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Published on September 3, 2008 By Frogboy In GalCiv II News

Back by popular demand, Tom Francis of PC Gamer UK has begun writing a new epic diary of a Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor game.

The first one, released last year, was insanely good.  This is an absolute must-read.

Check it out here:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=195920&site=pcg


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on Sep 03, 2008

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.

on Sep 03, 2008

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

on Sep 03, 2008

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 !!

on Sep 04, 2008

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

on Sep 04, 2008

It's pleasant reading. Reccomanded.

Can anyone post the link to the older story?

Thanks

on Sep 04, 2008

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

There you go.

on Sep 04, 2008

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.

on Sep 05, 2008

Thanks Alfonse

on Sep 05, 2008

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!

on Sep 07, 2008

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

on Sep 07, 2008

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

on Sep 07, 2008

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.

on Sep 08, 2008

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.

on Sep 08, 2008

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.

on Sep 09, 2008

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)

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