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DC: B  So far, after about restarts, I have found it impossible to even approximate historical outcomes. Also literally everyone but Hitler and Goables hates me. Speaking of which, why on Earth does Hitler like me so much? It's mid-August I've failed to take his objective, and by every conceivable measure, and especially the "war is over in 6 months," I've failed. ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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Pimpmust posted:I like how they have a link to the Steam page right there on the Matrix Store but I have to buy it from their store *and* register on Slitherines site to get a steam key It used to be you would buy it, get a 2 week download link and a serial, and that was it. So they're learning I guess
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ZombieLenin posted:why on Earth does Hitler like me so much?
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Dec 15, 2015 16:57
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Joining the party is a good way to piss off all the military men.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:30
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Are there really people out there that are still downloading hex-based grog games over 56k dial-up connections like its 1994?
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Dec 15, 2015 17:37
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MrYenko posted:Are there really people out there that are still downloading hex-based grog games over 56k dial-up connections like its 1994? In this genre is that a real question?
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uPen posted:Matrix's download speeds are actually reasonable. Not steam speed but unless it's a big release day it usually doesn't take more than a few minutes to download games. I was laughing at them even showing what the download speed would *be* over 56k. Why even show that in 2015? Even Alaskans living in the primitive ruins of the American backwater would be able to get a faster satellite connection or something (assuming rural Alaskans are the #1 Grog customer base Matrix are gunning for).
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When I imagine grognards in my head, I usually picture a 55-60 year old guy with a giant bushy beard, living in rural Montana, wearing suspenders. His long day working the fields / driving a truck / whatever it is people do for money in Montana behind him, he saunters into his study (with wood-paneled walls) and flips on the sole lamp at his desk (it's one of those old green glass desk lamps). He claps his hands together as he boots up his Pentium 3 machine, the gentle whirring of the 10 gigabyte hard drive spinning up providing a soundtrack for his experience. "Time to sit down with a good old game of war," he says, staring past his various painted models of WW2 airplanes (a suspiciously large amount of which are decorated in Nazi livery). On one wall, a huge 6'x10' hex map of Europe hangs, with individual push-pins and scribbled notes jotted in. The Windows 98 bootup sound plays and he suppresses a giddy laugh, knowing soon that his plan to take the Baku oil fields from the Bolsheviks will soon come to fruition.
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Dec 15, 2015 18:25
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Please stop spying on us.
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That's me except more anime.
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Wait, have I had you over to my house before or something?
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MrYenko posted:Are there really people out there that are still downloading hex-based grog games over 56k dial-up connections like its 1994? HPS Simulations still has a fuckmothering web ring so the companies certainly are still stuck in 94. Makes sense that a decent number of their customers are too.
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Lockmart Lawndart posted:HPS Simulations still has a fuckmothering web ring so the companies certainly are still stuck in 94. Makes sense that a decent number of their customers are too. Their webring domain expired several months ago and a squatter company snapped it up and is using it to distribute malware. They haven't updated the links on their website yet, it's been 3 months.
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Drone posted:He claps his hands together as he boots up his Pentium 3 machine, the gentle whirring of the 10 gigabyte hard drive spinning up providing a soundtrack for his experience. Surprisingly large hard drive for a P3 there.
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Drone posted:When I imagine grognards in my head, I usually picture a 55-60 year old guy with a giant bushy beard, living in rural Montana, wearing suspenders. His long day working the fields / driving a truck / whatever it is people do for money in Montana behind him, he saunters into his study (with wood-paneled walls) and flips on the sole lamp at his desk (it's one of those old green glass desk lamps). He claps his hands together as he boots up his Pentium 3 machine, the gentle whirring of the 10 gigabyte hard drive spinning up providing a soundtrack for his experience. "Time to sit down with a good old game of war," he says, staring past his various painted models of WW2 airplanes (a suspiciously large amount of which are decorated in Nazi livery). On one wall, a huge 6'x10' hex map of Europe hangs, with individual push-pins and scribbled notes jotted in. The Windows 98 bootup sound plays and he suppresses a giddy laugh, knowing soon that his plan to take the Baku oil fields from the Bolsheviks will soon come to fruition. I know I'd have noticed if you came by my log cabin. You're one of them government types, aren't you? Always spying on honest creepy recluses 
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uPen posted:Their webring domain expired several months ago and a squatter company snapped it up and is using it to distribute malware. They haven't updated the links on their website yet, it's been 3 months. So their webring link takes me to a malware distribution thing? This seems like something they should be spammed about constantly until they remove that link from their page, that's pretty dangerous and lovely for their customers...
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rchandra posted:Surprisingly large hard drive for a P3 there. kids these days
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:So their webring link takes me to a malware distribution thing? This seems like something they should be spammed about constantly until they remove that link from their page, that's pretty dangerous and lovely for their customers... Who clicks on a webring banner in 2015? (It's me, I can't resist.)
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uPen posted:Who clicks on a webring banner in 2015? (It's me, I can't resist.) The exact demographic using that site.
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Drone posted:When I imagine grognards in my head, I usually picture a 55-60 year old guy with a giant bushy beard, living in rural Montana, wearing suspenders. His long day working the fields / driving a truck / whatever it is people do for money in Montana behind him, he saunters into his study (with wood-paneled walls) and flips on the sole lamp at his desk (it's one of those old green glass desk lamps). He claps his hands together as he boots up his Pentium 3 machine, the gentle whirring of the 10 gigabyte hard drive spinning up providing a soundtrack for his experience. "Time to sit down with a good old game of war," he says, staring past his various painted models of WW2 airplanes (a suspiciously large amount of which are decorated in Nazi livery). On one wall, a huge 6'x10' hex map of Europe hangs, with individual push-pins and scribbled notes jotted in. The Windows 98 bootup sound plays and he suppresses a giddy laugh, knowing soon that his plan to take the Baku oil fields from the Bolsheviks will soon come to fruition. Where can I get one of those maps.
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War in the Pacific: wrecker of e-friendships, much like diplomacy ruins real life relationships 
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Hunterhr posted:Where can I get one of those maps. ahem,  
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I've been getting really into seriously attempting a run of WitP recently and the idea of a massive wall-map with pins is sounding better and better with everything to keep track of 
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Dec 16, 2015 06:25
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Jump into a grand campaign. Just do it.
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I did, I just finished about 1/3 of my December 8th orders after an hour or two of flying around the map. I've done the small campaigns and fooled around with the grand campaign enough by now to actually feel like I know what I'm doing and it feels so good
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Generation Internet posted:I did, I just finished about 1/3 of my December 8th orders after an hour or two of flying around the map. I've done the small campaigns and fooled around with the grand campaign enough by now to actually feel like I know what I'm doing and it feels so good Doing the smaller campaigns helps with really basic stuff like "how do I shoot at ships," and "how do carriers and planes interact" but does nothing to help you figure out grand logistics, long duration training, or long term building up bases. Those are pretty much the core of the allied campaign in my opinion.
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A good rule of thumb as allies is that every single loving xAK should either be at sea transiting between ports or loading/unloading.
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The December 8th turn also takes by far the longest amount of time to process (a couple hours). After that initial setup, turns tend to go much faster. If I remember right, there was even a stickied thread in the WITP forum on the Matrix site with a complete list of Turn 1 orders to run through, and I want to say also save files where someone had done all the work for you. Definitely not for me though, as I need to set these plans in motion in order to be able to actually remember them.
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I followed the 'Kull spreadsheet' of 4k orders to issue on dec 8th in my PBEM. Including search arcs and exact sub patrol locations; wrote a tool in javascript to help me get the hexes exact.
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Baloogan posted:A good rule of thumb as allies is that every single loving xAK should either be at sea transiting between ports or loading/unloading. I actually prefer to keep a certain reserve of xAKs idle to be able to react to any new developments, at least early on. It's not like you're lacking in transport capacity once the US starts making GBS threads out Liberty ships.
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keep your 'react' xAKs at sea loaded with supplies! No need to keep reserve xAKs as allies, the thousands of newly built ships acts as your reserve.
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Another rule is to always have a queue of ships at rangoon to unload. You feed burma, you feed china. And china is hungry.
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Baloogan posted:Another rule is to always have a queue of ships at rangoon to unload. You feed burma, you feed china. And china is hungry. I remember Rangoon taking quite a beating from the air in Grey's last LP, though.
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corn in the bible posted:It used to be you would buy it, get a 2 week download link and a serial, and that was it. So they're learning I guess That's still exactly what you get, right down to the 14 day link, but you can obviously now assign your key to your account (it still doesn't happen automatically or in some sort of nominated way during a purchase) to get the Steam key (e: Not sure why I thought it was state the obvious time). On top of the fun process of redeeming 15 keys into both my Matrix and Slitherine accounts  the Order of Battle Pacific Steam key has been a duplicate the last four times I've tried it and the nice support guy has reset it for me.markgreyam fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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I've generally been reading all the AARs and new player guides that I can, which has had the side effect of making me eternally grateful for how much better this forum is than the Matrix one. A loooot of the AAR posts on there are really hard to parse because of the wholesale copy/pasting of combat logs with a minimum of commentary, as people have pointed out here before. Which, by the way, makes Operation Glacier so far ahead of anything else I've seen so far I don't think I can come up with a sufficiently hysterical metaphor to compare it to the Matrix grogs. I think the biggest hurdle to playing is just getting to grips with the UI, once I finally understood what most of the buttons do the grand campaign just becomes an exercise in patience as you set the board. e: Also, speaking of downloads, you're officially able to re-download purchased games as many times as you want from the Matrix store, but you have to open a support ticket to get your download link again. I gained a new level of appreciation for the convenience of Steam earlier last week.
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Is there any benefit to purchasing Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations from Steam instead of a physical copy? It's 55 bucks on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Command-Moder...aval+operations and 80 bucks on Steam http://store.steampowered.com/app/321410/ Are these different versions or anything or should I just save myself 25 bucks? Also Baloogan your Youtube videos are what convinced me to give this game a shot. Really good stuff man.
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It's on sale at the matrix site though, right? http://www.matrixgames.com/products/483/details/Command:.Modern.Air.Naval.Operations.Wargame.of.the.Year.Edition
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LordPants posted:It's on sale at the matrix site though, right? I didn't even think to look on the Matrix site. It's been a while since I've got a proper grognard sim. Thanks for the heads up. Buying it now.
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Generation Internet posted:I think the biggest hurdle to playing is just getting to grips with the UI, once I finally understood what most of the buttons do the grand campaign just becomes an exercise in patience as you set the board. Setting up the tracker so I didn't have to check troop movements every turn was a huge improvement for me. That and getting notifications on increased detection on task forces and such in one handy graph was nice. Also: production.
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