Initiation

Greetings, fellow gamer!

At least I assume you're one because why would you care about a blog with such a title otherwise. First I should introduce myself. My name is Reko (commonly known online as Twistor) and I play, well, many kinds of games. Lately, it has been mostly the ones of computer variety but board games and pen & paper roleplaying games are not beneath me either. Here I'll be rambling about stuff I've been playing with in the near-past.

Right now there are two high-lights. The shorter one is that

I've got a new mouse! 

 

 It's a Logitech G402. Before, I had a Logitech MX518 (they say it's the legendary one) but it finally started having its dying strokes: randomly losing connection, which resulted in my avatar dying in games like Chivalry and Awesomenauts that require constant, precise control.

I really liked MX518. Thing is, they don't seem to sell anything similar anymore around here. Instead there are all these fancy but awkwardly shaped "gaming" mice with weird contraptions, excessive amounts of keys and I even saw one with two mouse wheels! But I wanted something simple with a modest amount of keys like I'm used to: G402 seems like a spiritual successor to MX518 in that respect.

The changes are the more clunky design (bad), the transfer of the change-of-DPI keys to the left (bad) and the addition of the lowest-DPI-key to the lower left corner (basically the only good thing). There's also a shiny blue G imprinted on the cover. Thing is, I'm still getting used to the new mouse and I tend to press the DPI keys on the left by accident, which can be fatal in a bad spot. At least the wheel is just one key instead of this shaky construction used in e.g. M500 that I had as a short-lived substitute.

Crusader Kings II: The Indian Empire

My recent excessive gaming project is to build the hugest empire of them all with India, in the ultimate Game of Thr... oh heck, it really is very much like Game of Thrones. The Crusader Kings II, that is! I got introduced to this game last spring. It's a rather complicated game where you control the ruler in some family (a dynasty) and try to make ends meet. Usually you have a dukedom, a kingdom or something and try to make it as powerful as possible without losing the position. Once you die, you continue the game with your heir.

Anyway, I don't know much of India previously. I started by building a kingdom and then continue towards an empire and finally create the empire of India. I've already built the empire of India but unfortunately the story before that has been lost in time (i.e. I didn't take many screen caps of the process). However, I will begin this blog by telling of the different phases of the history of my Indian empire. I hope to make it at least moderately interesting for you, my random reader.

Other stuff 

I play many other things as well, so if I encounter something at least vaguely interesting, I'll be sure to drop in a post here about it. I also write reviews on Steam so I'll be pointing you to them when I finish writing.

In the meanwhile,
Game on!