Atrocious Joe posted:

Deciding when and where a Belgian paper mill is set up in 1857 is Stalinism

Lostconfused posted:

Civilization turns take for loving ever.

Megamissen posted:

i really wish shadow empire had mod support, the 'empire' part of the game is very underdeveloped
adding some more customization (like name lists) and making a better politics system would improve it a lot
currently massacring your striking workers has less impact on your ideology numbers than choosing what kind of specialist dude one of your battalions should get

Jazerus posted:

it is eternally funny that a ron paul guy produced the core economic system of a game that makes capitalism look like dumb poo poo for assholes

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

That's fine, total war mobilization is a very insane thing to commit to in reality. They need to fix the AI so they don't just mobilize 100% in every war though.

Lostconfused posted:

It's kind of hosed up how UK gets to teleport armies to it's puppet states in the middle of India when you try to get independence.

Orange Devil posted:

Oh yeah this is why I've always been rather interested in and read a lot about illegal markets like drugs, prostitution, alcohol during prohibition and some of the arms trade. It's all capitalism, but with a level of honesty, even in popular media, that you don't otherwise encounter. Some of the mask, so to say, is gone.

IMO it tells us a lot about how it incentivizes people to treat one another, and it's primarily due to the capitalism aspect rather than the illegality aspect.

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Rather than just granting them what the entire project claimed to be about. If all the blood spilled in Africa was to turn Africans into Englishmen, and here you have Kenyan people who were undoubtedly "ready" to sit at Westminster, had the same education, professions, beliefs as Britons... this is not just a betrayal of them, but all of the soldiers and District Officers who died for the cause.

Frosted Flake posted:

Frosted Flake posted:

You're right, of course.

As TERF Island sinks into the sea

KomradeX posted:

I think its a set up for engineers or people doing covert river crossing

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

I don't know a lot about the history of the period but it feels like there has never been a time in history where you could coherently represent whatever is going on in anatolia+levant+egypt while excluding Mesopotamia

Megamissen posted:

i never played majesty (seems very stressfull, have watched someone play though) but having little guys you can watch run around and fight on their own is very entertaining
adding a customizable name list (or custom hero creation if they have traits and/or visual customization) would be a good adition, especially for streamers

gradenko_2000 posted:

The trick is to read about the historical battle first, so your strategy becomes "don't do what the losing guy did"

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

The battles are like Gettysburg, but you know, on other civil war battlefields. The mechanics are the same but the maps are less detailed in exchange for more varietty.

The strategic layer gets a little tedious imo, but that's just me. You manage equipment and soldiers and there are light RPG elements as you build up a whole army brigade-by-brigade.

I believe Dreadnoughts is made by a different studio or a branch office and generally bears no resemblance to the other Ultimate ___ titles

Frosted Flake posted:

They've more or less abandoned it, yeah?

It's too bad, playing Salvo! as a kid was fantastic. There's so much potential for a good age of sail game, but the Total War games did it best in the modern era and Naval Action is tied to a godawful PVP model - war thunder on the high seas.

Mantis42 posted:

He did it twice

my dad posted:

I have, rather unexpectedly, become a Dominions 6 playtester. Illwinter have politely asked us not to gossip too much, so I won't, but it's pretty interesting to see the actual changes play out.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Sid Meier's C-... oh, you said DE-colonization

my dad posted:

Dominions gamers, I sure do hope you like non-aggression pacts.

my dad posted:

I thought of that one when you asked, but I figured it wouldn't count as modern since it's been around for what, 20 years or so?

I played it a lot and beat several campaigns a decade ago. I wonder what's changed since.

skooma512 posted:

Any tips on UGCW? Keeping with my theme, I'm utterly inept at that game too lol. My troops seem to always lose every matchup even with artillery support and 2:1 numbers.

gradenko_2000 posted:

oh hell yes this rules. Playing the strategic layer also in real-time is the shot-in-the-arm the Total War genre needs, and is likely necessary to let the asymmetric warfare of the American Revolution make any sense

gonna get my Nathanael Greene on

Mister Bates posted:

Israel is a settler colonial project with the goal of establishing an ethnostate in which there is a permanent racialized underclass, and every dead Israeli soldier is not just a dead soldier but also a setback in the ongoing effort to outnumber the natives

it’s similar to, although much more severe than, the casualty aversion experienced by white Rhodesians or pro-apartheid hardliners in South Africa

BearsBearsBears posted:

You can starve a city down to Pop 1, (sell all the improvements), and then build a Colony Pod in order to abandon it. This doesn't count as an atrocity. It turns out if you spread out your ethnic cleansing over enough time people don't regard it as an atrocity even if the end result is the same. In Alpha Centauri.

I'll be doing more SMAC but this time with the Thinker mod in order to improve the AI and as Deidre. I'll be posting significantly fewer pictures and updates but I'll probably still do a few. Previously I was doing full size screenshots with the [img ] tag. Should I use the [timg ] tag in the future? This makes the pictures smaller but for some reason when you click them it doesn't expand to full size but instead to a medium size, you have to open the picture in a new tab in order to get the full size view and be able to actually read anything.

Please enjoy this picture of what the original 7 faction leaders looked like when they were younger. The actual pictures were taken from the diplomacy screen in the game.

BearsBearsBears posted:

I think of the Ukraine war a surprising amount when playing. I was thinking of The Ghost of Kyiv when I was reading about Recon Rover Rick, "Mythology for Profit" indeed.

Frosted Flake posted:

Iirc the Czechs pissed off the Bolsheviks by reaching out to the Entente intervention forces or something?

They had been the anti-Austrian Czechs fighting for the Russians (alongside the anti-Austrian Poles) and so sided with the White Army, as well, if I remember the specific chain of events.

FrancisFukyomama posted:

oh yeah that’s true, that game looked like poo poo

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

Alpha Centauri is where Earth sent all the worst people on the planet. They don't want to talk to them. They don't want them back.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I guess my aim needs some more work

The game was very no-fuss to start and to jump into the bombing training mission - the draw distance and detail is still somewhat constrained by its age so I had a bit of trouble identifying the target from afar, but the AI helped and I only took over control once we were closer to the target. What I will really commend is:

* the ability to click on the manual button from Steam, have it open in the other monitor, and then use it to reference the instructions for the bombing-run in real time, which worked.

* the game just instantly recognized my plugged-in controller as a joystick, and I was able to use it for controlling the bombsight

EDIT: apparently there is a bug with the bombing training mission where the Norden bombsight rate-tracking doesn't stick, which would explain why I had some trouble with it, but apparently it works properly during full-up missions.

Frosted Flake posted:

I was just reading a book that argued that the Norden bombsight did work, and the Americans tried to be, and were, more accurate and "humane" than Bomber Command, but... I'm really not sure about that at all.

Frosted Flake posted:

Really want to try that icebreaker DLC but I don't think I'll be able to expense it for my PE through work...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-_pmS8rTEA

Trabisnikof posted:

after playing it for a while, I think I can say that Civ4:Colonization with the "We The People" mod is the definitive version of colonization. i would recommend it for anyone who gets the itch to colonize

FrancisFukyomama posted:

are the flaws with civ 4 col that made people say it was inferior to to the original fundamental design flaws or just things that can be modded away? I recall a big complaint was that the king’s army snowballs and becomes impossible to beat but that sounds like something a mod could easily fix?