Rutibex posted:

oh wow I didn't know they already made a Rome game. I guess I'll have to check that out. it's a few years old too so it should be nearly finished

Frosted Flake posted:

Did someone mention the politics of Terra Invicta?



That resume, jfc.

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

of course they are pro alien! they are supposed to be!

Regarde Aduck posted:

yeah its interesting seeing the usual suspects flip between 'Russians are all incompetent and bad at war' and 'all their stuff is really bad'. Because if they're incompetent how would you even know how good the equipment was? Is the T72B3 a bad tank because a lot of them got blown up, or were they just being used poorly (it's probably the latter due to very little screening infantry). I just wanna ask these dumb fucks what they think would happen if a Javelin slammed into the roof of an Abrams, or Challanger 2 or Leopard 2. The Abrams might come off best with the blow out panels but the crew is probably still swiss cheese. Challanger 2 has 2 part ammo/charges all over the turret and hull and would probably go up like a roman candle. Best protected tank in NATO bla bla.

I don't get grogs that can't do critical thinking. Why even be a grog if you're not overanalysing everything? Just to be a curmudgeon?

Orange Devil posted:

What settings were y'all playing Regiments on? I remember reading either here or in the Games thread that it was difficult but I'm rolling through all the operations with phases to spare, often winning the whole operation and/or stage in 1 phase.

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

game of the year/worst game of the century lock it in

Frosted Flake posted:

From what I understand Johan was kept away from this, so the mechanics will be good. Plus Wiz was a goon, so bully him into fixing it.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

thankfully the hoi4 dlc last month was such a disaster as to remind me to not touch Vicky 3 until probably next year

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.

Mans posted:

Lostconfused posted:

These post release plans seem like they should have been pre-release

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/victoria-3-dev-diary-64-post-release-plans.1553970/

Weembles posted:

Because this is a Paradox game and they've been releasing games in this manner for the entirety of their company's history.

Trabisnikof posted:

It’s more that currently you can only get that info from a thousand different tool tips, sometimes nested 3 deep within other tool tips.

Lostconfused posted:

It's also just hidden some of the time.

V. Illych L. posted:

hello, i am trying to play unity of command 2 and after comfortably managing the italian campaign i'm getting completely wrecked in operation overlord

how do i avoid german armoured divisions instantly mulching the guys i send to take pegasus bridge, pls help

Orange Devil posted:

I played 2 until I figured out the economic system is stupid broken. I hear 3 and 4 are very similar to 2. Also the owner is a massive libertarian doing workplace harassment and parking in handicapped spaces with his sports car, but I repeat myself.

V. Illych L. posted:

the first mission in the moscow expansion for unity of command is incredibly brutal, i think i took comparable losses in that one scenario to the entire war in the west campaign

Mister Bates posted:

GalCiv 2 had a very funny mechanic where your population's growth rate was inversely proportional to the tax rate, so the less you taxed your people the more they hosed

also the way ground combat worked was that you just grabbed a bunch of people directly from the civilian population of a planet and dropped them on another planet, where they fought against the defenders' civilian population until one side or the other was dead, which had the effect of making any civ with the Super Breeders trait almost invincible in ground combat, especially on the defense. they'd reproduce so prolifically at 0% tax rates that you could almost completely annihilate them and they'd be back to outnumbering you within weeks.

i say swears online posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/UBERSOY1/status/1622855020357029888

Slavvy posted:

Are you telling me there are hearts of iron rankings or did they make that up?

Either way, if you needed any more evidence it's a poo poo game for losers...

i say swears online posted:

hopefully just followers, 20k subs on twitch is like in the top 50 biggest

gradenko_2000 posted:

the "Shot Preview" feature of Xenonauts 2 is loving incredible and is worth the price of admission for that alone

to elaborate,

to move, you click on a square - the game first traces a path to that square you clicked, and tells you how many Time Units you will have at the end of it. Click again to commit/execute the move

to shoot, you hover your cursor over the target - the game tells you your to-hit percentage chance, and how many TUs it will cost. Right-click to change between firing modes. Click to execute the shot.
the game is also very good at breaking down exactly why your to-hit chance is, the way it is, whether because it's too far, or because there's a piece of cover in the way, and exactly which piece of cover is in the way

now, if you do the first click on a square to preview a move, and then hold down shift, and then mouse-over the target, the game will tell you your to-hit percentage chance, if you were standing from the spot that you had clicked

this takes out a lot of the guesswork from the game, especially when combined with the to-hit chance breakdown, because if you want to set-up a flanking move, or to pick a better firing spot, you will know how good the new firing spot is, before you commit to it.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I tried playing GalCiv 3 and 4 last year when I was on a 4x kick, and it just wasn't interesting. I could see the parts where industrial production is the most important thing in the game, as it usually is with all 4x's, but the game makes you move square-by-square like it was Civilization, but the maps are mostly wide open spaces because it's loving space, and then your fleets don't really exert zone-of-control, so making contact with enemy fleets and securing "your" territory is painful and tedious.

GalCiv 4 actually made things worse because the way they reconfigured planet management means you no longer have governor-automation for planets, so that's a part of micromanagement you can never get rid of.

quote:

Axis Operations 1945 includes an alternate campaign, building upon the victory at the Battle of Ploesti, players find themselves in a Germany at an impasse. The Western Allied landings at Normandy have been repelled, and the Soviet invasion of Eastern Europe halted, but total victory remains elusive. Another major offensive looms on the horizon, raising questions about its potential outcome and the toll it will exact on all involved nations.

Mister Bates posted:

you can't store concrete and asphalt but you can load up trucks with it at the border, so the very early game involves sending concrete trucks directly to the customs office and filling them up. you can also temporarily import foreign labor from those customs offices, giving you the initial supply of workers for your construction until you get some residential areas available.

you can also just start on a map that has existing pre-revolution towns and cities on it and use those to supply workers.

realistic mode is a ton of fun and is by far my preferred way to play the game, it's really satisfying to watch it go once all the pieces start coming together.

Armored Brigade is really good and the campaign system allows for a ton of variety and replay value. One little detail I really like about it is that, if you are using an on-map player commander unit, all of the audio you hear is generated based on where 'you' are on the battlefield, so stuff close to you will be very loud and stuff further away will be quiet or silent.

Damage to the map is also persistent from mission to mission in the same campaign, similar to Graviteam Tactics, so urban areas you're fighting over will gradually get shot to poo poo over the course of a campaign, it's neat.

Minenfeld! posted:

I like it. It's basically a cold war in Europe campaign generator where you choose your forces and where you're fighting on a map and go at it. It's cool but it's got some quirks. There's command delay in relaying orders to units. Generally NATO units have shorter relay times than Pact units, but you get a poo poo ton more artillery support as a Pact commander. Units don't really have much AI. You need to get really detailed about your units and their standard operating procedures. Most of your planning happens before you unpause the game at the start. Environmental modeling is reallying in depth with battlefield smoke increasing over time and obscuring vision. The worst part of the game hands down is how hard it can be to read terrain and LOS.

The DLCs I thought were neat. I really like the Soviets, French, Czechs, and Yugos. I once had an AMX-13 platoon in a good hull down position completely stop an entire Soviet mechanized company by themselves after the rest of my defenses had gotten blown the gently caress to pieces by Grads and dismounted infantry. I also had a single T-64 hold a town by itself against AMX-30s because its heavy ERA ate all the French HEAT rounds until they were out of ammo. Also called in napalm from Mirage IIIs which proceeded to drop them way off target onto my own troops because the battlefield had too much smoke.

Minenfeld! posted:

TW mods are all about piling dumb bullshit onto the game.

Slavvy posted:

If w&r had shell production plants FF would just stop going outside entirely

Mister Bates posted:

It looks like Matrix is running a Steam sale on most of their library if you're looking to pick up your sundry Combat Missions or Strategic Commands or Wars Across the World scenarios or whatever.

Even CMO is pretty deeply discounted. It also released a new community scenario pack yesterday, featuring not one but two fictional 'ripped from the headlines' scenarios in which you play as the French putting down revolts in their 'former' African colonies (in addition to the third currently being developed as a paid Command Showcase release). Also two different new scenarios in which you play as the Americans trying to break a Chinese blockade of Taiwan, and two different 'beat up Venezuela' scenarios. One has the player as the Dutch sinking Venezuelan fishing boats for straying too close to their Caribbean colonies, and the other one simulates a 2019 invasion to put down Maduro - this one is, mind-bogglingly, named after the Hitler 'we only have to kick down the door' quote, with the player being the one doing the door-kicking. 50% off for the next 24 hours if extremely thinly disguised neo-Nazi wank fantasies are your jam.

Orange Devil posted:

Tropico 2 might be the worst sequel in PC gaming history. I still remember how I felt after playing it for about an hour or two. It wasn't good.

I'm struggling to think of a sequel that comes close to being such a step down from previous entries in the series.

Frosted Flake posted:

Go to staff college and then do a visiting assignment in Canada

bing bong so simple

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/antony1959/status/1705220310696419648?t=ZKHswz-osp_R1Cjkgfb79w&s=19

Thread meetup when

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

Lol

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/us/joachim-peiper-nazi-photo-apology.html

Tankbuster posted:

them making the division designer was a bigger sin imo.

Frosted Flake posted:

Well, let’s just work through a Tactical Decision Game on CAJ, as a thread, and you can see how it works

Decision at the Blue River

You are Officer Commanding (OC) I Company (Coy) Combat Team (Cbt Tm), 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group (2 RCR BG). You have two organic mechanized infantry platoons and headquarters as well as an attached, operational control (OPCON), Leopard 2 troop (4 x Leopard 2) from C Squadron of The Royal Canadian Dragoons (RCD) and a forward observation officer (FOO) / forward air controller (FAC) party from The Second Regiment Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
(2 RCHA). Your third mechanized infantry platoon has been detached, OPCON, to C Squadron, RCD.

2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (2 CMBG) has been operating in Atropia for three months. Following successful defensive operations, the brigade (bde) is back on the offensive. Donovian forces are withdrawing to what is assessed to be a main defensive area in vicinity of the regional capital. Covering their retreat is a rear guard that is utilizing delaying tactics to buy time for the main body to establish the main defensive area. This rear guard is estimated to be a task organized battalion tactical group (BTG) made up of three motorized rifle companies equipped with BMP-2M and a tank company with T-72B. This BTG likely also has its own artillery, air defence, antiarmour, and electronic warfare units. It is assessed that the BTG will attempt to take maximum advantage
of the Blue River to impose heavy delays on the bde by forcing and then disrupting a deliberate crossing operation. It is assessed the enemy will attempt to defend on both sides of the river, and reconnaissance
assets have confirmed the presence of motorized platoon-sized elements at battle group objectives (BG Obj) 1 and 2.

Commander 2 CMBG is looking to rapidly seize crossings over the Blue River and establish a bridgehead on the far side to allow the Multinational Division Commander to commit a US Army Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) to continue the pursuit of the enemy and give them as little time as possible to make defensive preparations.
To do this he has tasked 1 RCR and 2 RCR each to seize two crossings, establish a bridgehead, and conduct a forward passage of lines with the ABCT. The RCD BG will be in reserve to exploit success and to establish the bridgehead on the far side of the river. The coalition has achieved local air superiority for this offensive but is very cautious in the use of close air support due to the adversary’s localized point air defence systems and man-portable air defence systems.

The Commanding Officer of 2 RCR (CO 2 RCR) intends to simultaneously seize BG Objs 1 and 2 with infantry heavy combat teams allowing him to dominate the crossings and the far bank with fire followed by the seizure of
BG Obj 3 by the C Sqn Cbt Tm. He will pass C Sqn through whichever crossing is seized first. His end state sees both crossing points secure, C Sqn Cbt Tm occupying BG Obj 3, and the BG prepared to initially pass the RCD BG followed by the ABCT. His main effort is C Sqn Cbt Tm seizing
BG Obj 3.

To accomplish your task, you decide to execute a very shallow left flanking with a fire base provided by your attached troop of four tanks (1 Tp). 1 Tp is tasked to support by fire, 7 and 8 Platoons (Pl) are tasked to destroy enemy in the vicinity of BG Obj 1. Upon the dismount, your light armoured vehicle (LAV) captain will assume control of your LAVs and get them oriented to the north of the Blue River while you

You and OC H Coy coordinated your H-hours so they are staggered by ten minutes allowing you to receive support from 2 RCHA before they switch their utlsupport to
Hotel Company (H Coy). The CO was concerned that he wanted his attacks to be simultaneous to overload the enemy’s ability to respond but accepted that ten minutes was a sufficiently short window.

At 0700h your FOO establishes surveillance on BG Obj 1 from a turret down position, adjusts rounds of fire and then calls fire for effect with a suppression mission against what appears to be a motor rifle platoon, dug in, in hull down positions. With rounds effective on the enemy position, 1 Troop occupies their support by fire position. The troop leader delivers the fire orders for a troop shoot and four Leopard 2 tanks expose their gun barrels and let loose with a volley of 120 mm sabot rounds. Two of the rounds impact what appears to be a dummy position, another flies over the turret of a BMP and the fourth hits the middle BMP and shears its turret off, sending it spinning into the air. It is now 0705h and your LAVs depart their attack position and cross the line of departure. The remaining BMPs now pop multi spectral smoke for cover, playing havoc with the tank and LAV sights. What can be made out is that the BMPs appear to be backing out of their prepared positions and moving down into the low ground toward the crossing site. You continue your assault towards BG Obj 1 frustrated that the enemy appears to be getting away and notice that there is a continuous hiss coming from your headset in your ear, almost as if someone were sitting on their press-to-talk switch on the BG Command net.

You arrive on BG Obj 1 and confirm that the enemy has successfully escaped; however, they left many of their dismounted infantry who are in no mood for a fight and quickly surrender. Your LAV Capt rapidly orients your
LAVs to the north and engages the fleeing motorized rifle platoon, destroying an additional vehicle. It is now 0720h, and H Coy should have commenced their attack ten minutes ago. The sounds coming from the east indicate that there is an intense fire fight going on and you can catch broken pieces of conversation on the radio
(Call Sign 0 [C/S 0]) which makes it sound like H Coy is heavily engaged. While you can’t understand what is being discussed, a few minutes later, you recognize the voices of the CO and OC C Sqn on the BG Command net. You try to raise the CO to report your situation but can’t get through. It is now 0725h and your gunner elbows your leg. He indicates you ought to check your day site and when you do, you see what appears to be a large dust cloud billowing up from behind BG Obj 3.

What Now Major?

In five minutes determine what your COA will be.

Your response should be in the form of direction to your subordinates, a diagram, and any reports you would attempt to send to higher levels.


Solutions

John Charity Spring posted:

haven't played it but all my friends who loved Advance Wars played it and said it was crap

Minenfeld! posted:

Regiments is getting procedural operations, airmobile infantry, and the French, Czechs, Dutch, and Canadians now.

Frosted Flake posted:

4CMBG 4lyfe. I think it's been slightly ahead of WARNO for a while now tbh.