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July 22, 2025, 01:52:52 PM

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Quote from: Sky on December 31, 2010, 08:50:54 AM

I noticed Lum playing Civ IV and wondered if there was a new mod development :)

Like you, I far prefer Civ4 to Civ5 for any number of reasons.

I don't find V horrible, per se.. it's just not Civs. Thanks for the mod info, I'll have to download and play some this weekend.

Giving a shot. Will update first page if bodacious.

Kinda waffling around for a daylight game, since I'm playing Amnesia right now and it's just not right playing it any time but night with the lights out and the neighborhood in bed. Started up FFH2 as Amurites, I had made a bunch of starter saves in decent starting locations, one for each race.

I decided to shoot for wizards ASAP (naturally!), but got hunters early on. With hawk overwatch and str4 hunters, I was able to avoid the physical army techs early on. I also wasted a bunch of time and resources locking down the mid-continent bottleneck that my hawks found, because the barbarians were brutal. But I got a city in there, gold and flood plains, lots of culture buildings, lockbox. After that, focused on tech to get better mages, but forgot to build out to my 3 mana nodes, and I like to hold off on building my arcane units until I can get my main magic school for free. I like to spend the level-ups on supporting skills like strength and mobility for my summons (usually death or fire). So I switch over into worker/settler mode to get that done.

Now, the other side of the bottleneck is Lanun and Sheelba, figuring Lanun has my back as we're both neutral and I've been feeding him techs cheap. Infernals drop onto a tiny peninsula in the middle of the bay betwixt the three of us, with the exit to Sheelba's land. I guess after twenty turns of that she got antsy, because she decides to send a giant stack after my bottleneck. Thanks to the hawks, I see her coming and scramble everything I've got to the city in question. Her shamans are ineffective but she had a ton of catapults that did some serious weakening and her mass of archers prevented a counter-attack (since most of my guys are str4 hunters and bronze-age warriors vs 3/5 archers). Thanks to my two wizards (one fire, one death) and one cleric..plus some quick warrior spam and caravels...we managed to juuust eke out the victory.

Of course, near the end of the conflict, one of my warriors paths into the Forbidden Zone around the stupid whatever Pass thing, dropping three str8 gargoyles into the heart of my currently defenseless empire (since I emptied the previously safe area to bolster the bottleneck). Scramble the last trickle of the warrior spam back into the area and manage to kill two of them (losing a few warriors and a hunter), the third decides on the better part of valor and returns to the Pass.

Battered but unbroken...time to send the wizards and priest into orcland for some payback (and mana nodes)! I love this game.

was this a custom or scenario game?

Custom; I forget the settings, though (since I used a pre-saved game I had set up years ago).

does anyone have a Hamachi Network i could join?

Quote from: barbarylion on February 23, 2012, 03:37:03 PM

does anyone have a Hamachi Network i could join?

wut.

MAN YOUR BATTLESTATIONS!

I'm building a Hibachi network.

Arrggg, fuck you for bumping this and making me think there had been some sort of big announcement surrounding Fall From Heaven!

On the bright side, I now have the urge to play FFH2.

Quote from: Sky on February 24, 2012, 12:46:55 PM

On the bright side, I now have the urge to play FFH2.

I have been playing the shit out of Masters of Mana.

Warning- the difficulty compared to FFH is way up until you get the hang of all the new mechanics.

www.masterofmana.com

Yeah, it's on my list of things to crack into. I downloaded it a while ago but I was easily confused.

I'm having terrible CTD's with Masters of Mana. I'm on Win7 64bit with >2Gb of RAM. I assume these CTD's are because of memory allocation. Any help?

Anyone have similar problems with FFH2 on Win7?

Quote from: Soln on February 26, 2012, 12:15:12 PM

I'm having terrible CTD's with Masters of Mana. I'm on Win7 64bit with >2Gb of RAM. I assume these CTD's are because of memory allocation. Any help?

Anyone have similar problems with FFH2 on Win7?

No issues here (Win7 64bit). I have had the occasional issue here and there in the past, but its not super common.

I installed the dx9? redistr pack and then got rid of Aero. Not sure which worked. I also lowered civ to <10 which sux.

well yea i can't seem to find any FFH2 Networks with other people i could play with even by direct Ip but playing by mysekf has been dull

You know, after only 21 YEARS, I think I might be starting to understand all the love the Civ series have been getting Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

I'm finally understanding all the mechanics of Civ IV (BtS) and I think I'm dangerously close to win my first game ever on Chieftain (yeah, well :P) difficulty awesome, for real

Can't wait to try out Colonization and also the various scenarios and mods (especially this fantasy one).

I guess I'll eventually try out the fifth chapter as well.

Just sayin' .

Yay!

FFH2 is so much better than what Firaxis does, though :)

I need to give Master of Mana a whirl some day, but I like the comfort of knowing the rules to FFH2 already.

Quote from: Sky on April 04, 2012, 01:00:52 PM

Yay!

FFH2 is so much better than what Firaxis does, though :)

I need to give Master of Mana a whirl some day, but I like the comfort of knowing the rules to FFH2 already.

As an FFH2 lover, I'm 2 games in on Master of Mana on Warlord difficulty and got my ass handed to me on both of them. There's a lot to learn, but it's fun to have a game that takes me out of my comfort zone.

I was happy turtling with my elves in a Mana game, but when I started exploring the entire planet had turned to fire. Doh. They don't mess around with the counter in that mod.

I have gotten back to playing a LOT of Civ IV. Re-bought the Civ IV mega-pack on Steam. Haven't gotten around to FFH again yet but I will. Really been enjoying Final Frontier and Rhys and Fall. I have much love for RNF, as a history nut I'm in heaven. But haven't won any games yet, even on easier difficulty. My China and Carthaginian empires were amazing still!

But FFH is on my list, I really love the civs he put in there and all the lore.