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TACHYON edition You play with any mods anons?
>>2310760I definitely am. Usually when I'm running a carrier heavy fleet I use 1 wing of broadswords and the rest bombers per carrier because shit does not die quick enough unless I'm spamming bombers with distractions or escorts.
>>2310769yeah pilums got nerfed cuase they sucked lol
>>2310773he was trying to buff them (lol)
>>2310774what the fuck
>>2310777yeah because they sucked and you're retarded
Underrated UUs editionPrev >>2290122
>>2310564Simple>Saracen tech tree>Start game with +3 Villagers, but with -200 food, -50 wood (China)>Start the game with -100 wood, but with the population cap at the maximum. (Huns)>Each Town Center (including starting one) provides +100 food. (Lithuania)>Team bonus: Start with a free Llama. (Inca)>Unique techs and units don't matter because the game is already overYou start the game with 6 villagers, 150 food, and a 100 food llama on your doorstep. Go wildNo other early game can possibly compare to this, it's the king of fast castle
>Slav tech tree>Turk free light cav>Berber cavalry discount>Inca food discount>Plumed archers>Silk Armor>Farimba
>>2310747Oh and the hindustani team bonus for lightcav bonus vs buildings
>>2310747Why go to all that trouble for something inferior to the Magyar Huszar
>>2310564>Saracen Tech tree>Franks Cavalry bonus>Teutons Healing range >Mule Carts cost -25%. Mule Carts replace Lumber Camps and Mining Camps.>Byzantine Health rate>Tiger Cavalry >Stirrups >Ordo Cavalry
I've been lurking around here and people seem to mention Total War a lot. I talked to one of the guys at my local GW I know, and he recommended Medieval 2, but Rome Remastered looks pretty interesting (Rome is cool). I know basically nothing about Total War. I have only played traditional RTS games and X-COM when it comes to strategy. Which one is the better choice, or is there a better 'beginner' game out there?(I'm a zoomie btw, but I don't care what year it's from or how old it is. I generally prefer historical to Warhammer fantasy, though)
>>2302737>like Atilla total war, or early high medieval.Imagine being that much of a pseud. Still appreciate if you share an opinion on the mod gameplay btw.
>>2302784Yeah, hobbits/Shire sometimes feel out of place in that regard, maybe because Tolkien was very sentimental to his idealic view of English countryside of his youth or something like that. So it filtered in a lot, it's not the only problem - another is how sparsely Eriador is populated despite hundreds of years passing since big wars and plagues. Still, these things aside I stand with my view - it works better with early medieval aesthetic.
Is Total war Attila good? i've heard it's barbarian invasion but with prettier graphics
>>2310072its just a more polished rome 2, so noignore the one shitposter that says it redeemed
>>2310072doesn't it have the super mod that makes it the best
>Nothing every happens: the game >Age innovations STILL bugged and often wont show up in later ages for missing the prerequisitesDid you finally accepted that removing mana was a mistake, /vst/?
>play castille>have sevilla>decide to move capital to sevilla>move my army/navy there>2 days later>earthquake>entire navy/army wiped just because???>everyone still moving the capital there meanwhilethanks paradox
>>23083205 is already fun if you're not a mindless blobtard thoughbeit
>>2308428I'd hope no Cahokians are playing considering them & their culture has been wiped out for centuries.
Do you have to bother with improving relations with the banks to avoid coalition stuff. I never know what to do with them since they're not really landed.
Tsana is the best spot, right? Lalibela is kino but doesn't seem practical. Nora is going to fuck up my proximity. Tsana is centrally located within the valley.
2025 was overall, a relatively decent year for HOI4 mods. Do you think so?Now with baking!——-MODDING RESOURCES———>bit dot ly 3GPdwPDGeneral Index of tutorials for photoshop, GFX, scripting, etc. This is a google doc, so be aware.>https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/ModdingGeneral article hub on modding, also has a lot of info in general on all pages.>Text Editors/Codinghttps://notepad-plus-plus.org/https://www.sublimetext.com/https://code.visualstudio.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2310724>He actually fell for the honeypotFeds will be kicking down your door in 15 minutes, good luck.
>>2310724Go in blind, recommend an American faction for your frist playthrough. It'll be about a year or two before things get interesting. If you don't want to play as Trump or Biden, side with Biden in the 2020 State of The Union as that'll unlock the non-federal tags you can see in the main menu when selecting your country.Have fun, and tell us how things went!If you want some basic gameplay advice:Air power is stronger than vanilla by a mile, and mechanized is King. You'll need to adapt slightly if you're used to vanilla gameplay, but it's not too difficult. Go-to templates usually have a large number of IFVs with some SPGs and tanks mixed in. If you aren't totally green though this part shouldn't be a problem unless you're playing something like Atomwaffen where all your templates are shit.
>>2310725>YOU CAN'T BE PRO-INSURRECTION AND PRO-COP
>>2310738NTA but any good recs for non-US paths?
>>2310705I find the World Government more interesting as a concept, but the Cognoscenti is probably the best path TFR has released so far. I'm super excited for Post-Catharsis though, seems really interesting.
General Guide Mastery Set Effects, Mastery Drop List etc:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1349483727Finding Masteries, Modules, and Troublemakers:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1971619284Mastery/Module Descriptions:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2037290423Taming and Beasts Guide:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2020436206Farming Guide:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2025825529Machine Guide:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2025828272Troubleshooter Encyclopedia:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2064539292Bonds Guide:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What are some good common/SP mastery sets for superstar after equipping most class masteries?
>>2310707Good shit:>Skilled Military Strategist>Perfect Stakeout / Please Help MeDecent if you're doing a physical superstar:>UnpredictableFunny but questionable to fit:>Altruist>Frozen Soul Reaper>Snow Storm
>>2310686>anne (you sick fuck)
>>2310686If you chose more than one girl here your vote becomes obsolete btw.
>>2310707Frozen Breath armorbreak stuff is pretty niceSuppressive attack for bonus trolling
CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.htmlNCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/index.html
>>2310733What's your favorite part and least favorite part of the mod?
>>2310740>favorite partThe Weld and Powell paths>least favorite partI already touched on it earlier but I didn’t like how the computer feature got nerfed compared to the state it was in when the demo released however many months ago. I thought it’s original state had the potential to be something special
>>2310748nta, but i haven't kept up with hope's development so what was the PC tab thing like?
>>2310750If your referring to the my personal computer it does it's job wish you can make it bigger though.
>>2310750You can take a look at it yourself if you want, the demo codes still workhttps://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/1iew95i/hope_demo_out_now/It was bigger, more expansive. It had an actual browser, I remember seeing a bunch of people show you could play other TCT mods within the browser. It had minesweeper too and you were going to be able to see real time butterfly effects that your decisions had on entertainment and pop culture https://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/1kdioyc/hope_teaser/
Been playing some civ6 coop recently and tinkering with mods.I don't think I wanna play with a big tech overhaul mod, at least not for coop, but the placement of Men At Arms is really annoying me.You get them with Apprentice as is, the big medieval econ tech, sure they require iron, but they're still a bit too accessible and they kinda squash the earlier eras.my idea>Bluemoving men at arms from Apprentice to Military Engineering.>Greenadding Engineering and Mathematics as prereqs for Castle(and Coursers)>Redadding Iron Working as a prereq for Military Engineeringadding Machinery as a prereq for GunpowderHalberds and Crossbows might still be too easy to get, and Men At Arms is still kinda accessible, but at least it's not bundled with the great economics techs.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2300751>I love how far you can get in Civ 4 without ever inventing the alphabet.It took them only 15 years to realize the alphabet should follow writing instead of preceding it.
>>2300751>>2310428Why? China skipped it to this day and they're doing fine.
>>2310446>and they're doing fine>requiring Latin letters to learn pronunciation of their charactersCurious huh.
>>2310452That's for your convenience silly gaijin
>>2310626That's how Chinese children learn pronunciation too, dumb laowai.
ITT: Strategy games that no one besides (you) have played. Recommend rarities and discuss games that you vaguely remember playing as a kid or seeing in a magazine that one time.Continued from: >>1919459I'll start: Conflict Zone.Early 00's strategy game that I haven't seen anyone mention in my entire adult life. I remember it being unique because you public opinion was a key currency. As totally-not-NATO that involved airlifting civilians out of conflict zones, and as the bad guys it involved sending TV crews to film you blowing up enemy troops and enemy atrocities. The better your rep, the more advanced units you could bring in. Actually pretty surprised few games tried to make public opinion part of gameplay. Not a great game, but certainly a mechanically unique one.Your turn, anon!
>>2307099I vaguely remember seeing an ad for this game as a kid. Just can't vibe with the setting.
Playing a lot of Supreme Commader: Forged Alliance lately. The community on Forged Alliance Forever is pretty active, and the game is pretty fun. Very punishing but cool playing like, 6v6 mega battles.
>>2309022it's one of the best rts ever made
>>2310728Based, I loved Myst
Embarrassing mods for embarrassing commanders.>OXCE?OpenXcom is a free open-source game engine for the original 1994 X-Com: UFO Defense (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown) and 1996 X-Com: Terror from the Deep games.OXCE extends OXC modding capabilities and is home to megamods like X-Piratez, X-Com Files, 40k ROSIGMA and more.>Gamehttps://www.gog.com/en/game/xcom_ufo_defensehttps://openxcom.org/downloads-milestones/>Modshttps://mod.io/g/openxcomhttps://www.moddb.com/mods/x-piratez/downloads (XPZ)https://mod.io/g/openxcom/m/the-x-com-files (XCF)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2310509Wait, are you saying you don't have enough soldiers to get high promotions? That's a nice problem to have, saves money. And it won't last long.
>>2310517I don't even have enough soldiers to have a queen and I lost... one hybrid soldier, two lokks, and a handful of dogs so far. Hybrids are scary efficient. The problem, however, is that I will eventually need 20-30 Wizard-rank hybrids, just so that everyone can get their specialization training... which translates to a fuckton of peasants that I have no use for.
>>2310577You're always gonna need a dozen peasants and a dozen dogs hanging out garrisoning each of your bases.
>>2310619The emplacements clean the rats, the feds, and the doomers up just fine, but I guess it won't hurt. Hopefully with gun, boot camp, and militia training plus dojo they will become vaguely competent. Or I'll just hire some fascists.
>requires services: Workshop>which is NOT included in the Hellerium plantMod's gone soft, the L-series would have fucking buried me by now for missing that.
Is 4X suffering because the developers are bad or because you can buy, for cheap, the best 4X games ever made?
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>>2306537t. checkersfag
>>2253354Masters of Orion 3
>>2253417thisI can't even put my finger on it, but every time I try one motivation peters out. Space or Legend.
>>2253417it had some good ideas and worldbuilding but now everyone has copied their mechanics and amplitude got woke and started making ugly buggy flops full of blacks that nobody wants
waiting for elder kings editionprev>>2229560
>>2309920Activities, Funeral/Coronation are the main ones
>bought game in sale>decide to play some minor noble in the HRE>pick wurttemberg>make character that's all about Learning, diplomacy and a bit of stewardship>humble, calm, forgiving,>main goal is to develop my lands and try to stay on everyones good side to avoid wars>do a bunch of pilgrimages, have some kids, slowly develop my land>only ever fight a single war, win that easily>my character gets enough piety to be considered just below a living saint, excellent relations with my liege and vassals>make a pilgrimage to jerusalm just after he hits 60>he manages to get there fine>catches typhus on the way back and dies>unfortunaly I had two sons, so my tiny duchy gets cut in two>heir is a vengeful, sadisitc, ambitious lunatic with like 20 martial and single digits in every other stat>the apple could not have fallen furhter from the treeComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2309690You shouldn't try to min/max the game, because it's too easy. Instead you should just play dolls like the rest of us.
I'm 2 minutes into this game and there's already a typo what is this shit
In Japan, is it possible for the Kampaku or Shogun to overthrow the Yamato dynasty and become Emperors themselves?
Ok, I've seen enough. I've had my fill, I've played my money's worth. When did you realize you were done with your favorite strategy game, and that it was time to move on?
>>2308484Just play a mod
>>2308484>Best part is planning your production.My favorite part of HOI4 was making a MATLAB script to take a current and future date, IC cost, number of factories, production efficiency, production efficiency cap, and production efficiency growth, and spit out the needed number of factories to have X produced by Y dateThe DLC absolutely ruined the game with retarded bloat and if I ever replayed it, I'd roll back to whatever the last patch before the first DLC was.
>>2309035Any good mods for people who don't like fanfic-tier visual novels written by Nick Fuentes fans?
>>2309816Just play Red dusk or kaiserreich
>>2310679KR is literally a fanfic written by groypers. Germany is the most OP country.
WE SO BACKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYwSBQ1cebg
>>2306145Its so responsive its smooth when the game registers the input, moron. God, tone down key sensitivity so people can slam there face into the board without ruining their game and all you get is critics instead of a "thank you"
>>2309418what i hated about planetary annihilation, plastic look and floaty movement, i get modern rts wants pathfinding to be reliable but units should collide sometimes instead of jiggling through each other
>>2307822yet you love total annihilation. curious.
>>2306125you know, i'm actually on board with saying that the game failed primarily due to poor art direction
>>2310695the TA commanders are white obviously
