This is the part 2 of our previous Tactic post. You can check the previous post at this address : tactic part 1 and you can check out our article about line management.

Rotate three lines

The main advantage of rotating 3 line is it give more ice to your best player, however it will drain your player energy and they might not be fit enough for the playoff (particularly if you are playing with a very high game importance like we talked in the last post.

Ice time percentage by line

You always wanted to manage your team like most NHL team, give your top player more ice time and use the other line to give them a break ? You can do that by setting the ice time per line in the tactic.

This option is really cool and it might reduce the need to rotate 3 lines, by simply giving the 4 lines a really low percentage.

Like I said many times be careful not to overuse your player, you want them to be able to stay up in the playoff too.

I can be a great way to balance out your team , like going 30/30/30/10 or 25% every where, then rotate 3 line if you are losing.

Changing the goalie

If your goalie is having a bad game get him out of there and put the backup goalie. Since my goalie no1 is usually my best goalie and wait until there is a 3-5 goal difference to remove him.

Reduce to rotation of three lines

You’re losing and you don’t like that, they drop the 4th line and put your best guy on the ice.

This option give a nice alternative instead of the rotate three line option, your top players won’t get too much fatigue when you are winning but they will take thing in hand and maybe make you win a couple of tight game that you might have lost if you stayed with 4 line.

React to the opponent’s withdrawal of the fourth line

This is a counter to the rotate three line and reduce rotation of three line by the opponent. If he’s putting only is best player on ice you might has well give him a decent challenge by doing the same thing.

Pull the goalie

If you’re trailing behind by a goal or two at the end of the game you can remove the goalie and put a extra forward to put pressure and try to score a goal. You have more chance of getting scored but you are losing anyway…

pull the goalie because sometime he won’t help anyway

Bricksmash

Bricksmash is the typical “brick” game clone, move your paddle and keep the ball from hitting the bottom of the play area. Smash all the bricks with the ball to win. But wait a minute bricksmash  add a twist that unlike the Beatles makes things a bit more complicated. When your ball contacts one of the 16 bricks, a little ball appears in that break and you need to clear the brick inside the brick (that so meta)… Once you clear the brick inside the brick the ball break free in the real world and you have 2 brick to play with.

http://www.draknek.org/games/BRICKbricksmashSMASH/

Special

Connect your nes power pad pad on your pc

Even if that not browser, indie or mobile related I had to include it because it so fucking awesome : http://indiegames.com/2013/07/connecting_the_nes_power_pad_t.html

Mobile :

Another Zombies Game : Dead on Sight

I try to not review game that I have to pays and that dev studio don’t send code to unlock the game but this one caught my attention because :

1- I love zombie !

2- You are shooting fucking zombies man!

3- Good graphic

Check out the video :

For the complete review : http://toucharcade.com/2013/07/04/dead-on-sight-review/

Kyubo

puzzle (0.99/free)

This game is it a spot for me because it’s a indie puzzle game. I won’t say more except watch the trailer :

If you want to read a complete review head over here : http://toucharcade.com/2013/07/03/kyubo-review/

Note to my reader, this a another press release from gamebox for the game General War. I didn’t wrote it so you might notice that they don’t do the same spelling mistakes I do. I didn’t receive any money from them or anything else except a mail. Enjoy !

General War: Memories, as its name shows, a war game that takes you back to WWII classic battle scenes, is about to add two new servers to ensure GW’s players around the world will all be able to play in their comfortable time zones–S3Norfolk (East US) and S4Portsmouth (EU)on 3^rd July. All these new servers are named after important military harbors.

This latest production of Gamebox has definitely been the hottest story of the day. General War’s first 2 servers have gathered tens of thousands of players. In this game, players may use various strategies with a wide range of formations, combinations of units (infantry, tanks & artillery), equips and skills to fight alongside their alliance mates. You can do whatever you want to command your troops to success. All the elements in the game, including the maps and storyline are based on history, thus it gives players an exciting experience of commanding troops in WWII.

Players of all ages, professions, regions can have fun in the game through coping with the internal affairs of the city, training troops, fighting against NPCor other players in the arena, attacking cities and defending your city, forming alliance and fighting with alliance mates.If you’re looking for funand interactions, this game will not let you down!

For more info about this game, please visit

General War official website: http://gw.gamebox.com/

General War on facebook

Related link:

Gamebox’s New Game General War Launches

News: General War: Memories-A Rush of Nostalgia

Safe sex with friends

After hooking your friend on word with friend like that report from Zynga  time to get busy. And there the game just for you, “Safe Sex With Friends”.

The game humorous and sexy name it not the only thing that well thought out, the gameplay is actually very intuitive since it’s played like word with friends / scrabble but with a twist, instead of letter you play either body part or a protection (barrier), you have to make a chain instead of a word.

It features the most adorable drawings of jitterbugging dental dams and smiling members of the male and female anatomy you’ll see.

Related:

http://kahoabe.net/safesexgame.html

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/articles/games-change-data-theft-sex-ed-and-jewish-identity-full-display/

Plant vs Zombies 2 delayed

Remember a weekly post talking about Plant vs zombies I sent you a while ago ?

I was saying that the new Plants vs zombies game was coming out in july but we now have new its been delayed for later this summer.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/plants-vs-zombies-2-pushed-past-july-release-date/0117755

http://toucharcade.com/2013/06/26/plants-vs-zombies-2-no-longer-arriving-july-17th-delayed-until-later-in-the-summer/

Contrat: Evolution or Contrat on mobile

It seem all our good old retro game are coming back on mobile and konami is bringing back to good old contrat on iOs.

I haven’t bought it and they didn’t gave me a free trial but I really wonder what the control are like, that game was really tough with that the 30 extra life cheat.

http://toucharcade.com/2013/06/28/contra-evolution-review/

Odin quest

Good news! Our 6^th EDT server Revolution of Odin Quest will be released grandly by Youjoy.com at 8:00 July 3, 2013 EDT.

(I would have more info but the attachment they sent me was broken…)

Three kingdoms online

Server Merge Announcement for U41 and U42 happening right now (Jul 2nd~5th)

Like we talked last week, the merge for U41 & U42 is happening right now those lucky server are hopefully in for a lot of action. 

And I want to take sometime to come back on the pool I’ve started after this merge announcement.

Result from pool (check the thread at koramgame forum) :

It seem that the community it will be the U30 with U33 since U30 was up at the same time U28/U29 and these two just got their merge (U42 with U26) so it make sense to merge U30 next.

Clash of Kingdoms

The news version is coming with the add-on of emperor heroes. These heroes are like normal heroes that can be recruited in the tavern but they have ability that instead of working in the battle field they affect the output of your manors, they have a ability name Undead God of War that enable that hero to continue fighting even if all is troops are dead but this work only is there is another of your hero on the field that still have troop.

Here the list of all the new hero (click on it for readable image … )

I think is a nice addition to the game, it obvious a way to make players spend gold to get those heroes but I think it will help gold player to maximize their manors and spend their gold

It’s a bit late for a weekly review but I didn’t have access to all my files this weekend guys so sorry about that.

Ripple Dot Zero

Ripple dot zero is quite surprising, it’s pretty aesthetic with is 16-bit retro look, the controls are very good for a browser game and the plot is somewhat really original, you’re a sword-swinging penguin that bashes is way through 20 level to save your other penguin friend trap in some sort of canister.

Related Link:

http://www.rippledotzero.com/

http://indiegames.com/2013/06/browser_pick_ode_to_16-bit_act.html

http://vimeo.com/66352855

Lucky peach travel game

Lucky peach is a game build only from text and ASCII art.

Collect treats like hamburgers, pizza, cupcakes, and familiar-looking candies to gain weight. Dodge healthy foods or else you’ll lose weight. Soon, you reach an island where you engage in a series of mini-games to collect ingredients for a good meal.

The sweet potato is quite hard to get at the beginning but it seems they are only 2 maze so once you get the same maze twice you know where to go.

Related Link

http://game.lky.ph/

http://indiegames.com/2013/06/browser_pick_candy_box_creator.html

Second chance

Second chance is a Funny game from major bueno where you have to launch a rocket to stop an asteroid (like Armageddon/deep impact). Give it a try it only take a few minutes to play.

Related Link:

http://indiegames.com/2013/06/browser_pick_a_second_chance_g.html

http://majorbueno.tumblr.com/

Daymare Cat

I don’t know what to talk about daymare cat, the hand drawn graphic or that music that you need to find in order to finish the game. Give it a try and if you found the 5 songs tell me how you did it I’ve only got 4…

Related Link:

http://www.pastelportal.com/daymare_town/index.php?id=dmt_cat

http://indiegames.com/2013/06/browser_pick_mateusz_skutniks_.html

King ascent

You play has a king that is being followed by huge monsters, you use the platform as weapon when they fall on the monster. Each monster is a bit different, the last one even attack you with spear.

If you are in the mood for a quick game of a vertical platformer king ascent is perfect for you. With only five level you have a bit of a challenge that lasts just long enough.

Oh and its come with voice acting, pretty neat 🙂

Related Link:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/620100

http://indiegames.com/2013/06/browser_pick_attack_monsters_w.html

Freeware

I included that game because it has a 1943 look and I just love those WWII plane games.

There some major difference from 1943 though, you can chose the difficulty at the beginning and you have the choice of 3 planes, no power up, your plane cans take some bullet and you have allies that assist you.

You might think that the allies really help but there some much bullet and enemy plane flying around that  you’re lucky to have some friendly plane to take some hit for you.

You need to download it to play and the first cause of plane crash in this game is plane hiting one another….

Related Link:

http://indiegames.com/2013/06/freeware_pick_dominate_the_ski.html

Other Game I found out about but didn`t have time to play or barely played.

Dorsaka

You are in a desert and your health got down quickly, grab some grass whiles you’re trying to exit it will give you health but beware of the ghost.

Link:

http://indiegames.com/2013/06/dorsaka_escape_the_maze.html

http://www.stencyl.com/game/play/18570

Hyper Pixel Man

What can I say check the video it awesome, pretty hard game with the keyboard though, try playing with a gamepad instead.

Link :

video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYKVjkHKKwE

http://pixelulsar.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/hyper-pixel-man/

http://indiegames.com/2013/06/browser_pick_hyper_pixel_man_i.html

Tactic is probably the most confusing thing in powerplay manager.

There so many things to set up that I need to split this in two  post to cover each section.

Today we focus on the 4 first point: Game importance / Style of play / Power plays / Penalty killing

Game importance

The importance you give to each game will have a direct impact on the energy level of your player. If you play very high most of your game your player will lack the energy to perform during the playoff.

Here a table that shows how much you lose energy when playing a game:

This can change a lot depending on your situation, you have a team that have better average than most other team, might make sense to start at low or very low and adjust it mid season. You are one position of making the playoff, might be good to pump it up to high or very high to increase your chance of making the playoff. You against a team that you have ultimately no chance of winning, perhaps the best option is to drop everything to low to manage your player.

More info : http://www.succeed2k.com/ppm-hockey-articles/ppm-new-tactics-explained-dp1.html

Style of play

Some tactic depends on your team but universally each tactic is strong against another tactic and weak against a different tactic. This rock paper scissor kind of setup is called  “Ring of Counter-Tactics” and here what it should look like: Normal > Defensive > Offensive > Forechecking > Counterattacks > Breaking up > Normal

So if we do a table we have (first column beat  X) :

You can read more about it at : http://www.succeed2k.com/ppm-hockey-articles/tactics-countertactics.html

You can check the full analysis for this ring of tactic on this site.

Power plays / Penalty killing

This one is tricky, because I’ve still not found what the ring of counter for that one and that even if you’re using the counter if your player never played with that type of power play or penalty kill they won’t necessarily do well vs a team who well trained with that tactic.

First you want to at least get the % of your team on that to 33% in each or 100 % in one.

Why would you like to have them up to the same value ? so you can them switching depending on what the opponent is playing.

Note the following table is incomplete it’s mostly come from some player told me and my personal experience (My team is 100% for Shooting from the Point & Active box)

Power Play table :

Penalty kill table:

I will fill the table when I got more info. Sorry about that. I’ll try to track when I score in PP and when I get scored in PK to see is there a correlation.

I hate it when developer copy other developer game and say it new.

Like they were a dispute between Project tank and Word of tank over copyright, the main difference between the two is that Project tank is browser base and WoT is an install.

These are big boys fighting each other. Zynga is probably the worst offender here ( I mean more than 8 time here, here, here  and they copied tiny tower here) and the funniest thing is they don’t seem even to care, check out their statement.

But I’m here to talk about any of those game today I here to talk about a game developed on iOS that claim to have a “new take” to the side scrolling strategy genre when it’s exactly of a copy of an old flash game name Age of War.

Note that age of war is quite old so the war 2 have nothing to brag about.

See it for yourself here some screen shot of both game:

You can even try the flash game if you want, I’ve added them in our new section “Free Games”:

Age of war 2

or you can try the first game :

Age of war 1

Related news :

The war 2 : “new take” to side scrolling strategy

Server Merge Announcement for U41 and U42

The lucky servers to be the winner of the merge lottery are
S72, S73, S74, S75 merging into U41
U26 U28 U29  merging into U42

These lucky winner will go into a sleep on 19:00 30th JUNE and then a bloodshed on 19:00 1st JULY

If you check my previous post about merge date and next server to merge these server where due (15 month for some of them that crazy)

S72 Yellow Turbans – March 11th, 2012 (active server) (15 months !! )
s73 The Dissension – April 8th, 2012 (active server)
s74 The Avengers – May 13th, 2012 (active server)
s75 Huye Chanyu – June 10th, 2012 (active server) (a year)

U26: s51, s53 – March 23rd, 2012 (active server)    (took 15 month)
U28: s54, s57, s58 – May 24th, 2012 (activer server) (took 13 month)
U29: s55, s56, s59 – May 24th, 2012 (active server) (took 13 month)

here the official news : http://forum.koramgame.com/thread-82605-1-1.html

So who next, check out what the community think the next merge will be: http://forum.koramgame.com/thread-82652-1-1.html

on a side note I want to congratulate koram for naming the s74 after the name of a great movie. (The Avengers 😛 )

Odin quest news

The 20th server Idawald of Odin Quest will be released grandly by Youjoy.com at 5:00 June 26, 2013 PDT. New systems and features have been released in this new world gradually. Warriors, are you ready for the exploration to create your own empires?

Go check out the new in the forum for more info.

If you cannot see the forum post is because the stupid forum require you to be logged in to see it… don’t blame me…

UPDATE : The date youjoy sent me was in may, it actually in june 2013(today)