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corn in the bible posted:It's interesting, though I'm stuck on one of the missions and can't see how it's possible. Maybe I'm missing something, though. I have to admit, the idea of a squad-based tactical game with muskets interests me strangely, even if I have trouble thinking about how it'd work without becoming a shitshow of one kind or another.
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Tomn posted:I have to admit, the idea of a squad-based tactical game with muskets interests me strangely, even if I have trouble thinking about how it'd work without becoming a shitshow of one kind or another. Squad-based tactical Age of Rifles nnnnggghh  Now imagining a Combat Mission/Graviteam Tactics-type game able to handle poo poo like Rorke's Drift... 
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COOL CORN posted:John Tiller makes the best damned games. Especially the Panzer Campaigns series. Just don't buy Jutland or Midway.
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COOL CORN posted:John Tiller makes the best damned games. Especially the Panzer Campaigns series. I'm extremely triggered by all those units in travel mode, even if its turn 0. One good airstrike away from a nasty disruption.
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Tomn posted:I have to admit, the idea of a squad-based tactical game with muskets interests me strangely, even if I have trouble thinking about how it'd work without becoming a shitshow of one kind or another. Sorta kinda Expeditions: Conquistador although that also is pretty RPG over grog
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Koesj posted:I'm extremely triggered by all those units in travel mode, even if its turn 0. One good airstrike away from a nasty disruption. For some reason, tanks and mech units seem to always be in travel mode.
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COOL CORN posted:For some reason, tanks and mech units seem to always be in travel mode. No you can change it, otherwise losses would be SEVERE (more like realistic, f u Tiller for not updating the combat system enough for the '85 games).
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Just found out the hard way that JT Squad Battles and JT Panzer Campaigns don't really work in Windows 10 ... Weird graphical glitches and lag.
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Tomn posted:I have to admit, the idea of a squad-based tactical game with muskets interests me strangely, even if I have trouble thinking about how it'd work without becoming a shitshow of one kind or another. In this case, you have people with names and voices and inventories, who you can add to your party for missions -- they have a set party limit so you won't always have a full group -- but in larger scale assignments you'll also be assigned regular soldiers to accompany you. They don't carry over between missions so they're essentially disposable. The named units can die or be upgraded, though I've also recruited a few in the course of the game. It's sort of an RPG I guess but it's also pretty groggy too. They definitely marketed it like a tactical wargame anyway
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Graviteam Tactics: Op Star question (though it likely applies to both). Having more or less gotten the hang of the controls, I've just started my first campaign in Op Star and I'm a bit confused. I started as the Germans on Volonovka or something like that since it's a good, basic campaign. I start with with 3 PzJg I's and some infantry to the north of a Russian held village, and some infantry to the south. For the first campaign turn I attacked from both the north and the south. For the first battle, I fought as the forces on the north side and won a total victory, while capturing most of the key points. After that battle was over - and on the same turn - I fought as the forces from the south... and retook the exact same key points which were now Russian again. Again, I won a total victory and by the end of the second battle, the town and all its surrounding points were captured and held by me. So, I advanced to the next turn and, lo and behold, the village is still held by Russians.  There seems to be zero continuity to the campaign and all my hard work has been wiped away. Am I missing something?
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May 14, 2016 23:33
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Baloogan CMANO workshop still only has scenarios, not the nice image database. drat you.
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turns out the problem I had with TOE reinforcements in ATG was an actual bug. Just got an email back from Vic saying that it is fixed in v221n Apparently everything gets hosed up if you play single player - new dawn - and turn resources off
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May 16, 2016 06:43
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Shrapnel Games is have a sale from now until May 30th. 13-80% off their titles. http://www.gamersfront.com/store/memorial_day_sale.html
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Gay Hitler posted:turns out the problem I had with TOE reinforcements in ATG was an actual bug. Just got an email back from Vic saying that it is fixed in v221n Vic is just one of the nicest devs I've come across and he really deserves someone *cough* Paradox *cough* to swoop in and see what he can do with a bit more operating capital and support.
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Yeah he's fantastic.
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Reminder that I had a PBEM game break on me and he built a custom build of the exe so I could keep the game going.
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Alchenar posted:Vic is just one of the nicest devs I've come across and he really deserves someone *cough* Paradox *cough* to swoop in and see what he can do with a bit more operating capital and support. Paradox money isn't free. We don't really need another 'Paradox France' fiasco.
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Chump Farts posted:Reminder that I had a PBEM game break on me and he built a custom build of the exe so I could keep the game going. this game broke because my whole central front got crushed and I sent the message "Nooooooo" with so many Os pasted into the message box that it broke the save somehow
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Alikchi posted:this game broke because my whole central front got crushed and I sent the message "Nooooooo" with so many Os pasted into the message box that it broke the save somehow  groggames.txt
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WAR DOGS OF SOCHI posted:Shrapnel Games is have a sale from now until May 30th. 
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Grog.txt Relearning Flashpoint Red Campaign Rising Dragon Whatever by playing the tutorial alongside the step-by-step pdf and some base level things are different. The pdf mentions fog for x meters and 13 minute turns and the fog is a few hundred shorter than listed and the turns are 16 minutes. Also the placement of mines/road blocks differ from what the pdf shows. If I ever make a grog game I'm writing a scripted tutorial in-game that doesn't suffer from this bullshit. As a separate executable of course. Gotta stay true to your antiquated roots!
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"Play a particular scenario while having the manual open as a tutorial" has to be up there for least favorite grog game conventions personally.
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May 17, 2016 03:23
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Pornographic Memory posted:"Play a particular scenario while having the manual open" has to be up there for least favorite grog game conventions personally. lmao Combat Mission  edit: I can't remember how I learned WITW, I think I just watched people on youtube and then invaded Europe the wrong way.
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V for Vegas posted:Paradox money isn't free. We don't really need another 'Paradox France' fiasco. That was a terrible 'lets buy AGEOD' decision. Which was just terrible. Because it's AGEOD.
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Alchenar posted:That was a terrible 'lets buy AGEOD' decision. To be fair, AGEOD was a lot more promising when Paradox bought them up. The really bloated games like Pride of Nations and To End All Wars come up later.
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Yeah when that deal first happened I was thinking that maybe Paradox could improve upon AGEOD's interface and pacing by adopting more of an EU/Victoria model.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Yeah when that deal first happened I was thinking that maybe Paradox could improve upon AGEOD's interface and pacing by adopting more of an EU/Victoria model. I dont think the interface was a major problem in BoA. It looked pretty good and worked fine.
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For me the game that Paradox needs to throw a budget and a UI designer at the most is Rule the Waves.
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May 17, 2016 15:57
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Oh yeah paradox, well known for releasing products that work with great UIs.
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Hey, since CK2 they've legitimately done quality releases.
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Stellaris is absolute dogshit.
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It's not THAT bad. It's bad and somewhat broken, but it functions and doesn't crash and the UI is nowhere NEAR CK1 levels of impenetrability. Also I can't think of any other studio that has post-release support near as good as Paradox.
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dtkozl posted:Stellaris is absolute dogshit. Oh come on now.
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Stellaris: AI doesn't invade, trade, or interact with you in any meaningful way; sector features are mostly disabled; mid game and late game content including quest chains mostly disabled; notifications cannot be changed; massive amount of bugs; etc. When do they say all this will get fixed? September, for a game released in May. I think it will be a good game when they do get all the issues worked out and I really like a lot of the design decisions but it is probably the worse release they've put out since Hoi3? That had a massive memory leak and it took them 2 or 3 expansions to get the AI to be able to amphib invade. Saying 2 of the last 3 games were functional on release is drat faint praise imo.
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Make space great again.
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May 17, 2016 20:19
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That is happening in November.
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May 17, 2016 20:29
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With what? I've not been following space games.
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May 17, 2016 20:30
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It was a bad donald trump joke.
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We did it, everyone.
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Pike and Shot 2: Japanese Boogaloo is out tomorrow. I wonder how much it'll cost.
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