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GET 'EM BOYS
Also, >>>/gif/30148324

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>so few people has accomplished the deldar and tau campaigns
BDSM space eves I get it, but I thought the Tau were more popular. They are my second favourite faction behind the IG.

>>554791235
I rmeember the Taus being OP when I played. Are they fixed in DE?

>>554791339
>I rmeember the Taus being OP when I played. Are they fixed in DE?
Tau's fire warriors are heavily nerfed. But some other units were buffed.
Also Necrons(my third favourite faction) gut pretty heavily nerfed without many buffs.

>>554791235
Isn't it something like 50% of 40k players only care about marines? Everyone else is just different flavors of enemies to fight.

>>554792664
>Isn't it something like 50% of 40k players only care about marines?
Yes. The overwhelming majority of plastic players are SM. But I thought that with video games, there would be more people playing the other races. I guess the Space Marine 2 game must have converted over a lot of new players.

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Sorry guys, went to play some stealth divers 2 and forgot to bump the thread before doing that.

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Sorry guys, went to play some tainted grail and forgot to keep posting about ancient war.

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Sorry guys, went to play some chinese frontiers and forgot to keep bump the thread before doing that

Sex the eldar.

>>554796818
Damn, that game. It looked fun, until I had to deal with 4 kind of logs, 3 kinds of planks, and god knows what else.

>>554800659
That actually turns me on. But then I'm the kind of autist that plays GTNH or Py with a few hundred same item but with a slight colour change.

>back on my simulation autism for map gen
I'll never actually play Civ at this rate

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BALLISTA

>>554789781
>>554806160
why do your seas look like the kind of bright green industrial sludge that comes directly from the goo factory?

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>>554808367
I suspect the engine's colours of being slightly fucked up, but someone else will have to explain.
Just shut the fuck up and enjoy this bolt's flight.
Dunno how to explain it, but missiles don't move mid-flight, so the bolt just pointed up instead of the tip dropping.

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unit QT-3.14 ready for duty

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Indian flamberge. Aka kriss sword.
Nothing screams "get away from this guy" as much as swinging this around does.

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>elite Indian troops are called Rajahs
I though the Raja (singular) was the super big boss Okage-sama PotUS gigaking of India as a whole?

>>554811262
game?

>>554815197
Nah there's raja and maharaja who're both king level.

Should we welcome grand strategy back into our ranks? Competing with the gacha menace will only get more difficult.

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>Paradox fucked up pop assembly so royally you can't pic which template it'll make
>it just makes both basically at random
>clone army origin makes your origin species unable to reproduce in any way but cloning
>clone vats work the same way
>so if you're a clone army empire, didn't finish the 'get reproduction back' quest and EVER get any immigrants you've doomed your kind to be slowly replaced
In their incompetence Paradox made way for the player to roleplay as the space equivalent of modern day UK

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>>554824434
Ha, okay. So a Rajah is more like a Lord. Above a knight.

>>554824631
NEVER.

cringe

>>554815197
What difficulty are you playing on?

>>554832963
Easy so far. And I cheat by using water maps, the AI seem to have issues dealing with ships.
I tried on a normal map once, and my hastati (starting Rome troops) ended up fighting against fucking chariots.
The AI either cheats or has an impeccable build order. Either way, I'm scared of it.

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>ballista shoots the ground
Elle est Mao!

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HAK HAK HAK

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>>554824689
No more Androsynth stories.

>>554838297
This is funny. You think Orzs are light bubble. No, Orzs are fingers.

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Wait, what? How in the fuck? I was just gonna let them burn off the hate.

>>554843448
Kill them all.

>>554838027
I find this problematic

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>>554838027
HYUK HYUK HYUK

Is defender of the galaxy mandatory on higher difficulties with all crises enabled if you're not going for a crisis ascension? I'm playing on commodore difficulty

>>554791235
When did these achievements get added
I did DoW1, WA, and DC for nostalgia but didn't remember any achievements. Kinda lost interest after starting a Soulstorm campaign and some multiplayer matches

>>554867783
What's the crisis multiplier set to?

>>554869005
x1.5... I just realized changing the difficulty doesn't affect the crisis multipler

Crossbows are an evil weapon and should never be used

million dollar idea: mount and blade but it's one big connected map in the ground view

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Fuck is a pungi.
The pungi traps that Vietnamese used against the GIs?

>>554886270
What era of India is that supposed to be?

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>>554889221
I have no idea. I think there's no specific era, since Rome uses spathas and can have legionnaires (which are very late), while Egypt use kopeshes (who are copper era).

>>554889221
The Tunak tunak dynasty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ydUdqWE1g

wait indians used to have a proper civilization?

>>554897026
Well... yeah? They were pretty big back then, kinda like Vietnam. I actually think they ranked just under China at their peak. Not in size, mind you, but in wealth.

>>554823385
age of wonders planetfall

>>554897026
Why else would they be in every game of the Civilization™ series

jesus fextralife is miserable.

>>554909859
what did fextra do this time

>>554909859
>fextralife
is that some variant of fetlife?

>>554914586
>fetlife
Damn its weird to see fellow Fetlifer here in /4xg/ of all places...
>>554909859
>le epic gayming avenue is shit
Duh.

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Bump.

>>554897735
>Not in size, mind you, but in wealth
They were comparable to China in wealth because they were comparable to China in size. Most pre-industrial wealth was just crops grown for domestic consumption, with luxuries for the nobility depending on how many people they could rule and extract tax from.

>>554914862
Calm down spiderfag, be less horny

What advantages do machine intelligences have over hive minds?

>>554789781
Where did you build your designated shitting streets?

>>554929897
You make all gamers in your civilization miserable and get to wear a leather jacket.

dead

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>>554910968
Ranks extremely high on Google when you look for a game, but gives very basic shit.

>>554933356
Right around the enemy fortress.

>>554944783
>have to go all the way to the enemy fortress to shit
sounds impractical

I think strategy is better than tactics but they're pretty close

>>554953474
Strategy needs tactics, and tactics need strategy. That's why I liked Heroes and Generals.

>>554944945
Beastmen do that in Warhammer, so...

I yearn for the day I find a Space Empires 5 But Not Completely Fucking Broken

What's the state of EL2 in the year of our Lord 2026?

>>554957752
Eeeh. Still not as good as EL1.

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>all of my stellaris saves up to 20 years back are borked again
Got a usable save this time at least, but I don't think i got it in me to play until all crises are finished... will probably wait until 4.3 to see if the reduced naval capacity does anything
Also, the Inetian Traders precursors are laaaame

>>554972648
Stellaris as usual is lame.

>>554975903
Will Paradox make a Stellaris 2 soon, or will they just keep milking 1?

>>554983787
they're milking it until at least the end of the year

>>554983787
>Stellaris 2
How will they shit it up even more?

>>555000331
Subscription mandatory, the characters' races are randomized but only if they're human, and if you dare ask why your white emperor had a black son, you [BANNED FROM PARADOX PLAZA FOR RACISM].

>>555000673
>[BANNED FROM PARADOX PLAZA FOR RACISM].
Jokes on you, im already banned from that shithole.

>>555003386
What did you do?

>>555003975
I commited ultimate sin for that place - i was Pro White.

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>>555004408
GASP

>>555004660
ikr

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>>555004408

>>555007096
>when paradox cuckold stumbles upon truth
>other cuckolds : respectfully disagree x 2015815
Good god its a fucking reddit tier shithole.

>>555007382
"Respectfully disagree" and other kind of downvotes are just a way to show you disagree but lack the intelligence to actually explain why.

>>555007096
>>555007382
>>555008624
Can I get a link for that post? I want to see the posts of people crying at it.

>>555008624
>"Respectfully disagree"
Its a sign of incredible fucking cuckery and HR mommy rule.
Even online you cant just say "no" firmly and definetively to these people, you have to kowtow and "respectfully" disagree..
Fucking weaklings.

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>>555009293
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/pop-growth-wonkiness-how-my-species-decided-to-commit-auto-extinction.1137665/#post-24958516

>>555007096
I don't understand, he's laying out how the mechanics work in a factual manner. Why are they angry?

>>555012347
Because in their minds, everything ever is political, so by talking about how planets are invaded in Stellaris, Anon OBVIOUSLY is talking about real life invasions of Palestine by the Jooows.

>>555012347
It hits too close to home in regards to the replacement migration of browns into Western countries.
Mere suggestion that someone should not embrace diversity tm, even in vidya form, makes them doubleunplusgood.

>>555007096
People disagree because this post has nothing to do with the problem that was being discussed.

Planets back then could only grow one pop at a time. And the game would always choose the species with the lowest population to grow. So eventually, no matter the factors around it, you would end up with 50/50 demographics. No matter if immigration is closed, or if the minority is slow breeders while the majority is rapid breeders. 20 human pops + 1 alien pop would always turn into a 50/50 split after enough time.

I simply choose not to play games with ayylmaos

Semi-related, how tedious is it to do a genocide run in Stellaris? Wiping out every single alien you encounter, having zero of their population alive as you conquer their planets.

>>555027770
conquering every planet and having to manage them is the tedious part, the genocide is done automatically. if you're a genocidal then you get access to armageddon bombardment which can wipe out a world without invading, but it can be pretty slow

>>555027770
Worst way to play the game. Runner up is full xenophile will a bunch of species management.

>>555027942
>>555028095
At least it's easy to end all the ayys, but that kinda sucks. Being able to go full Star Trek Federation or full Starship Troopers Federation are two of the playthroughs I'd like to do most. Oh well.

I’m not sure if I want to do a necro-hive run or a bodysnatcher run where I rush hive worlds so I can put all my different species on them without worrying about different habitabilites

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CONSTRUCTING, SIEGE EQUIPEMENT!

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Cave Johnson here! Chariot chariot! The guys in HR told me to make less messages like this, so I decided to record even more of these, because I'm the one signing their paychecks!

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>princeps can learn a competence
>it's called "expert in clothes"
Sometimes I wish I was a translator, because I can tell there's a big typo here and it pisses me off that I can point it to the devs but they'll only correct this.

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>Rome Republic can build an arena
>it lets you hire level max mercs from other factions, with only gold as a cost
As a reminder, in Ancient War DE, you get unlimited gold so long as you have farms.

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>hoplite comes with a fucking warhammer
SUMMON THE ELECTOR CUNTS

>>555043663
Can you access the model and texture files for the game?

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>>555043858
Maybe? Why?

>>555044383
Just curious since it's an interesting looking unit

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>give a halberd (?) to a hastati
>he sends enemy units FLYING when he hits them
lol

>>555044463
You'd have to wait until it's out of early access to try modding it. Then again, there's an editor already in, through I don't think it's as versatile as Warcraft 3.

To put >>555044729 in context, 112 is the default damage. BUT the halberd has a +100% damage against light infantry, and T1 infantry has around 140-150 HP, so... that hastati oneshot everything.

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>try another land battle
>rush stables to get early cavalry
>somehow it works and I manage to cripple the enemy economy
I was a fool, all these years. Cavalry IS good, just easily countered, but it can deal terrible, terrible damage.

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>Roman Republic medicus can cast "terror"
>"terror" means summoning a bear that lowers enemy defense
Understandable, bears are terrifying.

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Fun fact: Ancient War relies on different tiers of units. The Roman Republic has hastatis, Princeps, and Triaria, with every new tier having more HP and better armor.

HOWEVER, by default, the damage output is NOT buffed, meaning that a hastati will deal as much damage as a triaria or even a praetorian.
Henceforth, I give two-handed weapons to my hastati, since the loss of a shield is a massive defense debuff, and hastatis aren't as expensive as princeps.
These guys appear semi-naked, but if you're not careful, they will murderfuck your units.

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Mounting an unit on a horse will give it different buffs.
Naturally, they're a lot faster and get a meat shield, BUT they also get a damage bonus, at the price of a lower attack speed. That princeps is given a spear and told to kill, and he does so wonderfully.

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Enough of this. Let's kill.
Chariots, and cavalry supported by belly ballistas, attaaaack!

>>555030382
if armageddon bombardment is too slow then you should build a planet cracker
if cracking individual planets is too slow then you should go galactic nemesis and blow up entire systems instead

>>555047713
>belly ballistas
Huh?

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>>555049684
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastraphetes
Gastraphetes.

>>555041450
>building's portrait looks different than the building itself
SOVL

>>555055846
Oh, it happens a lot. The Roman workers, for example, they're clean shaved in the portraits. The 3D model? A true dwarven beard.
There's also Ancient War: Crusade, but I worry of trying too many games at once.

>had Rise of Nation working on Linux for years
>can't get it working now

WHY
DID
PARADOX
LET
ME
HAVE
NASCENT STAGE
AS A FANATIC PURIFIER
MY PLANETS WEREN'T GROWING
BECAUSE MY POPULATION WAS KILLING ITS KIDS
AND YOU CAN'T TURN IT OFF
FUCKING NIGGERS

>>555061225
>Paradox
>testing
lol
lmao

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On the left: short sword.
On the right: gladius.

Yeah the difference is minimal.

>>555061225
I always have 1 nascent stage ayy stuck on my planets even through I deported them all to my penal colony. Trait is stupidly bugged

>>555063945
The helmet seems really late kingdom/early republic era which would go with the hoplon and not the scutum

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Hastati with two handed axe.

>>555064237
Do not look for realism. The source for this game is a mix of 300 and whatever is cool.

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Same hastati, but with a T3 shield and a spear.
DE differs from HD, you are required to research the damage/shield upgrade before unlocking new weapons.

>>555064538
What's the "new unit" meter for? Is that like experience?

>>555064903
Oh, yeah. You're mistaking "niveau" (level/floor) and "nouveau" (new).

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>>555065030
All units start at level 0, and can level up to level 3. You can use captives to get experience (if you have built a garrison, then every 5 kills will get you 1 captive that you can then sell or use for XP), with of course low-level infantry getting more experience.

any good bunker managers? Evil Genius is more of a stealth game

>>555066143
What, something like Fallout Defense?

>>555066529
i don't know, i haven't played fallout before. i want to find a game that lets you build underground bases which lets me put the whole thing on lockdown if it is attacked

>>555067714
https://store.steampowered.com/app/588430/Fallout_Shelter/?
Fallout Shelter, my bad. Something like that?

>>555067798
no i want to actually build the bunker instead of placing rooms down next to each other. building corridors and stuff

>>555068701
I can think of a few dungeons games, but no bunker, sorry.

>>555073564
Gee Spiderfag, TWO RTS in one day?

>>555075018
I'm sorry, I just like RTS that feel like RPGs on a bigger scale. If Darfall was better, I'd be all over it.

>>555075145
If you're having fun then carry on

>>555075480
I just wish there was a small scale Warhammer game. Bigger in scale than Mordheim, but smaller than Mark of Chaos or Total Warhammer.

>>555075762
>small scale Warhammer
Best I can do is Dawn of War, unfortunately it's the wrong kind of Warhammer

>>555076127
Yeah, shame. The Unification mod made the Imperial Guard awesome.

bump, going to work now
Don't die, or else I won't post my lewd webms on /gif/ next time...

>>555084431
Spider got a new job? Or a different anon?
Also, you're good fren. I don't think /civ4xgeezers/ are particularly excited

nyo

No dying

>>554788846
Why is the spider angry?

>>555114907
Because we failed to keep the thread alive.

>>555007096
kek

>>555067714
Literally just described Dwarf Fortress.

>>554897026
Wootz steel was traded worldwide. It's funny how you can have specialists who can come up with metallurgy that is desired all over the world and two thousand years later still struggle with the concept of plumbing and centralized waste management.

>>554824689
What prevents you from purging everyone except your founder species and deleting the templates?

I started playing midnight suns today after having it in my library for ages and it got me thinking, is firaxis dying the death? This failed (but seems decent), the new civ failed greatly (seems terrible but haven't played it). I don't think they're done yet but I assume if the next project isn't a success it's over for them. Are they even working on anything?

>>555116209
It's even worse, two thousand years ago the Indus Valley civilisation figured out both plumbing and sewage services.

>>554824631
What's the difference? Real question.
I always thought "grand strategy" was referring to games like civ.

>>554824631
Lol no.
I don't want this general to end like the grand strategy general did.

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>>555092545
Same job. It'll take a few weeks before I can leave.

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I found a "simplified" climate model that does temperature and precipitation on a global scale then does things like generates biomes from the results. Time to see if I can wrangle this into a map script for Civ 4

>>555133443
Please share if you can get it to work. Tha sounds like an amazing concept and beautiful to look wlat with Blue Marble.

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>>555129492
Are you changing jobs?

Firelord Ozai if he was a Civ 6 leader:

>Phoenix King (leader ability)
Raiding a district provides great person points in addition to double the normal yields. Razing a city grants a free settler and +5 combat strength for all military units for 10 turns.

>Element of Ambition (Civ Ability)
Unlocking a new building or military unit provides +50% production towards it for 10 turns.

>Tundra Tank
Replaces the Knight. +1 mobility and +5 combat strength.

>Foundry
Replaces the Workshop. Citizens working this Industrial Zone provide an additional 2 production. Volcanoes in this city provide +2 food and + 1 culture to adjacent tiles.

>>555134380
Kinda. Customer is tired of my lack of social skills, so I, the last white person in the team, am resigning.

>>555135143
you said you got fired

>>555134380
>homeworld lego
Did anyone ever save the instructions for those? The company who did them went under, understandably so with how much they charged.

>>555135143
>last white person in the team
You should've left already frankly. That has to be hell.

>>555137485
>Did anyone ever save the instructions for those?
I only discovered about it long after the company died.

>>555134380
I think there need to be more 4X themed lego kits

>>555134754
Cool but where's my Azula hero unit?

>>554788846
I've been playing a shit ton of Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander but there's one other RTS from the Games for Windows Live days I cannot find for the life of me. It had a large red tripod style robot on the cover, probably around 2007-2011. Anyone remember this?

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>>555134043
The hardest part of this is probably getting all of the sub equations and coefficients to solve all the 100+ equations. It looks like the authors used a 2D grid that's about the same size as the Civ 4 map size and I have some ideas of how to simplify a lot of it but I think it wouldn't be a huge stretch to get it working with Civ, then it's just a matter of how stable everything is and how interesting the results are to play on

>>555162296
Universe at War: Earth Assault?

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>>555162296
Universe at War: Earth Assault. I can't believe it just occurred to me when I read that, I haven't thought of this game in 15 years.

>>555162748
>>555162854
Hot damn, that's the one. Thanks!

>>555163051
Be advised, since it's GWFL and was delisted years ago from actual storefronts, you need to go to some discord server and install some shit/follow some guides to make it work.

>>555157714
I’ve never played that game mode, but I imagine she would work like this:

4 charges

>Azula’s Coup
Exerts 20 loyalty pressure to free cities and cities at war within 5 tiles.

>Azula’s Inspiration
1 charge. Destroy a friendly adjacent military unit. Military units within 3 tiles gain a promotion.

which RTS lets you go from primitive technology all the way through to futuristic ones?

>>555168176
Empire Earth

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>>555168504
keeeeeeeeek

>>555170502
Me on the left

>>555135483
I don't see any real difference between getting fired and being pressured into leaving.

>>555168504
Bleh.

>>555116483
not being a xenophobe for some reason

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Not my best game, but definitely the most fun one since 4.0. Lil bit of RP as hedonists who just wanted to shill. Khan broke right into a three way front war and mixed up the north. Scourge got instant slapped, but then war in heaven broke out and they were basically sitting west and east of my borders and the big hivemind southeast didn't feel tagging along. Oh well

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map

>>555182272
I'm a map, I'm a map...

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Godsworn update.

What's changed?

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OWB fags, Is the purist enclave just incredibly strong and straight forward, whilst the Reform one is the one that is somewhat challenging? I haven't actually finished either side focus trees, but I've had a lot more of a headache with the Reform faction compare to just fucking killing everything.

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The best defenses are those that were made thousands of years ago.

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>>555197875
>HOI4 mods
>>>/vst/gsg/

>>555198239
>>555200823
Airships: Conquer The Skies?
I didn't know it had ground vehicles.
Unless that's a structure that just looks like a vehicle?

>>555183760
You can become president!

>>555200665
oh thx.

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>>555200931
Ground Vehicles was like an update years ago.

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I don't know how ballistae can start fires, but whatever.

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>>554788846
4x CHADS. What games are we looking forward to in 2026? What are we currently playing?

>>555189221
Need to play that one.
>>555214883
What game is that?

>>555216445
Atre: Dominance Wars. Hope it will be good. is on steam.

>>555217271
Thanks.

>>555214883
Endless Legend 2

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God I love this game.

>>555217271
Fantasy?

>>555236351
Good taste.

>>555198239
What kind of guns do you have on that thing? Isn't it weak against bombs?

>>555200931
It has tracked vehicles and walking landships.

>>555246921
El Cidre.

>>555214883
Looking forward to EL2 being finished of course.

>>555214883
A big update for Hollywood Animal and Distant Worlds 2
Skyblivion
Gilded Destiny
Beyond Astra
Ascendance
Nebulous Fleet Command
Espiocracy
Lysara: Summit Kingdom

Is invasive species + budding a good combo or kind of a meme?

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night

>>555256435
It's alright.

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>>555257682
Good night anon.

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>>555246921

>check up on AOE2 for the first time in like 6 years
>Burgundians, Armenians, and a bunch of Chinese and Indian civs in
>each civ has a unique castle appearance
Huh

yall talk about songs of syx in here?

>>555278769
People talk about it from time to time

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>>555211192
Show ships.

>>555276949
And check the unique units.

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This game is awesome.
Soldiers: Heroes of World War 2. I think it is the first Men of War game.

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This game is awesome.
Ancient War Sparta DE. I think this is fun, you can replace your soldiers' weapons on the fly to adapt to what the enemy has. Cleopatra is resistant to short swords, but when I sent the halberd hastati, she folded like Alex Jones threatened to have his show cancelled.

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What the FUCK is a Pithy? And why do I get Elden Ring flashbacks?
At least she has boobs, unlike Miquella.

>>555308836
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythia
?

>>555309424
Huh. So she should definitely look Greek instead of being a blonde.

>>555308836
>Pythie's tits, you must be starving!

>>555314207
>Juno's cunt, you're salty!

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Damn, Caesar looks MASSIVE

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Not that Scipio Africanus has to blush. That dude's as ripped as Guan Yu.

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>Ancient War Sparta in French
>Princeps can learn the stamina skill from a research called "Expert Seamstress"
>the skill allows them to destroy the enemy's shield
>switch game in English to understand wtf is going on
Expert Seamstress my ass.

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It's time.

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Ok. It's one of these games where the AI puts his rally point in your base and spam units.

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Phew. Shame these axemen are irregulars and thus can't get Gondor equipement.

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It's time to punk the only kingdom that didn't ally with me.

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All you had to do to earn this was not attack, or possibly defend with any airships. Scrap them if you have them.

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>give AI a huge handicap, so much that its units die in one hit from mine
>reach final power, Durin's Hoard
>summons a 7,500¤ treasure
>BUT it also summons a dragon
>"what can a lowly dragon possibly do roflmao"
WELL, IT TURNS OUT THAT A DRAGON CAN WIPE 75% OF MY ARMY
ALL OF LAKETOWN ARCHERS? GONE
ALL OF MY DWARVEN INFANTRY? GONE
ALL THAT REMAINS ARE ASHES, HEROES, AND THE TOP THORIN SPECIALISTS

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>>555323918
Why are they going saiyan?

>>555344774
They have reached their Namek arc (Second Punic war).

>>554788846
Goals:
1. conquer all 24 empires by 2250 (or earlier).
2. Survive all crisis 25x

settings:
Grand Admiral, max Advanced AI, no scale.

Ethics:
Xenophobe
Materialist
Militarist (later embrace to fanatic materialist)

Civic:
Distinguished admiralty
Warbots
(later reform to feudal society and technocracy)

Origin:
Syncretic evolution

slave species:
livestock+ acidic

Machine founder species:
Adaptive frames+efficient
(integrate 225 pops to Emotion emulator+domestic servitude+loyalty then integrate 25 pops to learning algorithm+enhanced memory+living metal)

commander:
imperial: 2 skirmisher I, 2 Warlike II, 2 navy instructor
normal commander: Observant, engineer

Official councilor: Fertility preacher

tradition:
2 codebreaking subterfuge, then supremacy (for +25% speed), then domination, then complete subterfuge to ascend, then modularity, then harmony

ascension perk:
technological ascedancy, imperial prerogative, modularity

capital 2200:
disable all research, police, roboticist
disable civ building, most of farms.
set your veteran crown prince as governor

Build order:
Holo theater,clear slum, Forge x2, city district until max


Biological ships:
send 10 empty ships with observant commander to find empires .
interrogate/vivisection to gain tech.
by 2205 you must conquer a capital then resettle it to your capital.
set as indentured servitude. don't forget to do integrating stuff like before.

keep opress vassalize empires then integrating them to save influence. 2 years per empire. split your fleet to make it faster.

If enemy is Hive mind: set as scholarium (Just one).

2250-2400: farmville

question:
any room for improvement?

>>555345528
Play a better game. Stellaris doesn't deserve your passion.

>>555345528
>all crisis 25x
That is legitimately quite hard anon. Hope you're ready to fail.

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>pick up Woodlands spear infantry
>set up defensive stance
>set up spear circle stance
>they can't attack anymore
...well, fair.

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WHERE BE THE DWARFS??

>>555332521
What is that monstrosity in the lower left?

>>555332521
What game?

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>>555363059
Airships: Conquer the Skies. It's fun and cheap.

>>555362323
Clearly the landbattleship Bismark

>>555364127
Thanks, gonna pirate it.

>>555364127
>>555364496
Damn, no latest version for clean files and no demo.
Oh well.

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>>555364724
Just get it when it's on sale. It's almost completely made by one guy. These kind of games should be supported.

>>555365797
Meh. I don't want to play too much to refund it only to find out it is boring. I already have several dozen games like that on my Steam and GoG libraries. I'm trying to avoid doing that.

I hate Mordor.

>>555370209
>t. Gandalf

>>555249949
Hollywood Animal update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2680550/view/529869613052202357

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>>555370442
Nah, they're shit. They keep attacking each others so I get "we're under attack!" alerts when everything is fine. And the two morons from Cirith Ungol are also constantly swinging at each others.

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>>555374115
Ah shit, here we go again.

>>555375087
Black and White was based and struck a nerve, especially among atheists.

>>555378670
did you reply to the wrong post? the wrong thread?

>>555379414
What are you talking about? Are you retarded?

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man how the hell did i lose so hard attack the Euro union as USA when i had twice the armies and higher military technology

>>555380842
Get fucked, Yankee.

>>555380842
There's some other factors that go into it I think, but also why are you attacking in the first place lol

>>555336794
damn that is a big map
loved this game btw. fucking loved it. couldn't believe how good it was. an EA game that is good. too bad multiplayer desynched all the time.

>>555384923
That's why I'm overjoyed to have found that modern standalone. It's not perfect, but damn, you can feel the autism dripping from it.

>>555364127
anyone know the name of that font?
it is the CivV font and often associated with Art Deco, you see it used in Bioshock as well. I just call it the art deco font.

>>555385093
hook me up homie i still have the original CDs. last installed like 5 years ago. no idea if it would even play nice with Windows 11 (probably not).

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>>555385437
Here: https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-horse-lords-a-total-modification-for-bfme/downloads/age-of-the-ring-version-90

Also see >>555356197

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>>555387027
thanks man never heard of this, i will check it out.

holy shit 120k downloads, might even be able to play multiplayer again.

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>>555387904
The current version is 9.2.2.
Don't play against Dol Guldur at first.
And mix granaries and blacksmiths, you'll see why ;)

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>Pippin is a cheap hero
>he has a tutoring skill that buffs nearby heroes
>Boromir, as a general, gives big bonuses to Minas Tirith troops, but doesn't give anything to the fief troops
Fair!

>>555387904
So, does it work?

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>>555379414
Lionhead studios was a game studio that developed the games Black and White 1 and 2. Youngling.

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Nighty night.

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>>555391256
i'll know soon

>>555392956
It'll take a while, the launcher will patch the game, then check file integrity.

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>>555391621
how does this compare to pic related? loved this game as a kid but got bogged down in the late game, my ambition was too big and it took too long for the crew to travel between sets shooting my magnum opus, resulting in financial failure.

ironically made by Lionhead Studios.

>>555393324
I know this one was made by Lionhead that's why I choose it for my studio's name. Hollywood Animal is okay. It's still in early access, there's already a lot to do but you are limited to the 30's and 40's I think. You don't actually get to see your movies but on the management and ui side it is a lot better than The Movies. Lionheads ui sucked and it was almost impossible to manage more than 7 actors. In Hollywood Animal it is much easier to manage a lot of staff.

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>>555393910
yeah, i loved the movie editing and seeing it all come together in The Movies, it was really fun and satisfying. as an adult i'd be more interested in the management sim. i cannot help but love that art deco aesthetic, honestly the UIs in this game look sexy. i'll give it more time to cook but i like what i see.

>page 10

>>555394449
I found it very frustrating in The Movies when some of your actors have constant tantrums messing up your shedules. This makes other actors just wait at their set doing nothing also getting annoyed. The Movies was just so frustrating sometimes.

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>>555365797
That game reminds me of Rule the Waves 3 and my Italy game that's in limbo

>>555400830
its been a long time but i seem to remember i was basically a fluffer for the actors, if they asked me to suck dick i would do it, anything to keep them cooperating. probably why i lost the game, i spent too much on them or something.

the romans were right about actors.

>>555405267
>the romans were right about actors.
That they're meant to be dicked often to keep their egos in check?
Oh no wait, that's spiderfag.

>>555405445
actors were basically prostitutes in ancient rome. when you think about it that makes a lot of sense. their entire career is selling a lie, like prostitutes.

>>555405859
>actors were basically prostitutes
Shame they stopped. Then again, given how many child actors we have...
Yeaaaah, Emma Watson's carrier would've been a lot different.

I think strategy games are a fun way to spend your evening

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>>555413795
I hate that I keep finding mechanisms I really like in old or janky strategy games.

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Why would anyone make a ram ship without boarders and guards?
Why would anyone rear end such ram ship for the boarders to board it?

>>555418524
once you see that huge O in that font you can't unsee it

>>555405986
they weren't LITERALLY prostitutes, they were socially the same class. aka scum, at the bottom of society.

>>555405859
>>555420401
Why is there one person who parrots this every chance he gets around here? There's no indication that was the case.

>>555418524
Is that a second little ship at the front of it?

>still nervously waiting for other anon to report back on the BfME2 thingy

>>555380842
A region's defense is another army in terms of fighting strength, so the EU technically has 4 armies there.

>>555448670
US are losers lmao

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Research complete: Strategy. Now researching: Tactics

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Waking up. I'll have to make a post later about tyat fun game I found.

>>555474936
okay sweetie

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>>555466151
Hi, are you me?

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>>555482158
Yes.
I should really take a shower.

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I like Seven Kingdoms 2. I love the chain of command in it.
I like Warrior King Battles. I love the formations and ammunition system in it, and how supply works.
I like Deadlock 2. I like the in-universe reason given to having to research everything.
I like Battle for Middle Earth 2. I like killing retarded inbred gobbos and playing dwarves.
I like Act of War. I like prisoners, the varierty of infantry weapons, and the mercs.
I like Company of Heroes. You kill nazis in it. Killing nazis is always a plus in my book.
I like Dawn of War. It got me to fall in love with Warhammer 40000 again after a codex made my Tyranid army obsolete.
I like Rise of Legends. It has some formations, but it also feels big, therefore pleasant to play.
I like Ancient War Sparta for its "RPG on a RTS scale" aspect of it.
I like Darfall for its difficulty.
I like They Are Billions for its appearance and how quickly things can degenerate.
I like Age of Empires 2 for its teutonic knights.
I like Age of Empires 3 for how flexible it is once you understand how cards work.
I like Age of Empires 4 for its attempt at trying new things instead of copying AoE2, some of them work, some don't.
I like Age of Mythology for its PROSTAGMA and how different the factions feel.
I like Battle Realms for its SOVL.
I like D&D Stronghold for its slow, economical system.
I like Stronghold for its SOVL. Same with Crusader.
I like Stronghold Legend for trying to change things, and make every Knight of the Round Table unique.
I like Distant Worlds Universe because I played it once and Steam says I have 8 hours in it please help me.
I like Five Nations for how fighters manage to stay relevant even late game as you get carriers.
I like Godsworn for its unique setting and how hot Saulé is.
I like Halo Wars for its surprisingly good gameplay, and unit banter (flamethrowers going "welcome to hell, ladies").
I like Lord of Magic for its fantasy setting and its music.
I like Silica for its hybrid gameplay.
I like Songs of Co

>>555485102
I couldn't fit Beyond All Reason, Majesty or Total Annihiliation, or Sacrifice in this.

What's the best way to handle tech in strategy games? Tech tree, tech web, something else?

>>555489559
Tech tree. Tech webs fits better for long games, but can be a pain to learn on the fly in a shorter game.

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>>555489559
What if tech tree is a circle around you?