Luv me wurm, simple as edition.This is NOT /g*g/. If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/.==NEWS==Town to City, modular building update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3115220/view/690898029101718767News Tower, The Amazon Dispatch update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1649950/view/670630562731395644Stronghold 4 - Castle Customization & Economy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e-X2X0ThsYDistant Worlds 2 Shadows Rising has been released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWCb6anUArsFoundation: Harvest Festival has been released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zASkx6kKu0Knights of Honor II - Patch 1.8.0: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/736820/view/680763027479330892C-Beams Devlog 56: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrdmaooeT88GalCiv 4 Dev Journal #123: The Galactic Roadmap: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/667250959956574377Plan B: Terraform, Worlds of Fire and Water released: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1894430/view/692017587063622384Stellaris v4.5 Cygnus released: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/281990/view/704405656884478809Falling Frontier Dev Update: Combat Overview: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280190/view/542258317343326824Theos: City of Myth, gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK96Es5yxEU== 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: >>585400876
>>586206124What tech do you need?
Amy spooky strategy games?
>>586240262Homeworld Cataclysm?
>>586240262What the first anon said, also, they are billions, Age of darkness.Those at least come to mind atm.
What thing is the guy holding on those posters?
Also this is a film series I have to make next time I play this game.
>>586244257The Bladder of fire stolen from the chamber of secrets.
>>586238759Pottery
>>586244257Greek fire farter.
>>586244257The ukulele of fire sound and killer tunes
>>586244389Brap starter, instigator.
>>586249667Adult humour for grown up people.
Report in, Spiderfag.
>>586255109He's too busing paying the new internet tax.
HAK HAK HAK
>>586255109He went on vacation. And no, it wasn't the hospital this time, I asked.
>>586263514Hyuk
>>586261047New internet tax? They have a new internet tax in France?
>>5862730185 cents per GB.
>>586273018Look up the news, some proposed stupid shit on taxing bandwith used or something.
>>586274471>>586280297Important, yes. Critical, absolutely! I would go so far as to say that super conducting fiber alone makes our present economy possible.
>>586274471What the fuck?Does France want to stop internet usage and digital downloading completely?
Good night amd don't get spooked.
>>586296626Boo!
Finally back. Fucking AI bros.>>586290819I assume it's more of another case of lobbyism, cinemas have been crying about digital concurrencies for ages, that's why new stuff isn't available online in France and why we use VPN for Netflix and what else.Typical lobbyism, try to impede concurrence instead of accepting that the problem comes from the the expensive popcorn, the 20 minutes of ads before the movie start, and so on...>>586016282Play it already. Definitive Edition even let you play as a muslim if you want.
>>586206124I fought a battle against NPCs in a random event out of boredom and won with moderate losses. I made a domain on another, more populated server and immediately got a message from someone who gave me the ideas for a shitload of intro technologies (but not the tech itself, I still need to research them) so I'll see if I can get something going there.
>>586302717>expensive popcorn, the 20 minutes of ads before the movie start, and so on...Yeah, tell me about it.I wouldn't have such a problem with it, if the ads were at least movie teasers, but ads for shit like some local job handling agency...Yeah, movies are dead for me.
age of empire 4's last dlc is lit AF bro>>586302948I mean, the sound and experience are still fun, and nothing beats watching your first time in a cinema (cough cough lord of the ring), but otherwise, cinemas have been losing in popularity, and rather than up their games, cinemas have been lobbying to cripple digital sales.
>>586302717>Definitive Edition even let you play as a muslim if you want.The original had merc camps and arab lord skin too, dumbass.
>>586305103The original still had you build a church and recruit monks even if you were muslim, dumbass. I can't believe how ignorant you are, what a dumbass you are.Dumbass.
>>586307368Wait, that's what you meant? Holy shit you're smug for someone that thinks muslims dress like npcs from asscreed origins. You want actual imams, for whatever reason, that spawn from church/mosque reskin - xtreme did it first.You want to shill DE - say autotrade. That's more than enough.
>>586309512>waa waa i refuse to admit i'm wrong, YOU'RE wrong, not meJust admit DE is a lot better than you think, then drop your pants and bend over the table, I'll make it quick.
>>586310486I never said it's bad. I said you're a dumbass and even that's generous to how you're acting now. Half the campaigns from the original alone are you larping as Saladin and the meta was and still is arabic units for fucks sake.Again, autotrade. Nuff said without making up shit.
>>586310972>moving the goalpostsI accept your surrender.
>>586311047Can you cut the crap? You made a dumb claim and I'm calling you out on it. If you think I'm wrong or just want to talk about crusader, please do. Otherwise go fuck yourself.
>AI starts with a market in their own baseThanks game.>>586311541I'm confused, what's your goal here? I told you that I accepted your surrender like the magnanimous winner I am, but you keep digging yourself even deeper, stuck in your self-humiliation ritual.Do you get some perverse pleasure from embarassing yourself in front of everyone?
>>586312117Sure. Hope you die in riots. Good night.
KILL EVERYONE>>586313092Whatever helps you sleep at night, lil' bro.
Roads.Y'know how underrated AoE4 is? Yeah...
Fun fact about AoE4's Vikings, I didn't train a single berzerker for the entire game.Somehow I still ended the game with 46 of them.
Unrelated, but Ichtlarin is a little skinny bitch compared to CHAD Anubis.
Hippoppotamuses IRL: water devils.Hippooopppopoptalamuses in Age of Mythology: overly expensive militia.
>>586324494type WUV WOO in the chat
>>586325635what in the deuce
>>586325994now try O CANADA
>>586326198This game has a lot of really weird codes. It might be even weirder than AoE2 "I love the monkey head".
I'll have to remember to turn off cheat codes later.And to check if AoEIV has any fun one.
>upgrade axemen>axe changesI like that part of Age of Mythology where upgrades all reflect differently on the unit.See https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fb82_Kkneis
Why do the Confederacy have Siths? I though they tried to keep their association with Darth Tire-l'Anus and Darth Sidious a secret?
Which colony sim am i missing? I'm a huge fan of the sub-genre
>>586325994>>586320278lol
>>586336249Is there Old Republic mod for this?
>>586349068There's Expanded Front, it adds the Republic. It's the Clone Wars era republic, though, if that's what you mean.
>>586339169they may both be a stretch but i would say tropico 4 and maybe banished but banished is pretty barebones
>page 9bump
>>586349213No, Old Republic is like SWTOR or KOTOR era, thousands of years before films.
Good morning anons.
>>586360606Oh god. Then not that I know, sorry, through there are rumours that the ancient Republic, the Sith Empire, and the Mandaloreans will be added next. They're looking for artists.Or is it Mandalorians?
Wanted to start a new Surviving Mars run and now I got the sad.
>>586365886https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyYhbC0MXlYI know man, it was a hell of a week, first the original Chekov and then Picard.
>>586361337Forget the mandos, the old republic sith is what I want.
>>586366052Best Psi Corps officer we have ever had.He would be a Hero in other times.
>>586302819>comfy start on a different server>another player immediately starts claiming my territory and expanding towards meFuck off
>>586361309Good morning, Horatio.
>>586377286>just oceanic plains and few hills>not a single forestMan that is something. Nothing but fields and sheep pastures in the future.
>always mined scattered surface resources in surving mars by using a RC commander, a depot and a transporter>today I realized that transporters can collect surface resources all on their ownI must be the dumbest fuck that ever played this game
>>586384162pretty sure I didn't realize that for a while the first time I played either
>>586384162>>586385292It's a techlocked feature so all good. But what you can do and may have missed is using temporary depots and shuttles. As in here's a meteor storm on the other side of the map, let the rovers deposit there and shuttles take it home in 1/10th of the time.
>>586386325no it's not, only the automation is unlocked by tech
>>586388310Elaborate. What exactly have you been doing then?
>>586389227From his text he has 1) drove a RC commander next to free resources2) built a depot next to the area3) RC commanders drones auto gather into the deport4) used an RC transport to transfer the resources from the the new depot into his base.When of course you can just click the transport and harvest the resources directly, you can even queue it all up. The automation is of course pretty fantastic once you get that as well.
>>586393745>overengineering the process of picking up a rock from the groundTo be fair that anon may simply have german blood and heeded the call of his DNA.
>>586395026It's pretty clear that he simply didn't realize you can click on the resources which is unfortunate but fair. You can see the drones going for the free resources at the start so I can see how you would make that mistake.
>>586395241Just no idea how he missed the transport resource button.
Does anyone actually uses trains in Surviving Mars? Every time I try them I just keep going back to shuttles, because they do the same thing and you can just plop them down and you're done.
>>586398235They have lot of advantages, namely in accessing mines and mass transport. I find actually employing people quite difficult and sending them to the mines is good use of worker time lots of times.
>>586398235They don't do the same thing. Trains are better universal depots, come online almost at the start of the game, tunnels transfer power/water and you don't kill your game if you have a gorillion of them running. Shuttles also require tech, electronics and fuel, and afaik won't transfer people to remote workplaces like trains.
Second time I try playing GoT with fog of war.Using MACE and MACE resupply mods. Easy babygirl difficulty with very high economy and very high campaign lenght.I'm having all kinds of problems with the aufklarers, how to position them and reposition them, so that I not only scout and cover my attack points. But also to make sure I don't get flanked in the butt by reinforcements.Decided to give sniper a go, as I read that they are the best for early conquest game.
The sniper direct control was funny. Like a Sniper Elite but this time you are the nazi. I'm sure it won't be as easy as on this first battle.
50ish minutes for the very first capture mission. Thought that my sicherung's AT nades could handle the early matildas, but the matildas laughed at them, and I couldn't sneak on their backs, only on the sides. So was left with tracking both of the matildas and then lugging my 7.5cm support gun with HEAT to knock the crew out. Overall only 6 infantry losses and no squad wipes. Let's see once we the AI gets artillery/mortars.
>>586408162>Sir, your meds?
>>586408162>i'm sad, i can't work>aww it's okay i don't judge you for being lazy on a colony where everyone need to pull their weightsYou can tell it's a game made by coddled millenials.
>>586408162>I can't be motivated to go on.Into the vats you go
>>586408162Of course the loser who lost all will to go on is a white male. Can't have that happening to a woman or a black man.
>>586416358Their brains are too simple to understand the horror of living.
age of empire 4 is okwho here plays it?
>>586422054Spider has played it.
>>586422749I AM spider!Someone else play it, I wanna talk about it.
>>586427248nta but you can't make a claim like that and not post your flaccid penis for verification. What do you want to talk about it?
>"order of the dragon">mmm>"Vlad Tepesh">called Drakûl, "son of the dragon">mmm>>586428192Just wanted to chat: I love strategy games, but I'm utterly atrocious at them, so I wanted to hear from someone who plays it a bit more seriously than me.I mean, for example, in Age of Empires 4, your monks can't convert enemy units unless they hold a relic, and you're capped at 3 relics per monastery, so... do good player use their relics on the field, or do they let them sit at home?And the Vikings, they can turn relics into holy sites, who generate free berzerks over time, is this just a gimmick or a valid strategy in more competitive games?
>>586263514HYUK HYUK HYUK>>586427248On est tous Spiderfag
>>586428443I know, I'm the anon that bullied you into not rushing farms in aom among other things. First I think the only mechanic 4 does better than 2 are the landmark system and the very meme but very cute ability of you can put units on walls. Has that bfme1 thing I love. Second, haven't really played it in ages and only got to conq1 when I did so keep that in mind. As in I'm sure lots of it is outdated.>relicsDepends who you play but in general? No, you don't take them out unless it's last ditch desperation play like your last landmark is going to die so yolo or to push someone off sacred site. Gold runs out, trade isn't always possible and unlike 2 if you're not running gold heavy armies most exchanges are not going in your favor. For example if you lack gold you need to depend on units that die extremely quickly to arty deathstars.>vikingsI haven't played with that. Macedon dynasty was alright.
>>586430457>into not rushing farms in aom among other thingsYeah well I changed my approach. Now I do like I do in AoE2: clear the map of all animals. Also been playing as the Egyptian and they have a T2 god that lower farm costs by 60%, so yeah. >Gold runs out, trade isn't always possibleYeah, the map generation can get weird. I also feel like the maps have less gold and stone than usual, but might be me. I often run out of ressources when playing, and I'm nowhere near real players. Trade also seem to give less money compared to Age of Mythology.I still love the fact there are random trading spot. In AoE2, I never make marketplaces when it's a 1vs1.>I haven't played with thatWell, they're very weird, and maybe OP, I can't tell, but they get peasants for free, since their peasants aren't trained on the map but immigrate from the Nord.Thankfully you can turn off peasant generation, but yeah. Also they don't get housing, they get "long houses", who allow them to train their spearmen right away, and can be upgraded with improved farms, beehives to get free gold, or downright tailor/forge for free upgrades.I have yet to try the Scots, but apparently their tech tree is divided between the economical-minded lowlands and the hostile and aggressive highlands.But highlanders do get the cutest cows ever.
>>586431748I would be surprised if they weren't OP. Of course, until the next round of dlc comes around, those become the new hot shit and the former new kids get nerfed. I remember when japs came out for example. You could more or less take a stack of landmark free-spawn ozutzu and attack move from one corner of the map to the other and wipe everything without doing anything. And that wasn't the strongest play they had either.That said I'm not sure about that villager mechanic. Normally you'd want to do a second TC and pump eco very hard and being limited in that way seems they're very much a bum rush agro civ. Which is alright but kinda predictable. As in, this guy went viking, I know he'll do a feudal timing push, I know he'll use food units because he didn't invest into vils, alright, I need to bog him down, go imp and outboom him. Assuming you haven't missed anything relevant like oh btw they get resources from kills and or building kills like mongols.
>>586377286The guy who claimed my territory put up a massive in-character post so I guess he's a serious RPer. Here's where I wish I put more energy into this city instead of it being the backup because I'm locked out of techs on the first server I tried.>>586379139There are scattered trees at least.
>>586434605>I would be surprised if they weren't OPI'm surprised, the devs are so insanely tight and careful with AoE2's DLCs to not break the game, I'm surprised they're not as strict with the fourth game.>oh btw they get resources from kills and or building kills like mongolsNot that I can remember. I mean, they do have knights, and slightly cheaper knights that refund some ressource when they die, but nothing like that.They do get some "Völurs", units that buff longhouses, but these can be assassinated, and they need to physically move to the longhouse to buff it. But as a Viking, you don't seem encouraged to go wide since gathering your longhouses at the same place seem to give you more bonuses.Depending from your build, of course.
>>586435970Also one thing to note is that my character's (randomly-generated) name is Alcott Thinpride so this diatribe is partially addressed to me.
>>586434605Oh wait, there's a T2 wonder that gives free food. Does that count?
>>586435970And I cut off the very end of the second part of the message.
Here, the Jutland Knights.They give 10 gold when they die, and there's a Wonder-only tech that raises that to 30 gold.Of course they cost 90 gold, so that sounds incredily shitty as a bonus.
Hey! I am playing a game called Warfare and it is about America trying to save the Saudi Arabian monarchy from an Islamic coup.Our patrol has been sent to the King's castle in a hope to ensure the safety and exfiltrate the King.Our forces consist of:1 Humvee (Machine Gun)1 Humvee (Grenade Launcher)1 M113 (Machine Gun)1 BMP 3 (3 Machine Guns, 1 30MM Autocannon, 1 Tank Cannon, 1 ATGM)
>>586436123My french includes and is limited to some military jargon, ordering beer or coffee and cooking phrases so that does barely anything for me. Google does show they have tech in imp for improving pop to 210 and a landmark for another 10. That's nice, just not sure it'll help much if they don't do much damage early and don't survive to it. Interesting tho whether their on demand "sacred sites" work for templars since that could be crazy in FFAs or if you can bully them off it.>they're not as strict with the fourth gameI doubt too many, if any, original aoe2 devs worked on 4. And there's a rabid already established fanbase that can just go, OK, fuck you and your "new" game I'll keep playing what I played for the last 20 years so I guess there's that too.As for 4, I mean, it wasn't very balanced to start with. Your frogs were absurdly dominant at one point before the guild hall got nerfed and again just after joan came out. Bongs were the same between one of the few ways, at that time, to generate infinite gold and later with lancasters.Again, I only got playing 4 because someone from the group I play with lost a bet, and like a proper bastard gifted me that instead of what he actually owed. I had my fun for a time, just, "we have aoe2 at home" lol. And that game at least has by now a shitload of campaigns I can play and unwind without sweating on ladder or random lobbies. Bonus points for not having to pickup the current flavor of the month.
Good morning /civ4xg/. I need management games, urgently!
>>586439450STARTOPIA
>>586439450Can I interest you in a very addicting dystopian pawnshop manager in these trying times?
>>586438416>My french includes and is limited to some military jargon, ordering beer or coffee and cooking phrases so that does barely anything for me.Drat, sorry, I forgot.>I doubt too many, if any, original aoe2 devs worked on 4. And there's a rabid already established fanbase that can just go, OK, fuck you and your "new" game I'll keep playing what I played for the last 20 years so I guess there's that too.Yeah, that too. Honestly I kinda prefer that with AoE 4 and AoM: the games can get really weird and break the formula set by AoE2.I like to play AoE2 for "serious" games, but AoE4 and AoM are more for relaxing and actually having fun.Especially AoM, that one is almost cozy, but AoE4's art direction is awesome. Especially the sounds.
>>586439889I don't want that boomerslop, this is too dated even for a 30yo unc like myself>>586439927Tell me more about it. I think it's already in my library.
>>586440728>calling my favourite city-builder "boomerslop"
>>586440895Stop nostalgiafagging, the game looks like ass.
aww, spidey's making friends...
>>586441263Ass > boobs.Don't >> me, you know I'm right.
>>586441771ass is for niggers, boobs are for white men
>>586440548Dunno. Aom just isn't doing it for me anymore either.>>586440728Think slavic recettear or winkeltje without the dungeons and with at least 500% dumpster diving.
>>586442004Ok now you have my attention. How many hours can i get out of it? There's a lot of stuff i need to pay for this November
I played Jurassic World Evolution 2 and had a good time with it.
>>586439450two point hospital/campus/museumthey're all kinda simple and casual though
>>586443189No idea. I killed a good week on it.
>>586443781>they're all kinda simple and casual thoughI have too many "heavy games", something casual would be nice for a change of pace. Thanks for the recs.>>586443796I will consider buying it during winter sales then.
>>586442004>Dunno. Aom just isn't doing it for me anymore either.I'm sorry.Then again, I'm easily amused. I still play Deadlock 2.
>>586450006
>>586450363Deadlock 2's too old, I can't capture it. It's like Act of War.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DU882_F7BVYTL;DR: myth units in Age of Mythology all get buffs as you age up, so they don't fall behind human soldiers.
it was halloween yesterday
Page 10.Also Isis is the best goddess, be it in age of mythology or in SEVEN KINGDOMS 2, which you people should play by the way.
>mistakenly click domestic advisor instead of Europe screen in We The People on Civ4Col>game freezes for several minutesIt doesn't even take that long to generate humongous maps bruh.
Time to die.
>>586443284Is it better than the dino mod for civ 3?
>>586470665lmaolol
It's time to die!
DRAGON
>pick cavalry+shinobi subfaction>don't use any cavalry and little shinobisAnd then I wonder why I'm bad at strategy.
This is somehow technically hidden. Even if it has the searchlight on.
And of fucking course. the AI sends their tanks flanking where I didn't placed any defense, and have no troops covering.Sending my panzer to try and do a quick tracking. Will take care of finishing them off later.
Fuck me. The AI now not only hides inside the tank, but get out once you leave. Gotta leave a couple of guys making sure they stay put.
>>586486151Those turttling noobs!
>>586472307How about - nooo
>>586486151What game?
>>586503782Ostfront I believe
>>586427248Then someone else was playing it in French I guess.
Had to afk and forgot to pause. Wanted to restart but instead I clicked on "retreat". I'm a retard.>>586503782Gates of Hell: Ostfront. Generally called Gates of Hell/GoT, instead of Ostfront.
>Germany does not want war.All it wants is peace.Aaaa...little piece of Poland Aaand a little piece of Francehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64DCO2sI7fI
>>586508325Well, he doesn't want war. He wants all that stuff without having to fight. So just keep appeasing him until Europe is under the swastika from France to Poland
The tank literally drove over my sniper that was hiding in a bush.>>586508325>All it wants is peace.>Aaaa...little piece of Poland>Aaand a little piece of FranceWe were invited. They offered us lemonade,
>>586486151>Fuck meSure. My place or yours?
>>586510619>The tank literally drove over my sniper that was hiding in a bush.Did it went around him, or is your sniper MORTIS?
>>586512128>Did it went around him, or is your sniper MORTIS?He became a Hero for the Fatherland.Ironically, when I was direct-controling sniping the crew of an AT gun with him, I was hearing tank treads all the time but didn't had an angle to see the Cruiser MK!!. So I decided to stop direct-control him. And told him to stay put in a bush while I pushed with my 7.5cm support gun and a PzIII Aus.F.But then the Cruiser suddenly made up his mind and pushed through without giving me time to react as I was giving order on the east flank. Now that, ironically, the sniper took care of the AT gun so a frontal assault was possible for my other panzer and infantry.We need an automatic setting for "if you see a vehicle/tank driving full speed towards you, flee".
>>586513101>MKIIWait, that was a MKI, not a 2.
>>586513101*salute*Rest in pepperoni, hero of the fatherland.
Thoughts on squads of infantry having different weapons within them.For example: A squad consisting mostly of assault rifles also has 1 guy with a rocket launcher.
>>586514730Fun for versatility.Awful for accurate commands.
>>586514730confusing for RTS games but pretty normal for RTT games at this point
>>586513303>MKI, not a 2.Don't go there. If you think burgers were weird with most things being designated with M wait until you see the sheer clusterfuck of british armor naming convention from interwar-ww2 era.
The United Fruit Company eh?
>>586518303Careful, they'll sic Eisenhower on you if you don't do as they ask you!
>second time trying a Fog of War campaign>promise myself that I won't buy/research field PAKs>end up using my LeFH's few AT shells as direct fire PAKsWhy am I like this.Also the half life of my average Aufklarer is around 1-2 missions.>>586515665>wait until you see the sheer clusterfuck of british armor naming convention from interwar-ww2 era.I barely remember the name of the most popular German ones. I only know that Brits had Matildas, Churchils, Cromwells. Also they had Vickers.>>586514730Depends if that single guy has an AR too, and the others are carrying more ammo for his launcher.In GoT, I'm ending up either separating the MG Operator from the rest of the squad, with him carrying all the ammo. Or grouping the MG Operator and their assistant and ammo bearer so that the MG has someone watching his back.But this is talking about anti infantry. And I guess it depends if you are sending few squads or many.
>>586521536Alright, consider this. M1. Could be a carbine, could be a nade, could be a rifle, could be a helm. Could be an armored car, carrier or an M-type ration pack. Maybe it's some kind of artillery piece mounted on vehicle or not. Now consider this: Tank, A13 (+C if it's regular army post 41 +additional *s if it's tailored to a specific theatre) Cruiser, Mk V(+additional *s on top of the numeral depending on submodel +additional * if it's specific production line), Covenanter Mk III + additional marks depending whether it's serving under. So you get stuff like A13 Mk III (Covenanter Mk I) which was newer but obsolete to older retrofitted (A15 Mk any from I-III) Crusader Mk III. And that Crusader mk III =/= Crusader mk III* =/= Crusader mk III**Germans are simple pz1-6 with 1 not being actually used, 2 not being used that much after 41, 3 being the baby tonk, 4 being the classic and 5 and 6 being panther and tiger. Then add a letter with later models being down the alphabet. Pz.3j is newer than Pz3b. There's also Pz.38 which is the czech tank they used a ton off early and stuff like (r) or (f) added to the name means captured and or converted from (russia) or (france). They did that a lot.Soviets are 99% either big party name guy or T for tank-model-year(STE or such if it's a specific factory/pattern). T-34/85E. T34, model 85 uparmored with mesh. T34-STZ, stalingrad pattern.
>>586525818The brit nomenclature is cursed good lord.Luckily they have lots of those "infantry tanks" or whatever, that are just MGs taped to armor or early to mid game.
>>586526618serving under commonwealth or pure UK forces*Canadian ones had to be fitted with extra insulation for example and that warranted a * because different pattern and or different local source of spare parts for retrofits. A * is half a mk, as in it's different but not different enough to require a full mk upgrade from say I to II.>infantry tanks>just mgNo. That's the godawful doctrine france and uk entering the war with. Infantry tanks that supported the, gasp, infantry and usually packed a ton of armor and cavalry/cruiser tanks that could actually move. Matilda was an infantry tank.Krauts ironically didn't have as many tanks so they concentrated them and ended up rewriting doctrine for everyone.
>>586527416>and ended up rewriting doctrine for everyone.How/why?I still find hard to think that the MG-centric squad formation of the Germans was supposed to be very successful even when there ere semi auto rifles.
3.0 Aurora bros!
>>586527971holy kek, is Aurora still getting updates? Might have to give it another try. Think I haven't played it since they switched to C#
>>586527887That's infantry talk and different topic but in short if you have a dedicated mg section anchoring a position the riflemen are way more flexible in what they can do. And krauts absolutely did try and index into (semi) auto replacements, it was just a bumpy road to get there and when they did it was too little too late.>tanksLook at it this way, 500 tanks concentrated across 5km = better armor presence than 5000 tanks spread across 100kms.
>>586527971It's out? What are the biggest changes?
>>586528828https://aurora4x.com/t/aurora-v3-0-0-patch-notes-november-1st-2026/49
>>586527887If you have to choose doctrine between a good rifle or a good MG (+amazing engineers) its really hard to bet on rifles.
the only surviving mars sponsors I haven't played yet are the burgers, chinks, jeets and the blue sun megacorpwhich one should I try?
>>586530403all 3 are ez mode so just roll for it.
>>586529540It's really not that simple. Do you even have a good rifle? How much will it cost to design one if you don't? How about ammo? Literally every nation struggled to design a self-reloading rifle that could fire a full power rifle cartridge and eventually ended up making an intermediate weaker round. But if you have multiple types of ammo that fucks with your logistics, a k98 and mg34 used the same carthage. A MP44 and mg42 didn't. Can your industry even afford to replace the old guns, provide a second source of ammo since and maintain the original ammo output until you phase them out since it's not like you're going to throw away the old guns in wartime. I mean both italy and france had their plans to replace the bolt-actions and didn't manage it during the peace between wws. And they were the victors of ww1.>>586530403Burgers are literal cheatmode. Chinks and jeets are meh but have their niche. Blue sun is also cheatmode but you have to work for it a little first. Have you tried the paradox sponsor? They come with some really good stuff.
>>586530916>Have you tried the paradox sponsor?No. I didn't even know they exist.
>>586528828Non oxy species sounds fun.Plus the actual customization of colour theme as clunky as it is.>>586527971Right as i wanted to start new run.
>>586531115You get jumper shuttles which are frankly amazing, a game dev workshop which is better tv workshop and your breakthru limit is raised by 3-4 iirc so you can get more of any of them.
>>586531359Well I'm not making a paradox account to unlock them
>>586531927cream.api not doing it for you?
I was looking at some shorts of upcoming strategy games and most of them looked AI-generated. Even many of the comments appeared to have been created by AI.Soon, most of the Anons you speak to here won't even be human.
>>586538391>Soon, most of the Anons you speak to here won't even be human.I mean, we have a huge, sentient, french spider with diabetes type 1.Also go play Gates of Hell.
>>586538391As opposed to most of them being subhuman?
>>586538391Yeah I'm a clanker, so what?
>round two:>Scotsmen versus Rus>completely fuck up me developpement, just reach T2 as AI reaches T3>fall behind relic-wise, which means AI gets +3 armor for its entire army>manage to barely scrap a win by going all-in and spamming battering rams on the field to destroy as many barracks as possible>still only got men-at-arm and archers against knights and arquebusiersgood lord i'm utter shit at games but damn they're funI won with my economy in shambles after too many knights raids. Turns out that digging a tunnel through the woods to make caravans go faster is a terrible idea when towers can't hold knights back and Scots don't get cannons.I fucked up my build order really badly, but also I think I'm used to play against an easier AI, so...
>>586544385>triches utiliséesPédé d'araignée...
>>586546360If you use both your eyes AND your brain, you'll see that the icon for "used cheats" went unused.I know it's hard for you, being an American having only received the minimal education for work 20 hours a day at the factory and being told that unions are evil and that communists and liberals will steal your masculinity, but try to, once in a while.
>>586546670Lot of words when 'how do you turn this on' would have sufficed.
>>586546836What's the point of learning English if it's not to dab on you with finer language than the one you speak?
>>586546360
>>586547026What's the point of uhh being named Spiderfag if you uhhhhhh like female elves being spanked (sexually)? Check and mate.
>>586547260I dunno, you lots picked the name, not me.
>>586547452You owe /civ4xg/ your identity and yet you've discarded it. Find me a new RTS to right this wrong.
>>586547669>Find me a new RTS to right this wrong.Hard question. What are you into? Modern? WW2? Warhammer (the good one)? Fantasy? HIgh fantasy, low fantasy?
>>586546836Pretty sure he at least plays with related toggled on to have it shown above. Past that, I genuinely do not care.
>>586549256Actually, no, this was turned off. It still shows in the postgame graph for some reason.
>>586550436I got my own problems chief. Fucking lizardmen.
>>586547953Give me something AOE1+2 like since I'm on a city builder/strategy kick.
>>586551738Haven't seen related mentioned in an age and a half. It plays closer to WC3 than aoe tho.
>>586551738The Fertile Crescent, maybe? I tried it, it's mostly city building + survival foreign army.It sadly filtered me pretty quickly.>>586550783THAT'S A GRUDGE!
Imam Ahmed.That's a weird name.
I want to eat spiderfag up>>586559678imam is a title and ahmed is a normal name
>>586561468>imam is a titleOHNo fucking wonder every fucking muslim priest seemed to have the same fucking name
>>586562228are you serious dude
>>586562537He's Spiderfag not Spidergenius.
>>586561468>>586562228>Imam Ahmed, Imamit sure looks like his title is Imam and his name is Imam too.
So that's what the patch was for.I really dislike that part of Firefly.>>586561468Don't eat me, I don't like cannibals.
>checks out advanced options>"buff spearmen">"buff laddermen">"nerf eunuchs">"make AI more aggressive"Excuse me for asking, but if you knew the new eunuchs are so tough, why not nerf them directly? It's not like they were in Stronghold HD.
Where should the Anno series go next?
Okay that's boring. I set up two customs commanders in an AIvsAI fight, and fuck me sideway, I'm falling asleep here. Ranni and Godrick just stare at each others and send assassins without ever committing to an actual attack.
oh hey they're finally attacking
>>586565434Hands of better devs
>>586562537He's doing what you might call engagement farming. Its what youtubers or such other lowlives do when they want to generate traffic but are otherwise too boring to do with pure wit or being interesting with what they say.
>>586574942why would anybody do that on 4chan? it's far more likely that he's just a little stupid
>>586575497Yeah, why would a known attentionwhore, attentionwhore during off hours on what's a general on life support.
>>586573789Nice.
>page 10Hey guys! I'm French!
>>586582430
>oi mate you should try Command and Conquer 3How do I politely tell Steam that the reason I never played Tiberium Wars despite having it in my library is because I have Kane's Wrath?
>>586582430Lies
>kept wondering why the Imperial Guard had no medicae, not apothecary, no healirium, no health packirium>turns out the commissars MASSIVELY buff up health regeneration when added to an unitHuh. Is that new to Definitive Edition?
>>586585813>How do I politely tell Steam that the reason I never played Tiberium Wars despite having it in my library is because I have Kane's Wrath?Pic-related. Very useful when there's a remake/remaster version too.
>>586598096Neat. Thanks.
>>586597810>HAK HAK H-ACK
>>586591246I'm sorry to say that I have no idea, despite having played tons of dark crusade and soul storm back in the days.
>>586551738>finally got agriculture and getting somewhere>random faggot invades me and takes my hamletFuck this
>>586582430I don't believe you.
Any TBS that has active online MP that would be worth investing time into learning? Something that isn't Civ, ideally.
>>586606884/domg/ has multiplayer matches if 1 turn per day works for you
>>586606412Farewell, Horatioland.
>>586606412He'll just make you a vassal unless he really thinks your shitty hamlet that hasn't even made any fields is worth the drain on his economy. He's like copper age at most, his economy can't handle it.
>>586612489He wanted annexation and said my domain was in his expansion plans.
>>586612885How many fucking expansion points could he have? Does he see metals in your cap that aren't anywhere else?
>>586612983Idk man, this map was from a few days ago and you can see how big he is. I restarted and rolled a new spot west of Uzspekistan and hopefully I can beg some of the early ideas off of someone so I can get back on track.
>>586613741Wonder what the hell he was doing with those countrysides. Fishing and clay since there was ZERO fields and pastures.
>>586238250ARE YOU GUYS READY TO GO TO SPACE?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zid7_MOOlDs
>still no release date for the Empire Earth remakeI just want to play the game with good AI
>>586606884Maybe Dominions or Age of Wonders, but I don't play mp so I dunno.>>586615636Nah, too busy making tanks and ak47s for the third world.
>>586606393It's actually a new feature added in the original launch 1.0 winter assault
>>586591246All I remember about Commissars is that they can shoot their own guys to make everyone else shoot faster.
>>586629476Welp, despite playing that game also it always eluded me.Probably because I always built death blobs, which would either melt everything out of their path or melt to the enemies, so I never paid attention to unit healing and such.
>>586591246>Huh. Is that new to Definitive Edition?It has always been the case. The officers add health and the commissar buffs healing rate(and I think health too), and morale, executions notwithstanding.. There's no special medicae upgrade. And I kinda like it like this, as even with officer+commissar they are wet paper past T1. If it wasn't for the nade cheese, they would be outdated fast.
>>586632386>and I think health tooThat's priests.
>>586633639Well, it's not like they were meant to survive in first place.
>>586635089Honestly that's a skill issue.
>>586636045I know, that's why I don't bother with priests.I mean, look at how I play GoT. In babygirl difficulty with fog of war on and having all kind of problems because SURPRISE MORTAR/FIELDGUN/VICKERS UP YOUR ASS.
>>586636495No I mean specifically in dow1. The guard is tanky as all fuck if you do it right. If you skip the gl for a pair of early hellhounds into plasma guns for your infantry with a reactive sentinel or few for harass they're a nightmare to deal with. You can also forward deploy HWS and or rotate damage infantry with screening chimeras. As in open with guard and when they take a beating put them into chimeras that carried in ogryns and HWSs for the main push.
>>586637263>If you skip the glAnd how do you deal wit hero units? Also I think I have used ogryns less times than I have been buttfucked.
>>586637669Which one? Most die or beak under concentrated fire regardless.You're not looking at the bigger picture. GLs do a lot of disruption but their damage sucks against everything that's not infantry. Regular lasfire is good against infantry. Bolters and hellhounds mulch infantry. Do you really need more anti-infantry tools especially since basically everyone phases out infantry T1-2+? In the same vein having sentinels for anti light vehicle and hellhounds for anti-inf and morale means they can't go lolspamglsorbolters of their own and delete your army since you now got a mix of different armor types.IG is a combined arms faction, treat is as such.
