The Clan of the Cave Bague

Well, as the comment on last night’s entry goes, I’m now up to my eyes in Undead. It’s really quite strange seeing units charging about the place that I recognise from WoW In particular, the big three armed blokes who guard Undercity are pretty fearsome.

I now have access to Priests and Sorcerers, which is making things a little easier. Point-healing is all very well with two or three units, but many more than that and it gets a little hairy. Fortunately, my priest units seem to be pretty smart healers. If only I had them in Warsong Gulch

Ok, so Nintendo have announced that the console codenamed revolution is going to be called the Wii. I have to say that, much though I’m looking forward to this console being the saviour of gaming, that is the worst name I’ve ever heard heard.

I can see it now – people wandering into Gamestation. “Hi, can I have a ……, erm, just give me a PS3.”

I don’t know *what* they were thinking.

According to Adelaide Skilled Processing Center, we have another 6 or 7 weeks before a case officer is allocated.

Guh. That’s a while. Absolutely nothing we can do about it, though. Here’s hope they don’t move the goalposts again within that time.

We’re still in the throes of attempting to clear out some of the rubbish we have. As part of the process, I’ve ordered a pile of really useful boxes from, er, reallyusefulboxes.com . As you might expect, they’re boxes and they’re really useful. Ordered a few dirty great big ones for the copious quantities of books we’re taking and a pile of smaller ones for the DVDs and games. It’s really just to give us an idea of volumes, more than anything else.

It’s ACE! It’s mental madness though. Imagine a real time strategy game. Then imagine it as a direct-control third person shooter. With vehicles. Then make it all cartoony. That’s pretty much Battalion Wars. I’ve only done the first few missions so far, but my fingers are nearly bleeding with frenzied button pressing.

Graphically, the game is gorgeous. Beautiful sound. Just lovely. If this was on the Xbox or PS2, everyone would be charging about going ‘OMFG!!11!WTF??/?/?THIS IS TEH B3sT0r!!11!one!’. As it’s on the cube, though, we have to make do with the more erudite, learned, and civilised gamers casually walking past each other in the street and giving a discreet nod and smile, or carelessly saying ‘Battalion Wars, eh?’ in passing, before moving to whatever stylish destination was originally intended.

Oh yes – this is one for the discerning cube owner. Best not tell the Microsoft or Sony fanboys about it – it’ll only upset them.

Bah! 109 bells for white turnips. That’s RUBBISH! I’m beginning to think Nook and Joan are in cahoots :-/

Did some low-scale deforestation this morning, and replaced a load of the deciduous trees with nice fruit trees. And my palm has grown successfully. I must resist the temptation to sell the coconuts, though, cos I want to grow a row of palms along the shore.

Here they are – Trollbert and Clawbert, during a little expedition from Crossroads to Ogrimmar. I’m becoming strangely attached to little clawby – he’s a cheerful wee chap.

Another of those ‘I really should give this a go’ games. Only done the first five (largely tutorial) missions. Just really saying I’ve started, is all. It’s a strange thing about this series. When I actually play advance wars, I love it to death. It just seems really hard to get around to actually picking it up. Fire Emblem is the same. Obviously, there’s something wrong with me.