This guy's previous GalCiv2 journal was so good, I bought the game even though I had already given up on the demo months earlier. Can't wait to read more.

Yeah, Tom's AAR's are timeless. Makes me want to play the game, and I helped make the thing

Can't wait to see how his cultural overthow of the Korath goes

Cool stuff, certainly somethin' to follow up if only to witness how in heck the peacefulls will be able to survive long enough against who knows else yet !!

I remember the last one. If this is only half as good, it still is a must-read!

It's pleasant reading. Reccomanded.

Can anyone post the link to the older story?

Thanks

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=161570&site=pcg&skip=yes

There you go.

This was printed into a small booklet and bundled freely with my edition PC Gamer UK October 2008. It was a great read (even if it was riddled with typos ). Note that this may be subscriber only... not sure though.

Thanks Alfonse

Nope, it also comes with the magazines in stores. I bought this edition last week, I had just purchased Sins of a Solar Empire, but after reading this diary it made me purchase GalCiv2 and the two expansions as well. Good reading, recommended!

Heh - just bought Gal Civ after reading the booklet too - it sounds so much fun

Awesome, the last one on DA was wikid! =D

Great read. I too purchased the mag to get the booklet

Laughed my butt off when i reached the end and the game crashed for him on the final turn. Hope he had a save game handy!

He makes a good point about the spy system being a menace that i think we can all agree with (hopefully changing in 2.0) and just how annoying it is that you cant flip minors.

I wish I'd never started reading.  GC2 swallowed absurd amounts of my time, and while I purchased DA and TA I never really played either one.  Unfortunately I still hit the GC2 site on a regular basis.  I noticed this story and remembered his previous one, so I made the mistake of clicking the link.

Then I fired up TA late last week.

I forgot to feed myself several times this weekend.

Tom, you magnificent bastard, I read your BLOG!

(great, great fun read)

One of my fave lines from his original DL diary: "I ammended the terms of the deal to them giving me four and a half trillion credits, their entire military fleet and their homeworld, in exchange for shutting the hell up."

I LOL'ed at that one.

Tom Francis claims he put a spy on a Minor Race planet (Akilians). I don't think that's possible ("Let's not waste agents on Minor Races" or something like that).

Also, he claims that the Korath declared war on Akilians although they didn't have any contact with them. I also think that's impossible (the usual reply I've seen is: "We have no contact with Akilians" or something like that)