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January 6 Survivor posted:Do you guys have some suggestions on wargames that are a) playable on potato computers, b) not ridiculously complex and c) seriously, not ridiculously complex, I've never played a strategy game more complicated than Advance Wars before? Actually that reminds me, if it's turn based, all the better. Battle Academy isn't really that intensive but really fun. You've got an eastern and western campaign. Warhammer Armageddon is a fantastic game that can probably run on a PC from 1998
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Jul 16, 2022 19:54
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I once did a Mali campaign that united all of Africa and it was fantastic to gain land from the euros in a peace deal and receive the pop up about the slavery resource being exchanged for something else  It seems they after more than a decade, the general States of Africa are actually treated with some respect and their units look dignified instead of looking like cavemen with muskets. I have to check EU4 one of these days.
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Aug 8, 2022 21:00
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fondly remembering playing as Oman, trying to form Persia or play as Ethiopia and having a really cool game until an tidal wave of islamic ottoman fury rained down upon me
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Aug 8, 2022 23:42
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John Charity Spring posted:this is definitely what happened to EU4, a game I really enjoyed at one point but is terrible for it now. I think both HOI4 and CK2 (and now 3) are better for it, though. HOI4 has added a lot of systems but they mostly feel good and apt to the rest of the game, with the possible exception of espionage. EU4 started to get seriously bloated when they added Estates and they've never recovered, only got worse I think EU4 hit its peak at around art of war when everything felt really tuned and all bugs fixed, before they started shoving so much unnecessary stuff into the game. I haven't played the game since leviathan and there seems to have been already a new DLC out which is also badly received although not as badly.
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Aug 10, 2022 01:33
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I want to speak in detail about Order of Battle here because that damned game drew me in with the "it's free!" button and then sucked me into grabbing all the DLCs so far while also playing custom made ones. It's a really fantastic beer and pretzel game.
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Aug 10, 2022 16:17
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Workers & Resources seemed great before but after your post, it seems absolutely fantastic, even if frustrating.
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Aug 26, 2022 16:19
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Danann posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/529340/Victoria_3/ It will be poo poo for two years but it will probably be a tremendous game as soon as it's "completed". Assuming the Paradox model goes through
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Sep 1, 2022 23:45
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Atilla, while unoptimized, was fantastic. While a lot of factions were same-ish, there were very unique experiences to be had. Playing as the western roman empire was damage control like i've never seen on another game, Vandals or Allamani went from trying to build a modes kingdom in central europe to going "gently caress it, I'm going to Iberia", the Alans allowed you to feel like a badass nomadic faction until the bigger nomads came after you and the Huns were a genuine guerrila, survival strategy game at first until you got enough strenght to turn into a wrecking ball, although that strength could easily evaporate if you get careless and lose your leader. And then you had the Sassanids, which according to the game was the peak of civilization, paragons of sanitation and lucrative markets, with effectively no drawbacks. They make a lot of sense when you're playing as the ERE and have to deal with this super strong rival empire, but playing as them was just a calm, smooth western push.
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Sep 2, 2022 13:53
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Oh yeah I forgot about that dlc, it was great
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Sep 2, 2022 14:41
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War Thunder combat mechanics without dreadful maps or matchmaker seems like heaven
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Sep 7, 2022 18:33
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Cuttlefush posted:the M3 Lee was actually really good in War Thunder for its matchmaking bracket so maybe don't talk so much poo poo about it even though it looks dumb as hell It was really useful in men of war too as long as you covered the sides. All the forward facing guns would devastating any position. Danann posted:It'll probably end up anti-communist as gently caress though unless there are more secret tankie modders than it seems in the paradox community. Reminder that, be it by accident or intentionally, paradox developed the USSR in HoI4 in the explicit message that Stalin was 100% right. They then made a major DLC for the USSR where they made it so that Stalin is actually 200% right in every single suspicion. Frosted Flake posted:
The Napoleonic line is so dumb but so fun, it's basically a run against time to swallow up as many territory as possible before Germany attacks you and then you turn Germany into multiple German vassals.
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Sep 17, 2022 15:54
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Raskolnikov38 posted:
And it's considered devastatingly hard due to it, so you have to keep that in mind when you ask the question of why the ai is so incompetent by default
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Sep 17, 2022 17:52
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Frosted Flake posted:because of naval ranges and how long it takes to colonize a province, the historical Portuguese Empire is pretty much impossible since you can’t even get to India or around Africa at game start. I remember both of the major mods, VIET and the other one, just give you those trading colonies in India, around China etc. after events fire, which works but it shows how weird they handle these things. There's actually an achievment in reaching India in the historical year that the Portuguese did it as a recognition of how hard or rare it is in a regular EU4 game. It's utterly pointless to do so when you have all of South America at your disposal.
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Sep 18, 2022 18:03
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Speaking of X com, I have both xenonauts and phoenix point but played neither so far. Are they any good? I hear a lot of conflicting reports on the latter. Frosted Flake posted:Can you not do that in these ones? It's very fun but I played a single campaign fully and then uninstalled since I effectively saw all relevant content. Characters aren't random, you get a specific number they includes aliens, all with voice acting and unique skills. You're basically a SWAT team responsible for security in a mega city. Combat is always built on breaking into a facility and you can choose usually multiple entry points, even splitting your team between those areas, and using an assortment of tools like flash bangs, explosives and drones to make your entry easier. It's a game where you play a super inclusive, non racist SWAT team fighting for the good of the community. It's a very good sci fi fiction.
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Sep 25, 2022 11:21
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Also one voice actor played her character in a sassy and seductive voice and the devs didn't tell her she was actually voicing the role of the big titty snake woman.
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Sep 25, 2022 11:24
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Between xcom 2 and chimera squad, I'm really interested in trying one of the burgers they keep talking about.
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Sep 25, 2022 15:17
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Frosted Flake posted:The burgers are people, right? They have burguer factories where meat comes out, but no one ever sees meat getting in. edit: they still exist in chimera squad so i assume it's not people or known, sentient, aliens.
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Sep 25, 2022 21:08
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Muscovy is a very fun pick and by far the easiest way to form Russia, yeah. For some unconcievable reason, their national ideas are built on "massive population" which is a really weird concept for 15th century Muscovy.
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Sep 26, 2022 10:10
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Stairmaster posted:Eu4 should probably not run until 1820 no one plays until the end date anyways
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Sep 26, 2022 16:37
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Rutibex posted:Paradox needs to make a bronze age and a neolithic age strategy game. I found a mod once that let me wind the clock back to ancient Rome, but I want more Troy total war is fine nowadays. Not sure what would be remotely interesting in a paradox bronze age game though. It would be Europa universalis without anything interesting? You'd need to spend four years before the boat dlc comes out too.
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Sep 26, 2022 19:14
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Megamissen posted:i would really like to see research changed in hoi4 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.
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Sep 27, 2022 12:55
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err posted:are there any good civil war games? revolution under siege isn't modern but is fantastic.
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Sep 28, 2022 09:14
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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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BadOptics posted:We'll see. I bought their Roman period game (it was so good I can't even remember it's name!) with a bunch of buddies and welp! I do hope it works out though! that was johann wiz went crazy due to a EU3 LP and basically created de groundwork for everything that made EU4 fun.
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Oct 19, 2022 15:06
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Rome would've been fine if they had just accepted EU4 was in a good place and didn't need to be shoved with increasing amounts of broken DLC
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Oct 19, 2022 16:46
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Brandon Proust posted:it’s a modern paradox game, why the gently caress does anyone give a poo poo I have to respect Paradox' grind. They had a super complete Crusader Kings 2 that cost hundreds of euros, so they decided to do a graphics revamp and little else and released a 50 euro CK3 along with 60 euros worth of DLC that still have way less content that the previous game. Victoria looks really good, but I assume the AI will be completely incapable of playing the game, as is modern paradox tradition.
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Oct 25, 2022 09:42
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Dreylad posted:im waiting. EU4 circa Art of War\ Common Sense and HoI2 darkest hour \ arsenal of democracy are pretty drat good.
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Oct 25, 2022 15:54
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 Maximo Roboto posted:EU II was the peak. Textbooks over sandboxes. For the Glory ftw EU2 was a lot of fun to play as random nations and read the events that followed but sometimes you got silly things like collapsing in ruin as Portugal or France because your king died in Morroco (you haven't fought there in 100 years) or due to your terrible Louisiana colonies (you never colonised the area) because they had a hardcoded approach to events. Still fun, nonetheless.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:16
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gradenko_2000 posted:
This is why Order of Battle and Strategic Mind are cool and Panzer Corps is disappointing.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:34
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Danann posted:
China was basically impossible in Victoria 2 and it would basically break the game if they industrialised because their educated working force would consume the entire world's resources. But apparently you can obliterate major powers on Vicky 3 by playing small islands with 40 people so...
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HoI4 took years to feel properly solid so i'm not surprised if Vicky will only be a proper complete experience by the end of 2023. It's not so much that the game is bad, it's just barebones. Vicky2 is an awful experience and anyone thinking it's superior are crazy. Absolutely awful influence system, awful war mechanics (try to mobilize as russia lol), awful colonization mechanics, barely any diplomatic options. Game as mediocre, but it was the only game we had.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:
Tell that to Wilhelm the second Mandoric posted:
Those are god awful borders all across the world. Lostconfused posted:The follow tweets are great too Do you need pharmaceuticals to reach anarchism or am I seeing it wrong?
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