Board: /vst/
"/vst/ - Video Games/Strategy" is 4chan's imageboard dedicated to the discussion of strategy video games.
/vst/ is a place to discuss all types of strategy video games, including both turn-based and real-time strategy, turn-based and real-time tactics, single-player and multi-player (including MOBAs). All platforms are welcome.
Does this mean discussion of strategy games is banned on other video game boards? No! /vst/ is just a separate board specifically focused on strategy games where discussions about your favorite games can thrive.
Please familiarize yourself with the rules and remember to use the spoiler function where appropriate! With Götterdämmerung out of the way and Graveyard of Empires being around the corner, what are your thoughts? And what do you think will be the next area of focus after Graveyard of Empires? 
Stand up against the nu-dev that forbids all fun, anon!
https://gofile.io/d/Z2NBUb - Zip of charts for Bormann, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Denmark, Egypt, France, Japan, Kaukasien, Mexico, Norway, Palestine, Turkey and many more reworks that'll never release!
https://files.catbox.moe/j8tp21.pdf - December roundtable notes. Germany and Brazil never.
https://files.catbox.moe/c5pdqt.png - Japan rework. OTL PMs only, please.
https://files.catbox.moe/xlhrjj.pdf - Sweden proposal. Dev STILL lurking in the thread, will respond to every comment about it.
https://files.catbox.moe/ycctp0.png - Sweden flowchart. We lost Pakt Sweden for this OTL-fest.
https://files.catbox.moe/uq883w.pdf - Brazil-Argentina war design doc.
https://files.catbox.moe/l70qhw.pdf - Burgundian Eulogy: Burgundy 2 was real but got scrapped like everything else.
https://files.catbox.moe/zff5y4.pdf - Serov "facelift" document. The first leg in the now confirmed Komi rework.
https://files.catbox.moe/ymgaur.pdf - Amur rework doc. Over two years in dev hell, still no release date.
https://files.catbox.moe/48jovf.png - Kingdom of Montenegro flowchart.
https://files.catbox.moe/xfzdpv.png - Croatia flowchart #1.
https://files.catbox.moe/n2227q.png - Croatia flowchart #2.
https://files.catbox.moe/8oi80v.png - Old Bulgaria. You were robbed of Bulgaroslavia, anon.
https://files.catbox.moe/2ru4q1.png - Thailand flowchart.
https://files.catbox.moe/iwmxg6.pdf - Manchuria doc #1.
https://files.catbox.moe/cgaqrz.pdf - Manchuria doc #2.
https://files.catbox.moe/y2hc34.pdf - Manchuria doc #3.
https://files.catbox.moe/96kjev.pdf - Manchuria doc #5.
https://gofile.io/d/J1Cd2X - German themes tone doc.
https://files.catbox.moe/3n9lq9.pdf - New Granada walltext.
https://files.catbox.moe/r86sw7.pdf - 200p walltext about Colombian soccer mechanics. 
So what will it take to actually fail? Love it or hate it, it’s hovering around Beyond Earth peak numbers. Obviously it’s a different era with it living on more consoles, but they have a lot riding on this game. Now, obviously it’s going to get a lot of patches fixing the UI and other basic stuff, and they’ll sell back all those basic features and get their money worth of the DLC, no doubt we’ll get a bunch of YouTube video saying it’s “fixed now”. But so far the new audience are trying to cultivate does not seem to be showing up and it has alienated a lot of the older fan base. That being said, this is not a new situation, as reviews have not been stellar at launch since five. Though this one does seem particularly bad. That being said given how much money is riding on this is there any chance that it matters? Or are they just going to keep doubling down given Firaxis financials, and just HAVE to make this work instead. Or could we see one failed DLC/expansion in and have them cut support and start again? Is it good yet? do you still get the same events over and over? >dude demons are coming you must flee to cumlimdor
>we will be safe from the demons there?
>no they will follow you
>then why not make our stand here where we have our castles and armies?
>the green dudes who tried to genocide you last two games will help out
>…
>plus elves
>we already have elves in Lordaeron
>these are feminist elves with a magic tree Because the Remake sucks, I implore anyone curious to check out the original ROTK8 for the PS2 instead. 
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-flavour-7-21st-of-february-2025-bavaria.1729568/
Hello, and welcome one more week to Tinto Flavour, the happy Fridays in which we take a look at the flavourish content of the new, super-secret Project Caesar.
Today we will be taking a look at Bavaria. Or, to be more precise, at the Duchies of Upper Bavaria and Lower Bavaria, as the Wittelsbach divided their lands among different branches; in addition to these two, the Treaty of Pavia (1329) also established the lands of the Electorate of the Palatinate of the Rhine (best known as The Palatinate) to be ruled by a third Wittelsbach branch.
"The Heartland of the Holy Roman Empire endured the long period of the Great Interregnum and looks to the next decades with worry. In the face of the advancing age of Holy Roman Emperor Ludwig IV. von Wittelsbach, the families of von Wittelsbach, Luxembourg, and von Habsburg once more prepare for a competition for the imperial crown. While imperial authority south of the Alps is deteriorating, German merchants scramble to secure their trade routes into Italy while Hanseatic League are enjoying their dominance over the region of North Germany.
Under the leadership of Holy Roman Emperor Ludwig IV. von Wittelsbach, the Duchy of Upper Bavaria is at the height of its power, as he commands respect and authority among the imperial princes. While the Duchy of Lower Bavaria is ruled by Duke Heinrich XIV. von Wittelsbach, his health is steadily declining due to his leprosy, and his expected early death could lead to a reunification of Bavaria.
With strong relations among the von Wittelsbach rulers of Europe, Bavaria is ready to claim its right to the imperial crown and dominance over central Europe against their rivals in Bohemia and Austria." Years later and this game still kinda sucks.
>little to no flavour
>railroads you into being liberal democratic or socialist
>warfare is ass
>nothing to accomplish besides “green line go up”
Why did they have to butcher the Victoria franchise like this? Here is how i'd balance out Aztecs, Mayans and Inca.
Slingers become a regional unit
>This means Aztec and Mayan Slingers would be inferior to Incan since Inca get Unique techs for Slingers.
Xolotl Warrior would become a regional unit.
>Theses units would be a trash knight line with comparable stats to the knight intially and would quickly peak in castle age taking upgrades for infantry but not the cavalry itself. it's fucking over
>Essential downloads:
https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2024/essentials
>Guide to Football Manager:
http://www.guidetofootballmanager.com/
>Tactic and Strategy Guides:
https://community.sigames.com/topic/495115-tactic-and-strategy-guides/
>Training and Mentoring Guides:
https://community.sigames.com/topic/495114-training-and-mentoring-guides/
>Team Talks:
https://strikerless.com/2016/02/19/the-hartman-doctrine-why-the-hairdryer-treatment-works-surprisingly-well/
>Macca's official /trb/ database:
(2015)http://pastebin.com/uj27eQhe (embed)
(2016)http://pastebin.com/7e3Vv0ap (embed)
https://community.sports-interactive.com/forums/forum/19-tactics-training-strategies-discussion/ Better Stellaris in your path. Game:
>https://www.gog.com/en/game/xcom_ufo_defense
>https://openxcom.org/downloads-milestones/
Mods:
>https://mod.io/g/openxcom
>https://www.moddb.com/mods/x-piratez/downloads
>https://mod.io/g/openxcom/m/the-x-com-files
Resources:
>https://www.ufopaedia.org/
>https://xpedia.netlify.app/
>https://xcf.trigramreactor.net/master
>https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php
Last thread >>1937875 Diplomacy and Quality of Life Updates when? Will apparently come out during Q2. Trailers make it very reminiscent of HOMM3 but in 3D and with two upgrade paths for each unit. For a movie property game this was surprisingly well made and fun. Way better than I expected. What is it about the Pike & Shot Era that intimidates strategy game developers so much? Fuck that specific spot edition
Thread to discuss Graviteam tactics and Combat mission games and others like them. katowice soo-ACK!
It's over Their games should be illegal. They’re more addictive than heroin. I just spent 7 days in a row doing nothing but siting in front of my computer for 14 hours every day playing Crusader Kings III and I’m not even halfway through one game yet. I will be hosting a game of Shadow Empire on /vst/. All levels of experience are welcome, the game will be run without the DLC, please opt in to the open beta on Steam. Turns will be done via e-mail.
If you are interested, please post itt or e-mail the following preferences for planet generation:
>water or no water?
>alien life?
>hostile atmosphere?
>gravity and air pressure?
>tech level?
>city/army start number?
>story modules and epochs?
>starting council size?
>development speed?
It would be great to get a game going by the end of the weekend.
E-mail: SEPBEM (at) tutamail dot com Aztec Defense edition
How goes your conquering?
Fantasy mods for historical games welcome. Time to talk about the most popular and unfair franchise about defending Earth from Aliens. >Paradox makes a retarded meme formable that allows India to core everything from the Med to Shangai
>Meanwhile China can't core Tibet or Mongolia, countries they owned 20 years before the game's start
Honestly, the angry Chinese are funny as hell, props to the, How do you have more than one fun playthrough in this game? It baffles me so much that both Slipgate Ironworks and Frostgiant chose to steal the worst aspect of Petroglyph's Universe at War and then managed to make it hundred times worse, because despite the looks and their place in the game, Masari were at least interesting to play So we can all agree that this is the best Civ game, and maybe even best 4x game of all time right? Why would you ever not join ATO or CSP? There's literally no downside as long as your country isn't a mess Objectively the greatest RTS game ever made For me, if they ever made a TWM3, they should make an expansion pack like Kingdoms set in renaissance era Italy.
If they decided to make another fucking standalone spinoff feeling game i'd say Total War: American Civil War would be cool. Today is Kaiser Willhelm II's 166th birthday.
Happy birthday Willy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSvwH2mXje8 >Total War: Star Wars refers to a rumored upcoming video game, reportedly being developed by Creative Assembly, which would combine the "Total War" strategy gameplay with the Star Wars universe, potentially allowing players to command large-scale battles across different factions within the Star Wars galaxy.
lol Ah shit, here we go again what's the best RTS campaign ever made? Holy fuck why is it so hard to win wars in this game? Every time I start a war with someone who's weaker than me, they end up hiring mercenaries or allying with someone powerful in the middle of the war and decimating me. A new game from the AI War dev where you play as a self-aware runaway AI that tries to take over a dystopian city. It is on early access but can be played from start to finish in it's current state. I just got into this game a few days ago and so far it's very good. it satisfies my XCOM 2 craving. I've never seen this game mentioned on here, how's the rest of the game? it has some funny racist references I've noticed sp far >be Command&Conquer: Red Alert 2
>be about alternate history
>scenario is no Adolf Hitler so no War World II
>game refrences events from... War World II
Why is Red Alert so bad at alternative history? From technology, to maps to picrel, devs could just simply make scenario "Cold War gone hot" without changing anything and would fit better Paradox just acquired Haemimont Games.
What are our hopes and fears?
https://archive.is/R7QHz I bought the $70 version and already have dozens of hours in it. Sure it'll be even better years from now, but in its current state it's pretty good. >completely overshadowed by Halo and quickly irrelevant despite being a genre-defining masterpiece
Will there ever be another Myth? >What's my favorite Civ game?
>Alpha Centauri Talk about new mods, mods you're hyped for, etc.
CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.html
NCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/index.html Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts's final update releases soon
>Cold waters 2 floating cold in the water
>3D naval sims have cowtowed to their 2D superiors
RtW chads won, excel spreadsheets are the superior means of naval sim gameplay
On the other hand, will he dev a new darthmod and save CA? Is it good yet?
Is it fun?
Are all the factions even in yet? Abandoned Children™ edition
Previous: >>1937452 Do you believe Adean was able to defeat Agrados(Corin)? They are you go to in a casual game or your main if you play the game competitively. Among the Factions in the Strategy Game they are the faction you choose first.
For me it have to be Zerg and Nod. what are your thoughts on the new dlc? also aow 4 thread how are you doing my lords and ladies What's the best modern game that plays like Settlers 2? The most fun part was setting up an economy, expanding territory and making a more and more efficient road system. Europa Barbarorum...home. >All the Civ VII hate got me want to play Civ V again
>Last played 2017
>Start game at 9:00 last night
>Look at clock thirty minutes later
>1:00 am
What witchcraft is this? What are all the features you wish hoi4 had? What's the consensus on the game? It's been out a bit now and is only $10 on Steam at the moment. I loved Civ IV. Never got into Crusader Kings though and I hear the game is partly Civ + Crusader Kings So who was this madlad after all and what was his endgame? >Playable nomads are coming to CK3.
>Confirmation of playable republics in 2026.
We're back folks. The only question is what's next. https://www.ageofempires.com/news/age-of-empires-iii-definitive-edition-dlc-news/
game on life support from now on (conveniently after the sale) What are some mechanics that, while making sense in context, are rarely or never done well ingame?
For example, civil unrest and rebellion mechanics make a lot of sense in many strategy settings because they're a critical aspect of national politics in many eras and have played a significant role in shaping world history. But mechanically, it's either some lameass modifier that's usually fairly easy to compensate for by building happiness buildings or whatever, or it's some absolute bullshit like rebel armies spawning out of thin air and sieging your cities. Any games where you can unleash /pol/ conspiracies to undermine your enemies?
>Virus that grinds their economy to a halt
>Vaccine that, when activated by special radio towers, zombifies or sterilizes everyone that took it
>Exporting your worst and dumbest
>Taking control of their currency
>Taking control of their media to reduce trust in leadership, increase degeneracy, et cetera
>Getting laws passed to allow garbage in their food supply
There was this post I saw once that described a really cool imo vaccine zombie apocalypse scenario with people suddenly forgetting who they were and panicking which I was going to use as picrel, but I can't find it. There was a pic of a deer in the op for some reason Is long war mod really the best way to experience xcom or its just another fan made bloated mod filled with tedium? >this style of RTS never took off despite being pure soul
It's not fair, bros Currently 50% off. Worth it? We must gondinue building gommunism For discussion of all Age of Empires games, from 1 - 4, to Mythology and Online
>News
2025 Community Letter
https://www.ageofempires.com/news/whats-coming-in-2025-for-age-of-empires-and-age-of-mythology/
>AoM:R
Immortal Pillars Chinese expansion launch on March 4th, and is also coming to PS5
>Age2
Will get "one of the most exciting" expansions with new content & civilizations "this spring." Artwork shows East Asians
Also coming to PS5
>Age3
Fuck you, you stupid sack of shit haha
>Age4
Will get 2 expansions: first is Knights of Cross and Rose, with a release date of the spring with two "well-known armies." Will aim for more variants, not specified if they'll come with w/ C&R
>Age Mobile
nobody plays this, it's cheap shit
>Age Online
Project Celeste fan project is still alive and kicking >tfa demo releases
>no thread
What the fuck, I'm going to be generous and assume people are actually playing vidya instead of complaining about a beta demo being incomplete, so let's change that https://www.ageofempires.com/news/pre-order-age-of-mythology-retold-immortal-pillars/
Age of Mythology Retold: Immortal Pillars will release on the 4th of March. Finally, we'll get to play as China (again). Will you be playing, /vst/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vBe-Tcehu4
Also, Retold will come to PS5 for some reason. play it and post screenshots Sup /vst/
I'm bored and I have my image editor open. Let's play a little game.
Give me a country flag from Hearts of Iron IV and its expansions and I'll redesign it.
For example: Here is Communist Algeria Why aren't we talking about this? Prior to the 1.0 update there was literal silence for months but it's now back baby. I realized I barely played the first one so I am going to play through that first.
Door Kickers general I guess? Thoughts so far? Discuss. How come Broken Arrow is the only war game that decided to use a modern day setting, instead of a cold war gone hot scenario Who's the GOAT of strategy game developers? It's free right now in Epic Games.
Does it works or is just another bugged free copy that constantly crash?
Works fine in Intel 620 HD? Lets talk about a 2021 tactical game with strange music choice. Why do all grand strategy games start to suck in mid-late game? ITT: strategy games that you and only you have ever played Talk about Stellaris here.
Which expansions are bloat, and which ones are good? When will Psichads get their time to shine?
How much a nigger is the Synthetic Queen? 
What makes strategy such a stagnate category of games? Most subgenres haven't been meaningfully innovated in a decade at least, and are often dominated by a single company.
>4X: everything has been superficially modifying the Civ 5 formula since Civ 5 came out
>Grand Strategy: Paradox reselling the EU4 formula in different packages again and again since 2013
>RTS: dead genre since the 00s, except Eugen releases some reskin of Wargame every couple of years
>RTS/TBS hybrids: Rome Total War is the first and last meaningful development here... 20 years ago
>City Builders: somehow Cities:Skylines was the only real advancement since Sim City 4 for modern ones, and historical city builders are in an even worse state
This isn't for a lack of necessary improvements. Most strategy games are plagued by horrid AI and buggy or non-existent multiplayer options. An inability to simulate much of anything is often held together by narrative elements. Entire time periods and forms of strategy are left out of most every game released, to the point even halfassed implementations are seen as unique. Economic simulation is almost always primitive, despite being the basis of all strategy. How did it get this way? >Civ 7 is bad
>Vic 3 is a disaster
>AoE 4 is dull
>Stormgate is DOA
>CK3 was abandoned
>HoI4 was packed full of bloat
>Warno still is an inferior game to WGRD after three years of development
Strategybros, I need some recommendations. Feels like everything that's come out recently has been really pretty disappointing. What's good out there these days? Time to talk about a franchise that is slowly dying. >it controls like absolute shit, therefore it's a really good RTS game this thread is dead on arrival
I just wanted to make a collection of anime themed RTS games because many anons claim that there is no such thing
>Star Maidens Chronicle
>Lost Technology
>LotusCraft - SecondSeason
>Touhou Boushuen ~ Age of Ethanols
>Terra Centauri
>(upcoming) The Touhou Empires
>(upcoming) Some anon making an RTS with schoolgirls
There are of course also mods like
>cymod (Red Alert 3)
>Anime DefenseX (WC3)
>Gundam OneYearWarA11 (Rusted Warfare)
>Girls und Panzer: Strategy Mod (Rusted Warfare)
>Gundam UC 0079-0083 Mod (HW2 Remastered)
>Annex: Conquer the World (MegaGlest)
>Command Assault (MegaGlest)
>XenoForce Mod (C&C Zero Hour)
>Xenoforce Reborn Mod (C&C 3)
>Mobile Suit Gundam: Stellaris (Stellaris)
notable mentions
>Grim Grimoire (weeb game with RTS elements)
>Battle Realms (asian theme
>Metal Fatique (mechs)
>Red Alert 3 (japanese faction) /vst/ HAD FALLEN INTO SHADOW
THE EARTH GREW COLD, AND THE WINDS WHISPERED OF Total War: Attila Thread.
https://youtu.be/kpd_BH5W-sk?t=285
AND I BEHELD A BLACK HORSE. AND HE THAT SAT ON HIM HAD A PAIR OF SCALES IN HIS HANDS. ATTILA WAS BORN. ALL KNELT BEFORE HIM. FOR THEY KNEW HE'D DEVOUR THE EARTH AND SET ON FIRE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE MOUNTAINS.
ATTILA THREAD WAS BORN FROM DARKNESS AND DESPAIR. 
Masterfully crafted edition
Previous: >>1931305
Avaliable for free at https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
or as a paid premium version on Steam or Itch.io
>What is the difference?
Both are the same game on the same version (51.xx). The free version uses ASCII as a tileset (but you can mod other usermade tilesets and graphic packs)
With the premium version you pay for a premium tileset + premium OST + access to beta branches and steam integration (if on steam).
>What is the status on Adventure Mode?
Added back to the game as of 51.02
>What has changed since I last stopped playing X years ago
Check the version history on the wiki
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Version_history
Dwarf Fortress has an extensive wiki which can help you with your question about DF as well as providing info about modding and 3rd party tools:
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Main_Page
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Utilities
Utilities you should know about
DFHack: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Utility:DFHack
Dwarf Therapist: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Utility:Dwarf_therapist
Legends Viewer: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Utility:Legends_viewer
>Tutorials :
Quickstart Fortress Mode: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Quickstart_guide
Quickstart Adventure Mode: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Adventure_mode_quick_start
Other tutorials: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tutorials
>A bunch of guides to various parts of fort-based living:
http://imgur.com/a/nGyRF
Strike the earth! Here's your new lelic strategy game, bro
https://youtu.be/H1fcAfm_gLM?si=yM1kwTKcYSwEOCLO >Civilization VI
>cartoonish-style (cuz brainrot fortnite zoomers)
>Intel 620 HD, 17-20 fps
>it looks like Civilization IV (one of the best 4X-TBS games) I can't stop turtling in every RTS I play and it's seriously starting to suck, I can't get gud, am I low T? Lacking aggression? Do I need semen retention? Seriously what am I supposed to do OTHER THAN send one huge wave at the enemy base and hope they can sweep it up. Should I read Art of War? Take an IQ test? Kill myself? I do enjoy these games but man I suck. I'm talking about games like Planetary Annihilation, Age of Empires 2, Command & Conquer, stuff like that Got this game on Switch (thank you RCM jig) yesterday and I don't even know how to describe how empty it feels. Like I'm pouring hours into it out of a desire to beat it but I can't say I'm having fun like with 5, 6, or Beyond Earth. There's like a billion fucking civics and technologies that just make yields increase slightly or give you a building that makes yields increase slightly, the XP for units is gone, the unique civ identities are gone, the multiple difficulties are gone, and all the Special 6 modes are gone. Who asked for this? Favorite tower defence games? Struggle for the Iliac Bay edition
previous thread: >>1908107
>M&B Wiki
https://antifandom.com/mountandblade/wiki/Mount_&_Blade_Wiki
> BANNERLORD
>Pastebin
https://pastebin.com/tAvcAbpT
>Custom Banner Maker
https://bannerlord.party/banner/
>Banner Code Sharing
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MEM-0Fz0yetJ8cZgLrPpHuDU6dO33bhsFiHsiWwiCDM
>Asset Extractor
https://github.com/szszss/TpacTool
>Create Custom Companions
https://butterlord.com/wanderers
> WARBAND
>Warband Pastebin
https://rentry.org/x7u7t
>Noob Guide (READ This) https://imgur.com/a/FMAqV
>Anon's Mods and Upstab Guide: https://pastebin.com/agwZu9Df https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-49-5th-february-2025.1728019/
Welcome to another Tinto Talks, the Happy Wednesday where we discuss details from our secret upcoming top secret game with the codename of Project Caesar. *is good now in your path* An awful thread for devs and no-devs to post their awful ideas for strategy games that will never see light of the day, etc. Are they gonna kill him off?
I’m hoping they don’t since they could do a lot with the character Will playing a lot of strategy video games make more a strategic person in real life? How would you change legends, if you were the absolute monarch of the CK team? >new game comes out
>everyone hates it because it's different
>previous game is seen as the real peak of the franchise
>people get used to the changes
>years go by and the game gets new content and updates
>game is now seen as good
>new game comes out
>everyone hates it because it's different
>previous game is seen as the real peak of the franchise
>people get used to the changes
>years go by and the game gets new content and updates
>game is now seen as good
>new game comes out
>everyone hates it because it's different
>previous game is seen as the real peak of the franchise
>people get used to the changes
>years go by and the game gets new content and updates
>game is now seen as good
It's getting old. See y'all when Civ 8 comes. out. Which way do you play civ2 to get music from the CD while playing?
>just play it on youtube
Except that. the thread
in the latest news
> PA
is adding a new industry focus system to accommodate localized economy alongside updating macro builder
> KE
is getting closer to the original game, stable mp and various modding extensions
> OV
is still implementing mechanics the og Victoria 2 way Endless bros... We're back. Humankind is free on Epic.
What is the game's absolute state now? It's a neat game on the operational level without hexes, has detailed OOBs and equipment/crew autism aswell
>Its core game(3 missions on the battle of bulge timeframe 1 tutorial)is free on steam with workshop support >what if we took everything good about our first game and turned it into some mediocre city management game haha
What were they actually thinking when they made this? Command & Conquer status?? pay your taxes to the hegemony Is it me, or is the AI in BFME 2 (and the expansion) broken as fuck. In the sense that even on normal (I tested it, don't know about easy) the AI is hardwired to play RUSH RUSH RUSH to your base from the get-go, sending unit after unit tunnel-visioned to destroy your production buildings to the point of circumventing your own units. Like, it's both funny and shit at the same time seeing it in action.
I get that strategy from the most strict, "dry", opportunistic angle possible - no production buildings = no resourses. But it sucks the fun out of the game almost completely. The maps are small, the AI doesn't know how to turtle (and doesn't let you do it) and it devolves into an aggressive spamfest of chasing down enemy troops going for your base like homing missiles. Even in the middle of the map.
I don't know, I didn't notice the AI being this braindead in BFME 1. Post games set during the 18th-19th century, preferably featuring goyim in cool European uniforms in formations. >1095
>Total War First Crusade?
>Total War Empire 2? (1683 in Islamic calendar) Everyone is laughing at you 
comfy RTS were the best
realtime strategy died and deaths in 2010-ish
Starcraft 2's Terran package was ok, there is nothing badly wrong with the terrans,but they put all the eggs in one basket and only the terrans were sufficiently designed in starcraft
it came in 2010
golden strategy years was early 2000, it would improve upon genres founding fathers: dune2, battle isle (which is dune 2 done in turn base so not an RTS) warcraft 1 and command and conquer
what games you ask? the real highlights of RTS are: Total Annihilation, Age of Mythology and NOT WARCRAFT3 but instead of Warcraft its an unknown Hungarian game named Armies of Exigo which portrays a world of Exigo instead of World of Warcraft
Exigo is still just the same as Warcraft/Warhammer thoughever:
-race of men
-dwarves
-chaos dwarves
-wood elf and dark elf (no higher elves thou)
-beastmen and goblins (orcs are unintelligent and not part of them)
-demons (affiliated with beastmen)
-only thing is missing is chaos gods
-Exigo throws in the mix a lovecraftian horror race of the fallen who are summoners of things beyond
I wish Exigo had became popular instead of Warcraft because the game itself was better but in the hands of Hungarians you cant get it promoted enough 
If you see a gibberish post, it was made by raiders, ignore it.
No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it never will be. Neither will EU5.
How fares your empire /gsg/?
This week in history:
Feb 13th, 1861 – Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Feb 13th, 1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
Feb 14th, 1349 – Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg.
Feb 14th, 1804 – Karađorđe leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
Feb 14th, 1919 – The Polish–Soviet War begins.
Feb 15th, 438 – Byzantine emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus.
Feb 15th, 706 – Roman emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
Feb 16th, 1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
Feb 17th, 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia.
Feb 17th, 1864 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
Feb 18th, 1861 – With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
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http://orph.link/random It was just cracked but i cant find it anywhere anyone still remembers this game? what are some other obscure strategy games that you were grinding back in the days? I want to learn to play EUIV. I only have 22 hours which is nothing for a paradox game. I've only started to scratch the surface. What advice would you give to someone just starting? It looks very intimidating but im willing to put on the hours in it. Playing the regular campaing as the Initiative. Around which year should I start building the outpost on the moon? Also Terra Invicta thread which is better, and more importantly, which has more SOVL? >"Oh, aye, it were me cousin—aye, me cousin, not me, I swear it! He seen a feller, bold as a badger in a henhouse, swipin’ up a piece o’ armor so grand it gleamed brighter than moonlight on a frost-kissed night! And wouldn’t ya know it, off he scarpered leggin’ it straight for the mountains yonder, to the northeast, sure as me ale is warm!"
>go there and fight camp
>legendary equipment is a light 130 defense "famed" armor last thread was semi-successful, let's see if there's enough momentum for another
contrarians and poorfags unite!
old >>1866472 I'm in search for one game, the one to fall in love with. Could it be Patrician 3? Dunno. Too much affairs. But I need a place to escape elsewhere. It has to be simple, retro-styled. No ultra 4k ultramegadetailed crap game. Just a zen garden, a microuniverse. Minecraft beta 1.7.3 was an option, but you're alone in there. Thoughts? Suggestions? What happened with the latest Protectors update? Is it so bad that the thread had to die here as well? How would you make asymmetrical warfare and playing as small nations without expanding work? I love these lil niggas like you wouldn't believe. Let me guess. You need "more". You now remember when the best game ever put out by Paradox Interactive failed. Just finished the alt-track Victory in the West campaign for the first time. Unthinkable basically plays like three different pushes rolled into one massive map - a real masterpiece but takes a lot of para-drops and flanking to overcome the Soviet numerical advantage. Market Garden was borderline impossible despite being on the historical track; you can't really win without capping the objectives and ending the scenario by Turn 3 or 4. I haven't picked up the DLC yet but planning to get Desert Fox/Desert Rats because I liked the North African scenarios, and maybe Blitzkrieg for the French theatre. What do you recommend? draw your dream units for RTS games with ms paint or something similar
fantasy, historical, sci-fi, whatever
NO GRABBLERS ALLOWED
VIOLATORS WILL BE PUT IN CAMPS Big 'Schlachtschiff-Kanon' Edition. Now that all talented people have left and theres no hope for improvement, what was their best game?
ps. No, its not vic2, it barely counts as a video game this has been a fucking big league war Which one of these is better to get right now?
Gates of Hell or AssQuad2? AND I MADE GERMANY BIGGER >Never bothered with Reforged
>Now I want to replay WC3, and try reforged
>Plus I want to try new mods
>Get 2.0 version
>Game runs like shit, stuttering and inconsistent FPS drops.
>People say is mostly being the 2.0 patch
>Uninstall and try previous version
>1.36.2
>Install
>Game runs really well....but get bugged voice lines not appearing at scenes or even when clicking/moving units.
Might be trying to delete old saves and do a new clean install....but still what a piece of shit game, Blizzard! And I just wanted to try Chronicles of the Second War...
So when will Blizzard release the new patch anyways?
Also a Warcraft 3 thread, I guess. In this thread we discuss Menace's devblogs until it releases.
>Part 4: Weapons
https://steamcommunity.com/games/2432860/announcements/detail/535464414104519508 We (relatively known indie dev studio, not telling who) are making a single player card game. We're still on the white board phase and the team is already at odds on what features/systems we want to implement.
Especially the "mana" generation.
Half of the team wants a separate draw pool (like Inscryption) while the other half wants an automatic +1 per round (like heartstone).
It's not gonna be a roguelike deckbuilder like Slay The Spire, but an actual 1v1 strategic card game like Magic The Gathering with campaign. Line War thread. This is unironically one of the most innovative RTS games ive found so far. it's all about automating your front lines and is PvP focused. I'm pretty sure this will be an e-sport some day (that's the devs goal at least). Unfortunately it has a low player base. Anyone pick this up in the steam sale? It's been 30 years. Anyone still play the original Colonization? But I keep coming back to it. Every few months I get the itch again. There's just something about it, despite all its flaws.
Does anyone else feel this? Foundation thread. Today I learned that having a grid is just so much better than not having it...
>Woah, a game that actually released instead of staying in early access.
How is your city going Full release is out now. What is the verdict? 
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