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!

/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 will EU5. How fares your empire, /gsg/? On this day in history, the 11th of January: 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence 630 – Conquest of Mecca: Muhammad and his followers conquer the city, and the Quraysh association of clans surrenders 930 – Sack of Mecca by the Qarmatians 1055 – Theodora is crowned empress of the Roman Empire 1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus 1851 – Taiping Rebellion: Hong Xiuquan proclaims the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, starting the Jintian Uprising 1923 – Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay States 1946 – Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state 1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh 1994 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei: Municipal health officials in Wuhan announce the first recorded death from COVID-19 Random Country Picker http://orph.link/random >Archive (mods only) https://mega.nz/#F!plMxFYTB!sn9MTrvJ0tYjWSHgM8CZow >Where to get these games https://web.archive.org/web/20190720131512/http://hastebin.com/raw/moqugasume >Mods >> READ THIS FIRST. https://web.archive.org/web/20200712212437/https://pastebin.com/33A7wXdB >>[V2] - Niggermod https://pastebin.com/Xgjd5LvG >>[V2] - Crimeamod https://www.moddb.com/mods/crimeamod Previous thread: >>2322764

What strategy game has the best logistics mechanics?

/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 10th of February: 1258 – The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire. 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence. 1392 – Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day. 1763 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war. 1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened. 1920 – Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea. 1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. 1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. 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: >>2322764

When you start a new civ game (or any of its clones), all decisions are meaningful. The game lets you micro your troops for a good reason; if a scout dies you lose valuable intel, and if you can't beat barbarians your economy will suffer. Fast forward 300 turns later, you start a war with a weakened enemy who is clearly an easy target for conquest. Your army outnumbers theirs because you have dozens of tanks that the game still makes you control manually. Your victory is obvious, all that's left is clicking a hundred times and... it's boring to death. Is there any game that doesn't devolve into hellish QoL after the exploration/early economy phase?

Starsector: Previous thread: >>2322664 THD edition

Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding: This has to be one of the worst focus tree layouts in a mainstream mod. 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.

Menace: It's real major...

The Touhou Empires: New demo out until the 17th. Anyone interested in trying it? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1761210/The_Touhou_Empires/

/eu5g/ - Europa Universalis 5: Iron ore edition AKA waiting for v1.1 to get fixed edition

Void War sued by GW: Because the shoulder pads (good because disproportionated shoulder pads look retarded af). I hate GW but VW devs were not very intelligent doing a 40k-like (check the description of the game, it's literally 40k) knowing that GW is purging anything 40k-like (except Starcraft) for the last 6 years.

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

Shadow Tactics: >only 13 missions Is Aiko's choice worth it?

Grey Goo: I liked it. What went wrong?

DIY Unit Design: Why has no one tried to recapture the magic of Metal Fatigue? Yes, I know there are other games where you can partially design your own units (Warzone, KKND, or for turn-based games SMAC). But Metal Fatigue just hits different. Sure, it was mostly because of the animations and sound, but imagine the potential in having Combot on Combot action with proper physics for the limb cutting. Besides that, of course the vehicle combat (=all combat underground) sucked of course.

Warhammer Mark of Chaos: This game is way better than any of the 3 total war games

TW Shogun 2 videos are kino: Modern Japan with the Oda emblem is kino They should put lots of videos into Medieval 3

Menace: Which is your fav waifu? Is she better than chocolate?

Strategy games aren't popular because people are idiots. They're unpopular because devs can't understand the average joe. 1. If your tutorial is dogshit or takes hours, that's on the devs. Player's shouldn't rely on online video essays to enjoy the product they purchased. if I am just building things I don't understand, I'm not having fun whether I'm winning or losing. I need to understand the pros and cons of every decision I make. 2. If you don't make your AI smart and rely on unfair resources or other stat increases for difficulty. The player either fights a worthless idiot or must play unfair catchup until the enemy is a worthless idiot. Once I'm notably smarter than the AI, no difficulty level is fun anymore. The counter argument to both of these is, we only have so many resources to put into the games development but in the age of updates that's not an excuse anymore.

All Will Fall - Physics-Based Survival City Builder: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2706020/ALL_WILL_FALL_PhysicsBased_Survival_City_Builder/ Anyone else love the demo to this? I beat it and just started another run. It's a city builder with a focus on verticality and physics, you build on top of ruins of the old world and have to take into account structural stability when expanding. Over time the sea level gradually lowers and reveals more and more of the world below.

A genre is a framework for variation It's in a good state when focusing on exploration It's in a bad state when focusing on pattern matching and nostalgia maximising Are strategy genre fans generally "anti-genre"? The most popular talking points seem to be against deviation, e.g. >that's not a REAL strategy game >this doesn't feel like AoE2/Starcraft/Civ at all >I can't believe they introduced [new mechanic]

>ai creates this monstrosity what do?

Last Starship: so is it good?

Great Battles of History vs Field of Glory: Which way, young man?

Space Haven: >7 years of early access (releasing this year guys! Honest!) >had all the mechanics to begin with >slow burn idler but if you look away someone will die >takes as long as rimworld to unlock necessary technology >takes longer to get the resources to build it >everyone starts dying of malnutrition because nuts and meat are too hard to grow >includes suicide mechanics where characters will lock the door and chug pills >guns kill >sentry guns murder >cute pixel art >it takes 5 seconds for someone to level up their skills, just ask the computer how2medicine! >can literally just steal everything from anyone and they don't care >can watch another crew kill themselves in a derelict, ask for help, say no, and take their ship Why am I talking about this? Because it's addictive And I don't understand some mechanics, there are two wikis and everyone gave up caring (game feels unfinished, unlike Rimworld which is half a game, and hates you, but always felt complete)

How old were you when you took the rushpill and stopped being turtler scum?

Official artwork for the Pokemon theme park that opens today in Japan

Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding General: TFR is dying edition ——-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.

>elects to engage with about 20% of the game at best >proceeds to sit in the corner of the map doing absolutely nothing on speed 5 >wow this is boring but like... I recommend it... Can someone explain the "playing tall" phenomenon in the paradox community? You don't see total war players booting medieval 2 to sit on the British Isles as England for 300 years then posting their "campaign" (autoclicker on the end turn button) here, on youtube or reddit. But paradrones seem in love with the idea of not engaging with the game they're supposed to be playing and pretending that it's somehow a more sophisticated way to go about life. And no, this isn't a reddit or YouTube thing, I've seen people here post shit like this for years. Just look up "playing tall" in an archive if you don't believe me.

Total War 3 Kingdoms thread: I didn't remember how ugly 3 Kingdoms looks, how can people enjoy it unironically? I swear, even in 2026 I still hearing people mad about CA not keeping the development of this game. Like, are we looking at the same game or what? The only nice thing is the 2D art of the black ink with the letters and the pink flowers of the decree's tree. And beyond that, the combat is even worse than in Rome 2 somehow, and the whole development of your city, faction feels even SLOWER and boring.

Friends, Tropicans tell me, will it suck? I only like 3 and 4.

What's the best way to play warcraft III in the year 2026?

Anno 1800: now that it has been cracked, whats your excuse for not playing the BEST anno title?

WW2 Rome Remastered: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3315602160 lel anyone try this?

TNO thread (funeral crashers edition): As always, /tno/ updates more reliably than TNO itself. 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. Bleak. 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, fucked by DV. https://files.catbox.moe/omzl7q.png - France flowchart. Resistance is dead. https://files.catbox.moe/xlhrjj.pdf - Sweden proposal. Dev has 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 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. Three 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.

CK2/3 Ideas4Campaign thread: >check out recent news >Princess Sofia of Sweden >Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway >Duchess Sarah Fergusson, and her daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie of York Creating the Kalmar Union and, later on, the North Sea Empire as an Ashkenazi Jew. May Wotan-El-Elyon give me wisdom and strength. Post your ideas, CKbros.

Civilization series' scenarios: Which Civ has the best scenarios and more important, does anyone even plays them?

>Play any strat game in the last 25 years >AI will get stat boosts >AI gets faster deployment times >AI gets discounts on units >AI cheats >This is fair >This feels right >But its not fair if YOU get handicaps. Can anyone explain the reasoning behind this?

Rate the new snow wasteland recruits. The SVOLblader (my 20th gen daughterfu with no exclusivity clause Ishmaela) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fE6TihxGm4 The Master Blaster (my 20th gen daughterfu with no exclusivity clause Israela) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hki2OK5YJOk The Silent Wind (my 20th gen daughterfu with no exclusivity clause Medanela-san) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCiOv1QHObc The Police (my 21st gen daughterfu with communal exclusivity clause Diana) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHPiLXZQL9Y Also somebody please tell The Master Blaster she is holding the bazooka backwards and pointing in the wrong direction.

ANNO 117: So now that the dust has settled, >what went right? >what went wrong? >hopes and copes about new content & dlcs?

/imp/ - imperator rome general: there are dozens of us, dozens!

>Early access with "full game" starts >no threads What gives?

/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General: How are you holding up AoE2 chads? Excited for the Mapuche? I'm really looking forward to Bolas Riders and the team game synergy, can't wait Pic related, glorious one hand victory while snacking on naans dipped in garam masala. Post your favorite AoE2 snacks

So is CIV VI finally good now? I played it when it came out and didn't click with it. After it got all DLC's and fixes and all that, where does it rank now compared to CIV V in it's final state? is it worth picking up cheaply on some sale?

RTS Zoom: No rts has proper zoom distance options except World in Conflict Change my mind

This game fucking sucks. >awful accuracy on everything >game is all about dealing with low supply and ammo but your units have zero discipline and will deplete their AT into enemy infantry or fire 5.56 at tanks >accuracy is awful on everything, 've seen trained soldiers miss 3-4 SMAW rounds in a row at barely 50m distance against a vehicle or a humvee's .50 miss 80% of its rounds against a target a few meters away >game has permadeath for units/persistent campaign army but due to the heavy RNG nature of the game almost all your losses are due to the RNG being against you >the campaign loves to surprise you by giving you random units on the other side of the map which you cannot possibly save >or by changing the objective so you carefully laid plans are now all fucked up >it also likes to infinitely spawn enemy units from random map edges for no reason >enemy AI is completely unpredictable and not in a good way, it might sit in an open field and do nothing for 10 minutes before suddenly suicide rushing towards a position with no care for its own safety and snipe your unprotected crew that it had no way of knowing was there >it seems the devs realize this as the normal difficulty has your units take retarded amounts of punishment (e.g. a humvee taking direct tank shots or infantry shrugging off giant plasma balls) >units will randomly just ignore or not execute orders It tires to do something halfway between normal RTS and Men of War but it doesn't work, in Men of War units are actually effective and you can plan things out within reason and the RNG is a factor but not a huge one. In Defiance it's 50% your strategy, 50% RNG.

Opinion on Mow as2?: That game is bussin fr fr. Why is nobody talking about it here?

https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/21521526/ (archived) https://web.archive.org/web/20260123155536/https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/21521526/ The 'patch notes' for when Civ 7 enables playing as one-civ for the entire game was leaked via steamdb. Everything you see here is under NDA and you are not supposed to see it. The 'normal' way of playing as a civ through the whole game is now 'Anachronistic Civs', and you have a 'Syncretism' mechanic that allows for you to take another civ's atribute (like a UU) to carry to another. Gilgamesh is making a return. Thoughts?

is it any good

Checkmate Heroines - Chess with anime girls as pieces: The Steam page dropped... Would /vst/ play it?

City Tales - Medieval Era: new cozy organic medieaval city builder just dropped

This could've been the Total War killer if instead of being autistic, the dev did: >Remove the idiotic restrictive 9 knights system >add cultural differences between factions that arent just cosmetical >make women able to be spies/diplomats ( and the occasional general via event) instead of useless placeholders >add an option for character/troop/heraldry customization a la crusader kings >revamp the dynasty system so your family tree actualy matters, the hard limit of for children means its gameover if you have 4 daughters ( since they cant inherit or interact with the world AT ALL aside from engagements) Instead the dev did this: >Outright refused to provide proper modding tools for map/faction/troop modifications ( you can only tweak numers in game files for existing assets, anhd then, only barely) >Speculated about possible future content/DLC and then proceeded to completely abandon the game 6 months after release >later on it became known the dev abandoned it to chase a retarded trend of sci-fi 4x with all the games profits >sci-fi sideproject that sucked up the resources went nowhere, ruining KoH2 Its heartbreaking how stupidity and massive greed ruined what could have otherwise been a turning point for strategy games

Fall of an Empire: Hi guys. What do you think about this upcoming 4X Grand Strategy game? Unlike similar titles, you already manage a vast but declining empire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRhPm-FSHGo

EAW: Love this game like you wouldn’t believe.m, minus the meh land combat. Any games similar to it without the Star Wars theme?

Fallen in war we belong to history How many men have died under your command?

On one hand it's great we had so many episodes of King's Bounty, on the other hand, I wished we had more. Imagine, a King's bounty game every 2 years, forever, until the fatigue eventually set up (it wouldn't).

Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding: Five minutes to 1.1 edition Brought to you by idea guy. 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.

Damn. I love this "Game"

OH NO

Godsworn: >Godsworn is a classic mythological RTS. Experience an epic fantasy retelling of the Baltic Crusades, where pagan gods and their tribes clash against crusaders and armies of heaven. Choose a divine hero, rally worshippers alongside mythical creatures, and smite the unworthy! Act 2 update just came out yesterday. https://youtu.be/5Gd_0R7hJXU

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

how do fix mental omgea

>game predicts isis

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

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.

what do we think of it?

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

/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

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

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.

>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

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.

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?"

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

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.

The great debate

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

/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

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.

/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/

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

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.

Theotown thread: I just think it's neat.

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

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

>never been surpassed

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

Disciples: Fuck dwarfs

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

/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

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___

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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.

Three Kingdoms: What's the verdict on this?

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

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

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

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

Songs of Syx: Amevian edition 0.70 is live

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

RIP

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.

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

/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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

/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

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)

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

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

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.

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

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?

The future of strategy games is here

>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.

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

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?

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)?

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.

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.

>the cancer that killed total war

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

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.

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.

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

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)

>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.

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

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?

Paradox can't help themselves. eu5 is done.

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.

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!

X4 foundations: Diplomacy update public beta out NOW

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

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