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! Fuck that specific spot edition
Thread to discuss Graviteam tactics and Combat mission games and others like them. which autism game if you only had to pick one? It's almost here. Are you ready for RTS to be saved? Are you ready for EA to get off its ass and make a new Command & Conquer game?
>2 factions
>22 missions
>9 skirmish maps /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. Are you excited for the new manaslop? Looks fun, going to start playing soon. Do you recommend playing the predecessor? The definitive edition "Distant Worlds: Universe" is pretty cheap. how are you doing my lords and ladies Playing the regular campaing as the Initiative. Around which year should I start building the outpost on the moon? Also Terra Invicta thread What are some of the best and/or unique chain economy strategy games? What I mean by this is something like
>I need a lumberjack to cut wood, so that would will be cut down to planks in a sawmill, and those planks can be used to produce X in Y building, which can be used to produce Z
Games I that feature what I mean:
>Stronghold series
>Widelands
>Dwarf Fortress My sun elf empress can't be this cute edition
>>1989950 
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/tinto-maps-14-western-africa-feedback.1735454/
Hello, and welcome to another Tinto Maps feedback post! Today, we will be reviewing the region of Western Africa. However, I want to start today with some caveats regarding it, given the feedback we received last week regarding the Horn of Africa review, and to make for clearer communication.
1. For the Western Africa review, we mainly focused on adding the missing region of what is today's Central African Republic, inhabited during most of the game's period by the peoples of the Banda, Zande, Gbaya, and many others. Back in time, we had some doubts and issues regarding how to add it properly, but now we've been able to incorporate it fully.
2. Besides that, we also prioritized the redraw of the coastline of the Gulf of Guinea since it was noted that it looked a bit too artificial, so we made it follow more the topography and rivers of the area while still keeping the 'outpost' gameplay functionality. We are aware that there were a lot of proposals to add many more locations, such as those of @Gouda_boy or @Bosporus , but we also evaluated that they would add much more location density than the one we were looking for in this region. Has anyone here tried this? 
Anyone else getting USSR in 1990 vibes?
https://files.catbox.moe/80z6tb.png - Bormann TNO2 flowchart (never releasing).
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 back from break, will respond to all bait.
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 with mandatory non-canon nukes.
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://files.catbox.moe/3n9lq9.pdf - New Granada walltext.
https://files.catbox.moe/r86sw7.pdf - 200p walltext about Colombian soccer mechanics.
https://files.catbox.moe/4w4k3k.png - Turkestan Legion rework flowchart. 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. Is there any strategy game with veterancy system that doesn't feel lackluster? I guess X-com and Battle Brothers but I haven't played much of these two and one could argue there it's more in line with rpg's leveling up. is it possible to bring back the old schizo tno ? , or fag/redditors of dev team mentality of "muh realism " is so far gone that there's is no way back
like i know the old ones were not the best but damn compared to this , they should never listened reddit. 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 >>1958143 What do you think of one of the many outcomes of SACW where Patriot Front, fed-backed organization comes out on top? Also there are too many socialist outcomes out there. 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. is anyone playing this - did anyone play the original game? Looks like a 4X mix of Dune and 40K. it's been Enhanced and just released on Steam. best big kang build before they nurf them for their next dlc? Empire Earth sisters we are so back
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638690/Empire_Eternal/ How many years did this event set RTS development back? I'm looking for a Space 4X game with planetary invasions/ground combat that is more than just a numbers or a tech game. Something similar to Master's of Orion 2, where it factors in tech, numbers, equipment, but also troop type, and tanks as well, if not more. The only other game that I managed to find which somewhat suits my autism for this is Endless Space 2. 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. Is it good yet?
Is it fun?
Are all the factions even in yet? Endless Legend 2 waiting room and Endless series discussio Talk about new mods, mods you're hyped for, etc.
CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.html
NCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/index.html > start strategy game
> delete every unit on map
> use the regained ressources to built proper units
why is this so common
how would you fix it? 
Old school waves edition
Previous: >>1968807
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 next?
Fort mode siege mechanics changes, rework and general spice up. Probably around may-july(copium)
End of Lua beta and merge into the main branch
>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! ITT: strategy games that you and only you have ever played >lets make europe more op
i'm not even joking i want to smash your fucking heads right open so that nothing remains of it and i don't hvae to live with your existence We must gondinue building gommunism Call to Arms - Gates of Hell is a realistic RTS/ RTT game that offers endless replay value. Command all types of troops in historical singleplayer, dynamic campaign, PvP and PvE battles. Are you ready for some serious immersion in World War 2?
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/app/400750
FitgirlRepacks free download: https://fitgirl-repacks.site/call-to-arms-gates-of-hell-ostfront/ 3K expansion does not violate histrory any more than giving mesoamericans and subsaharan africans advanced European tech.
I look forward to playing this What is your favorite game in the "failed Civ killer" genre? But has a 9/10 rating on steam
>basically it’s if the movie the Abyss was a strategy game 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/ What happened with the latest Protectors update? Is it so bad that the thread had to die here as well? They are adding another race.
What recipes are they going to fuck up now, like they did with field kitchen? DLC edition
>M&B Wiki
https://antifandom.com/mountandblade/wiki/Mount_&_Blade_Wiki
> BANNERLORD
>Pastebin
https://pastebin.com/tAvcAbpT (embed)
>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
>>1969264 >*opens game*
>200Mb crash report
>I guess I gotta turn off a mod
>*turns it off*
>400mb crash reports every 15 minutes >play china
>have the best defenses in the game (bunkers and nuke cannons)
>build 7 barracks and start queing up 9 hackers from each
>spam them like fucking crazy
>eventually hit the point where you're getting 2k dollars every second
>build overlords with bunker addon and put 4 missile niggas and 1 pyro in each one
>steamroll everybody Why every single city-building game after pic related (which wasn't great itself, but at least it didin't suck) was such a shitshow? What the fuck happened that literally every single fucking game in this genre sucks so hard past the year 2004? Do any of you guys play the Eador Genesis New Horizons mod?
https://eador.com/B2/viewtopic.php?t=4732 Logistics, Atmosphere, Kino. Time to talk about a franchise that is slowly dying. https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-379-you-are-what-you-eat.1734969/
New traits and biopunk bats. Now that the upcoming Graveyard of Empires DLC have rolled out the contents that Iran, Iraq, India and Afghanistan will receive, what are you thoughts on it? And with GroE releasing soon, does this mean that we will finally get/be a step closer to a full-on total rework for China and an expansion for the Pacific Front/Southeast Asia?
Old Thread: >>1927763 play it and post screenshots This little game has recently exploded in popularity, about time we had a thread about it
>What is lines of battle?
Its a (deceptively) simple online game about Napoleonic warfare, you try to build an good army with the points you're given and fight your opponent in simultanious turns. Basically its an online version of a 19th century Kriegsspiel.
>Why should you play this?
The game is free and requires no download
The matches are short and sweet
It has an active multiplayer community (max 1 minute to get into a match)
Its very addictive once you get the hang of it and suprisingly complex
The dev is rapidly improving it, he just added some new units and 2v2 matches are coming soon. The HOI4 Modding thread is completely consumed by incel chud TFR propagandist rage, so we need a place to discuss the best mods for HOI4. Mods that have more than three tags with content, you know? this is vaporware, right? Back then there was an obvious successor to Total Annihiliation- Supreme Commander. This was then followed by Planetary Annihilation. So there was a clear line of succession.
Now?
We got Beyond All Reason, Sanctuary Shattered Sun and Industrial Annihilation.
Three games all vying for the title of SupCom's successor. I don't want to go there, since I'm sure all these games are fun in their own right, but is this like the [spoilers]Wars of the Diadochi?[/spoiler] >"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 I’m about to play an EU4 multiplayer game with around 20 people and I’m curious about the meta for the Aztecs, since I’ve never played them before. I know that Spain, UK, Sweden, France, Portugal, and the Dutch are all likely to declare war on me for the gold mines.
How do I manage the reform without getting annexed in the first war? They don’t need to core the province to claim it, which means they could potentially stop me from reforming. Any tips? 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? Ah shit, here we go again so i never playerd a rts before but tyler1 playing warcraft 3 made me wanna give rts a shot.
What are some rts games that have an active pvp scene? w3 only has like 8k active and most of these playing cause of tyler 1 so i dunno if its the right one to invest time into 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 >Nagas from Warcraft 3
>Arabs as their own faction in Stronghold:Crusader instead of just mercenary units
>Tyranids in the first Dawn of War
>Humans in Universe at War
What is it for you? And I'm not just talking about rts games. It just happened that all my examples are from rts. This is my introduction into the series and im loving it but im not 100% sure i understand how to bring patricians to my settlement.
How the hell do i get spices? Am i supposed to use dates and the nomads to settle lower islands for copper and gold? I dont see any spices. It's simply the best TA-like RTS out right now, nothing else can compare. 
i'll blogpost my run
>start a Catholic single county count in iberia 769
>ally with west francia by marrying my heir to a bastard
>muslims finish war with west francia
>holy war muslims for a duchy
>call in west francia
>take the duchy of Porto
>years later muslims holy war us for the duchy
>give up the county for a second son and keep the duchy for myself
>muslims vassalize me
>muslim king hates me
>revokes my duchy
>puts me under a 2 county duke
>i have 4 counties
>build up a county to be a future capital, continue amassing wealth and making alliances
>years later have 1200 gold
>2 dukes split off from the Umayyads
>war my duke liege for independence with my own troops
>war the muslim king for independence with allies and mercs
>holy war the 2 dukes that split off
>join the Christian kingdom of Asturias
>muslim king dies
>holy war his successor for one more duchy
>give away duchies to dynasty members and sit in my corner of the world building up my new capital
>holy war and land dynasty members when possible
>take Pisa and Genoa from filthy merchant Lombards to make my endgame demesne
>years later no muslims in iberia or western northern africa
>muslims are getting their shit pushed in by the Byzantines in the eastern front
>they implode twice over the years
>Byzantines unland the pope
>muslims finally somewhat get their shit together and manage to get 54k troops with some event spawn bullshittery
>Byzantines have 40-60k depending on the emperor
>Hispania has ~55k as well
>everything seems balanced and could go anywhere
>game stutters
>then pic related happens
>the Byzantine Empire has primogeniture somehow now >mogs AOW4 with less budget i do not care for historical TW and I want them to just focus on warhammer and stop wasting money on these crappy historical total wars. What would be some good alternatives for a groups of friends still playing Civ V and want to try something simiilar but different? when u can't zoom-in in an rts game. so many cool games with awesome visual style and design of characters but u cannot see the battle commencing up close - which is should be a no-brainer in the RTS genre. So fricking annoying... >As a human was a cold blooded murderer
>As infested was genocidal maniac
>After being deinfested first action was to attack her saviour.
>Upon escaping returned to mass murder
>Killed a warfield for no reason to save le zerg
>Killed protoss for no reason
>Infested herself again
>Somehow get rewarded with apotheosis
Is there anyone in vdst that deserved to suffer as much as this writters pet? https://discord.gg/fwtcdesj
We're running an EU4 game sometime towards the end of the month. We've already got something around 12 players rostered and are looking for more. If your interested join the server and let the Admins know you want to join the coming session. 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. What are some good economic/business simulation games with a strong requirement of autism? what is a good rts to start with if you've never played the genre? something with a lot of replay value and preferably modern weaponry(explosives/nukes if possible) Can he help me in strategy/tactics games? How do I git gud? I took Drassen then as soon as I get to Alma I'm getting assraped by a bunch of powerful guns and armored enemies that I can barely tickle with my pistols, smgs and shotgun. what's the official peer reviewed /vst/ consensus? ITT games that filtered you due to their pathfinding.
I love everything about this game. Yeah, even the graphics, being the first 3D RTS gives it quite some charm. But holy shit, is the unit pathing making me want to burn my PC to fucking ashes. And I don't even want to imagine how bad it was when it came out, considering I'm playing the "new and improved" open source version. Wargame Warno Steel Division
I'm having a lot of fun in warno What do we think of Regiments? I'm a HOI4 and CK3 normie and I always thought EU4 is 2hard4me, how do I enjoy this game? This game is comfy, watching the little ship blips zoom around the galaxy is oddly fun. But anyways, I'm having trouble with getting my research up. I try and spam explorers to uncover areas I can put down research stations but that seems extremely luck dependent. And then by the time mid-game rolls around, the AI somehow has double my research points. Are they just getting lucky and finding more research areas or what?
Also what are some good ship designs. There are like 5 weapon types and so little weapon hardpoints, its hard to know what to put on my ships. Is it best to mix, or go uniform? Have anyone else here played it? It's fun for a browser game. The last SC2 tournament
ASL group selection soon Gothic. Atmosphere. Kino. Are they gonna kill him off?
I’m hoping they don’t since they could do a lot with the character So who was this madlad after all and what was his endgame? Time to talk about the most popular and unfair franchise about defending Earth from Aliens. lol you thought they'd put tibet in a game edition
https://www.ageofempires.com/news/pre-order-age-of-empires-ii-definitive-edition-the-three-kingdoms/ 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. Explain this game to me, i follow one boomer who plays BG1/2 normally but now switched to Lords of Magic and it is the most confusing game i ever watched. Im not even sure what genre it is. Anyone play yet? What's the /vst/urdict? 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. >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 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 Playing EU4 with friends and a few randoms, we are looking for extra players for our games.
How do you get people to join your game that won't ddos or just cheat in 1 million gold? So let me get this straight, we have waited for over twenty years, just for it to be an asset flip with custom terrain and some engine extension quirks that everyone has? 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? 
>be me
>open galimulator
>start 2000 star galaxy (spiral)
>watching empires crumble and rise
>pretty chill
>"huh the one empire is falling pretty fast, but they've got one enclave in the southern core that's only holding due to a gun stati-"
>idea.jpg
>struggled with emperor mode before
>realize the key to success and glorious conquest=
>TOTAL. GUN. PLATFORM. SPAM.
>by disabling auto ship construction you can place a gun platform (or multiple) in any of your stars at any time (as long as you have the cap).
>they will attack nearby ships and defend their area of attack
>when paired with fortifying stance they can defend against empires many techs ahead
>totallynotbroken.png
>decide to use my new found knowledge to great advantage
>find rioting empire in eastern middle ring
>target detected
>take control of small warlord state with only one entrance to capital
>decide to LARP as socialists cause automated gay space communism or something, amirite?
>rename empire to United Communes of Tertasmu (or something like that).
>nice light red color to match
>immediately pop out 2 gun platforms plus flagship.
>fellow local warlords begin to fall one by one as region consolidates
>annex medium sized region in middle of the formal empire
>4 glorious weapons platform valiantly defend motherland
>Internationale.mov
>notice something strange
>apparently my government isn't entirely unreactionary
>succession allows for relatives of leader
>begin picking some sons and siblings of leaders as they die, but not everytime >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 Will apparently come out during Q2. Trailers make it very reminiscent of HOMM3 but in 3D and with two upgrade paths for each unit. https://youtu.be/Zn6ZBqFJQ7g Is stronghold Crusader the best game in the stronghold series? https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-flavour-12-4th-of-april-2025-ilkhanate-persia-chagatai-rise-of-timur.1734368/
Hello, and welcome one more week to Tinto Flavour, the happy Fridays in which we take a look at the flavour content of the super secret Project Caesar!
Today will be an interesting day since we will be taking a look at the content we have for the Persian/Iranian region, including the Ilkhanate IO, and also at the content related to the Rise of Timur situation, which includes the flavour for the Chagatai Khanate. What's the best Total War game for a beginner? what are the /vst/ approved videogames?! >new cities skylines DLC
so I guess the sequel is pretty much dead yeah?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZdm5YX3k-E what's the best RTS game with base building ever made? 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) Solar Nations 2
Brought the game, played for 90 minutes or so to get the hang of it.
The premise is what I always wanted: grand strategy about first steps as interplanetary civilization. Execution however, is questionable
>Next to no documentation
>Game goes on a bit too fast, centuries pass without you really noticing
>Very little flavour
>Ai is dumb
>Get laggy
>Bugs ahoy
>Mechanics are unintuitive-see above for lack of documentation
Despite this, potential is clearly there
So, Solar Nations 2 thread what's the /vst/ consensus on darfall 
>just played CiV again
>so much fucking drama because Washington started settling too close to me so I had to invade him early
>then the Ayyrabs started converting my cities to Islam and wouldn't stop when I asked so I had to invade them too
>everyone else calls me a warmonger and Germany leads the charge in sanctioning my shit/declaring war on me
>especially Japan which keeps bullying one of my city state allies and bragging to me about it
>eventually join up with Catherine and Xerxes when they both start adopting the freedom ideology
>start getting friendlier ties while beelining to heavy artillery and rocket launchers
>hell march on Japan and America, wiping both off the map
>wait, why is Germany so quiet lately
>satellites researched, revealing at some point France and Russia invaded his autistic ass and reduced him to just one city
>but what's this?
>fucking Catherine has been quietly speed running the space race and is 2/3 done
>her and Napoleon are now invading Xerxes, who has been good to me throughout, while turning hostile to me and threatening me with nukes
>They're both too far away to start invading
>put everything into tech and scientists and gold so I'll have enough to buy ship parts instantly because again freedom ideology
>manage to get my ship launched just in time
Literally nothing in Civ 6 has ever come close to this and I have zero hopes for 7 whatsoever. The franchise is just city simulators now. Is this actually happening anytime soon? I stopped following the other open source project when i found out how many changes they did to the game. I want to form germany but at this rate the coalitions will never end. I have poland, lithuania and castille as PU'S and created servia and albania as marches but and now that the league war is about to fire i wont get any imperial authority and i cant just smack down the princes due to the coalition, i was planning on turning protestant and leaving the empire but i took the moronic decision of taking defender of the faith to get the morale bonus and smack france precisely to have a truce so this coalition wouldn't happen. I just need to loose defender of the faith and turn reformed somehow I am top 10 in toy soldiers multiplayer for Xbox 360. I also hold all single player records for each level in both TS1 and cold war. AMA. Just bought the first RCT on steam, and oh boy..why making turns for my rollercoasters that hard? Been banging my head the whole evening trying to make a single workable wood coaster for my dinky park, but couldn't get it to work due to how hard connecting the circuit loop is..
It's weird, thought I would struggle with the momentum or making it interesting, but it's making turns and having them connect to the start point that's been bugging.
Anyway, have any of you anons ever played it? How about the sequels? And the spiritual sucessor? (Planet Coaster) What are we thinking bros?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_XB-8FfEw0&ab_channel=MicroProse What if Aztecs, Mayan and Inca got access to stable if they were allied to non mesoamerican civ?
They'd get access to a knight line that benefits exclusively from eagle upgrades.
They'd also get access to a mounted slinger; slingers are basically a hand cannon so mounted hand cannon would be pretty cool compared to cav archers.
As for dock tech, while it would be amazing to see aztec or mayan cannonships be better for them to have catapult ships. 
Any of these are good, I mean, damn wild crazy good? All I want is FUN. Do they still hold up? If not well... what games do? I've acquired "some" strat games on gog over the last decade or so but had little time to dive in but that was the past and now I do have some extra daily hours and currently gettin' a little nostalgic here.. also it's gettin' on my nerves that I didn't enjoy 'em properly but who cares, that's just me.
Anything goes, I'm up to it, I can face challenges and dig into "new" stuff, no personal favorites, any subgenre is welcomed. Where do I start? Any personal favorite/memory of yours or any stuff you still play? If so, tell me; maybe it's sitting on my backlog. Yeah I know that some of these are quite popular but the "$" thingy is just a purchased games tag of sorts or whatever.
On top of my head I can list some of my personal unusual favorites from back in the day – if that helps:
>EU for the glory
> distant worlds 1
> the nations aka die völker 2 (german classic)
> startopia
> c&c tiberian sun
> war wind
> black moon chronicles
> combat mission
> close combat classics
> industry giant 2
> seven kingdoms 2
> etc
If some open source engine or whatever is required for optimal gameplay under windows 11 lemme know. Thanks! For me, it's The Lord of the Rings™: The Battle for Middle-earth™ II: The Rise of the Witch-king™ 
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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:
Apr 5th, 1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
Apr 6th, 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
Apr 7th, 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
Apr 8th, 1866 – Austro-Prussian War: Italy and Prussia sign a secret alliance against the Austrian Empire.
Apr 9th, 1609 – Philip III of Spain issues the decree of the "Expulsion of the Moriscos".
Apr 10th, 1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
Apr 11th, 1713 – France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Utrecht, bringing an end to the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War).
Apr 12th, 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
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Previous thread >>1996858 I've played MoO2 to death but never the first one. what's the best way to play this game? vanilla, with patches, 1oom, etc? I did try Remants of the Precusors but I really do not like the art and interface - I want to play the original MoO 1 Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 remasters and source code now! I know the quote 'if something works, don't change it', but I don't see any point if getting new games if they are just like the previous ones.
I think picrel games would win a lot of fun and new ways of winning if they added TW combat (like it was in Medieval 2, not the modern warhammerized one). Which game/mod should I download if I want a somewhat realistic experience of what it's like to be Deng Xiaoping, Kennedy, De Gaulle or Putler? It's disgusting how paraslop consumers became conditioned into considering German HRE as something fundamentally different than other monarchies.
Parliament of princes, cities and clergy? Many monarchies had it.
Elective emperor?
Poland had massive elections with thousands of small nobles gathering and voting.
Vassals acting as de facto independent entities? Happened all the time with all monarchies around Europe. >What's my favorite Civ game?
>Alpha Centauri Frozen synapse was basically the last novel idea in strategy and tactics games. Everything since then has just been a rehash of an earlier idea, possibly while cramming it into the roguelike form. Disagree all you want, but you're wrong. Why aren’t you playing Xenonauts 2? Thread for the discussion of AOE, AOE2, AOE3, AOE4, and AOM
Discuss gameplay, tactics, the professional circuit, future updates, and your concepts for the next civ expansion!
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Previous: >>1985764 So, aside from the obvious differences between unique units, do the factions in this game have any unique traits or bonuses to generic units/upgrades/buildings, or is it all strictly just copy-pasta? I would like to waste a lot of hours trying to git gud at a Paradox game again. Should I play CK3 or Stellaris? Wedding Dress Edition
Previous: >>1971443 >executor is bad
also reminder that 0.98 is out https://fractalsoftworks.com/2025/03/27/starsector-0-98a-release/ https://youtu.be/4IJSDWOBmLk?t=693
How can a game produce these kinds of fun scenarios after nearly 15 years from its release date? this is a modern japanese strategy game released in 2017. Say something nice about it what the hell IS a monarch point? 
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