My Amazon anti-sleep pack arrived today...

[dagibbs]

It contained the strategy 6 pack* from Paradox interactive, a bunch of really addictive, time-consuming games, and Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold. I must NOT start reading that when I go to bed this evening.

* Hearts of Iron, Victoria, Europa Universalis II, Europa Universalis II - Asia Chapters, Two Thrones, and Crown of the North. I blame concordantnexus for this one.

Comments

[brendand.livejournal.com]

Yay for anti-sleep!

[concordantnexus.livejournal.com]

I presume that you know where to find all of the patches?

soon, soon we shall attempt sunday night gaming via the 'net! :)

[corbet.livejournal.com]

> I must NOT start reading that when I go to bed this evening.

No, you must start that RIGHT NOW!!! :)

Kick-ass book. Next one comes out next Thursday if you worship the Amazon(.ca) gods, tho it's same-world, not same-timeline.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

But, last time I started a kick-ass book in the evening, I didn't stop reading until 7am. That's not a good thing. Unlike certain people, I'm expected to get up and go to work in the morning.

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

Tell me how they go. I have the original EU, but never got the hang of it, and I just picked up Victoria in the discount book store but haven't installed it yet.

Looking for good strategy games, and hoping to find an updated form of Age of Rifles type game.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

I picked these up because I played and liked the original EU -- though I was conquering the world in it.

I really like turn-based-strategy, and some of my favourites over the years have been Master of Orion, Master of Orion II, (Sid Meier's) Civilisation, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Master of Magic, and Stars!. I've also played and enjoyed Majesty and EU (both real-time strategy), but with manipulable speeds, and in EU, with the ability to do things while time is paused, it can almost be treated as a turn-based strategy.

I'll try to remember to post comments about what I think of them, though I'm not sure I'm going to try them all right off the bat.

I do know the several of them (maybe all of them?) share a similar game engine, which is similar to the EU game engine.