He defended England is what he did. He was a brave Anglo-Saxon king. And in this house, Harold Godwinson is a hero! End of story!>Danes deep divehttps://www.ageofempires.com/news/danes-civilization-deep-dive/>Saxons deep divehttps://www.ageofempires.com/news/saxons-civilization-deep-dive/>Varangians deep divehttps://www.ageofempires.com/news/varangians-civilization-deep-dive/
>>2487299I won by trolling the AI with towers.I would've won faster but I wanted to try out the Chakram throwers so I stalled the game.
>>2487300My base is fucking horrible.But being able to garrison my sheep in the mill is pretty cool.
>>2487268In the sense that they were basically cannibalized to make room for three more civilizations (because these bloatmaxxing DLCs just can't go back to two each, right?), and then having adjustments to fit into a new and less experienced regional archetype, where being the 'balanced' nohorse option poorly translated over and sort just became the runt of them. The Inca have certainly been on something of a balancing rollercoaster since HD.It also puts us at having twice as many Champi civs than Eagle ones.
>>2487278the majority of normies are 1k or below so yea of course, but you could use this argument for anything ladder or balance realted then
https://www.twitch.tv/iamboitAoM continues. Maybe we see a titan today!
Return to Form edition>(looted): >>2459968>M&B Wikihttps://antifandom.com/mountandblade/wiki/Mount_&_Blade_Wiki> BANNERLORD>Latest Patch Notes - WS v1.1.1 / BL v1.3.13https://steamcommunity.com/games/261550/announcements/detail/517481543704250508?snr=2___>Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/tAvcAbpT>Custom Banner Makerhttps://bannerlord.party/banner/>Banner Code SharingComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Bannerlord is better than Warband. Sorry, Warbandfags.>*Warbandfags proceed to close Bannerlord to respond to this post*
>>2487207>*Warbandfags proceed to close Bannerlord to respond to this post*You think anyone actually plays games?
>>2487207I agree, from subjective my own taste. That said, Bannerlord is not a finished game, so I can't have to wait for final release of it.
>>2487102norses are DLC only, just like the shipsif you can get it for cheap it's a nice addition. I got it for modding and won't go back to playing vanilla,(mostly because I can't stand vanilla anymore to be honest) but for 25 bucks ? fuck no
What's the faction that YOU ALWAYS PICK despite promising yourself you play something else ?Swadia and Empire respectively in my case, that being said my first ever conquests were with Rhodoks and Vlandia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXeEv1y8A6MThis is so stupid.If you want to make a game like heroes of might and magic 3, you can just make another heroes of might and magic.Like 4, 5, 6, 7 and most recently olden era did.and If you don't have the IP, then make Songs of Conquest.You're not capturing any lost 1999 essence by remaking the game, it doesn't have obvious faults that make it hard to play, other than possibly an online client which is already fixed through HotA.Mechanically it isn't even the same as homm3, so why remake it and not make another homm game, for the story? The story isn't uniquely good. It's fine don't get me wrong, but it's not like anyone is genuinely salivating at the thought of restoration of erathia's story could only get shown properly in 2026.Cowardly cash grab that I hope blows up in their face.I hope homm3 players aren't so stupid that they actually pay for this shit.
>>2479746First time experiencing dutch culture? They barely qualify as people
>>2479746>To be honest I am really disappointed by GrubbyYeah I was pretty disappointed too.I hope he has a more critical video in the future, like he did for Stormgate, but I suppose this isn't rts so it's a bit outside of his expertise. It's just a shame, because I don't think there are any really big homm content creators.At least the comments on his video see the game for what it is.I considered just unsubscribing from his youtube. I did unfollow his twitch one time after he used reruns too much, I didn't like how even when he was offline, people looking at the warcraft 3 category would see his stream first. He stopped that afaik though.
>>2475453>>2475449Lmao
>>2475344I get Ubisoft mad trash Homm games in the past, but now I'm starting to think the fans will never be happy even if the original team got back together.
>>2487247Why do you think that?
>Starcraft 1>Tassadar breaks away from tradition and cooperates with the dark templars and the terrans to defeat a common enemyoooh so heckin based this is the only way we must embrace diversity>Starcraft 2>Artanis breaks away from tradition and cooperates with the Zerg and the terrans to defeat a common enemyNOOOOO FUCKING SJWs RUINED MY GAME FUCK DIVERSITYwhy are people like this?
>>2486273>Blizzard still cares about Starcraft?They licensed it out to Nexon.
>>2486312>this entire post
>>2485762It's not zoomers, it's millenials who have become jaded and overplayed every piece of media and can't just e joy things anymore.The writers of SC1 weren't thinking of making some epic story, they were writing a story that would look good told through a collage on a metal album cover. It was never meant to be deep or thought about too hard
>>2486266>ARGIs this a recent thing? If so, this and the conspicuous free Co-op XP boost means they are gonna do something to Starcraft, and sadly this being Blizz means it's gonna be shit no matter what, the latest AoE3 DLC for me was already a unlikely miracle coming true, but it only works once.
>>2487294>It was never meant to be deep or thought about too hard>>2474906>>2474919the original manual has so much goddamn lore fleshing out the universe https://devnonsense.com/pdf/StarCraft-manual.pdfgo to page 26 for terran, 51 for zerg and 71 for protossIt WAS meant to be an epic story
Ersatz edition All discussion of playcounts is banned. The people making these posts have never played the game and already got blown out on this. Please direct such posters to their appropriate general >>2431755 and report their posts as off-topic.# NewsGone are the hourly ticks, performance changes https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-123-1-4-performance-and-campaign-timeline.1941000/Old Thread >>2478068
>>2487174>look at me cheesing the AI, aren't I cool now?no buddy, you aren't
>>2487275you have never played the game.
>>2486813manual trading was and is tedious and is only fundamentally required for a small number of scenarios (such as this one) so it doesnt surpise me that people who dont colonise (because it sucks) arent aware of that
>>2486942>wtf did my tax base just flatline instead of grow exponentially way beyond all other great powers combined?unironic skill issue
>>2487312you didnt play the game
Summer as hot as Cleopatra edition. Thread about historical Total War games and their mods.previous thread >>2324264
>>2484143>historical games didn't really have that many cultures and rosters in generalWhich is why I'm shocked that people want a million playable factions for Medieval 3
>>2483753As long as it fixed Attila running poorly.
I've been watching a ot of Rome TW1 videos from QualityOldGames (https://www.youtube.com/@qualityoldgames7721) lately.I've especially noticed that projectiles feel incredible to look at. Why is it so satisfying, compared to the projectiles of newer Total War games?
>>2487276In never games they add those too outlined arrow trails, for one. I used mods that removed them altogether.
>>2486250Oh I've played it but I don't really consider it a traditional comfy citybuilderA lot of the later stuff especially feel more like puzzles rather than management challenges, where you kinda run it once to see what the bullshit is and then
>>2479024>KairosoftIt's impressive how much they recycle between most of their games, and then they'll strike out with something that's actually slightly interesting, only for that to either not be further developed at all, or become the next thing to constantly recycle.I'll take a gamble on one of their titles every once in a while. It's usually shit, but sometimes you get a game that you can play for 10+ hours that makes it slightly worth it. For a couple of bucks per since it's just old-school mobile games at old-school mobile prices it just barely makes it worth it. Don't really get how they stay in business when the rest of the market doesn't really do this sort of stuff anymore.
>>2478999Sound like Songs of Syx. Didn't get far in that, but managing fantasy races and resources in a city builder is the entire premise there.
>Don't really get how they stay in business when the rest of the market doesn't really do this sort of stuff anymorenipp economy isn't beholden to normal market forces
>>2486518Based anon, that is exactly what I was looking forBased based based
Evil Negoori Men EditionGeneral 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=2064539292Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2487192something like this?
>>2487195Yeah.
>>2486533inb4 mungo cockblocking the top of the ladder like Gyro in 54V>>2487195a red panda is fine too
>>2486678or just getting the current tools to work through proton *sobs*
>>2487314Yeah sorry linuxbro but getting the current modding tool to work with Linux's file system is the absolute bottom of the priority list...
You're here forever.https://www.youtube.com/@ThomasLands - Videos of nearly finished builds scrapped by nudevs.https://files.catbox.moe/6kc2dc.png - German space plans.https://files.catbox.moe/4p0tpa.pdf - Goering design doc.https://files.catbox.moe/pwkheh.png - Updated German rework flowchart.https://files.catbox.moe/80z6tb.png - Bormann TNO2 flowchart.https://files.catbox.moe/9ja39g.png - Himmler starting tree, releasing never.https://files.catbox.moe/cdag1w.pdf - Vote Pig, the US rework proposal.https://files.catbox.moe/3bwv2e.pdf - Japan rework proposal.https://files.catbox.moe/chzsvc.pdf - Japan Funada Design Doc.https://files.catbox.moe/qsd9cg.png - Gorky gets nuked now.https://files.catbox.moe/beh76f.pdf - France proposal.https://files.catbox.moe/7vqarx.png - France flowchart. Resistance is dead.https://files.catbox.moe/xlhrjj.pdf - Sweden rework proposal.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
The thing with Sweden is that, no matter how much aid the give to Africa, they give far more to the Pakt. The Finland war literally has Sweden compete with Germany over who can give more aid against the Russians.
>>2487241Yeah, they do that so germany doesn’t have any sway over Finnish politics. It’s explicitly about pushing the pakt away. Here’s a list of all the shit that sweden can do or actively does in tno that germany does nothing about: Actively funds milorg which blows up roads and kills norwegian politicians Gives refuge to danish communist terrorists Harbors members of the french resistance (which is basically an arm of the CIA due to the free french) Harbors members of the british left resistance who also go on frequent bombing campaigns in british urban areasAllows the smuggling of banned goods into germany such as pornography and american music Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2487251Ok Cuba did shit like this too
https://mega.nz/folder/Bc8iTIoD#38Lb9bI5iLrEoZ53aoDfbQcouldn't post this before the bake sorry but this is my collection of the 2023 builds (IE, PW, ST, etc) and some 2025 ones (turkey, very unfinished yippie, bormann) and even older ones
>>2487225Don't forget: Mexico in this reality would also have nukes pointed at major American cities and the means to flatten DC but America would do nothing and accept that the Zapataist regime that harbors people that murdered US troops left and right.We're then being told by the dev that Nazi Germany's a highly rational pragmatist that doesn't care because it "sees the big picture in the east" or some shit. Same Germany that flings nukes at minor Russian warlords for getting a bit uppity, by the way.>>2487229>>2487233None of this is happening. It's been 4 years and Amur is still in dev hell. Them reviving their old plans might as well be a proclamation by Mango that he's now the leader of China in terms of how much weight it holds.>>2487241>>2487257Why can't you just admit that this is the Dev's retarded political power fantasy where his country owns both the hecking Nazi chuds and the hecking RuZZian chuds and somehow has resources to compete with multiple world powers?
Age of empires 3 chads we are so back
>>2486800They did actually, check patch notes.
>>2486798>Do you not realize that it's supposed to simulate the relationship between empires and their colonies?I'm not trying to pick an argument with you, just explaining what filtered people. In AoE2 your intents are very telegraphed, all it takes is scouting your base to figure out what you're doing. If you want a mangonel, there are proper steps for that, but for a falconet you don't need buildings or resources, just a shipment right after you age up. Your deck can conveniently cover the blind spots in your build order.
>>2486800>i don't remember it spamming artillery this much previouslyYou must be lucky. Since vanilla, the ai becomes an artillery aficionado after hitting industrial and imperial in the hardest levels. I did notice that, after a certain update, the ai now tries to kite your units and retreats instead of just throwing its units at you, so you can no longer just move attack or else your units will chase some random dude while getting ridden with bullets.
>>2486800A couple years ago I played against Italians and past a certain point the computer player spammed nothing but dragoons and artillery. What a degenerate and unbeatable combo when playing China.
>>2486864>Your deck can conveniently cover the blind spots in your build order.And conveniently we now have a civ that counters that with the Danes being the taxman that can see what cards the opponents send. Oh the irony. At least that means the devs are willing to experiment with the cards rather than completely cater to AoE2 players.>>2486800No shit, the enemy actually thrown respectable levels of attack waves at me, even without artillery, to the point that now I actually don't have lots of resources left upon reaching Industrial.>>2487177Ah the good old days where I didn't knew how to edit values on notepads so grinding for card levels meant that europeans always, without fail, would make nothing but Horse Artillery cannons by late game.Oddly enough I don't think I ever saw the AI make them anymore on DE, so I guess the devs tweaked that from that start.
Get in here, the DLCs will come out soon, discuss the games!
>>2486594Vampire rapist.
Y'all mind if a nigga plays a little CK3?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIys_PZgqjQ
>>2485795>>2485855Erik the Heathen start, I'm doing pretty alright. I'm playing as the first heir I got now and I've already beaten the king of Sweden in a war where he wanted to revoke a title, after the truce I could possibly just claim the entire kingdom and hope I won't get fucked over by constant holy wars. My biggest issue so far is all the fucking pagans in Finland, my lands have become a battleground for all their gigantic levies and prepared invasions so I have to spend a ton of money defending my lands from constant sieges and looting because my liege is too inept to do it.
>>2487280been there done that the real way you supposed to colonize is via adventurer starting in your native land, otherwise how did he get there
>>2487292He didn't know Africa was a thing in the game when he played.
>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)>Resourceshttps://openxcom.org/forum/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2486816Zoom zoom melee killers.
How *do* you summon a shade?I have dead gals that meet the requirements of bravery, vpow and reactions, but there isnt a promotion button in their memorial card
>>2487206it's training/transformation. shade summoning/shade embodiment, use the transformation overview
>>2487285On what?
>>2487290if you have somebody valid for turning into a shade, she will appear in the shade summoning list in "Killed In Battle".
MAXIMUM UNIT CAPACITY edition
>>2487043>says this when the legion is one of the most busted ship in the game sans the paragonLow tech is for people who can't manage flux nor can think 5 seconds into the future, thats why most low techs have burn drives
>>2487095>>2487080I hate the shuttle shuffle you have to do to pilot them. I accept the skill and hullmod tax Alex, just save me the hassle and let me pilot it directly.
>>2487043I will become the meme.
>>2484603That's Buckbreaker
>>2485427
>new engine>plays the same like old engine but with even worse frameratewhat did they mean by it?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxo4j00dnwY
>>2486722>I did play it thoughNo, you didn't.If you'd, then you'd don't bring video where few elite units with aoe weapon shoot at weakest chaff in the game.Or you just argue in bad faith.In either case you not deserve more attention than you have already.
>>2486885I did. I made this video for this thread>If you'd, then you'd don't bring video where few elite units with aoe weapon shoot at weakest chaff in the game.Yes, that's the point and a perfect and quick way to showcase this. Models within a unit still need to be hit to die in post Rome 2 games. They don't magically die when "whole unit hp" depletes, each model has it's own wounds. They can die in first volley tooIn fantasy setting many beings are more durable so it's normal such creatures won't die to a single shot. Which is why they have more wounds. If all of them had 1 or 2 wounds, game would suck
>>2486898can you do a video with shielded dwarves getting shot with arrows?
Why do all the vids of Total Warhammer 40k and Dawn of War 4 just look like two players moshpitting their identical blobs together. Fucking Company of Heroes 2 is 15 years old and had more interesting flanking and cover.
>>2487183Total War hasn't had meaningful cover and flanking mechanics in over a decade, especially TWWHF, which the 40k one is clearly based on.DoW4 seems to be going for more DoW1, where the old school spectacle and blobbing was (and still is) the expectation, not the sweaty 1v1 micro of multiplayer grogs. Most OG RTS players want to *feel* cool and amazed by the spectacle, not have to work spinning a dozen plates to do it. Hence why RTS is largely dead nowadays (outside of its atomized focused niche subgenres), due to the near-constant focus on micro+MP+PvP, which is missing the point for the large majority of the potential player base.
>russia is a threatthis shit didn't age well
>>2480417wake up vasiliy you shat yourself again!
>>2482689>implying nato would side with turkey over israelthese outright hostile barbarians should have been kicked out decades ago
>>2480386You could say the same about the us
>>2482690NATO didn't do shit in 2001. every single Euro member said America deserved it and that they had no duty to help us find who was responsible. the French openly laughed at us and told us to get fucked. we should've left NATO right then and there, not a single euro is our ally, never has been. they have only ever seen us as mercenary cannon fodder for their colonial conflicts.
>>2487273>destabilize region for decades>it comes back to bite you, for a singular time in US historyThe US did deserve.Yet NATO countries participated in the retarded Afghan and Iraq wars. A fourth of Afghan War deaths are from non-US colation members (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_casualties_in_Afghanistan).
