***Bearclaw's Gift Thread MAY 2009***

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It can be a lot harder to manage them so you'll spend a lot of time making sure they are chopping trees where they should be, not getting stuck, etc.

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They become really stupid for pathing sometimes. The simplest things seem to keep them from getting to their destination.

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I think they might actually be a little smarter if we left fog of war on

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But I find that so much more annoying.

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There was another map that we played where everyone was surrounded by trees.

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So rather than worrying about units I just started focusing on economy.

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We knew they'd be attacking with dragons but I didn't get around to building towers fast enough.

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Those stupid things are quite annoying as you only have like 2 things that can shoot at them, and they have a ton of HP.

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The computer actually started playing smarter too and was attacking on both sides of the base, in different locations each time.

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So I constantly had to move archers around to kill those things.

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We took care of them and near the end I hit the population cap.

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Which is 200 units in that game. The nice thing is no matter what unit it is they only count as 1 unit.

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So I built like 20 griffin avaries and went to town making griffin riders.

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I probably had like 50 of those things, and I spammed as many as I could at one time, allowing me to have over 200 population.

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I think I was able to get about 208 since I was attacking at the time.

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Those things are kind of dumb in that they bomb everything. They can hurt each other even though they are supposed to be in the air. I probably killed more of my own stuff than the enemy did. :lol:

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So after we played that we also got a round of Command and Conquerer Red Alert in.

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That game is such a PITA to get to work right.

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Warcraft 2 you literally install it, install IPX and run the game.

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Everyone can see the game and it works perfectly.

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Red Alert you have to mess around with the frame types, the network address until you finally get the computers to see each other.

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Since you can't use IPX in Vista, I'm actually using VPC with a windows 98 install inside of it to run the game.

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So it's kind of funny loading that up to play the game.

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Somehow it finally decided to work yesterday, so we were able to get a round in. My friend was just playing on an older P4 with XP installed, but I was using my laptop.

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Needless to say the game ran way too fast on my computer, so it wasn't playable.