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Hey now its 1916 and you still have Berlin and some of the German fleet, whats to complain about?
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May 15, 2015 18:49
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Saros posted:I'm happy to play either side or year. 1914 I'll take the entente code is goons
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May 15, 2015 18:53
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Fausty posted:I just bought CMBN and the CW expac. RIP wallet, I knew thee well. Your wallet is not dead, it's just anorectic. uPen posted:Nazis don't show up for another 15 years or so. But Hitler is there.
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May 15, 2015 18:57
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uPen posted:Nazis don't show up for another 15 years or so. Rude. I would have played perfidious Albion.
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May 15, 2015 19:01
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Saros posted:Hey now its 1916 and you still have Berlin and some of the German fleet, whats to complain about?   Yeah, I got this. Thank god Bulgaria is still onside.
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May 15, 2015 19:20
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Alikchi posted:
At least there won't be any "We were stabbed in the back!" in this timeline.
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May 15, 2015 19:48
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Stabbed from every direction, repeatedly
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May 15, 2015 20:35
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Is there any good Cold War politics stuff? Particularly the 50s or 60s. That's what I study and nobody does it justice.
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May 15, 2015 20:42
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there's twilight struggle, and, uh, ???????????
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May 15, 2015 20:44
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corn in the bible posted:Is there any good Cold War politics stuff? Particularly the 50s or 60s. That's what I study and nobody does it justice. Well, there's Twilight Struggle and those old games, Balance of Power? I don't quite remember.
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May 15, 2015 20:45
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corn in the bible posted:Is there any good Cold War politics stuff? Particularly the 50s or 60s. That's what I study and nobody does it justice. Er, politics? In my wargames? Really though, no. The only Cold War stuff that exists is for hypothetical "Cold-War-gone-hot" scenarios. Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm, WinSPMBT, a bunch of John Tiller Cold War-era games, and uh... I guess the Wargame: EE/ALB/RD games. Kinda surprised Battlefront hasn't made a Cold War Combat Mission game yet.
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May 15, 2015 20:47
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Yeah off the top of my head Twilight Struggle, 1989, and Wir Sind Das Volk cover Cold War politics but they're all boardgames (albeit with online implementations, TS is getting a full Steam release soon IIRC)
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May 15, 2015 20:48
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Drone posted:Really though, no. Actually, Balance of Power was just that. 
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May 15, 2015 20:55
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corn in the bible posted:Is there any good Cold War politics stuff? Particularly the 50s or 60s. That's what I study and nobody does it justice. There's Balance of Power and Crisis in the Kremlin that I know of off the top of my head, but they're both pretty old and both cover the '80s more, anyways.
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May 15, 2015 20:56
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Alikchi posted:Stabbed from every direction, repeatedly I'd say 'you didn't need that southern pincer anyway' about our game but the really funny thing is you probably don't 
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May 15, 2015 20:56
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Oh, there's also Shadow President, but it's at the very tail end of the Cold War.
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May 15, 2015 20:57
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Drone posted:Oh, there's also Shadow President, but it's at the very tail end of the Cold War. Shadow President is cool, as is the sequel. It just seems like an untapped potential...
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May 15, 2015 20:59
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corn in the bible posted:Shadow President is cool, as is the sequel. It just seems like an untapped potential... I'd play it a lot more if the game weren't just so drat slow. You can have it running for a couple hours and still only advance time a few months.
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May 15, 2015 21:01
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Panthers in the Fog appeared on Steam, it looks like the floodgates of Matrix developers have opened now they've seen some sales figures.
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May 15, 2015 21:40
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So I downloaded and installed the demos for CM:Black Sea, Red Thunder, Fortress Italy, and Battle for Normandy, and have been getting into them in a big way this weekend. It's finally starting to click for me. I think in the past I always tried to approach CM games like any other RTS (CoH, etc.), rushing forward too quickly and thinking my little pixelmen were not nearly as fragile as they really are. Playing through the starter scenarios, I figured out that in most cases, you have like sixty goddamn turns to win the battle, there's no reason to try to get everything done in the first fifteen minutes. Take it slow and steady, plan your poo poo out, have reasons for doing things, and you'll do fine (and have fun). Now I'm just so torn on which of the games to actually buy first. Between the four demos there's already a pretty hefty amount of free content right there, so I have a bit of time to decide after I work through all of them. Have Battlefront said what the next CM game will be? Or an expansion or something?
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Drone posted:So I downloaded and installed the demos for CM:Black Sea, Red Thunder, Fortress Italy, and Battle for Normandy, and have been getting into them in a big way this weekend. It's finally starting to click for me. I think in the past I always tried to approach CM games like any other RTS (CoH, etc.), rushing forward too quickly and thinking my little pixelmen were not nearly as fragile as they really are. Playing through the starter scenarios, I figured out that in most cases, you have like sixty goddamn turns to win the battle, there's no reason to try to get everything done in the first fifteen minutes. Take it slow and steady, plan your poo poo out, have reasons for doing things, and you'll do fine (and have fun). Black Sea just came out so I'd expect it to just be expansions for a while. Probably one for Red Thunder soon?
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May 16, 2015 20:39
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What I want is a 'Ukrainian Irregulars' DLC. I want to fight over donesk airport with my little poorly trained and equipped troopers. I want russians without insignia too!
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May 16, 2015 20:41
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apseudonym posted:Black Sea just came out so I'd expect it to just be expansions for a while. Probably one for Red Thunder soon? So far Black Sea is in the running for my favorite of the four, but I feel like so far it lacks some of the random element that the WW2 titles have. In CM:BS, I feel like the state of modern military technology just underscores that if you get spotted at all, you're dead.
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Drone posted:So far Black Sea is in the running for my favorite of the four, but I feel like so far it lacks some of the random element that the WW2 titles have. In CM:BS, I feel like the state of modern military technology just underscores that if you get spotted at all, you're dead. But its so brutal and awesome to watch. Every BMP3 that dies is pure joy.
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May 16, 2015 21:00
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Baloogan posted:*[LASER WARNING]* Javelin impact.
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Drone posted:So far Black Sea is in the running for my favorite of the four, but I feel like so far it lacks some of the random element that the WW2 titles have. In CM:BS, I feel like the state of modern military technology just underscores that if you get spotted at all, you're dead. Very few things survive for long, that's for sure. It makes for some really intensive H2H dynamics, though - like chess with fog of war.
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Drone posted:So I downloaded and installed the demos for CM:Black Sea, Red Thunder, Fortress Italy, and Battle for Normandy, and have been getting into them in a big way this weekend. It's finally starting to click for me. I think in the past I always tried to approach CM games like any other RTS (CoH, etc.), rushing forward too quickly and thinking my little pixelmen were not nearly as fragile as they really are. Playing through the starter scenarios, I figured out that in most cases, you have like sixty goddamn turns to win the battle, there's no reason to try to get everything done in the first fifteen minutes. Take it slow and steady, plan your poo poo out, have reasons for doing things, and you'll do fine (and have fun). When I first played Shock Force I tried to play it like I was playing Warhammer 40k or something and was rushing Strykers right up to the front door of hostile buildings so the infantry inside could dismount and assault straight in. e: twitch stream of Starhammer - http://www.twitch.tv/slitherinegroup/b/659084364. Looks good. Alchenar fucked around with this message at 23:43 on May 16, 2015 |
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Alchenar posted:When I first played Shock Force I tried to play it like I was playing Warhammer 40k or something and was rushing Strykers right up to the front door of hostile buildings so the infantry inside could dismount and assault straight in. I can't help feeling my little pixel troops would have saddled me with some kind of "old blood and guts" moniker given how bloody my missions tend to be (but I've been succeeding, damnit!). Maybe I was more cut out to be a Russian commander. 
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Warsaw to Paris has stalled. I know someone was going on holiday or something but I just want to check that someone isn't blissfully sitting on the save having failed to pass it on. PS we should use the Matrix pbem system it's not broken.
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Can I play Ultimate General: Gettysburg against the AI with my wife? Or is it versus only for humans? We are looking into the next grognardish game to play against AI mostly due to the hassle of multiplayer, and Theatre of War has been mostly the game for us.
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May 17, 2015 15:57
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Not exactly grognardish, but I believe Battle academy 2 has cooperative campaign play.
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Goddamn I really wish DC: Case Blue had coop  . Am I able to like, separate army groups and then save after moving only x groups then a friend can take y?
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Vahakyla posted:Can I play Ultimate General: Gettysburg against the AI with my wife? Or is it versus only for humans? Don't believe so, no, Gettysburg is pretty strictly two sides only.
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I've often encountered the argument against coop in grognard or strategy games being "yeah but it'd be hard to find the same player again" or "yeah but what if the players just ignore you or ruin your game and the immersion by doing their own thing". I mean, I have a goddamn wife. She's here everyday and if we sabotage each other's efforts, maybe we have issues. Where is the coop of "a person in your household" going to? I loving love playing Anno games with her on just a shared setting where everyone can do everything with no artificial limits. Could a player ruin this game type by just deletint bullding you build? Yes. But get better friends I guess? Most easiest coop is to just share the controls. Give me that. The coop games are hard to find for us.
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Vahakyla posted:I've often encountered the argument against coop in grognard or strategy games being "yeah but it'd be hard to find the same player again" or "yeah but what if the players just ignore you or ruin your game and the immersion by doing their own thing". It's not easy at all if the game is not coded to work like that.
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If you're looking for a groggy co-op strategy game and aren't too fussed about realism, have you looked into Dominions 4? It works pretty well as a co-op game in Disciple mode, and if you're not an expert player the AI can put up enough of a fight to be interesting, though it isn't particularly good. Just be warned - it is crazy groggy, right down to the terrible interfaces.
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Order of Battle: Pacific has co-op vs AI maps 
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You could force your own co-op mode into WitP or WitE by just passing the save around, and pinky-swearing that you'll only conduct actions in your bit of the theater. You take over the Americans, your wife takes over the rest of the Allies, etc. But it's not simultaneous co-op.
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