Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Dust: Tactics



Hi all, been a long time, but I'm playing a new game called Dust Tactics. It's a table top mini game from Fantasy Flight games. I've been painting and making terrain boards. I've included a few pics.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Monday, June 14, 2010

Heres a video about Lord of Ultima

Lord of Ultima


I like the game Lord of Ultima. It’s a free game, but you can buy gems to help speed up game play. I'm rated in the top 600 on server 3 US, which isn't too bad. I’m a prince, and no I don't like purple or sing. I have 10 cities, 6 producers, and 4 military types. The military ones can be a bit harder to figure out; since you may want to make attack type troops or simply defenders that you can send to ally’s cities. My alliance has about 80 some players and we are doing pretty well over all.
The one thing about this game is it will take years, in my opinion, to crown the one true Lord of Ultima. One of the reasons is it takes forever to kill a player. Now I haven’t attacked anyone, but from guild chat it seems like you have to coordinate a huge attack to knock off a player. This is not a solo game per say. If you just like building cities and what not it’s okay for a month or so, but I think it will get boring fast. If your part of an alliance you can support your guild mates or decide to build a castle which will allow you to be attacked or attack other castled players. If you don't make a castle others can only plunder you, which means, they get some resources. Big whoop. Once you get your cities rolling your swimming in the resources. It’s a RTS that isn't fast paced like Starcraft or Warcraft.
I'm starting to get the itch to go back to WOW. But I have done everything a non-raider can do, minus achievements, which I think are a waste of time. I wish the new x-pac was out, but I think it will be a few more months. Oh well.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Doctor Who Doctor Who Hey!


The one show I look forward to each week is Doctor Who from the BBC. It’s in its fifth season of the newly imagined Doctor Who; great stuff, and always a laugh.
The new doctor is played by Matt Smith. His side kick or companion is Amy Pond played by Karen Gillan. I must say she is the cutest of the bunch. She is clever, and quick witted. She’s not as cranky as Donna or as smart as Martha Jones, but she has a certain something that makes me like her. Perhaps it’s her accent and red hair.
You can find the Doctor on ITunes, Amazon, BBC America, or other ways. It’s well worth the look

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Free to Play games


Turbine announced that Lord of the Rings Online would go free to play this fall, check it out here http://www.lotro.com/. I think it is a great idea. The best things online games can do are attract more players. Nothing kills a game faster than an empty world. Even if you don't want to play with other people it’s nice to see them running around. It makes the world feel alive. I like playing MMo's because they make me feel like I'm not alone. Single player games look great, but they are lonely. No one to chat with, or read silly comments, or party with; I think this will help them in the long run.

I'm playing Lords of Ultima right now. It is a free RTS MMO. The object of the game is to build up cities, eventually building a castle city and laying waste to your neighbors. You can take over other people’s cities. The last one standing is the Lord of Ultima. I have ten cities currently and it can be a bear managing them. Soon I will castle two of my cities and start rampaging through the continent I'm on. I belong to the alliance of The Swarm. I'm on server 3 Us. Come visit us at http://www.lordofultima.com/en.