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i had no clue the enola gay was named after the pilot's mom. thats some pacific war trivia right there
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Give me some trivia about Russia in 1934.
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Mar 14, 2017 22:47
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Give me some trivia about Russia in 1934. it sucked
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Mar 14, 2017 22:59
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ive purged my memory of that whole era
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Mar 14, 2017 23:19
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The Shchusev State Museum of Architecture was founded in 1934
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Mar 14, 2017 23:32
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I can't tell the difference between the land doctrine demo and the full game. There's two extra suspension research and you can make large maps, but nothing past that. Game really needs a unit list
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Mar 15, 2017 00:01
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Gay Hitler posted:I can't tell the difference between the land doctrine demo and the full game. There's two extra suspension research and you can make large maps, but nothing past that. that game needs a lot of poo poo so im not buying it lol
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Mar 15, 2017 00:23
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its 5 bux :/ comon buy it give the guy a bone 5 fricken dollars
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Mar 15, 2017 00:27
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Baloogan posted:its 5 bux :/ comon buy it give the guy a bone get him to put in a mini map and ill consider it
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Mar 15, 2017 00:31
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For some reason my tank designs just keep circling between 4 months and 0.
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Mar 15, 2017 01:01
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Phi230 posted:For some reason my tank designs just keep circling between 4 months and 0. Known issue if you name each tank model after a Tyler Perry's Madea movie, but gently caress the names up chronologically in order of release.
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Mar 15, 2017 01:03
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It's pretty bare bones but I think it has potential. It either needs a pre-war period so you can get a design tree going or random starting technology so you can try out the clown car of doom. I've spent far more on shittier games.
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Yooper posted:It's pretty bare bones but I think it has potential. It either needs a pre-war period so you can get a design tree going or random starting technology so you can try out the clown car of doom. *glances suspiciously at Matrix games* Me too.
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Mar 15, 2017 03:00
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Same. Every friggin month too.
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I just fought a full war. 50 cities, 4 factions. Took me 3 hours. Seems like every country has boiler plate units which can be countered. Like RED had a 2 tank/2 inf mix with a super light tank. And Yellow had a ton of infantry but like no tanks. Green had a ton of infantry and artillery and super armored tanks but small guns etc... I went through several designs. 1. Warlord tank: 60 ton monster with 100mm AT gun and 130/100/80 armor. Was all around decent but still took a lot of casualties relative to production. Had my whole country geared toward making Warlords and was churning out like 30/month. All around ok tank. 2. Mjolnir: My siege tank. 100mm infantry gun and 150/120/105 armor. Walked on 4 legs. Through that guy into an all infantry Battalion to siege cities down. Broke through defenses like butter. 3. T-34-85: Literally tried to recreate the T-34-85. 80mm gun, like 100/80/60 armor with a V10 engine. Literally the best tank I made the whole game. Took less than 100 losses I'd wager, but killed hundreds of enemy tanks while maintaining excellent speed and by endgame was popping out something like 50/month. Probably wiped out over 20 divisions, and I only had like 4 full strength Battalions of these guys by endgame. Ended up being 15 in-game years, taking something like 10k tank casualties and 50k infantry casualties to 50k enemy tank casualties and 100k enemy infantry.
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Mar 15, 2017 03:58
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Any advice on designing infantry training regimens? It seems to glitch out my troops so that they have negative infinity stats across the board. Or is this just the first batch of house clearing specialists being all screwed up?
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Mar 15, 2017 09:53
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Give me some trivia about Russia in 1934. I studied Russia in university and I learned that you can basically say "There was famine, and Russia was playing catch-up with her neighbours both culturally and technologically" and it will be true for pretty much every era in Russian history.
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Dudes, I'm getting my rear end kicked on mission 3 of CMANO:NI, "The Fast and the Furious". I'm trying to be a good NATO commander and keep a chopper out there spotting Osa boats, but my dudes are outranged by the Styx missile (by like 10 nm?!) and basically I lose a shitload of my boats if I try to deal with the missile ships first. If I try to go for the amphibious landing ships first, they manage to make it to the cover of the missile boats by the time my 'fleet' is assembled, then the Soviets just dump missiles into my poo poo until everyone is dead. Also somehow a Hind always shows up and vomits missiles into my torpedo boats with impunity? Basically I don't know what the gently caress I'm doing. How do I get my torpedo boats in range of the transports without them getting vaporized? What role are the aircraft supposed to play in this mission? Should I save them entirely for striking the landing ships? Why won't my frigates do...anything? Should I authorize them to use SAMs in an ASuW role? It's one thing to dunk on Soviet subs with 20 kT nukes, but this? This is a nightmare.
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Ghostmonkey posted:Dudes, It's been awhile since I played this, but if I recall correctly you should use your planes against the Osas, as they don't have poo poo for anti-air weaponry. Then use your torpedo boats to attack to larger enemy escorts (you will lose most of your guys) while simultaneously closing with your frigates guns blasting. By microing your planes and flying at min altitude, you can stay low enough to avoid enemy SAMs, popping up long enough to drop bombs on the transports then immediately hitting the deck again. Don't be afraid to use your speed to run from the enemy and engage at the time and place of your choosing. That also gives time for your planes to rearm. pthighs fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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Ghostmonkey posted:Dudes, I just did this mission a few days ago. I used my PT boats to clear the Soviet PT boats. Almost all of my PT boats died, but so did most of the Soviets. Then I kept my chopper close enough to get visual on the invasion fleet, but not close enough to eat AA rounds. At that point I filled missions with my aircraft and just bombed the landing craft. My frigates didn't do gently caress all. Now I'm stuck in the next scenario trying to hunt the Soviet nuke subs. This is driving me crazy. I've been at it for three days and I haven't killed a single one. edit : Just beat it, kind of felt cheap. I went active sonar for a minute and pinged a Delta. A minute later we had a nuclear torp on top of it. Am I supposed to go active on occasion? I kind of expected it to be all silent running. edit 2 : Sweet Jesus. Beware of the Badger is loving crazy. It's all the cold war awesomeness I've been craving. Yooper fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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Ultimate General taught me that there wouldn't have been a Civil War had I been in charge because: A I smoked the South at Bull Run and B: there were over 30,000 combined casualties. My takeaway is that the engine is fun but still seems way more geared to just Gettysburg. A few hours of Bull Run hitting 30k seems way, way off.
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Chump Farts posted:Ultimate General taught me that there wouldn't have been a Civil War had I been in charge because: A I smoked the South at Bull Run and B: there were over 30,000 combined casualties. My takeaway is that the engine is fun but still seems way more geared to just Gettysburg. A few hours of Bull Run hitting 30k seems way, way off. That's wargames in general, though. It's way way easier to engage the enemy in Ultimate General than in real life. A lot of the troops at the battle never really got to do anything. Nobody had an overview of the battle where they could immediately see a weakness in the enemy line.
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Panzeh posted:That's wargames in general, though. It's way way easier to engage the enemy in Ultimate General than in real life. A lot of the troops at the battle never really got to do anything. Nobody had an overview of the battle where they could immediately see a weakness in the enemy line. Either way, it starts to break down by the mid-war battles. I've watched LPs of Antietam and Gettysburg where the Confederate player inflicts 90k+ losses on the Union, which is 1) absurdly ahistorical in terms of casualty figures and, relatedly 2) would have probably immediately ended the war/gotten Lincoln impeached/triggered foreign intervention
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Happens in wargames without carefully thought out limits on force concentration. Like in WITP the concentration of force and operational tempo is far beyond what was possible in real life because if you split your forces you stand a good chance of the other player bushwhacking your carriers or some other irreplaceable asset so it's nearly always the correct play to keep them together 100% of the time. Also everyone knows what happened at Midway...
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Saros posted:Happens in wargames without carefully thought out limits on force concentration. Like in WITP the concentration of force and operational tempo is far beyond what was possible in real life because if you split your forces you stand a good chance of the other player bushwhacking your carriers or some other irreplaceable asset so it's nearly always the correct play to keep them together 100% of the time. Also everyone knows what happened at Midway... Also the player represents the single undivided will of what in reality was a plethora of agents with their own agendas, also the player is far more willing to accept casualties and a high rate of attrition in exchange for a greater victory because it's not real people.
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The only operational/tactical level wargame I've played with realistic casualty figures is Pike and Shot and even then it sorta cheats by instantly ending battles after an arbitrary routing unit limit and then simulating casualties for retreating units still on the field.
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Mar 16, 2017 21:30
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Darkest Hour is $2.29 on GMG if you sign in, so since I've dramatically lowered my UI expectations with a few months of other grog games, I finally picked it up and NOW YOU CAN TOO, DEAR READER
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Hey, are there any issues with running CMANO in real time for 24 hours or are there any kind of memory leaks that would cause a decrease in performance and cause the game to chug? I'm interested in running a few 24 hour Yankee Team sessions, and maybe other missions in real time or in extended real time shifts.
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Mar 17, 2017 20:20
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Squiggle posted:Darkest Hour is $2.29 on GMG if you sign in, so since I've dramatically lowered my UI expectations with a few months of other grog games, I finally picked it up and NOW YOU CAN TOO, DEAR READER Highly suggest the Total Realism Project mod for Darkest Hour: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/trp-1-03b-december-3-2016.902862/
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Mar 17, 2017 20:50
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no, you should play kaiserreich. e: or the fallout mod, which is cool if you like fallout https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/fallouts-doomsday-2-1-for-darkest-hour.855587/
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I will get both Kaiserreich and Total Realism! I also heard good things New World Order 2, but god knows how these all differentiate (other than Kaiserreich, that's obvious)
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Mar 17, 2017 22:21
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Hey, are there any issues with running CMANO in real time for 24 hours or are there any kind of memory leaks that would cause a decrease in performance and cause the game to chug? I'm interested in running a few 24 hour Yankee Team sessions, and maybe other missions in real time or in extended real time shifts. um we ofc try to minimize memory leaks etc I'm ... not sure. Give it a shot and let us know how it goes!
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Squiggle posted:I will get both Kaiserreich and Total Realism! I also heard good things New World Order 2, but god knows how these all differentiate (other than Kaiserreich, that's obvious) NWO2 is a valiant attempt to extend the game beyond the time period that it was really designed for, but IIRC the actual WW2 gameplay isn't changed or improved all that noticeably. Kaiserreich is fun, of course, but I've not tried TRP. Might give it a shot.
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Mar 17, 2017 22:43
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Hey, are there any issues with running CMANO in real time for 24 hours or are there any kind of memory leaks that would cause a decrease in performance and cause the game to chug? I'm interested in running a few 24 hour Yankee Team sessions, and maybe other missions in real time or in extended real time shifts. I too would be interested in hearing about it. Wasn't there some goon who ran real time Silent Hunter 3 games for months at a time?
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Baloogan posted:um I'll be trying out the Yankee Team and Good Morning Malvinas scenarios in real time over Easter holidays, streaming both as I did my real-time Silent Hunter 3 playthrough. It'll be an interesting stress test of both me and the game! CMANO and Command Ops are the only games that I feel really get me in the shoes of a commander, not "The Country" or "The Military" or "The Ship", and both in very different and interesting ways. Are there any other good 12-24hr scenarios that I should try out too? Yooper posted:I too would be interested in hearing about it. That's me! E: Here's from my test stream today, going through the tutorial scenarios. HerpicleOmnicron5 fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Mar 17, 2017 |
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:I'll be trying out the Yankee Team and Good Morning Malvinas scenarios in real time over Easter holidays, streaming both as I did my real-time Silent Hunter 3 playthrough. It'll be an interesting stress test of both me and the game! CMANO and Command Ops are the only games that I feel really get me in the shoes of a commander, not "The Country" or "The Military" or "The Ship", and both in very different and interesting ways. Are there any other good 12-24hr scenarios that I should try out too? Awesome! Make sure to post some more to let us know when it starts. I'd love to see it.
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corn in the bible posted:no, you should play kaiserreich. aw this is pre-new vegas
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StashAugustine posted:aw this is pre-new vegas it's got new vegas stuff in it too. you can play as the white legs, etc
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Squiggle posted:I will get both Kaiserreich and Total Realism! I also heard good things New World Order 2, but god knows how these all differentiate (other than Kaiserreich, that's obvious) ugh you got me playing new world order 2 ugh im reorganizing world wide US forces and forming realistic carrier groups UGH im making corps and im interveining in the chinese civil war UGH
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corn in the bible posted:it's got new vegas stuff in it too. you can play as the white legs, etc oh okay that might make me reinstall dh
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