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[drilltooth]

Going nose-to-wing with flagship in my Assassin. Won the firefight, but didn't quite manage to outrun the explosion.

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Fractured Space

[Spehss _]

Dived a bit too deep into Angband and bit off more than I could chew by trying to go toe to toe with the snaga Lagdar and his merry band of hill orcs. I slew many an orc but ultimately their strength of numbers persevered. Still, not a bad dungeon dive considering it was my first character. Dwarf paladin seems a strong choice in any roguelike.

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Oangband

It's an Angband variant with "complete rebalancing from the ground up" as well as a few new races and classes. don't know how it compares to classic Angband but it's fun anyway.

[shroobot3000]

While I still don't have enough skill to make a Maus I'll try the AMX.

Playing as the Soviets when my mobile drive with my games on it decides it wants to disconnect.

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Company of Heroes 2 again

[Myroc]

After cleaving apart everything that moves in a (very large) dungeon with my dwarven claymore, I died like a bitch to poison. Since poison takes a while to set in in this game, my last save was made after I got poisoned, and I had nothing to cure it with, so I was forced to reload an earlier save and re-do half an hour's worth of gameplay. Note to self: Get that Cure Poison spell.

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The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

[Rolan7]

Klackons declared war for no reason, but that's normal.  Kinda surprised that they're sporting a battleship already.  No big deal though, my weapon tech is pretty good, so my starbases can probably hold them off.  I form an alliance with my Alkari trade partners just in case.

Next turn a Sakkra battleship arrives at Aquilae, the only colony outside my home star.  They demand the colony, and politely declare war when I refuse.  Fair enough, I spitefully sell off the automated factory.  The next turn they help the Klackons bomb it almost into rubble, then the Klackons land troops on the undefended surface.  Again not a big deal, just a barely-started colony.  My home system is quickly throwing together a light cruiser full of fighter bays.  While my researchers desperately work on anti-matter torpedoes for my starbases.

Then everything goes wrong.

I check my Alkari allies and notice they haven't declared war on either of my aggressors.  Weird since I allied before the Sakkra declared war, and it's the turn after I had a planet conquered from me.  I demand that they declare war on the Sakkra.  "Of course, friend!"  I demand that they declare war on the Klackons.  "How dare you, we declare war on you for the suggestion."  They send their fleet (ALSO a battleship, for some reason, with no transports or anything) to harass my home system.

Fortunately the thing is barely FTL-capable, with basic lasers and nuclear missiles.  No shields.  But because they're freakin Alkari bird-dragons, the flipping BATTLESHIP survives my starbase's beam cannons long enough to take out my freshly-build cruiser with the fighter bays.  The Klackon battleship+cruiser arrives long before I can build another.

Fortunately, my researchers developed antimatter torpedos just in time!  Which it turns out...  Starbases don't equip 

The Klackons are using yellow beams which readily cut through my level 1 shields.  Systems start failing on the starbase in turn three (I love how detailed the combat is in this game).  But, my light torpedo-boat took out their antique cruiser,  and their battleship's armor is almost gone.  Desperate for an edge, I have my unarmed 5-man scout vessel fly directly up to the battleship.  By overloading their warp core, they should do enough damage to expose the battleship's systems - and thin out some of the missiles on course for my wounded starbase.  It's a desperate gambit, but their sacrifices will be -

Why did my STARBASE explode?  Oh BUGGER it automatically unselected the scout after moving since it had no weapons.  I self-destructed my starbase.
Yeahno, autosave loaded.

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Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares
Uncreative Telepathic Democracy
It's not a bad combo, but I really need to get assault shuttles so I can start capturing enemy ships for their tech.  (I can climb the tiers super fast, but uncreative means I don't get to choose what 1/3 of each tier I actually get.  High research tiers miniaturize and refine ideas...  But I basically need to trade or steal those ideas.
And "telepathic" is super fun.  Boarding ships captures them instantly instead of disabling them (mind-controlling the pilots?) and my capital ships make undefended enemy colonies instantly join me.  No invasion, no lengthy reeducation period.  It's not even evil, it's a democracy!  I figure I'm just telling them the truth, efficiently.

Another neat thing is that conquered aliens populations stay aliens, just under your new government.  So it can be useful to assimilate certain races with useful skills, like industry or research bonuses.  Like Klackons.  (Though freeing them from the hive mind replaces most of their food/industry bonus with democracy's research/economy)

[pisskop]

After a very successful run in which I owned everything with a titanium whip and later the boots of pain w/damage enhancing goodness and only the 3 default hearts, I accidently picked up a glass whip and didnt notice it because they look the same alomst.  I got hit half a level later, and died like a little nancy-pants to a black bat.

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Crypt of the Necrodancer

Great classroom game

[TheDarkStar]

It's not even evil, it's a democracy! I figure I'm just telling them the truth, efficiently.

I can't stop laughing at this. Especially because there are people who apply that kind of thinking to the real world.

[itisnotlogical]

Because the students in the current version are lemmings who believe the same lie over and over again, I've decided that the only way to make a challenging game out of this is to limit myself to only kill within the school building, without convincing them to follow me first. It's much, much harder. This last time, the teacher's pet saw me and I wasn't able to capture him before he told the teacher. Being covered in blood with a knife out, I was instantly tackled.

Yandere Sim.

[EnigmaticHat]

This run.  I keep making small but significant mistakes.  Forgetting that free actions trigger overwatch, unintentionally pathing through watched tiles, attempting to KO while standing on a body, even dropping the mission objective by accident instead of a keycard.  They're the kind of things I would just rewind on Experienced, but on Expert my one rewind is too vital for that.

Its not so much a death as its a series of costly failures that limit my ability to purchase upgrades.  Medigel for Nika, two clips for Shalem's rifle, cleanup fees for the bodies.  Barely not having time to do the mission objective because Shalem had to drag both his unconscious allies through half the level to the exit while the entire building was looking for him.  Money money money.

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Invisible Inc.

[Spehss _]

Tried an elven necromancer. Died to the first dungeon critter I tried to kill, a giant white centipede.

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Oangband

[Akura]

Somehow managed to freeze myself. With a Fireball spell. While standing in lava. And not just me, my skeleton servant following behind me.


But that's not what killed me(in fact, I took no damage even from repeatedly getting hit from the spikes under the lava). It was getting shotgunned by a Glass Golem - who are resistant to Magic(50%), and immune to everything else but Physical attacks(ie: melee) - at point blank range.

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Triangle Wizard. The freezing came from hitting myself with a Fireball spell(which can destroy walls), while wielding an item I enhanced with an effect that adds cold damage(which always carries a chance of freezing) to any spell I cast. Originally, said item inflicts disease on melee, and was useful just for that.

[itisnotlogical]

The fight against the Doomsday Machine is literally the worst boss fight I have ever seen in a video game. It looked as if somebody went crazy in the level editor (at one time I counted 30 ships on screen, and there were more coming in all the time). Normally my computer never has trouble with either the graphics or the connection speed on Star Trek Online, but it was positively chugging all throughout the fight. Your objective in the fight is to shoot torpedoes down the throat of the Doomsday Machine, which is impossible because A) the fight lags so hard and B) the Doomsday Machine itself has a one-hit-kill attack that is nearly impossible to see coming.

Star Trek Online.

[Sirus]

Ehhh. I completed that mission fairly easily, and noticed no lag. Maybe your computer/connection isn't up to par?

[itisnotlogical]

It runs pretty smooth at high settings most of the time. I guess that mission really put it to the test?

[Sirus]

Guess that could be it. To be fair, I usually played at low graphics settings, maybe lower than I technically needed to, and my computer could handle it fine. I also did that mission over a year ago, so maybe some patch changed it?