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Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
wargame red dragon is p fun, the 2nd korean war campaign is hilarious

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Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
forming communist megagermany in vicky2 and then trying to prop up revolutions in britain and france resulting in 80 million dead europeans is probably the most fun i've had in a paradox game

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

lobster shirt posted:

i bought this a few years ago but am way too stupid for it, coudlnt figure it out after half an hour

its very grognardy and anyone that can play it at speeds above superslow or bullet-time must secretly be AI super computers

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Tankbuster posted:

Can't play as the North Koreans. Boy I sure love destroying T-34 85s with my K1 mbts.

you might be thinking of the first campaign which is extremely similar. 2nd korean war has you overthrow communism in the DPRK, PRC, and USSR in 20 turns of combat on the korean pennisula lmao

but everybody has end tier tanks in it

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

i say swears online posted:

the best (but most tedious) governments in vicky 1 are socialist or communist, depending on country and military affinity. precious metal is a resource for upgrading units but iunno if it has a direct result on money supply compared to other resources

i've put more hours into it than any paradox game by far and i have no idea why

same for vicky2. you won't get a better economy going than under communism but the cost is your sanity and soul

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Lustful Man Hugs posted:

Patch Zero Victoria 3 is going to be transcendent.

i hope yellow prussia returns

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
any interest in a hoi4 MP game since the mapgoons group fell apart

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
microprose is still around???

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

skooma512 posted:

An enthusiast who made his fortune doing computer toucher stuff went and bought the company and IP. He seems good for it given how much we’ve seen from them in the past year already

make birth of the federation 2 cowards!!! who cares if you dont have the trek license anymore

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Stairmaster posted:

cool buy me it

step 1: have tanks with stabilizers
step 2: back away
step 3(actually step zero): have artillery

yes the solution to all problems in wargame is artillerying them until they're dead or if they're armor, are routed

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
cluster bombers are probably the better choice for massed armored formations, the anti-tank missiles are for like the 150+ super tanks

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
the m60 starship can suck my motherfucking dick

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
fwiw I’m half working on a mod to get the hoi4 AI to concentrate divisions in states where it has a marginal superiority so perhaps it’ll be able to offer a rudimentary challenge someday

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
la resistance sucks, no step back is good and by blood alone comes out before the end of the month

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

oscarthewilde posted:

also props to the TNO team i guess. All those weird little minigames might be unbalanced and held together by tape, and some writers and designers are clearly more competent than others, it's at least more fun and interesting than playing WW2 for the 71st time against an AI that still doesn't know how to invade another country.

paradox's AI and AI code is so bad

actually just their code in general because its only documented by random modders that feel like posting on the respective game wiki

hoi4's expert AI is such a disappointment because all it does it make the AI build better divisions/ships

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
the hardest bonus in expert AI is giving germany any production output bonus because they will proceed to build 20,000 fighters by barbarossa which the allied AI will of course, do nothing about

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
combat sucked so hard in Vicky 1 and 2, even building units sucked to do

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

KaptainKrunk posted:

what the gently caress do you guys actually do in paradox games besides sit on max speed and click prompts?

pause every three seconds to recheck something I know hasn’t fired or occurred yet

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Mans posted:

HoI2 sorta had this in that each country had a series of companies which were responsible for research so Germany was really good at chemistry and tanks while the British had fantastic airplane industries and smaller nations had less developed research companies with maybe one or two specialized ones.

also when you annexed a country you got all their research teams so you could become a tech juggernaut by endgame

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
thankfully the hoi4 dlc last month was such a disaster as to remind me to not touch Vicky 3 until probably next year

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

BadOptics posted:

I still haven't summoned the "give a poo poo about X game" to try out the DLC. Another boring designer that's basically been min-maxed already (and was broken on launch!!!), Switzerland focus tree (big loving woop), Ethiopia seems interesting then you remember that Africa in HoI is pain. The only thing kinda good about it is the Italian tree, but meh.

Even my buddy who has us play a lot of co-op in HoI4 (and other paradox games) seems to not be playing it - especially so soon after it came out. We've been having more fun with Stellaris (which has it's own problems but we find to be more fun) or TW: Warhammer 3.

also the dlc broke like everything lol. carriers were completely useless for the past month, half the Swiss focuses didn’t work properly (although who cares about the Swiss in hoi4), and the ai( particularly the Soviets) got even worse

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

An economic system Marx would be proud of!

so vicky2 then lol

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Kibbles n Shits posted:



So frustrating. Tried restarting Steam and verifying the game files. Guess I'll poke around that file with a text editor and see if I can fix it manually.

lol was not expecting my hesitation to be rewarded before goons were even able to play

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Stairmaster posted:

this time will be different!

Lostconfused posted:

Elections look pretty broken, everyone loves socialism so much that they've voted twice.



:ussr:

ITS NOT DIFFERENT AT ALL! IS IT STEVE!?!

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

these have been how all three victoria games have functioned lmao

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
so wait they made dice into panthers and KTs? how did they roll

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
oh thats bad

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
did they ever put the cool stuff back into kaiserreich or do the fun police still rule the mod team

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
i have definitely found wargaming's "tweak stats to balance the game rather than reflect reality" stance to be more fun of a game but drat if WoT didnt miss out on all this classified material drama

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
vicky2 stays winning

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

look at this scrub with their underdeveloped wrist and finger muscles from not clicking 6 trillion times to subsidize a single province of railway

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Mister Bates posted:

I just want a version of U-Boat where I don’t have to play as the Nazis

doesn’t one of the silent hunters have an American pacific campaign

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
I only played sh3 and sierra’s uboat sim from the 90s

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
people played coh for the single player?

granted the panzer elite were an unbalanced mess in mp

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
the true coh strategy was to let it’s poo poo pathing direct retreating squads of infantry to underneath hostile tank treads

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
lol like I played coh2, saw they removed cap points and I said gently caress that noise

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Tankbuster posted:

My favorite part of COH2 posting were a bunch of people circlejerking over Steel Division 1 and 2 as the future and lol

steel division 1 was fun as hell

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Tankbuster posted:

yeah but the games are fundamentally different from company of heroes.

oh yeah most definitely lol. i should boot it up again, i loved playing my 352nd infantrie division deck

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Zeppelin Insanity posted:

What the hell kind of game did you guys play where the Germans were overpowered, because it definitely wasn't Company of Heroes 1 multiplayer. The balance overall was decent, but Americans were the real overpowered standout, by far. Massed riflemen were drat hard to beat, and they also had cheap Shermans and Calliopes that didn't cost fuel.

Did you all play 4v4 annihilation or something

Anyway the only moral way to play was Random because then if you ended up as Germans it wasn't like you chose to play as Nazis

default coh yes, the introduction of the panzer elite definitely tipped the balance back to the germans tho

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Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Tankbuster posted:

lol how? Coh in general was more forgiving about build orders than starcraft.

at least as the Germans if you didn’t get MGs out asap you were hosed

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