🚀 go-pugleaf

On 6/1/2017 10:17 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> Well, it's been a busy month for me, although you wouldn't be able to
> tell it by my playlist. Although I only played three games this month
> - not the fewest I've ever played, but far below average - one of
> those games hogged so much of my time that it's a wonder I found any
> time to play any other games. Plus the addition of some fun new
> computer hardware and, oh yeah, real life and I'm amazed I managed to
> squeeze everything into one month.
> 
> Anyway, it's the end of the month (well, slightly past but as I said,
> I've been busy) and we all know what that means. I tell you guys what
> games I have been playing, you guys tell us all what you have been
> playing. Maybe we share our thoughts on those games too, or maybe not;
> it's all good. Anyway, let's get right into things.
> 
> --------------------
> Short and Sweet
> --------------------
> 
> * Fallout 4 (new)
> * Lego Star Wars - The Complete Saga (replay)
> * Minecraft (replay)
> 
> 
> Anyway, that's me. What about you?
> 
> What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2017?
> 
Like you, I only played three games in May but unlike you that's normal 
for me.  :)

I continued my war on Japan in War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition. 
Grinding away I'm up to late November 1944 in the campaign.  Ran into my 
first stumbles in a while when I was a bit hasty invading Iwo Jima. 
Didn't recon and soften it up enough and the defenses were stronger than 
I expected.  Had to pull back off the island.  A harrowing experience 
when you're getting several kamikaze attacks a day, even with more than 
half a dozen fleet carriers and a dozen plus jeep carriers providing air 
cover.  Lost a couple cruisers, some destroyers and LSTs to them.

So while I was rebuilding the land units and bringing up more troops for 
the second attack I thought, let's whittle down those kamikazes first. 
Sent the 8 fleet carriers off to bomb Iwo and Okinawa, hoping to draw 
out some of the kamikazes from the Home Islands into my several hundred 
Hellcat CAP.  I succeeded.  Too well.  Multiple raids, each by HUNDREDS 
of suicide aircraft.  On just the first day I was in range.  Oops.  My 
CAP got whittled down and while I didn't lose any ships, four of the 
carriers are now sailing, slowly, to Pearl for dates with the drydocks.

I tried sending the B-29s in to bomb the airfields but from the Marianas 
Japan is just barely in range (in the game) of the early model, so they 
are carrying reduced bomb loads, and while the unescorted bombers shot 
down more Jap fighters than they lost, it wasn't by much and I don't 
have the numbers to replace the losses.

The second game was Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge.  The goal 
here is to play Wiz 6-7-8 in order, carrying over the party from each 
game to the next.  I'm currently on the River Styx, grinding away trying 
to raise my characters another level or two before moving on to the Isle 
of the Dead.  Not really very thrilling here right now, so haven't been 
spending much time playing this.

The final game was one I found the CD for while I was going thru some 
boxes.  Serf City: Life is Feudal!!!  :D  (AKA Settlers 1.)  A real 
blast from the past.  I remember when I first got the game thinking this 
explained why people are so fascinated with ant farms.  :)  So I spent a 
weekend getting it to run under DosBox and then my free time for a week 
or so watching my ant farm, ahem, serfs wandering around.  Still fun.

So that was my gaming month in May 2017.

-- 
"That's my secret, Captain: I'm always angry."