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[Sirus]

So I'm playing as England, and my first goal is to (re?)unite the British Isles. I send King William the Conqueror up north from London and declare war on the savage Scots, attacking my first target: a large army led by the heir to the Scottish throne.

It's the dead of winter in some patchy woods, and I decide to be cunning. My cavalry is out in the open, along with a couple of units of spear militia, but the bulk of my forces (including three units of skilled English bowmen) are hidden in the trees.

The Scots charge, of course, the unwashed barbarians that they are, and run straight into the steel rain of arrows that my archers unleash. My cavalry brushes aside their own, the Scot heir is soon killed, and before long the brutes begin to break and flee. My cavalry have a field day hunting them down, and the only reason any Scots survive is because there were simply too many to kill before a few escape off the map.

In the end, my infantry is virtually untouched while my light cavalry took the most losses. We captured over 300 enemy soldiers, all of whom were put to the sword, and now we begin the siege of Edinburgh where the king of Scots awaits with his pitiful home garrison.

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Medieval 2: Total War

[IronTomato]

They told me I could be anything I wanted, so I became Emergency Kerbal Rescue Guy.

Before .25, I still messed around with Science mode, but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to play the game with financial constraints until this version was released. As soon as I noticed the refunds given to the player for part recoveries, I came to a realization. SSTOs don't suck. They save you monies.

A little while later of performing science missions and tests in a prototype SSTO I whipped together, I got a mission to rescue a stranded Kerman in orbit. I took the SSTO up, rescued the Kerbal, and brought him back onto the Space Center runway with the plane looking just like it did when it left. Every part got recovered, so all I have to pay for is fuel. Iron Fruit Reusable Spaceplanes, saving money in style since 2014.

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Kerbal Space Program, obviously

[Spehss _]

Is it ownage if the only thing you did was search a pile of rubbish and find a legendary revolver that shoots acid and regenerates ammo?

Because that's what I did. It's a pretty great revolver, I've killed lots of bandits with it so far.

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Borderlands 1 Game of the Year Edition

[Sirus]

Is it ownage if the only thing you did was search a pile of rubbish and find a legendary revolver that shoots acid and regenerates ammo?

Because that's what I did. It's a pretty great revolver, I've killed lots of bandits with it so far.

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Borderlands 1 Game of the Year Edition

Keep a hold on it. Acid damage is very helpful near the end of the game when many enemies have armor. I had a named corrosive revolver that, despite being several levels old, could reliably two-shot enemy mooks.

[tahujdt]

I am successfully fending off the alien invasion of Earth. Each of my main bases has at least 3 Marauder-class interceptors; 2 is enough to shoot down any given UFO or group of UFOs. There's also a few lower-grade interceptors, in case all the Marauders are busy. The only obstacle to my having a lot more Marauders is a lack of Alenium. I usually airstrike crashsites instead of recovering them, so I don't get the materials. When I do recover them, my ground team all have mag weapons and sentinel armor (except for the heavy weapons gal, who has predator armor). All but one of the starting squad are in the current assault team, so they all have really high stats.
I've maxed out funding from most nations. I might have to start Operation: Endgame sometime soon; I'm running out of things to do.

[Lightningfalcon]

I am successfully fending off the alien invasion of Earth. Each of my main bases has at least 3 Marauder-class interceptors; 2 is enough to shoot down any given UFO or group of UFOs. There's also a few lower-grade interceptors, in case all the Marauders are busy. The only obstacle to my having a lot more Marauders is a lack of Alenium. I usually airstrike crashsites instead of recovering them, so I don't get the materials. When I do recover them, my ground team all have mag weapons and sentinel armor (except for the heavy weapons gal, who has predator armor). All but one of the starting squad are in the current assault team, so they all have really high stats.
I've maxed out funding from most nations. I might have to start Operation: Endgame sometime soon; I'm running out of things to do.

You need to build some Furies.  The fury is the ultimate middle finger to the allium horde.

[tahujdt]

I am successfully fending off the alien invasion of Earth. Each of my main bases has at least 3 Marauder-class interceptors; 2 is enough to shoot down any given UFO or group of UFOs. There's also a few lower-grade interceptors, in case all the Marauders are busy. The only obstacle to my having a lot more Marauders is a lack of Alenium. I usually airstrike crashsites instead of recovering them, so I don't get the materials. When I do recover them, my ground team all have mag weapons and sentinel armor (except for the heavy weapons gal, who has predator armor). All but one of the starting squad are in the current assault team, so they all have really high stats.
I've maxed out funding from most nations. I might have to start Operation: Endgame sometime soon; I'm running out of things to do.

You need to build some Furies.  The fury is the ultimate middle finger to the allium horde.

I am aware of this. I've got one singularity core saved up specifically for that purpose, should the need arise.

As it happens, I just upped the ante to 4 marauders apiece, as well as some of the semi-obsolete Foxtrots and Corsairs. 2 Foxtrots and 1 Corsair can shoot down just about anything the can catch, so I'm good there, too.

[Spehss _]

Keep a hold on it. Acid damage is very helpful near the end of the game when many enemies have armor. I had a named corrosive revolver that, despite being several levels old, could reliably two-shot enemy mooks.

Yeh, I know. It's greatness is enhanced by the fact I'm playing a revolver based Mordecai. I can just spray and pray and aim for powerful crit shots thanks to the regenning ammo, or I can use it to apply corrosion to enemies then swap to a masher for more masher damage, or I can use it to apply corrosion before switching to my spiked shotgun to melee for insane damage, or I can use it to regen revolver ammo after using my masher a ton.

It's a level 22 weapon, I'm level 30 now, still wrecking with it. 's very good, yes.

[tahujdt]

I am successfully fending off the alien invasion of Earth. Each of my main bases has at least 3 Marauder-class interceptors; 2 is enough to shoot down any given UFO or group of UFOs. There's also a few lower-grade interceptors, in case all the Marauders are busy. The only obstacle to my having a lot more Marauders is a lack of Alenium. I usually airstrike crashsites instead of recovering them, so I don't get the materials. When I do recover them, my ground team all have mag weapons and sentinel armor (except for the heavy weapons gal, who has predator armor). All but one of the starting squad are in the current assault team, so they all have really high stats.
I've maxed out funding from most nations. I might have to start Operation: Endgame sometime soon; I'm running out of things to do.

You need to build some Furies.  The fury is the ultimate middle finger to the allium horde.

I am aware of this. I've got one singularity core saved up specifically for that purpose, should the need arise.

As it happens, I just upped the ante to 4 marauders apiece, as well as some of the semi-obsolete Foxtrots and Corsairs. 2 Foxtrots and 1 Corsair can shoot down just about anything the can catch, so I'm good there, too.

Ahem.

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Whatever that is, I imagine they could shoot it down too.

Actually, is the Fury worth it? 50 Alenium is a pretty major investment; you could build 2 Marauders with the same materials. Anyway, doesn't the Fury destroy any and all potential loot?

[Cthulufaic]

I think the game they're talking about is Xenonauts, a quite nifty X-Com classic remake/clone.

no more meteors please, think of the children ;_;

[KingofstarrySkies]

Also amazing! Love that game.

[tahujdt]

I think the game they're talking about is Xenonauts, a quite nifty X-Com classic remake/clone.

no more meteors please, think of the children ;_;

Precisely. And yes, no more meteors. Instead we get lots of UFOs.

EDIT: I just took down anothe alien base. This one had a Praetor in it. My two assault troopers (read: they have coilgun scatterguns) soloed the base, everyone else just stayed inside the starting room and shot at anything that came in the other door.

I'm imagining the Xenonauts renting a bunch of bulldozers and carving the silhouettes of a bunch of Praetor helmets next to their base.

[Culise]

On the note of lucky finds: started an Anonymous Argon start, jumped into Venturer's Sentinel only to find a Xenon M2 blowing the entire sector up.  I basically fished around the fringes and picked up an abandoned Super Dolphin (small freighter), Hyperion Phantom (passenger transport armed like a corvette), Elite (medium fighter), and two Novas (heavy fighters), along with some assorted detritus and other hulls I can't recall, though the Super Dolphin was blasted into dust before it could escape the system.  After selling what I didn't want to use immediately, I still had enough to fully outfit the Hyperion and pick up a freighter of my own to start making cash on something other than salvage runs.  Also managed to rescue around half the bailed pilots and get them to a medical bay in time, even when it sometimes brought me just barely within firing range of the M2's heavy weapons.  I'm fairly certain I have the Teladi to thank for the fact that the local laws of salvage applies even if the hull is still hot from the heat of the enemy cannons, as long as I didn't shoot them down myself. 

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X3: Albion Prelude

EDIT: Phantom, not a Hyperion.  The Hyperion actually is an M6 corvette; the Phantom is the TP often compared to it. 

[Akura]

no more meteors please, think of the children ;_;

That was actually a comet anyway.

[Tawa]

I DID IT

I BEAT S8-CROWN

I AM THE KING OF SUPER MARIO BROTHERS AND HAVE CONQUERED THE GAME

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Super Mario 3D Land