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TNO thread ( Ad Memoriam): STRENG GEHEIM edition https://files.catbox.moe/iicybx.pdf - Nixon characterization doc for writers. It's what you think it'll be. https://files.catbox.moe/9p7n8b.png - Vote Pig Nixon tree. https://files.catbox.moe/go9tnq.png - VP Reuther tree. https://files.catbox.moe/ez4g4c.png - VP Schlafly path. Peak evil Republican fascism let's go! https://files.catbox.moe/joltgi.png - VP Yorty tree. https://files.catbox.moe/m1i3hv.jpg - VP rework leak, Hiram Fong replaces Romney scrapping years of work in the process because it "didn't fit the Republican narrative". https://files.catbox.moe/71ilh5.png - Central America design. https://files.catbox.moe/hi1h3m.png - China flowchart. https://files.catbox.moe/djf9rg.pdf - Latest Moskowien rework proposal. https://files.catbox.moe/9nqmlk.pdf - Iberian Wars rework document. https://files.catbox.moe/5anjuv.png - 5 new Caribbean nations flowchart https://files.catbox.moe/nlrpjl.pdf - British West Indies lore document https://files.catbox.moe/s9rx4e.pdf - GGR Constitution for TNO. https://files.catbox.moe/ptvdb1.pdf - Old Indonesia proposal. >TNO:RA https://gitgud.io/Ivanishvili/TNORA - TNO: Rises Again Git. Atlantropa TNO for current HOI4 with new content. >LEAKED BUILDS Just making sure these aren't lost again. 2021: https://gitlab.com/IllyaTokar/git-days-of-europe 2022: https://gitlab.com/retardedsolutions/git-days-of-europe/ 2023: https://mega.nz/file/bBFGHZJT#a4lNsnLLzHWHG1iic5yHwgL1kK1VAE5qmT2Iqi7k2EM - Hotline Manchukuo https://mega.nz/file/TIMmVBKC#939MhfLfR3G0UQdenlK0R5AY54x8lGlnSs42H8BzHhw - Illusions End https://mega.nz/file/SBtSmZAD#CDYh4s4SBz3GjvBSOjOpQ4RnGgaDhnq39ehNTVFzbhs - Penelopes Web https://mega.nz/file/CZt1CZwa#O0Yfzil-VqfJBwH_yuWvGkbDK5XF7DG5iM7rdO-rqdg - Germany Branch https://mega.nz/file/SJ0HjDrC#jeTd9dcOuCeNpAZvrM_tFJjaSKjWLhVpSibBVqj_eWg - Shifting Tides

Starsector: Taxes and Fees not included.: Space IRS demands you pay taxes.

EUIV: Anbennar: We found xim xisters edition >>2095424

/oxce/ - OpenXCOM Mods: /oxce/ - OpenXCOM Mods >OXCE? OpenXcom is a free open-source game engine for the original 1994 X-Com: UFO Defense (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown) and 1996 X-Com: Terror from the Deep games. OXCE extends OXC modding capabilities and is home to megamods like X-Piratez, X-Com Files, 40k ROSIGMA and more. >Game https://www.gog.com/en/game/xcom_ufo_defense https://openxcom.org/downloads-milestones/ >Mods https://mod.io/g/openxcom https://www.moddb.com/mods/x-piratez/downloads (XPZ) https://mod.io/g/openxcom/m/the-x-com-files (XCF) >Resources https://openxcom.org/forum/ https://www.ufopaedia.org/ https://xpedia.netlify.app/ (XPZ) https://xcf.trigramreactor.net/master (XCF) https://www.ufopaedia.org/Hidden_Features_(OpenXcom) https://www.ufopaedia.org/Ruleset_Reference_Nightly_(OpenXcom) Previous thread >>2117630

does anyone actually play democracies in hoi4?

I still don't get how Legions are supposed to be better than Levies. Sure, Legions don't take pops away from your jobs and your research, but they cost a lot, cannot pillage cities (and pillaging cities makes MAD dosh), aren't any bigger than Levies because they take troops from the very same region, and they're not any stronger either because Levies receive the same technology buffs. I don't fucking get it. Why not stick with Levies for the entire game? Anyways Imperator thread

>Everyone complains about the game >Its actually really good The complaint about civ switching is retarded, just play one of the other Civs, if you want to play the same game over and over, just keep playing the same game over and over. Civ VII in my opinion is light years better than both V and VI for a few reasons. Civ switching is actually great way to keep you making interesting decisions and having interesting mechanics the entire game through and i like how you can sculpt your empire with your traditions picking early civs to set up late civs, and always having some sort of unique unit and ability every age, instead of having a late game unit that you have to play 200 turns and the games over before you even get to use it. I think the game still suffers from snow balling, and the best map generations i've used have been modded in, but there's more chances to get back into the game with age resets. And the modded map script is legitimately great. Either way all the criticisms of the game don't really compare to the benefits especially I like generals and how they're used and unpacking and packing units, i like the removal of some micromanaging aspects that were fine in the early game but became tedious in the late game and i think their solutions are good. I've played the game at launch and i've played it now after a few months of being out and already a lot of the initial criticisms have been covered.

Resurrecting Age of Wonders (1999): We play LAN games (via Radmin) every weekend and sometimes (rarely) on weekdays. Would be sweet to have more people join, we've got 5 reliable players right now and about a half dozen irregulars https://discord.com/invite/zn9yARHDFj https://discord.com/invite/zn9yARHDFj

Economic games: what games heavily focused on economy can you recommend? I am thinking about buying Capitalism II (or Capitalism Lab). I am really looking for anything on PC that focused on one or some of the following: money, supply chain, logistics, etc. Preferably turn based but real time is OK too

Humankind: Why didn’t you guys tell me how great this game was? When it was in development I was very interested, but when it came out everyone said it kinda sucked so I steered clear. My first game of theirs was Endless Legend and at the time it was still a little too weird for me compared to Civ. But in light of Civ7 being the real Civ killer, I decided to give Humankind a shot recently and holy shit I am having a great time. All of the features that it shares with Civ7 it does much better. I also read that they’ve started giving it pretty substantial updates again. Is the Together We Rule DLC any good? Also Humankind thread.

What are some annoying factions that make the game shit? For me its Yuri in Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge. You must attack them with the few long range weapons or they capture your units. Their stupid Gatling tanks have wide range. Their air defense is impenetrable. You cannot sell their miners, although they can be built as a building. Their commando unit can capture the strongest defenses from a distance.

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/vst/ 4cc autumn build up: Hello /vst/, its been a while since this has been talked about hasn't it. Yeah, needless to say Spring went horribly, in fact I couldn't even post to tell you guys the cup was going on because the fucking site was down. Regardless, it didn't go well and as such /vst/ is playing this autumn. To sum up the last year of /vst/'s performance in the cup. Well, to put it bluntly /vst/'s currently more cooked than Sigurd was after the end of chapter 5 in FE4. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel, /vst/ has found a new manager and for the first time since Summer 2023 which if I can remind you all was the last time /vst/ made an elite final day. Finally, /vst/ has a triumvirate as a management group once again and I have full confidence in the other two co managers to steer this team in the right direction Anyways to anyone who doesn't know what the 4cc is >What is 4chan Cup? 4chan Cup is a virtual Association Football tournament, played with AI vs AI on Professional Evolution Soccer by Konami, featuring teams made up of various 4chan boards playing against each other. As I have already recapped the state of the team the link to the poll is here: https://forms.gle/rcq7j3QuX4fxoFbU7 If you got any questions about the team please go while and ask away in the thread

CK2 thread: Is after the end worth playing? If so which version? Also CK2 thread

The Campaign Trail: Talk about new mods, mods you're hyped for, etc. CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.html NCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/index.html

/poker/ general: Lets make it happen, /vst/ What stakes have you been playing, live or online? Share strategies, tactics and general shithousery

/v3g/ Victoria 3 general: thread question : what's your favorite company? FAQ >is discussion of other victorias welcome? yes! >can I come here to complain if I never played the game? no >are the dlcs worth it? some are, some aren't like all paradox games it depends on what you want, ask around >what do I do at the start of the game? build up a supply of construction goods to reduce construction costs >how do I reduce the price of a good? subventions are the easiest way to do it, otherwise you have to produce the good yourself or get a deal with a power that produces says good >why is russia being a dick? because they can, what are you gonna do about it? >is creamapi for this game safe and functioning? yes and yes, provided you get it from cs rin ru

Why are tier 1 skeleniggas so expensive to raise in this shit game

RTS unit quotes: One shot, one kill

Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children: Is there a more powerful or ferocious creature? No, of course not, and you would be foolish to think otherwise.

ITT: Mods you like for /vst/ games: Post some nice mods you like. >Insularis Draco for med 2 >Elder Scrolls: Total War for Med 2 >WW1 mod for COH 1 I've been playing 1212ad plus it's submods (particularly the cav enhancing one) for Attilla, it's pretty fun. I will say, it suffers because some problems from Med 2 are somehow hyperinflated. Since atm there's only an early campaign you will basically lose interest by the time you reach ""High"" Medieval era and basically never reach gunpowder as you've conquered half the map when your playing an easier faction like France. Some Attilla mechanics like "razing" conquered settlements being removed just feels kinda lame, but i understand why they did it. Unifying the HRE actually sucks because you're getting ALL the territory every member state conquered and by that time they've all conquered half the map so you lose interest.

Manor Lords: Beta for the next update is up.

/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General: Genghis edition Previous >>2151467

Pax Historia: Let me see what you can do with this anons. >what is this? Some random ai-generated alt-history strategy game https://www.paxhistoria.co

What are some more games in the strategy-action hybrid genre? I only know of Sacrifice, Kunitsugami and Brutal Legend

Stellaris Thread- Thoughts ? Concerns ? Shitposts ?: I noticed no Stellaris threads on the board. I know 4.0 was a huge fuckup but I at least expected some talk about the new Psionic Expansion. How you fellas feeling about it. ( If any of you guys are even bothering to still play it lol). Is the UI update doing it for ya ?

The official 2025-edition RTS guide >but my favourite game isn't here! I don't care

Starcraft Brood War - Soulkey's Historic Performance Edition: ASL 20 information: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/ASL/20 Q: Why is Flash ducking Soulkey? A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhewOR_gRXY Old: >>2048326

>boot up ck3 because I am craving some autistic king simulator while staring at a map >8 hour ck3 campaign fucking ruined just as it's about to start getting fun >not even my own fault, shitty spaghetti paradox code just bugged the game and made the war unwinnable. >HRE is in multiple front war >occupy all the territory >doesn't say I am anything on the war screen >get -180% ticking war score after I occupied every territory I needed in Italy >make beeline to holy roman empire's capital >retard ally gets caught trying to siege >all my troops fucking die >can't even white peace anymore >fucking mingsplode because all my troops are dead >ruler gets typhus and going to die in 1 year >could have occupied half of italy in one war, instead now I have to deal with shitty asshole vassal wars, my leader dying, having no troops, losing against HRE all because some dumbshit at paradox can't fix the spaghetti code for their hundred dollar game. This was my day off. I can guarantee you EUV is unplayable at launch. Imagine your 15 billion dollar company making games this fucking shit, where some third worlders making mods for free can easily surpass you

Dominions 6: There hasn't been a good dominions thread in a while. Any good mod nations? I wanna boost grobaashka, it's a mod for a goblin nation :^)

>almost as successful as Rimworld based on the number of steam reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive (122,724)) >never saw anyone talk about it here or on /v/ unless it is brought up in a Rimworld or DF shit-flinging thread What gives ?

Is stelaris worth playing: I can get the game with 3 DLCs for super cheap on steam. Is the game worth buying and learning? How long does it take to learn?

Beyond all reason: Started playing after some anon recommended it here and its good, nice quick rts (match dont usually take longer than 20 mins) with masssive ammount of units. its basically free and i had some fun so far.

Layoffs at Firaxis: It's over. https://archive.is/tDVof

Did the Terror from the Void mod make the game good?

>starting a new country from nothing is fun >exploring the map is fun >claiming valuable land and resources is fun >developing your economy and infrastructure is fun >defending your borders from barbarians is fun >fun stops when you get to war because while you were busy building a nice country another player was just spamming troops and rushing military technologies so you just get stomped with doomstacks for merely existing I genuinely wish there was a game that was based ONLY around this early phase of every civ game where you explore the map, expand your borders and grow your economy without the part where some agressive player rapes you. Preferably with more detailed economy.

Heroes of Might and Magic: All things HoMM. 1. Post your super cool idea for a faction. 2. Your favourite hero for flavour reasons?

Medieval 3 soon: What features should it have? They will announce it by december. Hopefully crusades and jihad. Also two row siege maps and military order foundations.

>"KNIGHTS!"

EUV / EU5 / Project Caesar:: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-flavour-41-3rd-of-october-2025-the-netherlands.1861620/ Tinto Flavour #41 - 3rd of October 2025 - The Netherlands Hello, and welcome one more Friday to Tinto Flavour, the happy days in which we take a look at the flavour content of Europa Universalis V! Today, we will be taking a look at the content for the Netherlands! This means that we’ll be taking a look at the content of different Dutch, Frisian and Flemish countries, of which Holland is the most relevant (and that with more content); and also about the content available for the Netherlands itself, a formable country, is formed.

/mbg/ - Mount & Blade General: ROMA INVICTA edition >M&B Wiki https://antifandom.com/mountandblade/wiki/Mount_&_Blade_Wiki > BANNERLORD >Pastebin https://pastebin.com/tAvcAbpT >Custom Banner Maker https://bannerlord.party/banner/ >Banner Code Sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MEM-0Fz0yetJ8cZgLrPpHuDU6dO33bhsFiHsiWwiCDM >Asset Extractor https://github.com/szszss/TpacTool >Create Custom Companions https://butterlord.com/wanderers > WARBAND >Warband Pastebin https://rentry.org/x7u7t >Noob Guide (READ This) https://imgur.com/a/FMAqV >Anon's Mods and Upstab Guide: https://pastebin.com/agwZu9Df >Thread(looted): >>2139476

Stormgate officially releases today.: And RTS... is saved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THcm-QXStPA

Steam Autumn Sale: /vst/ Edition: Seems like Hooded Horse has its own autumn sale within an autumn sale >See Old World at 90% off, 4 bucks Ooh- >Old World "Complete" with all DLC for 40 bucks For fucks sake Is there anything else good to pick up right now?

Remember Field of Glory Empires? There's going to be a "final patch" in near future that will adress the remaining issues and give the game a final layer of polish. Glad to see that it's actually happening >what is this Pretty cool grand strategy game that lets you take control of an ancient nation and lead it to glory. It has pretty detailed economy and nation building and is definitely a much better grand strategy game than anything Paracuck could come up with. The Decadence system it uses is also really clever because it solves the issue of "map painting" - if you mindlessly expand without thinking, your nation will crumble quickly BUT if you actually pay attention to your empire, develop its economy and invest in it's culture, it just might last longer than some of your rivals Also try out Fields of Glory Kingdoms, it's Crusader Kings but actually good

Total War - a shitty franchise?: Always found their existence quite a bit weird and somewhat deceiving, as someone who enjoys games like Stronghold, Populous 3 and BfME. They take cool historical periods and instead of dedicating themselves truly to the spectacle of war, instead force you to look upon some stupid map. Jesus. I'm playing right now the Shogun Total War game, and I'm enjoying the following: unit sounds, authenticity and immersion, the music, primitive graphics and "difficult" controls. Unfortunately, I am not really enjoying anything else about the game. The combat in Total War games is also weird, the armies are fighting each other too slowly, you visually don't witness much dying and tragedy, you judge the situation by numbers, which is gay and retarded. Why does it never happen in these games that units can get slaughtered quickly? Archers barely do shit, ever. I mean, they obviously do something, but the audiovisual impact is so fkn poor. Why do you retards like these games? You really don't feel the war going on in these games, because you don't even feel like a leader of men, just some soulless geometric shapes going into each other and slowly chipping away. The Warhammer games on the PS1 are much better than these aesthetically trannified and castrated malformations that have gained immense popularity among zoomers. I had to butcher my friends list because my internet acquintences have betrayed their old-school ways by engaging with this genuinely repulsive garbage.

It's been 10 trillion years and there still isn't a city builder/management/modern military game set in Africa. How am I meant to live my corrupt inter-tribal guerrilla smuggling international meddling rebellion creating 5+million dead in the 2nd Congo War fantasy? huh?

Why does Slavery suck?: Slavery is a debuff or hinderance in every strategy/GSG/econ sim. >Victoria Untaxable pops >Eu4 A literal trade good. Non existent mechanic. >Stellaris Unhappy pops >Imperator Very strong >Civilization A 1 pop trade for production. Considered overpowered. >Kenshi Slaves run away from you or you can be enslaved. >Rimworld Roleplay? >Distant Worlds, Space Empires ??? How do we improve this mechanic?

RNG in strategy games: How much randomness do you like in your strategy vidyas?

We need a coh1 remaster. It was the best entry in the series.

Endless Legend 2: Early Access Edition: Out now on Steam and Game Pass. I kind of gave up on it during the Insider's Program but I got back into it during EA and they have improved it a lot.

Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition: It's up

Check out some of the stuff I'm working on for my WC3 mod https://streamable.com/et2l4j https://streamable.com/zebof5 https://streamable.com/9elqlj https://streamable.com/e06z1k https://streamable.com/dqgr8d https://streamable.com/9wppwo https://streamable.com/6wnkae https://streamable.com/4r4sij

The charges, officer?

Vic 3: >Boot up game >Play Cambodia >Click on research >Choose Stock exchange tech >Takes 38 months to research >Congrats, Cambodia has a stock exchange by 1840 >End serfdom by the 1850s >Surpass European GDP per capita by the 1880s Vic 2: >Boot up game >Play Cambodia >Click on research >Realize you can't research yet because you need to modernise first >Cambodia has low literacy so it takes until about the 1870s to modernise >Now you can start researching stock exchange

Hearts of Iron IV Thread: With No Compromise, No Surrender ( and the Czech Content Pack ) rolling out in the new future, what are your thoughts on it? And how do you feel about them adding in Seaplane Tenders as a Naval Unit? Old Thread >>2070984

Anyone else into this game? I like the controller support they added for PC.

Warlords Battlecry: What happened with the latest Protectors update? Is it so bad that the thread had to die here as well?

King of Dragon Pass: When's Six Ages 3?

Demo, EA, incoming games, wishlist: Greetings In this thread I want share some of incoming games(that preferably have a demo). Check you wish list and share incoming titles that you expect to be good. Or the one that are little known and forgotten. /vst/ demos thread. I start with Kriegsfront Tactics, which is take on FM3 - mechs in semi vietnam on alternate Earth. It have a demo and its pretty good. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2851820/Kriegsfront_Tactics__Prologue/ Funny enough it have same demo in 2 separate locations - on game and on separate prologue site.

Blitzkrieg 2 is now open source: https://github.com/nival/Blitzkrieg-2

I just saw Wartales on steam, what do you guys think about I? I was planning on picking up Rimworld and Kenshi today, and I might snag this if it has praise

Paradox can't help themselves. eu5 is done.

Alright, Mr. Anon. You got one shot. Tell us your best-selling strategy game idea.

Any good terraforming-themed city-builder/factory games out there? I'm only aware of - Surviving Mars (yawn) - Per Aspera (shittiest pathfinding known to man) - Infraspace (fine, bit ugly) - Plan B: Terraform (least bad option) - Terraforming Mars (port of a board game) Am I missing anything?

Suzerain: Played it over a year ago and got absolutely rammed in every department so I want some pointers on how for my next run, namely: How to go full dictator. How to deal with the old guard fuckheads and oligarchs. How to not shit the bed with the economy. How to shit on Lespia the most. And optionally avoid the Rumburg war and join the communists to further piss on Lespia if possible.

>we need an overpowered faction

Are the OWB submods any good?

Rare /vst/ games thread #2: ITT: Strategy games that no one besides (you) have played. Recommend rarities and discuss games that you vaguely remember playing as a kid or seeing in a magazine that one time. Continued from: >>1919459 I'll start: Conflict Zone. Early 00's strategy game that I haven't seen anyone mention in my entire adult life. I remember it being unique because you public opinion was a key currency. As totally-not-NATO that involved airlifting civilians out of conflict zones, and as the bad guys it involved sending TV crews to film you blowing up enemy troops and enemy atrocities. The better your rep, the more advanced units you could bring in. Actually pretty surprised few games tried to make public opinion part of gameplay. Not a great game, but certainly a mechanically unique one. Your turn, anon!

EUV has the Victoria 3 Shadow Economy: Pack it up, boys. The hype died. Europa Universalis 5 is going to fail at the one thing it set out to do. It's not going to have a realistic economy. It features a Shadow Realm giving POPs an infinite amount of Credit. That's a crutch so the economy can work properly. Here is an example from the experience of a playtester: >food price is subject to global supply and demand, but separated into markets >if your markets have enough food to cover demand, but the global price is high, then EVERYONE will starve to death, because they can't afford food >the equivalent of this in the real world would be White people voluntarily starving themselves, because Africans can't afford food >BUT this is actually not happening, because Paradox "fixed" this oversight by letting POPs/Estates just buy goods on Shadow Banking Credit, as long as it's available >but only the government can go into debt, not POPs, so your people are basically being funded by invisible Shadow Demons, who give them infinite credit This has further implications with the nobility. Earlier playtesters reported that building the "Bailiff" building is an excellent idea, because it spreads control in places outside your capital and before you can build proper infrastructure. But the hidden feature of the Bailiff is that it provides your nobility with jobs and since the nobility have the most demands of any POP, but get an infinite credit card, they can super-charge your economy by buying up all of the goods. The scribbles on the right is from a playtester, who reported that nobility have: >60 ducats income >pay 20 ducats in tax >spend 350 ducats on goods It seems like the competency crisis is so severe Paradox is unable to hire a genius autist and enough sugary drinks to make him code an actually functioning economy. Even if they want to create a realistic economy simulation, they are not able to. They simply aren't competent enough.

It seems that going "wide" always eclipses any sort of "tall" build and that no amount of upgrading will ever save small empires from wider ones. In oldschool RTS like C&C it's obvious because those games don't have upgrades, so all you can do is build more. That's why I'm wondering how a strategy game could make tall builds viable. Even games that do have global upgrades usually cap out at +2 or +3, like StarCraft. In Dawn of War, you can upgrade your Space Marine health and damage a little bit but never enough to make true super units. I understand why this is being done for balancing reasons and all that, but it seems there is no game that rewards a turtle player who successfully fights off rushes and then techs up. It technically works in StarCraft but not because of the teching, it's just because the rush player is too far behind after you counter him. Stronghold Crusader comes close because you can find ways to survive and defend even when your farms are being raided, but it has no teching. In the end, you won't be able to keep up with the attacker.

I've been in a coma the last 20 years, How's the RTS genre going? Strong as ever? Is there a Warcraft 4 yet?

/gsg/ — Grand Strategy General: If you see a gibberish post, use your discernment, it may hold rare value. No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it never will be. How fares your empire, /gsg/? This week in history: October 6, 105 BC – Roman forces suffer a major defeat to the Cimbri at the Battle of Arausio. October 7, 1571 – The Holy League decisively defeats the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto. October 8, 1480 – Ivan III of Moscow begins the stand on the Ugra River, ending Mongol rule over Russia. October 9, 1000 – Leif Erikson is believed to have landed in Vinland, likely in modern-day Newfoundland. October 10, 732 – Charles Martel defeats the Umayyads at the Battle of Tours, halting Islamic expansion. October 11, 1138 – A massive earthquake strikes near Aleppo, killing over 200,000 in the Crusader states. October 12, 1492 – Columbus lands in the Bahamas, believing he has reached islands off the coast of Asia. Random Country Picker http://orph.link/random >Archive (mods only) https://mega.nz/#F!plMxFYTB!sn9MTrvJ0tYjWSHgM8CZow >Where to get these games https://web.archive.org/web/20190720131512/http://hastebin.com/raw/moqugasume >Mods >> READ THIS FIRST. https://web.archive.org/web/20200712212437/https://pastebin.com/33A7wXdB >>[V2] - Niggermod https://pastebin.com/Xgjd5LvG >>[V2] - Crimeamod https://www.moddb.com/mods/crimeamod Previous thread: >>2154568

What went wrong here?: Why did this one stink so much that it killed the series? 1 and 2 were good and then they deliver this. I long for the day when we finally get a good WW2 RTS/RTT again.

X4 foundations: Diplomacy update public beta out NOW

Shadow Empire: Can anyone tell me why my guys are starving despite available logistic points being like 7 times higher than consumed ones? Are they just too fucking lazy to pick up their stuff or what? Logistics man, how the fuck do they work?

Cossacks: Got any tips for a newbie? I'm playing Back to War, btw.

Offworld Trading Company thread: 31 regularly active players since 2023 edition. The world just wasn't ready for an economic RTS

Strategy games set in space: So recently I have discovered Star Control II and I have greatly enjoyed it but I thought that it would be neat if it were a strategy game. And to my surprise, I've discovered that the first game was exactly that. But from what I've seen it is rather dated, and while it wouldn't be problem for me, I'm rather reluctant to pay for a game that should be abandonware by now. So, are there any good games about empire-building in space? I have heard mixed things about Stellaris. I've played Endless Space couple of years ago but did not enjoy it, it felt way too railroaded, with too much lore of which I cared little. I've played Aurora 4x and I believe I could enjoy it if I were to learn the mechanics. I have also heard of Masters of Orion and it looks promising. >inb4 Alpha Centauri I believe it is a very good game, but I'm much more interested in spaceship battles

When do you think CA will ban overhaul mods?: >CA announces new TW game or sales of a previous one >be me, a strategy enjoyer, reject both and keep playing the old ones I have with overhaul mods that have more content, quality, new mechanics, all FREE Seeing how CA gradually has been putting more complications to the modders to modify the new games (since Rome 2), yet the modders keep making better mods despite all the official "updates" the games have (even stealing mods to turn them P2P DLCs), I wonder when CA will go full-crazy ex.

Generational Blunder: Paradogs could have just given it another year in the oven so it didn't look like a late Alpha and relased just in time to walk into the 4X market like Cyrus into Babylon.

Are you supposed to have a master's degree in economics to understand this game? Literally nothing in it makes any sense to me, and I never had any trouble understanding any of the mechanics in the other PDX games.

Gothic. Atmosphere. Kino.

Twilight Imperium Digital: Are you hyped?

Age of Wonders 4: Year 3 season pass just revealed

Which 4x has the best economy? I am in the mood for managing the economy of a somewhat randomized world.

Shogun 2: I am noob how should i approach this battle

Workers and Resources - Soviet Republic: Report for the Community 101 is out and the newest update to the early start DLC is stampeding towards us! Horse drawn carriages! >You can add single or multiple horses. The maximum speed and pulling power are calculated based on the number of horses. We have also introduced stamina, as horses need time to recover their strength. >You will also be able to create your own horse breeds (via mods) and use them for any carriages. You can create just a skin for the horse itself, or if you are an experienced animator, you will be able to create entirely new horses with animations. And why stop at horses? What about donkeys or camels? You can also define the pulling “power” of the animal or its weight. https://www.sovietrepublic.net/post/report-for-the-community-101

FIRE EMBLEM THREAD: Talk about Fire Emblem Anyone hoping for a new game in the next direct? Really hoping we dont get a remake.

Worst Protagonists: Is there a worse rts protagonists?

Why did Microsoft fumble AoM so hard?

Frostpunk: It's been a year since FP2 released and I decided to give it a try again. Some stuff has been refined a bit, namely the heating system for the city has been adjusted where you can set the heat level per district, adjacency bonuses are changed to be more granular, and you can reshape districts for a cost. Beyond that and a little polishing here and there, it's mostly the same though. I wish the factions had some work done to them, such as having multiple radical factions rather than just two opposed ones. Anyone else doing another playthrough recently? What's your favorite factions/zeitgeist/ideology?

/dfg/ dwarf fortress general: Previous: >>2080588 Avaliable for free at https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ or as a paid premium version on Steam or Itch.io >What is the difference? Both are the same game on the same version (51.xx). The free version uses ASCII as a tileset (but you can mod other usermade tilesets and graphic packs) With the premium version you pay for a premium tileset + premium OST + access to beta branches and steam integration (if on steam). >What is next? Fort mode siege mechanics changes, rework and general spice up is the next update. Hatches and doors no longer stop invaders, and constructed walls vulnerable confirmed so far. Ranged combat reworked in the most recent update. End of Lua beta and merge into the main branch >What has changed since I last stopped playing X years ago Check the version history on the wiki https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Version_history Dwarf Fortress has an extensive wiki which can help you with your question about DF as well as providing info about modding and 3rd party tools: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Main_Page https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Utilities Utilities you should know about DFHack: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Utility:DFHack Dwarf Therapist: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Utility:Dwarf_therapist Legends Viewer: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Utility:Legends_viewer >Tutorials : Quickstart Fortress Mode: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Quickstart_guide Quickstart Adventure Mode: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Adventure_mode_quick_start Other tutorials: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tutorials >A bunch of guides to various parts of fort-based living: http://imgur.com/a/nGyRF Strike the earth!

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint just got out of the EA. It's an xcom-like cyberpunk turn-based tactics. Thoughs?

X-COM THREAD: How do I get good at this game

JA2 Stracciatella 0.22 Finally Released: JA2 Stracciatella finally got a new release after 2 years. This time with actual extensive playtesting so you can play the release build instead of having to switch to nightlies because someone broke burst fire sounds when externalizing the data to JSON. https://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/2025/09/28/release-0.22.0.html

>we're just not going to finish it because you can't mock Russians anymore

DEI thread: So... when is it going to become an official update?

>Zoomie, playing Warcraft 3 campaign for the first time >Normal difficulty >Missions have no challenge, just steamroll everything without even needing to remember to use stuff >Hard difficulty >Way too fucking hard, every mission becomes a grinding slog where you have to make a max pop army at the start and it takes an hour to beat What gives lads. I can't really nerf myself enough for normal to be fun but it feels like hard is designed for people that know the levels already and have played a bunch online. Original btw, not reforged, and I have healthbars displayed with a script so its not that.

How's songs of syx? Do you still need to have half of your economy devoted to maintenance?

Broken Arrow: Devs refuse to implement the surrender button because Russians never surrender. Tools: >https://ba-hub.net/ - laggy but with detailed player and match statistics >https://barmory.net/ - detailed unit stats and 1v1 unit combat simulation tool Previous: >>2113255

Strategy games with this feel?

warhammer 40k Dawn of war 4: So apparently they are making a new one. Why is there no thread yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAPm8fIy5mg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsf2hN1rPEw you may now call me a shill etc.

It's really not bad: It's not groundbreaking, but what it tries to do it does quite well. Meaning it's trying to imitate an outdated yet beloved game. What makes or breaks a game like this is mission design and I have to say they fucked it up here. They have units with Starcraft like abilities and the whole (not)GDI faction relies on these gimmicks, but also kinda kept the tedium of C&C mission with some additional tedium of Starcraft. You can also break mission, if you purposely don't do an objective, but rather explore the map, you can wipe the whole enemy force and the magically, the game spawns additional forces and building to destroy - fucking shit design. Other than that and the sub-par try-hard cut-scenes. I'm having fun. It's just too bad that so far it's so fucking unoriginal, it feels like a high quality rip-off, rather than its own thing.

>lets make a government type that is capable of rapid outward expansion >And then make it immune to independence war or any form of internal collapse >And then give them the richest, most developed lands on the map >And then give them an overpowered succession type CK3 is so shit. Just complete fantasy and uninteresting gameplay.

Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding: Yummy mods

Graviteam Tactics/Combat mission: Fuck that specific spot edition Thread to discuss Graviteam tactics and Combat mission games and others like them.

>hexagon >can move unit vertically and diagonaly, but not horizontally >octagon >Can move unit vertically, diagonally and horizontally Why did hexagon fields become so popular in strategy games, instead of octagon ones?

Hooded Horse is now the primary publisher of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era. Ubisoft still clings to the IP and sticks around in the project, but looks like their straits are getting dire enough to need co-publishers. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3105440/view/532102384016426733

DOW4: This speaks VOLUMES about Dawn of War 4's direction. At least Relic's fake brick wall was authentic. Not even counting the horrendous voice acting, stiff animations and toy-like colours in the recent trailer. They don't even have the right table size for a game of 40k. A bunch of posers looking to milk the 40k cow. Ad Mech? Seriously?

/asd/ - Amateur Strategy Development thread: An awful thread for devs and no-devs to post their awful ideas for strategy games that will never see the light of day, etc. previous thread: >>1909726 I don't know why or how, but last thread bump limit, so here is the sequel.

Welcome back commander: >build new PC >make sure twice to backup everything, especially saves >install windows, drivers and all the usual software >wait >don't tell me I forgot to backup my last Tiberian Sun campaign save Looks like I'm doing this over again. Maybe I should try some mods? What's good these days? Warzone has always looked impressive, but I doubt it has any sort of balance.

Mobile strategy games: I am going on a long forced vacation and need some /vst/ games on my phone. I found so far the following FTL Darkest Dungeon Invisible Inc. Kingdom Two Crowns (thanks anon for recommending it!) XCOM and XCOM 2 Total War Battles Shogun Bad North Rebel Inc. Total War titles seem not very mobile friendly and battles control badly. Door kickers is better suited for ipad, on phone controls are less precise.

Fall from Heaven 2 (and submods): Booted up Master of Mana again (a submod for Fall from Heaven 2 for Civ 4), and damn, this shit is fun as fuck. So much to discover, so many little details. But sometimes confusing as well. My vampire militaristic empire is doing well, currently preparing an invasion of the Bannor. A shame that the early game can be so annoying with hordes of undead, orcs and goblins swarming you from every side.

Are RTS games just impossible to play nowadays?: I have been trying to get into a game of CoH2 for two entire days now and it is impossible to play 2v2, 3v3 or 4v4s without my teammates immediately leaving the game. I remember playing it a lot with a friend of mine around a year or two back and I never had such issues. What caused this?

Conquest of Elysium 5: I want to have a CoE 5 thread. Been playing it nonstop for the past 2 weeks and it's a lot of fun. Much simpler than the Dom series, but still has a lot of the variety and depth. What are you favourite classes? There are loads of great ones, so I can't decide which one I like the most. I ended up liking the Witch and Cloud Lord a bunch which I was surprised by.

/trb/-FM26 soon edition: previous >>2038398 >Essential downloads: https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2024/essentials >Guide to Football Manager: http://www.guidetofootballmanager.com/ >Tactic and Strategy Guides: https://community.sigames.com/topic/495115-tactic-and-strategy-guides/ >Training and Mentoring Guides: https://community.sigames.com/topic/495114-training-and-mentoring-guides/ >Team Talks: https://strikerless.com/2016/02/19/the-hartman-doctrine-why-the-hairdryer-treatment-works-surprisingly-well/ >Macca's official /trb/ database: (2015) (embed) (embed)http://pastebin.com/uj27eQhe(embed) (2016) (embed) (embed)http://pastebin.com/7e3Vv0ap(embed) https://community.sports-interactive.com/forums/forum/19-tactics-training-strategies-discussion/ FM26 teaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD__lhNVBdM

Starcraft - Aeon Of Strife: So I remember playing AoS on Starcraft. I only vaguely remember it, one time I had a zergling, I was upgrading it way more than the standard 3 max, which was the custom of the time for rpg style maps. Left to Right, not bottom left to top right as was the later standard(possibly started with Aeon of Six Gods in wc3, but maybe not) Day 1 on warcraft 3, I remember getting on battle.net, and already playing an AoS map, left to right, there was a blademaster hero that someone had lowered the Blue and Green colors to 0, so it was bright red. I don't mean the chaos orc blademaster. I recognized the map, as a classic starcraft map at the time, it wasn't my favorite in starcraft, and I played more stuff like rise of rome, war of the ring, diplomacy, rp maps, starship troopers, and some rpgs. Not long ago the origin of Dota/LoL came up in a conversation and I referred to AoS from broodwar, and someone corrected me and said it was before broodwar, in vanilla StarCraft 1, and it kinda made sense to me. Googling it right now I see claims for 2002, but that looks wrong to me. In July 2002 I was playing AoS in warcraft, and I remember thinking "ooh someone already made AoS for warcraft", feeling like it was a classic map, and it would be weird if it was only a few months old. That was a long time ago, and I was a child, so a half a year could've seemed like a long time I guess. I have a lot more memories from other maps, so in a way it makes sense I guess. Anyone else remember the original AoS, and early maps, could it be older than 2002?

Remember what CA took from us: >Third Intermediate Period of Egypt existed >"battle royale" of different factions around the Nile fighting for supremacy and the reunification of Kemet (Egypt) >this could have been TW: Pharaoh, an ultra-detailed campaign map centered in the Nile and its different cities, monuments, cults, ethnicities, etc. >the player fights in a Paradox-like campaign map with its Paradox / Three Kingdoms diplomacy and improved TW-combat >all thanks to a new engine 'Member when 'Saga' was that little game to try new cool and fresh mechanics based around INTERMEDIATE PERIODS and underrated moments of Human History? I 'member.

TNO thread (death spiral 2.0): Now with all the actual leaks in the OP. https://gofile.io/d/zAJ2RV - Full DV leak repository. Proposal, charts, maps. https://www.youtube.com/@ThomasLands - Leaked build footage. Nearly finished and scrapped Italy, very unfinished Germany/US reworks and more. https://space.bilibili.com/385529615/upload/opus - BiliBili leak video repository. https://files.catbox.moe/80z6tb.png - Bormann TNO2 flowchart (never releasing). https://files.catbox.moe/cdag1w.pdf - Vote Pig, the US rework proposal. Read all about this hot new TCT mod. https://files.catbox.moe/j8tp21.pdf - December roundtable notes. Germany never. https://files.catbox.moe/9320n5.pdf - Japan rework. Now with a full proposal leak. https://files.catbox.moe/xlhrjj.pdf - Sweden proposal. Dev still lurking, will respond to all bait. https://files.catbox.moe/ycctp0.png - Sweden flowchart. We lost Pakt Sweden for this OTL-fest. https://files.catbox.moe/l70qhw.pdf - Burgundian Eulogy: Burgundy 2 was real but got scrapped like everything else. https://files.catbox.moe/zff5y4.pdf - Serov "facelift" document. The first leg in the now confirmed Komi rework. https://files.catbox.moe/ymgaur.pdf - Amur rework doc. Over two years in dev hell, still no release date. https://files.catbox.moe/iwmxg6.pdf - Manchuria doc #1. https://files.catbox.moe/cgaqrz.pdf - Manchuria doc #2. https://files.catbox.moe/y2hc34.pdf - Manchuria doc #3. https://files.catbox.moe/96kjev.pdf - Manchuria doc #5. https://files.catbox.moe/vdpi8k.pdf - Red Italy proposal. https://files.catbox.moe/3n9lq9.pdf - New Granada walltext. https://files.catbox.moe/r86sw7.pdf - 200p walltext about Colombian soccer mechanics. https://files.catbox.moe/izg02l.png - 6th (?) space race mech rework mockup.

Does victoria 3 have any genuine fans?: Youtube shows me these videos sometimes and I really wonder, are they made

/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General: Army of Rams edition Previous >>2140372

>this trash game has multiple active threads going on God, I knew this place was full of retarded paradogs, but this is a new low.

Lines of Battle - FoW update: How does this shit board not have a thread for the only good multiplayer strategy in existence Fog of war and all napoleonic unit types now added. Looking pretty complete now. Its free and its good, go play so I can farm elo

Terra Invicta: Abandoned another run halfway through award

/bbg/ - Battle Brothers General: cursed build edition Menance dead on arrival? Or just an elaborate subsidy fraud?

Anno thread. Anno 117 gets a timed demo tomorrow. Expectations? Personally I hope they don't fuck it up, anno 1800 was great.

They are Billions: Fuck whichever scout marked this location for a colony edition. Recently got back into this game out of the blue. Currently trying to beat Desolate Wasteland with highest population. Any other anons still playing this?

Patch 5.0.15: new patch https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24225582/starcraft-ii-5-0-15-ptr-patch-notes

Kaiserreich canon timeline?: WTF is the canon outcome of the 2nd Weltkrieg? >Germany ? >Italy ? >Entente ? >Russia ? >Japan ? >MittleAfrika ? >USA ? Who wins? What changes? The obvious scripted outcome is Entente reinstates GB and France but what else happens?

Does /vst/ likes stealth tactics games?

Best city builder in your opinion? >Cities: Skylines Shitties of them all in my opinion. In this one you have shit like 16 people living in a skyscraper and you can't even build realistic sized cities. The traffic simulation is supposed to be good but its nonsensical (drivers are incapable of changing lanes, the game puts pedestrian crossings through roundabouts etc.). >Cities: Skylines 2 Not even top tier computers can run this past a certain city size. >Simcity 4 You can build massive cities in it. Its a shame that the game was designed to build american style cities though (no mixed zones, no public housing, etc.). Game runs like shit too because of its old engine. >Citystate 2 This is the best one in my opinion. Economics makes sense and you have neat details like poor people building slums if you can't fill their housing demand either through making enough housing zones or building public housing units. There is also an entire legislation system that allows you to make anything between a communist hellhole and an anarcho-capitalist dystopia. I wish the game was moddable though.

>Fire Emblem Good gameplay, shit ass story >Advance Wars Good gameplay and okay story The only reason why Fire Emblem is still alive is because of the units with monster titties, or am I missing something?

Looking for a certain game: Some anon here made it a while back, but I have forgotten its name. I only remember the following: >player plays as a barbarian conqueror >player conquers stuff and adds conquered women into his harem >map was made with Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator >it had 3D graphics >it could be played on a browser (Itch probably) I think the battle system was like Risk, and there were 3D sex scenes Does anyone know it?

Shadow of forbidden gods: I just started playing this, I like it despite the atrocious UI Basically you're an elder god trying to break free and destroy/corrupt humanity with the help of your secret cult agents Already won a game with the starting worm god, cordyceps god after, and now I'm doing pic rel Elves were a massive pain with the mushroom god, I didn't realize they're immune to all diseases and they created the alliance and were constantly rebuilding settlements in the places my insect hordes just razed, so this game I made sure to make them xenophobic from the start When I'm done turning everyone insane, I'll try to play with the deep one cult, I think its the only thing I haven't tried yet Discuss, give me your pro tips and etc

Games that don't follow this trend?: Just finished an XCOM 2 ironman run on Legend difficulty, and while it took me ~30 attempts, only 3 of those even got to mag weapons. Once I got to the stronger gear and began to get promoted soldiers the difficulty basically disappeared. The early game felt almost unfairly difficult due to the frailness of my soldiers and lack of options often meaning a single bad RNG roll could lose a mission, and a couple of those starting a downward spiral that would kill the run. But by the time that I started unlocking more upgrades and strategic options it felt like I just out-leveled the difficulty curve, to the point where I beat the final mission without taking any damage with frankly minimal effort. I've noticed RTS games often can buck this trend through mechanical difficulty, but most turn based games(at least on their hardest modes) often have early games that are too difficult/rng dependent, sometimes to the point of cheese strategy being the only consistent ways to win, while the late game is just an unga-bunga steamroll. What ways can games solve this problem and are there any recommendations for games that have an interesting and fun level of challenge all the way through?

ITT: Leaders, civilizations and other stuff you would like to see in Civ game: Leaders and civilizations that in your opinion should be in Civilization game but aren't. Or just ones you'd like to see included. And while we're at it you might also talk about units, buildings, wonders, great people and resources that you think should be in Civilization. >inb4 Hitler Wouldn't even be a bad addition, it's just too obvious pick. Personal I would like to see Alfonso the Battler for Spain (even if that technical might be a stretch) and Edward Longshanks for England. Simply because I like them. In terms of civs I think with how influential and cool Goths were it's a shame they never made into roster. With Theodoric as their leader of course.

Why do people call this a puzzle game? Your shots can still miss. I want more.

How woke is Victoria 3?: I'm thinking of trying it because it's on sale, I was a big fan of Victoria 2 but always hated how it encouraged you to become a socialist/liberal democracy at the end of the game to maximize pop growth and the economy. Looking over the artwork for Victoria 3 this game looks to be that but dialed up to 11. How bad is it? Is playing a reactionary absolute monarchy viable or are you bottlenecked until you enact the reforms the developers want you to take?

Victoria 3: What will the next DLC be about?

wargame/warno/steel division: SOUTHAG is out This div is super fun

Star Wars Empire at War - Revan's Revenge out now: play it and post screenshots

Starsector: repair ships when

Europa Universalis IV: Eranshar is the best tag

EUV / EU5 / Project Caesar: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/developer-diary-4-discovery.1859234/ Welcome back to another exciting development diary for Europa Universalis V. This week, we’ll be diving into one of the most iconic and transformative aspects of the era: exploration and colonization. From the first daring expeditions into the unknown seas, to the rise of sprawling colonial empires and global trade networks, this system aims to capture the ambition, risks, and rewards of charting the wider world.

Will Menace be good? Some of what they're showing looks interesting, but the cinematics they have released do not look anything like the gameplay which just looks like a mobile game

Soul

Crusader Kings 3 General - /ck3g/: Coronations edition Elder Kings bros, see you in three months

Xcom: Ufo Defense: Why doesn't any tactics game try to build on the foundations of Ufo's geoscape and instead drops it or simplifies it?