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My complaint with Matrix games?

My Matrix wish-list only seems to grow.  Buy one and two more take it's place.[:D]

It's like MSG....sometimes you get a bad reaction, but mostly you just ant more!![&o][&o]

My big question is, where did all these posters go? Veldor hasn't posted in over a year, Rhondabrwn is rarely seen anymore, and Paster was a regular fixture until about June. I remember all of these people, and they seemed omnipresent. Now its a new group, with some of the old grogs (like RH, Terminus, Dredd, SMK, Koel, et al) still around. I'm a relative newcomer, but I'm starting to feel "old hat" these days.

Where did some of those grogs go? Did they fade away? Or did they just disappear into the WitP forum (or maybe they finally finished a game of WitP and ascended to God-hood).

On topic, I actually agree with the whole bargain bin thing, RH. I don't think you are a pirate, never seen evidence for that at least. Whenever I get a 25$ gift certificate from Amazon (which comes due to my credit card rewards), I always first skim the old games that I missed to see if I can find something cheap and fun. I do buy a lot of full price games, but lately I have been getting into the habit of selling old stuff on eBay to fuel new buys. Kind of a Garbage-in/Garbage-out mentality. I love the Blitz sales, picked up TOAW recently in one after months of starting at the store listing with disdain. I know they have to keep profit generating, considering that Matrix is a company (with some of the above complaints, it seems that many people think Matrix is a archivist or museum crew with the mission to preserve wargaming and old wargames - they may be gamers and love wargames, but they are in it to make money as well, which is perfectly noble in our capitalist society), but it would be nice to see some more of those sales from time to time.

SoM

Oh they come back from time to time and post SOM, but, due to the fact this is really a small community many don't hang around very long. I think most hang out in their general interest forums as well instead of genearl discussion. General discussion usually leads to food fights and mud slinging if you haven't noticed from certain characters.  Did you notice when :Username got banned that Dorosh and Yousername both Disappeared as well. I sorta believe Dorosh was :Username and they (Yousername and him) were just bringing an old war from Battlefront over here, but, one didn't expect the ban stick. I think Pat left because I kept referring to him as Pat. lol He got so aggrivated because I didn't spell out his name like pasternaski. A waste of typing in the age of text messaging. Rhonda left I think after Lisa came and most of the male fools around here turned into animals and showed their real chauvanistic attitudes. Not me though, I don't act that way around women I usually ignore them and then can't get them to leave me alone because of it. lol I liked Rhonda though she was always like that neutral character never really taking sides, but, still getting her point across. Too bad SOME others here can't accept that others here have an opinion besides their own.
 
BTW I finished my game of LOMSE and did it in 173 days. Beat that. Actually I probably could have done it much sooner, but, that dam batman kept hiding on me and didn't turn up till I captured Air capital and shrine. I kinda got tickled cause the manual says "We don't call it lords of MAGIC" for nothing indicating that it would take MAGIC to kill the beast. Lol I didn't have a single caster in the group, but, I had a dam strong group. I played Life and made an army of Pegasus's with a high level Thief flying Leader I traded for early in the game with Air for one of my magicians, it was a massacre and this wasn't even my main stack. It was a pretty fun experience, I had several losing battles when I tried to take the Chaos area. I made the mistake of trying to take the shrine and captial one at a time instead of at the same time. The Dark Lord just unloaded wave after wave of full stacks against my army and after three waves I was beat to a pulp, barely got out of there alive with some of my 2ndary leaders and crew. The battles are certainly challenging enough in certain instances. That wave attacking by the AI is new from when I played it before I don't recall that. Wipes out the population of the capital fast I can tell yah that. When I attacked the Fire Giant capital that Death now had his grips upon with my main stack I had to go through those waves agan, but, this time those waves didn't even phase me lol I barely took any points of damage in four waves, lvl 2's vs my 10 life warrior and two level 9's dwarven thieves, plus 2 pegasi and my Legendary Phoenix  and the rest level 5 dwarven riders. This woulda been an awesome PBEM game if could have gotten enough to play it. I like it better than AOW, the real time combat speed is just right for me unlike most pure RTS games.
 
Things I would complain about if there was a place to complain is the AI doesn't try to take your resources very often if at all. It's like if you wipe out the spy that they have trying to take them then they don't try anymore. I had every good resource on the map brewerys and gold mines and the AI after a certain point didn't even try to capture them. Now maurading armies would sometimes pop one of them, but, they were like two to three units and I'd just pop em and take back the local resource.
 
The Dark Lord never invaded really, he just pretty much hid in some cave or house after all the other factions were destroyed and just waited till I came marching in with some forces to do the wave attack. Once the waves were defeated and there was nothing left to build with, it was nothing more than marching in and taking capital and shrine pretty easily.
 
Never saw one temple creature from the Dark Lord or anyone else. That's pretty bad when the player can just sit back and build an entire army of Temple creatures and the AI doesn't build any. Though it does upgrade, I captured two maxed out capitals with some level two military structures as well.
 
I steamrolled the Death Lords own capital and temple and he wasn't anywhere around or really had any decent defensive forces. I was expecting a huge battle wave and didn't see anything, but, the few units in the capital. His support group he was stacked with wasn't what i would call expectional either. A couple of level 5 units, but, too many level 3's that the Pegasi just steamrolled easily. Now, I recall the first time I ever played LOM before the SE version that the final battle with the Death Lord was pretty epic and eventful and it took several stacks to take him and his horde out of his capital. He don't hang around ther no mo looks like, at least in this game he didn't.

o[quote]ORIGINAL: ravinhood

I think Pat left because I kept referring to him as Pat. lol He got so aggrivated because I didn't spell out his name like pasternaski. A waste of typing in the age of text messaging.

No he left because many of his comments made to people were in bad taste. But, he thought his comments were just humorous. When he was called on his comments he became offended. He stated variuos times people on the board did not appreciate his humor.




Rhonda left I think after Lisa came and most of the male fools around here turned into animals and showed their real chauvanistic attitude

Ronda left because some people on these boards beat her down (with words)when she made her opinions known be they right or wrong. Many of us just did not take her opinions so personally. Too bad, She made some good contributions to the forum.

[quote]ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Not me though, I don't act that way around women I usually ignore them and then can't get them to leave me alone because of it.

Ravinhood,
Wow, you sure are one character. Your comments make me dizzy.

[quote]ORIGINAL: ravinhood

I liked Rhonda though she was always like that neutral character never really taking sides, but, still getting her point across. Too bad SOME others here can't accept that others here have an opinion besides their own.


Ravinhood,
However, Your right on with this comment

Such intrigue. What about Les the Sarge, seemed to see him tons until of late.

SoM

I think it won't be long before the wargame crowd starts having more members drop off forums due to rolling a one on the big CRT of life...[:(]

Oh... truly put.

repeat.

ORIGINAL: Son_of_Montfort

Such intrigue. What about Les the Sarge, seemed to see him tons until of late.

SoM

Another story for another day Son. A story that belongs in the category of Soap Opera.

ORIGINAL: ravinhood

An oldie but goodie thread. I miss Pat (Pasternaski) hehe Veldor an ole Les the Sarge are fun characters also.

I never really left. I just stopped posting. I'm not sure I even really remember why. Probably something to do with the fact that the same topics keep coming up over and over again and it gets a little tiring after awhile. That and I don't currently play a single Matrix title. To be fair I don't currently play a single PC game title period so posting would be a bit hypocritical. Then there was the complete and utter lack of forum rules or enforcement at the time...

I'm still disappointed by the world of gaming in general, most especially wargaming, but I've really nothing new to say on that... Probably just as well that I not clog up the forums with anymore pointless discussions that will go unheard or unprocessed by those most in need of the information...