This is NOT /g*g/. If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/.==NEWS==Nebulous: Fleet Command, Campaign Act 1 will be released on May 29th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4BOaaB9I1QGalactic Civilizations IV, Dev Journal: Empires: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/696512943113634097Newstower Roadmap: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1649950/view/512989355492508053Foundation, Devlog #21 - Refining the Experience: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/690830/view/662735310818379393Stellaris Dev Diary #413: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/281990/view/521993383330187248Airships: Conquer the Skies, version 1.2.11 update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/342560/view/519741583516501756Laysara: Summit Kingdom released: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1823950/view/508480685901611544C-Beams Devlog 52: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmKiMD2LxhUDistant Worlds 2, DLC Announcement & Command Update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/715659582307827956Falling Frontier Dev Update: Combat Overview: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280190/view/542258317343326824Frostpunk 2, Fractured Utopias dlc: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1601580/view/648085384362721315News Tower, Setting the Record Straight update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1649950/view/719036195725640223Meet-up at Spiderfag's house at 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney.== Pastebins ==Alpha Centauri (new 14/06/22): https://pastebin.com/QgEvG3ETFree and open source games pastebin: https://pastebin.com/8nRQckSNStellaris: https://pastebin.com/hPfrhazx https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Stellaris_WikiStellaris DLC guide: https://rentry.org/STDLC384Endless Space 2 + Endless Legend: https://pastebin.com/yu57huWmCivilization: https://pastebin.com/eeL9tyaW/cbg/: https://pastebin.com/ZSLVg9kTWorkers & Resources: https://pastebin.com/XaWF8mE6Previous thread:>>575197978
HAK HAK HAK
Let's fix Stellaris one change at a time.No joining ongoing wars
>>576499438Return to tile system.
Good god i desperately try to like Rule The Waves 3 but the lack of basic bitch comparison ability is driving me nuts...
>>576501654Rule The Waves 4? Or a community patch?
oh hoh?
If you lot want to become cavalry one day you better run up to those brits and steal some horses.
>>576508905Did they fix bookbinding bug where they're all one page long yet?
>>576501654Speaking of which, I wish RTW went further in the technology timeline in either direction. Cold war/nuclear/modern stuff gets hard because you start to get close to what's actually being used now, and simulating damage to nuclear reactors doesn't sound easy, but I think going earlier to sailing ships and paddle steamers could be fun
>>576511262>simulating damage to nuclear reactors doesn't sound easyHonestly they're not so different from steam engines in that respect, in terms of immediate consequences relevant to the battle anyway. Rupture the steam vessel and you either lose power or have a steam explosion, rupture the reactor vessel and you probably have a (radioactive) steam explosion, reactor SCRAMs aren't so different from having your stokers killed, the comparisons go on and on.
>>576514943True. I guess the crew getting poisoned or anything would be another thing. In any case, I find missiles make ship warfare boring so I hope they'd at least give earlier warfare a chance
>enter final zone>see this shit
>>576523561[triggered french noises]
>>576523727>it's not like i'm playing french rn or anythingOh. Right. Fuck.
>>576524098You need a foreign general. French always lose, unless they're led by a non-French general.Also damn that's a lot of artillery. How come the first brigade has tents on the left side and then on the right side? Is there a meaning to it, or are these backgrounds randoms?
>>576524314...that artillery core is actually rather small, underequipped and... lacking. You should've seen what I had with austrians the other day. Pure background cosmetics. They shift as you unlock more brigades and such so that's cute.
>>576524964>artillery>smallFaggot, one fifth of your army is artillery. That's 20%. Do you know how much artillery I hate in Age of Empires or Cossacks or whatever else?>Pure background cosmeticsOh darn, I've been thinking they served to show what the unit is about, like a melee-oriented unit has a saber, the 1st Brigade having a mix of musket and carbine maens they mix line infantry and sharpshooters...
>>576526371If you ever decide to give it a go and it's absolutely not harder to pickup than tt you'll see I'm not exaggerating for dramatic effect.>20%I had 60% with austrians. With far better guns.
>>576506235Rule the waves3. There is no 4 and i have no idea about any community patches.>>576511262I wish they added some more flexibility to diplomacy, seeing old colonial powers in 1970 is weird.
>>576528401That too. I think having more countries would also be a nice change, like being able to play through the South American arms race
What's a good Dune game? I tried Spice Wars, loved it, I tried the survival one, it was some always-online bullshit that managed to be even worse than ARK (who is likely among the survival games I hate the most).Is there a RTS that does the whole melee/ranged combat properly?
>>576536619If westwood or that mod for civ4 isn't cutting it for you, sorry but as far as I know you're shit out of luck. Define properly.
>>576537010I mean, apparently a big part of Dune (in the earlier books anyway) is that ranged warfare needs either overwhelming firepower or specific antishield technology, except on Arrakis where shields cannot be used.Is there a game that plays with that? Like, by having you fight somewhere else than on Arrakis?I get it's weird to ask a Dune game where you don't play on Dune, but I'm really curious to play a RTS with shields that aren't just more HP.
>>576537531So... something with shields and such that require flanking and or positioning is very important? It's not dune but you might like ground control 1/2. End of day Dune doesn't have that many licensed games.
>>576538781I kinda guess? I mean, I know directional damage is a thing already, I did play Company of Heroes and lost a fucking Sherman to a rocket lawnchair to the back, seem like American are weak to attacks from the back, good to know for when I'll date one, but I'm thinking...I don't really know, honestly. I think I'm just curious to see how one would translate a concept into gameplay. I know a couple of game where units are very resistant to ranged damage but tend to fall quickly when melee start.
>>575816379>>576119564There we go. Now to make sure she moves correctly in game.
>>576541661I approve. And damn, she isn't as deformed as I feared. Very nice.
>>576499012HYUK HYUK HYUK
>>576541838You have driven me to the limits of my modeling capabilities for a player who isn't even a permanent addition to the team but it's finally done. She's in and properly sized.
>>576554702Sorry about that.
>>576559309Tbh I've been meaning to learn a lot of these parts of modeling, like how do you deform a football player's kit to a model that has tits, or how do you visually shrink a player model. If anything, you forced me to learn what I've been putting off for over a year.
>>576559695Still, sorry to force you to go along with my elfsexual fantasies.
>>576559815To absolve yourself of this stain, you must either buy all Stellaris DLC, or you must play a new RTS game.
>>576560332Alright time for Armor Clash 3 then.
>>576560704Good choice
okay i have no idea what i'm doing
>>576565641Try showing a picture to the class
>>576531282I hate how game actively fights against you at times. So many small yet extremly annoying things - inability to set prefixes, very restrictive classes, random arbitrary rules that make no sense, no ability to obsolete designs you want freely ( its done automatically which is also annoying as shit because game hides perfectly good designs because lol older than five years ) etc
>>576570571It's, huh. Quite weird. The fog of war is totally transparent, the enemy is as aggressive as a Tate fan, and I'm not quite sure what does what because you cannot select enemy units.
You pick your endgame unit at the very start, too;
>>576576109The experimentals look a lot more mundane than I would expect
>>576547315>My single greatest achievement is a image edit used every thread for ritual postingmfw
>>576498868spider...
>>576583669spiders are creepy
>>576581429be proud
>getting the urge to make a Stellaris knockoff again
And done with the last nation and probably the lot for now. Neat little game, would recommend to binge on for a week.
>>576599483What game is this?
>>576600667Been using it to bump the thread now and then but it really is a nice game if you tw setpiece battles and building up your units that perform in them. It does repetitive after a dozen runs.
>>576580597It's not an infantry-based game.>>576599483Ooh, congrats.
>>576600667Master of Cum
Aurorabros...
>>576611332What happened?
>>576614413The main dev died. Someone broke into his house and farted on his pillow, he got so angry at the smell that he died of an aneurysm.
>>576614413No update news...
>>576614689WTF
>>576615431I mean, wouldn't you be pissed if someone farted on your pillow?
>>576616139Some people pay good money to have their pillow farted on
>>576618527Perverts...
>>576618527Why do you know this
>>576626601I'm an artist. I'm a performance artist.
>>576627313Comfy
niggers, good night
>>576640248It's civ4xggers, fren. But sleep well.
>>576640248Yes, die!
>>576627313What mod is this
>>576647207it's not a mod
>>576627313Stronghold?
>>576648865Yes
Good morning /civ4xg/. What are you playing today? I'm thinking of devoting 2-3 hours to Shadow Empire today.
>>576662161balatro, twilight princess
>>576662161Stranded. Think rimworld but with z-levels and both better and worse in many other ways.
>>576667171I have this game on my wishlist, i am wondering if i should buy as a colony sim enjoyer
>>576668950You do you but I'd pirate.
Drat. Pressing F12 to take a screenshot closes this game.
>do tutorial>have to do it thrice because first time, F12 closed the game, and second time, got softlocked by doing steps out of order>do first mission>"difficulty 3/10">oh it's an easy one>evil laugh in the background>the game turns into a tough tug of war because the research center is way too close to the enemy's HQ so the AI is able to keep spamming Advancers (the floating saucers that are essentially engineers) to constantly dispute it>save up, start spamming anti-air turret>one is not enough to take down the advancer>two are barely enough to destroy it before it kills one of my turrets>end up making 5 of them>enemy advancer still tough enough to shoot my advancer, and eventually kill it>also have to keep fighting off ground assault while keeping the facility intact, and eventually upgrade it>finally get enough turrets around it to fight off enemy assaults>game turns into a waiting game as I wait to have 1 000 research points to upgrade my tanks and flamers to medium>just as I get them, I unlock air strikes, 8 of them>"Mister Hammond, we're back in business">turns out I need 4 air strikes to destroy each turret group>eventually winI think I made a mistake and started with the expansion? No way a game's first mission is so tough.
Yeah, fuck it, I'll stick to normal game first. Less stuff, but less feeling like I'm pointed a gun at.
Yeah, this looks easier.Also the game is much more obviously Korean now, there's more of it.
bump
>>576674176I read it as State of War: Whoremonger
>>576687845That'd be my ex, if that bitch played strategy.
>>576688036kek
Yeah I think it's a wrap.
I will go for a walk.
>>576688036Your ex pimped you out?
>>576706719Kinda.
We'll be playing against /gbpen/ today around 21:40 UTC. Rest of the schedule for the next two weekends is here >>576116520. It'll be streamed at the usual link, and the day's stream starts at 17:00 UTC (https://cytube.implying.fun/c/vgleague).
>>576708508I will be sleeping at that point, since it's like 1 AM or close to that, but I assume there will be vods?
>>576709131There should be
>>576708508Time to fap to loli space elf butt as that meaty, might ass gets "accidentally" kicked.
game for this feel?
>>576718097Dawn of Man? Or some post-apo setting?What kind of game is it that people don't know what manure is?
>>576718285>Dawn of ManI wish I was playing that instead. Stranded.
Sounds... delicious.
>>576722528Giant lobster thermidor?
>>576722528Is the game worth it?It seems that it will have either little content or be artificially difficult.
>>576726863Cockroach and microplastic soup more like it if we're going by what I've been feeding them.>>576727909Don't know. There's still that new game smell about it for me but there are some really annoying things. I'm really not finding it difficult in the least. The biggest bottleneck is processing speed (which I imagine you can improve with dedicated crafters and tech) since resources are ABUNDANT. Seriously, I did my first run in the desert biome and there are patches of whatever and gigantic herds literally everywhere.
nighty night...
>>576733952It's not that late though
>>576675262The unit art style clashes with the terrain
Still preferable to being raided by furries.
>>576744845Who else /untameable/ here?
>>576744845What the fuck am I looking at?
>>576751335Lunch.
>>576751690Kill all vegans.
>>576751914I'm sure vegans will stop being vegans very quickly in the apocalypse. Their fancy food morals won't hold up for long when the choice is eating meat or starving to death. Even if some do the latter, that just means the problems solves itself.
>>576753756"You will either eat meat, or become meat".Man, the rages I got because of Rimworld because of stupid shit like that.>"Ardyn I'm literally burning to death">sorry dude I'm incapable of firefighting>"Ardyn you're being killed by a squirrel, kill him">sorry dude i'm incapable of fighting
>>576751690>that UIthat's fucking surviving mars
>>576754524Worse. It's "surviving the apocalypse and your party is made out of Wall Street traders".
>>576754524Same devs I believe. And it shows.
What should i play, Shadow Empire or Transport Fever 2??
>>576755214https://wheelofnames.com/rmm-jrc
>>576708508We're up now. No promises Fanatic Xenophile will play unless player conditions are favorable.https://cytube.implying.fun/c/vgleague
>>576756936You better win.
>>576756936LET'S GOOOO
>>576758254WATCH ME SNIFF DUST
>>576755214>Shadow EmpireIs the DLC out yet?Something about Transport Fever 2 didn't click with me. IDK what it was. Not the gameplay loop but the presentation of it. I should maybe try it again sometime, it's been a while.
>>576727909I'd like to revise >>576729702Game's honestly a piece of shit. I can put up with a lot of jank but when you make a four story tower and instead of them using the stairs or provided ladders, they pull a 30m magic ass ladder out of thin air and climb that way I draw the line.
>>576759335 (Me)>Is the DLC out yet?...Well not only is the DLC out, I own it somehow. When did that happen?
>>576759521Still not as bad as Kingdom Wars. I'm still pissed that the enemy just walked through my walls.Same shit in BfME2.
>>576759671I can imagine. That happens too.
FUCK YOU HORATIO>>576760062That made me drop Kingdom Wars right away. And I really hated that part of BfME2. You play the game, you build walls, and the enemy just squeezes through invisible gaps.
>>576756936We scored 3 goals just to score draw 2-2 thanks to the R*ftb*rn scoring an own goal. We'll be back tomorrow against /gfg/.
We won 3-1, despite Riftborn.
>>576760584Fucking Riftborn. That was embarassing.
>>576760584REPLACE HER
>couldn't get to see Fanatic Xenophile>Riftborn marked a goal against us>another goal was hit by la creaturaShit match.
Would you take the deal?
>>576761507That's quite generous
>>576761507Horatio is only good for extinction.
>mmm today I will play a megacorp and make lots of trade>start looking for neighbors>hive mind>hive mind>hive mind>xenocidal>hivemind
>>576761196She'll play at least once in the next 2 weeks but she's got a lot of opportunities in the mean time. Here's an assist I just got when testing tactics.
>>576769715oh my god she's so short
>>576769787Despite her looks, the game treats her as being 175 cm tall so just 10 cm shorter than HAK HAK HAK. That's one of those tricks I got to learn a few days ago when I was putting the model into the game.
>>576769715An assist, indeed.
WAT
>>576774237Looks normal to me
Amplitude elaborated on Rogue Factions:https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3407390/view/677380254423056618?l=english
>>576777260so they're like subfactions
>>576777260Neato
>>576760584Fuck, HE'S COMING HOMEbeat his riftborn wife...
Spiders could be here...
>>576798872
>>576799310How do you know that?
>>576805623He's lying.
>>576760584VOD for those who missed the match and want to watch the replay https://implying.fun/video/VGLCOC/2026-08-07/?t=4:58:04.0
>>576824139thanks
>>576498868Distant Worlds 2 Shadows Rising, Dev Diary #1: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/715658948265379511GalCiv 4, Federations & Empires: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/679629698986149685 GalCiv 4, v4.0 Changelog: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1357210/discussions/0/572669660098588545>>576824139What a nice way to come back from holiday. Thanks anon.>>576510247Is this Master and Command?
>>576498868Also this.Airship: Conquer the Skies, Water! (but no boats?): https://steamcommunity.com/games/342560/announcements/detail/704400583238355622?snr=2___
>>576825816Looks weird.
>>576825816How is this one? Is it as annoying building stuff like cosmoteer? I didn't like the crew system. It's good, but made building things I like a pain.
>>576826186You don't like water?
>>576829018No.
>>576826309I've never played Cosmoteer. Airships is basically a risk game with in depth ship builder. The empire management part only serves to build ships and fight your opponents. You can develop new weapons and components for your ships giving you an edge compared to the other countries. As for crew, you only need to add crew compartments until you hit the recommended number of crewmen. More important in your design is where you place certain components, what armour, what kind of guns. You can also design landships and fortresses.
>>576829018It's a cultural thing.
>>576830146So crew don't have to physically access the stuff they are working with? Or like manually bring ammo and power around?They had to in Cosmoteer, and it made designing a pain, among other design choices. It was challenging, but not my cup of tea.
>>576825456>Is this Master of Command?Yes.
>>576831151W...what? Btw I just came back form the French mediterranean coast and people seemed to like sea water just fine.>>576831375Yes the modules you instal require crew to work on them. So the vital ones need to be crewed like engines, buoyancy, command and guns, then you need some crew to move resources like coal and ammunition arround. After that there's also jobs like repairing and putting out fires. There have to be paths in your ships I have the pathing overlay opened in the image. It's pretty easy to make a working ship, you just don't need to get carried away with things. Ships need to be specialized for a purpose and you don't need to have all modules. The trick is to keep the upkeep costs down unless you are the biggest empire, then you can afford a few costly ships.
>>576832279Ugh, fuck needing to path.My issue wasn't making working ships, it was making ships I liked the look of, though I heard it was at least easier here than in Cosmoteer.Thanks. I've been eyeing this one for quite awhile now going by when I added it to my wishlist, but I still don't think I'll get it yet.
>>576832643From what I've been seeing of Cosmoteer just now I think Airships is a lot simpler with it's ship designs. Airships is also a strategy game in which you conquer other empires with your creations and you need multiple different ships. You can spend a lot of time designing ships but you don't have to, there's also lots of pre designed ships in the game. It's definetely worth it on sale.
>>576833092Well, normally I look at games like these because I want to design ships.Not that I'm any good at it, but at worst I can just copy and tweak something cool.
>>576833441The game also has a designer in the main menu so you can already make some designs before you start. The problem then however is that you might need to do some research to unlock all the components you need in your desgin. Or start at a higher tech level. The problem with the design I posted is the large suspendium chamber that is two or three tech levels in. A neat feature is that some components change their look based on your tech level. Guns at first look more like age of sail kind of guns but develop to look more like the ones you see in WW1.
>>576834626Cosmoteer, and some other ship design game I played has that too.Makes sense really, if designing is going to be a core part of your game, you want a place people can just freely design.I did play the auto-shooter rougelike thing the dev also made though, so I do have some idea of what it's like. It is a pretty interesting universe.
>>576832279That's how they get you anon. It's all fun and games and le stinky cheese until you wake up tied down with duct tape and a man only dressed in a brown paper bag with scribbled spiderface shitting on your chest while calling you horatio.
The Guild: Europa 1410: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D_Q5Wm9B5A&list=WL&index=2This game reminds me a bit of Patrician.
>>576841365Doubt it'll reach the quality of the originalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncx4FpP5Na4
>>576841365>This game reminds me a bit of Patrician.15-16th century jewing, what is not to love.Which reminds me. Next Patrician when?>>576842443>Doubt it'll reach the quality of the originalAs long as it doesn't reach the quality of the second.
>>576831151Do the French really? But also, Spiderfag is not like that, he's a Breton, after all.
I'm playing modded Minecraft.Don't die.
beautiful.....
This shit burning my eyes every time I hit the new game button but holy fuck there's no beating it.
>>576756936We'll be playing in about 1.5-2 hours after /4ccg/ vs /lcg/ (currently ongoing) then /zzz/ vs /hanny/ play. I'll post again right before we play.
>>576842626>Next Patrician when?Hopefully not before I die. At least not under kalypso production.>As long as it doesn't reach the quality of the second.Hopefully...
>>576854253good luck
>>576854253We're up, link here >>576708508. Hey Spiderfag, Fanatic Xenophile is starting>>576861789Thanks
>>576862341coming
>>576862341Nice. I'm on time too.
UNCLE JOE!!
This is not looking good.
THE GREAT WALL HAS CRUMBLED
>>576864502ayyy
Do you even PROSTAGMA!
Grim. We're playing /akg/ tomorrow
>>576865443Better luck next time...
>>576865443I hope we do better tomorrow.
Btw there is a new Ephemeris dev vlog out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN38EiWelbcIt's about the ship designer.
>>576865443Can't find the banners, what are the dimensions again? 512x64?
>>576866039https://implyingrigged.info/wiki/Billboards/VGL Dimensions can be anything on this page (512x64, 512x96, etc)
>>576866153Here:
>>576866153Tell the Australian commentator that Horatio sauce is bad
>>576866312He won't agree.
>>576866352Based.
>>576866297Got it, thanks.>>576866312His response: "i have fiath in hoartio"
>>576866556And another one. That's all for now, I'm a bit disappointed Fanatic Xenophile failed so hard.
>>576866954Thanks, got that one too.
>>576867189And just in case anyone wants the source for whatever reason...
>>576866556BASED
>>576866556Good lad
nighty night
Good morning /civ4xg/ (2am where i live). What are you playing today? I'm thinking of trying Transport Fever 2.
>>576872215Hesitating between Sun Age and Warrior King.
the big stone church looks pretty cool at least
>>576875082For a second I thought it was KCD. I take it is Ostriv?
>>576875437No.
>>576875437Manor Lords. Another game with cool ideas, great premise, good execution and fun gameplay but stuck in eternal early access because the dude behind it keeps rebalancing and reworking shit. I like the current version but they basically ripped out all progression and made all the special buildings you needed to unlock in the past baseline.Right now you get to chose a origin once your village has properly started that gives you a bunch of bonusses and a single downside, but that's literally it. Everything else is "coming soon I promise :)". Extra strange is that there's a origin pretty much everything except farming.
You're such a slavedriver.
>training archers only boost their melee damageI still don't get why but ok.
Good night spiders
>>576892809Prostagma?
Fun fact: the hoplites' shields are actually smaller than in real life.
>>576897971Macedonian phalanx's shields are probably closer in size to those
>>576898687Weren't they big enough to cover the entire side? As big as a Roman shield?
>Demeter's hero is Icarus>not Daedalus, the based labyrinth-building Chad, but his bitchboy of a sun with his retarded wax wings
>>576899000Depends. Hoplon was made from assorted materials and in sizes that varied over the years (and centuries) and, eventually, as the greek soldiers moved away from heavy and inflexible phalanxes, being supplanted by lighter celtic and thracian inspired clipeus and thureos which is also what the romans adopted and eventually improved on with the iconic heavy scutum. Ironically in aom as the unit upgrades the shields get bigger and fancier when in reality both the greeks and romans ended up using lighter and lighter shields as their doctrine evolved from tight formations to more mobile detachments. The swords also got significantly longer and throwables shorter. Pilum got replaced by the dart like plum etc.Macedons and diadochi are a completely different beast and phalangite =/= hypasti =/= hoplite but in general their phalanxes used significantly smaller shields on account of having a huge pike like spear. And that's without going into all the different flavors of mercs, local troops or otherwise auxiliary soldiery and the gear those used. Also heavily glossing over all the different types of shields used by greeks, macedons or romans "proper" in addition to hoplon even in their most iconic period. Pelta or parma for example.
>>576900986Sounds like the phalanxes as I learned about them at school were like just one kind of troop from one city.
>>576904582I'm sure it represented a general idea based around a specific, iconic period. But just for the sake of argument, a phalanx is a formation, a hoplite is a soldier equipped with a hoplon or (aspis if we're talking strictly the recognizable round shield) fighting in it. But the shield itself, like the formation evolved and changed with time, military doctrine shifting and outside or regional influence. And just to round up romans. Classic greek hoplite shield was lashed to the forearm and gripped in what's called an Argive grip or in case of macedon smaller and often solid metal shields even lashed on shoulder harness. Classic roman scutum was strictly held in hand. Implication being that a greek "style" shield never had the effective cover, or attack potential of a roman one. Or the flexibility inside or outside of a specific formation.
good morning
>>576912838Penis.In butt.
>>576912875Simmer down, spider.
>>576913068Pucker up.
>>576897971Pixel Formation is an upcoming indie game that has hoplite in phalanx formations and battles with celts. Don't know if it would qualify as civ4x but there's exploration and city building in it too.
>>576917590https://store.steampowered.com/app/3929700/Pixel_Formation/Looks pretty interesting but it probably wont come out for quite some time.
>>576917590>>576917678>turn-based>very small-scaleHeeeh... might be interesting, I think I played worse.
Every time I play a Dragon ruler they spend 25% of the match in base regenerating, I ain't got time for that shit ngl
Hooray i lifted the curseNow get out of here while i breed your niece, Meandor
>>576921023That seems slower and worse than vamps
>>576925916Congrats? I don't play enough age of wonder to tell if that's good or not. But you won, so I guess so.
>>576926148I had to lebensraum half of the elven homeland to make way for humans, but it seems the elves are fine with that..
>>576927485In case of doubts, refer to >>576866954.
cringe
>>576864883prostata
>>576866297>>576866954The tournament organizer confirmed they're in so you'll see them when we host /akg/ around 19:00 UTC.Yesterday's match in case anyone missed it although it's not nearly as close as the previous match was https://implying.fun/video/VGLCOC/2026-08-08/?t=4:20:51.0
>>576937414Good luck.
>10oh come on...
>>576948121Quick board
>>576925916Yep, AoW 1 was a good game...
The game before ours just ended so we'll be facing /akg/ soon. Stream here >>576708508
god it's unspeakable how fucking bad the music in civ IV gets as you enter the late gamewant to finally proc your capital into a specialist supertown with park and preserves on the forests you've been saving up? woops time to switch from neat renaissance music (which is slightly inferior to medieval hymns) to overbearing symphony orchestraAND DONT GET ME STARTED ON FUCKING MODERNit's all I could fucking do is set my research slider to zero and spam end turn for culture victory, jfconly way to have a nice time is forever wars in the classical era
>>576958885good job
>Replay Dark Forces, in the mood to engage in more Star WarHmmmmmmm, I guess I own the Galactic Battlegrounds games. I only played the demo back in the day because they just looked like reskinned AoE2 but if I own them I guess>Wookie tutorial campaign almost puts me off due to shrieking wookie noises but the fucking nerd voicing Qui-gon is so goddamn earnest with his cheesy delivery it's a treatNo idea if they'll be fun throughout, but nice. Was looking at Empire at War too but for whatever reason that game is like 3.5 gigs and every single mega-mod for it is 15-20gigs and I just don't fucking feel like it. At least the Battlegrounds complete pack was under a gig and the widescreen patch was like 200meg
>>576958885The match was a 2-1 win that was critically needed since our group is in last in the group standingWe'll be back on Friday around 17:40 against /umaJP/ then again around 20:20 against /xivg/>>576962257Thanks
Any big Stellaris news?
>>576970307It still sucks.
>>576970307nomad niggers can steal your dig sites
>>576973202Only if you allow them. It's in the science pact.
>>576963178>against /xivg/spiderfag...
>>576976778I know where my loyalty lies.I like the game but the general, urgh.
>>576977693Good, good...Anyway, nighty night...
>>576978831Just remember, one bunny a day keeps depression and suicidal thoughts at bay!
>>576979085
Good morning /civ4xg/, i woke up at 2am to play Shadow Empire :^)
>>576984371good morning sweetie
>>576984429What are you playing, sweetie? Just shitposting on the chans?
>>576984751nothing on-topic to this general
>>576963178Recording of today's match https://implying.fun/video/VGLCOC/2026-08-09/?t=2:09:31.0
>>576986836I should also note that starting with today's match, the logo has been temporarily dyed green since we're on the green team for this tournament just like how we're using the green and yellow Horatio kits for every match. It will be returned to its usual purple at the conclusion of it.
>>576987237I fucking hate how Horatio is the face of the team.
>>576987334Hahahaha
>>576987334do you honestly just hate horatio because you made a funny comment about horatio sauce like 6 years ago
>>576987719No. I also hate him because he's a splicer and they scared the fuck outta me in Bioshock. Especially when you try to open that chest, and you turn around, and these plastered splicers are RIGHT BEHIND YOU
>>576988375are you aware that bioshock has nothing to do with endless space?
I only seriously played ES1. How good is horatio in 2? I know he can eat other species or something to get buffs.
>>576989482Horatio is strong in the late game.
>>576988672Please be patient with spiderfag. He's an autistic gay frog who's generally harmless, but that 'tism gets him on weird tangents and causes him to overshare. I suspect that quitting his job has caused him to lose a significant amount of social interaction in his day to day, which is never a good thing.
>>576988672No.
What are the most autistic /civ4xg/ games out there? The ones that you need a very special kind of wiring to play, or even just get into. Aurora?
>>576999864
>>576999864Stellaris.>you know it's not good>you know it'll never be good>you know they'll make it worse>>still play it
>>576999864Shadow Empire?
>>576999864The fool says Aurora, the wise man knows it's a game that one guy has been working on for years in his spare time and never posts it online
>>577002146Eador Genesis? Deity Empire?
>>576999864Aurora is one for sure. There's bunch of these excell simulators out there though in more commercial form like the one anon just posted above. I'd like to bring up caveman to cosmos in civ4 just for the sheer heft of a single run trough that mod.
>>576984371good morningShadow Empire is too autistic for me, but the Shadow has interesting lore.
>>576987237thanks doc>>576991510poor spider...
lol yeah
>>576833441Maybe you would like a game that is only about designing ships? Like this one?https://store.steampowered.com/app/4339280/ShipShaper/
>>576833441>Well, normally I look at games like these because I want to design ships.Study engineering and math.
what station
>>576989482endless space 2 is the best game amplitude ever made by a very wide margin
>>577000173sometimes i just want to turn red material into other materials bropossibly with a side of genocide if im feeling daring
>>577022672And use them. Which is why cosmoteer frustrates me, the designs that I like, and the designs that are good has too big of a gap.Also I don't design too well, which is why I prefer 2D over say From the Depths or something.I have found a game to fill that niche though, but I'm waiting for the next update because currently there is a little too restrictive cost limit.
>>576833441>>577034968You could try Space Haven or Starcom: Unknown Space(I posted a few pics of it on /indie/).
Damn, combining Inward Perfection with the Blunt luminary trait makes you start with zero enovys. I really thought there would be a 1 envoy minimum.This will be interesting.
>>577042476How long can you go without establishing contact with an empire?
I'm a shitter at micro units and this game is basically Micromanagement: The Game.
>>577044947Dunno, but they will eventually establish contact with youI'm mostly worried about losing all that influence from first contacts, so I went for Expansion traditions first to get that reduced influence cost for starbases
Now the looting phase of the battle.
>>576999864Terra Invicta
I should have teched heavier field guns.
Assuming direct control is fun, and I guess it would be very useful in coop, but in single player outside of some stuff it is kinda useless.
You can take a guess against whom I am fighting.
Fuck me. Two tanks racked. No loot for me.
They are going commando.
>>577051681lewd
Now one of the problems I always have.Do I go tank destroyer or heavy tank?
>>577061463Pick tank destroyer, embrace STUG LYFE.
Didn't micro enough and got penned on my Pz. 35(t). The engine simply died.Gonna push my infantry and my Pz.IV Ausf B and try and see if I can repair it before the enemy AT guns end it.>>577062389Too bad. I'm going for the meme Tiger.
>>577045541Hahahahahahaha, elle oh elle!>>577061463Oh damn that's a lot of unit variety.
>>577061463In games like this always go for TDs first unless it's an asia thing and there's no armor to be expected. There's plenty of ways to deal with soft targets, like that 15cm SPG on the far right but there's nothing worse than not having the tools to deal with their armor. Except maybe their air but that's rarely a concern in mow series.
>>577064043>Did you ever hear the tragedy of King Tiger the Heavy?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUI0-ECqmIc
>>577064842Oh no, wrong link. Oops, this is the right one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha8CGw9nkTY
Notice on the minimap how one of my Pz.IV and a squad and a half of infantry is going to pop that 84mm gun from behind.>>577064093>Oh damn that's a lot of unit variety.It is good but kinda shitty. As values and gun emplacements follow IRL. So if you pick a RL shitty vehicle, it will be shitty ingame. So you have to have a slight knowledge of which vehicles were walking meme.>>577064729TD and selfpropelled anything is expensive as fuck to research. I can throw like 8 research points and get a 8.8cm field gun. But if I want Marder/Jagd/Stuggy I have to throw shitloads of research points.>>577064842>>577064991I will sodomise you.
I think I hit the ammo rack.Looting them it's now out of the picture. So I will go full bananas.
>>577065732Why do they wear skirts, these fruits?
Yup. Nothing to left to loot. Fuck me and me trying to be careful to loot their shit.>>577066402>Why do they wear skirts, these fruits?They are the 51st Highlander scotmen infantry.I may do a Commonwealth campaign or Finnish one after this one.
>>577065732>TD and selfpropelled anything is expensive as fuck to researchIt depends but usually? They're well worth the cost.>>577066402Please understand, they have balls so big no army issued pants fit.
>page 9Take a look at my defensive positions.I'm shit a defence, and attack too. Dunno why I keep playing games I'm bad at.
>>577066615Suffer not the pansies to live.Kill them all. >>577067108They're not the Imperial Guard, they're just homos.
>>577069709>I'm shit a defence, and attack too. Dunno why I keep playing games I'm bad at.Because your having fun?
>plink
Time for the obligatory 40k larp playthrough, with the twist that we start at the very beginning of the Imperium after the Reunification of Terra before everything went to shit
>>577069709You have a humiliation fetish if I had to guess.>>577069894>he doesn't know
>>577070323"Fun"?
Also using the Ancient Sol mod that lets you start in a Sol system with some broken megastructures (a orbital ring and an arc furnace) and Mars as a tombworld to make clear that there was a Terran Empire before this one
>fat matilda on sight>assuming direct control>track i>try to kill crew without racking it>rack itI don't know why I even bother.
>can't pen Matilda with my Pz.>the turret is still active>when my dudes get close to repair the vehicles the Matilda shoot at them>decide to bodyblock with my Pz.Gonna move my 10cm to finish the job.
Tired and depressed... Nighty night, anons.
>>577078541Hi
>>577078541good night sweetie
>>577082850she's fanatic xenophobe actually, she just has a human husband
>>577039726I have the first, though I've gotten lazy to fully figure it out. I'll do it someday in the future.Played the second. Not bad, though I'll like more combat stuff.The one I like now though is eXospace. It's a lot more simplified in that you don't need to worry about crew or wiring or whatever. But I'm waiting for the eventual next update which increases cost limit.
>>576498868what's the difference between 4x and grand strategy anyway
>>5770959494X involves eXploring, eXpanding, eXploiting, and eXterminating. Grand strategy has a significant overlap unless it's a /g*g/ game which is set on a real world map where no exploration is involved
>>577095949Nice try, nazi. Fuck off.
>>577098678I'm woke I just don't into this genre
>hey guys i swear i'm totally not a gsg nazi but how come these poor gsg guys aren't allowed in our awesome general, all they want is post their grossgermaniumFuck. Off.
>>577099224I don't know what that stands for or what that means I'm a tourist
>>577099780(Nice try)x2.Now, the door back to your shithole.
>>577099940my shithole is /utg/ you are doing a disservice to the anti-nazi effort with your paranoia
>>577100037You really are a retard. No wonder your general got banned and you had to flee to /vst/ like the losers you are.
>>577100225>>577090923 ?
>>577100225Give it up, you can't reason crazies. They keep thinking that they can lie to others, even when they're obvious as fuck.Just let it tire itself out and then run back to its shithole crying like a baby.
calm down spiderfag
>>577100694what did I do that supposedly marks me as not a curious tourist
>>577101954Intergeneral drama from ages past. Now, you got a game you want to talk about or do you prefer to continue flirting with the resident avatarfag?
>>577095949"Grand Strategy" autism is a different strain of autism than regular civ4xggers'. Paradox's sims attract the alt history/lost causer crowd, the kind who'll sperg out that "well akshually the (losing faction in whatever war) would have won if they weren't led by dumb dumb doody heads, but instead by a real man (like ME)" unironically. Civ and other historically-inspired 4x games do as well, but not to the extent that "grand strategy" games do. Their mechanics filter out the more casual crowd thus naturally selecting for a playerbase with naturally high autism, which feeds into the alt history/lost causer crowd because those folks tend to be autistic and those outside of their crowd generally become pulled toward them because that's what is featured in most of the mods for Paradox games./gsg/ is also very protective of what counts as one and what doesn't, which is partly why they formed their own general originally. In reality "grand strategy" is just the marketing term Paradox uses for their sims and they COULD theoretically live in here, but because of the aforementioned Paracucks autism and /gsg/ seeing themselves as a unique polity they live in their own ethnogeneral. So /civ4xg/ and /gsg/ reciprocally redirect anons to the "correct" general, because neither plays the other's games.Stellaris lives here though because /gsg/ was so autistic that they didn't want the space game that plays very similarly to the rest of Paracucks' map painters.On a schizo note, in the past some /gsg/ posters have discussed brigading /civ4xg/ to have a new playground to discuss their hyperfixations in. This sounds retarded, and it is, but it did actually happen. Spiderfag, /civ4xg/'s resident avatarfag, reacts highly negative to any posts regarding /gsg/ content for that reason.
>>577103008>they didn't want the space game that plays very similarly to the rest of Paracucks' map painters.I'd argue that there are a fair few structural differences that makes stellaris a lot closer to a classical 4x than the rest of paradox's fare. Namely the randomly generated map with all factions starting from scratch and on equal footing (a single city/system), compared to a pre-existing world map with established power structures.
And there we go, back to the fucking semantic "umm ashktually i disagree with that definition".
>we gotta blend inMmmm, feel like I saw just that, very recently, how queer...
>>577103008thanks for context
>>577103878Paradox's games suck anyway.
>>577103878>I'd argue that there are a fair few structural differences that makes stellaris a lot closer to a classical 4x than the rest of paradox's fare. Namely the randomly generated map with all factions starting from scratch and on equal footing (a single city/system), compared to a pre-existing world map with established power structures.I mean, sure, but the venn diagram of Paradox-style game players who like sci-fi and Stellaris players is basically a concetric circle, with any sci-fi autist who enjoyed the likes of Vicky or Hoihoi owning it and a bunch of casuals who like roleplaying forming basically the rest of the playerbase. Plus in reality the random generation just picks what minifactions get big not unlike what provinces or nations snowball in Vicky or Hoi, and you still have the underlying game mechanics push to the same broad strokes of earlygame border wars, midgame large tier border wars/Khan uprising, then lategame fallen empire dickery with a random bullshit crisis appearing. Which doesn't sound dissimilar from Vicky/Hoi/etc. having big events basically play out at roughly the same timeframe so long as an opposing AI hits that milestone in their devtree, allowing the Napoleonic Wars/scramble for the new world/World Wars to play out roughly the same as in real life in roughly the same time frames with basically the same overall factions but just with sillier names.At least that's how it seems to me as a non-Paradox fag. I just learned through osmosis via shit like Stellaris Invicta, anons storyposting their campaigns, and a couple of youtubers I used to watch playing Vicky/Hoi/Stellaris megacampaigns.
And there it is, the nazi is again trying to push its trash games in /civ4xg/.
>>577105172No, anon. I'm just pointing out that Stellaris is as bread and butter a Paradox title you can get, but due to whatever autistic zeitgeist persists in /gsg/ they fucking exiled that game and their posters came here as refugees. It's retarded thread drama and in a less dumb world the spinoff general dedicated to a single company's games would also talk about that company's sci-fi game, ESPECIALLY when that sci-fi game plays more like that company's OTHER GAMES than anything else on the market, because it's LITERALLY MADE BY THE SAME CREATORS. But we live in the dumb autistic world in a silly and ridiculous era and the /gsg/ fags who saw them as god's chosen people cast out their fellow roleplay autists and apparently persecute their posters to this day to keep their general pure or whatever.Obligatory balanced for multiplayer joke I guess. Nobody plays Stellaris multiplayer.
>>577106342I literally do not care what miserable excuses you can come up with. Shut the fuck up or get the fuck out. No tolerance for /gsg/'s rapefugees.
>>577106425Calm your tits spiderfag. Just because your mom died that doesn't mean you can friendly fire at your fellow geezers for no fucking reason. Go cry over Horatio or something.
>>577106734And this is why your general got deleted by based mods. Take the hint and fuck off, nazi scum.
>>577106734Bet you it's a falseflag because he got bored of going bump.
I need to turn off Regicide mode. The AI charges into my army with its regent. No surprises, he dies to women.Okay the women have obsidian wings but still.
>>577112893Bitches are bitches but a bitch you can farm for gems? Uff.
bnuuies>>577113062What are you saying?
>>577113165The guild must grow.
Damn Greeks got shafted.>Atlanteans>get Chronos, aka Time>Egyptians>titan is Horus, the fucking Sun>Chinese>some headless guy I don't really know>Aztecs>the incarnation of "divine power", the being that created the universe>Japanese>the fucking Yamato-no-Orochi, who bears a distressing number of common points with Satan as depicted in the Apocalypse as a dragon with nine headsMeanwhile, the Greeks>get cerberus>he's a good dog>>577113619Oh.No, I don't think these are in Conquest of Elysium.
Oh, I forgot the Nordic.They have Ymir. Apparently he's some kind of big name in Scandinavian legends? I dunno I only remember Ymir's finger in Drakengard and Ymir's belt in Valheim.
>shinobi-wan Kenobi>"master of a forgotten creed able to manifest his chi into a blade of light, warden of the shadows and master of heights"I'm going to be disappointed if they didn't sneak Anakin in the Egyptian missions.
>>577114676That can be amended. We have the technology.
>>577116196Yeah but how to make Aztecs mechanically interesting? I remember them in Dominions being very immoral and ironically boring to play.
>>577116936What, like priest king? What's wrong with pk?>ymirHe's to giants what sovietrussia was to /b/tards
>>577117443I just remember Aztecs in Dominions depending from blood sacrifice, which is a mechanism I don't really like, and the few I remember of them in CoE, they are very, very slow to develop. I was thinking knights and mostly still had slaves.
>>577117696Sounds like you could use a refresher in coe.
>>577118309Honestly I should. It's one of these games I love to talk about and read about but playing it is a chore.
>>577119219Not how I'd describe the experience. Maybe if you're doing dryad or barbarians.
>>577119653I mean, I remember trying Baron, Guildmaster, and Priest King.With Priest King, I had to use almost exclusively slaves because everything else was too costly. Baron was fun but the way the map is generated, you're not guaranteed to spawn with anything good nearby. It's not like Age of Empires where you're guaranteed to start with berry bushes, gold and stone nearby.
>>577120078Take it as you will but that's a skill issue on pk. His recruits come in higher numbers for the same dosh so they're actually cheaper than average. That's in addition to some very cheap early summons, that can't turn against you and you know, slaves. Free slaves that have front plus deployment and can be buffed into monsters. Baron doesn't akshully need a good map, not that it doesn't help. You just need to lean into alchemist based economy. Monks can help float you early game.
>>577121405>Baron doesn't akshully need a good mapDoesn't he? I remember starting on a shit location surrounded by fucking oaks and fairy rings, and no towns or villages.
>>577122602Unless it's a deep north snow spawn and there's nothing for 50 tiles in either direction it's not gamebreaking imho. Worst case scenario you rolled fallen empire but even then lots of swamps = abbeys. If it's primal = unicornfags for days plus there's a guaranteed gold mine or few in that one and you get some interesting levies from special settlements. End of day between his native +25% on both gold and iron and your ever expanding alchemist core your income should be obscene.
>>577078603>>577082510Good morning, still tired, and I need to mow a lawn...
>>577095949Grand strategy is just pdox or pdox inspired map painter games. >>5770962344x is that.But there are overlaps and differences between games, something like Age of Wonders 1 is I guess 4x too, but for me it always just turn based strategy (or simultaneous turns if you play with that enabled).
>>577104469>from 5 years ago>I was posting on /civ4xg/ before thatWould it freak the spiderfag the fuck out if he find out that I was a CK2fag back in the day, and he never knew?
>>577124197Also, speaking of Age of Wonders. Does AoW4 have a proper campaign?
>>577123435I just want CoE to have your preferred terrain spawning next to you. Playing Necromancer was a total pain in the arse in CoE.
>>577125784How so? I don't think I've ever heard anyone say necro is bad.
>>577127184Because I couldn't find any source of Hands of Glory so progress was slow as molass. AI ended up dying before I got my first real undead.
>>577127285You literally start with one. Also buy them.>ai dies super fastPlaying at anything under Marquis is unbecoming to a man, a gentleman or even a frenchman.
>>577127469...buy them?
>>577127495Yeah. Buy them. ...you seriously didn't know you could trade resources?
>>577127562Is that exclusive to the last game? I don't remember that being an option. I remember you could buy iron, but that was very costly. And you made like 3€ (so around $600 once adjusted to inflation) per turn.
Shadow Empire grabbed me by the balls
>>577127710It's been around since either 2 or 3 and the senator introduction. Here I am wondering why aren't you exploiting the underworld and my man doesn't know you can trade for resources.
>>577128267Simple. I didn't get the spell to go there, that's all.
my two hours of sleep finally caught up to me
>>577128564If there ever was a man born to be a game journalist you're him. That's the politest I can phrase it.
>>577128878says you.anyway good night
Uh, hi, I'm a new rts player and I never played a Command and Conquer game before Where should I start?
>>577129015You really should fix your sleeping schedule.>>577129276Can't go wrong with generals and it is kinda thematic for the board we're on.
>>577129276GeneralsIf you like it then go for C&C3 or C&C3 Red Alert then go backwards if you can handle 90s RTS game design
>>577129518>>577129629Um, thank you /civ4xg/
>>577129857Feel free to report back on your experience. God knows we could use some more traffic that isn't a generic "bump" or spiderfag pretending this is his onlyfans page.
>>577129276I liked Red Alert 2, still holds up well today with good gameplay and extremely campy theming.
>>577131148I'll never forgive westwood for neutering the hollywood mission in 1.01
>>577127737I'm to stupid too into it
>>577127737Too autistic for me, but cool game.
>>577130384I decided to first try out the skirmishes to test out the factions and see which one I like the mostSo far it's a tie between GLA and USA, I don't particularly like playing the chinese but maybe it's because I'm not used to them yetMaybe when I play the campaigns my opinion of them swings
>>577145556Probably because the Chinese don't get the really fun stuff until Zero Hour imo.Like tac nuke MIGs.Or triple shot tanks.OG their units are very vanilla.
>>577138202You are not stupid. What you are is impatient.>>577143618Honestly i think it's less autistic than Factorio. Yes, i know it's like comparing oranges to apples but still.
>>577125478Yes, but it is very, very loose.Disjointed campaign maps where you can just spam the same faction you like five times when narratively it makes little sense. Within the map mission itself, things are fine and make sense, sometimes you can backstab questgivers and get alternate endings, but that doesn't don't carry over to the next one. But there is a story, and an overarching plot. Which I guess is still, tldr tentacles bad evil bad.
>>577129518Easier said than done, whenever I rest my head, something conspire to wake me up.
>>577124426Just disengage, I don't want ro see the silly frog spun up again.
The board is quick today. What are you playing?
>>577157843Sonic CD.
>>577157843Was playing Egypt: Old Kingdom, I want to get the maximum score. You need insane amounts of luck for that and it's driving me crazy.
I'm bored.Hey guys come watch me stream Warshift 2 on my twitch channel, at www.twitch.tv/ [USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST]
>>577162543I've been playing vidya since 4am, it's almost 7pm now, with a 2 hour break. I want to play games i just dont have the courage and im bored and hot. Sucks.
>>577162543Is it worth a pirate?
>>577163045Dude. It's a single-dev game, play the demo and then buy it if you loik it.
>>577145982Coming back from doing the GLA campaign of Generals and yeah the Chinese feel really vanilla in comparison to USA and GLA, I like their campaign but man their unit rooster is rather lackluster. Later on after the USA campaign I'll try out Zero Hour and see how much fun they get there like you say.
>>577166178How are they in Hour H?
>>577166253I dunno, I'm playing this game for the first time, I'll figure it out.
>>577166416Ha, okay. I mean I played the fuck out of that game but I don't really have any opinion on who is vanilla or lackluster. I played it too early.
Using the 10.5cm as direct fire anti tank is more profit than I thought it would be.
>>577166710I mean Vanilla in the sense that the Chinese don't have the same vibe as the USA or GLA, I do like their nuke weapon and their heavy tanks but I prefer the GLA's angry mobs and USA air power. Again, its a me thing but I'm just not feeling it with China in og Generals.
bros I love playing two pair
>>577167650Oh, in that meaning.To be fair I kinda like the Chinese in Generals because they have riflemen, and I prefer rifles over machineguns. And also their bases look actually like a military base, compared to the US who look like some fucking aluminium wrappers or the GLA who remind me of Sonic's sandopolis or Serious Sam 3.
>>577166178ZH is so good, it bulks out the vanilla roster a bit, but it's in the 3 generals that each faction gets where it really gets crazy.Like the 2 things I mention comes from the Chinese nuke and tank general respectively.
>decide to try behemoth fury for once>declare war on hivenigger next door>he's a devouring swarm so total war>find first planet>has like ~50 pops on it>?>eat it>find another planet>40 ish pops>huh?>every single planet I find has less than 100 pops>the entire empire has +50 planets>pretty much all of them are like this>he's spitting 50k fleets daily with this shitass economy>somehow>each planet gives me like 0.1 growth at bestWhat the fuck
It keeps happening.
>>577169842
That cow on the middle of the road, oblivious to what is transpiring around it.
>>577168754Zero Hour is the English name, right.I hate the French dub for it, the Chinese spy car sounds like a teenager trying to do that whisper shout if you know what it is.
>>577145556>>577167650Maybe it's me being a macro player, or getting older and crustier but I've come to realize china is king in generals and only gets better in ZH.
>>576498868Theos: City of Myth, gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK96Es5yxEUIs it a modern iteration of Zeus: Master of Olympus? Is this by the same guys that did Pharaoh: A New Era?
>>576498868Also this. Apparently space mining can be fun in a game?C-Beams Devlog 55https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTdjMILnFeY
Back to "poke the enemy with arty until they attack you piecemeal" strategy.
>>577173765>>577174497You're posting actually interesting news in my OnlyFans thread. Could you please keep doing this?
>>577175697I always try to post strategy, city builder, 4x related news. Sometimes management games too. In between playing games and working that is.
>>577176104>preemptive self-defenseI like it
>>577176104Urgh, THIS game. I do not like it.
>>577176608Yeah it's a bit shallow. I haven't tried not listening to orders at all maybe it has some story. It is featured on the current choices matter sale on steam. I'm sure what the choices are in the game. Only did the first four or five missions so far. If it really has a story it must be a lot like that planet defence turret game that got delayed a couple of times.
>>577177734It's shallow but I like it. It's oddly relaxing, you just turn your brain off, take measures, do calculation... Then you see the police is engaged in combat with rebel infantry you are to take out, and you gotta "thread the needle" with a fucking shell the size of my own ass.
nighty night, anons
>>577178193It's 8pm.
>>577178405It's 21:31... and I'm tired.
>>5771784972032 by imperial time.
>>577178193Don't let the brainbugs bite
I'm at that point of the war that looting tanks is almost impossible due to picrelated.
>>577179836DEATH
>>577178192>It's shallow but I like it. It's oddly relaxing, you just turn your brain off, take measures, do calculationYeah I like the puzzle part of it too. It's relaxing.
>>577180372Well, until you fuck up and blast cops.
>>577180580Been there, done that.
>>577180580I already did. Killed one friendly unit of infantry along with five enemy units. According to the tool it wasn't in range of the large high explosive round. Or I mean, the HE round with the big blast radius.
>>577183798I wanted a perfect mission, this costed me my record.
>>577184008The compressed one? The HECH? That shit is massive and hitboxes are a bit weird, just grazing is enough to wipe it.
>>577184212Yeah I think it barely touched the unit. I could't see the unit on the map with the tool. I tried to get as many targets as I could with one shot to save points.
>>577184515Same in >>577178192. I positioned my AP shell very carefully to only blast the rebel infantry.Still destroyed the cops.
>>577184212Assuming no skill issue that's shit design then. Who makes an artillery game and expects you to thread the needle? I mean, cool, but collateral damage is only expected on danger close call.
>>577184774I mean, the game doesn't penalize you for collateral damage, it rewards you if you keep it low, but out of personal pride, I wanted a clean record.But RNG in Iron Nest can be fucky: sometimes spotters spawn next to you or literally in you, which is annoying, and sometimes, it's just inevitable to destroy an allied target because they're literally shilling on the same bench.
>>577185371Oh, well that's fair then.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUvDhkA_1n0&list=RDrqkDYD-7TWU&index=29
>>577185801I mean, earlier I vaporized an hospital and a lot of civilians, and nothing really happened.
>>577185954They knew what they signed up for, being on the same planet with you. That said baiting with light infantry and then quad landmattressing his guastatori blob (and half the map in the process) carried me thru many a game.
>>577186747Closest I did was in Supreme Commander and Beyond All Reason. These games are artillery porn.I never tried to use light infantry as bait, I might have to try that in Age of Empires and Stronghold Crusader, I've been sleeping on mangolnels, and apparently they're good.
>>577187045Mangonels*
>>577187045They're really not. Funny when you make them in range of his castle keep but that's about it. There's also a niche for mp if you have like 20 in a block and then they counter horse archers with shields but there are easier ways to accomplish that.>ib4 pikemen are actually good again
>>577188067What the fuck is that screenshot? That looks like Crusader, but I never saw a fontaine in it.And I know, I KNOW that pikemen suck. But I still love using them because halberds. And their French voices are awesome, they feel like the only proper soldiers in the game.
>>577188913It is crusader.>their French voices are awesomeWouldn't know but their northerner default accent is pretty neat too. I'd just wish they weren't best used as expensive diggers.
>>577185371But I wonder what the choices are then? The game is featured at the choices matter festival but what choices can you make. I didn't dare to go directly against orders so far but in the end you are just shooting at some coordinates someone gives you over the radio.
mom says it's my turn on the megadrive>>577191271Sadly. I do love them, and using them in attack is pretty fun because they just keep moving, so they're good for assault, but at the same time, even with a metal armor, they will still die to archer spam, so they're really only good for defense or as the coup de grâce.And other units are better for the coup de grâce, like the macemen or the monks.>>577191273Well, the fun in Iron Nest is that you're rarely given the coordinates so easily. Usually you are given spotters with coordinates, and bearings or distances, and you must deduct where your targets are from crossing these.And then missions can complicate things by not telling you anything, so you have to be clever and use flare shells to illuminate them, or there are counter batteries, which adds a timer to your're are mission.
>>577195183Yeah. Sad. They're objectively worse spearmen that cost x5 more. Best use scenario I have for them is digging moats under archer fire, and that's a rare one.
>>577195940The difference is that spearmen look like fucking Einsten with that ridiculous hairstyle.And also pikemen have halberds. Halberds are cool.
>>577196497Do you need them to stab, dig and push ladders or to look fancy?
>>577197737That is an excellent question.
>>577198390You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks likehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT0RWBp8LiU
>>577196497Polearms are neat.
Good morning /civ4xg/
>>577173131>>577168754>>577168198Um. Yeah, about that, I'm trying out Zero Hour now and holy moly you didn't lie about the Chinese glow up. They're so much better here, Dr Thrax can go fuck himself though, I'm never using the infantry general against him ever again.
>>577210002Unironically china inf isn't half bad against him. You still have all your flame migs and arti and improved gatling shreds most things GLA can put on the field. Assault helix is downright nasty vs someone that doesn't have lots of EMP. Come to think of it, infantry is probably the strongest china in ZH and suffers the worst against superweapon burgers.
>>577210002Uh, your bunker Helix?Pro tip, infantry is OP in Generals, if they survive.The best way to survive is putting them in vehicles they can shoot out of.And ZH has a lot of that shit. I think the Chinese benefited the most with the Helix, but Airforce General benefits a lot with their combat Chinooks too because it has a laser.>>577213241You mean suffer the least? And yeah, infantry laughs at EMP. Until they push out pathfinders.
>>577204315Damn straight.
>>577215523Yes, I meant the opposite of what I said. Come on. But it comes down to the EMP patriot, one-two and flashbangs shut down early rush and no matter how many super hackers you get for migcash later they can have more avengers. iirc inf also doesn't get gatling tanks in vanilla so if you're doing inferno cannons instead he can pick off those with comanches. And then there's gorillion+1 super auroras timing push to look forward to. Nasty matchup.
I really have been enjoying related more than I expected.
>>577222846I thought you said you were bad at it? Are you enjoying it still?
>>577222894You're thinking of a different anon
>>577222846what game?
>>577224220Am I? Aren't you the Anon that's bad at micromanaging, playing a game that requires you to do a lot of micromanaging.
>>577224337Coh3. They added a wave defence mode not too long ago and was definitely worth a pirate.>>577224402Nah, sorry. The anon you're looking for is in a different castle.
>>577225440OH that's CoH3, okay. I thought it was the game with the guys in skirts prancing around the frontline.>>577072371>>577073919This one.Sorry, all these WWII games look alike to me.
>>577226585To be perfectly fair the man of war series he's playing can have borderline schizophrenic levels of micro. It's not mandatory but often highly advised to for example pretend you're playing war thunder.
>>577229920That badly?
Warshift 2 is giving me the Shaft.
>play very defensive, try to starve the enemy out of experience so that it's stuck with lot of low tier units>neglect to make more troops>realize very late that it's attempting a Kraken by dividing his massive army in three>"wait that might be my chance to snipe his ARK">send everything I have>my tanks start blowing up for no reason>must be enemy turrets>keep pushing, it becomes a desperate push>enemy avatar respawn just in time to defend the ARK>immediately blasts some weird nuke in my face>army gone>avatar dead>enemy well fed on XP>two tendrils still making a beeline to my basewel gg no re
>>577230625I'm not calling it bad. Just not too many games simulate individual clips or grenades on individual soldiers or allow you to assume direct control and manually fire or aim your tank at their lfp or gun mantlet. The newer games at least have supply trucks and better move attack ai so it's not exactly mandatory.
>>577231281I'm not saying the game is bad. I'm asking if it's that insanely microintensive.>individual clips or grenades on individual soldiersTHE WORDIS MAGAZINEAnd fuck sake, I'm getting Silica vibes, or any of these games where you can control your units directly.
>>577231679Not necessarily. Lots of WW2 era weapons used actual clips which were inserted into an integrated magazine. And before you think that was purely for bolt action rifles, no, plenty of automatic weapons used those too for one reason or another. Japanese Type 11 light machine gun (the spoon gun) for example.
>>577233421Urgh, I played too much Medal of Honor and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I forgot that rifles were still widely used.
>>577233421>Japanese Type 11 light machine gunLiterally can't find anything about that.>google forces a clanker's opinion if you search anything>only way to block the clanker is to add -nigger>they fixed it by blocking the search if you do that
>>577233904I'll do you one better. Because FG42 was designed by a committee not unlike that which designed the bradley APC (clusterfuck) it had to serve every role imaginable to a paratrooper. And since it was full power rifle mauser it could (conditioned by actual model and or patten) be fed with standard 5 round clips, several types of magazines, it could be, in theory and post war experiments be belt-fed (T44 and later what led to M60) AND it could double, with field kit conversion, in theory, as an anti-tank rifle or at least an anti material rifle firing specialized ammo from a closed bolt. Oh, and it also could accept and fire rifle-grenades and going by some wilder wonderweapon meth-theories ramjet projectiles.
>>577235196Oh. So these guns in Fallout New Vegas who can fire a fuckload of different cartrides isn't actually that far fetched? I knew about slugs, grapeshots, even dragon's breath, but this sounds a lot different.
>>577234058https://youtu.be/ozR11J638UkHere's a guy loading and firing one. It's pretty neat.
>>577236358Cartridge =/= bullet so yeah, you already have, and have had, say 9mm with different payloads (bullets) for a long time now. But it's very unfeasible to a firearm to fire different cartridges from the same assembly. I mean there are smoothbore blunderbussys you could shove a bunch of shot, miniballs or even nails in or some weapons specifically designed to accept very similar cartridges without swapping anything but that's rare. There's that Medusa M47 iirc that can fire almost anything in remotely 9mm but that's an exception not a rule. I loved that thing in Cold Zero.I kinda strayed from my point there and better stop before I get the desire to visit the designated board for that brand of tism and remind myself of how shit it became. Was just going to go alright, this gun can use both stripper clips, detachable magazines and potentially belts. Magazine is not a catch-all term for ammo delivery feed or system.
>>577238784I'm sure, I do try to follow your post despite knowing very little about firearms, but I'm stuck on>blunderbussysCan we adress that?Also I'm vaguely aware of Panzer Korps where they use "towels" of bullets to load their guns. Essentially smaller belts.Damn, we really threw all kind of shit at the wall to see what sticks.
>>577239207OK, so when you have a muzzle loaded weapon, like a musket for example and you're firing by volleys with accuracy already being questionable you can use the same quantity of powder to fire one ball of lead that just fits or a small sack of shot for similar effect and performance if not ballistics. When you have something that has a rifled barrel you generally used ammunition designed to use that rifling to it's best. The ball, if musket may have been nicked and designed to shatter but it will be the same dimensions as a regular solid ball. Main concern here is dosing the powder right and making sure what you loaded fits snugly and points the right way.When you have firearm that fires a cartridge or round of some description you almost always have it designed for that exact weapon. Or vice versa. You're not showing a pack of powder followed by a lead ball down the hole but you have a feeder system, an ejector system for the spent casing and you have a striking pin. At the minimum. That's what you'd call an assembly. The round must fit. If it's larger, it won't fit, will it. If it's smaller maybe the striking pin won't reach it. If it's loose and still somehow fires it will definitely not fly where you want it to fly. Basically you're not going to fire a 10mm out of a pistol designed to accept 9mm or other way around but a 9mm can accept a cartridge of appropriate 9mm dimensions that has a different payload/bullet. Hollow point. Full metal etc. If the pistol is designed to allow for a conversion as in being able to replace one part designed for it for a different one it could now accept 10mm but that's rare and almost always be design and not improvisation. Not if you don't want ruining it at least.>"towels"If I'm understanding what you mean that's either a cheap canvas belt or slang for short belts. As in it's not a 250 round box magazine or a long belt but rather say a 50 one they kept around for mobility or ease of reloading in emergency.
>>577241163Makes sense, the barrel can't make the bullet spin if the bullet is too small. And I played enough Cossacks to know that this spin effect is bloody damn good.
>>577241334>submunitions has entered the chat
>>577241790Nah, I'm going. See ya in a few days, don't let the filth in.
>>577242232
>>577178193good morning now
>>577245771good morning sweetie
>>577234058idk why people still use google search in 2026. use brave.
>>577238784This is the gun from Fifth element right?
>>577249612Yes.
2 true
>play good guy empire>one of my neighbors is retarded warmongering empire>they get invaded by the chosen>the chosen role over them>ask my neighbor to join the war and save him because I'm the good guy>let's me join the war>refuses to open his borders so I can only watch as the chosen slaughter himdumb xenophobe would rather get genocided than open his borders and let me save him
>>577236358>slugs, grapeshots, even dragon's breathI'll just leave this here
>>577262734can't you just liberate them after they get conquered?
>>577271437the chosen are fanatic purifiers. there is no after for the people they conquer.
>>577271927Then you need to defeat them faster than they can take over your neighbors territory, somehow, lmao.
>>577272464I'm pretty sure everything I liberated instantly goes back to my neighbor, which puts my ships in his border so they go MIA because he has his borders closed to me
>>577274594Oh well, I guess all you can do is just revenge them.
imploris play stelloris
>>577279718Sorry, too busy playing as a Kasrkin fighting against zombies, necromorphs and 500 pyramid heads in Helldivers.
Man im really trying to like this game but so much basic fucking qol is missing its incredible...>major battle>Nice, can i learn anything about it? Like ODB, losses etc?>noFor fuck sake.btw bully frogs like i do.
>its actually possible to make "1 to 1" copy of real life Smith class Destroyers from 1908Neat
>>577262734>let's me join the war>refuses to open his borders Bullshit or bugged mods? War opens all borders between participants.
>reading about the bronze age collapse>suddenly start wondering how to mod something like that into civ 4I know there are mods for things like barbarian city states but I think it would need to go a step further to include warm and cold periods that help amplify agriculture changes, especially to pre-modern food supplies. Unfortunately the scale of a random map doesn't fit all the action that happened in the levant (could go with PIE's Ancient Europe or the ancient era Rhyse and Fall mod for that), and it sucks getting fucked over by RNG in the early game.
>>577293793unrealted to civ but check out https://store.steampowered.com/app/4601440/Twilight_of_Bronze/its supposedly very fun
>>577293793You might enjoy some of the ffh scenarios.
>>577293793Not too many games set in ancient times, sadly.
Anyone tried mandate?
Any mod that makes enemy empires in Stellaris spawn FAR from you and not fucking right next to you on 1k map?
>>577290090Your right, I'm retarded. I swear it didn't let me into his borders, but you made me reload to check and now I can.
>>577303095Maybe you entered the war on a pause and did not unpause before trying to move? Happens to me all the time.
>>577266576>HVAPHEBCFSDSDT-I
good night
>>577308892good night sweetie
Ritual posters deserve the rope
>>577287156Needs more details in the picture
Good morning /civ4xg/. I know it's night time for you but it's 2:00am here, i like living at night. What are you playing today? Me Shadow Empire, Gary Grigsby's War in the East and Transport Fever 2
>>577323539>i like living at night. Me too. I'm neeting until October.>What are you playing today?Modded Minecraft. May boot up Anno 1800 later.
>>577323539The try not to get fucked by random trolls simulator #5.
>>577324397>Me too. I'm neeting until October.What are you going to do after October?>Anno 1800I liked the game but the no pause feature killed the experience for me and i refunded it>>577324404Is this conquest of Elysium? I have it but haven't played it yet.
>>577324784It is. You waiting for 6 to come out or what?
>>577325061No, just some other games are my priority right now.
>>577324784>What are you going to do after October?Warehouse work, very exciting.>I liked the game but the no pause feature killed the experience for me and i refunded itThe game in normal speed is slow as fuck, if you put it on the "slow" speed, it is glacial, a virtual "pause".I recommend it highly.
>>577325471Good luck with the work. It is indeed but i have 117 Pax Romana and switching from full pause to no pause felt bad for me :(
>>577323539I almost puked due to stress. I am very ill.
>>577327948what happened
>>577328392Scattered relative's ashes. I managed to not cry.
Sleep
>>577332508
>>577329850>I managed to not cry.Better than I did when I had to go to my 2 grandmas, a grandpa and one aunt funeral/church service and burial.It didn't help that when the guys were moving one of my grandmas into the wall niche tombs, had to get out my gradpa's casket, move his bones into what was am unceremonious trashbag but with a fancy name, and put in on the open casket of my grandma.Fucking small village worker had all the tact of the literal gravediggers they were. I cried, my mum cried, my dad didn't cried but his eyes were red with fat tears rolling out, and my family's friends were in different states of crying, or looking away/at the floor.Anyway, stay strong brother. The pain gets easier to bear and you end up remembering only the good moments, specially at Christmas/they birthdays./offtopic>>577326172>Good luck with the work. It is indeed but i have 117 Pax Romana and switching from full pause to no pause felt bad for me :(I remember being an active pause mod, but it seems it was outdated with current game engine changes. But there's a even slower mod https://mod.io/g/anno-1800/m/slow-mo-gamespeed#description that uses a 0.25x speed modifier. Which if my maths are not wrong, it would do 40 real world seconds into 10 in-game seconds. Haven't tried it. But I really really really recommend Anno 1800, and to play it with all the DLCs(You can use CreamAPI very easily to get all the DLCs for free), it will be hundreds of hours for a single run. Which can be extended further with mods that add more maps, or DLC-tier new maps, buildings, tech and so on like the chink one https://mod.io/g/anno-1800/m/new-horizons#descriptionThere's also in the works, by the same team(so you can be sure they will deliver as they did with New Horizons), they posted it on (yea yea I know) reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/anno/comments/1smzbjp/upcoming_mod_edad_de_oro_golden_ages_are_ahead/ about Portuguese/Spanish colonies.
>>577326172>>577334717Character limit reached.I, again, really recommend to give it another go to 1800. Specially with speed mods or mods/modes to lower difficulty if you take a lot of time designing layouts. It's extremely worth it.
>>577329850Sorry for your lossMy cousin got diagnosed with cancer at multiple places at 31. I cried, a lot.>>577334717>>577334845I might give it a second chance then. Thanks for all that info.
>>577325167You do you but it is a really nice game. And about as pure 4x as you can imagine.
