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alarumklok posted:super ambitious tirefires are the best
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Takanago posted:Terra Invicta is stupidly ambitious and tries to do too way too many things and half of it barely works and I love it.
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# ? Sep 30, 2022 17:09 |
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Terra Invicta with a minimum amount of modding would be the ideal QAnon game. Just rename some factions and occasionally refer to the aliens as demons and you're good to go.
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# ? Sep 30, 2022 17:11 |
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I hope they make the game wide open to modders because there's no way in hell they're gonna finish this poo poo on their own, let alone leave it in a state that's fun.
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# ? Sep 30, 2022 17:13 |
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amazing cultivation simulator is the best of the dwarf fortress-likes
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Takanago posted:Terra Invicta is stupidly ambitious and tries to do too way too many things and half of it barely works and I love it. We will watch its career... with interest.
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# ? Sep 30, 2022 18:26 |
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Martha Stewart Undying posted:I hope they make the game wide open to modders because there's no way in hell they're gonna finish this poo poo on their own, let alone leave it in a state that's fun. I think it already has Workshop?
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# ? Oct 1, 2022 17:44 |
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Did someone mention the politics of Terra Invicta? That resume, jfc.
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# ? Oct 1, 2022 18:24 |
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a friend had me watch them play Terra Invicta and they had me convinced it was a game based on Left Behind and trying to make a second coming happen or something. didn't see a single fuckin alien and it looked like you just sorta play spoils-guzzling coup master as normal so I totally bought it. it really would be a good q-anon or whatever game
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# ? Oct 2, 2022 17:56 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Did someone mention the politics of Terra Invicta? Waypoint Radio was talking about the game o. Friday and said Humanity First was "a little fashy"
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# ? Oct 2, 2022 18:04 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Did someone mention the politics of Terra Invicta? he's a white hate fighting the traitors in the Deep State it's a Q game
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# ? Oct 3, 2022 17:39 |
That character is obviously a parody, if anything it makes me thing the writers are lefties. I have not played the game and know nothing about it besides what has been posted here.
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# ? Oct 3, 2022 18:08 |
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https://twitter.com/open_sketchbook/status/1576909326358151168?t=03kU6-G8BKWBv-H1jF7VBQ&s=19
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# ? Oct 3, 2022 19:36 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Did someone mention the politics of Terra Invicta? The position of "The Aliens" on that chart is just
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# ? Oct 3, 2022 19:48 |
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The politics of Terra Invictus is bananas but in a great way. Just a lil bit of shotposting in your flavor text, as a treat.
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# ? Oct 3, 2022 20:01 |
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BadOptics posted:The position of "The Aliens" on that chart is just of course they are pro alien! they are supposed to be!
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# ? Oct 3, 2022 20:02 |
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:of course they are pro alien! they are supposed to be! Strangely enough they are kind of "meh" on how cynical/idealistic their invasion plan is supposed to be. Alien Commander - "I guess it's because we're either xenophobes or we want their water. Maybe it's just for the love of the game."
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# ? Oct 3, 2022 20:07 |
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Yeah the aliens have other stuff going on, humanity is kind of a means to an end
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# ? Oct 3, 2022 20:20 |
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Nerf Wars: On downgrading Russian systems & units in Command lol forums are unreadable on this one. The request can be summed up as: “So, when are you guys going to nerf Russian equipment in Command’s database, to match what we are seeing in Ukraine? It seems it is performing well below official specs.” (Oxford Dictionary: “to nerf”: (of a video game developer) reduce the power of (a character, weapon, etc.) in a new instalment or update of a video game.) A naval-oriented variant of this comment is: “I tried simulating the attack on the cruiser Moskva, and I just couldn’t sink it as happened it real life. So CMO is probably talking up Russian hardware.” Now, there is a short and direct answer to both these claims, but we have been advised not to print it here. So let’s go into the more elaborate and slightly more polite version instead. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 20:55 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Nerf Wars: On downgrading Russian systems & units in Command lmao, wow
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# ? Oct 3, 2022 21:15 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Nerf Wars: On downgrading Russian systems & units in Command what the commenters want is to reenact war porn on their favorite videogame and not assess or accurately recreate the conditions for failure and/or success
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# ? Oct 3, 2022 21:45 |
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Danann posted:what the commenters want is to reenact war porn on their favorite videogame and not assess or accurately recreate the conditions for failure and/or success
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# ? Oct 3, 2022 21:56 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Nerf Wars: On downgrading Russian systems & units in Command it actually already IS possible to simulate the attack on the Moskva https://weaponsrelease.com/2022/04/18/simulating-the-sinking-of-the-moska/ quote:First off some basics, the Moskva is old. 40 years old. In ship terms this is a life time. Most of her sensors are 70’s and 80’s era. The VLS system, visible between the super structure billowing smoke above, and the secondary structure with the radar, contains the potent S-300 SAM system. We’ve seen Ukraine use this to good effect as well as the Russians on land.
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# ? Oct 4, 2022 13:47 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:it actually already IS possible to simulate the attack on the Moskva yeah its interesting seeing the usual suspects flip between 'Russians are all incompetent and bad at war' and 'all their stuff is really bad'. Because if they're incompetent how would you even know how good the equipment was? Is the T72B3 a bad tank because a lot of them got blown up, or were they just being used poorly (it's probably the latter due to very little screening infantry). I just wanna ask these dumb fucks what they think would happen if a Javelin slammed into the roof of an Abrams, or Challanger 2 or Leopard 2. The Abrams might come off best with the blow out panels but the crew is probably still swiss cheese. Challanger 2 has 2 part ammo/charges all over the turret and hull and would probably go up like a roman candle. Best protected tank in NATO bla bla. I don't get grogs that can't do critical thinking. Why even be a grog if you're not overanalysing everything? Just to be a curmudgeon?
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# ? Oct 4, 2022 13:56 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:yeah its interesting seeing the usual suspects flip between 'Russians are all incompetent and bad at war' and 'all their stuff is really bad'. Because if they're incompetent how would you even know how good the equipment was? Is the T72B3 a bad tank because a lot of them got blown up, or were they just being used poorly (it's probably the latter due to very little screening infantry). I just wanna ask these dumb fucks what they think would happen if a Javelin slammed into the roof of an Abrams, or Challanger 2 or Leopard 2. The Abrams might come off best with the blow out panels but the crew is probably still swiss cheese. Challanger 2 has 2 part ammo/charges all over the turret and hull and would probably go up like a roman candle. Best protected tank in NATO bla bla. ideology trumps everything (as usual)
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# ? Oct 4, 2022 14:16 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:I don't get grogs that can't do critical thinking. Why even be a grog if you're not overanalysing everything? Just to be a curmudgeon? imo it literally goes back to how Tiger tanks were modelled in Advanced Squad Leader or whatever.
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# ? Oct 4, 2022 14:18 |
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actually, that blog post from the developers is apt and correct: the hardware is the hardware, and what matters are the soft factors TOAW does this as well, and WITE does this as well, and even the Decisive Campaigns games do this: while there might be SOME subjectivity in assigning numerical stats to the equipment, the idea is that the equipment stats are effectively a constant across scenarios and timelines, and all you adjust up and down are the proficiency levels so all of these people bitching about how they need to downgrade the Russians should do it themselves. They already have the tools to do so!
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# ? Oct 4, 2022 14:19 |
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Anyone who’s been in the military, or people who take military history seriously, knows that but hardware has this indelible mark on both amateur history and wargames. We’ve talked about this before, maybe in the WW3 thread, but the expert consensus is that the Regia Marina had good ships and submarines, crews and leadership that were variable but generally agreed to be brave, and a catastrophic logistical situation (no fuel, something like 23 types of torpedo in service). More importantly you have poor political and strategic direction and an overall mission of attacking convoys escorted by the largest navy in the world while also trying to escort their own convoys, all in confined waters within range of aircraft. Beyond that is Italy’s limited industrial base which meant that not only could ships not be replaced, even repairing them was difficult. What’s the natural result? The Regia Marina fights one of the most intense naval wars in history for 3 years while keenly aware that they cannot afford to lose. Lose ships, lose convoys, lose control of the sea, and then lose the war. When the official histories were written in the 50’s the British characterized the Italians as either not putting to sea, or breaking off engagements when they appeared to be on the verge of victory. This obviously fit the British narrative of being underdogs - and to be sure the Mediterranean fleet suffered appalling losses and showed great courage of their own - but it explained how the Italian navy fought from the British perspective. Right, so 20 years after that when naval boardgames are being published, or even today with say War Thunder, what is the wargamer’s takeaway? The reason the Italians avoided this fight or that, or their battleships rarely went to sea, or they didn’t land more hits at Cape Matapan was that Italian ships weren’t very good. It’s such a central element of their thinking. e: it’s way more than I can get into here, but when the first Allied official histories of WW2 were written ULTRA was still secret, so many engagements or decisions made possible because of ULTRA intercepts were explained as Allied brilliance, Axis incompetence or luck. That’s also skewed a lot of people’s perceptions of things ranging from El Alamein to Matapan, to Mediterranean convoy battles, Normandy, the U-Boat campaign etc. The Ukrainian stroke of luck with Moskva was already rumoured to be greatly aided by still-classified American assistance of some kind. I expect something similar happened here where the plucky underdog one-in-a-million shot was facilitated by a satellite noticing a radar was under repair or something. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 14:40 on Oct 4, 2022 |
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Well to be fair, Italian ships are really strong in world of warships but I assume that's because the game Devs are vultures that make new lines intentionally overpowered. For a long time the strongest boats in the game were German and soviet paper models that turned Japanese and American designs into cripples.
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# ? Oct 4, 2022 14:43 |
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Mans posted:Well to be fair, Italian ships are really strong in world of warships but I assume that's because the game Devs are vultures that make new lines intentionally overpowered. The sorrow and the pity of War Thunder is that the research and models are being used for that game.
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# ? Oct 4, 2022 14:49 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:yeah its interesting seeing the usual suspects flip between 'Russians are all incompetent and bad at war' and 'all their stuff is really bad'. Because if they're incompetent how would you even know how good the equipment was? Is the T72B3 a bad tank because a lot of them got blown up, or were they just being used poorly (it's probably the latter due to very little screening infantry). I just wanna ask these dumb fucks what they think would happen if a Javelin slammed into the roof of an Abrams, or Challanger 2 or Leopard 2. The Abrams might come off best with the blow out panels but the crew is probably still swiss cheese. Challanger 2 has 2 part ammo/charges all over the turret and hull and would probably go up like a roman candle. Best protected tank in NATO bla bla. That's not even getting into the fact the Ukraine has be using the same gear to great effect! Or that it would be stupid to claim that the Abrams is poo poo because of, say, the Saudi's poo poo employment of them in their genocidal war in Yemen. As gradenko mentioned, it's the soft factors that are going to have some of the biggest effects.
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# ? Oct 4, 2022 15:17 |
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Demo fest on steam; you may enjoy Total Conflict: Resistance. Whereas Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare asked "What if mount and blade but guns oh oops this is really popular lets pause things and switch to an engine that actually's actually suited to the task" , Total Conflict says "What if mountain blade but guns, but controlling brigades on the strat map and body-hopping on the battle map". Battles so far seem to be everyone gets pinned and domed from the distance until a bradley rolls up and slaughters whoever doesn't have a bradley
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Frosted Flake posted:The Ukrainian stroke of luck with Moskva was already rumoured to be greatly aided by still-classified American assistance of some kind. I expect something similar happened here where the plucky underdog one-in-a-million shot was facilitated by a satellite noticing a radar was under repair or something. It's pretty safe to assume that the US is feeding real time high res satellite data to Ukraine in some format and they are using that to target vehicles and boats and logistics. Exactly how this works and how good the data is will probably be classified forever.
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# ? Oct 4, 2022 16:37 |
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Terra Invicta is cool because I get to do this:
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# ? Oct 4, 2022 23:15 |
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Atrocious Joe posted:the politics of Terra Invicta are very funny taken together. Color revolutions are a game mechanic. The US can be fixed in a few clicks by switching the budget from military to welfare. Israel is a "flawed democracy." KirbyKhan posted:It is hard to explain Terra Invicta peicemeal: just seeing on Turn 2 "Russia starts invasion of Ukraine" is like red flag city but then you buy INTERPOL to give your agent +3 Investigation skill, take control of France with 4 lucky dice rolls, and set your celebrity to Improve Public Opinion so you can get the UK back into the European Union by 2023. It is bananas and then the aliens start showing up There's a reason why Paradox or anyone hasn't created a modern day grand strategy game yet, too many systems and variables to keep track of and too complex plus constantly having to deal with realism critiques. Hooded Horse are sci-fi guys whose heart is clearly in the space rocketry stuff so I can't blame them for building a wacky abstract model, the very fact they tried to make a modern geopolitical simulation at all is surprising and impressive. Takanago posted:Terra Invicta is stupidly ambitious and tries to do too way too many things and half of it barely works and I love it. That's what Paradox used to be like. It's a good scrappy attitude to have.
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# ? Oct 5, 2022 00:16 |
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Atrocious Joe posted:Terra Invicta with a minimum amount of modding would be the ideal QAnon game. Just rename some factions and occasionally refer to the aliens as demons and you're good to go. Funnily enough there've been a few attempts at that already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCGFwVjfmf0 It ain't good: https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/08/05/lets-meet-secret-government-member-ramiro-vazquez/
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https://twitter.com/TheKrulakCenter/status/1577381043501514756
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# ? Oct 5, 2022 06:16 |
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how many war thunder accounts can federal money buy
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Pryor on Fire posted:The character-driven stuff in CK3 is fun but the actual empire building is awful. Fabricate claim, invade, shuffle titles over and over. One game of that and it's already tedious. I don't really care how awesome my family or council is because everything they do is so boring. Is that any different from CK 2? I do like how in that one you can get stochastic random building caused by adventurers from your house going and invading random places, if you're say Norse pagan.
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The PE of CMO is great, the comms jamming in particular is really handy. I’m surprised it’s not included in Commercial.
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