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Post by elth on Feb 12, 2009 20:48:00 GMT
Oooh, potential victory from the jaws of catastrophic defeat time.
I liked it better when you were getting your arse kicked.
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Post by Sonic on Feb 12, 2009 23:50:47 GMT
Sneaky.
Do you have control of what religion your populace practices? Or do they chose for themselves?
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Post by coffers on Feb 13, 2009 9:12:05 GMT
Excellent news, now I wonder if the enemy has a counter plan. That would make things interesting.
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Post by Moo on Feb 13, 2009 9:15:23 GMT
I'm waiting the Combine to release Godzilla or Hulk Hogan. That would be awesome.
You seem to have been paying attention as to what you're doing, Stu, is that allowed?
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Post by coffers on Feb 13, 2009 9:29:38 GMT
I think he was more paying attention to what soeone else was doing. :checkit:
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Post by Boony on Feb 13, 2009 9:50:03 GMT
The Gods smile on you, you lucky pantfish. Religion ftw
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Post by hornet on Feb 13, 2009 10:13:42 GMT
Sneaky. Do you have control of what religion your populace practices? Or do they chose for themselves? Religion spreads semi-randomly down roads and trade routes, as well as via missionary units that you can produce from monastaries. But you've got control over which religion your state formally follows, and there are certain civics that give a big advantage to any city that's got your state religion (Organised Religion, f'rinstance, means any city with your SR produces buildings 25% faster). Nice work, Stu. Still don't understand why the buggers haven't just voted for victory, but hey.
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Post by Sonic on Feb 13, 2009 11:22:41 GMT
Suicide bombers! He's been given suicide bombers.
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Post by Fuzzy on Feb 13, 2009 12:40:07 GMT
Nice work, Stu. Still don't understand why the buggers haven't just voted for victory, but hey. Well, the chance to tea bag a dead enemy general > voting for a paper victory.
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Post by coffers on Feb 13, 2009 13:07:24 GMT
That is twice in the past month that term has been used and it doesn't present a pleasnt image in my mind.
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Post by Boony on Feb 13, 2009 13:25:21 GMT
Tea bag, or paper victory?
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Post by Fuzzy on Feb 13, 2009 14:02:37 GMT
I think he was referring to "dead enemy general". Or maybe the term "the".
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 13, 2009 14:14:04 GMT
Sneaky. Do you have control of what religion your populace practices? Or do they chose for themselves? Religion spreads semi-randomly down roads and trade routes, as well as via missionary units that you can produce from monastaries. But you've got control over which religion your state formally follows, and there are certain civics that give a big advantage to any city that's got your state religion (Organised Religion, f'rinstance, means any city with your SR produces buildings 25% faster). Nice work, Stu. Still don't understand why the buggers haven't just voted for victory, but hey. I'm guessing they can't do that while we're at war, which makes a future even all the more hilarious. Although it could be that that option has been removed from Fall From Heaven. I could read the manual and find out, but where's the fun in that?
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Post by Moo on Feb 13, 2009 14:46:32 GMT
Indeed. You don't want to be labelled a girlie poof, do you?
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Post by coffers on Feb 13, 2009 14:56:27 GMT
Tea bag, or paper victory? Tea bag
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Post by Boony on Feb 13, 2009 15:00:24 GMT
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Post by coffers on Feb 13, 2009 15:09:18 GMT
Hmmm you obviously don't know what the term tea bagging refers to these days? I'll leave it to Moo to explain as he claimed his Puppy tea bagged him the other day.
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Post by Sonic on Feb 13, 2009 15:20:02 GMT
It's prevalent in Halo. Mostly those who perform it are dicks. Or severely pissed off. Usually it's the former.
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Post by Boony on Feb 13, 2009 15:20:43 GMT
I'm young and innocent, Coffers. You know that.
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Post by hornet on Feb 13, 2009 15:51:46 GMT
Religion spreads semi-randomly down roads and trade routes, as well as via missionary units that you can produce from monastaries. But you've got control over which religion your state formally follows, and there are certain civics that give a big advantage to any city that's got your state religion (Organised Religion, f'rinstance, means any city with your SR produces buildings 25% faster). Nice work, Stu. Still don't understand why the buggers haven't just voted for victory, but hey. I'm guessing they can't do that while we're at war, which makes a future even all the more hilarious. Although it could be that that option has been removed from Fall From Heaven. I could read the manual and find out, but where's the fun in that? Yeah, I did wonder if the victory condition might not be present in the game. That'd be a Brucie Bonus. Splendid effort defying the odds (and Gods) in any case. :thumb:
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Post by coffers on Feb 13, 2009 17:44:53 GMT
I'm young and innocent, Coffers. You know that. In that case I do not wish to put such a horrible image inside your obviously too young head. However you can google it if you really want.
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Post by elth on Feb 13, 2009 18:30:10 GMT
It's when a young gentleman squats over the face of an intimate companion and "dunks" his testicles in his companion's mouth, as one would the common tea bag in a cup or mug, hence the reference.
It is popular in online multiplayer games such as Halo as a taunt over the dead body of a recently deceased adversary.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 13, 2009 19:08:56 GMT
And as per, for Halo players, they think it originated there because they think Halo was the first FPS in existence.
I remember going one better in Unreal Tournament back in 2000ish and seeing people "Head Humping" - flipping between prone and stand up on the severed heads of opponents.
Which was nice.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 13, 2009 20:13:46 GMT
For anyone looking to read more fun around Fall From Heaven, you could do worse than Tom Chick's game diary over at Fidgit. Annoyingly, the bottom of each entry only contains a link to the previous entry and not the next one, (nice work, geniuses!), so you'll need to bounce out to the Game Diary main page and pick out the FFH II links from there. The links are in chronological order with the newest at the top, and Chick's FFH diary starting Dec 18th and moving forwards. Chick even ends up with the same religion I've landed on and faces off against the Basium. Although he's so much better at the story thing than I am, natch... A couple of excerpts that pick up important points about FFH : " Finally, by way of farewell, I'd like to say that Fall from Heaven does an excellent job of making me want to jump right back in to start a new game. One of the problems - if you could call it that - with the design of Civilization is that it plays out like a pyramid. The early game stages are broad and distinct, with each civilization's traits and unique units making them feel different. They're the bottom of the pyramid. But as you play, as religions narrow down and technology advances, all this stuff fades into the background. The game is invariably about the same tanks, infantry, UN, and nukes that may or may not be lurking on the map. This is the top of the pyramid. In terms of gameplay variety, it goes from a broad varied early game base to a narrow endgame point. By the time I've taken a game all the way up to that point, it's a bit daunting starting a new game knowing that it's eventually going to come to this same point.
But Fall from Heaven II doesn't have this problem. In fact, I'd say it's a cure for this problem. By presenting such dramatically different civilizations, each with their own unique rules and each capable of dynamically changing based on which religion they embrace, Fall from Heaven II has many ways to playing out. All the way up until the end, I was able to take advantage of abilities and units that were absolutely unique to my choice of civilization and religion."
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 13, 2009 23:31:19 GMT
The Kuriotates are in trouble. I don't care. This should come as no surprise considering the amount of turns I've spent at war with them thus far. There's no way to check for sure, but now I'm approaching 1,500 turns and I'm guessing that almost all of the last 500 turns have featured some sort of war. So now I finally have something approaching the upper hand, I'm not going to turn the offence off. So I take my new blended army of things I used to have, things that aren't real and things that used to belong to someone else and continue to shove it west, attempting to push it as far down Cardith Lorda's throat as I can. I take and burn Naggarond and then do the same with Sath Rianase, which took a bit of good fortune, because there was a huge forking Dragon parked in it. (The more observant of you will have noticed it in the picture in the last post of the previous page.) Fortunately, events conspire to give me Sath Rianase, when the Kuriotates' puppets forget the entire point of being someone's bitch. It starts when the Kuriotates call a UN vote to end the war. Again. Their war weariness is well over 200 now and they're running short on real estate. For all their apparent power, they are now being propped up by the Basium and without the Gods they'd be a two-bit bunch of dead tossers. So with my forces parked on their borders they're looking for a quick way out and although I'm disinclined to acquiesce to their request, with all of their puppets on the UN, I can't really resist. They vote yes, I vote no... while the rest of the votes are counted to their inevitable result I throw everyone forward. No point standing about on the borders when there's only one turn to go before the war ends, eh? We have some success just inside the Kuriotate border but the turn ends before too much good stuff can happen annnnnd... here are the votes of the UN judges in the Eurovision arse-kicking competition... I vote no and Kuriotate votes yes, of course. The Basium vote yes, because despite being Gods, they're also puppies who do whatever master says. So it's 2-1 with four votes to come, all of whom are Kuriotate vassals. All he needs is two of them to vote yes and stick a fork in the war, it's done. So it's quite funny when they all vote no. This rather ruins my plans as the forces I'd had stuck on the border, being all menacing and protecting the interior of what's now my mainland are dispersed and exposed now so I say fuck it and keep pushing them forward and come within a whisker of capturing the Kuriotate captial - the only major city they have left now. With my armies pushed forward, the giant forking dragon moves out of its city base to strike into our flanks and this leaves Sath Rianase suddenly barely defended. I decide to push my northern army around the dragon and strike straight at the town and while this kills almost all of the men in that army, I capture the city and burn it down before the GFD can get back there. Meanwhile, the second army strikes northwest and crosses its fingers... Unfortunately, the Kuriotate have just enough time to push in two large armies of Basium troops into the capital and my attack peters out at the walls and then my army is cut off and eventually destroyed. This leaves a large gap in the lines that I can't fill immediately and the Kuriotate armies, (now Kuriotate in name only, as they're almost exclusively Basium), pour through it to attack my two westernmost cities. Things get a bit hairy here, but although the fighting is hard, I’m always confident that I’m going to win, barring any disasters. Although the Combine army has a crust of baked-hard Basium forces, underneath it’s all a bit soggy now as there’s only a smattering of Kuriotate forces and then it’s a hodge podge of troops from around the empire, like Hippus camel archers and Calabim catapults again. The soft underbelly means that I'm not even too scared when another Kevin shows up and the GFD also attacks, as I know I have the right types of men in the right places to deal with it, which I do, ruthlessly, killing the invading force to a man/angel/dragon. With that, it's time to launch another attack, as I don't want to give the Kuriotates any time off. Where to go… Where to go…
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