PoontifexMacksimus posted:

would be a shame if the series peaked as early as A Distant Plain, but ADP is really good IMO

StashAugustine posted:

Twilight Struggle rocks (despite being a little lib brained), it's an excellent intro to modern wargaming

gradenko_2000 posted:

Holy poo poo it's like Pruitt-Igoe: The Game

Frosted Flake posted:

I’m waiting on mine.

Can you explain what’s up with the upgrade and/or AI package? They’re each like $30 and so far as I understand, update the flowchart solitaire system to a card based one?

I ordered the Sovereign of Discord too but I think that’s not being printed yet.

Slavvy posted:

This honestly makes me reluctant to pick up and cold war game nowadays cause the developers never picked up anything besides a Jane's vehicle guide and the soviets are just 'NATO, but worse!'

WiC was a borderline arcade game so I hope it's better than that.

Danann posted:

I wonder how many economic majors have played Sim City and think that's how economies work.

Pryor on Fire posted:

Yeah the main war thunder mechanic of memorizing the 5 spots and 20 sight lines for every map gets tedious really quick. Most people seem to give up on how boring the ground battles are and just do air instead at higher levels. Just parking an anti-air cannon in spawn and waiting for engine noises is way more fun than the tank fights. There's also pay to win where people buy 6 bushes for every tank which gives you a massive advantage.

Frosted Flake posted:

Or you’d have to play it like a job to get to the cold war units at this point.

Slavvy posted:

Does anyone anywhere anytime actually love the m60? Besides the fat fucks who got used to a living room sized turret.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

the m60 starship can suck my motherfucking dick

Frosted Flake posted:

Wasn’t it cheaper to buy, run and easier to maintain than M1 by a wide margin? USMC took theirs to the Gulf, maybe there’s a comparative study.

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.

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

Actual war is pretty shite in Paradox games. The Vicky 3 Cold War mod should just make you lose if you start a nuclear war, and have all the nukes and missiles be consumer goods for your outrageously influential Pentagon pops

skooma512 posted:

I don't think I've ever won a war in a Paradox game legitimately. In CK people will rebel and they're like a duke with two provinces and their forces always easily outnumber and outclass anything I can field. In EU4 if I declare war on anyone it triggers half the world into an alliance war, and if it doesn't the target country similarly can field larger and better armies no matter what. If I have numerical superiority I'll still lose even with a good general.

Slavvy posted:

For maximum screeching about unfairness this should also extend to soviet tanks' organic river crossing provisions

Lostconfused posted:

The real problem with DLC is that they need to tear off the bandaid and make a new game sometime.

HoI IV is definitely too old, the engine fork they use is ancient. Also a bunch of new systems they added should probably be reworked so they fit together better, and focus trees too.

But it's just not going to happen because of all the work that went into it already, so instead they take the halfway step of putting out another expansion pack making the mess even bigger.

Frosted Flake posted:

Did someone mention the politics of Terra Invicta?



That resume, jfc.

gradenko_2000 posted:

SEVEN DAYS TO THE RHINE

LETS loving GOOOOOOOOOO

Frosted Flake posted:

I’ve been trying to think of a way to expense this but unfortunately I think I’ll have to play on my own time 🙁

I really hope Wiz came through

gradenko_2000 posted:

it's funny cuz Panzer Corps keeps doing this thing where Germany gets a full blown DLC for every year of the war, and then the entire Soviet experience is one campaign.

gradenko_2000 posted:

watching the Victoria 3 tutorials on the official Paradox channel, and the guy they got to host it matter-of-factly said "without market prices, economic decisions are beyond human capacity"

and like, I get that a game like Victoria 3 assumes that to be true, in order for the game's economy to have a frame-of-reference under which to work at all, but he immediately follows it up with "... this same concept remains true in Victoria 3", which means he thinks it's a true statement in the general, and not merely as a sop to game design

Dreylad posted:

I can see why people are missing that laissez faire feeling when you have to build 45 furniture factories while your population starves to death yourself instead of AI capitalists doing it for you

I know I don't really have to say it here, but people would be surprised by how much early modern states had to invest in developing their own industries or propping up private investment firms that were complete shitshows.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Lol the US unit is literally called ACAB

Danann posted:

time for human wave asiatic russians despite the btg structure literally being organized in the opposite manner

Orange Devil posted:

In general everyone gets way too old. Lots of 80 or even 90 year old heads of state, generals, party leaders.

bedpan posted:

they released the game without those things? pretty dire

Lostconfused posted:

Lostconfused posted:

I've god bad news for you.

They decided to not fix the game.

Frosted Flake posted:

Alright, so right off the bat, no surprise, guess who wrote the original English report on Kurk's southern flank? Why, Friedrich Fangohr
Chief of Staff, Fourth Panzer Army!

"Perhaps the most significant contribution of the postwar Kursk study— albeit one that has been unrealized until now (1950's)—was Busse's fortunate selection of Friedrich Fangohr to write the chapter on Fourth Panzer Army operations." What other publicans did he write for the US Army? One titled "...Population, and (Its) Influence on Warfare in the Soviet Union". "...he was the only senior member of Fourth Panzer Army staff to do any work for the U.S. Army..." "...he escaped Soviet captivity, serving for two weeks in mid-May as the head of the German liaison staff responsible for coordinating the disarmament and internment of Wehrmacht prisoners after the surrender at Rheims."

"(The history of) Operation Citadel simply could not have been written by anyone else. Thus we have a valuable lost memoir of sorts from a key participant on the battle of Kursk... (though) Fangohr himself has nearly been lost to history."


Well, in his telling, it went something like this:

Here's what the US summary of the same actions was:





I could go on, but lol yeah LSSAH really hosed up.