Swiftdraw

Anyone playing the campaign yet? I'm stuck on the mission where you have to protect the Eldar and the base. The squiggy and 6 looted Leman Russ kinda brake my D-line... Sentinels can do a good bit of damage to the squiggy and tanks, but the die really quickly to the Ork tanks and I don't have enough resources for more. And the game tells me renforcesments are on the way in that mission and the first. I'd like to know, how do you get them? I've seen no reinforcements fo my side. Oh, and I know the slugga boyz would have had no chance against the Beserkers... I would have made them run away is all.

I dunno, I can't beat choas with the Imp gaurd even on standard difficulty. They've gotten really good with the beserkers. Also the cost on everything has been lowered and build times have been sped up. I think the imp gaurd's main problem is it's in-ability to take out heavy armor easily. Sentinels can do it, but they go under really quickly under heavy fire and Leman Russes don't come in untill late game. Baneblade takes out armor right quick, but thats a super unit and really doesn't count. The Eldar had that problem, but the Fire Dragons really over compensate for that. Eldar are actually fairly nasty now since standard armor has little chance against the fire dragons and they were always good against infantry. Gah, some of these new hero voice overs are really annoying. The Eldar farseer is worse than the Imp gaurd's general and preist. And the more I see it, the more annoyed I get with the unit pathing. I had a squad of slugga boys get caught on a squad of grots and neither of them did anything (even when I commanded them to move) untill a squad of Khorne Beserkers came in... Then they all just died... I might be on Friday, if I can talk the Internet center into letting me download the exspansion onto their comps. I'll call it a demo...

Ha!!! But I will fool those Rebs! My Imperial Capital will be on Yoda's swamp planet (I have no clue on how to spell it.) Let them have Coruscant!

Got Winter Assualt today (first one in the store, didn't have to use my bat) and installed it when I got home from class. All I got to say is that the Baneblade is the BEST... UNIT... EVAH!!!! My cousin commented that I sounded like a twelve year old school girl when I first saw that thing in action. I don't know if thats true or not, I was too entranced by the swath of destruction it cut into the orks. Only thing I found annoying was fairly poor unit pathing in some areas and the General's and priest's voice-actors didn't do a very good job. Very over done. Oh, and the eldar have very little hope against the Baneblade. Well, I'm off to play some more Winter Assault...

I'd like to elaborate on that. The Emperor is sort of in statis, but his psychic powers are very powerful and he can still reach out and command. This stasis (the chamber is caled the Golden Throne) has effectively made him immortal and is revered as a god all through out humanity. If you combined the Spanish inquisition, with the SS in Nazi Germany, with modern day Jihadist, and throw them into the far future, that is what humanity is like and that is their level fanatisism towards the Emporer and the Space Marines are among his most loyal servants. The only unit I could see as a supeer unit for these guys is the Land Raider, which is basicllya powerful APC. The marines don't need super units though, because overall they have the best units. Orks are the largest faction is the galaxy. The only thing that keeps them from over-running the entire galaxy is that they hate each other as much as they hate everybody else. They live to crush, kill, and destroy. They want to be nothing more than the meanest, biggest, and toughest creatures alive. This is my favorite faction. Everything is thrown together and their manner of speech is awesome. Remember, "GREEN IS BEST!!!" Orks super unit is the Squiggoth (or as I call it, the Squiggy) Its basiclyl a giant dinosaur like thingy with a bad attitude, guns and orks strapped onto it's back. It can also eat infantry units, which is really cool. Chaos are former humans who were on the losing end of a civil war against the Emporer (includng half of the space marine chapters.) They were exiled toe the Eye of Terror (some sort of warp storm I think) and were mutated and possessed by the demons of the warp. I think this saying sums up their intentions towards everything "Blood for the blood god!" Chaos gets the Blood Thirster for a super unit. Its basiclly a gaint demon with an equally big axe. It has various instant kill moves, my favorite of which I call the Barry Bonds. This is where he picks up a infantry unit, throws it up into the air and knocks it to the other side of the map with it's axe. Eldar are basiclly space elves. They use to have a huge empire across the galaxy, but they had their own civil war (I think) which broke them. They have their own agenda which sometime goes against or with the Emporer's. I don't like the Eldar. Almost all their units are highly specailised and as the orks say "Da' Eldar brake easy." These guys fall over is a stiff breeze. THeir only saving grace is that they're highly mobile and can even teleport buildings to different parts of the map. The Eldar get the Avatar of Cain. Think gaint buring stone elf, with a very angry painted on face, and a huge sword that wails everytime he swings it. He is slightly less powerful than the bloodthirster, but overall the same type of thing. Oh, and every Eldar building glows red, produces faster and fights harder with him out on the field.

It ain't glorious if no one will remember it.

Why must we bring up such painful topics? Last time I was there, it was because I lost this forum's adress (so I used Cain's link) and about 3/4 of the topics were locked or moved. Pretty pathetic.

Its only five people at a small shop. Now if it was a holiday rush for something at a large popular mall, thats when the big guns come out (and thats mainly just for self defense!)

Bah, hardly... I'm only bringing along my Colt .45 and a baseball bat...

Maybe the bar is just a general indicator of the overall status of the shields. You could still take 'em down in sections.

Correction Vader, they were beat sticks with scopes. Far more accurate than your usual, everyday beat stick.

Yes, the Imp Guards infantry suck. Thats why you hole up in your buildings untill you get some heavy armor out... Yeah, my local store isn't getting this in untill Thursday now and only three copies are coming in. Mind you 5 people have reserved the game, myself included... Sound like trouble to anyone?

Thats what I'm talking about, the second ones are an improvment. Thanks Youki... Those blasters in the first pic... Blah

This is sort of a nit-picky thing, but is there a new model for the stormtrooper's blaster? The last screens I saw their blasters looked like police bats with a scope attached.

I dunna like jedi... I'm more of a stormtrooper type guy, or a smuggler. Troopers have bigger guns, but smugglers make more money and tend to have faster ships (or they don't last long.) Its a toss up between the two for me. Jedi are to over done for me.

Meh, I want my Tibirium Twilight... There is always talk of a Red Alert 3 in development, but I can't see where they can take that series. If you believe the chronology, the first C&C (Tibirium Dawn) happened about 3 or 4 years after the events of Yuri's Revenge.

Oh no'z!!! We're turning into the LucasArts forum! We'll be flaming each-other within a few weeks! THE END OF DAYS IS NIGH!!!

What? The exspression of minor annoyance? He'd find it a minor in-convienace and head the massive counter assault that would obliterate you.

I was waiting for this subject.... The SSD's are near the bottom of the page, star destroyers above. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Destroyer#Super_Star_Destroyers *Edit: No pics, and there is debate about the information. They have the Executor class (in some cases) longer than the Eclipse, but the Eclipse is far more massive. The reason I never really liked the Executor is that no one can agree on its specs... But wikipedia is open to new information, so you can submit the new specs for the various classes.

The story behnd the "one master, one apprentace" thing From Wikipedia. "The New Sith Wars Slowly, over the next thousand years, the Jedi Order rebuilt itself back to its former strength. Then, some 2,000 years before the Battle of Yavin, yet another Jedi, chafing under the restrictions of the Jedi Council, fell to the dark side, stole a Sith Holocron, renamed himself "Darth Ruin," formed a new Sith Order, and began recruiting others to his cause. This spawned a new series of conflicts, called the New Sith Wars, which lasted for a millennium. However, the Sith very nearly proved to be their own undoing. Hungry for power, they turned on each other, all but destroying their order. The survivors reformed under the leadership of Lord Kaan, calling themselves "the Brotherhood of Darkness". To appease his disheartened minions, Kaan abandoned the millennia-old tradition of one ruling Dark Lord and granted the title to a good number of his followers, though very few of them were deserving of it. The final conflict of the New Sith Wars, the War of Light and Dark or the Light and Darkness War (sometimes also referred to, as Exar Kun's war had been, as the Great Sith War), came to a head in the titanic seventh Battle of Ruusan, in which the Jedi Lord Hoth and the Army of Light clashed with Lord Kaan and the Brotherhood of Darkness for the last time. In the end, a deranged Kaan activated a thought bomb, an ancient Sith technique that sapped the life energy of all Force-sensitives in the vicinity. Both armies were all but destroyed, and only one Sith Lord survived: Darth Bane. To guard against the Sith self-destructing or losing sight of their "ideals" again, Bane took only one apprentice, starting a one-master-one-apprentice tradition to prevent the Sith from destroying themselves again. He also restarted the tradition of passing the name "Darth" to each of his successors, a trend which appears to have originated with Darth Revan millennia before. In a nod to Kaan's earlier pronouncement, both master and apprentice in Bane's Sith Order held the title "Dark Lord of the Sith," making them, nominally at least, equals. The new tenets of this sinister order would be cunning, stealth, and subterfuge.

Ah yes, dive into the heavily defended heart of the Empire. I'm sure you could recover from 95% of your forces being lost and hold the planet... For about the day it would take for the Imperial fleet to gather it's forces for the counter attack.

I want a new motherboard and graphics card... I've no idea what my curent one is, but it isn't sufficent anymore and my Nvidea 5700fx is getting a little long in the tooth.

Does it have a read-me? The 'nid mod. never did much for me. I've slightly higher hopes for the Tau mod, which is still really buggy.

What do you run for hardware?

Well, I'm going to be on IP 12.150.60.194 for most of the day today... If you wish to be owned (probably not by me), by all means come join. *server is down for a bit for hardware upgrade. *ok its back up