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Zeppelin Insanity posted:I'm designing a card game! that does look awesome but it needs the soviet river dudes with floaties and paddles and the smug border guards FF always posts. even if they'd be anachronistic
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Frosted Flake posted:You're right, of course. Yeah, yeah, we all read the Silmarillion
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# ? May 20, 2023 00:48 |
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that's a really cool looking game!
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# ? May 20, 2023 00:52 |
When DID the soviets stop using tactical inner tubes?
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# ? May 20, 2023 01:01 |
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Slavvy posted:When DID the soviets stop using tactical inner tubes? They were apparently used, in different versions, until the 80's. I can never find a consistent name, so every time this comes up I have to go looking. Osprey says PBC, but that doesn't seem to be right. I've also seen PKT and MCT. The terminology is all over the place too. Swimming suit, lifesaving costume (?), personal raft, "individual means of transportation” Anyway found a new pic this time. e: anyway, here are the more modern versions Now it should be noted that Mustang Survival, which makes the great inflatable jackets, also has a military line, including SOF gear, and one of their products seems pretty similar. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 01:47 on May 20, 2023 |
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Lmfao I'm guessing since the 80's they decided everyone will just cross the river in the bmp/btr instead
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# ? May 20, 2023 03:15 |
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Slavvy posted:Lmfao I think its a set up for engineers or people doing covert river crossing
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# ? May 20, 2023 03:26 |
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KomradeX posted:I think its a set up for engineers or people doing covert river crossing Or it's someone's birthday and they're doing a river float? We just don't see the tubes with the coolers in them.
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# ? May 20, 2023 03:43 |
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yeah i think those are the engineers. river crossings were an extremely high priority for the red army. i think ff has posted cool manuals for it before also annoying cool thing google does. if you search for soviet naval infantry it prioritizes results for russian naval infantry with russia bolded as a keyword. loving useless
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# ? May 20, 2023 03:48 |
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Cuttlefush posted:also annoying cool thing google does. if you search for soviet naval infantry it prioritizes results for russian naval infantry with russia bolded as a keyword. loving useless Did search get much, much worse? It takes me 30 minutes or more to find things I know I've looked up before. Even finding photos of things that I know there are photos of and have seen before is an exercise in frustration.
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# ? May 20, 2023 03:58 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Did search get much, much worse? It takes me 30 minutes or more to find things I know I've looked up before. Even finding photos of things that I know there are photos of and have seen before is an exercise in frustration. Google has been maki g search worse for some reason everybyear for at least 10 years
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# ? May 20, 2023 04:03 |
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KomradeX posted:Google has been maki g search worse for some reason everybyear for at least 10 years seems like it's accelerating as it dives into the shitter, as well
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# ? May 20, 2023 04:38 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Did search get much, much worse? It takes me 30 minutes or more to find things I know I've looked up before. Even finding photos of things that I know there are photos of and have seen before is an exercise in frustration. yeah it's gotten particularly bad over the past year. interface too. they finally gave everyone favicons and now there are like 2/3rds the search results unless you do some ublock filtering. also no pagination. it's so bad. bing (and therefore duckduckgo) pretty much do the same thing so they also suck more. yandex is... meh. google's reverse image source actually works again though. really well. so that's nice while it lasts
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# ? May 20, 2023 04:40 |
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Rule the Waves 3 review: It's good.
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# ? May 20, 2023 05:02 |
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@Zeppelin Insanity I’ve done some playtesting before and card games are my jam so if I can help you out let me know.
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Frosted Flake posted:Did search get much, much worse? It takes me 30 minutes or more to find things I know I've looked up before. Even finding photos of things that I know there are photos of and have seen before is an exercise in frustration. it's designed for marketing now but they've gone above and beyond what they needed to do just to make advertisers happier they've kinda closed off the internet, either deliberately or through incompetence
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closed? enclosed. closured. commons. edit: oh my god google... https://domains.google/tld/zip/ a top level domain .zip lol what the gently caress Cuttlefush has issued a correction as of 09:19 on May 20, 2023 |
# ? May 20, 2023 09:14 |
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Thank you everyone for your positive feedback! Means a lot. Some of you guys don't have PMs so I'm just going to put the stuff here for anyone interested in playtesting. Add me on Steam, code 10546921 The current version of the rules is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zUPZERcpFQBW0gqssHMIh-EvX0aCiyyq/view?usp=sharing Please also let me know your availability. I'll attempt to set up games between you guys.
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# ? May 20, 2023 10:39 |
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From the rules: Both players draw 6 Terrain cards and discard 2. The NATO player places one Terrain card on any spot on the battlefield, replacing the Plain. Then, the Pact player places one, and the players alternate until all 10 cards have been placed. Some cards may be placed on top of others, replacing or modifying them. No terrain card may be played next to the Pact deployment zone. Draw 6, discard 2, times 2 = 8. So is it 8 or 10 terrain cards which get placed? Also you're referring to the Pact Deployment Zone before explaining what that is. I got some criticism about the rest of the rules text also but I'd have to play the game first to get a feel for it.
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# ? May 20, 2023 14:15 |
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Orange Devil posted:From the rules: Good catch. It's because I'm experimenting with the amount of terrain to use, so it isn't very consistent right now. It's supposed to be 8 total in the current playtest.
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# ? May 20, 2023 16:22 |
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you need tabletop simulator to playtest right?
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# ? May 20, 2023 19:59 |
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It looks amazing. Seriously, good work. e: RTW 3, glad to hear it. I was really hopeful for them, and the lead guy at the company dying had me worried.
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# ? May 20, 2023 20:13 |
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Megamissen posted:you need tabletop simulator to playtest right? Yep.
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# ? May 20, 2023 20:17 |
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I've decided to put it on Steam Workshop rather than make you all add me on Steam. This is the first time I've done this so if it doesn't work, uh, I'll fix it. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2978803471 Would love it if you guys gave it a try and let me know what you think. Do keep in mind it's an early draft. Feel free to send it to friends if you think they might be into it, but not too many. I would like to publish it for real at some point and I'd rather not have it all over the internet beforehand. Also, you will probably feel like you don't have a lot of units. It's intentional. Most of the NATO deck is fortifications and action cards. Half of the Pact deck is units. At some point I would like to experiment with a board size that's 4 spaces long but only 3 wide, with bit less terrain. This would force more combat. If it plays well, I might also reduce deck sizes a little more and cut a few more minutes off of play time. In the future, I definitely want to do 2v2s and 3v3s as well. Frosted Flake posted:4CMBG should be the equivalent of a holographic charizard or blue eyes white dragon I would love to put them in as a deck in the future. I know next to nothing about Canadian doctrine, though. I'd need you to tell me how they should play, ideally in comparison to the US infantry division I have in game right now. Zeppelin Insanity has issued a correction as of 17:11 on May 21, 2023 |
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New Historical Total War trailer dropped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxpwPBhbGoo Pharaonic Egypt was not on my list. "Watch the announcement trailer for Total War: Pharaoh, the next game in the strategy franchise coming in October 2023. Get ready to dive into the turbulent events of the Egyptian New Kingdom period where you will determine the fate of three great cultures as they fight for survival amid the cataclysmic Bronze-Age Collapse. In Total War: Pharaoh, the Pharaoh is dead, and the people of Egypt, Canaan, and the Hittite empire cry out for a new leader. Many desire the power of the throne, but the path to becoming Pharaoh is a perilous one. As the leader of these great nations, you must overcome societal collapse, face natural disasters and fight to protect your people against invaders from far off lands. Total War: Pharaoh features a choice of eight faction leaders from three rich cultural hubs, with unique playstyles and diverse unit rosters. Whether you’re charming the courts as a peerless diplomat, charging into battle as an unwavering commander or causing chaos as a fearless warlord, become a leader that history will remember." It's an extremely cool period of history, and historically the setting for the Iliad, but there are intense debates about the nature of warfare in the era as well. I'm very curious to see how chariots are implemented, for example. e: For better or worse, even if they ignore them, Creative Assembly does hire some of the best working historians and historical art people as advisors. You can tell the amount of research that went into Troy, and where they cartooned things up. Just based on the trailer, someone is familiar with the Egyptian armies of that period - there have been several good books in the past 20 years - and that's really cool. ee: Game development heads can better explain but you can also see from the stuff on https://pharaoh.totalwar.com which content they had worked on in Troy, just like how Attila and Thrones of Britannia were interconnected. Related to my above example, they uncartooned the armour and weapons they had clearly researched during the process of making Troy. The last Troy DLC had a bunch of Egyptian content and I can see how this reduces workflow. Am I getting that about right? Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 02:11 on May 24, 2023 |
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The Black Cleopatra DLC is gonna be lit
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gradenko_2000 posted:The Black Cleopatra DLC is gonna be lit lol if they time skip from 1177 BC to 30 BC just to do that, you gotta hand it to them.
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Frosted Flake posted:lol if they time skip from 1177 BC to 30 BC just to do that, you gotta hand it to them. they did it in rtw w/ ancient egyptian ptolemaics
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Frosted Flake posted:
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# ? May 24, 2023 03:43 |
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Feels like somehow one of the UI mods I've installed for Victoria 3 is crashing my session because it seems to reliably happen when the landowners throw a fit and try to do a counter revolution against any form of republicanism.
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# ? May 24, 2023 16:12 |
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Well there was a major update to Victoria 3 like a couple of days ago that changed up a lot of things, so it's entirely possible something broke with the mod. https://vic3.paradoxwikis.com/Patch_1.3
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Danann posted:Feels like somehow one of the UI mods I've installed for Victoria 3 is crashing my session because it seems to reliably happen when the landowners throw a fit and try to do a counter revolution against any form of republicanism. it's because they're breaking the natural progression of History and thus causality bugs out
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# ? May 24, 2023 16:15 |
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is Victoria 3 worth playing yet
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# ? May 24, 2023 16:16 |
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FirstnameLastname posted:i remember ppl got mad over how much they reused between Napoleon and Empire TW well that was a weird point but not for reusing perfectly good assets, it's just that Empire was basically Napoleon but done properly still had a load of bugs that were never fixed like the AI being really bad at doing invasions from the sea to the point it barely tried
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# ? May 24, 2023 16:23 |
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iirc napoleon had weirdly better AI for many things but was missing a shitload of unit variety for basically no reason. empire had unit variety and, i think, lots of better maps and poo poo? there were definitely legitimate grievances on bizarre deficits between the two. mods fix everything in either of them now so they work great but they weren't around for a while. im talking artificial constraints too, not just the different in start/end date technology and factions represented. also missing lots of artillery types that would have been around and should have been emphasized i think? might be misremembering Cuttlefush has issued a correction as of 16:28 on May 24, 2023 |
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Frosted Flake posted:New Historical Total War trailer dropped the studio making it is CA Sofia, who had worked on troy previously. They were nice enough to pop in during troy and explain to us modders about backend stuff which was helpful with warhammer modding for game 3.
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# ? May 24, 2023 16:25 |
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Bronze age game takes me back to the "reign of Hittite" tutorial campaign in age of empries
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# ? May 24, 2023 16:26 |
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Typo posted:is Victoria 3 worth playing yet no
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# ? May 24, 2023 17:01 |
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Typo posted:is Victoria 3 worth playing yet no, and the first major expansion, which will add a bunch of basic features to diplomacy, imperialism, and subject management, systems which currently barely exist in the game, is not due for another year
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Regarde Aduck posted:well that was a weird point but not for reusing perfectly good assets, it's just that Empire was basically Napoleon but done properly Other way around. Empire was unplayable garbage because the AI couldn't handle it at all. Like significantly worse than usual in TW games. Napoleon was very much playable and imo fun. Empire had a better elevator pitch imo though so big shame.
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