Always found their existence quite a bit weird and somewhat deceiving, as someone who enjoys games like Stronghold, Populous 3 and BfME. They take cool historical periods and instead of dedicating themselves truly to the spectacle of war, instead force you to look upon some stupid map. Jesus.I'm playing right now the Shogun Total War game, and I'm enjoying the following: unit sounds, authenticity and immersion, the music, primitive graphics and "difficult" controls.Unfortunately, I am not really enjoying anything else about the game.The combat in Total War games is also weird, the armies are fighting each other too slowly, you visually don't witness much dying and tragedy, you judge the situation by numbers, which is gay and retarded. Why does it never happen in these games that units can get slaughtered quickly? Archers barely do shit, ever. I mean, they obviously do something, but the audiovisual impact is so fkn poor.Why do you retards like these games? You really don't feel the war going on in these games, because you don't even feel like a leader of men, just some soulless geometric shapes going into each other and slowly chipping away.The Warhammer games on the PS1 are much better than these aesthetically trannified and castrated malformations that have gained immense popularity among zoomers. I had to butcher my friends list because my internet acquintences have betrayed their old-school ways by engaging with this genuinely repulsive garbage.
>>2166991every campaign can be finished in under 100 turns with the short victoryas soon as you declare yourself emperor, two other factions do the same and create the three kingdomsto win you have to just sack the capitol of the other 2 kingdoms and control over 90 or something provinces, doesnt matter if direct control or vasalsoverall this is personally my favorite total war game since shogun 2 and I think you can easily enjoy it even if you dont know much about the romancejust collect some generals and fight shitthere are also lots of great mods like TROM, TUP and MTU which add over 200 unique portraits for generals, new units, new mechanics, new skills, new buildings etc.I wouldnt reccomend the mods for first few playthroughs though
>>2128841Forgot Shogun Total War GOLD Edition, which has the Kensai unit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Xx-kL0rcw
>>2128841I like warhammers hehehehe
>>2166473Med2 is so janky, it really needs remadter
>>2170967If they fixed the bugs and improved the camera and pathfinding I'd never play another Total War ever again.
I noticed no Stellaris threads on the board. I know 4.0 was a huge fuckup but I at least expected some talk about the new Psionic Expansion. How you fellas feeling about it. ( If any of you guys are even bothering to still play it lol). Is the UI update doing it for ya ?
>>2170722no dlc is worth buying, anoncreamapi is a thing
>>2170722Are they good? Sure. Are they worth full price? Never. Pirating the DLC unless you have more money than sense (like me) is standard for paradox.
>>2170276they've finally figured out their retarded ship concept was lagging everything outsolution now, HoI4 CopyPastaprobably
>>2170722from what I understand, both basically upgrade & flesh out Genetic & Psi ascendancy to the robot/cyborgnigger level
>>2170553when they can finally figure yor mum's species
Why did this one stink so much that it killed the series? 1 and 2 were good and then they deliver this.I long for the day when we finally get a good WW2 RTS/RTT again.
>>2166963You had your "Base", which was basicalla map with a headquarters building, and you could place the units you had gained through the campaign around that map to defend your HQ.This predictably resulting in everyone simply amassing their entire army directly in front of the HQ instead of spreading out across the map and getting whittled down piecemeal.
>>2167055What the fuck is with the arcade trend?Men of WarCompany of HeroesBlitzkrieg
>>2170716MoW2 wasn't any more arcadey than MOWAS2 or GoH. Literally the only thing it did differently was display the hp values that all 3 games use.It had a couple extremely successful betas and then launched to an overwhelming anti-shill campaign by vatniks because it was made in the wrong country and died in a month.CoH has always been arcadey, that was its explicit design. The whole slavjank WW2 autismo genre was born from CoH2, not because it was so amazing that everyone was influenced by it but because it featured the eastern front and was given to eastern euro poorfags for free.I don't know what the fuck they were thinking with Blitzkrieg 3 but the more you dig into the devs the more clear it becomes this is some shadow-financing scheme masquerading as a game developer and the quality of their products is entirely incidental. They probably thought they could draw in some of CoH2's audience as that game steadily died off and failed to realize the secret to CoH2's "success" is that russians didn't have to pay for it.
>>2170923still not killed yourself after they fully cancelled updates for it schizo?
>>2170716They want that CoH money
With No Compromise, No Surrender ( and the Czech Content Pack ) rolling out in the new future, what are your thoughts on it? And how do you feel about them adding in Seaplane Tenders as a Naval Unit?Old Thread >>2070984
>>2169015How meta is it to build tanks targeting 6.4 km/h, so they can be supported by cavalry or bicyclists instead of motorized?
>>2169034Nta. Saying meta this meta that is silly for MP with how many different mods and multiplayer cirklejerks there are and how differently they play or limit themselves with house rules. Having to metagame SP in this game is very silly. That said it's not a bad idea to have strong linebreak divs and then speedier divs that exploit and encircle.
Is this a good design for medium tanks?
>>2171060I would make it faster but besides that it looks alright
>>2169034Not sure about cyclists but the reason cavalry aren't used is that they're function as their own category instead of being included in "infantry, mot/mech" so they don't get as many stat bonuses.Motorized aren't much more expensive than leg infantry in practice so there's not really any benefit to excluding them. If you didn't care about speed, you could replace it with leg infantry to eliminate the fuel cost. The really important thing is just hp. Tanks have terrible hp and are expensive, so on their own they'd suffer crippling losses in combat. Padding the division with ~50% infantry amps up the hp value so that your expensive tanks suffer fewer losses. Leg and Mot have the same hp value, while Mech has the best in the game (a big reason to rush mech out if possible)
I enjoy games where you can customize your troops as much as possible. For example, being able to choose their weapons and armor is really fun. However, I’ve noticed that not many games offer this feature. I love watching my troops fight with the weapons I picked out for them or seeing them wear the gear I selected.just like modded mount and blade
>>2167996Grand Tactician Civil War lets you assign regiments weapons and choose their uniform on recruitment as well.Pretty sure you can name them as well
Battle Brothers lets you do this. Each piece of armor is modeled on your troops, as are their weapons.
>>2170540>Battle BrothersAnytime I've looked into that game, mostly streams, all people are doing is fucking around in the menus. That coupled with the abhorrent art style I just don't get the appeal when something like War Tales exists.
>>2170561>That coupled with the abhorrent art style I just don't get the appealSpeaking as someone who used to think the same way, it really does grow on you
>>2170561I went into it blind, played about 300 hours then stopped, it's got fun flavor and it can be addicting but then you realize how much min maxxing shit there actually is and you start hating it.
Why did Microsoft fumble AoM so hard?
>>2170012aoe2 made you
>>2169869>playing burmese or khmer>your infantery units wear european-styled steel armor and chainmailfuck off
The more I play the more obvious that the Japanese samurai is OP
>>2170642based
>>2170359listen kid the tournament scene would collapse overnight if visual clarity ever changed. Imagine if Leirry or Hera had to use brainpower to identify a unit instead of dodging ballistics or quick walling.Peoples livelihoods are on the line, which matter more than how pretty your campaign looks.
In less than 24 hours, Park Sang Hyun, also known as Soma, will defeat Bisu, qualifying for the ASL 20 final, wherein he will defeat Snow, thereby avenging Soulkey's aberrant defeat and keeping the title in Zerg hands for the fifth ASL in a row. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
no one cares about soulkey lol. he's a hasbeen.
>>2170927Has been in your mom.
>>2170917For the sake of no PvP finals I sure hope you're right
I know only about Dark Crusade/SoulstormEndwarTerminator Defiance DLC any other good examples?
>>2170192>Warlords Battlecry 2Play this one, OP, it's fucking dope. It even has a pretty solid character levelling and retinue system and a shitton of cool races.
Battle for Middle Earth 2
>>2170050CnC3: Kane wrath - global conquest mode. Not campaign mode however
Emperor: Battle for Dune. Quite old. I came with 3 CDs.
Rise of Nations, of course
Devs refuse to implement the surrender button because Russians never surrender.Tools:>https://ba-hub.net/ - laggy but with detailed player and match statistics>https://barmory.net/ - detailed unit stats and 1v1 unit combat simulation toolPrevious: >>2113255
>>2170455Btw the IRL Armata uses a derivative of a reverse engineered WW2 tiger tank engine, because they couldn't afford to develop a proper modern one and can't import tank engines from the west. The real thing is slower than every modern Western tank and reverses at about 5km/h
>>2170458>"Shut up western NAZI pig">"I'll have you know, I had the PRIVILEGE of not only getting to see one on my computer screen, Putin HIMSELF praised it, AND had his based priests BLESS IT">"The superior Russian education system creates engineers to modify any piece of technology and make it post-post-modern tech, always leaps and bounds ahead of tranny western engineers!"
>>2170295Irl US consistently loses to farmers wearing flip-flops. Ingame US consistently dominates at top elo.
>>2170761ok vatnik
>>2170458fuck off with that Lazernig hyperbolic "comedy" bullshit, it's completely false
It's over. https://archive.is/tDVof
>>2168201>strawmanning some brown strawman because you're a gay nigger who can't strategize to save his lifelmaooooo
>>2168212>>Putting a warrior in front of a archer made me feel like a general.
>>2168214>>strawmanning some brown strawman because you're a gay nigger who can't strategize to save his life
>>2168221>>>Putting a warrior in front of a archer made me feel like a general.
>>2137473make the woman a typist or a maid or a nurse and its perfect. and give her blonde golden locks and humungous boobies.
I'm thinking of trying it because it's on sale, I was a big fan of Victoria 2 but always hated how it encouraged you to become a socialist/liberal democracy at the end of the game to maximize pop growth and the economy.Looking over the artwork for Victoria 3 this game looks to be that but dialed up to 11. How bad is it? Is playing a reactionary absolute monarchy viable or are you bottlenecked until you enact the reforms the developers want you to take?
>>2092388Okay, terrorist.
>>2160167>>2160262>>2160264>>2160266>>2160267>>2160268>Troons LITERALLY samefagging this obviously and derailing the thread>Troons LITERALLY unable to parse the fact they're a laughing stock to all anons>Troons LITERALLY thinking they're accepted on based websites like 4chanKek.Yet again, samefagging troons are trying to dominate a thread in this board with their utterly kekworthy agenda.Face it. Your pitiful attempts at shilling, poisoning the well, Ad Hominem, and most egregious of all , running interference for LITERAL BLOODY COMMIES who want LITERAL COMMUNISM for traditionally "auth-right" cultures in the west.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2077227kek
>>2077513Retard. Slavery was abolished because it was no longer profitable. Why would you have a slave that you have to feed when you can pay him peanuts and he has to fend off for himself?
>>2077227Why are you subhumans even considering talking about Victoria 3 when Openvic is in progress and it looks pretty good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrfNCWrHWaE
All things HoMM.1. Post your super cool idea for a faction.2. Your favourite hero for flavour reasons?
kek
>>2170905>>2170911Buy an ad faggot you have two threads for your scam
>>2170905Seems good.What's wrong?
>>2170919Fuck off back to /v/
I want to have a CoE 5 thread. Been playing it nonstop for the past 2 weeks and it's a lot of fun. Much simpler than the Dom series, but still has a lot of the variety and depth. What are you favourite classes? There are loads of great ones, so I can't decide which one I like the most. I ended up liking the Witch and Cloud Lord a bunch which I was surprised by.
There should be skyports in the sky realm that can make airships that can move between clouds. .
>>2170610Everything that lives in the clouds can fly. Why would they need ports to make airships?
>>2170612Cloudfolk, the main population up there, cannot fly, they float and will fall to the ground if they walk off the cloud.
>>2170610Mod the change you want to see
>>2170723I don't think I could mod that. It'd require a thing that could fly but not get tired nor land on the ground. Maybe if it's possible for something to generate one of those temporary clouds as it moves and generate it such that it doesn't do so over existing clouds and only lasts for the turn it's made. I think stormclouds can move but they'd kill anything on them but I guess the boat could make them lightning immune. Then there would need to be a mechanic for falling overboard and not immediately running off. This sort of works for water and ice where they won't immediately run into water but can still end up pushed in there and drowning. I guess it could be solved just by being able to have cloud battle terrain and it not being destroyable like ice but it'd be better if the ship were able to sink and people were able to fall through holes in the cloud as long as they could not fly or float. There would also need to be a mechanic for units falling to the ground if they didn't fit on the ship and couldn't fly (things that fly can rest on boats even if they're full if they're normal size/size 1) but still being able to walk across them as a bridge like with normal ships. I suppose even if the ship has a cloud under it you could make it just not move if there's too many people in the army and handle falling if the boat moves away. So I'm not sure if you can generate and destroy terrain as you move, trigger things to fall during the turn if they didn't move but you moved instead(might be possible to force you to move but allies can stand on the same square and I'm not sure they can be moved. Maybe if falling is a plane warping action otherwise the ship would have to do something like a forced planeswap on units but exclude itself and its crew.) , or destroy cloud/have things fall from the sky during battle(although falling could just be reworded drowning).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbqx2fpNcQsWell, well, well. This came out of nowhere. It looks interesting in scope if nothing else, compared to stuff like Wargame, Broken Arrow, Regiments, and all that. It'll probably be shit but it might be worth watching.
>>2170858i hope they will put donkeys and chechen barrier troops for RUS deck
>>2170725what's with every new game being an uninspired 1:1 clone of games made 10-20 years ago? Do something new or get shit on.
>>2170889I don't trust this random polish game to be particularly good either, but what exactly is it a clone of?
>>2170913nta, but it looks clearly like a broken arrow,/warno clone with some wider scope for geopolitics (you get hit with an X event and you can choose to escalate or deny it)
>>2170914It seems to have more strategic/geopolitical stuff to it compared to warno/BA.>research tree>no provinces>ability to produce equipment>etc.Which means >>2170889 is wrong because they are in fact doing something different.
This speaks VOLUMES about Dawn of War 4's direction. At least Relic's fake brick wall was authentic. Not even counting the horrendous voice acting, stiff animations and toy-like colours in the recent trailer. They don't even have the right table size for a game of 40k. A bunch of posers looking to milk the 40k cow. Ad Mech? Seriously?
>>2170574Nigger what are you on about? Admech are basically right wing extremism only logic no feelings personified. They're also the farthest thing from quirky you can imagine. I also don't think admech are popular at all since they only resonate with turbo autists.Leftists all like Tau since they're xenophiles wholesome chungus big titty blue anime cows.
>>2170580The “far right” is primarily concerned with sentiment.
>>2170574>Admech are popularThey aren't. They're just always paired with Necrons because that's how GW introduced and sells their toys.
>>2170849Politics is two brain halves fighting each other.>>2170852This Necrons and Admech are basically intertwined lore wise these days.
You can really tell who is new to the hobby based on how they view Mechanicus.
