Favourite historical game /his/?

>>1363945
CK2

Total war anything, playing Shogun 2 atm.

>Your Generuh is inah gravuh danguh my lord

>>1363950
CK2 + the HIP mod

>>1363980

He said historical, not utter bullshit.

>>1363945

Victoria 2. I'd like to see a 3, but they might do something horrible to it like HoI4.

>>1364323
Haven't bought any Paradox since they went full jew with their DLC.

>>1363945
>ageod
Based

>>1364321
So Paradox thread then?

>>1363980
>>Your Generuh is inah gravuh danguh my rord

Ftfy

Civilization 3

Fuck the haters

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1800 hours in and climbing

The only two I know about are the civ, and total war games

Can anybody recommend me some similar games
i find civ 5 warfare boring as fuck but I don't like that total war is pretty much nothing but war

>>1364578
Paradox titles maybe?

>>1364489
Buy the base game and pirate the DLC.

>>1364585
Got a screen cap of gameplay?

>>1364589
Just look up some videos, there's a few gsg games.

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>>1364578
>>1364589
For a long time I did not know paradox strategies. I would play the strategic map in total war and auto resolve battles. So if you like that stuff try EU IV or Victoria II. I personally prefer V2, other ones are too flashy looking.
Just look at /gsg/ in /vg/ if interested

>>1364568
What game?

>>1364594
Thanks senpai

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>>1364598
decisive campaigns barbarossa

>>1364323
>might
Johan would sooner accept pedophiles than make a worthy sequel

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>>1364635
What's happened to Paradox? Just money chasing? Is Johan the cause of the rot or others within the company?

HoI 2: Armageddon.

Anything else is pleb tier.

>>1364663
Arsenal of democracy is my preferred HoI game.

DH: A HOI Game.

Anything else is pleb tier.

/his/

I've been thinking about procuring myself that new HoI: IV but was taken aback by what I've seen from its gameplay.

So with these simple questions answered, I'll know whether to buy or not:

1) Can the units still be shown as sprites? I've seen being incarnated by those soldiers icons and I openly abhor that.

2) Can troop movement still be dictated manually? I've seen troop movement dumbed down to "draw a line and your troops will follow it" which I find to be lazy.

3) Does there remain any distinction between annexed territories/occupied territories/vassal states in the new game? There doesn't seem to be that in HoI: IV.

Fanks! The game looks amazing but it is shame that they've plebified it from what its predecessors were.

>>1364650
They've gone full meme. The project they're working on is a fucking Z O M B I E DLC for CK2. Even after everyone hated Sunset Invasion. All they want to do is get normie shekels by streamlining everything to death. See: Hearts of Iron 4 where you draw a line to the enemy's capital with 7x INF 2x ART divisions.

>>1364673
>Yes

>Yes but the interface is designed around the line meme, so it's clumsy to select individual divisions

>Occupied territories give you 1/2 industry and a 98% reduction in manpower, full annexed territory gives you FULL industry and the same reduction in manpower. Literally 4x tier.

>>1364673
Oh, and lastly, the game seems far too easy.

I've seen self-proclaimed newbies play on normal, and still vanquish over the USSR as Germany.

Can that be countered by playing the game in its hard mode?

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>>1364685
Nope, the AI is massively retarded.

1/2

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>>1364679

>>1364683
Sprites like these you mean? You'd promise that they won't become soldier icons once I enlarge the screen or zoom towards them?

And fuck that meme line. What happened to micromanagement. Now you merely direct your troops from a line that spreads from St Petersburg to Moscow to Stalingrad, and speed the game up until those terms are achieved.

And thanks then but why don't I see a difference between them? They all are shown in the same way, i.e. as territories annexed to you.

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>>1364691
2/2

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>>1364693
Like these*


>>1364694
>>1364691
Fair enough though. It's settled for me. Either I'm hacking it, or buying only once when they've remedied that AI.

>>1364650
They've severely suffered from listening to their dumb echobox of a forum and catering to casuals via streamers.

One of examples of how their philosophy has changed is that when Hoi3 first came out some people on the forums lamented the lack of 'elite' unites - les Imperial Guards and Muhreens etc. Paradox basically said >divisions and that elite unites are forged in the fires the battlefield. Then, by the time the last HoI3 expansion came about, they added special units as researchable techs just cater to the demands.

ITT Paradox games rules over all.

>>1364683
Oh wait I think I conflated sprites with counters? So my question actually is, can your units still be shown as counters?

>>1364704
Sort of. Only when you zoom out.

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>>1364493
>tfw wanna try Rise of Prussia or Revolution Under Siege but I can't figure out AGEOD's mechanics

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Vicky 2 with PDM: COE. Infinitely better than HPM in literally every way.

>>1364698
Best HoI3 experience used to be with the HPP mod. I'd recommend checking them out. Though be advised that the last HoI3 expansion made things difficult for them - it had half-assed features which were hard incorporate and force to make the AI used competently. It's been years since, though, so do check it out!

>>1364708
Reeee

>>1364705
lel not buying then.

How do people even enjoy soldier sprites. It looks ridiculous.

>>1364712
NATO counters are in the game. Though they are a bit weird.

>>1364709
Seems as I'm boycotting the newest HoI, I might as well endow my HoI:III with some longetivity so I will add that mod! Thank you!

Anything similar to black ice?

>>1364716
Oh thanks, but here the project lead seemed to say the contrary?

https://m.reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/2vs2m9/counters_in_hoi4/

Am I the only fan of Victoria I over Victoria II?
Anyway Darkest Hour, as for now, is the most balanced and enjoyable (especially with mods) WWII game of Paradox.

>>1364717
HPP was the other big mod besides BICE. It used to be superior, imo, since BICE used to be very rigid with their dates and railroading and stuff. HPP focused more on the plausible than historical fact. Since then I've heard that they've declined in quality but I can't confirm that. Used to be GOAT, tho, so I'll still recommend you to look at it at least.

For example I had a blast as intervening in the Finnish Winter War as Sweden and fighting a losing battle Karelia till Barbarossa, then going on the offensive till the Western Front was opened and being forced back again. In the end I had nothing to show for it but a depleted generation, a battle-hardened army, a people geared towards war, a 'neutral' Finland on the brink of collapse and a ravaged Karelia. Sort of made me realise why people want to write AARs about their games.

>>1364720
VicII was where I first became aware of a conscious decision on the developers part to start concentrating on aesthetics at the expense of game depth. VicII was a much more simplifed game. I thoroughly recommend Pride of Nations, however. Would rate that over either Vic title.

>>1364718
I tried it when it first came out and there was definitely a option for counters and not displaying sprites. The counters didn't act like proper counters, tho. Rather the option just changed the, say, INF icon from that dumb helm to a nato X symbol. The counters still merged into the weird thing when zooming out.

>>1364748
>The counters didn't act like proper counters, tho.
Shame really. They've always been why I privilege Hearts of Iron over their other games.

Now HoI: IV is nothing but a decade-lasting Europa Universalis.

>>1364741
Would it allow France or Britain to merge into the Axis rather than be confined to just being the allies?
That's what I'd love for my games. To live in a universe where either Mosley had been competent and been elected, or the french 1934 street fights between fascists and communists had translated into a fascist government.

I love HoI: III except for its rigid alliance system. How I'd love to change alliances mid-game too to screw everyone over.

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>>1364720
Brah I like
EU 2 the most
Vicky 1
HoI 2

Pretty much hated everything since it went full 3D.

>mfw spending hours after school with EU2 colonizing the world listening to that kick ass classical soundtrack

>>1363945
Is there anything that comes even close to EU3?

>>1364748
Wait, so you CAN have NATO counters in HoI4? That's actually pretty nice.

Pretty much rather just stick with broke ass Matrix games like Flashpoint Campaigns or Decisive Campaigns.

>>1364757
Brits could definitely leave the Allies if George V (I think) doesn't abdicate and a certain prime minister is nominated. I don't recall the proper conditions, I'm afraid. It was as easy as going down one disicion-tree instead of the other. Getting Sweden into a place to be able to intervene, for example, took me a few tries.

Don't remember the events and desicions about France.

>>1364776
Damn. It WASN'T as easy as going down one decision-tree instead of another.

Bought Verdun in the sale, can already tell it's a favorite.

>>1364781
Really? Looks like a half assed Red Orchestra with people running around with no plan 16 v 16 breaking down to more or less just 1 v whoever you run into.

>>1364573
Medieval 2 is boring as fuck though. Sieges are extremely tedious even without the AI going full retard.

>>1364321
this is what autism looks like

>>1364691
>That flag
Sweegolians?

>>1363945
CK2 with the Historical Immersion Project mod is the best in my opinion.

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MB: With Fire & Sword

Rarely see it talked about anywhere on the site unfortunately.

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>>1364915
I like it too. I don't get the flak, I thought it was good.

>>1364321
implying there are developers who don't take aesthetic liberties with history

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>>1364915
I really liked it. I learned a lot about The Deluge and The Time of Troubles because of it. It was a little buggy when it first released, however.

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>>1363945
A tie between Darkest Hour and Vicky 2 with HPM.

Paradox needs to make a proper game set in the Greco-Roman era. Not the shitty half-assed abortion that the Rome expansion was for EUIII

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>>1363945
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes Of Stalingrad

>>1363945
Have you played Alea Jacta Est? It's another AGEOD game but based around the roman civil wars

I've played Eu4 and I already feel like I've worn it out. Seems to me like it's one of those "hard to learn, easy to master" type of games.
I'm considering to get CK2, because I dig the RP aspect and the time period.
What are some major differences? How does it feel compared to Eu4?

>>1365061

I have it's a buggy piece of shit that's constantly crashing. The AGEOD games are great ideas but suffer from a godawful engine.

>>1364559
my maan

>>1365094
I don't have alot of crashing problems with AJE, PoN is bad for me.

>>1365044
>tfw literally playing his right now

God this game is great. Sucks that all these steam sale kiddies are playing though.

>>1365119
easy hunting

>>1364763
Eu4 is better unless you're a casual

>>1365178
EU4 is the candy crush of grand strategy games

>>1364594
Thanks bruh, will give EU IV a try

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Why do redditors like Financial civs so much?

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One of the most comfiest campaignes I have ever had

>>1364964
>>1364923
I still get that one bug actually, seems to be caused by FF kek.

I think I actually like it better than Warband too, and that's mainly because of the addition of guns and the more varied town and castle layouts.

>>1363980
MY RORD, A GRORIOUS VICTORY WIRR SOON BE YOUHS.

THEIR GENERAR HAS FARREN! A CUTTINH BROAH

>>1365081

you play as a dynasty rather than the disembodied spirit of a nation. You do everything for your dynasty. You will form only the most prestigious of marriages AND for good genes. You will bribe, spread rumours, assassinate, and go to war to put your kin on the thrones of nations. You will prune the bad apples from your family tree like the most diligent of gardeners. When your son is a useless shit and wont bang his fresh, hot genius wife you arranged for him, you will cuck your own son and then proceed to duel him and cut his fucking hand off, all for the good of your dynasty.

There's alot of overlap with Game of Thrones fans and a huge mod of it itself often discussed.

>>1364559
>literally the worst Civ

I bet you enjoy the movies of Michael Bay.

>>1364578
>i find civ 5 warfare boring as fuck

Try Civ 4, by far the best in the series.

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>>1363945
Played on legendary (no saving before battles, smart as fuck AI) because I'm not a pussy

>>1365390
>Civ 4
Literally the only thing in Civ4 that was better than Civ5 was Baba Yetu and getting Leonard Nimoy to narrate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A

>>1364573
The camera really pisses me off about Med 2. It's the sole reason I don't play. Now that I think about it, empire and Napoleon were shit and Shogun 2 was the best, aside from maybe Rome 1.

I prefer real time tactical games to grand strategy, the Close Combat series especially. The historical accuracy depends on the player and the newer releases include a campaign map.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWFe0FexcFs

They're working on the first 3d engine Close Combat game, hoping they dont dumb it down.

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>>1365492

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>>1363980
OUR MEN ARE RUNNING FROM THE BATTLEFIELD! A SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!

>>1365390
I second this. Civilization 4 is a lot more entertaining than Civilization 5.

>>1365462
Rome 1 was great but it had some thoroughly retarded aspects, such as making Egypt's army resemble the New Kingdom instead of the Diadochi successor state, or making the Urban cohort a super-elite Roman solider

Rome 1 with the Europa Barborum mod was based as fuck, though

>>1365528
And the path-finding in sieges in Rome 1 and Medieval 2 has a shit ton of hair-pulling problems

>>1365528
Europa Barbarorum II for Medieval 2 though.
Thats my shit

>>1363945
Maybe this makes me a casual but 8 prefer the newer games over the old ones. I started on EU IV, CK II, and more recently HoI IV. I prefer those games over the older ones in the series. There's just a certain layer of polish and new additions and mechanics that I think make the new games better. Plus Vicky II and HoI III were sometimes needlessly complex and the new way of doing things is much better.

Basically, complex =/= good

But I did still enjoy the older games even though I prefer the newer ones

>>1365235
be warned that all the dlc will cost you more then the base game

>>1365044

Objectively worse than RO Ostfront.

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>>1364323
This. What a game!

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willy

>>1364312
What is the HIP mod, if I may ask?

>>1364650
Johan is a huge autist who still plays EU2/the older titles

its the rest of the company thats been overrun by retards, not the mention their retarded forum users who keep demanding more [spoiler]casual[/spoiler] games

>>1365895
oops thought i was in /v/ again

>>1364915
God, I can't believe how bad I'm at this game. Like, I wouldn't believe there could be a game where I'm worst than in Warband, but gunpowder adds unexpected new ways to fuck up for me.

Can't stop playing it though, specially multiplayer.

>>1365235
>>1365745

Just pirate it, parajews deserve no money.

>>1365393
>smart as fuck AI

Cheating like there's no tomorrow too. It kinda breaks it for me.

>>1365401
The whole soundtrack was great in civ4.

who /liquorlad/ here? :D

>>1365745
>>1365928
Oh yeah sorry, never thought of buying it.

Age of Empires 3 is amazing. There are like 12 different civilizations that all play very differently, online actually works pretty well.

Europa Barbarorum for rome total war is sick as well.

>>1365934
I'll admit that the production values were much better in civ4 but frankly, hexes > squares any day of the week

>>1365861
Historical Immersion Project, it adds events and changes countriez and shit

>>1363945
Victoria 2, The Operational Art of War 3, Age of Empires 2 and Call of Duty 2.

What are some good games that play on the tactical level instead of strategic? Shit like Steel Panthers and the like. Preferably ones that have a skirmish mode/allow custom battles.

>>1364831
Yeah seiges are often shit. The most rewarding experience is the multiplayer and mods.

>>1364831
No idea why you struggled with the camera, it's not hard to control.
Also Napoleon is fucking awesome.

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>>1366078
AoE3 is shit
AoE2 is objectively better in every way

>>1366167
>>1366078
Why can't you people appreciate both?

>>1364699
In fairness, they removed elite units for HOI4- you designate certain unit types as 'elite' but all that does is ensure they get prioritized for the best equipment

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who /RoN/ here?

I didn't like the original campaign that much but the expansion's campaigns are GOAT

>>1366332
because aoe3 is shit

>>1364614
Jesus Christ that yurop is bad
Shit blob m8

>>1366167
>>1366481
This man speaks the truth.

>>1366481
It's fun... just in no way as historical as one or two...

>>1364312
CK2+ is better than HIP, especially with Viets meme events.

>>1365044
It's a shame that Heroes of the West is so shoddy. At least we might get an alpha for RS2.

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>>1366078
this

>>1365587
>choosing Medieval II's shitty mechanics over the great mechanics of Rome

But why

>>1366730
>the great mechanics of Rome
Not him but what would that be?

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Well I managed to post in the wrong thread

>Recommending paradox gamrs
Just wew

>>1366738
>balanced cav
>units that actually respond to your commands
>fast-paced combat as opposed to Med 2's slugfest

>>1366332
>>1366078 actually said nothing against AOE2. AOE2 is still objectively better, but >>1366167 comment is unnecesary because being objectively inferior doesn't mean it's bad.

>>1366749
Rome 1 plays like an arcade, but it's certainly more combat fluid. The cavalry is balanced in that anyone unit that isn't pikemen routes at an enemy fart.

Alea Jacta Est is pretty good. Not amazing, but I'm still having a great time.

Currently going through the scenarios in chronological order, getting my shit kicked in by Pyrrhus; Rome has great staying power though.

>>1365264
>Commerce= reaserch, culture, espionage, money
>money=army
gg

Anyone played War in the West? I've got like 90 hours in War in the East and I heard that West has much better supply mechanics and air control. I like the Eastern front more so is War in the west worth it?

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>>1366167
Wisdom, AoE2 reigns supreme.
>>1366405
This is fun too, the territory system is quite interesting.

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used to play a lot of civ until I discovered Paradox titles
despite Johan being a greedy jew they're simply the best historical games around

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If anyone still plays Age of Empires 2 add me on steam: gwag

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>>1364594

>rance

>>1365916
This.
Multiplayer war band is fun as hell.

Any games more based around designing and aesthetics of historic worlds?

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It's like Austerlitz but not as faggy

>>1364699
HoI2 technically had elite units though, of a sort. You had marines, mountain units, and airborne, all of which would qualify as "elite" in most modern viewers' eyes.

Steam sale is ending in 12 hours and I'm thinking of getting getting Patrician IV, is it worth playing?

Also the same for Port Royale 3 I guess since there's a bundle with both of them.

>>1366749
>fast paced
You mena arcadey bullshit

>cav in rome 1
>balanced
PICK. ONE. It was still horribly op.

>>1368289
No

>>1367342
it's a good introduction to the sengoku jidai

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Anyone here play historical board games?

I have my parents' house for a few days, going to have people over to play games; one day will be dedicated to Virgin Queen. I'm pretty hype, last time I played I almost won as the Ottomans, but a joint coalition managed to halt my progress. Meanwhile the Huguenots and France had an arms race but without any hostilities, which allowed France to focus on marriages and arts and sciences. Spain could probably have won the game if it wasn't locked in endless warfare in the meditteranean

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>>1368315
Arcadey bullshit is really all Total War is good for. It lacks pretty much all mechanics that could tie it to real tactics, as well as not having any historical fidelity on the campaign map.

I still like it though, but for its arcadey bullshit, not despite it. When I want to play an actual historical wargame, I play this

>>1366662
VIETs is shit but you can turn it off. All of the best things from CK2 have recently been added to HIP which is basically uniting with them. The Court and Imperial Decay systems are examples of that.

>>1365264
Mate, that's not even close to historical.

>>1364594
This chart is about a year old, crusader kings 2 has had two dlcs released, horse lords (which expands the map east to the Tarim basin) and conclave (which makes vassals and advisors harder to deal with and a bit more ambitious)

>>1363980
Shogun 2 is pretty boring 2bh

FotS is fantastic though

>>1368121
Best TW game of the series desu

>>1365281
wauw dude je windt er geen doekjes om

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what does /his/ think of...
HEGEMONY III: CLASH OF THE ANCIENTS

Silent Hunter 3, modded, played in real time

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DH and HoI 3. I really like Vicky 2 as well but after one hundred hours I still don't understand how to effectively industrialise and get those massive industry scores.

I love Red Orchestra too.

>>1371125

Oooh, a serious scholar here to chastise everyone!

>>1366662
>>1370036
Actually, VIET hasn't been updated in a while, and is disabled by default. Its creator has retired from modding, IIRC.

>>1364679
>Zombie DLC

Mate, you're deluded if you think the DLC will revolve around a single flavour event where the peasantry believes the dead are coming back to life (with no specific mention of zombies). The DLC is focusing on plagues, sickness, and death, not zombies.

Also, the added option to disable any supernatural events will ensure the vanilla game is better than ever.

>>1363945
For paradox games, Hoi2 and DH/Arsenal of Democracy are my favorite. CK2 is pretty fun.I want to like Eu4, but the mana system is murder.

Other games are civ 2,3,4, based aoe 2.

>>1369147
Does twilight struggle count? Got my dad a copy for his birthday.

>>1369147
I fucking love Axis and Allies.

No order

CK2
Civ 4
ETW
NTW

Civ 5, despite its biased encyclopedia

Total war atilla with its Greek fire and flaming crossbow bolts

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>>1364915
>Rarely see it talked about anywhere on the site unfortunately.

Because a Mount&Blade game in which you can randomly die without any way to prevent it, because rifles exist, is not a fun game.
At least when its all melee and arrows you have some control over your fate, unlike with guns.

>>1364915
It takes a while to get used to how different it is to Warband, and you NEED to add the formations mod at a bare minimum
>musket salvos
>pseudo-hedgehogs
By plonking my pike and shot into a big splodge, I could destroy cavalry armies several times my size. It was the bastard enemy infantry that did me in.

Thanks to M&B being modder friendly, you can bootstrap many Warband mods into wFaS. You just need to persevere.

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>>1373576
Accurate

>>1373576
>you can randomly die without any way to prevent it
Only happens if you ride around on your own without your troops about. ie. what you'll do in the first five minutes of starting the game when you're on your own against bandits. People who complain about randomly dying from musket shot haven't played the game enough to build up an actual army, or persist in charging in alone like a retard.

>>1364489
>buying

>>1365044
>Got banned on the only playable Red Orchestra 2 server for calling a Scottish play a fenian

>>1373576
It's not that bad, just get some armor. You can get sniped by arrows too in both warband and fire&sword if you're unlucky.

>>1364831
>Sieges are extremely tedious
I hate sieges in all Total war games t b h, much less fun than the movement of open field battles. Its why I have a love hate relationship with Rome 2's system where only the province capital has a wall.

>>1363945
Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence.
One of the few games I've played that actually tries to encourage replicating history, rather than just providing a start point to go and conquer everything.

>>1364915
Cavalry is op as fuck. Some of them could take like 3 shots.

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>>1370083
>he doesn't play RFC:DOC

Rule the Waves is super cool. Design your own dreadnoughts, build them, battle it out with the other world powers in the early 20th century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdxldXopDSU

>>1366405
I remember this game.

The cold war campaign that came with the expansion was fucking amazing.

>>1368121
Great game but retarded AI

>>1364915
Fire and sword was windows vista of MnB. Try MnB Napoleonic Wars. God tier game.

>>1364673
Yes, you can use the NATO markers.

Yes, I personally do to set up encirclements, but even if you don't the AI still pulls it off sometimes. It's kind of easy.

Yes, occupied territory will be rioting until you garrison it, but properly annexing it in a peace conference removed all penalties (at least I think production goes up to 100%, honestly by the time you get to a peace conference anyway you've probably become unstoppable).

I would definitely say it's easy, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy it greatly.

>>1373576
Look at this fucking casual.
>you can randomly die without any way to prevent it
Unless you spend time to get good and rek others. Games fighting engine is orgasmic.

Also, fire and sword is shit tier. Play warband or napoleonic wars.

>>1367163
hd or regular ?

>>1364673
>I've been thinking about procuring myself that new HoI: IV
Honestly, don't.

It's a game with great potential and some good ideas.

But it just does not have any 'meat' at the moment.

It will require a full blown expansion, not just a couple of DLCs, to put it on the level of other Paradox titles.

I'm not saying it's bad, it's just sorely lacking.

The various HoI2 editions, albeit dated and not offering the planning game mechanic, offer a much better experience.

>>1369147
is that the "sequel" to HIS?

>>1364708
>PDM

>>1372694
>I still don't understand how to effectively industrialise
Make sure you've got good literacy
If you're state capitalism, build factories that in states that have their input resources
Make sure you've got good efficiency for farms/mines
NF craftsmen in your biggest states

Who Pike and Shot here?

>>1364781
It's pretty good, just not as good as RO2

any good historical games that arent grand strategy or similar?

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>>1364573
My favorite TW ever

>>1375781
Red Orchestra 2

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>>1375801
what mod in that webm mah nigga

>>1366662

Everything in CK2+ is in HiP atm

>>1376179
Not him and not sure but it looks like Bellum Crucis.

>>1365401

>Literally the only thing in Civ4 that was better than Civ5

Lmao some babby didn't play Civ5 on launch. Seriously though

>civ4 has better gameplay
>civ 4 has better mods

civ4 is better than civ5. The only thing Civ5 defenders have are memes about army stacks.

Civ5 was unplayable -tier garbage before the DLC's started rolling out. The same thing they are doing with Beyond Earth.

>>1376474
>Civ5 was unplayable -tier garbage before the DLC's started rolling out
But the DLC's DID roll out, so your argument is invalid

>>1376474
Hexes > squares, bruh

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Victoria 2 (with HPM). Over 1100 hours played (that Steam has logged anyway.)

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>>1375519
No I understand the basics like that. What I do not get is how to make industry thrive. I can never get an explosion in that indsutry score like everyone else always seem to.
For example in this game as France I have no idea how I would go about surpassing the UK, Germany or USA in industry score aside from annexing their heavily industriales provinces.

>>1377397
Encourage capitalists, train your pops into factory workers and clerks. Conquer parts of china and industrialize that

>>1377397
You get a 25% production bonus for factories with at least one of their required resources in the same state, so the best way to beef up industry is to do it all manually with state capitalism or command economy. Apart from that just make sure you've got enough workers and clerks. Get clerks up to 4% of your total population, then go wild with workers.

>>1366167
honestly never understood what the problem with aoe3 is supposed to be.

>>1368228
In TFH they went the meme route of having limited number of unique elite units besides specialised brigades available for recruitment. Say, you can recruit 4 brigades of Imperial Guards as Japan or 6 Rangers as the US.

Just awful.

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>>1363945

Kaiserreich.

Sure, its alt-history, but very good at it.

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>>1363945
Surprised no one said Wargame, even though it's alternative history, the work it out pretty well

>>1363945
Victoria 2 or Crusader Kings 2

>>1364706
I recommend you to got from Revolution Under siege forward, since the engine they created for that game is the best and easiest to use, once you are used to it, start with older titles and try to work it out

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>>1364650
For too long have we thought that Johan is our enemy. But he isn't, he is actually the one who tries to help

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>>1363945
V2 is quite fun in Multiplayer, it's really the only way to get a more accurate depiction of the contemporary warfare.

>>1364720
I'm with ya, although I'd want Vicky 2's map. The cartoony blobs in 1 were just the worst.

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>>1378207
Here's the map of a recent session. This is before the Great War of a Fascist UK + Imperial Japan against the liberal empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary an the absolute Tsardom of Russia.

>>1364741
So in other words no changes to history other than a possibly less cucked Sweden in the present day?

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>>1378219
And here is the map after the peace treaty. British India and Africa have been divided between the victors, while the USA pays dearly for its failed invasion of Scotland and is embroiled in a second secessionist civil war. France meanwhile receives peace with honor, its colonial holdings remaining intact despite its failed attack on Germany during the war.

>>1378207
>>1378219
Dae gsgmp?????

>>1378232
aye, me

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>>1378232

>>1378234
>>1378236
Ha jokes on you I'm not gsgmp at all

>>1365389
>worst civ
that's not Civ 5.

But Civ 3 is only ahead of Civ 5 by a slight margin.

>>1378224
Yes. I sent thousands of the Swedish and by proxy the Finnish youth to their deaths for literally no gains in the end. Except a based war-hardened nation with PTSD.

I lost, but I'd do it all again.

is oregon trail the most historically accurate game?

>>1372694
NF clerks and craftsmen in your biggest industrial states (which should just be your biggest pop state because they should all be industrial). once you max out your factories just continuously expand them. Build factories intelligently and max it so you can control the entire line of production, ex. if you are making liquor then make glass too so you dont have to import and thus have a reliable source of glass

>>1364321
go back to playing paradox games
EB > any paradox game.

>>1365492
this is pretty cool, thanks.

>>1365895
>johann just shuts himself in his office and plays Darkest hour and EU3

how do I install HPM
pls help.

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>tfw addicted to games which allow be to overthrow british oppressors of ireland
>play csk2
>use cheats to make a custom setup where england controls all of the british isles except for a few chunks of ireland but is ruled by a King with lunatic, wolfs blood and various traits such as possessed, hedonist, stronk, etc
>Unite chiefs under my cause to knock anglos out of Britain
>Sow dissent in wolf-king's own court
>his own people rebel while I war him
>Ireland becomes free after the STRONK Bognigger and the Demon Wolf-King fight on a battlefield and the King is slain
>Play HOI4
>De Valera the cuck
>Start a fascist movement in Ireland
>We militaristic nation now
>Invade Northern Ireland and take Belfast while Britain is trying to stop the krauts
>Win
>Convert back to democracy slowly while Hitler fucks up london
>Play 1257 AD Mod for Warband
>Make a descendant from Brian Boru in Ireland
>Slowly conquer and unite all of Ireland under my contro, resulting in a war with England
>Eventually all of the British Isles are under my control

It just feels so good. Give me more rebellion games.

>>1375801
>Jourdain de l'air

I need to find one of my original Shogun 1 saves from back in 2000. A single rebel monk routing armies of two ai factions. When I rolled through I think he killed nearly a quarter of my army before he fell.

>>1378119
Speaking of, I need help thinking of a country to play for it.

I chose most of the big nations so far, a lot of asian and European countries too, along with the Ottomans and Delhi and Canada. I want one that is exciting.

Also I always seem to run out of things to do with my countries after 1940/The big German/France war. Fighting the Entente is always a drag because Amphibious invasions are a bit dumb.

Any other fun nations? I'm sort of thinking of going Russia and using my increased knowledge to really put to use that manpower.

Don't know how to win fights in Warband

>>1378777
You mean yourself, or in terms of your army?

For you, it's
>into blocking and backpedalling

For army, it's
>get archers stronk
>go on hill
>put infantry in front
>cavalry flank
>win

>>1366405
desu
i remember i discovered this game because i had no friends to play risk with

>>1378594
I'm glad to find someone with similar gaming habits.

>>1375410
regular

>>1363945
HOI3 Black Ice with my rebalance mods they keep fucking up after I submit them. I take all the time to cite census data and industry output reports and they just keep gaming that shit up.

>>1365492
Know any other real time tactical games?

I like the idea but I can't really find any good ones.

>>1378594
I do shit like that except I do it for the injuns
[spoiler]Anybody know some good games focusing on injuns? I can't find shit[/spoiler]

Anybody know any good games where I can commit genocide and enslave people?

>>1381570

Some Total Wars like Rome II have slavery

>>1378131
The chat that you can come across in some matches is literal 10/10 comedy gold
I love that game.

>>1378777
get yourself 100 swadian knights

>>1378207
I've never played a Paradox game on multiplayer. Do you just have to sit down for one long, all day session? How do you hook back up with the people you were playing with if you want to quit in the middle of a game?

>>1381535
>>1381570
American Conquest is pretty great. For both of you here. It's an rts but the setting is pretty interesting and it's got some unique mechanics that make it worth a look.

>>1383064
HOI4 is your best bet if you want to join a game with randoms.

>>1383064

You have to have a weekly session arranged, even playing all day would only get you so far; a good 4 hour session usually covers 30-40 years in CK2 or EU4 when I play. You won't get very far playing with randos.

>>1383126
Is there a forum or steam group where these armchair generals congregate and formulate their dank plans?

>>1383132

The Paradox Forums have a section for organizing multiplayer games, dunno how good they are though, never actually played with anyone from there.

There are a fair amount of people who people who play paradox multiplayer though, it shouldn't be too hard to find a group.

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>>1383148
thank you based anon

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>>1364594
>>1364585
>>1364578
>>1364573
>>1364323
>>1363945
Everyone misses out in the grand strategy genre. Paradox isn't the only developer that makes them. Of you guys want some good grand strategy try supreme ruler ultimate edition, and superpower 2(superpower 2 is way easier and more streamlined)

>Pic related is supreme commander ultimate edition it goes from about 1934 all the way past 2020(I usually finish before then because km smart and Allied myself with Germany and Italy(usually play as Romania and help Germany invade Poland so then russia and Germany and I split it in 3(no russia isn't my ally, they just wanted landgrab)))

All of this in Supreme ruler btw

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This, always going to be this

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Total war is great but mods really help, vanilla is just so damn simple.

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Micromangeing can be a bitch

>>1383432
IF YOU SEE A JAP WITH A SWORD

>>1383471
Eventually you just stop microing and start throwing more men into the meat grinder.

The ai is good in that game though, they'll switch to their AT weapons when they see a tank without you needing to tell them and such.

>>1383481
Yeah meat grinder tactic works, but microing is alot more satisfying, also you can pull some real hero shit that way

>>1383477
lol i have figured that a great tactics against the banzai is to run the other way, most of the time they will just keep chasing you and then a teammate picks them off
i have literally been chased from A to B on hanto by 3 guys (i think) only to have my team mates kill them

>that feel when you solo banzai and get 7+ kills with the katana

>>1383525
>Pick up a sword from some dead jap
>See a banzai charge
>Charge straight at them
>Kill three of them before they dishonorably kill me with a rifle shot

That or the flamethrower, man. Nothing more satisfying than roasting japs.

>>1383552
>Nothing more satisfying than roasting japs.

i agree

unless you are on the other side, honorably charging the enplacments with your brothers, and the a some flamer pops up and roasts all of you and the motherfucker dident even have to ADS

>>1383552
>>1383575
Flamethrower's needed balancing since launch. Unlimited fuel is garbage, and the tank not being vulnerable to gunfire is shit too.

>>1383584
Flamers seem pretty balanced to me. I almost never see them with a lot of kills or at the top of the scoreboard.

Every once in a blue moon a flamer noob will stumble into a situation where he gets like 10+ kills in 5 seconds by flailing his mouse around, but half the time you're going to get shot at rifle range because you have this giant fucking pack on your back.

The jap knee mortar is really good when used properly as well.

>>1383618
76+ kills with flamethrower, defending on Saipan

bitch dont tell me its not to op when its the gayest fucking weapon in the game, especially since you get a fucking M1 carbine as secondary, and you barley get any stamina/speed reduction (if you get any at all)

>>1383584
>Unlimited fuel is garbage

actually it has a pretty accurate amount of fuel, i think you can get like 7-8 sec of continuous fire, compared to 6 sec IRL

>and the tank not being vulnerable to gunfire is shit too.

i yeah, i mean it shouldent be every time you hit the tank it explodes and kills everyone in a 10m radious, but they could atleast make it explode if you hit it at the exact rigth spot

>>1383618
Lol i top the game 8/10 times when i use the flamer

>>1383664
>76+ kills with flamethrower, defending on Saipan
wow so impressive u managed to defend a map designed to be attacked by the americans as a flamer and got a lot of kills wow!

>>1383584
>and the tank not being vulnerable to gunfire is shit too.
Flamethrowers don't actually explode violently when shot. It would require a very lucky hit and/or a long time for the vapors and pressure and shit to get to the desired levels.

>>1383664
Flamethrowers can be pretty brutal on the defense. Rather than the flamethrower being OP, the fact that Americans get them for defense games is what's broken. That it enrages nip players is the best part though.

>>1383669
That's nice.

>>1383693
A loss of pressure in either the tank would neutralize the flamethrower's effectiveness. It doesn't have to explode.

>>1383687
Yeah well the flamer is obviously not balanced then since you can easily get massive amounts of kills with it

>60+ kills on iwo jima
>flamers are made for bunker fucking

and if you will note i specifcally said

>bitch dont tell me its not to op when its the gayest fucking weapon in the game

>>1383703
Well all in all the game is all about asymmetrical game play

booby traps can be pretty brutal on defence to, if you know where to place them and alteast a third of your team is doing it

>>1383471
I've dumped so many hours into this game. Most of it was reloading mortars, but it's still fun nevertheless.

>>1383708
What does you getting 60+ kills once mean? Not much.

In the Red October Factory I got 90+ kills as a tank once. Does that mean tanks need to be rebalanced? Please.

>>1383748
Yeah well if it was only once i would agree with you, but you see its a common occurence (atleast for me) to get a bunch of kills and usually top the game when i play the flamer

well when i think about it i usually do both those things even if im not playing the flamer so mabey its just me

>>1383748


nearly indestructible tank with optics
man with flamethrower that can reach 25m

hmm i wonder what is stronger

>>1383767
Literally what are you even talking about?

>>1383468
This. Rome 2 sucks. But Rome 2 DEI is the best game in the series imo

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> that feel when you redrawed 1500 coats of arms for CK2

>>1383817
This is too much autism, you need to spend your limited time on earth more wisely.

>>1364893
That's Svea Rike, the Fascist flag. That symbol is the Fasces and goes back in Italy before Rome itself.

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Civilisation II.

>>1363945
Europa Universalis 4

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> beleivable worlds

>>1383911
I fucking wish I was ruled under Knights Templar

>>1383911
I had England become part of the HRE, Northern Sweden become culturally Khazar/Southern Sweden ruled by a Pole, and I Knights Hospitaler (or Templar, forgot which) owning most of Iberia all in the same game.

>paradox still hasnt nerfed steppe hordes from blobbing

>>1383807
Newbie Rome 2 player here, what is DEI and how do I get some?

>>1383939
It's a mod

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dis is bretty gud

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>>1383946
Thanks for the useless answer please murder your person.

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>>1383927
> Northern Sweden become culturally Khazar
I got Denmark literally conquered by Caliph in one jihad straight from Baghdad to Copenhagen

>>1384039
>culturalenrichment.jpg

Mount & Blade: Warband with the Anno Domini 1257 mod.

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>>1365282
Those bugs are pretty funny.

>>1383982
Play open general instead. It's way better than Slytherine's poor excuse for a PG clone.

>>1384197
I still have the original panzer general 2 CD and I still play. Definetly always will be my favorite, but I have to admit I like the new features added to Panzercorps.

>>1384213
I tried to go back to PG1 after Panzer Corps, and its very hard to go back. There's been so many improvements.

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>>1384074
>heard you talkin shit bout Polska, kurwa

>>1364321
Pull your head out of your ass. No historical game is accurate.

I'm playing CK2 right now with the intention of converting to EUIV and then V2.

France has an enclave in southeastern Spain that it took from the Andalusians. What would you call the emergent culture of this land? Same question for a combination of Italian(Pisa) and Catalan(Aragon) territories in Algeria?

>>1378594

Ireland is a nice speedbump for me on my Britannia games. Just like real life.

>>1383748
desu i think they need to balance the t34, it bounces every fucking shell i swear

>>1383767
>man with flamethrower that can reach 25m
That's realistic.

Now, the thing that actually needs patching is that fucking knee mortar
>be literally directly infront of a guy, like 3m
>he plops one into me
>runs off perfectly fine

>>1385394
That's because the splash range on the knee mortar has been nerfed multiple times.

>>1363945
I've played a lot of them over the years and my interests have varied over time and as I got older (and shittier at playing games).

When I was a young teenager my favorite game was Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII.

When I was a teenager/young adult my favorite game was Rise of Nations.

Nowadays I guess it would be Civilization V or Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence, though I got tired of both by now.

I've flirted with Age of Empires, Total War, Europa Universalis, Empire Earth and probably some others and at times enjoyed those greatly as well.

>>1364679
The next DLC will also include an option to disable "fantasy" events, which makes up for it.

>>1384039
In my Byzantine game i'm playing right now the Umayyad Caliphate in Hispania seized most of the peninsula and then got crusade'd. Now the peninsula is ruled by an Englishman.

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>>1383807
It's certainly a contender. Tied with Fall of the Samurai, in my books.

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anybody /UnityOfCommand/ in here?
I really love how it looks

>>1386282
I fucking love UoC. I got all brilliant victories in all campaigns with no prestige spent.

UoC 2 is looking like it's going to be sweet.