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Friday Fun Thread for February 27, 2026

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What are you playing this week?

I'm 14 hours into MENACE. It's still fun, though it's even more apparent how unfinished the game is. I won't say I regret that they released it so early into early access, because I've enjoyed it a lot. It's a very solid start and I look forward to the final release.

I bring two vehicles to every mission. One of my three pilots, Rewa, has by far the least professional and most embarrassing voice performance, so she's the backup for whenever one of the other pilots gets the Weary status. One of my vehicles uses the heavy machine gun, and the other uses the autolaser, in order to deal with enemy vehicles/walkers. I prefer fighting the pirates. Some of the 'rogue army' and alien operations have been somewhat difficult due to all their armor, even tho I'm only on Normal difficulty.

I am on a holy quest given by the Lady of the Lake to rid not Africa of the undead menace (really to get rid of the Joan de Arc character who didn't have the good sense to be burned at the stake be the foreign for and was destabilizing the peasants) in total war Warhammer 3.

We're embroiled in a war with the strongest but least popular Tomb King but on the last turn but we finally broken their back and are on to mopping up their settlements and the last army that decided to bolt into the sea.

The Joan of Arc stand in is absurdly strong she's basically immune to melee combat except for with the strongest combatants. Next will probably be a few more easy tomb, and onto a fight with a true enemy whose land rejects us and who will have enormous armies and very very strong combatants due to their worship of the violence god in universe (Khorne).

It should be a good fight, but usually marks a transition as the land isn't good for her faction and she doesn't have any natural directions to expand.

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