Welcome to /vst - Video Games/Strategy: /vst/ is a place to discuss all types of strategy video games, including both turn-based and real-time strategy, turn-based and real-time tactics, single-player and multi-player (including MOBAs). All platforms are welcome. Does this mean discussion of strategy games is banned on other video game boards? No! /vst/ is just a separate board specifically focused on strategy games where discussions about your favorite games can thrive. Please familiarize yourself with the rules and remember to use the spoiler function where appropriate!

/oxce/ - OpenXCOM: "Recruiting" more hybrids. >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: >>2293303

EU4: Anbennar: I love the Jadd edition Previous thread: 2167441

/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General: If you see a gibberish post, it was made by raiders, ignore it. No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it never will be. Neither is EU5. How fares your empire, /gsg/? On this day in history, the 16th of January: 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Byzantine Senate, marking the beginning of the Byzantine Empire. 550 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison. 1275 – Edward I permits his mother Eleanor of Provence to expel the Jews from the towns Worcester, Marlborough, Cambridge and Gloucester. 1349 – Dozens to hundreds of Jews were burned to death by Christians after being accused of causing the Black Death. 1537 – Bigod's Rebellion, an armed insurrection attempting to resist the English Reformation, begins. 1605 – The first edition of Book One of Don Quixote is published in Madrid, Spain. 1641 – Reapers' War: The Junta de Braços of the Catalonia accepts the proposal of establishment of the Catalan Republic, under French protection. 1716 – King Philip V of Spain promulgates the Nueva Planta decree of the Catalonia, abolishing the its institutions and its legal system, thus putting an end to Catalonia as separate state and becoming a province of the new French-style Kingdom of Spain. 1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt 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 >>[V2] - Napoleon's Legacy v0.3.2 https://github.com/napoleons-legacy/mod >>[V2] Alternative Flag Pack V11.1 http://pastebin.com/PRQH8vcV Previous thread: >>2314608

/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

The siege towers do not work in this game, is there any way I can fix this? My soldiers pile up in it but never get on the walls.

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.

/eu5g/ - Europa Universalis 5: aka Imperator Rome 2.0 Liever Turks dan Paaps Edition Johan realized that all the QOL features of eu4 like the unit builder or navies returning to harbour at war weren't just bloat and are adding them now https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-95-21st-of-january-2025.1896111/ Johan, PBUH, heard our prayers and about vassals forcing you into wars. You can now choose to reject their calls to war and if you join you become auto leader https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/tinto-talks-extra-misc-things-22nd-of-january-2026.1896310/ Annexing, converting, culture assimilating and knocking down all towns in >>2318534

Age Of Mythology Thread: I love this game. I like it more then AOE2. Discuss it.

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)?

Heroes of Might and Magic: Let's discuss the greatest fantasy turn based strategy series of all time. >Heroes of Might and Magic III The greatest fantasy strategy game ever made, contender for best TBS ever along with SMAC obviously. >Heroes of Might and Magic IV Greatest soundtrack in the series, most innovative game too but unfortunately it didn't have enough time (money) to flesh out its good ideas and fix the bad ones. >Heroes of Might and Magic V An admirable attempt to capture the magic of the 3rd game, while still trying to incorporate some ideas from the 4th. Haven't played the rest, although I had the 2nd game on my backlog ever since I got it for free 20 years ago. From what I've heard it's just a more imbalanced version of 3, with less options. Just like M&M VI is to VII! I missed the 30 year anniversary last year, just like Olden Era missed its release date to commemorate the anniversary.

POV: You've been banned from my park. You will never get to return to this land of wonder. Jealous? Yeah I thought you'd be.

/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General #2: Today is Ganesh Jayanti (also called Ganesha’s Birthday), let's celebrate and play some Hindustani/Gurjarat/Dravidian/Bengali team games! Here I am wrecking some noob as off-civ warmup, mom is making tikka, life's good friends

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

American Conquest: Has anyone played this game? It's like Age of Empires 2 but set in America during colonization. You can play as both the European powers and the natives. I think it's pretty good.

/dfg/ - Dwarf Fortress General: goonicorn edition Previous: >>2298043 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!! 12/19/25 - Dwarf Fortress 53.08 released with rebalanced material dig speeds, the 7th patch for the siege update. Recent patches also include hundreds of new creature portraits, bug fixes, and tweaks to siege behavior. >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!

/mbg/ - mount and blade general: best girl and animu mods when edition (looted): >>2297392 >M&B Wiki 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

Rimworld thread: I like to think it wasn't just the anarchists that destroyed the empire. There used to be a mention of an unknown thread and it being aliens but it would be really lame if it actually was. Part of the appeal of rimworld is that earth was the singular origin point of life in the universe and so it'd make more sense they fought a war against an archotech, possibly Horax, and lost

>removes features from the game and replaces them with unfinished ones it's over, isn't it? we will never get a proper city builder with combat

Terra Invicta: Release edition is out! Who you playan?

/HTW/ Historical Total War thread: Since /twg/ is mostly about Warhammer now, let's have this again. Talk about historical Total War games and their mods (fantasy mods are also welcome). previous thread >>1991167

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?

RTS will never quite match the daunting complexity of a hex-based wargame

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

Songs of Syx: Amevian edition 0.70 is live

What's the /vst/ verdict on Old World? Is it worth picking up? Is the Paradox-like slew of DLC good?

Graviteam Tactics/Combat Mission - Eternal Rivalry Edition: Thread to discuss Graviteam Tactics and Combat Mission games. Screenshots and AAR's welcome.

EU5 EUV WHAT'S GOING ON?: I was thinking of (pirating) this game. Why are 52% of the recent steam reviews negative?

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

Disciples: Fuck dwarfs

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

Starsector: Eagle appreciation edition

>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.

Civilization 3: >adopt monarchy >my profit immediately goes down by like 20 coins I feel bamboozled. Anyway I've picked up Civ3 for the first time in who knows how many years. It's definitely less bloated that later entries from the series, which has its charm. What's your opinion about the game? What's your favorite civ and map/scenario? I picked up Celts both because I like the historical civilization itself as well as their in-game bonuses.

Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children: Autistic Mechanics Edition 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 Masteries in Order of Appearance: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3449881683 Banished Children news updates status: https://steamcommunity.com/games/470310/announcements/detail/654835706915456842?snr=2___

Three Kingdoms: What's the verdict on this?

Most advanced Medieval 2 Total War mod yet just dropped. https://www.divide-and-conquer-ago.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IyAmjMXOkA

Just played through the Songs of Conquest campaigns. Hero progress carries over between missions which is nothing unusual, but also between campaigns when you're fighting the guys you controlled in a previous campaign. Silverlink still had all of the resource generating Glimmerweave items I stacked on her in the previous campaign. I imagine you could make things a lot easier/harder in later campaigns depending on how you leveled and itemized your heroes.

The alienation of their fanbase continues. That's why right after I pointed out that Hector Doomhammer was my favorite C&C streamer, they released the update removing the one unit voiced by him from their mod. Couple that with my favorite faction (China) getting nerfed the next day alongside my account being banned from their forum, and I really do think there's a fucking conspiracy going on. I swear they're going after me, that's why I'm going after them

/asd/ - Amateur Strategy Development: 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: >>2032893 >Useful resources for making games Free icons: https://game-icons.net/ Free HQ textures: https://ambientcg.com/ Kanban for organization: https://www.kanbanthing.com/ 3D modelling program: https://www.blender.org/ Pixel art editor: https://www.aseprite.org/ Image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ Vector editor: https://inkscape.org/ Map editor: https://qgis.org/ Game engine: https://godotengine.org/ Music composer: https://onlinesequencer.net/ SFX generator: https://elevenlabs.io/

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.

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!

Conquest of Elysium 5: >Playing the troll king in dark ages >Struggling getting more unit due to lack any good gold source >Mum join in as I discover the gold mine >Recruit few meat shield and rash the gold mine >Victory! Finally I can get some good shit >Fog random event ? Ehh not big of problem >The dead rise from their grave in gold mine >What? >Tartarian Spirit and huge army of undead I fucking hate the rng in this game

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?

Naval Wargames: Happy new years edition! Lets have us all a friendly ship design competition, post your boats! Use the 1935 start, ship must be legal. Best looking or impressive wins (You)'s! Thread theme: https://youtu.be/t8s_Z13jEeo?si=EtXoWTdrMUWKNp4s

why is nobody talking about this? biggest total war mod just dropped for attila and it made the games peak population triple overnight.

I am making a game suspiciously resembling EU4, what realism features, mechanics and other misc things did you feel Eu4 lacked? Making a list to take note of.

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?

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

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?

/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General: prööööööö edition Previous >>2319314

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)

Endless games: Discuss games in the Endless universe. Endless Space 2 has recieved a community patcb that squashed bugs, improved AI, and nerfed the Nakalim. https://community.amplitude-studios.com/amplitude-studios/endless-space-2/blogs/1022-community-update-out-now

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

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

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

Unpopular vst opinions thread.: I'll start with the fact I don't like the Populus games even 3.

>game predicts isis

Am I playing CK2 wrong?: >see a lot of CK2 videos in YT >looks like a cool RPG / Grand-strategy SANDBOX game, it's also FREE >got it, play it, pretty boring, where the RPG? where the strategy? where the sandbox? >get the DLCs, just reskinned / renamed vanilla mechanics that make things into something unnecessarily overcomplicate for the sake of it, makes you waste more time while trying to trick into thinking the game is more deep when it's not >"ANON official CK2 is boring perse, you MUST play OVERHAUL MODS!" >get them (AGOT, Warhammer, Warcraft, Faerun, HIP, WTWSMS, etc.), all were boring >where the RPG? where the strategy? where the sandbox? >also have to play it in x4 speed to finally see somthing happening, get PTSD from the constant notification spam (I wish there was a mod that get rid off that) >check Steam: all BLUE REVIEWS, check any forum: constant praising >"what am I doing wrong? am I so dumb that I can't enjoy RPG-GS games?"

How do I acquire proficiency?

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.

Do people still play this I recall this game had threads on /vst/

I last played this game 3 years ago and i remmeber I almost fnished the campaign before the chaos expansion. Should I restart of finish it? Not sure why I quit but IIRC I can move my guys to the next campaign.

X4 foundations: Diplomacy update public beta out NOW

4X / Grand-Strategy games with good AI?: Also, is it there a mod for CK2 that makes the AI an actual Artificial INTELLIGENCE?

The great debate

how do fix mental omgea

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

What are some citybuilders with military? I love stuff like the impressions games because you get to build a city and then fight inside of it. Just citybuilding by itself is boring.

this is releasing in two days. we hyped or not? prince of macdeon (THE PRINCE) also has a gameplay video from a couple days ago.

War in Spain is out now. Anyone played it? Is it a prototype for War in the Mediterranean or a WitP2?

Victoria 3 /v3g/: >passing laws is now slightly less annoying Amazing! At this rate the game will finally be be fixed by 2035!

Games only you played: Played a demo of this game a long time ago and it kicked my ass since I was a stupid child back then but I remember enjoying it a lot, decided to replay it recently and it's fairly fun and quite funny and it's far easier than I remember.

ohhhh so THAT's what she means when she says she "needs to find a mousehole"

Rise of Nations: Anyone else ever play this game? Never see any threads on it but its always been one of my favorites. The CTW campaigns are incredible, immersive and all the nations pretty well balanced (fuck the mayans though). Despite a few things that could be improved it still holds up well to this day. The soundrack is also just pure soul from the very early 2000s. Was it just not that popular or am I one of the few who actually liked it?

RTS oddities: >too many units on the map means certain units can't attack

Cats Who Play new release: >The game "Gostomel Bogatyrs" will be released on February 24, 2026, the 4th anniversary of the start of the Second World War and the landing of troops at Gostomel Airport. >The game will be priced at 750 rubles. >We're still working with Steam, and if we receive approval from the platform, we'll certainly let you know! >So, it shouldn't be long now. And yes, a demo version will be available for download on release day, so those hesitant can play one of the game's missions and decide whether the full game is worth the investment! Guess they got the morale system past the government.

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.

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.

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

what do we think of it?

OpenTTD: OpenTTD 15.0 released! https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/01/01/openttd-15-0

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.

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?

No one survives edition >M&B Wiki https://antifandom.com/mountandblade/wiki/Mount_&_Blade_Wiki > BANNERLORD >Latest Patch Notes - WS v1.1.1 / BL v1.3.13 https://steamcommunity.com/games/261550/announcements/detail/517481543704250508?snr=2___ >Pastebin https://pastebin.com/tAvcAbpT (embed) >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 (embed) >Thread(looted): >>2297392

/WDOSOTHG/ - Warhammer Dark Omen and Shadow of the Horned Rat General: With the recent release of Warhammer Dark Omen on GOG and with its prequal Shadow of the Horned Rat also being available, a general to discuss would be welcome. Questions, After Action Reports, Screenshots and Discussion are welcome. See below to purchase either game: https://www.gog.com/en/game/warhammer_dark_omen and https://www.gog.com/en/game/warhammer_shadow_of_the_horned_rat

War of Dots: >mogs HOI4 >mogs total war >entirely free on steam you're playing the most fun game of 2026, right anon? The 4 player mode is insanely fun

The future of strategy games is here

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

https://ferion.com/en are there any oldfags here who remember ferion? it's been rebuilt and in beta. It's also free to play in beta. for those who have never heard of it: it's a (used-to-be massively) multiplayer, 24/7, arena-style MoO clone. One game takes about 4-6 weeks to finish.

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

Thoughts on boomer wargames? I've been learning the new flashpoint campaigns over the last couple of days. I've been on and off with War in the East 2 as well, but the lack of simultaneous turns is really immersion breaking

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.

SC2 ESPORTS IN TROUBLE!!!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSePJlYxHpE

Theotown thread: I just think it's neat.

>the cancer that killed total war

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

>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.

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

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)

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

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

against the storm: Is it any good?

Hearts of Iron IV Thread: With No Compromise, No Surrender out in the wild, what are everyone's thought on it? What are some things that you feel should be improved on as of now, and what do you expect ( or wish to see ) on the new SEA-Oceania focused DLC coming out in the second quarter of 2026? Also, Hearts of Iron IV Thread.

Sudden Strike and Blitzkrieg bread: Linux edition: While I am aware that both games are different and people who like one, might dislike the other, to me they are inseparable. Think of na era in gaming history, when people tried to take make cool and unique stuff and wonderful games were created. Anyway, for those unfamiliar or returning: >where to get games? GOG or Steam, with GOG being preferable or just sharpen you cutlass. >which are worth getting? The original BK (comes with expansions) and SS Gold (included Forever) is where it's at. SS2 is revered, but has the mission pack syndrome of being aimed at veterans (hard) and Resource War doubles down on that while adding some RTS mechanics and fuel tedium, included in GOG's SS2Gold. Blitzkrieg 2 is full 3D, but not as good as the original. Destruction is great, but infantry models and animations are ass. Gameplay can be salvaged by mods. Sudden Strike 3 is also 3D and was shit on release due to unit pathfinding, which was fixed in the expansion that also patched the base game. Still content is slim, mostly long and tedious mission with shit like infinitely re-spawning tunnel-japs. >what about Blitzkrieg 3 and Sudden Strike 4? BK3 is complete trash that doesn't work on many systems anymore, avoid. SS4 is a more arcadey take on Sudden Strike, think Codename Panzers? The base game sucks, but the expansions are kind of ok, just don't pay full price of the it. >Mods? https://www.sudden-strike-maps.de/ https://www.blitzkrieg.be/bkmods Many recent SS mods are standalone games. >Linux? Yup, on Steam use older Proton and on Lutris Proton-GE works fine for both series, default wine doesn't. One thing to know is that some SS standalone mods like RWM 8.5 have the default exe being a lanucher and it won't work, you need to copy the files from game\code\release to \game and use game_exe.exe as the executable.

/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General: Tupi edition previous >>2301469

Northgard: Is this game basically modern iteration of Settlers? I played it and it feels not as good as dune by same dev. Any other game besides this, settles and battle realms where you build military units out of basic workers?

WE SO BACK STORMGATERS: WE SO BACK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYwSBQ1cebg

Strategy Games to hone political sense: Greetings. I am looking for strategy games, preferably grand strategy, that will help hone my political abilities and train me for my future career in politics. I am looking for accurate simulations that allow access to all policies, do not enforce socialism as the default winning strategy (all Paradox games are excluded here), and do not have alt history rubbish like Latvia forming the Kurgan Empire or whatever. Just pure strategy, that will sort strong politics from weak. Thank you for your suggestions.

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.

how come the a-train series never took off

CK2 hate thread: Post pics or greentexts about stuff that happened in your campaign that make you ragequit or give you the urge to do it. Mine >be tengrist Ilkhanate >actually doing pretty good >this retarded unskippable event happens >all my progress to reform Tengri nearly got wipeout (Same bullshit happened in my campaign of William the Bastard when he "decided" to become English and lose the Norman ability to raid.) I hope one day PDX will go bankrupt.

Horn of the Abyss 1.8.0: It's out! Download: https://h3hota.com/en/download Changelog: https://download.h3hota.com/upd/changelogs/eng.txt

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

>never been surpassed

RIP

most fun rts ive played in a long time. is almost similar to a immersive sim in what you can do. did /v/ get filtered by this game cause i hardly hear it ever talked about. People complain about the AI, but i feel like every single strag game people say the AI is shit

Battle Realms - Zen Edition: Has the Zen Edition meta been figured out yet? I still have PTSD from all my ranged deathball strats being nerfed, haven't played the game since I barely finished the Serpent campaign on hard.

when balancing RTS should the dev focus on only the top players as they are fully capable of knowing the ins and outs of the game or should every player (or let's say every player with a certain amount of matches) be taken into consideration? personally i lean towards option 1 but I've witnessed plenty cases where the top 1% have a "no fun allowed" mindset and where they even abuse some rare bug that only they know how to (fairly) reliably trigger

Shitty Historical Mods: >want to download a mod for Empire Total War >every single overhaul is filled with pseud retards that incorrectly remove grenades "BECUZ GRENADIERS DINT USE DEM ANYMO" despite being objectively wrong due to written treatises and archeological evidence Why do retards with zero historical credentials feel the need to pretend to be authorities on historical matters when making mods? Just make the damn game fun, you fucking hack frauds.

It looks so grim: >CA promises to revisit old titles to fix them, again >Shogun 2 / Rome 1 remaster drama all over again >and more bad, cringe things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9asiq729RhI

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?

Is it worth it to start with rts games in 2026? Never played one before.

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.

Let's have a chat about games you personally hate to like but still do. Also dune bread I guess.

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Pharaoh remastered: so now that modders fixed the remaster, what's your excuse for not playing it?

Paradox can't help themselves. eu5 is done.

Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding: Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? Now with baking! ——-MODDING RESOURCES——— >bit dot ly 3GPdwPD General Index of tutorials for photoshop, GFX, scripting, etc. This is a google doc, so be aware. >https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modding General article hub on modding, also has a lot of info in general on all pages. >Text Editors/Coding https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ https://www.sublimetext.com/ https://code.visualstudio.com/ Programs to write out proper syntax for code/scripting. Try to keep everything centralized in one program if possible; experiment and decide which one is right for you. >https://github.com/ Where 95% of HOI modders nowadays put mods alongside the steam workshop.

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

The Guild - Europa 1410: cautiously optimistic this time also whats wrong with 3? was it really THAT shite?

'bout to download this to experience Dawn of War 4 beforehand. What am I in for?

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.

sad satan by ZK: weird game isnt?

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

How long until Paradox abandon EU5? This was supposed to be their magnum opus.. no one wants to play..

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

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?

>"KNIGHTS!"

AI War series: What does /vst/ think about these games and their expansions?

King of Dragon Pass: And Six Ages. Post your tula.

Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition: It's up

So uhh... What ever happened to Land of Lords?

Original War: Is Sands of Siberia any good? The quick sketch cinematics like the American campaign look cool but I hoped the Arabs would have a different style.

>worker teleports back home lmao. dropped !

Builderbros help me pick: I try to limit myselft to 1 Early Access game every major sale. Which one is better? I'm particularly looking for deep content (not something that I'll feel like I've seen everything after 2 hours) And tens of hours (if not hundreds, maybe) of playtime

Not playing the game is more fun than actually engaging.: The gameplay of E*5 was fun for a while, but it takes a short time to learn the ropes, you quickly realise there is Little to challenge you since, in classic strategy gamę fashionable, the AI is braindead and has to rely on arbitrary modifiers on higher difficulties to keep the Player challenged in any way. I would say this is an issue with paradox but honestly, look at something like civ, the last game where the ai was in any way decent would be something like alpha centuri. But regardless of who's fault it is, it has Been only a few months and you know damn well that people are scraping the bottom of the barrel for entertiantiment from this game when they're ALREADY doing the whole "playing tall" dance to try to milk some sort of challenge out of the game. It's honestly sad, when I see this type of shit posted in Vic*oria 2 discussion I get it, there is fuck all to do in that game so your only ways of milking engagement out of it is by limiting yourself to 1 or 2 states. Same with &&4. But with it happening so soon to **5, I can't help but feel like this is a massive failure on the game's part. If people are electing to playing in 1 province and speed 5-ing through the game until they quit, I can barely call that a game at that point.

so what exactly went wrong with this one? for me the very first thing was the prefabricated buildings. they advertised the game as rimworld meets ck. let me build everything manually bro....!