Something little to fill space!

So yeah, as said I've been busy with quite few things last few days and as it seems that Del ain't going to write today I need t ofill this void.
I am now working on graphics that will be used on our blog, but got in to slight dilemma... What colors should I use, shoudl I make something "fast" or more "classical" and "clean". And what comes in to gaming, I am getting my copy of Anno 1404 tomorrow so I am trying to post review of Dragonica asap instead of after first week. Why? Because if old signs stands true I will be too hooked to Anno to quit even for meal.

On other topics, as I mentioned in my first post (or was it second?) we are currently playing browser based game called Evony online. It's city building and warfare game. And today there've been a lot of thigns going on in alliance where I belong, blood has been spilled and generally main topic has been about taking over cities of other players (who most likely have spent some cahs to make em). I am starting to get hang of it and nice resource income lil by lil, but my army? It's utter shit and useless still, though my city defenses starts to work out quite well. I enjoy the city building side of game a bit too much and don't really want to start attack actively quite yet even if I should (need some medals to get 3rd city). But yep once I get my 3rd city up and running, it will be my military and food production facility so all zeh enemies be aware I am going to whoop your bums!

So what's my opinion about Evony thus far? It's well designed and made online strategy game. You start with quite empty city whre you have your open city area and Town hall. You start by building couple cottages and gt your resource fields up. There is 5 different resources in this game: Gold - Gained from selling other resources through market or from taxes, Food - Produced in farms and maybe the most important resource as you need a lot of it to upkeep your huge military forces in future. Wood - Produced in sawmills and is one of base materials for building along with Iron that is produced from (surprise surprise) from Ironmines and last but not least (even if cheapest) Stone from Quarries.
So now you have your resources flowing in, it's time for you to start build some security around your town and build walls for cover. Walls are rather important element when someone is attacking you (are you surprised?)... On the walls you can build few different defensive thingsies like Archer towers and traps. So now we are in faked safety it's time to get researching rolling by bui.ding academy from where you can improve everything you have and will build, like increase production of materials, improve attack and defense of your troops and so on and so forth. And how could we build troops without Barracks? There's no way so let's get military forces up and running and there is a lot of em from workers to archers, from pikemen to trebuches. It can be a bit overwhelming in very beginning questions like what should I do what are best against what, may rise in your mind *grin* and so it did for me. Current fighting engine is a bit broken in my opinion as archers are way too overpowered against most units and there is little tricks that you can use to cover em up so they don't die. And there is a lot more in to this game and I will write more about it later but for now....

RetroGen - Over and out

ps. I would give that game 7 out of 10 at given moment. Make fighting bit more strategic by fixing unit balance and you will get 9/10.