Just came out today. Designated shill thread.Suck my dick, bitchtits.
>>1792945The lore is nice but so far it plays like an inferior version of Master of Magic.At least it got me playing Master of Magic.
>>1799098Aaaand picked up
50 turns left, in the middle of a war with 3 large kingdoms. I think I will start one with Warrick as well because I dont like my borders and I want some of their land
>CHANGE enchantment only affects melee and range not siegeFUCK I used my spearmen in sieges thanks to enchantments, now I will actually need swordsmen in my armies
>>1792945Looks interesting. I HOPE it's good.
How fares your tula?
>>1805052You are better off with then pulling ploughs. Worth more than the sacrifice, both short and long-term
>>1805048>>1805096>t. plays on easy
>>1805461>t. doesn't play at allThere is a solid chance that both the game and the solution to the problem are older than you.
>>1804955Just roleplay, if you are peaceful clan then make them pull ploughs, if you are war clan or balanced then make them beasts of war
>>1805505You need every combat related buff you can get on Hard. You can manage with a little less food.
Which city builders are the hardest and most challenging? The genre on the whole seems pretty easy.
>>1800290It is and it isn't. You are running on pretty tight margins but the solutions are very obvious. It feels like you are railroaded into certain way of playing with everything else being excessively punishing but figuring it out is too easy to actually feel smart about and be satisfying which is why people like >>1800298 call it a bad puzzle game.A more recent game is a very similar vein ixion had the same issues.
>>1800091They Are Billions is sort of a hybrid RTS/city builder/base defense that's qutie challenging.
>>1802965setting up MP in the anno series is a chore I'll give you that. But there are usually more ways to compete other than military, like economy, quests, expansion, trade and saboteurs.
>>1800154Lol. It is far harder to fail in CS than to succeed. The game is a city painter, where nothing you do matters.Workers and resources is like an old testament god in comparison.
>>1804208Ok, what's the best build order for Zerg?
If I could will one game into existence it would be an 18th century city builder/RTS with real time tactical battles integrated into the same map, like 18th century Manor Lords but with more effort put into the battles. What would your perfect strategy game be?
>>1799901You might check Ultimate General: American Revolution that comes close without the city building aspect, but be aware Game-Labs is famous for great ideas and undercoocked launches.
>>1799901This but 17th century, so the battles can be more like skirmishes and more localized. Fits the scale better.
>>1799901>What would your perfect strategy game be?I described it some time ago: https://arch.b4k.co/vst/thread/1773963/#1783815The other major feature would be that information would travel no faster than your tech level permitted it. At the start of the game, this would be at light speed. As you teched up, the speed of information would be several times faster than your ships could move. Ships that were outside of your instant communication zone would have pre-set orders. Such a feature would naturally make it more difficult for one to blob.
>>1804775>they didn't have massive battles before napoleon
>>1806477nice but future tech is soulles
Ello map staring enjoyers. I've got this vic 3 game as the CSA and it's 1873 and I dunno what to do now. I've taken Cuba and the Dominican as well as part of Mexico for the Golden Circle meme but am at a loss. The economy is semi-industrialized with a fabric/ cotton based economy with the slave trade and universal voting.What do the fine advisors of the Confederate government recommend I do next?
>>1805510Yeah you are right, I meant to say that there are no scripts for Austria to become weaker. Now Austria is just a smaller Russia.Maybe we should dedicate one war per game just to liberate a bunch of countries in Austria around 1880. But the AI won't allow it, France and Great Britain will propably step in to save her.
>>1802909Why is the CSA there? Kill them. Kill all of them. Kill them. Kill the traitors.
>>1805510Hitler lost Chud.
>>1802909Alliance with the brits to put down the northern threat seems logical, give uk some of the northern states
>>1805510>There is no mechanic to cause the break up of Austria as it happened in 1918.Austria was dismantled, it didn't break up on its own. And while it was weak historically, it was improving over time as they began integrating their various minorities better. Had WW1 not happened, the USGA would probably exist to this day.Victoria 2 actually models Austria-Hungary rather well, as it starts off pretty slow and the AI usually doesn't do a great job, but it does gradually get better over time unless it gets dunked on hard by a neighbour - but if it DOES get dunked on hard by an external power, it tends to never recover. Just like IRL. And the player can go harder on implementing FF's plans for the Empire, which turns it into an actual powerhouse.Of course, as you say, Victoria 3 doesn't model its internal conflicts. V2 doesn't do a great job of it either, but it at least reflects some of the administrative difficulties.
>unlock Superleggera chassis and make racing monsters with it for 50 years>it gets banned in 1980>try not to cry>cry a lot>at least you still have your money GearCity thread
>>1804446>1930You really want this guy to start at the height of the Great Depression?
Love this game, bless the oen autist that made this
What are some good tutorials (text or vids) to get started?Also, is playing on modern day good or is it made to be played on older time periods?
Give me some autistic goals to do ig
>>1806438The dev has video tutorials on his channel. The supply & demand one is pretty good, but just pick the ones you feel you need to brush up on.Playing in the modern day is much easier, good for beginners. Starting in 1950 should be good. >>1806439Hyper-Luxurious is a fun one. Never design a car with less than 50 Luxury rating.
Is it worth it? Tell me your stories with it!
>>1805606Civ-likes, moo-likes, and mom-likes are all different genres.>>1805592It's mostly 1 for 1 but that means there's also a capital if there's one in Elysium, also Orcus is somewhere in a structure. The recruitable locations let you recruit special ghost units though, if that's all you wanted.
>>1805424What do you mean, did I get one of the Xs wrong?
>>1805515>they don't have any infantry capable of holding their own against decent armies without either literally hundreds of casualties and/or abusing poison arrows.Aren't you supposed to employ single-colour armies with the corresponding casters so you can abuse their immunity to their elemental spell damage?
>>1805515Besides poison arrows, wyvern knights are also okay if you can get a lot of them. White kobold winged archers are also pretty good. Besides being able to dodge with their flying abilities, it's fairly easy to get an army of kobolds into the sky and supplement them with cloud people or just be harder to take out with hard to access citadels. Yes, you lose a lot of them but that's life for kobolds.
>>1787570Yes its worth it. Necromancers are literal gods of death. Warlocks are gods of the elements, witches are a legitimate bane to all things human, and high cultist are eldritch horror made manifest. There is no other game comparable to it. Just to emphasize warlocks, they don't need to fear wildlife as one of their upgrade paths effectively renders ancient forests void, and another lets you perpetually own any portion of the map permanently.
>ctrl F>no steel division threadSteel division thread. It's cheap
>>1805287Soviet rifle squads are complete shit unless triple vetted and have arty support. Or Strafniki, they're good. Unless you have shturmowhateverthefucki, any German div with SS ubermen will roll you. I've rolled entire forests with just StG sturm troops and a little microing. Is2 is good because it'll stop German tank spam and actually make them think instead of parking their asses at 2km. That or they'll spam planes which will temporarily waste their points.
>>1805287First of all it was a preset deck because I was learning the ropes and foolishly thought the deck would be decently well rounded. Second of all gee I wonder why I'm bitching about the most heavily armored allied heavy tank taking a round to its frontal armor from 2km away being killed in 1 shot, little rediculous especially knowing that it only died thanks to a fucking coin-flip and tons of tanks in game can tank pak40 shells thanks to the retarded AP system.Also this >>1805784SS spam is genuinely fucking OP and will roll any infantry, I have also seen SS squads wipe out flamers+assault squads in forests.
>>1805392Great Patriotic War.
>>1805784This game probably creates hundreds of brand new wehraboos each month. Sad, since they were finally being put in their place after two decades of the history channel indoctrination.
>>1805883>>1805314So then why does the Soviet Union have zero diversity and hardly any divisions? Damn like they didnt even TRY to make it interesting, they did very little research at all. It doesnt feel like an eastern fromt game. It feels like a cobbled together wheraboo moneygrab.
Great game which is still fun but I feel like I suck at it. I'm constantly struggling to keep up with the AI in tech and resources. Only better battle tactics even let me compete and keep above water. I've only ever completely won as Hiver and as Human I always do terribly.Should I be overharvesting? I know it helps establish colonies way faster but I hate how it makes my worlds look ruined. I don't think the AI does though.
>>1799478>Also the unique FTL per factionit didn't make much sense in case of piracy tho
>>1805416how did piracy even work?
>>1797178It helps the AI a lot too because they tend to start streaming ships piecemeal after their first wave is lost and you can kill an obscene number of enemy ships that way. Shortening the timer so combat is roughly concluded by the end of the first 'wave' both helps the AI preserve its ships and helps avoiding colonies incidentally gaining +700 climate hazard from collateral damage in a fight.
>>1805633i find it helps me and favours small fleets a lot more because you have much more opportunity to repair whereas in protracted engagements many weaker ships can much more easily wear you down
>>1805566Take ships and put them in the enemy trade sector and sometimes they will attack enemy freighters even if they can only travel sub-light speeds while the freighters use phase lanes
What made Civ 4 so special that people designate it as the cut-off point from when the series started declining?
>>1804405This hurts.
>>1804405Based.
>>18044054chan’s colorful culture didn’t die with chanology faggotry and le epic raids but this nigger wouldn’t know that because he never stepped outside of /b/ once in his life
>>1711562>Music so good that it ended a real life war
>>1806030>reading comprehension
Whats your favorite SRPG? shit like fire emblem or even HOMM since the definition is somewhat looserecenly I became addicted to Unicorn Overlord, I wan to paizuri scarlett btw
>you can actually marry the owl not my choice for this run but I can respect they actually went there
>>1796567I used to love Clash of Clan so much that it almost got me fired while playing at work ah ah, For now I think I might go for immortal Gates of pyre, I haven't played it yet but I watched the game play, its one of those games I cant wait for it to launch.
>>1796604I will add this to the list of games I'm playing this weekend
>>1796843Kek
>>1806090I just added it to the wishlist
>maam listen to me!
>>1802616You'd rather go through all this trouble rather than set the difficulty level to easy?
>>1803091>experiment and discoverDoesn't work with live-service nu-games.>Patched>Nerfed>Outright removedI'm not even talking multiplayer here.It's really fucking disheartening when it happens.
>>1805704Bonus points:>The dev posts in his blog telling how the change was necessary in order to align with his vision>It's a 'throw shit at the wall and see what sticks' early access
>>1805704Old games and non-pozzline games still exist. The rest doesn't make any sense in the context.>>1805707>touching early access>ever
>>1805998>non-pozzline gamessuch as?
Have there actually been any good RTS games that came out this year? I can't think of any
>>1801820Come on, your memory can't be that bad.
>>1801820>>1802133there was, uhhhhh... that game with league of legends tier graphics that's being shilled as SC2's second coming>>1801828>Any recommendations? Gates of hell looks cooldunno, maybe try some of the classics?-C&C's entire franchise is on steam, you can also pirate them if you don't want to give your money to EA-Company of Heroes 1 and it's expacs for WW2 kino-Starcraft 1 & 2 (pirate these, don't give money to blizzard)-Age of Mythology and experience one of (if not) the greatest RTS campaign, ever-LOTR Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2, but you can only get these via pirating-The Settlers, if you want something more slow paced (once again, pirate them since Ubisoft deserves nothing but contempt)
>>1801828>Gates of hell looks coolAs much as I enjoyed the Men of War games all the way back to Soldiers, I can't seem to like GOH. They kind of increased the realism, but at the same time you pretty much have to kill everything thrown you way and there's a lot of tedium to it. Similar to Blitzkrieg games, scouting and hammering things from stand off distance seems the way to go most of the time. Then there's the dynamic campaign which early on is just lame skirmishes. Also, the game tends to run like ass even of beefy hardware and I had to lower some details to avoid crashes, they still happen sometimes - game seems to be really memory hungry.Personally I've given up on new games, Whatever there is on the horizon seems to just be remakes of classic titles with zero innovation. However!Go over to Moddb and get some standalone mods for TibSun. I know people on here like to shit on stuff like Twisted Insurrection, but despite the absolute ass difficulty of the first few missions, I think the story is kind of cool and the graphics and music provide a cool atmosphere. Another one I like is Warzone, which just adds some units and sprites, but it has a completely different vibe thanks to the music and reshade used and the destruction and particles have been cranked to 11. IDK you might like it, for me it's refreshing to play an RTS made with a mindset from before Starcraft homogenized the genre. You can also just play standard TibSun - it's free. Some other stuff I played and enjoyed recently:>Cultures seriesbasically Viking Settlers with more autism and a focus on the story, very comfy (it's on GOG, so buy there of argh it)>Strongholdmore wood needed! also on GOG>Age of Empires 2 HD pirate this, ignore the enhanced edition, don't give Microcucks any money, get mods
>>1801692Um we got a HoI4 DLC, a Victoria 3 expansion, a Stellaris DLC, and TWO CK3 expansions. What more could you want? Paradox games are the zenith of strategy games combining every sub genre into incredibly complex world simulators. If you can't see that we are actual in the GOLDEN AGE of strategy games then that's on YOU.
>>1804993>the GOLDEN AGE of strategy games>mentions Paradox's shitty practice of making dlc, that sooner and later everyone will get tired of it
Map games are shit>corner powers have an inbuilt advantage>win condition is just "maximize your material advantage">overly agressive neighbors just make you both lose
>>1798567>It was an absolute slog getting across the continental divideAnd getting through Syberia isn't?
>>1782758>Map games are shit>>corner powers have an inbuilt advantagethis nigga has never played Dominions and forgotten to turn wrapping maps on
>>1790113this game has the worst combat i have ever experienced, such a disappointment
>>1804743>Austria somehow in a massive alliance from turn 1Sorry bro, you just got Habsburged
>>1798567>Splitting America like that is actually based and fact pilled.Yeah the north/south is->the TranscontinentalOh.
ITT: your dream setting for a /vst/ game>Russian Civil War
>>1797183>We built multiple continent spanning railroads>he fell for the union pacific psyop
>>1792855Anon said "game". Cinetik fucked up in early dev, and it will never be fixed to be functional.
>>1787240kino
Mercenary medieval isometric turn based reverse-stealth game where you're hired by niggas to protect the goods with multiple points of entry for enemy but very limited amount of guards to cover them.Very little actual killing involved in game.Guess the closest I got was Invisible Inc.
>>1787156An English Civil War game would be dope.
