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According to swedes Cuzco was an artic wasteland and the entirety of the andes region was in a permanent food deficit

Terra Invicta: 1.0 releasing soon. Did they ever fix the early game or is it still incredibly fucking boring?

Why is the 3rd game in a strategy series often cursed? >HW3 sucks >AoE3 sucks >DoW3 sucks >Victoria 3 sucks >HoI 3 sucks >Civ 3 sucks >Stronghold 3 sucks >CoH 3 sucks I think devs simply fail to innovate on the originality and refinement of the prior titles and end up flopping

Broken Arrow: Roadmap revealed >One last major update of 2025, including allied bot support for skirmish >1st DLC will be free and coming early on 2026. Full reveal on December 9th >will add a new "allied" country, which will be available to the US side as a spec in multiplayer (likely the Baltic units from singleplayer) >new environment and maps planned for later 2026, released for free alongside the listed paid DLCs >full expansion for 2027 with a new singleplayer campaign and a new faction

why does nobody talk about how the succession system in ck3 is so outstandingly random and retarded

/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General: Mapuche edition Prev >>2264409

Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding: Please do not turn down Loji’s advances, she will get very upset with you. Now with baking!

Civilization thread: I know I'm late, but I finally tried Civ VI with all its DLCs, holy moly the downgrade. Civ V(anilla) still invictus. Not only it's more tedious, but the DLCs don't add anything fun, immersive (they just unnecessarily overcomplicate things for the sake of it, to make you waste more time while trying to trick into thinking the game is more deep when it's not) and the artstyle is kinda shit. At some moment it becomes good, fun or I need overhaul mods? Is Civ VII worth it? PD: when the gameplay (specially the combat) is going to be like in the cinematic trailers (massive cities, massive armies, massive world to 4X'd)?

/WC3/ - Warcraft 3 General: Warcraft 3 General - This entire thread needs to be purged.

morale: -units in the presences of units dying lowers "morale" -when morale is too low, unit deserts - becomes a gaia unit, unusable -tech (religious, political, etc) can raise and armor morale -ex. one tech prevents morale loss from your units dying, another tech prevents morale loss from enemy villagers units dying Why? Greater verisimilitude and strategy.

Europa Universalis V: >Nothing every happens: the game >Age innovations STILL bugged and often wont show up in later ages for missing the prerequisites Did you finally accepted that removing mana was a mistake, /vst/?

/bbg/ - Battle Brothers general: Tabletop edition How are your dudes faring?

Starsector: TACHYON edition You play with any mods anons?

/WDOG/ - Warhammer Dark Omen General: With the release of Warhammer Dark Omen on Gog, it can finally be played easily. Any after action reports or discussion welcome.

/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.

Civilization 7: Is the game good now? Didn't see any threads about this. (Most of them are for the older games)

/dfg/ - Dwarf Fortress General: commie-dwarves edition Previous: >>2266425 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 (53.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). >!!NEWS!! 11/03/25 - The first part of the Siege Update was released as version 53.xx, giving besiegers (goblins and humans) the ability to dig/destroy walls, build paths, more awareness of traps and killzones, and more. >What is next? Bugfixing/maintaince cycle and later Siege Update Part II, which aims bring some magic into fort mode by adding spellcasters and warlocks into the besiegers ranks, and have them set your dorfs pants on fire. Also some form of magical defence for your dorfs. >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 that (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!

Hearts of Iron IV: Ok, I've seen enough. I've had my fill, I've played my money's worth. When did you realize you were done with your favorite strategy game, and that it was time to move on?

Empire at War: are Sith not that good?: All guides i find online write that Darth Vader is one man army super unit that can take planets in ground battle at his lonesome, but i found him to be too underwhelming. what he is great blaster magnet and that's it. Emperor is kinda weak as well. Jedi hero on other hand are all fucking OP as hell. Kenobi can auto heal, is tanky as hell, way more tankier than vader anyway, Luke is very fast and you can turn invisible and run away if he's low on HP, and yoda IIRC can auto heal as well. General Veers is Empire's MVP of ground combat. he can spam units and his range is almost like artillery unit. and how you use Boba Fett in ground combat? his jetpack is good if you need to run away, but other than his flamethrower, he's just bit tankier stormtrooper (against anything other than infantry, he's useless)

Modern space 4x games: what are some of the best modern 4x space games? MoO2 is probably my all time favorite but that is an older one.

Songs of Syx: New update added cavalry, and there's a free weekend for the full game. How fares your song, syxers?

/eu4/ - Europa Universalis IV: This is a FOUR thread, Fivers keep moving I can't be the only one still playing this game, right? This was my latest campaign

/mbg/ - Mount & Blade General: WAR SAILS 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): >>2285369

/ckg/ - Crusader Kings General: waiting for elder kings edition prev >>2229560

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?

Is 4X suffering because the developers are bad or because you can buy, for cheap, the best 4X games ever made?

Tactics RPG's: Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, and any derivatives in this thread! The Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is out, as well as the Tactics Ogre remaster. Also shilling the excellent One Vision mod for the PSP version of Tactics Ogre, which rivals and even exceeds the Reborn remaster, depending on taste.

Command & Conquer: Watcha >playan >listnan >unit favan For me it's the RA allied campaign, TD's Depth Charge and I love the artillery, I just think it's neat.

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

Turn-based or RTS: Do you ultimately prefer turn-based or real-time strategy games, and which are your favorites? RTS has always filtered me hard, having to juggle multiple things going on all in real time is tough (maybe this thread can change that). So for me with turn-based it's: >Master of Orion II >Civ IV >Conquest of Elysium games I am learning Shadow Empire now and it's a lot

Anyone else gave surviving tedium a second go? What's your impression? magnet:?xt=urn:btih:OINFQFL3E5COLIG6CEZLITAZB236PZ3T&dn=Surviving%20Mars%20-%20Relaunched%20%5BFitGirl%20Repack%5D&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentor.net%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.theoks.net%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccp.ovh%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=https%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tamersunion.org%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bt4g.com%3A2095%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.filemail.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker1.bt.moack.co.kr%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fcoppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.zer0day.to%3A1337%2Fannounce&xl=5878906361

Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children: General Guide Mastery Set Effects, Mastery Drop List etc: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1349483727 Finding Masteries, Modules, and Troublemakers: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1971619284 Mastery/Module Descriptions: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2037290423 Taming and Beasts Guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2020436206 Farming Guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2025825529 Machine Guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2025828272 Troubleshooter Encyclopedia: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2064539292 Bonds Guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2217708612 Equipment/Affix Guide https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2247536935: Legendary Items and where to find them: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2578537876 100% Achievements Guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3013345823 Banished Children news updates status: https://steamcommunity.com/games/470310/announcements/detail/654835706915456842?snr=2___

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?

EU5 MEGA CAMPAIGN MOD: Do you think we’ll see a mod backing the start date to CK2 times and taking the game into a HOI4 timeline? I think with the combining of a lot of the Paradox games’ mechanics into EU5 it could work really well. Just tweak some models, tech,RGOS, and events to reflect the different times in history.

how do I get good at this game?

What causes this phenomenon?: Even in Nov of 2025.

/oxce/ - OpenXCOM: Embarrassing mods for embarrassing commanders. >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: >>2235642

Master of Command: So what's the verdict so far on Master of Command? Been playing the demo and it's a good game so far, but the controls seem kinda janky.

Other than the pretentious woke cover art for this game, Humankind is actually not that bad. I think it's better than Civilization 7. It's been several years since release so I'm curious if anyone else has changed their mind. So far, I like it.

/trb/ - Football Manager: Are you sticking with 26 or going back to FM24?

Dawn of War: Definitive Edition: It's unfortunate that the Definitive Edition for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War completely failed to address the biggest thing that's holding it back from unlocking its multiplayer potential. The lack of information transparency. The game tells you like 10% of the things you need to know to properly utilize your units. >This unit has armor type (Heavy) Infantry and it's good against Infantry and/or Heavy Infantry. Majority of units in the game, but there's a huge difference in how and why they are effective against Infantry or Heavy Infantry. Then you get situations where you are clueless until you experience it, if you see then comparatively unique armor types like Commander or Daemonic, and even then it makes a big difference on what kind of unit is having this armor type. The most straightforward group is Vehicle armor type - most units that claim to be good against Vehicles are, in fact, good against the Vehicle armor type. But some of them are also great at ruining infantry compositions despite not being good against them, some are useless against infantry unless it's a small unit size squads... etc etc. I think it would've been much better if the game just straight up listed the weapons the units use and explained exactly how each weapon type generally works and what are the weapon's advantages and disadvantages. Like get rid off "this unit is good against X" and instead "this unit has [weapon], which is effective against [armor type AND what quantity/quality we're talking about][+ any special ability of the unit's weapons]. And then, instead of blindly relying on vague "good against" tips, you can go down into the minutia/balance issues, how the Heavy Bolter for Space Marines is actually superior to Plasma Guns in 99% of cases because the Plasma Guns don't do enough damage in their niche, and their only real advantage is that you can fire them (very inaccurately) on the move, unlike Heavy Bolters which need to be set up. We need a Spirit of the Dawn.

Rule the Waves III: It's time. The Goddess of Vengeance is getting ready to redress the wrongs of June 4th, 1942. The docks are emptied. The fleet is underway. Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X_Y8W0bkwI

Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ryr8UF4SX4 It's out (in 20 days). Thoughts? We now have italians on both sides.

Bookmarks in Paradox games:: It's strange to me how they've gone from what feels like a major part of the game to a mostly forgotten side feature to something that has been totally removed in everything but CK3. It's especially noticeable in the context of EU5, with many people wishing the game had featured a different start date. What caused them to fall out of popularity, either with the game developers or the fans, so much?

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

/v3g/ is a thread for the discussion of the game Victoria 3 mainly, however discussion of other Victoria games like 1 and 2 as well as mods or even similar games is allowed. 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 said good Why are my states not buying anything from the market! States need trade centers to reach the global market, a trade center needs access to a port to function Meaning if you are landlocked you might have to go to war or sign a treaty I signed a transit treaty with a country and my trade centers still won't trade? That is because you need merchant marine to trade, which is produced by ports If you have no ports of your own you need to "buy" merchant marine by signing a goods transfer treaty with another power 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 Thread Template : https://rentry.co/v3gpasta

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

Frostpunk 2: Fractured Utopias: DLC dropped yesterday, but it seems nobody is keen on discussing it, if they even got it. I got it myself and playing rn. So, I gotta ask. What went wrong?

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.

The Campaign Trail: CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.html NCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/index.html

>Your majesty, your new kingdom awaits!

ITT obscure strategy games that you only know: For me it is mud and blood 2

Worst looking units: Thread inspired by this >>2175383 thread. Post only the most cringe looking strategy units. Starting off with Praetorian from Homm6. Tier 1 unit btw.

TNO thread: Thanks for not baking on page 7 this time. 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 24 roundtable notes. Germany never. https://files.catbox.moe/zo5zhk.pdf - Post-Antarctica 25 roundtable notes. https://files.catbox.moe/9320n5.pdf - Japan rework proposal. https://files.catbox.moe/chzsvc.pdf - Japan Funada Design Doc. https://files.catbox.moe/beh76f.pdf - France proposal. Nearly 200 pages and fucked by DV. https://files.catbox.moe/omzl7q.png - France flowchart. Resistance is dead. https://files.catbox.moe/xlhrjj.pdf - Sweden proposal. Dev seems to have finally stopped posting here. https://files.catbox.moe/ycctp0.png - Sweden flowchart. We lost Pakt Sweden for this OTL-fest. https://files.catbox.moe/egf8m0.pdf - Charlemagne Insurrection proposal. Cut. https://files.catbox.moe/l70qhw.pdf - Burgundian Eulogy: A dev is made to justify why his own above proposal got cut. 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/vdpi8k.pdf - Red Italy proposal. Rest in peace, you were too good for this mod. https://files.catbox.moe/izg02l.png - 6th (?) space race mech rework mockup.

/euvg/ - Europa Universalis V General: >A.K.A. /eu5g/ - Europa Universalis 5 General "What came up when I looked for 'Byzantine-chan' on Google" edition >NEWS >Patch 1.0.8 is live >https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/patch-1-0-8-live-now.1884049/ >Patch 1.0.10 will be the last patch until February next year >https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-91-10th-of-december-2025.1887357/ Buildings have missing inputs: >>2290801

>places within your country with 0% government control generate no wealth whatsoever >money taken from your pops through taxes is straight up multiplied by your tax efficiency >taxing your pops at 100% ends up making them pay ways more than their income into the state treasury At this point I'm convinced that paradox is incapable of not filling their games with blatant socialist propaganda. EU5 is just as filled with it as Vic3.

Should I play CK2 or 3?: I’ve got over a thousand hours in Stellaris, have all of the EU4 DLC, have had my time in Victoria 2 and 3, and bought Imperator but never installed it. I’m now curious about CK. But which one should I look at getting? What are the fundamental differences between the two?

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

>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.

The Fallen Lords' Bread: >be maybe 12 >see this game in a magazine hyped as 3D RTS >screens look ugly so ignore >mom and dad buy PC for Christmas >no games, so buy magazine with demo disk >Myth is there >decide to check it out >Bagrada! >holy fucking kino! I'm now an old fuck and jaded about games, nothing catches my attention and everything seems shit. I have these initially sad moments when I launch modded Myth 2 just to kill some time and it's always a breathtaking experience. The narrative, the missions, the gore, the battles, the feeling of hopelessness... Yet you still micro, you still fight, you eventually win and then you see this screen with stats, see your heroes and casualties and it hits hard. No game has ever had this long-lasting impression on me, I don't think it's nostalgia, I just think it's THAT GOOD. Lets talk about it, shall we? Any anons on here been myffin lately?

This game has spoiled me as far as QoL in gaming goes I don't care if you like it or not, if you're a SucKom moldy sandwich hugger or campaignlet or whatever, what I'm saying is that the QoL that this game has introduced is by far the best experience in controlling anything in an RTS and makes me uncomfortable to play anything else now. I want this level of easiness to play to another game like Age of Empires or even Starcraft clones. Runs on any potato seamlessly with 8v8 people as well, looks incredible, is a proper sandbox and supports modding as well on top of being free. But I don't want more BAR. I want others to realize how much they have been sucking lately and how mogged can they be. I want more RTS with different flavors and rules in my life, not only more TAs, but with this level of quality.

Foundation or Farthest Frontier. And I guess Manor Lords but that's still in early access.Which is the better medieval city builder? How they differ? Personal I don't play often city builders but I do like Anno series which has some city builder elements.

Steam Machine & STRATEGY games: How well you think this will perform on strategy games (and specifically the unoptimized garbage Paracuck keeps propping up)? Specs-wise it looks fine, though I don't know how well SteamOS runs games made for Windows. Also even though VR is typically viewed as a meme gadget, imagining the entire world projected on my living room wall for me to paint gives me a massive hard on. What do you guys think?

Is it for sweaty compfags only or is 4v4 or campaign still hot?

Heroes of might and magic Older Era: Your thoughts on the demo? So far what's your favorite: >faction >unit >hero Personal I found myself gravitating toward Dungeon the most. It got some really nice line-up. I think minotaurs and medusas are my favorite. In term of heroes I don't have yet favorite, but I like the dragon guy from Dungeon and the black armored guy from Necropolis.

What Paradox game should I play if I just want to engage in imperialism and making buffer states? Victoria?

What is a good city builder with military and multiplayer?

>want to play more >install >old save is still there >open it >8 contracts accepted >not really sure what these are >"Orbit Eve" >oh that should be easy >start designing satellite with the biggest relay dish research points could buy >remember building is fiddly >remember manoeuvre nodes are fiddly >remember I have to eyeball transfer windows >remember running out of dV I just want to enjoy space exploration

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

Are there any other historical strategy games in the same time period as Victoria 2?: I do not play a lot of strategy games but I love Victoria 2 mostly because it is my favorite time period and I love history. I have tried Victoria 3 and I did not like it. I’ve been playing Europa Universalis V lately as well but I’m not enjoying it that much. I’ve tried HOI4 and CK3 but didn’t like them either. I also didn’t like Civ 6. Despite not liking basically any other strategy games other than Victoria 2 it’s probably my favorite game. Are there any other strategy games I might like?

What's next?: So, given fairly successful release of EUV it is certain that no Paradox shutdown will be happening in foreseeable future. That begs the question - what's next? Both Stellaris and HoI4 will be decade old next year. And while HoI4 is still very popular, Stellaris is falling more and more behind while getting plagued with technical issues, bugs, shit performance and the botched 4.0 rework. Maybe We will see Stellaris 2 announced next year? Or will they just keep milking these games until last drop? Any other ideas?

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: just finished a round of Alpha Centauri. seems as good an excuse as any to create a thread about it >It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people! - Chairman Sheng-ji Yang

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.

>"KNIGHTS!"

Story of Seasons / Stardew Valley / Rune Factory / Harvest Moon / Farming & Life Sims: Why did Marvelous abandon the Trio of Towns formula? >multiple towns with different aesthetics and strong identities >food effects encourage cooking variety >crops have 4 different qualities, plus giant and golden crops >animals have 4 qualities as well >festivals below the highest difficulty only judge a selection of qualities, necessitating different fertilisers/treats than your default >father has a rad nickname in the festivals that aged wonderfully It's hard to play other farming sims after that. Throwing fertiliser at crops and getting a "chance" that they'll get a star next to their name. But only that one time, next sowing season you start from 0 again, whether you make seeds from good crops or not. Gay ass waifus. Half-baked combat thrown into every game. Why not make farming good and cut the rest? Trio of Towns will have its 10th anniversary next year and in my mind it hasn't been surpassed since. You know the staples. What would you change to improve the genre?

The Russian Civil War: Any /vst/ approved russian civil war kinos on the market? it can be mods as well

I don't like how in EU5 armies can instantly retreat. What bothers me most is that they already had a very servicable system in ck2, where routing a flank puts that flank into a rout phase where they deal 0 damage and slowly leave the battlefield, but the other side still deals damage, and manually retreating puts every flank into the retreat phase until they all leave the battlefield. Why didn't they just do that? I mean it was far from perfect, they could have done something different, but as it is there isnt even a placeholder, they just leave.

Lost technology: Has anyone tried this game? could a smooth brained person like me enjoy it? I found Dominions and Conquest of Elysium too much menuing and strategy for my taste

Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000: So... 40K TW is confirmed. How shit will it be?

Paradox can't help themselves. eu5 is done.

The future of strategy games is here

X4 foundations: Diplomacy update public beta out NOW

I got it for $3 on steam, what am I in for?

Aside from Rome Total War, what's the best strategy game for feel like this?

How do we feel about Battleplan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YoFJV9m_5Y

AOE2/WC3 Hybrid: I am currently in the early stages of developing a real-time strategy game that aims to combine elements from Age of Empires II and Warcraft III. Both of these titles have had a major influence on me as a player and as a designer. Age of Empires II is remarkable for its strategic depth, focus on economic management, and large-scale battles, although I have always felt it is somewhat limited in a few key areas, such as unique unit mechanics and hero-focused gameplay. Warcraft III, on the other hand, introduced those very features through its heroes, abilities, and more character-driven armies, yet it lost some of the depth found in other systems, particularly in the balance of ranged units, counter mechanics, and naval warfare. My goal is to create a game that brings together the strongest qualities of both styles. I want to capture the grand scale and tactical complexity of Age of Empires II while incorporating the individuality, progression, and fantasy-driven personality of Warcraft III. The idea is to give players the satisfaction of building a thriving civilization and commanding large armies, while also offering memorable units, meaningful choices, and greater variety in strategy. I would love to hear from the /vst/ community about what you would like to see in a project that blends these two approaches. Which mechanics or ideas from either Age of Empires II or Warcraft III do you think are essential to preserve, improve, or completely rework? I am also open to suggestions for other RTS games that might serve as good sources of inspiration. Whether they are classic titles or more recent releases, I would really appreciate your thoughts on what makes those games stand out and what lessons they might offer for this project. Thank you in advance for your insights. I am looking forward to hearing your ideas and discussing what could make an RTS like this both exciting and rewarding to play.

Total War: LEGO 40K: LET'S FUCKING GOOOO!!! OMNISSIAH VULT!!!

It's so OVER for you now

RTS Campaigns: I love a good RTS campaign. What are some good ones? What makes a good RTS campaign? What are some underrated ones? Did Arthas really need to purge that city?

Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding: >half the mods posted in these threads are just teasers >they'll never be released >some of the dev teams have expressly stated this >they still get posted why. previous: >>2271833

>the cancer that killed total war

Hardest RTS campaigns?: I'm currently playing Earth 2140 on NORMAL and holy fuck. I'm 20 hours in and haven't finished the UCS campaign yet. Granted, some missions were harder than needed because I didn't realize you could call in reinforcements on some maps, BUT >Maps are a grind and sometimes come down to who runs out of resources first >I'm convinced the Devs are downright evil. They know the pathfinding for UCS mechs sucks, and the maps are a combination of chokepoints, cliffs, and destroyable terain you have to manually target. UCS air sucks so you have to grind them down with mechs all the time if you don't have the SHADOW vehicle that gives stealth to your mechs >One of the Scandinavia missions has you approach an enemy base from two sides with a 1 tile chokepoint on each sides. Your mechs stack up and die really easily. The UCS navy sucks, and you don't have air in that mission forcing you to grind them down wave by wave hoping to snipe some of their important buildings >Many missions start you in the middle between multiple enemy bases and they assault you immediately. >Constant raids by enemy air and land transports full of infantry that capture your buildings and blow them up. >Also, if the objective is to capture a building and you take it, they'll actively try to retake it and blow it up, failing the mission for you. >Scripted attacks all over the place This truly was a time when devs didn't give a fuck. I've heard that the Warcraft 2 expansion is hard but I haven't played it. Recommend some ball busting campaigns

RTS with different sub factions?: Hello, im looking games like SC2 Coop, where there is general race, but there are sub factions that significantly change up how that race is being played (like how Raynor plays differently compared to Nova or Megsk) I know that DoW 2/3 and CnC Generals in which, you pick commander and that commander gives you different general powers

How do we feel about Falling Frontier?

>lets make the game slow as shit and also remove claim fabrication so youll be doing nothing most of the time lol What were they actually thinking here?

Thoughts on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms strategy games made by Koei?: I almost never hear any strategy game fans mention this series but apparently it is very good?

Sea Power: Why aren't you playing it right now? Why aren't you escorting carriers and hunting Soviet submarines?

Warhammer 40k Total War: >Supposedly under development >Type of warfare that hasn`t been tried in TW format. >Ranged and melee still suck and are broken >Units get stuck on everything and charges break down. >Dumbed down campaings compared to historical total war which is already dumbed compared to any 4x >Battles are dumbed down with SE stacking >Will have to compete with DOW IV >Last DLC for their cash cow was a 12 months ago Does CA want SEGA to boot them out?

Mobile /vst/: Is polytopia the only halfway decent mobile strategy game? I know the entire mobile market is cancer but there's gotta be something else I can play on my phone during breaks or when I'm taking a shit at work

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic: W&R:SR thread Discuss the engoodening of Early Start, get mad about feature creep and post your decrepit commieblocks.

/dfg/ - Dwarf Fortress General: GRUDGE Edition Previous: >>2230110 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 (53.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). >!!NEWS!! 11/03/25 - The first part of the Siege Update was released as version 53.xx, giving besiegers (goblins and humans) the ability to dig/destroy walls, build paths, more awareness of traps and killzones, and more. >What is next? Bugfixing/maintaince cycle and later Siege Update Part II, which aims bring some magic into fort mode by adding spellcasters and warlocks into the besiegers ranks, and have them set your dorfs pants on fire. Also some form of magical defence for your dorfs. >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 that (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!

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

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!

Rise of Legends: >Its been 19-20 years since it released >TWO DECADES >Yet game is still not for sale in Steam or GOG. WHY? I want to buy it again, and the possibility of a remaster, even if small. And I want to state this FACT: Rise of Legends is superior to its predecessor. There, I said it.

Nurgle triumphed, all is ugly this days: >DoW 4 looks like DoW 3 >TW:40k looks like DoW 4 Why would anyone want 3 DoW 3? >nvm, people payed full prices for 3 TW:WF

FIRE EMBLEM THREAD: You guys think this game is gonna be an FF6 style game with an ensemble cast or will it continue the Fire Emblem tradition of being shackled to decades long tropes?

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?

So, lat weekend I installed Master of Olympus and replayed the campaign. I haven't played it in like 20 years so I set the difficulty to easy because I remembered that a few of the maps where quite challenging on harder modes. And even then I had to restart some missions. It's true that video games got dumbed down with time to not make tard kids feel excluded.

Dark Omen just dropped on GOG boys

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

Total War 40k: >check combat >animations look like shit That weird feeling the engine may still be "TW Engine 3" (aka, the same since Empire, 2009) and / or actual cool animations (blood, dismemberments, unique death animations, etc.) will be AGAIN a fucking DLC (or FLC if pre-order). >but dev team said "40k is war, blood and gore are key experience" Ok and? They said the same shit in 2016 with Wh1 and they cut it anyway to made a DLC with it. In Wh3 you have an entire free fountain of blood in "Khorne's realm", yet you still need the blood DLC for the combat. This franchises (TW, WF and 40k) should be put in stasis for, at least, the next 15 years.

Why did Microsoft fumble AoM so hard?

>play >press buttons faster than the enemy >win Why is this considered strategy and allowed on this board? This shit is basically just Osu but without the music and in pvp mode.

Total War Warhammer 40k confirmed: Some guy on reddit looked through the engine video frame by frame and read the labels. Turns out they have a bunch of things labeled "40k" and other lines related to "fleet_maneuvers" That leaves people to speculate on the details now, before the "reveal" on Thursday lol

Civilization 3: Thanks to the C3X mod, it's now possible to build districts in Civ 3 as well. Check instafluff’s post for the recommended settings: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/c3x-exe-mod-including-bug-fixes-stack-bombard-and-much-more.666881/page-159#post-16889104

Is Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles the best strategy game?

Starcraft Brood War - Soulkey Avenged Edition: In less than 24 hours, Park Sang Hyun, also known as Soma, will defeat Bisu, qualifying for the ASL 20 final, wherein he will defeat Snow, thereby avenging Soulkey's aberrant defeat and keeping the title in Zerg hands for the fifth ASL in a row. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

this game is peak comfy but I can't win on Hard unless I'm playing Haven. Am I just bad? Let this serve as the heroes of might & magic thread

It has leaked: They kept it secret until 2 days before, not bad. Can't believe people expected 40k

/gsg/ — Grand Strategy General: "Fixed the OP like a dog" edition. How fares your empire, /gsg/? On this day in history, the 8th of December: 536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital. 730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami. 1432 – The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War. 1531 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City. 1905 – In France, a law separating church and state is passed. 1946 – The subsequent Nuremberg trials begin with the Doctors' Trial, prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia. 1948 – The Genocide Convention is adopted. 2010 – Dov Shilansky, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician, 10th Speaker of the Knesset (born 1924) dies. 2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage. 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] - Namemissingmod https://pastebin.com/Xgjd5LvG >>[V2] - Crimeamod https://www.moddb.com/mods/crimeamod >>[VARIOUS] - Interactives List https://infaera.neocities.org/ Previous thread: >>2264127

Best looking units: Post only the most kino looking strategy units (bonus point if they are OP)

>best heavy anti air weapons in the game (longest ranged as well) >best tanks in the game >heaviest and most reliably destructive lategame units >absolutely insane firerate artillery that can't be jammed, intercepted or shot down >easiest economy to set up in the game >structure that gives them their best units can withstand a direct hit from a nuke >best helicopters in the game (can go completely invincible for 6 seconds) >extremely cheap infantry that detect camouflaged units >loads of offense-based abilities that call in free vehicles or infantry >tesla bullshit absolutely rapes anything on the ground seriously what is their weakness? Expensive vehicles? That doesn't even matter when you can spam money-generating units infinitely

Sid Meier's Colonization: play the original? or the Civ IV spinoff? or Imperialism I (or Imperialism II)? I did play the original Colonization a bit as a kid but concerned how the DOSBox version (GOG version) runs

Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition: It's up

/mbg/ - Mount & Blade General: I still believe in Bannerlord MODDERS >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): >>2270433

Grand Tactician Napoleonic: >Napoleonic Kino coming next year

how accurate are the system recommendations for eu5? do I absolutely need a 14700K/7800X3D and 32gb ram to run it? what will happen if I have only 16gb or integrated graphics?

Best TW for a complete newbie.: I've been lurking around here and people seem to mention Total War a lot. I talked to one of the guys at my local GW I know, and he recommended Medieval 2, but Rome Remastered looks pretty interesting (Rome is cool). I know basically nothing about Total War. I have only played traditional RTS games and X-COM when it comes to strategy. Which one is the better choice, or is there a better 'beginner' game out there? (I'm a zoomie btw, but I don't care what year it's from or how old it is. I generally prefer historical to Warhammer fantasy, though)

DoW unification mod: What are your favorite factions for both single player skirmish and multiplayer?

How do I acquire proficiency?

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

Running a Cold War forum game: A turn-based, text-based forum game set in the 1980s has recently started. Anyone may join as any country, rebel/guerrilla group, party, individual, or whatever other entity existed at the time. Here's a link to the thread explaining how the game works and how to join: https://eregime.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=21199

/euvg/ - Europa Universalis V General: >A.K.A. /eu5g/ - Europa Universalis 5 General "Stop fucking up the OP, baking really shouldn't be that difficult" edition >NEWS >Patch 1.0.8 is live >https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/patch-1-0-8-live-now.1884049/ >Patch 1.0.10 will be the last patch until February next year >https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-91-10th-of-december-2025.1887357/ Converting province: >>2287171

What does this country look like, on the ground floor? Like if you walked the streets of mamlukean Australia, what would you see? I know this is a reddit "haha funny map" trend of having stupid shit where it doesn't belong but don't you ever want to draw in your head how a nordic 19th century tokyo looks like at night? Or visit the houses of those chinamen who conquered medieval italy? Or maybe see the buddhist shrines of the aztec empire?

Against the Storm: I love this game but why the fuck did they make it so grindy? Starting a new save is such a chore. Also, sex with female harpies

C&C Generals Zero Hour modding: What are your expectations regarding the probable renaissance in modding now that the source code has been released at the beginning of this year

RTS: What are you >playing, >watching, >wondering about?

Master of Orion: MoO1 vs 2 vs apparently we don't talk about 3 vs Conquer the Stars where apparently mods make it OK. Which Master of Orion do you prefer? I've only ever played 2 but love it dearly, minus some of the micromanagement with planets that tends to happen

DUNC Spice Wars: now that devs have run off and dust has settled, what are your opinion about this game? Personally, I like game, but I'm rather pissed off that last few updates nerfed Corrino's hard. And I feel that devs could've added new faction, or at least revamped assassination/espionage game (like they said they will). now they run off and didn't even finished tutorial missions.

Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding: Toozer edition previous >>2254243

Civilization - Tech Trees: Been playing some civ6 coop recently and tinkering with mods. I don't think I wanna play with a big tech overhaul mod, at least not for coop, but the placement of Men At Arms is really annoying me. You get them with Apprentice as is, the big medieval econ tech, sure they require iron, but they're still a bit too accessible and they kinda squash the earlier eras. my idea >Blue moving men at arms from Apprentice to Military Engineering. >Green adding Engineering and Mathematics as prereqs for Castle(and Coursers) >Red adding Iron Working as a prereq for Military Engineering adding Machinery as a prereq for Gunpowder Halberds and Crossbows might still be too easy to get, and Men At Arms is still kinda accessible, but at least it's not bundled with the great economics techs. I think this would make the games play a bit better, and it's not too arbitrary. I know you have to handwave the techs a little at times, and figure when a tech is named after a subject they're trying to refer to a certain level of expertise in the subject, but still I think you can tune it a little better without it being too messy. With the units and number of techs that exist in the game, maybe it isn't possible to really rearrange things in a fully satisfying way, but Men At Arms have felt especially awkward. Which tech tree grievances do you have?

Is this Rimworld but good, or Rimworld but bad?

/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General: Army of rams edition prev >>2241052

me play fungoids: how to commit genocide?

Starsector: Modders are fags and should get their bucks broken.

How to not fail miserably? I just want to survive and leave the country relatively okay.