Your favourite expansion packs and add-ons?

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Yeah, I remember the time a buddy called Target played a match of TA and just launched weak scoutplanes the whole game. Eventually there were so many Finks in the game, he blocked out the radar. It made targeting him almost impossible.

So I nuked him.

What about when Greg kept making fake commanders underwater and having them walk to various points on the map? That was a great concept.

Yeah, Greg and I once got stuck next to each other in AoE3 and ended up building a No Man's Land strip between us. We spent half the match throwing troops at each other and watching each other's defensive lines tear our infantry apart. It finally ended when I built up cannons with long enough range to drop his defenses while rushing in with a legion of Russian troops. He ended up fleeing to a small deserted island with one unit and just sat there for the rest of the game while all the other naval powers struggled for dominance.

[ZeroAX]

so......I'm guessing we have racketboy online pc matches now, or you guys know each other from real life?

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so......I'm guessing we have racketboy online pc matches now, or you guys know each other from real life?

Real life. This is going back to Fast and my days in the Auburn University Computer Gaming Club. It's just that Greg didn't use a consistant handle, though by the time I graduated he was sticking with CrazyJimmy.

Some of our other buddies in the AUCGC were(or still are) world class. Scorpion was rated one of the world's best coms in Natural Selection a decade ago. Phukface was on one of the best TFC teams and is now in one of the top BF3 teams along with Vandyl and DIE(though I believe he plays as peacemaker now). And guys like Jonesy and Ehgret were big in the local fighting game circuit. Fast used to do that as well, and I've won a couple tournaments that Microsoft hosted for us, though I don't think I've ever been anywhere as good as some of our buddies.

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so......I'm guessing we have racketboy online pc matches now, or you guys know each other from real life?

We went to college together. Every Friday night we had a group take over a computer lab and we played PC games. So it was like a LAN party every Friday for 10+ hours.

To get back on topic:

Jedi Knight: Mystery of the Sith

Take the most popular EU character, plop her in an advanced engine that includes colored lighting and better AI, and you take a great game and make it greater. The new force powers made multiplayer even more insane. Even though the tweak to CTF made my force jump strategy less useful.

[KalessinDB]

Best add-on has to be the Sega Fortress built by adding a Sega CD and a 32x to the Genesis. It was like building a transformer.

I prefer the phrase "Death Star Genesis", but Sega Fortress is pretty good too.

Also completely unrelated to the actual topic, adding on Cities and Knights to Settlers of Catan is just so awesome. I can't even play original Settlers anymore.

[BoringSupreez]

Civ IV: Beyond the Sword

Breathed so much life into a game that was becoming dated. I loved the addition of random events and religions, things I had been wanting for quite a while, along with the new methods for winning.

C&C Generals: Zero Hour

The original C&C Generals wasn't actually that terrific of a game. It was good for its time, but I wouldn't feel the urge to play vanilla Generals today. Zero Hour made so many improvements that I can't really remember what it added vs what was already there. Selecting generals with different units and abilities made skirmish mode way more interesting (I was always partial to the nuke and technology generals). The new maps were also noticeably larger and supported more players, making the originals feel cramped.

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Civ IV: Beyond the Sword

Breathed so much life into a game that was becoming dated. I loved the addition of random events and religions, things I had been wanting for quite a while, along with the new methods for winning.

C&C Generals: Zero Hour

The original C&C Generals wasn't actually that terrific of a game. It was good for its time, but I wouldn't feel the urge to play vanilla Generals today. Zero Hour made so many improvements that I can't really remember what it added vs what was already there. Selecting generals with different units and abilities made skirmish mode way more interesting (I was always partial to the nuke and technology generals). The new maps were also noticeably larger and supported more players, making the originals feel cramped.

Good calls.

I love Beyond the Sword. I put many hours into the scenario where you played as a space-faring faction of humanity, colonizing planets. It was a bit slow, but filled the Alpha Centuari/Masters of Orion shaped hole I was missing. And the Next War scenario was cool, cloned armies, arcologies and mind-control stations. Then they added awesome stuff like colonies, religious victory, Ethiopian civ and corporations. I never played vanilla CIV4 after and only loaded up Warlords for a couple of scenarios.