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[Akura]

The People of Novgorod decided to surprise-attack me, laying siege to Livony. Turns out Boyars tend to hurt when you try to fight them, even if I outnumber them nearly 3:2 with Vikings. (Two and two each, Boyars have 80 per unit, Vikings have 120)

I brought one of my heirs(who has 6-7 points of Dread, plus Command and Acumen), along with nearly a thousand mercenaries(damn, forgot about these guys for most of the game), most of them Italian Infantry and Armored Spearmen, and nearly the same number of Vikings(about 1:1:1 ratio of normal, Landsmen, and Huscarles).


Livony was relieved with minimal losses, Finland was taken without a fight, then Novgorod itself was attacked. They had HUNDREDS if Boyars in a line. I sent my merc infantry to punch right up the middle with the Vikings on their flank. For some reason, they practically gave me a clear shot at their ruler's unit. Their king(actually, Prince Yaroslav) soon turned tail, but was captured. The rest of their army fell apart soon after.

Total casualties: Them - ~720 / Us - ~250-300. Their ruler was executed.

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Medieval: Total War.

[Graknorke]

I made a ship in From the Depths that both has a function and doesn't capsize when you look at it funny. I am a GOD.

In very immediate hindsight this totally belongs here.
It turns out the advice of "make it look like a real boat" is pretty good, but it wasn't until now that I actually looked at why my previous designs weren't like boats. Turns out I'd been making the hulls either linear or concave instead of convex. Apparently that made sense to me whenever I was doing that.

[Twinwolf]

Game?

[SOLDIER First]

From the Depths

...

[Twinwolf]

...My brain farted. I was thinking KSP, because it seems to be somewhat realistic, and thought that they'd made a ship from some piece of fiction in it.

What is From The Depths, anyway?

[SOLDIER First]

You make vehicles. They usually fall apart.

[Twinwolf]

So KSP but for not-space vehicles?

[SOLDIER First]

i guess

[Graknorke]

From the Depths. It was in the post but I could see how you'd miss it.

Yeah it's a pretty great game, would recommend to anyone who likes engineering solutions to gun-related problems. Though this ship actually had missiles mounted on it, and also is literally incapable of hitting anything anything closer than 400m, or that is at all fast.

[H4zardZ1]

Got 11 streaks at the game, with mostly modified noob rush moves and bait attacks (that includes kicks that won't connect, but if cut will cause the foot to hit the target). Defeated by Santalos, but i don't care because he's great.

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Toribash, Public Twinswords server.

[IronTomato]

I spent almost 100000 kerbucks sending a single refuelling pod to my space station, then I decided I'd look into easier and cheaper ways to refuel stuff. I remembered that mining and the ISRU Converter had been added to the game a while back. I decided it was time to set up my first base, and I placed it on the Mun to suck up ore from beneath the surface on the spot. I then sent an unmanned pod to the base, designed to carry fuel to the space station with the help of two orbital fuel silos. Since the tanker can't transfer barely any fuel to the station and still make it back to the munbase, I used the silos as a sort of relay. When the tanker takes off from the Mun it begins with full fuel, and then refuels at Silo A, which is in orbit around the mun. It then transfers to high orbit around Kerbin (at around 3600 Km) and refuels at silo B. It then does a rendezvous with the station at 20 Km and transfers most of its fuel to the station. It then transfers back to the Mun, refuels at Silo A again for landing, and then lands next to the munbase to be restocked and get ready for the next trip, whenever that is.

When the silos / relays need refuelling, (probably after a few trips to the station) the tanker can do Silo A unassisted due to the fact that it is in orbit around the mun, and can do B with the help of A. It's a convoluted system, but I'm very proud of it. I can refuel my space station basically for free. Also, I can use the silos as refuelling points for my SSTOs, which means I can use one to land on the mun while barely spending any money at all.

For the first big project I've done in KSP, I'm extremely proud of it. I'll post pictures of it some other time.

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Kerbal Space Program, like I said.

[Dunamisdeos]

My castle where I produced most of my English longbowmen was put under sudden siege by the French. It contained two units of melee troops, and about 12 of the best longbowmen in the game. The French brought trebuchets, rams, heavy infantry, heavy cavalry, and their horrid little King, Louis the somethingith.

I parked as many longbowmen on top of my walls as possible, and put the rest down below pointing right at the gate from the inside. The French inevitably broke the gate, and King Louis the ith was first through the arch, ready to run down my crowds of unarmored archers in the streets. He was instantly pin-cushioned by an inordinate number of arrows and died in the first volley. The entire French army turned tail and ran.

In response, I executed as much of the populace of Paris as possible, sold everything in the city, and built more longbowmen.

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Medieval, Total War 2, playing as England

[miauw62]

Joined a lobby engineer slot on an obviously bad team, expecting a roll.
We got rolled up until last, where I managed to hold for a surprisingly long time to set the timer to 14 minutes.
We won the next round, I dominated four opponents, topscored and had the highest KD ratio

(i think some people on our team got repped tho)

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TF2

[pisskop]

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In the beginning all seven factions landed on old Earth, picked clean by nuclear devastation and fungal pigeons, and they all had relatively large continents all to their own. Vast geographical barriers from fearsome mountains, deserts, desert mountains and oceans separated most of the factions from one another, meaning everyone had a century of expansion, a century of peace and it took a century for international politics and economics to kick in. The Believers landed in India on the southern tip, and very quickly expanded eastwards, taking over vast tracts of arable land all across southern and eastern asia. At the same time a pioneer colony was sent beyond the persian deserts to a mineral rich field in Mesopotamia, and from there the Arabian colonies grew and the Persian colonies grew until the Believers' great community spread from one corner of Asia to another.
The Believers had good relations with the first encounters of all factions, making peace and trade deals with everyone in their first encounter by boat or by land, or otherwise negotiating treaties of friendship after international relations were opened by the Gaians of Africa. Two notable exceptions lie in the Morganites of Europe who demanded an alliance and paid the Believers for it, and the Peacekeepers whose first response to the Believers was the technology for democracy.
Now one would think people who pride themselves on being democratic Peacekeepers would not be offended if you told them to snivel off and do their own work but alas, they declared war. This made expanding into the inhospitable north considerably difficult, and expansion had to follow the coast, going as far north as the Korean peninsula. This war would go on for decades as neither side could deliver a decapitating blow; any time one side made gains, they would merely lose to attrition - the rough terrain of the plateau made progress impossible. The most grueling moment has to be when the Believers had 3 rover companies moved north to deliver a crushing blow to the U.N. Headquarters. They had it surrounded and no reinforcements were coming, the assault was but one more year away from victory when one of the Believing companies defected, slaughtering elite veterans of the skirmishes and leaving none alive. From then on the Peacekeepers were on the offensive for decades and to add salt to injury, the defected company would be sighted again and again leading raids on Believing roads.
The Morganites joined the war to help their Asian allies, but as they were separated quite heavily by the Urals and were themselves quite useless in battle, they were quite useless in battle.

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Eventually however the geographical superiority of the Believers really began kicking in; larger populations simply did more work, and this translated into massed rovers and infantry regiments wielding state of the art impact rifles turning back the Peacekeeper offensive. The Believing armies ignored the Peacekeepers' Siberian line and instead concentrated everything on breaking U.N. Headquarters, striking deep along the east asian coast, even utilizing the experimental dragoons. It was inevitable that the Peacekeepers would lose, but still they fought on. With the fall of U.N. Headquarters however, the Peacekeepers lost the merchant exchange and the entire line was broken. Losing base after base to the massed assault they capitulated. Mercifully the Believers accepted their surrender and began returning their land to them in exchange for their subservience; their people would be allowed to live in their quaint democracy for as long as it followed the Lady's foreign policies. Peaceful expansion would continue on all fronts, with the Morganites and Gaians both losing land to the Believers (it was claimed, but they had developed no bases on them so they were fair game), but the borders started growing more static and defined.
It was important to take control of the Mediterranean and the Suez to severely limit Gaian competition in the Indian sea (as they held only one port in the Indian ocean) and this would free up resources to deal with the threat of a possible invasion by the Hive, who at this point were a sleeping giant ready to be unleashed - Australia was an industrial dystopia, and its ocean base was conspicuously close to the Believers' Indonesian cities.
In the great game of powers, the African Gaians seemed poised to take the lead of global superpower, rivaled only with the University States of America. Both were technocratic paragons of infrastructure development and scientific advancement, ploughing ahead in power whilst the Believeres, Hive and Spartans were mere regional powers at best and backwards failed states at worse.
Everything changed when the Spartans attacked.
The University of America's most prized cities in the fertile lands of south america, mexico, texas and florida were captured - even their Headquarters lost. Many cities were burnt to the ground under the pounding of artillery shells and impact rifles, turning all of mid America into no man's land - the only feature left being a single perfectly straight road spanning half the length of the North American continent, and one last Fortress sitting in the middle, holding the key to Canada and American domination.
The Gaians rushed to the aid of their ally, and the Hive rushed to the aid of the Gaians. The industrial might of Australia brought naval supremacy in the pacific whilst the Spartans and Gaians traded blows in the Atlantic; due to the distances and logistics involved however no great legions could be brought to the aid of the University and so nothing could stop the great legions of the Spartans shelling the beleaguered Americans.
The Believers took this opportunity to strike an alliance with the Hive (who was about to declare war on the Believers, but needed their help), an alliance with the University and an alliance with the Gaians. Most importantly however was that the Believers then went about trading, cajoling and extorting all the technology from all her desperate allies to the point where my little fundamentalist zealots went from being the backwards giant to the most scientifically advanced little nation on planet Earth. Needless to say, this was probably a mistake on the Gaians part, but they will have to learn why later.
The next step was becoming governor of the planetary council, which was easy enough as everyone liked the Believers more than the Spartans.

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The Believers would rise in power to be on par with the Gaians of Africa, twice as powerful as the Hive of Australia - but the Spartans were still growing, and worryingly fast. The superpower of the pan-American state was dominating the North American campaign and had destroyed all landing parties of the Aussie-African alliance. It was fighting the sum total of Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe and Canada and winning. It destroyed even more University bases in its bloody march for land; one thing was for certain even if the University recovered its land it had lost dearly in the realm of people and cities.
Millions of Believing soldiers, veterans and rovers expediently march through Alaska along a Peacekeeper supply route in the hopes of saving the last University bases, ending the Spartan army before it hits Asia. Unfortunately they're also bringing millions of soldiers, so it won't be easy.

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Black shows the enemy and her influence, purple my allies of convenience. Everything in grey is uncolonized and could certainly make for a good refuge for Prokhor Zhakarov should all his North American cities fall. The Peacekeepers are effectively de facto of my Empire whilst the Morganites are allied with me alone - should it come to it, Europe would at the very least not fight Asia if they had to pick between their friends or allies. The real threat and the real prize lies in the purple. The Australian continent is an impregnable fortress that can only be defeated with the deaths of millions and airpower, sadly aircraft have not been reinvented yet. Its ability to utterly undo the Indonesian and coastal Believing cities is unrivaled (without these cities, there is simply no believing Empire). Likewise with the vast wealth of Africa and the efficient nature of the Gaians, it is only a matter of time before the hippies regain technological superiority, all the whilst Believing soldiers die in North America. I aint even mad, it's time to get this world war on the road.

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THE ORANGE SEA MARCHES

tl;dr:

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AMERICA IS MY BATTLEGROUND
THE SPARTANS BRING MILLIONS OF ELITE SOLDIERS
I WILL BRING MILLIONS OF ELITE SOLDIERS
THE SPARTANS WANT TO DINE IN HELL
WE'LL DINE IN AFRICA
TO WAR SOLDIERS! TO WAR! WE GO TO WORLD WAR!
DEFEND THE ROAD TO YOUR LAST BREATH!
THE ROAD IS GOD!

How did you get the earth map?

[Spehss _]

It's quite satisfying to play Starcraft 2 and see clear evidence of your skills improving. Like, my average unspent resources is decreasing meaning I'm making more units out of resources, my average actions per minute is increasing, I'm developing faster control and developing a hotkey system, devising build orders and learning when to spot times for attack, I'm regularly building units or buildings or upgrades and have less downtime on production, I'm remembering to make supply and not get supply capped, spreading creep more, keeping larva in supply, I'm continually producing workers to keep income up, I'm learning what units are good against what units n what other races, etc etc.

tl;dr: I'm getting better and better against multiplayer AI in Starcraft 2 and developing the basic skills to competently play multiplayer at a not-shitty-bronze-scrub level. Soon I will feel confident enough to play ranked matches against real people. _{^{Maybe. eventually.}}

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If you somehow missed the title drop the game is Starcraft 2