The Battle Plan 4 June 2019 (Patreon)

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall YouTube viewer grabs your attention, taps your favourite like button up against the screen, and he looks you crooked in the comment section and asks you if you've got the schedule ready, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Colonel always says at a time like that: "Have ya got the schedule ready, Colonel?" "Yessir, here it is."

One week of madness has now become 2 weeks of madness, with the forecast for a third week of madness looking very likely. Honestly, I'm not a fan of putting out more than one video per day, not just because of the time needed to get more videos done, more because it feels like I'm not doing individual games justice. I'm always left with the choice of A: suspending an ongoing series, B: not covering something new and interesting or C: attempting to have my cake and eat it.

I'm an option C kinda guy. I bemoaned on the Bad Company Discord earlier this week that yet another game I wanted to cover had just flung a couple of keys my way. It was pointed out that this was a nice problem to have, and indeed it is, but it's still a problem, which is why this week's schedule looks rather a lot like this:

• Tue: Soviet Republic and Overcrowd
• Wed: Barotrauma and Overcrowd
• Thu: Transport Fever and Overcrowd
• Fri: Cooking Simulator and Overcrowd
• Sat: Soviet Republic and Overcrowd
• Sun: Overcrowd and Kerbal Space Program (backers)

This is not a pace I can maintain, but I've been waiting for Overcrowd for a while, and having recorded the first couple already can safely say that it's a lot of fun. It already surprised me with a couple of its features, and it reminds me a lot of Project Hospital in that it has a lot to do - it is not a forgiving game. The first two episodes have been recorded at 4k resolution and the game (out Thursday) doesn't currently have UI scaling. After editing, this isn't going to be ideal, so I'll drop the resolution for other episodes.

What happened to Interstellar Transport Company? I'm still planning a slight return, along with another 2-3 games I have previously covered that have now emerged from their respective early access foundries. 

And Railroad Corporation? I'm intending to do the second mission as it expands on the range of tools available to you, I'm just waiting for a moment to get it done. The same thing goes for Railway Empire, who have keenly approached me to cover their new DLC...

...and I need to take the Class 37 for a spin in Train Sim World.

I now drop in the notion of doing this full time to the conversation. I'm 2/5 of the way to my goal in terms of that being a financial possibility. Expect there to be more mention of this in the coming weeks...

I'm Colonel Failure, buy my merchandise.

-CF