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I've been meaning to try something nutty for Darkest Hour like this: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/all-in-one-mod.688946/ My only issue with Total Realism is that I like it when things go ahistorically off the rails a bit. I have never played another HOI game -- and I'm not about to start now! BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Mar 18, 2017 |
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thx for ruining my friday night  i love the gary grisby casualty / equipment style stuff going on. I need wargames to hold my hand and say, yes, a destroyer division is 5 destroyers, a marine division is 18000 peeps and 108 or whatever artillery pieces. this CAS air wing is 100 jets my only complaint is the nuclear. the nuclear is lacking.
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the fallout mod is still in dev but i don't think the latest beta is linked from the main post. you can get it from the current dev's sig though i.e. in this post
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Mar 18, 2017 07:11
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Baloogan posted:thx for ruining my friday night I actually like how the COIN games explicitly reject this- the design notes for Andean Abyss note that pieces represent not just raw numbers of men but their organization, leadership, training, and morale. So a guerilla ambush that wipes out two police units can represent an bombing that causes police to avoid trouble spots and be less effective, or a government sweep/assault representing rounding up the ringleaders and disrupting operations rather than destroying guerilla cells to the last man
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Mar 19, 2017 01:36
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Getting back into Combat Mission a bit (though gently caress you Battlefront, I'm not paying $10 for the 4.0 "engine upgrade" that lets me peek around loving corners) and reading through Generation Internet's Black Sea participatory LP. In his OP he lists a few other goon games... was there ever actually one for Fortress Italy? If not that's a shame, since it's probably my favorite CM title just for sheer variety of nations represented (and for hilariously bad Italian tankettes).
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Mar 19, 2017 20:17
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Most there was was some goon v goon pbem I think.
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Mar 19, 2017 23:36
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Drone posted:Getting back into Combat Mission a bit (though gently caress you Battlefront, I'm not paying $10 for the 4.0 "engine upgrade" that lets me peek around loving corners) and reading through Generation Internet's Black Sea participatory LP. In his OP he lists a few other goon games... was there ever actually one for Fortress Italy? If not that's a shame, since it's probably my favorite CM title just for sheer variety of nations represented (and for hilariously bad Italian tankettes). Fortress Italy is amazing. I would be playing it more except for that fact that upon upgrading my computer recently, I have incurred the wrath of Battlefront's absolutely archaic/loving unbelievable decision to lock me out of the game despite re-inputting my code, due to an error that their costumer service hasn't been able to fix 
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Mar 20, 2017 06:46
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You should be pitching as big a fit as humanly possible. Constant emails or forums threads. Demand a fix or a refund (even if you've had your products for years) because you literally cannot play your hundreds of dollars of their games. Threaten to put them and their poo poo system on blast. Can they not revoke install tokens or whatever on their side? Seriously, be as much a pain in their rear end as possible because, somehow, they are the worst company in the genre.
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Mar 20, 2017 09:26
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How many activations do you get per key anyway? After I reinstalled Windows on my PC, I had to reinstall/reactivate my games, and over this weekend I just installed CMBS and CMFI to my laptop as well without any issues.
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Mar 20, 2017 11:04
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I sort of want to buy one of the Combat Mission games, but the lovely DRM and 'charge for patches' model is just too offputting. 
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Mar 20, 2017 13:25
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Fintilgin posted:I sort of want to buy one of the Combat Mission games, but the lovely DRM and 'charge for patches' model is just too offputting. I think you're making too much of it and avoiding a fun sim just because this thread is so negative. I have had zero problems with their DRM and you don't have to buy engine upgrades, actual patches are free.
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Mar 20, 2017 13:26
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Alikchi posted:Revolution Under Siege Gold is also pretty good if you have any interest in 1917 or the Russian Civil War. I have plenty more of interest in 1917 and the Russian Revolution. Not so much the counterrevolution though. In fact, as far as actual wars go it's up there with the Boer War on my list of fairly uninteresting conflicts to play out in a game. Did AGEOD manage to make it a compelling military conflict?
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Mar 20, 2017 13:30
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Nenonen posted:I think you're making too much of it and avoiding a fun sim just because this thread is so negative. I have had zero problems with their DRM and you don't have to buy engine upgrades, actual patches are free. You do if you have something that isn't windows xp
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Mar 20, 2017 13:32
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ZombieLenin posted:I have plenty more of interest in 1917 and the Russian Revolution. Not so much the counterrevolution though. In fact, as far as actual wars go it's up there with the Boer War on my list of fairly uninteresting conflicts to play out in a game. Not really. If anything it feels like faceless mobs of Imperials fighting faceless mobs of Soviets all across a giant, fairly boring, map. I don't have much connection, nor do I recognize any names like I do with the WW1 or TYW pack. Like you said in regards to the Boer war, it just doesn't grab me as interesting. Combat Mission talk, the games are fun, definitely worth at least trying the demo. I have Win10, no issues with DRM for me.
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Mar 20, 2017 13:45
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Nenonen posted:I think you're making too much of it and avoiding a fun sim just because this thread is so negative. I have had zero problems with their DRM and you don't have to buy engine upgrades, actual patches are free. It's more like the last straw sort of deal. And I did have some DRM issues with Strategic Command at one point. But I might still get Italy when they complete the upgrade for it. Maybe. I'm tempted. I dunno. I'm loving terrible at the demo.  I was actually weighing getting one of Tiller's Squad Battles games instead, since I feel more at home with the 'board game' feel anyway.
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Man the CMFI demo was just impenetrable for me for some reason. Not in terms of "how do I play this game", but "how do I not get slaughtered completely." Wasn't that the scenario where you spawned at the very corner of the map alongside a road with woods to your left and a wide open space to your right, and a town with a churchtower that meant you'd get immediately sniped/machine gun'd into oblivion?
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Mar 20, 2017 13:55
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Nenonen posted:I think you're making too much of it and avoiding a fun sim just because this thread is so negative. I have had zero problems with their DRM and you don't have to buy engine upgrades, actual patches are free. You also have to save the install files somewhere, because the download link expires after a year and they want 5 dollars to renew it. Because that's how digital distribution works in 2017.
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Mar 20, 2017 14:29
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Drone posted:Man the CMFI demo was just impenetrable for me for some reason. Not in terms of "how do I play this game", but "how do I not get slaughtered completely." Yup! gently caress that map! I won with like, 4 dudes left and it was a loving tactical victory or someshit. edit: I assert that map is bullshit because based on the "one platoon per assault" rule of thumb there is literally not enough platoons to assault all the strong points or whatever.
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GhostDog posted:You also have to save the install files somewhere, because the download link expires after a year and they want 5 dollars to renew it. Because that's how digital distribution works in 2017. This is actually not true. I redownloaded my stuff yesterday for the first time in nearly 2 years.
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Mar 20, 2017 14:45
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Huh. Maybe they changed it. Nevermind then.
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Mar 20, 2017 14:47
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Please don't give money to AGEOD. Or like 90% of this industry, really.
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Lichtenstein posted:Please don't give money to AGEOD. AGEOD only got my money for CW and CW2, and then only because they're the only company to have made a halfway decent operations/strategic ACW game--ever.
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Mar 20, 2017 17:48
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I've had problems with CM drm crap before and you just need to open a ticket with them to get a fix. They'll attach a tool to to the ticket for download which will remove the game key from their DRM on your system and then after that you can reuse your keys for the game. They usually respond pretty fast and once you have the tool thing it is pretty easy. It's just a shame that they still use this terrible system when there are obviously better options.
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Mar 20, 2017 19:26
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Thank you thread for recommending the Kaiserreich mod for Darkest Hour. It crashes more than I'd like, but I chalk that up to running it in a jerry-rigged windowed setup. It is good fun and by far the best deal I've gotten out of something for $2.29.
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Lichtenstein posted:Please don't give money to AGEOD. AGEOD offer free patches, often for years after release; the only drm they use is a simple serial number; and they are not, as far as I know, fascists. A better choice to support than many grog companies imho Their games are bad but that's beside the point 
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I actually really like AJE and TYW, despite how lovely they are. I'm the problem. I have Civil War 2 and it seems like a mess, but I'm going to give it another shot before I shelve it.
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Soon. Soon I'll get to play with my new toys, not just make them. Yeah, an AA rating of 208 is too good for this thing, I think I made the 37mm FlaK a bit too close to the 40mm Bofors. Also 50 Durability might be a bit low, but then again, 12k tons isn't that much even for a CA, and the armor is a bit meh. 
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Caconym posted:Soon. Soon I'll get to play with my new toys, not just make them. Make a Ticonderoga class missile cruiser next. Or Iowa 1991 refit
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Phi230 posted:Make a Ticonderoga class missile cruiser next. I've spent quite enough time on navypedia and navweaps alrady tyvm.  No, I just want a few more toys in my bathtub and to sink the Royal Navy.
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Caconym posted:Soon. Soon I'll get to play with my new toys, not just make them. Just don't be like my current Focus Pacific opponent, who is a good player, but walked a German commerce raider straight into Arizona and Nevada (he went with the Philippines opening) in mid-January. Spoiler alert: It turns out Graff Spee doesn't last long fighting even slow old American battleships at night. Believe me, from my perspective, it was beautiful.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:You should be pitching as big a fit as humanly possible. Constant emails or forums threads. Demand a fix or a refund (even if you've had your products for years) because you literally cannot play your hundreds of dollars of their games. Threaten to put them and their poo poo system on blast. I think I got it figured out, their key revoking tool wasn't doing anything because I'm stuck in the godless realm of WINDOWS 8.1.
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ZombieLenin posted:Just don't be like my current Focus Pacific opponent, who is a good player, but walked a German commerce raider straight into Arizona and Nevada (he went with the Philippines opening) in mid-January.  NOW I learn what Focus Pacific really is. Welp, I'll play my own expanded Scen 2 if it kills me. I even  
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When someone asks me if I've spent money on AGEOD games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VomBuudIDsM
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Nenonen posted:I think you're making too much of it and avoiding a fun sim just because this thread is so negative. I have had zero problems with their DRM and you don't have to buy engine upgrades, actual patches are free. Yeah I still really like Combat Mission despite the annoying Battlefront fuckery. I've never had any trouble with the DRM or anything really. I'm going to say nice things about Combat Mission in the grog games thread: a) They're grog games that are actually fun to play and watch b) They can even look good and be pretty cinematic, especially with graphic and sound mods c) The games are stable, don't crash, and run well for me, which is saying a lot for this genre. Compared to AGEOD Thirty Years War, which is an interesting game but crashes a lot and runs far worse than CM, despite it being a goddamn board game with a 2D map. Or compared to Scourge of War, which runs like garbage, not because of a bunch of complex AI calculations or numbers of units or anything, but because of the goddamn trees. If I press T to turn the trees off, it runs really smooth even with a gigantic battle going on. Just a small handful of 2D tree sprites brings my computer to its knees for some bizarre reason. Combat Mission runs really well for me even with really dense terrain and large maps and battalions of troops running around blowing each other up. It still has glitchy shaders, it's not perfect, and doesn't run like some big budget fancy game, but it's good. Lichtenstein posted:Please don't give money to AGEOD. What's the 10% that you do like?
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Kenzie posted:a) They're grog games that are actually fun to play and watch quote:What's the 10% that you do like? WarfareSims (CMANO people) VR Designs (Decisive Campaigns People) Panther Games (Command Ops) Q Switched Games (Children of a Dead Earth dude) 2 by 3 Games (Grigsby)
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Yooper posted:WarfareSims (CMANO people) ...this list checks out, honestly.
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Phi230 posted:Graviteam > CM Yep, if you want a more cinematic and less micro managing CM it's Graviteam.
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Looks like today is the day I learn what Graviteam Tactics is. gently caress yeah.
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Yooper posted:There's a few people doing really great, and very cinematic, battles on YouTube. You never see the orders layer, it's just edited footage from the combat itself. Link to these people?
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