Inspired by the CRPG Club, the GWJ Strategy Club now has a Retirement Throne Room.
Here's your chance to catch up on titles we played in the past and still get credit. You can play any of the following games and gain a rank with a few caveats:
1. You will need to post your experience playing the game.
2. In the spirit of fairness, you should try to finish a retired game's campaign to get credit within reason. We recognize that some strategy games can take hundreds of hours to beat, so don't feel like you need to go that crazy.
3. Please send me a PM if you finish a past game so that I can get you credit.
Looking forward to hearing about your adventures!
Eligible Games:
Battletech
Endless Space 2
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Imperator
Into The Breach
Frostpunk
Qvadriga
Warhammer 40K Mechanicus
Crusader Kings 3
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children
I’m actually playing a game of Endless Space 2 right now. Got to like it a lot, after playing it with the club. For all that, though, I’ve never finished the game.
Okay if I contribute my campaign in progress, or should I start from scratch and write about it for the Retirement Throne Room?
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Either is fine with me. Looking forward to it LastSurprise!
My backloggery
All right, I decided to start a new game in Endless Space. Whenever I get started, I tend to pick either the Vaulters - spacefaring nomad humans, and one of the playable races in Endless Legend - or the Vodyani - basically a group of sentient trees. I think they were awakened to space travel by first contact with an alien race, and they have a quite unique mechanic: in order to settle new star systems, they need to entwine them with celestial vines, which makes those systems part of the Vodyani network, makes travel between planets faster, increases diplomatic pressure on enemy systems that are entwined, etc. It's conceptually weird, but I tend to think of it like Norse mythology. We're all living in Yggdrasil and I'm at the heart.
As things stand, we're twenty turns in.
Above you can see that one nice thing I got, from the jump, was an asteroid field that gave me +50 industry on my homeworld. Excellent little boost.
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Damn it this is such an enabling thread
Begins reinstalling Endless Space 2 and BATTLETECH
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Erm. Aren’t the Vodyani the space vampires and the trees the Unfallen?
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Haha, whoops! Yes, the trees are the Unfallen, which is what I'm playing as.
The Vodyani are the "virtual" race that simulate copies of themselves. I've never tried playing as them. Maybe they are the space vampires? I guess the Cravers could be described that way too, though I picture them more like a plague of locusts.
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Good stuff LastSurprise! I've been away the past couple weeks but I'm looking forward to seeing how everything works out! Now I need to get back to Arbiter and get my perfect streak.
My backloggery
All right, back in! The tale of the Unfallen continues, from turn 20 to turn 42:
Seems like there's an Academy of Heroes somewhere, but I didn't find it:
Meanwhile, I've been exploring a ton of curiosities:
The Unfallen, as you all might know, are pacifist by nature. In fact, as I type this (at turn 42), more than half of my Senate is made up of pacifists. But my peace-loving tendencies are challenged by two things: the "aggressive" settling of the nearby Lumeris (not actually aggressive, just taking systems I'd like) and the spawning of the Seek the Unique - Part 1 quest -- which awards a hero. As I'm not playing the Sophons or Vaulters, I can't complete this quest by searching curiosities. I can only achieve it by colonizing two unique planets. And, right now, in my corner of the galaxy, I can only see two: mine, and theirs.
Heroes are so, so valuable, and ... bye bye, principles.
My vines reached Giasar by Turn 37, making Giazar the second system I've settled. Settling on Giazar made me fail a quest to search a quest marker there, which was for the best: it would have triggered.
This is a great system, by the way, as I will have access to Hyperium as soon as I research the requisite tech.
And as I prepare for war, the Unfallen choose fire, not light. Meaning that I can get access to special firearms that will basically jump me a couple of technological stages in the military quadrant. (The Pacifist reward gives a module that lets me gain Influence by destroying command points in space battles, which strikes me as less useful than something that helps me win those battles -- at least in the short term.)
As I write this on Turn 42, I've also entwined Procyon, wihch is the final system between me and the Lumeris (Koyasil [my homeworld] - Asteroid Field - Giazar - Procyon - Jenes [their homeworld].) On my way!
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So ... I abandoned the game that I was playing. I got mired in a conflict with the Lumeris that I wasn't fully prepared for, and several turns out from the end of that "gain a hero" quest, I could tell I was going to fail at it. That sort of setback often prompts me to restart, as I did here. So I've restarted and I am playing as the Vaulters.
I'll post more of a story soon, hopefully this weekend. But I'm somewhere between 60-80 turns deep, and have just started a war with the Horatio. I'm much more confident in this game.
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