/vst/ - Video Games/Strategy

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Anonymous Sat 26 Sep 2020 03:49:38 No.182725 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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For me it's Battle Brothers.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:22:33 No.191884 Report

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>>191881
int overflow, you're now acting last

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:29:43 No.191889 Report

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>>191881
>DODGE MASTER
no seriously 15 bonus def after 100 fat spend
>200 init
how much dmg for lunge?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:37:08 No.191897 Report

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>>191889
pretty sure it caps at +100% dmg

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:55:02 No.191912 Report

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my hunter from a few days ago did indeed follow his dreams

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 08:09:40 No.191929 Report

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>>191912
dodge?

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 15:05:47 No.190699 View Reply Original Report

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Most fun country?
Least fun?

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 17:13:11 No.190863 Report

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Best - Old World Blues's Troll Warren
Worst - Pretty much everywhere in TNO that's not in Russia

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 18:28:45 No.191019 Report

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Best Russia
Worst USA

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 18:33:17 No.191029 Report

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>>191019
>USSR with its current shitty tree
>fun

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 22:33:00 No.191435 Report

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I think Canada and Germany are the most fun. Germany because you're literally unstoppable, and Canadians because you can make some very good heavy tank divisions while everything else is essentially out of your hands. A victory is a real victory in that sense.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 08:09:35 No.191928 Report

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>>190699
For me Spain
Hungary or any minor

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Opinions?

Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 16:03:36 No.190762 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/terrainvicta/terra-invicta

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 05:32:36 No.191804 Report

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>>191605
what they need to do is hire someone else to take care of those godawful visuals during the space combat scenes in the gameplay trailer. The concept sounds good, but dear god, they need help with the visuals. I almost puked a bit in my mouth when I saw them, and saw they're asking for $25 for the game.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 05:45:26 No.191810 Report

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>>190885
and the funny thing is that wouldn't even be grobarmeniums

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:10:25 No.191869 Report

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>>190762
>Space warfare
Looks like shit,how can we make space combat boring to look at?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:15:21 No.191874 Report

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>>191129
Most of them arent white.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 08:08:29 No.191927 Report

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>>191874
Even the white ones have something going wrong with them though

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Anonymous Sun 27 Sep 2020 13:25:06 No.185969 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Is Stellaris really fun?

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 23:56:32 No.191541 Report

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>>185969
>turn off tutorial bot
>bot says "don't be a foul" as he dies
Yes, it is fun

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 02:09:56 No.191661 Report

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>>191022
That looks fancy. I've been debating whether I should buy it or not, but so far haven't. Maybe I should re-add it to my wishlist and buy it when it's on sale. I like the free movement of 2, but the combat is very meh and the AI is lackluster at best. Yeah, you can set it to impossible, but all that does is make the AI cheat a hell of a lot so you have to minmax your start or it'll outgrow you.
Does the remake change anything about how the game plays? Is it still "whoever snowballs the quickest wins and that's usually the one with the best home system" or is there some twist to it now?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 04:29:26 No.191751 Report

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>>191022
I suggest making your own thread

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 04:57:56 No.191771 Report

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>>185979
No lol.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 08:08:28 No.191926 Report

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>>191661
The game didn't do that well because people were expecting a revolution like MOO2 was back in the day. It's a decent game in all regards. Do get it on sale though and use the unofficial patch mod, there's also a balance mod that is often used with the patch mod.

>>191751
Yeah that's why I stopped posting.

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Defcom players of /vst/ Tue 29 Sep 2020 10:24:49 No.190327 View Reply Original Report

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Lets compare strategies

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:23:41 No.191885 Report

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>>191858
>>191860
How does it work regarding country population? Your second post makes it sound like would have made every country start with the same population

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:28:21 No.191887 Report

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>>190327
>best strategy
to not play

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:58:58 No.191918 Report

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>>190393
That's a terrible fucking strategy

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 08:06:06 No.191923 Report

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>>191885
Other anon interjecting. To the best of my knowledge, cities have more-or-less accurate populations, but players are divided by region, not country, so maybe there's some balancing in there. What anon forgot to mention is that each civilian you kill is worth twice as much as each civilian you lose, and cities aren't annihilated in one shot, but suffer diminishing returns with each hit. Thus, protecting your own people is a very secondary objective compared to inflicting damage on others, which promotes the all-out aggression one expects of a MAD scenario. It's not about winning, it's about making the other guy lose harder than you.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 08:07:09 No.191925 Report

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>>191885
I haven't the played the game in years, but from what I remember every country (they're really more like continents) has the exact same population for balance purposes.

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CK2 thread for poorfags such as myself

Anonymous Tue 22 Sep 2020 07:25:02 No.171015 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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How's your run going? I've been going for Zoroastrian reformation but Zoroastrianism is pretty barebones compared to other pagans, especially after Holy Fury

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 23:25:39 No.191490 Report

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>>171015
idk I think Zoroastrianism runs are fun, especially if you combine it with restoring the ancient Persian empire. It was one of my favorite games of CK2
>>171057
IIRC I started as the Duke of Karen in 867. The best way to do it imo is to falsely convert to Islam and then work apart the empire from the inside while recruiting people to the ways of Zoroaster
>>171098
Did not know about this, that's actually very cool. I like those special flavor decisions for certain rulers/cultures, it makes regions actually feel different beyond abstract cultural modifiers and borders

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 23:29:07 No.191496 Report

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>>173222
Because I'm an achievement whore

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 23:32:22 No.191498 Report

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>>178292
Aztec DLC off
Melting pot culture conversion
Reduced China diplomatic range to India and the steppes.
Religious cults and satanism off
Supernatural and absurd events off (fun if you're into le funny reddit meme but destroys any immersion)
Harsh (?) exclave independence. I can't remember the name right now but basically the highest it goes without disabling achievements.
I'm probably forgetting some but I leave almost everything else as default

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:37:34 No.191898 Report

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>start in Alexiad as minor indie horde in Central Asia
>become blob in Cumania and Persia by the time Mongols roll in
>marry off my only daughter to Genghis' oldest son
>Mongol invasion of Jurchen China fails
>the horde snakes their way through northern Siberia into Perm

Oh wow, an actual Mongol invasion of Rus is going to happen.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 08:06:57 No.191924 Report

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>>176388
No, it’s equivalent to child rape

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Most bases leaders in civ 6

Anonymous Thu 24 Sep 2020 04:27:10 No.176950 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Who are the most based leaders historically

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 14:50:45 No.190677 Report

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>>183791
>>185823
It pisses me off that we probably won't ever get Lisowczycy for Poland ever and just get more hussar shit. Probably because it would be like getting the dirlegang for Germany. At best we might get ulhans but I doubt it.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 16:01:00 No.190755 Report

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>>190677
>Probably because it would be like getting the dirlegang for Germany.
They were more like Tatars in their behaviour. Nothing unusual in that age, but still scared the hell out of Germans during 30 years War. It'd be fun to see them as glass canons with better flanking bonus.
Even Blue Army infantry would be nice.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 06:03:39 No.191821 Report

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>>190669
A literal Warcel

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:53:37 No.191910 Report

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>>190677
The Hussars probably just falls into the too iconic category which is why Poland will always get them. Kind how Greece always has hoplites, Rome has legions or Russia has Cossacks.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 08:04:55 No.191922 Report

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>>190631
>surrounded my saucy oriental chicks
>plays chess and reads about naval history
What a lad.

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Imperator Rome

Anonymous Mon 28 Sep 2020 14:40:54 No.188339 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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>next update will be version 2.0
>biggest update yet
>focusing on pacing, war and UX
>pic related, completely new UI
>armies will be recruited in a completely new way
Bros... is it finally being fixed?
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/imperator-dd-101-a-most-auspicious-number.1428183/

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 17:58:35 No.190941 Report

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>>188348
There is no more mana

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 17:59:38 No.190943 Report

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>>189062
His ideal was just graphically update EU:Rome genuinely know difference besides the engine and graphics. I encourage you to compare the two games because they genuinely are the same game.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 18:14:49 No.190982 Report

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>>189062
He's having fun down in Spain now, developing EU5 most likely

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 06:28:39 No.191839 Report

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>>190982
He's a LARPer, all the real talent left the company years ago, he was always a retard and he basks in the reflected glory of far greater minds and creative thinkers who didn't want or need the attention, and he got found out.

All the greatest Paradox games, and I'm talking about the classics, the games that built the reputation the are monetizing now, all those games had nothing to do with Johan, he was just there, he's like the office junior who ends up being the longest serving member of staff and who gets bumped up the ladder by virtue of his time there, pretending he's the one responsible for making the company what it is today, although that's no boast, it's a reskin factory now and hasn't developed anything new or truly interesting in a decade.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 08:03:40 No.191921 Report

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>>189062

"Political mana is still mana"

But it's at least tangible now, as it's tied to real facets of your nation

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Anonymous Sat 26 Sep 2020 06:58:04 No.183052 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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What went wrong?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 03:05:58 No.191702 Report

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>>188392
Would a DoW with nu-40k lore even be good?
There's inevitably going to be contentious shit like Primarines and Ynnari, but then again factions like the SoB, Mechanicus and Nucrons would have a better chance of showing up prominently compared to the usual suspects (Orks, Eldar, Chaos)

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 05:13:58 No.191787 Report

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>>190335
My ass actually, but I don't know, after DoW3 I just can't seem to trust them blindly like I used to.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:11:14 No.191870 Report

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>>191238
Nah
Both were Good.
Relic had stellar background until THQ keeled over and resulting shakes caused flawed release of CoH2.
DoW3 has no excuse, since even the fundamentals were flawed.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:41:24 No.191902 Report

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>>191870
COH2's biggest issues were that the weather system was a pure novelty, and the soviet campaign was aped from Enemy at the Gates. And the pay-to-win commanders.

And the game's balance was a fucking clown show on release. Vet 2 panzer 4's could bounce rounds from a fucking IS-2.

>>191702
>DOW4
>After the events of DOW3 Gabriel Angelos leads the battered remains of the Blood Ravens home to rebuild.
>Right around this time, Cadia falls, and the Maledictum rips across the galaxy, leaving them isolated from Terra.
>Compounding on their current crisis, half the chapter's psykers die instantly
>Scant few of the rest are combat effective, many are either suspect or have been permanently maimed by the experience.
>To even further compound the problem, human settlements on the far side of the Maledictum are unable to be serviced by the black fleets. Absent any way to dispose of their psyker population, hundreds of worlds are subsumed by revolt and chaos incursions. What few worlds remain loyal only do so after brutal purges, relying heavily on ad-hoc alliances with similar worlds to maintain something resembling stability.
>Blood Ravens have to navigate both the tretchery of chaos and corruption along with the politics of potential allies to uncover somethingsomething Tzeentch IWASBEHINDITALLALONG! since we've already had Khorne and Nurgle and What's her name is too spicy.
>Single player expands on the customization options presented in DOW2. In addition to that you have to make political choices to associate with the given factions struggling to survive on the far side of the Maledictum- brokering an alliance with a Mechanicus Ark gives you access to better vehicles, but also forces you to surrender any technology you find. Allying with the local Black Templar Crusade gives you a massive boost in man power for missions, but also raises your suspicion rating every time you use any non-traditional combat units except apothecaries.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 08:02:16 No.191920 Report

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>>191902
>>191702
>You can ally with the local Sisters of Battle convent but if you're ALSO working with the remnants of the Imperial Guard you will inevitably be forced to pick a side when the Sisters decide that civilians have to be purged.
>Lots of fog of war elements where you're never explicitly told what the morally correct decision is. Maybe the Black Templar are completely correct about another human faction being heretics, maybe they're being egged on by someone who would very much like them to butcher innocents.
>All these decisions can raise a second meter (in addition to corruption) called suspicion. The higher your suspicion the more likely your allies are to turn on you, and the more likely Chaos tries to win you over.
>You're free to craft the game's plot as you see fit, although the "Correct" path is the one that's canon.
>Game ships with four factions- Space Marines, Eldar, Orks and Chaos, with updates adding DLC options for new factions (so if, say, you don't care about blueberry space weeb communists you don't buy the Tau DLC) along with free content updates (so the Tau are still added to the core campaign, you just fight them).
>Multiplayer has two core game modes, tactical (closer to DOW2) and strategic (closer to DOW1).
>In multiplayer every faction has some unique flavor to it- Space Marines supplement their forces with theater additions, so maybe you pick mechanicus support and get fancy vehicles or you pick Sisters of Battle who support your main combat units, Chaos only starts as a cult and you then pick one of the four gods to align with, Khorne gives you some brutal melee units, while Tzeentch gives you tons of control and ability oriented units, orks are tied to your choice of hero, so if you pick the freebooter you get lots of pirate themed units and the mekboy gives you a biker gang.

You can certainly write non-dick plots in the 40k universe, it just comes down to how close your plot gets to Games Workshop's ongoing plot.

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Anonymous Thu 10 Sep 2020 18:44:59 No.135561 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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>...the Elves are gambling, the Gnomes are building, can't find my spell book... what a beautiful day to die. Good morning, Tax Collector!

>'been awake for 20 whole seconds and I haven't melted yet! It's time to go fight the nearest monster with my low hp and my lack of spells.

>What's that sound...? Hhhh! I-is that a... a Dragon? A-aha my services are required... B-BY FANDALS BEARD...AAAAAABDURRRRRRAZZZAAAAK...HMMMMMMM, AAAAAABDURRRRRRAZZZAAAAK..., OHHHHHH..., MY P-POWER GRRRRROOWWWWWWWWS, AAAUUGH, mmmhOH FUCK, AAAAAABDURRRRRRAZZZAAAAK...HHHHNN SNNFHN HNNNN sNNFH OOUURRRGHHH RRMMMMMM...AAAAAABDURRRRRRAZZZAAAAK...UHHHH MY POOOOOWER GROWS...

>I'MMMMMMM...MELTING

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 23:34:43 No.191506 Report

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Is it ever worth making gnomes over elves and dwarves? Sure they're like faster peasants but they're pretty much useless in a fight and their building is useless and contributes to more sewer grates appearing.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 04:21:17 No.191744 Report

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>>191506
Gnomes are the best. 9 extra (speedy) peasants means buildings go up insanely fast. It means your guard towers can often indefinitely tank damage. It means that you can build buildings far away from the castle and not need to wait years and years for peasants to fix them.

I literally always build gnomes when they're an option. They're available immediately, they give you a huge production boost, they get you buildings quicker, upgrades quicker. Gnomes are as good as Dwarves at forward expansion (because they can quickly build a guardhouse and an inn far away from your castle) and they're good for economy as well, because they let you spam out inns dramatically faster than a peasant-based production can.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 04:47:14 No.191762 Report

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>>135561
Are Majesty elves male or female? This is important.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:43:45 No.191903 Report

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>>191762
I imagine the males are the ones that go adventuring to experience what world has to offer while the females stay in brothels and let their fun come to them.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 08:00:22 No.191919 Report

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>>191762
The voice for elves is clearly female but yeah the portrait is pretty androgynous.

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Viccy 2 thread

Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 23:24:19 No.191489 View Reply Original Report

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>recent plays
>cool mods
>Fun ideas
>Tips and tricks

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 01:09:28 No.191621 Report

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Any mods that add a lot more middle powers? I dont like playing big powers nor small powers.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 01:12:03 No.191622 Report

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>recent plays
built liquor factories
>cool mods
HPM
>Fun ideas
NO LIQUOR run
>Tips and tricks
encourage bureaucrats

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 03:25:08 No.191711 Report

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>>191489
>recent plays
USA in the Blood and Iron mod
>cool mods
As mentioned above
>Fun ideas
Conquer as much of the Americas as the USA
>Tips and tricks
that one trick where you can annex a lot of a country by releasing one tiny bit

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 04:45:52 No.191761 Report

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>>191489
>recent plays
France
>cool mods
Vickymod
>Fun ideas
apart from annexing algeria not using up any infamy so you can unify italy and later steal all of the chinese coast
>Tips and tricks
encirclements pay off in the late game more

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:58:14 No.191917 Report

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I just got the game. Trying to form Germany because I heard that's a decent way to learn the game.
I got Denmark into my sphere of influence figuring that Holstein, as Denmark's satellite, would be in my influence but they aren't.
Now I'm stuck with Denmark being under my influence but I can't declare war on them to take Holstein.

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Warcraft III

Anonymous Sun 27 Sep 2020 16:12:17 No.186277 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Campaigns, mapmaking, anything.
Regurgitated need not apply.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:08:28 No.191867 Report

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>>187949
Sounds great, juat what we need irl too.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:11:51 No.191871 Report

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>>188161
Welll they are the good guys though

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:33:35 No.191893 Report

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>>191320
>orcs keep constantly flip flopping between murderous monsters and noble savages
Blizzard make up your mind plz ;_;

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:55:10 No.191913 Report

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>>186862
No, this is extremely based.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:58:00 No.191916 Report

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>>191320
WC2 or WC3 are fine in my books. Both together is dumb shit. Which is unfortunately what blizzard seems to want

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Total War Campaign Posting

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 16:28:21 No.175591 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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A thread to share your current campaigns.
Post screenshots of your campaign map, as well as battles or army compositions and everything in between
WEBMs are also highly encouraged! Use "webm for bakas" for easy conversion of gameplay videos to webms.

ANY total war game is welcome

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:03:14 No.191863 Report

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>>191857
Realism can only be strived for up to a point, if playing is no longer fun and becomes tedious, then what's the point.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:04:36 No.191865 Report

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>>191699
The Portuguese are cunts to deal with. Always an unwanted detour to go down to Iberia to slap their shit until they stop hassling you, and that's always what you have to do to make them stop. You take away whatever holdings they have north of the Pyrenees and they just double down on sending fleets to harass your ports and drop off armies just big enough you have to reinforce Dublin and Caernarvon. It never ends without a siege of Pamplona, and then you're stuck down there in Iberia, in Spain's sphere of influence, and more than likely you'll be going to war against them in the near future too.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:14:29 No.191873 Report

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>>191865
>It never ends without a siege of Pamplona, and then you're stuck down there in Iberia
When I'm feeling particularly devilish I'll sell cities and castles I don't want to the highest bidder. The best is when it's a rival to the faction I took it from. I once sold Milan to Venice at the price of allying with me and them attacking Milan. I gave away Frankfurt to the Pope after massacring the population as France.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:41:16 No.191901 Report

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marry a daughter off to the burgundian faction leader. He dies with no heir, and she becomes regent. What do I get for it? a big fat NOTHING. Worse yet, while she's listed as the faction leader, the portrait is of a generic germanic lord. The could've at least put in like a large diplomatic bonus if this happens. It's not under "other" either because the other 3 germanic tribes still alive have the same or higher "other" bonus

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:57:07 No.191915 Report

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>>191526
LOS from the walls for crossbows and gunpowder units is fucked so only a few guys will shoot, archers will fire indirect shot and crossbows too maybe, but you lose most of the unit power and accuracy. If you go out of the gates and attack the unit pushing the ram the AI will maybe pick it up again after 20 minutes of being shot at doing nothing. Blobbing through the gates with everything including archers in case they get breached by rams, resulting in everyone just massing there ignoring towers and ladders, and dying to boiling oil. On the contrary, if the gates are not breached and only one tower is touching the walls, the AI will probably try to order every single unit to use it to scale the walls, which makes EVERY SOLDIER IN THE ENEMY ARMY freeze on the spot for all battle, just standing there waiting to get killed and not even fighting back.

If you want brutal and drawn out fights in the older engines there's RTW which didn't have all of these problems, otherwise honestly R2/attila are good, 3k sieges are also ok, can't comment much on them as I had no fights on the walls due to siege weapons and early infantry killing power is quite low so fights on the streets tended to be drawn out affairs, but I had no technical issues.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Sep 2020 15:38:57 No.177812 View Reply Original Report

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Playing this for the first time.
Any tips?

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Anonymous Sun 27 Sep 2020 23:08:16 No.187260 Report

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>>185450
Terran planets are very rare. Usually you'll have more secondaries (like desert or arctic) in your empire, but if you see another Terran world that doesn't have shit bonuses grab it fast.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Sep 2020 10:34:30 No.187991 Report

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>>185450

Skip tech that gives you small bonuses like 5% shield mitigation, only research unlockables. Rush trade ports, rush refineries. Expand aggressively, prioritise ice (crystal) and volcanic (metal) planets depending on what you need.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Sep 2020 17:07:55 No.188608 Report

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the halo mod was pretty interesting if you are into that lore. base game is good too.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 03:01:31 No.191700 Report

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The Armada 3 mod was quite good. Somebody put a LOT of work and care into it. Only problem is the overly long sound bites they chose for the hero units. If I have to hear Dukat tell me about his negotiations with the Dominion one more time I'm going to have Weyoun tractor him into a black hole.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:56:22 No.191914 Report

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I'm really sad the freelancer mod guy seems to have abandoned it. It actually worked really well and capital ships were really expensive but super powerful. And a shame all the 40k mods end up dead. Also, fuck the Thrawn's Revenge guys for changing the UI and the stupid supply system. They're such fucking garbage.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 15:44:34 No.190743 Report

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>>188672
From a gameplay perspective, your diet is one of the first things you'd need to establish so it can eventually be used as restriction in later gameplay, so it makes sense to do it right away in the cell stage even though realistically there would barely even be a distinction between plant and animal and most things would just be omnivorous at that point. Omnivorousness is kind of the default.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 17:51:21 No.190924 Report

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>>176189
that's exactly why it WAS rushed dumb nigger
EA had them scrap so much of the original gameplay that they had to slap together new more casual systems with much less thought put in to them

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Anonymous Tue 29 Sep 2020 20:48:47 No.191274 Report

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>>188278
Yeah, blaming EA is just a convenient coping mechanism for low-info brainlets.
Soren Johnson was hired (along with a bunch of other talent) at the end to come in and actually finish the game. He does a good job laying out all of the problems Maxis had with the project, most of which had nothing to do with EA.
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SorenJohnson/20131002/201514/Spore_My_View_of_the_Elephant.php

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 05:14:15 No.191788 Report

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>>188278
>How could've worked? Would it be any different from the civilization stage? Literally the same thing, it really makes no sense.
This.
They're probably the same group of people to say 'I LOVE SCIENCE'. When you think about it, most of the 'special' civilization stages are nothing special, it would've made the game more confusing actually.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2020 07:54:53 No.191911 Report

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