
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Jul 11, 2015 22:50
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Hurrah playing RTW!
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Still don't have my code 
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The ship design is pretty good and simple but good god the interface gets in the way so hard.
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apseudonym posted:Stupid question but how do I make my destroyers actually do a torpedo attack? I was in a little 1 B - 2 DD v 1 B fight and I couldn't figure out how to actually get them to launch... The manual said get close but I drove them right on top and still nothing How good is your torpedo tech? I noticed once I got a couple levels they really started launching them. Early on I would only ever see them do it at night.
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Jul 11, 2015 23:44
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apseudonym posted:Stupid question but how do I make my destroyers actually do a torpedo attack? I was in a little 1 B - 2 DD v 1 B fight and I couldn't figure out how to actually get them to launch... The manual said get close but I drove them right on top and still nothing Depends on crew level, angle and speed (i think). That and sometimes they just prefer not to.
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 Is this a picture of my top spy or the ship designer or the ship itself? What is even going on.
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All spies are Mata Hari apparently.
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First campaign over. Fought 2 wars against Britain, first one was basically a draw, I kept a narrow point lead, but they managed to sink 1-to-1 my B's and BB's. Built a class of 2x3 9"" CA's to kill off their old commerce raiders that were wrecking my sea lanes and they got eventually picked out by 5x2 14" BC's. Second time around I beat the RN surprisingly easily, then again I had a couple of these bad boys helping me out:  Quality 1 13" guns are just as good as -1 15". Drops off a bit at extreme range, but gunnery at that range isn't really decisive anyhow. The research payouts are randomized, so I didn't ever get <9" turrets and the superfiring frontal DD turret only at the end, so my destroyers completely lacked punch beside torpedoes. Buy this game, it's great 
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dtkozl posted:How good is your torpedo tech? I noticed once I got a couple levels they really started launching them. Early on I would only ever see them do it at night. I was doing a night surprise attack in 1903 against some German CA's and couldn't make it work
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Jul 12, 2015 00:35
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Tekopo posted:Still don't have my code Have you checked your spam folder? Mine got filtered because the title is something stupid like "YOUR SERIAL KEY INSIDE".
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Jul 12, 2015 01:00
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Saros posted:Shame on you, I want to see if you can take back Paris before 1917. Doubtful, France is still pretty mad about that whole thing.
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Jul 12, 2015 01:01
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Just got my RTW key, placed my order about 4 hours ago 
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Jul 12, 2015 02:06
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The UK stole my battleship a month before it was done  . We were bros UK why you gotta steal my tools for killing Germans.This game is awesome.
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apseudonym posted:The UK stole my battleship a month before it was done That is why you don't pay in advance. Dunno if that is even an option though.Enjoying all these stories. First time in a while I've been tempted to pick up one of these grog games. Do I even want to know how much this one costs?
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35$ cheep! I was just _embarrased_ by the UK, lost all my battle ships...
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Wow, that is actually a reasonable price. Now all of you have to shut up about the game, since I can't use the huge cost as a reason not to get it. 
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It's really funny how you go into the game with all these beautiful pre-conceived notions as to how to build good ships with turrets on the centerline and all-or-nothing armor instead of those horrible abominations with casemates all over the place, and by the end of your first hour you're looking at main battery guns in casemats and go "well that does put 8 guns in the broadside, so it's not that bad of an idea..." You know, to complement your battleships with two towers aft and one tower forward. On the other hand, the AI seems to be wedded to the idea of ships going no faster than 20 knots, so you can fairly easily build a fleet that can dictate the range perfectly (until you roll a battleship action in a gale and heavy rain, maximum viewing distance 2,500 yards. Holy poo poo that was nerve wracking.)
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Wow, that is actually a reasonable price. The Something Awful Forums - Discussion - Games - Grognard Games Megathread - stop making me want this I do not have $95... wait, these games are cheap now?
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Just turn AI back on when the destroyers are in close torpedo range and they'll shoot them everywhere, it's pretty hilarious.
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Mr. President I can't go to war with Britain, they've got 3 of our Dreadnoughts in their drydock. Fine, sack me, whatever.
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So my Norton antivirus freaked out and deleted everything Rule the Waves related I'm trying to find the download link again to try and get it up and running, does anyone know where I can find it?
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Jimmy4400nav posted:So my Norton antivirus freaked out and deleted everything Rule the Waves related Kill that piece of malware (Norton). Also grog games are loving notorious about that poo poo. You'd think they could get their executables signed by someone trusted or whatever you have to do, but then again some of them still haven't figured out how to avoid their poo poo throwing UAC-prompts all over the place.
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I bought RtW and i realized something. I do not know anything about naval warfare. I, uh, played Battlefleet gothic one summer? This poo poo can't be hard, right  So i made ship! Looking good, goes fast, big gun, two little guns to i don't know, gently caress with fishing boats that get too close, right? Shoots a torpedo too. Got some room for refits too when i get better guns!  WHAT  WE'RE GONNA LOSE THIS WAR IF YOU WON'T LISTEN TO ME George Rouncewell fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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