The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress – Part 10: “Soldiers and your army”
February 28, 2009 at 12:03 pm | Posted in Fantasy, Tutorial | 25 CommentsTags: Dwarf Fortress
While you’re exploring and digging around (see Tutorial 9) how about we set up a military? You’re going to need one, goblins are pesky bastards and likely to bother you more and more (if they haven’t already). Soldiers can be a bit fiddly to manipulate, but once you get the hang of it you’ll find it second nature. Continue reading The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress – Part 10: “Soldiers and your army”…
The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress – Part 9: “Nobles and other useless sods”
February 28, 2009 at 7:35 am | Posted in Fantasy, Tutorial | 15 CommentsTags: Dwarf Fortress
You’ve come a long way, padawan, but don’t worry, I won’t let any stupid angsty teenager come and strike you down because he’s in a tizzy having lost his mum! No, nothing of the sort! Baby Dwarf Fortress managers like yourself will prosper and grow strong like a seedling, going on to bear nice dwarven fruit. And not the Class-C sort of fruit that gets picked and sold on the streets, no, nice, rare, delicious fruit! Anyway, where was I? Oh, yes, tutorial 9, Nobles and other layabouts. Get on with it! Continue reading The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress – Part 9: “Nobles and other useless sods”…
Combat Mission Campaigns cancelled
February 27, 2009 at 9:04 am | Posted in News, WW2 | 1 CommentTags: Combat Mission Campaigns
According to a thread over on battlefront.com Combat Mission Campaigns has been canceled. The reason provided is that it was too hard for the small team to develop and it was costing too much compared to the likely return. Sad news really, CMC promised to be an interesting game and an interesting way to play Combat Mission.
Dwarf Fortress – Tutorial Interlude!
February 25, 2009 at 10:27 am | Posted in Fantasy, Succession | Leave a CommentTags: Dwarf Fortress
Those of you hanging out waiting for the next tutorial will have to wait until the weekend I’m afraid. I’m in the middle of a complex DF succession game. A succession game is when you play for a year and then pass the fortress on to another person. This game is over on QuarterToThree and we’re playing with some odd rules. First up, all housing/construction needs to be above ground. Second, every winter we must creatively sacrifice a dwarf to the ancient gods to ensure the return of spring. All entirely logical, as you can see.
Unfortunately for me (and for your amusement?) this fortress has some major issues. The biggest being that the dwarfs were left idle far, far too long by previous rulers. This resulted in all the dwarfs partying in the dining room all the time. Soon they all became bestest friends forever with each other. Why is that bad? Simple, when one of them dies, the rest go crazy, and then need to be put down by the military. This is sometimes called the “emo death spiral” in DF circles. You can read the whole tragic story of my second year running “Quakebells“, (about year five or so).
The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress – Part 8: “It’s a trap!”
February 23, 2009 at 9:52 am | Posted in Fantasy, Tutorial | 34 CommentsTags: Dwarf Fortress
I promised traps, and damn traps we will have! And not of the Star Wars or Thai kind, but of the Dwarf Fortress kind! I’m two bottles of beer and a glass of absinthe into the evening, so lets get on with it before things get worse! Continue reading The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress – Part 8: “It’s a trap!”…
Real World: Afghanistan AAR
February 22, 2009 at 8:41 am | Posted in Real World | 2 CommentsTags: Afghanistan
Stumbled across an interesting real world AAR. Fresh from the mountains of Afghanistan comes a PowerPoint presentation from a US Marines Force Reconnaissance Platoon. The presentation covers lessons learned, enemy tactic and numerous battle AARs. Interesting and somewhat scary.
Battles from the Bulge AAR: The Losheim Gap
February 22, 2009 at 5:33 am | Posted in WW2 | Leave a CommentTags: Battles from the Bulge
We’ve previously listed Battles from the Bulge as one of the games we’re looking forward to. With that in mind I think it’s appropriate to link through to a completed AAR on the BFTB forum. It should give you a pretty good idea of the sort of game BFTB is and how it differs from Conquest of the Aegean. Enjoy!
The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress – Part 7: “A Mighty Fortress!”
February 21, 2009 at 12:55 am | Posted in Fantasy, Tutorial | 42 CommentsTags: Dwarf Fortress
You have come a long way, young jedi! Your dwarf herding skills are strong! You now know the basics of building, production, trading and managing your dwarfs. But we still have work to do, so lets get back to our fortress! Continue reading The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress – Part 7: “A Mighty Fortress!”…
The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress – Part 6: “Dwarf Resource Management”
February 18, 2009 at 9:52 am | Posted in Fantasy, Tutorial | 42 CommentsTags: Dwarf Fortress
In Part 6 of this newby tutorial we’ll look at managing our dwarfs, a topic we have ignored until now. Dwarf management isn’t that hard, but there’s lots of subtelty to it, as I’m sure you can imagine. You also have to learn to navigate the interface, which is its own special challenge!
So lets dive right in! In the end you will find managing your dwarfs well quite rewarding, trust me! Continue reading The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress – Part 6: “Dwarf Resource Management”…
What’s hot in 2009? AAR targets for AAR.com!
February 16, 2009 at 7:33 am | Posted in News | Leave a CommentAsking the good people over at QuaterToThree.com what they thought were going to be the hot wargames of 2009 we came up with a short list. Why? So we could look out for great, new AARs of course! Here’s what they thought (in no particular order) would be wargaming hits in 2009: Continue reading What’s hot in 2009? AAR targets for AAR.com!…
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