Let's Play: Planetfall MOD for Civilization 4

Four parts gameplay videos about another great MOD for Civilization 4 game, based on the original Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri game.

Let's Play: Dune Wars MOD for Civilization 4

This is three parts gameplay videos of the Dune Wars mod for Civilization IV game. This mod is very interesting and have a lot of awesome references from the Dune books and movies.

Today We Play: Endless Legend

 At some marvelous moment, during the winter, when the cold wind blows trough the leafless trees, and the air become crystal fresh, I got this obsessive desire to play Endless Legend game.

Hints:
1. I play with Broken Lords, they do not need food, like the Silicoids in Master of Orion game and produce a lot of dust(gold).
2. Do nor worry about hero experience, buying or producing units and buildings while there is a hero governing the city gives huge amount of XP. With enough dust I can level any hero to level 10 in 3 turns.

 This is Empty Belly, my favorite infantry hero. It is best if he has Army Boost ability.

 Here is a chain blow from the demon unit.

 The dust city.

 The guardian.

Recorded adventure archive 24.01.2020 - 31.01.2020 game week.

All descriptive screenshots for Endless Legend.

StarCraft: Brood War Screenshots Walkthrough

Yes, yes, I know it is 20 years since I first played this game, but I needed a screenshot from it, and it is so easy to install, and Blizzard give it for free, and I started the campaign, go here, go there, and I was hooked again. Met my old friends we hanged out  in the 90's, Raynor, with his strange mustache, and Fenix still alive... This game is like a freaking time machine! And here is a fast screenshots walkthrough of the campaigns and the story behind them.

Protoss Campaign.

Mission 1: Escape from Aiur.

After Tessadar sacrificed to destroy the overmind, the Zerg forces are still on the planet roaming mindlessly. Zeratul must make his way trough the swarming Zergs and escape from Aiur.

At the bottom right, there is the escape gateway where Zeratul meets Fenix and Raynor.

Today We Play: Galactic Civilizations 2

After Gal Civ 1. the logical continuations is Gal Civ 2! What is best in it is that I have control over the planet infrastructure, and there are those cool resources on the planets, as well as many more interesting things. here is a glimpse of my adventure for the study of future generations :)

This screenshot is from the Twilight of the Arnor campaign, where we fight against the evil Dread Lords, and this is the location of the Du'toth planet, that need to be captured to retrieve the last shard.

This is a planet with Second Economic Capitol. Yep that is possible if we capture a planet, where one of the other races have begun to build it. You can check if there is economic capitol construction with a spy, or just being lucky to influence such planet. 

Here is a Drednaught class ship defending the home planet.

 Galactic Civilizations 2 Oceanic World. It makes we want to swim :)

 This is the Galactic Civilizations 2 Planet List for this adventure.

This screenshot is important, it shows 2 of 3 things to have in mind always:

• Neutrality Learning Centers  are best research labs, no need to get other two.
• Navigation Center building is taken from the Arcaen empire(yellow)
• Global Market (not here) is taken from the Iconian Refuges (grey)

Be sure to have this two empires in play.

 Galactic Civilizations 2 The Lone Wolf Map.

 Galactic Civilizations 2 Ship Leveling. To be able to level up a ship faster we need low attack and defense and as many hit points to sustain damage. This ship, called Pras4o, has just one laser +1 or +2. +2 from the three defenses and a lot of Engines and Integrity Grids. It is fast, can hit week targets, get a level per hit and go to safety of star bases or planets.

Sometimes, more often if +% luck, we got the Lucky Ranger ship, more than once. Well I give the ship to the minor races, as I try to maintain low star ship support, and my ships being produced on planets with  at least +50% star ship quality(a lot of loading), my are 50% better :)

Recorded adventure archive 24.09.2019 - 02.10.2019 game week.

All descriptive screenshots for Galactic Civilizations 2.

Today We Play: Galactic Civilizations

This game never stops to amaze me. It is the first game of the sequence and it is the cleanest one. Here on the  screenshot is my invincible Overlord ship, the biggest one. it has insane attack and good defense, and its mission is to protect the morale star base. And if you are tired of loading for planet quality, you may try GalCiv cheats:

• Increase the class of the planets in the selected star system with +10: CTRL+P
• Increase ship quality: CTRL+A
• Create a battleship: CTRL+B
• Clone selected ship CTRL+C
• Create random ship CTRL+V
• Add $1000: CTRL+M

Recorded adventure archive 15.09.2019 - 23.09.2019 game week.

All descriptive screenshots for Galactic Civilizations.

Today We Play: Hearthstone

It is time for another awesome card game after the game week with Magic the Gathering, being Blizzard's Hearthstone. 5 years since I have played it, the game have evolved , but not so much. My usual first choice of hero is the Hunter, but for this game, I find it more comfortable to play with the Priest, being able to heal its minions.

The Northshire Cleric

The Northshire Cleric is one of the most amazing Priest cards, either in early and late game. It cost just one crystal, it has 3 health and draw card on healing.

Arena Fanatic

 The Arena Fanatic card can be played by any class and gives +1/+1 to all minions in your hand.

Faceless Rager

 The Faceless Rager card can be played by any class and it copy a friendly minion's health.

Holy Nova

 The Holy Nova is an instance card that deal 2 damage to all enemy minions, it is extremely useful in situations like this on the screenshot.

Recorded adventure archive 15.07.2019 - 09.09.2019 at work PGMT.

Here is a playlist with some of my battles during this adventure, either wins or defeats:

All descriptive screenshots for Hearthstone.

Today We Play: UFO Afterlight

 It have been 10 years since my last adventure on Mars with this awesome game. This time I played on hard difficulty and it was really a challenge until I get at least the shotgun. 

4k Experience. There is more later, but in the beginning the people get too little, 200-400. Either beastmen give a lot XP or a soldier with higher level pulls the cap up. 

 All Over ME, again! 

 I'm testing the Annihilator, the ultimate weapon. Well I still miss the Shotguns and the Heavy Laser.

 A glimpse of the base.

 Defending Excavation Sites. The excavation sites are good source of XP, do not rush to close them. The reticulans are here only to get some XP too.

 After Closing the Gates Mission Harold leaves and you get his daughter as team member.

 The Globe before terraformation. The Expedition hasn't arrived yet. The beastmen atacking excavating sites occasionally.

 The Heavy Suits are crap. People can not run with them. For tank I use a robot with turtle armor, very handy.

 The Lightning Thrower is the other ultimate weapon. It can be used only by techs with Driving training. Playing with  Lightning Throwers is a totally different strategy!

 Two green men with swards in the Martian base.

 Cleaning some robots from the neutral missions. I must be hurry to make this missions before beastmen take the sector and scrap it.

UFO Afterlight Squads Being able to get the twins, my main forces are 3 military personel, 2 medics and t mechanics. Doing specific missions I place two military personel, 2 medics, 2 mechanics, and one robot, or reticulan or martian.

UFO Afterlight Starting Mission

Combats in the excavating sites are quite different, It is good to have a tank to scout ahead.

The workshop is where we produce our weapons and equipment. We can not sell equipment in UFO Afterlightm but can trade it with other races.

A hot red desert and the shotgun. This is good for song name :)

Defending Mars stations.

Kitty kitty in the trap.

UFO Afterlight Reticulan Base Attack. Plaing against reticulans is always good to have own reticulan in the squad to detect them. But not on expedition base missions. Expedition soldiers are very potent and may kill a reticulan with a mere thought :)

UFO Afterlight Terraformed Planet.

Ooooh the Matriarch is here! but this robort, it can stand this :)

And when you are bored, you can always try and take a matriarch under control with your reticulan medic, during summer vacation :)

Recorded Adventure Archive 16.08.2019 - 26.08.2019.

More UFO Afterlight screenshots.

Today We Play: Civilization 2 Gold

Suddenly I got this excessive desire to play Civ 2 gold. This game has the best I love in games, runs without problems,  runs without delay and do not have screen resolution problems. I found an old map and modified it for grinding in the highest difficulty. The orange player is my choice, it starts at the bottom and have a way to the center where there are a lot of rivers. All other players start on separated unified land and have plenty of room for expanding. There are also 3 minor islands connected between the land away from the center. The close roads to the center are mountains for efficient defense. Here is the original Civ 2 Gold map. 

But to have a chance on highest difficulty, I made a scenario map with some key features:

• Science is 80/10, which is very slow, something like 160 turns to discover Pottery. For that goody huts are very important as they are the only science source at the beginning. Be sure to find Masonry to build the Pyramids, and more importantly Pottery for Hanging Gardens.
• Money are set to 2k, this is to have a chance to build the Hanging Gardens before the rivals, if you manage to discover Pottery. And optional Pyramids. The other early wonders are expendable.
• Maximum turns are set to 4200, to have a lot of time for grinding.
• Hills terrain is set to 4 food and 8 Trade with irrigation. There is no hill terrain in the game, so you have to make one if you like with Engineers when discover them. This is to test how much money may be made at late game for one turn, i.e. can we make 30k per turn? :)
• And that is pretty much it. Expand fast, mend disorders, get a city in the center covered with mountains, make forts on the mountains, by that time rivals should have cities in the center too, make diplomats and get armies from none to prepare for late game. 

Then try to reach the limits in the late game :)

Recorded Adventure Archive 30.04.2019 - 06.05.2019.

More Civ 2 Gold screenshots.