>napoleon is my fav total war>is completely ignored by CA and modders>even rome1 got some sick reverse engineered patch>ntw only has MP mods>napoo remaster/remake never ever
>install https://www.moddb.com/mods/napoleonic-total-war-3>place skirmishers (who have good aim and long range) right in front of enemy general>they shot 3 volleys>0 hitsOnce again modders know exactly how to make games unfun.
CA is too busy making the upteenth Rome/Medieval sequel or the usual brand license game to care about it.Maybe one day they'll publish a remastered (don't even think about a remake lol), with the same bugs and cut content.
>>2467667LME mod is all you need.>>2467895>not installing la montee de l'empire>installing the bloated mp crapYou get what you deserve.
>>2467667We need a hitler total war in the spirit of attila
Why are people criticizing EUV even though it's supposed to be le kino simulationist game molded in the likes of Vic2? Is mana a needed evil?
EU has never been a simulation. I don't know where these niggers come from, but they surely haven't played earlier installments. And now they came crying "muh simulation" and pdx (fuck johan brw) completely overexerted themselves with trying to please these loud bitches.EU is a map painter first and that's why it's so fun. Some games were morenrigid and gamey than others, but they were gsmes first. Sim niggers ruined my map game. Play Vic instead, I heard it got gud (it didn't)
>>2462727>EU has never been a simulationEU3 was way more simulation-like than EU4, and the games that came after 3 (HoI3 and Victoria 2) put a lot of focus on emergent sim systems over the entire game being a glorified VN focusing on nothing but event chains which has become the core development philosophy of nu-Paradox.
Reminder you share your community with subhuman knuckledraggers like this >>2462727
>>2462974EU5 is slop and you know it.
>>2457216Europa Universalis was originally a French boardgame, no different than other boardgames like Risk.This simulation shit makes no sense.
hey anons, what are your favorite Total War mods? Been playing a few (very few actually) Medieval 2 ones. I like Insularis Draco and Total War: Elder Scrolls + Unofficial patch + Tamriel Enhanced. These submods makes the game less insane at the cost of the game being slower and more small scaled and i'm pretty sure a few units are missing. Anyways>Testing the mod out so i play the easiest faction (Daggerfall)>As any good Breton should, i decide to wage war against orcs>conquer all the puny Breton kingdoms until i reach Orsinium>Destroy all of it, rename it Bretonbull after the virile BRETON BVLLS currently breeding out a new generation of Breton-Orc ubermensches>Daedra invade>Use suicidal cav charges and a fuck ton of mages to push them back during sieges>Mod has oblivion travel option>Go into Oblivion with a diplomat and 5 merchants>make insane bank off of Ebony mines>Sell whatever Orcish settlement i conquer to Daedra>Just sort of bored right now, most of the other cool new game events like the Maormer invasion or Wild Hunt don't really touch Highrock>Most Advanced Faction constantly pendulums between me and fucking Valenwood somehow>Send a diplomat to Cyrodiil>holy shit this place is a clusterfuck, there's just hordes of undead and multiple rump states killing each other after the Emperor diedComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2465212kek
>2026>still not a single mod with good sottish unitsWhy?
>>2468388Scotland is only in vanilla to lose against England.
>>2468388Scotland is a pike faction. In medieval 2 you can't make them good without making them unbeatable.
>>2415072Anyone can tell me how the fuck to play Empire Total War on an ultrawide monitor? I tried setting it up to have two black bars on the sides, but no dice, the game just stretches everything out, and the UI is for ants
>"anon play Sh2, it's the last good historical TW game">ok, play it >play in low graphics to see if I actually like it and it's a fun game or it's just an illusion >it's an illusion>it's boring, the diplomacy sucks (Ikko-Ikki now are friends with everyone EVEN THE SHOGUNATE, despite being schizo-zealots)>religion doesn't matter at all (it's just % idolatry; no gods, no roleplay, no gods' favors, etc.)>morale sucks (samurai's honor where?)>combat is boring and tedious because micromanagement, plus units don't obey or are bugged in sieges>sieges are the worst, no matter how much you develop the city (another tedious boring crap), all cities are the same (walls that kill your morale and just some random building in the middle)It feels TW players have to the most boring gamers ever, since anything "mehh..." seems awesome.>"but but the mods... mur freedom than nuTW"The game's core still the same ans it's boring af.
>vanilla >no mods>my units keep losing moral for whatever nonsense but the last enemy soldier keeps fighting no matter what
>being surrounded>NOOOO we can't fight at the same time and finish the damn battle>combat must be 1v1 all the time
>not all this single soldier keep fighting>but he is able to kill soldiers of my elite cavalry despite him being a random swordman
And as in R2, the persecutions suck, and your units still don't obey the direction you have give them.
>>2468231>even face Otomo I have faced the Otomo multiple times, they are pathetic, the worst part is depending on the faction you were friends with them back then BUT for some unknown reason it fell apart, and you can't get it back.>>it's boring>SubjectiveIf all your campaigns feel the same and you can't change anything because all it ends with the same event.>RD and war vs all.Well, yeah it's pretty boring. Diplomacy doesn't matter at all nor marriages, it's just color painting and nothing more, despite how hard CA now tries to be like Paradox.>You have 16 cities retard, you 1 step awayAmaterasu have mercy that one tries to conquer Japan via diplomacy and conquest in a true battle royale where all factions do something instead of waiting until you're too powerful to finally move their asses.
>be 2026 >still no mod nor official update that allows you to convert to Ikko Ikki religion from outside that clan Do you know how it could be possible? Or if there is an obscure mod that allows you to convert to it?PD: If Ikko Ikki had triumphed over Oda Nobunaga, Japan would have avoided many (atomic and late-capitalistic) problems.
>>2465847>As an aside I dont really get why eveyone loves it so much anyway. Yeah, me neither, I think it is because since Sh2 vanilla was all the same units, adding different techs and shooting from cities to enemy units in the CAMPAIGN map (like in Civilization) add something new and "fresh" to an already boring game. I want to make clear that the game was not boring because all units were the same (that was cool), the game was boring perse.
>>2367412I bought the game, looked up strats and saw that the Oda clan Yari Ashigaru special unit was the most op unit in the game. I beat the game on the hardest mode after the first 3-5 tries just learning what was even going on, with only Yari Ashigaru spearmen and archers and nothing else. While that might be realistic, I think that is a failure gaming wise that is possible, it still might be the best Total War out there, I don´t know, I only played Shogun 1 as a teenager and now many years later Shogun 2. Clearly when playing Oda clan, no other units are needed, I´m not sure other units are needed when playing other clans. I did start a game with the special samurai clan, the one that starts on the bottom left, just to try and use other units, I got pretty far before I lost interest, to the point where they all declared war on me. But I´m not sure the other units were really superior to just spamming spearmen.
>>2465854If the main complaint about vanilla shogun is the lack of variety it's not like FotS is much better. There's some more units but there isn't that much difference between Blue Ball Battalion and Red Cock Regiment anyway outside of some meme headwear since most of it is just like infantry anyway and most of the roster is still shared.I'm not saying it's bad, it's still fun l, has some campaign improvements and if you want line warfare it's probably best you get since it's better than empire, but I just don't see the supposed huge improvement over the base game. The change of the setting doesn't really allow for a direct comparison anyway. The change of style of warfare makes it apples to oranges.
>>2465847FotS was enjoyable because it did gunpowder well and had a variety of artillery and steam powered ships. Since you could get US/Brit/French soldiers it was the closest thing we've seen to a civil war era TW. Also trains. Basically it pulled in people not terrible interested in sengoku jidai itself.
Shogun 2 lacking unit variety is a huge meme because you get everything you could possibly want in terms of gameplay and they perform if you put them in the situation that their unit-type wants like a good game is supposed to.>Melee cavKatana Horse>Charge/Anti-cav cavYari Horse>Brawler InfantryKatana Samurai>Anti-cav with the added spice of turning into race-cars with their unique abilityYari Samurai>Aggressive/Charge InfantryNo-dachi Samurai>Balanced InfantryNaginata Samurai>AoE damage dealers/morale shockFire-bomb ThrowersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Thread to discuss Graviteam Tactics and Combat Mission games.Screenshots and AAR's welcome.
>direct bomb hitCream of the luftwaffe dive bombers joined my battle
Oh fuck
>>2462620>>2462760Fruhlingswind?Good campaign, my favourite in TWT1943
Stuart took a panzershreck straight to the face and didn't give a fuck
>>2332143 #Last I played it was when it came out (30 years ago or so...), then I went back to CC2. Maybe I'll give it another shot one of these days
How fares your conquest, /vst/?I'm trying to get Shogun to work on my 'eck again after it stopped launching for some reason.
I played so much med I and shogun I when I was a kid, but I also just cheated for money and doomstacked everything. I should go back and replay them properly some time.
>>2455853Nice psychic spearmen.
>>2455853A few years ago I played a Sengoku Jidai campaign on normal with Mori clan. I though monks would be cool but it's a lot of trouble ot get them and they lose their advantage to any christian clan. In the end it's the easy access to iron sand that makes Mori special.>campaign starts>immediately take over Takeda territories before they become too strong>even use my daimyo to do so>clan kicked out successfuly>fortify east borders then go on to secure the west territories>use only spearmen and archers>secure japan's mainland and Shikoku>Shimazu's daimyo was on Shikoku and tried to charge my army, got encircled by spearmen, rip>regions secured, time to invade Kyushu>Imagawa's daimyo was on the top region of Kyushu, never stood a chance, rip>move downwards, take all of Shimazu territories>west half of Japan secured, time to move eastComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2466568*second half ot the post replace Shimazu with Uesugi, sorry. Hojo also was weakened by Uesugi and didn't last long
>>2466568>Only complaint I had about this game is that it takes multiple months to take over a single region if there are too many enemies, yet one autobattle is enough to do it. Final battle had something crazy like 600k soldiers and god knows how many years it'd take without autobattleWhy is that? The time limit?
do you like this franchise? I heard Rebellion is good
>>2459948Gottem'
the final transmission thingy for the fourth faction.
Pricey dlc. I regret not buying the premium edition now.
>>2446785The Star Trek mod is mid. Also I don't want to hear the autistic British dev re-record all the lines for the Cardassians it's cringe as fuck.
>>2433256are any of the DLCs worth it? Ironclad refuses to actually bundle them despite all of them being out for over a decade
Calling all /vst/ users!I need data!What was the first RTS game you ever played?
>>2429836/vst/ is the last refuge of autistic gaming. Early internet was kinda like this
>>2465272>>2467420Btw, yeah, vydia as real life problems escapism
>>2404243Lotr battle for middle earthThen my cousin showed my warcraft 3
>>2431868I remember being a teen in the 00s and having my pick of new (ish) RTS games to torrent and play over VLAN with my bros. We'd try out all kinds of different games, some were shit and some were fun. It was a kino time
>>2404243Empire Earth. It was a great childhood
Total war - warhammer is on saleAny of them worth getting?Why do they still have denuvo 20 years after release?
>>2378765How do you fight against Khorne (Valkia) with early dark elves armies? My dreadspears melt against their marauders and warriors and my crossbowmen (both the normal ones and the stealthy ones) get tied down by those hounds.
>>2457675Is this why greenskins, ogres etc have English accents?
>>2456814Not true. Vermintide released a year earlier.
>>2461283You kill her army then srmy loss her.
Stay in your containment general on /vg/. /twg/ is like 90% warhammer already.At least play the other fantasy total war like LotR, Warcraft, Elder Scrolls
CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.htmlNCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/index.html
>>2466251People just aren't interested in that mod anon what can I tell you.
>>2466251Literally no one cares, Naimina
Glad P2024 is never gonna come out so I'll never have to slog through 40 questions of "fuck you genocide joe for personally murdering 1 quadrillion brown children"
>>2468135I can never take their critiques seriously because at the end of the day they would have still voted for him, the W team are milquetoast libs who masquerade as revolutionaries
>>2468146new thread
anyone here plays broken arrow? I came back recently with the new patch to check out the baltic units but they seem kinda lacklusterleo 2a8 worse than an abrams, pzh2000 completely useless and no fucking air to speak of (which is realistic I guess)but I really like the vilkasalso the new patch is kinda nuts, resupplying infantry takes zero skill now, just park a vehicle next to the building and they have unlimited ammo
>>2464950My favorite line was when they said that people need to stop being racist to chinese players and that they dont cheat more than any other country, they just have more players
>>2464430completely agree>>2464633russian infantry is so easy to deal with, what are you on about? US has so many good anti inf tools. SMAW, Catfae, Mech. Engineers, Rangers RRC CQB, Zaliukai/Delta/Marine Raiders, Strike Eagle, M1A1 HC, Airborne
>>2464972yeah everyone who checked the steam ban stats is a confirmed racist
>>2465045>yeah everyone who checked the stats is a confirmed racistMany such cases
>>2465045I am a confirmed racist and I haven't checked the stats (I don't need to).
Is playing that nowadays even worth it? It's fun but even the noob lobbies have people with 300 wins.
Are Zerg a bad race? I feel like Protoss and Terrans are way stronger as a beginner.
>>2467438zerg and protoss are arguably equalterran ca be a bit more challenging to play simply because of how autistic and frustrating the scv can be inbetween build orders, he sometimes gets stuck in nooks and crannies if you happen to try and fit buildings into a 'corner' because of space limitations, and it doesn't help that half of the buildings cannot be levitatedbasically, the scv is the most annoying terran unit in the game to usezerg is strong simply because hatcheries are so dynamic, you can build any unit with a hatchery, so a long-game zerg strategy is just build hatcheries and spam-build unitsthere is also no population limit to overlords, which gives a zerg player an edge against cloaked shitand then of course, there's the zerg rush strategy which, if you master, mog the best terran and protoss players
>>2465074I play through the campaign in 1.16.1 every now and then, it's always a good time. If RTS games didn't stop putting effort into campaigns, I'd probably still be playing them.
>>2467438Zerg is the most OP raceyou're simply playing them wrongyou're meant to place many hatcheries all around, not just near minerals and gas. They are your main building but double as barracks and gateways and everything elsethen you're meant to spawn constant waves of troops from all these free larvae or alternate between troop production and drone production for an instant giant economic boostif you group your mutalisks with another slow unit like an overlord in one selection, your mutalisks will clump together in one spot. You can use this deathclump to snipe turrets, workers, tanks, anything really, any valuable targets. Mostly for free because mutalisks are so fast and easy to clump this way and fire immediately from up to 11 retarded mouths simultaneously, stacking that damage real fucking fastthen you've got the defiler which invalidates 98% of terran's unit roster with its consume+dark swarm combo, not to mention plague that deletes terran infantry in particular in secondsthere is also meta strategy of playing zerg, expanding fast to 3-4 bases, turtling up behind sunkens and some spore colonies for detection, then just spawning waves of ultralisks and sending them to the enemy bases, and when they die you send another wave because you already have them readyzerg has won the past what, 5 korean top tier tournaments? 6?
>>2467438My problem with learning how to play Zerg is that ZvZ is is a chaotic mess, even more so than PvP.In non mirror matches, it's easier because your production capacity builds up in the background even if you are ignoring it and then you use it all at once.With Protoss and Terran, if you que up units, you are effectively floating resources and if you forget to que up units, you are just floating resources.With Zerg, you can forget for a while and not get punished for it.
Why the fuck does Against the Storm have so many buildings? What's the point of separating harvester camps, herbalist camps, fishing huts, and trapper camps? This is BLOAT
>>2461930If you don't like it at first I don't think you'll ever like it. It's more similar to anno than most other strategy games.
>>2456122Wut
>>2461930I'm with you bud. I have heard so much praise for this game, and have tried for ~5 hours to get into it and don't get it at all. I feel like I'm playing a different game than everyone else.
>>2467531You are talking to shills.
>>2467596Just because someone gets the game for free doesn't make them a "shill".
what makes it so good?
>>2464783Being a game with a mythological setting when there were very few that did tbqh
Wish I knew how to make games, its time for a successor to build upon it
>>2464783Etimos?
>>2464783inorganic rock paper scissor unit balancing makes it a pretty ugly game. its grounds for automatic disqualification for any rts or strategy game imho
>>2464783Great campaignSovl factions
