Games
I’m not a massive computer gamer, mainly because I can spend far too much time playing. I tend to enjoy the strategy and planning type games rather than the shoot-em-ups (although Doom still works for me!!)
Here is a selection of the games I’ve played.
As with previous incarnations of the game, winning isn’t easy. Here are some of the strategies and tactics I’ve utilised so far. With seeming success. I should clarify this is...
The sequel to XCOM offers a familiar game. Outgunned, outnumbered and with limited resources XCOM must rollback an alien invasion that has all but succeeded.
In no particular ordering, some of the tactics I used to win a total war campaign.
Part of the Total War series, Shogun continues the familiar combination of tactical and strategic gameplay set in 16th-century feudal Japan. The shogunate has lost authority and the clans across...
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As overviewer has become unmaintained it hasn’t been able to create the maps for the latest minecraft version 1.20. Which is a pity because overviewer was simple and worked. Hence...
The aliens invade in March, the council activate the XCOM project and your first decision is where to build the XCOM base. And then start fighting with unskilled rookies equiped...
Based on the original 1994 X-COM, this modern reboot thoroughly captures everything that made the game a classic. Make your stand against an invasion where the aliens have overwhelming superiority....
I keep telling myself buying games is a time waster - I just spend far too much time with them if given the opportunity.
Overviewer is a program to create maps of your minecraft worlds. In it’s own words “The Minecraft Overviewer is a command-line tool for rendering high-resolution maps of Minecraft worlds. It...
Now why haven’t I written about Minecraft yet? Perhaps because it’s more fun to be playing it? A deceptively simple game that just generates so many ways to play and...
Back in the Stone Age there was a game from Microprose called UFO: Enemy Unknown. And quite brilliant it was too. UFO:AI is a from scratch open source ‘re-imagining’ of...
The Gauls seem to be moving across the north to gain rebel Segestica. Lets hope they lose some serious forces there. Not that I could take much advantage with my...
Now the Senate have cancelled the requested blockade of Syracuse and instead want Caralis in Sardinia taken from the Carthaginians. Make your mind up. Good job I was already deploying...
Now the Senate want me to send ships to help blockade Syracuse down in Sicily! I see the Scipii faction are attacking there so why should I send a ship...
The Senate have asked us to capture Segesta, a small rebel town up the coast. Should be easy but I don’t want to waste any men at this stage. A...
Now where was I? stop giggling missus… hold on i’ve got it! yes! the Prologue! Two towns in northern Italy, Ariminum and Arretium have been in our families control for...
Armchair generals arise! Build your cities, recruit and equip your armies and then set forth to conquer the known world. Which at this point is Europe and the Mediterranean. Rome...
World of Warcraft is often shortened to WoW, and with good cause. Take your character through adventures in a mystical fantasy world populated by creatures, monsters and other players. But...
An early (1990) complaint about Java was its speed. A complaint totally unfounded with current releases as proved by Jake 2, an implementation of the Quake2 game engine in Java....
In the mists of gaming time there was a game, “Star Raiders” and you bought the Atari 800XL to play it. Move on and you buy a Nintendo Gamecube to...
This is now quite an old game (1998?) so the graphics are a bit less than perhaps they could be. But it still works because because the game is such...