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mllaneza posted:I'll still stan RtW's single-player experience over UA:D, but MP boat fights would be great. Now to set up a tournament bracket and figure out a system for drafting a team of boats
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One systematic approach could be; pick up your favourite naval biography, translate these historic persons into simplistic stereotypes, and have your participants send in something akin to a d&d role-playing character. Then assign command according to who they unknowingly resemble the most
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May 7, 2024 07:15
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Ah, a Mitscher-Benbow personality test.
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Is there still an active grog discord btw?
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Any good multiplayer co-op wargames that doesn't involve sending emails back and forth? I know the Scourge of War/Take Command series allowed players to control different units on the same side, was wondering if there was something similar to that out there (though not necessarily Civil War era or real time). Would love to play something like War in the East with each player taking a different Army Group.
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Pirate Radar posted:Now to set up a tournament bracket and figure out a system for drafting a team of boats Surely you mean draughting.
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mllaneza posted:I'll still stan RtW's single-player experience over UA:D, but MP boat fights would be great. My first thought here would be to translate RTW ships into UA:D so players could test their designs head to head.
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Gnoman posted:My first thought here would be to translate RTW ships into UA:D so players could test their designs head to head. RtW and UA:D's shipbuilding and tactical combat AI routines head-to-head, rendered in the UA:D engine, but with the maps from RtW.
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mllaneza posted:Surely you mean draughting. Yes, accepted.
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Pirate Radar posted:Now to set up a tournament bracket and figure out a system for drafting a team of boats I think 1904 is a really good tech year. Pre-dreadnaught battleships are surprisingly interesting given all the design constraints you have to work around, cruisers are also in an interesting space (they're either tb hunters or close-to Battleship strength), and torpedoes have a 1/2 nm range but you are absolutely hosed if you eat one. I bet there's scope for some really interesting MP there with composition and tactics. Not so much of a fan of the actual Dreadnaught era when it comes to competitive play because too much comes down to the die roll of who gets a devastating hit in first.
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After a brief search of the forums, this seems to be the right thread to ask about OOTP baseball. Assuming it is, would someone be so kind and answer these questions: Does the game come with historical seasons or have easy access to them? Does it have a draft option where you can randomize teams and/or draft your own?
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Waltzing Along posted:After a brief search of the forums, this seems to be the right thread to ask about OOTP baseball. Yes to both
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Waltzing Along posted:After a brief search of the forums, this seems to be the right thread to ask about OOTP baseball. 1. Yes! It's as easy as "New Game" and picking "Historical", then a year. 2. Also yes! You can do a full MLB layout and randomize the players, do a full draft, fill it with random gens, it's pretty goddamn robust. If you're a sicko, you can make completely fictional leagues. If you're a real sicko, you can make a custom world database of the Game of Thrones countries/cities and name generation database with Westeros/fantasy first-and-last names you stole from some tabletop RPG website on the internet to create the Westerosi Baseball League with teams spread all over the map with custom insignia and uniforms, because the whole Great House system lends itself REALLY well to natural team names, then let it all simulate for 40 years before creating a quickstart that you can pull up for New Game and lead the Dreadfort Flayed Men to victory. Then you can lose all of that work in the intervening years and get discouraged every time you think about playing the newest OOTP and it's just not the same because you're more attached to your imaginary baseball league than the game of baseball itself.  Uh there are also a ton of real world baseball leagues included (although not always the logos), but one MAJOR exception is that several years ago they lost the Nippon Pro Baseball license and the game's current publisher has no interest in buying it back, so they completely loving smashed older versions of the game with the NPB by delisting them, and haven't had real teams included (and possibly do some bullshit to stop YOU from adding them yourself?) since 2022. I'm mad about it. Squiggle fucked around with this message at 00:42 on May 15, 2024 |
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Thanks for the quick responses. Can I draft against the CPU? Seems this might be what I have a hankering for. I used to play APBA but have always been annoyed they don't just include the seasons. And the stats there are old school and stupid. Though the game themselves are entertaining.
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Waltzing Along posted:Thanks for the quick responses. Can I draft against the CPU? yes, you can make it so that other teams are CPU-controlled and will make their draft decisions separate from yours
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Cool. Thanks much.
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Video Games › Grognard Games Megathread - New Rotisserie Style!
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Wait don't we have to warn this poor fellow about that book about a guy who becomes obsessed with his fictional dice baseball league like the old op from 10 years ago. Edit the Universal Baseball Association
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I'm actually very pleased that my joke post about including OOTP into the thread's remit actually came true. Shine on, grognard thread.
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Either here or we fall in with the fantasy baseball thread, which, yeuch
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Yeah, OOTP is simulationist and niche as gently caress so it is at the very least grog adjacent. And it probably doesn't have an active thread in and of itself like Football Manager might.
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Waltzing Along posted:Thanks for the quick responses. Can I draft against the CPU? No idea what an APBA was, so I googled it, and wanted to see some of that sweet sweet gameplay example and I was greeted with a .pptx file. The gently caress is a pptx file, and why aren't use using PDFs like rational people?
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Sick, that's a Powerpoint deck. What are they making, modpacks for Silent Hunter?
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Speak of the devil, I was looking up Naval Action the other day and it seems like the devs have finally caved and are pivoting to making a singleplayer Pirates!-but-hardcore-sim game.
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call to arms or steel division?
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Asproigerosis posted:call to arms or steel division? Depends what you are looking for. Call to arms - Gates of Hell is much smaller scale, you will be commanding 2-10 squads of infantry on average + 2-5 tanks. Give or take. You can take individual control of each unit and play as a semi-fps (don't expect too much). Steel division takes place on much larger maps, with many more units and is more abstracted in many ways. It's more of a big-picture game where you aren't as concerned with what individual soldiers are doing.
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Alchenar posted:Speak of the devil, I was looking up Naval Action the other day and it seems like the devs have finally caved and are pivoting to making a singleplayer Pirates!-but-hardcore-sim game. I mean that’s better, but without coop if not some kind of pvp its going to just be the same as grinding by yourself in NA isn’t it?
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Alchenar posted:Speak of the devil, I was looking up Naval Action the other day and it seems like the devs have finally caved and are pivoting to making a singleplayer Pirates!-but-hardcore-sim game. Is this a new game or an update to Naval Action? Edit: Looked it up Sea Legends it graphically looks fantastic. I am definetly down for a single player AOS game, for it's flaws I still really enjoyed Naval Action and the old Sea Dogs game was one of my favourites. Popete fucked around with this message at 18:57 on May 20, 2024 |
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Mech Engineer is out now on Steam. From Steam Page posted:Mech Engineer is a mech lover’s dream come true: you will oversee every aspect of your squad's operation, from optimizing the reactors to fine-tuning weapons systems. Carefully tweak and balance each mech's weight, energy, and heat systems to maximize efficiency. Despite being a game published by Microprose I wasn't sure if I should post it in the Grog thread until I took a look at the Steam reviews. quote:Great concept, terrible execution. I'm sorry, but the UI is incredibly obtuse to the point of being unplayable. Refunded.
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Popete posted:Mech Engineer is out now on Steam. The right call. DCS F-4 is delayed and I really need my "try to cooperate with obtuse finicky machine spirit" fix
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Arrath posted:For $12? I can stomach an obtuse UI.. We're grogs, I can stomach it for $79.99 so this is basically free
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its not an obtuse UI more like mystery mechanics but its p cool
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Squiggle posted:We're grogs, I can stomach it for $79.99 so this is basically free lmao
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Okay I've tried the demo for a few minutes and it is super obtuse but I beat the first mission so hey, progress. E: I tried to build a mech, got told I had to 'assemble and ignite a reactor' so pieced one together and hit ignite. It runs but god only knows if it'll work in combat or immediately overheat. I have no earthly idea what I'm doing. Arrath fucked around with this message at 00:23 on May 22, 2024 |
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I found Ardennes Offensive on sale and man, they changed a lot. Finding it a big hump to relearn where the cards are, air power, artillery, unit tabs versus officer tabs. Something just feels off about it after playing all of the other ones.
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Chump Farts posted:I found Ardennes Offensive on sale and man, they changed a lot. Finding it a big hump to relearn where the cards are, air power, artillery, unit tabs versus officer tabs. Something just feels off about it after playing all of the other ones. Definitely, but overall I like the changes he's made. I think they suit the scenarios in DCAO, and while it's not an exact comparison because the scale is different I think DCAO comes out as an even better game than the other DCs.
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Yeah there's a real whiplash coming from Barbarossa where you go from 'every turn represents a week, your day is spent trying to negotiate between train nazi and truck nazi', to 'every turn represents 3-4 hours of combat, you have to decide what individual artillery battles do'. Really does demonstrate the versatility of Vic's game design process.
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Squiggle posted:We're grogs, I can stomach it for $79.99 so this is basically free 
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