>>2269825>Parkinglothammer40kDamn, they are risking cannibalizing physical sales at this point.
>>2276743>And GW in particular couldn't give less of a flying fuck about video games. It's just a small source of income and free marketing for them. They simply give away IP to anyone who asks, because there is no downside to this.Nah that used to be the case but modern GW cares much more about using the IP to break into the normiesphere. They backported Titus from the SM game into being a 2nd company captain again and are making a whole narrative event around him. (when SM1 came out whether he was canon or not was ignored)They want all the various things to connect now.
>>2269649>normie proofIt's hasn't been that since 6ed.
>>2269649The lore has improved massively in recent years, especially with the Dark Imperium trilogy.
>>2276743The sales figures of SM2 changed all that
CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.htmlNCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/index.html
>>2290030There’s going to be one for McCain soon
>>2290034>McCainI want goldwater..
>>2290030That’s exactly my problem with them. hopefully Final Cut (Reagan incumb sim) is good.
>>2290411>hopefully the alzheimers simulator is good Somehow I don’t think that’s what anon was saying he wanted
>>2289906>>2290030At that point why not just exaggerate to the point of absurdity. This is a mock-up Ive had in mind taking place in the OBN timeline where Obama beat Trump in 2012 and then Biden won 2016 (against Trump again of course) causing such extreme fatigue you get this. Anachronistic you bet that's half the point. Won't expand upon it but I've had the idea for a few days now.
play the original? or the Civ IV spinoff? or Imperialism I (or Imperialism II)? I did play the original Colonization a bit as a kid but concerned how the DOSBox version (GOG version) runs
>>2285392>>2285458>accuratethat's the joke. white saviours all look handsome compared to fake indians. just look at the old photo. the native amurikans all look like sun dried raisins.
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>>2290514>Lumberjacks, Ore Miners and LumberjacksI'm pretty certain one of those Lumberjacks was supposed to be a Gunsmith, since they are criminally underpriced due to technically needing a lot of extra infrastructure to work at all (which is a lie)
Question:Couple of years ago, some guy remade all the music pieces from original Col. Most were okay-ish, but the one that plays during intro, was made into an epic tune.Anyone still has it? Searching for it is a bitch for obvious reasons.
>>2291067I just play the OST from tropico 1 and 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQcolipT0ZY&list=PLDPDaU77rVJtucypb8ua2ChlhgLUlzSR0
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)
In terms of Medieval 2, Rome Remastered, and Shogun 2, what order should they be played in from least to most feature complete/QoL mechanics?
>>2288804M2 to R to S2
>>2289335Thanks
>>2287380greece is where the money is at
>>2280607>It will give you a taste of what total war is in current year.Rome 2 is more than a decade old and it doesn't have heroes and lords, it is absolutely not nu-TW lmao
Roadmap revealed>One last major update of 2025, including allied bot support for skirmish>1st DLC will be free and coming early on 2026. Full reveal on December 9th>will add a new "allied" country, which will be available to the US side as a spec in multiplayer (likely the Baltic units from singleplayer)>new environment and maps planned for later 2026, released for free alongside the listed paid DLCs>full expansion for 2027 with a new singleplayer campaign and a new faction
>Baltic spec dlc announced>dead thread
>>2290087I guess it's nice to get free shit but they didn't really reveal enough to get me excited for it.How does it play, what gameplay does it bring to the table? All we know is "over 20 new infantry"
>>2290167If Steel Balalaika is gonna base the specialization on real life Baltic Militaries, its gonna a mech inf. specilization with low vehicle availability, but high tech and highly trained infantry + National guard reservist spam
>>2290555Most of the baltic stuff is already in the game in singleplayer and you can spawn their units in the Editor. There is large squad reservist slop that ride in M113s and then like 5 flavours of generic mechanized infantry with generic loadouts, a special forces recon squad and a few Javelin teams. They might tweak the numbers for balance but I doubt that they'll change the loadouts all that much from SP.For Vehicles there's a bunch of different variants of G-Wagen (including a manpads one that's quite silly), the leopards and all the other stuff teased in the trailer. I imagine the stats of the vehicles will change a lot, because the Leopards were basically just SepV2 stat clones but priced way cheaper.
regarding the units in the editor
Got any tips for a newbie? I'm playing Back to War, btw.
>>2290401Zoomers are children of the second half of Gen X, aka the most incompetent generations of them all.Both are notoriously incompetent when it comes to using computers and internet.Both are deemed useless by any other generation still around (including first half of Gen X).Both are neurotic fuckwits that trade away whatever rights other generations obtained or fought for for shallow comfort.Both face the obvious consequences of doing that.Both blame the prior generation for their own, self-induced problems.Both are brainless consoomers and masturbate to the 80s.And both can't into proper LAN set-up, since all they can do is click a button.It's almost as if apple doesn't fall far from the tree or something.
>set up LAN over hundreds of kilometers awayreading comprehension was never the boomers strong suit
>>2290612>never heard of virtual LANyikes
>>2290612Thanks for proving just how fucking clueless zoomoids are
>>2291032this doesn't even work anymore retards
Some guy on reddit looked through the engine video frame by frame and read the labels. Turns out they have a bunch of things labeled "40k" and other lines related to "fleet_maneuvers"That leaves people to speculate on the details now, before the "reveal" on Thursday lol
>>2289917You seem to have emotional issues. Shove something particularly large up your ass today?
>>2289562pls be LEGO pls. i love 40k universe but im tired of this shit in mainstream
>>2290410Eat shit and die
>>2290669It will be Three Kingdoms 2
>>2289562im jumping off a bridge if its not lego
GRUDGE EditionPrevious: >>2230110Avaliable for free at https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/or as a paid premium version on Steam or Itch.io>What is the difference?Both are the same game on the same version (53.xx). The free version uses ASCII as a tileset (but you can mod other usermade tilesets and graphic packs)With the premium version you pay for a premium tileset + premium OST + access to beta branches and steam integration (if on steam).>!!NEWS!!11/03/25 - The first part of the Siege Update was released as version 53.xx, giving besiegers (goblins and humans) the ability to dig/destroy walls, build paths, more awareness of traps and killzones, and more.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2290889YesThink half shell vs helm with cheekguards
>>2290889Helm has more coverage. An iron cap would be just be that, an iron cap on the head
>>2290903>>2290906>>2290908Helm seems superior then, why even have the option to craft a less superior helm? To save on resources or something? Aesthetic choice?
>>2290889Coverage adn weight. Caps wight less but dont protect the face, helm have 100% coverage. Same with leggings x greaves, both are for legs, but greaves provide 100% coverage, leggings only 50%, but are lighter. A dwarf with 0 armor trainning but fully armored with the heaviest sets will be protected but move slower than a snail, so leggings + mail shirt+ cap are an altertanive that provides SOME protection but dosent encumber them as much. Important to note that Mail Shirt can be worn together with Metal Breastplate.
>>2291025not sure if everyone can wear helmets in Adventure mode, for exampleand maybe you want to give your archers some kind of armor, but not like, the best oneslike IRL
Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, and any derivatives in this thread!The Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is out, as well as the Tactics Ogre remaster. Also shilling the excellent One Vision mod for the PSP version of Tactics Ogre, which rivals and even exceeds the Reborn remaster, depending on taste.
Been playing The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk as my first entry into this genre. The tutorial isn't the best (I had to ask Grok to explain exactly where Opportunity Attacks land because I couldn't find any info in game or online, and it didn't explain that you only get 1 per turn and it only activates when enemies LEAVE the zone, not enter it) but once I got a grasp on it I didn't have too much difficulty. I can't tell if I'm just shit or the game is really frontloaded, but a lot of the early fights felt like I was in fuck-my-ass-raw mode - you don't have enough Agility to accurately hit shit without boosts from teammates, nobody has any substantial abilities yet and you are fighting fuckers that hit 3x as hard as you do. Once I got some stunning abilities, a solid hit chance and decent gear it got a lot easier though, I'm clearing most fights without anyone getting incapacitated at all, the only fight that felt really unfair recently was the Splat Jaypak one which is just fucking ridiculous.>boss has 90% dodge chance and can hit you behind cover across the map with an aoe attack that applies a random debuff and does around 20 damage when most characters have 60-100 hp>assistant has 200+ health and charms a random party member each turn>orc fighter, archer and berserker on the left plus a troll in the middle lane>on top of all of this you have the roulette wheel either randomly debuffing your entire team or buffing the enemy team every single turnI ended up winning by having my ranged dudes rush through the weak gobs on the right, keeping the melee units engaged in the center with my main fighters and beating down his assistant asap, only had one incap when the troll tanked 3 opportunity attacks to bumrush my thief.I don't get the Overwatch mechanic in this game, I get how it functions but even most melee units have bombs they can throw, so they just tank your overwatch attack and chuck shit at your unit to disable it.
>>2278572I only played the second one. Gameplaywise it was pretty meh...
>>2209449>. In the original, there were unique weapons that would have a neat effect. Like a crossbow that inflicts poison on enemiesno that was not in SNES LUCT. bullshit zoomers shilling shit remakes of remakes.>>2208347>doesn't require dozens of hours of grinding.just play the original LUCT on SNES emus.
Are any of the rereleases/remasters for FFT/TO considered more ideal then the original versions? I got burned by the FF ones on the gameboys way back and so I'm wary of releases on newer systems, but I also enjoy basic QoL features so...Don't care about modding or anything, just vanilla experience for now.
>>2290983Tactics Ogre Reborn is arguably the current definitive edition but as with everything you can find people who prefer any of the versions.
>lets make the game slow as shit and also remove claim fabrication so youll be doing nothing most of the time lolWhat were they actually thinking here?
haven't played for a month or so, any good patches since then or did jewhan give up already?
Heavy cav being the only strong unit in the early game sucks. Why would you build crossbowmen, men-at-arms or handgunners at all? Just watched someone in my multiplayer get absolutely annihalted by a heavy cav only army. That doesn't make sense. Late medieval armies weren't made up of knights only. Why are levies stereotypically absolute fodder? They fell for the CK3 pop history meme of le peasant with pitchfork. Why do cannons move up to the frontline and suicide themselves? This game has the weirdest balance ever.
Say I have a third noble civil war. Is there any way, after I defeat them, to easily take some of their power again? Can I do nothing to strip some privileges off them or anything to stop them having so much power?
>>2281697>invent the non-word "Liverwurst" because you can't decide which language to use>The Black Forest is literally on the other side of the country from Braunschweig>Produced by a company by the name "Watson"What an absolute Frankenstein of a product,a sadistic mockery of real German food. Angloids get the rope.WE WUZ GERMINS N SHIEEET
>>2274083>tell me you’re an ADHD riddled EU4 toddler without telling me you’re an ADHD riddled EU4 toddler.
"Fixed the OP like a dog" edition.How fares your empire, /gsg/?On this day in history, the 8th of December:536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital.730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami.1432 – The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.1531 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.1905 – In France, a law separating church and state is passed.1946 – The subsequent Nuremberg trials begin with the Doctors' Trial, prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.1948 – The Genocide Convention is adopted.2010 – Dov Shilansky, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician, 10th Speaker of the Knesset (born 1924) dies.2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.Random Country PickerComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
david icke is a secret targ
literally who
targ.
literally fake /gsg/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvL-WGcoBis
>Your majesty, your new kingdom awaits!
>>2289167Make a Mughal empire mod called listeria
>>2289429>They all Xerox the original in this boringNope. They all xerox Majesty 2.But in all honesty? If we were to make an actual successor to Majesty, then we do this:>Divide the map into two. A kingdom map where you can go and build your stuff, and a larger overworld that is the rest of the map (kinda like that 3Kingdoms RTS from early 2000s). Your kingdom is not the only one with a dedicated map and neighboring ones will also have such maps.>Everything around your castle is one big city state and can practically build everything...be warned however not to build structures that belong to those of opposing alignments will cause riots and even fight in the open (especially religious groups with them rallying the citizens).>Heroes now have additional character quirks (both positive and negative) that further affect their classes. Heroes can also interact with NPC citizens and start their own families. Bonus if they die and their kid take up their legacy (thus giving you a free hero to replace your dead one).>Each guild can be upgraded to level 3 and each upgrade opens the ability to recruit more hero types while increasing by 2 the ones from the previous level. Some guilds can be changed via specializations which allow to recruit wholly different types of heroes.>The party mechanic from M2 is included to be more organic and has the number of heroes increased to 6. Apart of leveling themselves, a hero party will have its own level mechanic where heroes unlock new team abilities (and over time can even eliminate prejudices and dislikes if the party has members of opposite alignments).>Monsters can now adapt to you and your kingdom and come in much larger numbers. Wolves will hunt in large packs, ratmen will sneak into your city and avoid guard towers and heroes while stealing your stuff (and if they amass enough numbers, they will also go and kidnap your citizens and cause havoc...same with goblins) and much more.TBC.
>>2289429>>2290862>You as the king can now issue special edicts that modify how your kingdom operates (improve the effectiveness of economic buildings, makes guards go through extra training to make them tougher beatsticks, actually adding a guard retinue to tax collectors, etc.), unlock new technologies by giving them the green light (like allowing your heroes to purchase side-arms like pistols, allow wizards to experiment with creating powerful artifacts, unlock wholly new buildings and specialized upgrades for your structures, etc.)...or even change your personality that will affect everyone in your kingdom (will you be lawful or will you be more of a romantic, will you be a tyrant or a saint, will you be more down-to-earth or will you become a god-king...or maybe you can find the middle ground and much more).Would be honestly interesting.
>>2289859they are nothing whatever like majesty. You have complete control of your units.
>>2289255Good. The Majesty franchise (including spinoffs) has been going downhill since the very first one, so a modern Majesty is inevitably going to be shit.
I love this game but why the fuck did they make it so grindy? Starting a new save is such a chore. Also, sex with female harpies
>>2257700Bats actually make it harder because they suck. I didn't like the new maps very much either, they feel a bit too random. One is literally a gacha where you send resources out and get lootboxes in return, then hope there's a good cornerstone inside. Another lets you make your own cornerstone after mining for a bit, you pick one of four conditions and one of four benefits. Except one potential option is a straight-up permanent resolve bonus, so just pick an easily repeatable condition for it and it's a free win. Or you could get four practically useless options.>>2262431Their racial ability is a resolve bonus when other races die or leave. But it loses stacks when bats leave, and they're the hardest to keep happy and can't be favored. Not to mention if you're losing people things are already on the wrong track.
>>2266227I have played those biomes they are part of the Frog expansion. I like the Ashen Thicket but I think the Coastal Grove is a little meh because the expeditions quickly become so expensive I don't bother with them after the first few.
>>2243874based
>>2243874>what if we took a comfy game genre and made it stressfull instead?
>>2266421the problem i have with CG is that it has a tendency to just fuck you on food
>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/?
>>2290242Also If I am not mistaken, people of Gdańsk voluntarily given up the city to the Brandenburgians earlier because they didnt like the rulings of the Polish king. It kind of shows how much culture mattered in the middle ages.
>>2289899>>2289329Certain "people" (Total War refugees and lost Stellaris players) want EU to be Stellaris
>>2282946Buildings automation is absolute shit. Playing as England, decided to try automation in 1500. This dumb game built over 20 Armories, increasing the buildings upkeep by more than 40 ducats. I am playing on 1.0.7 so after deleting them I STILL pay the upkeep because of a bug. Fuck paradox and death to all the parashills that actually made me excited for this piece of shit game.
>>2290336>the parashills that actually made me excited for this piece of shit gameThat was Johan and eu4 being an enjoyable game, unless you followed e-celebs and this is your first paradox game, then is on you
>>2290195>how come you consistently saw shit like Castille and Portugal colonising their respective parts of the Americas in EU4?You didn't, you were just as likely to see a Portuguese Caribbean as you were Castillian, or an English Mexico, or any variety of color vomit all over America from whichever random country decided to colonize.
>"KNIGHTS!"
>>2283971>the only real complaints people haveLel>Ugly poorly designed overland that leads to horribly slanted battle maps, more than in vanilla >Horrible performance, crashes common contrast to mods like Tsardoms and Third Age that can run more scripts for hundreds of turns and still be stable experiences>Mod bloated with crap nobody cares about or that doesn't work well because it's just a compilation of whatever was available back in the late 00s, see previous point >Bad campaign balance that just leads to a few factions predictably blobbing every single time (Egypt and ERE)>Advertises historical accuracy when it comes to balance decisions but is really just like vanilla >Reforms are terrible, with you having to wait far too long for fun units that are really the best you got for faction variety depending on who you play>Faction variety worse than vanilla. Redundant trash units everywhere despite the 500 unit cap.This is all just off the top of my head. There's definitely more that other people who have played mods for this game can share.>Cav is op in almost every modObjectively wrong and you can prove that just by looking at text file numbers and playing the fights out yourself. You'd know this if you actually played other mods.>AI is usually worse than SS'sAlso objectively wrong. SS runs an old outdated version of ReallyBadAI so it's not even the best with its own AI. Skynet also typically mogs it.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2157876BAZBAZBAZ
>>2284978>Ugly poorly designed overland that leads to horribly slanted battle maps, more than in vanillaliterally just vanilla>Horrible performance, crashes common contrast to mods like Tsardoms and Third Age that can run more scripts for hundreds of turns and still be stable experiencesdepends when you play, if you play as soon as the new update came out then yes, it's unstable as shit, and yet SS 6.4 is one of the most stable mods in the games history.>Mod bloated with crap nobody cares aboutProofs? Projection? Name your favorite mod. SS is basically Vanilla with a few extra units and buildings. No bullshit OCs that other mods add.>Advertises historical accuracy when it comes to balance decisions but is really just like vanillaGood. SShip is more autistic on the realism.>Reforms are terrible, with you having to wait far too long for fun units that are really the best you got for faction variety depending on who you playHow is this a bad thing? You're playing a historical game, if cannons appeared in the early crusades that would look retarded.>Faction variety worse than vanilla.Vanilla playable factions: 17SS playable factions: 26>Redundant trash units everywhere despite the 500 unit cap.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
It's fine to admit you don't know what you're talking about since this game is full of mostly pointless esoteric knowledge but you think that cav being broken is a Med 2 thing and not a strictly a SS thing so I'm going to assume you haven't even played vanilla. Btw, SSHIP team thinks SS balance of cav is retarded so they nerfed it, but you wouldn't know that
>>2288355>but you think that cav being broken is a Med 2 thing and not a strictly a SS thingwhy lie
