The most /his/ game ever created?

>>1490469

That's a mod you drongo

>>1490732

A mod of a game is still a game.

>>1490751

I didn't say it wasn't you drongo

>>1490752
You defenitly implied it.

>>1490732
EB may as well be classified as its own game.

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AOE2 any good? I heard it's pretty inaccurate but it still taught me a lot about history in my younger years

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>>1490469

What the fuck is with this helmet?

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>>1490469
The Total War series does it well enough for me

>>1490782
That's some kind of false Corinthian helm. It's meant to look like a Greek helmet of old, stylistically, but conforms to more contemporary values of armor. There's many depictions of Athena wearing such a helmet.

>>1490811

Europa Barbarorum II is a mod for 'medieval II, Total war'.

Check it out.

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>>1490849

THIS is an athenian helmet. The dude in my picture wouldn't be able to even get his helmet on, the neck flaps are already covering and shit.

It is literally just a nose/eye hole on his forehead for no reason.

>>1490469
I downloaded this shit when it was first was released and was incomplete, did they fix everything?

>>1490732
I think the sicilian vespers mod was close to perfect, the only things that could have made it better was to see archers range, and the ability to dismount knights

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>>1490873
It's not meant to go over his head. It's meant to look like an old styled full helmet tilted up, as they were worn when not in combat. Here's an example. The larger full helms worn by Greeks had fallen out of use by the Hellenistic era, but there was still a lot of desire to imitate things to some degree from the good old days before Alexander.

>>1490469
King of Dragon pass
Pharaoh Gold
Tomb Raider
Mount & Blade
Red Storm Rising
Darkest Hour
Pirates!

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>>1490782
That's an Italo-Corinthian helmet, a very real and well-documented piece of Latin hardware, based stylistically on the Greek Corinthian helmet but functioning more like the newer Greek helmets (a la the cheek-guards).

>>1490882
The newest version 2.2B adds many new units, finishes Carthage almost completely, fleshes out other factions while also offering tweaks and fixes for animations and battle mechanics. Unfortunately it is still somewhat unstable and can crash rather easily. Otherwise, it looks like version 2.2 is moving towards the direction of a finished project.

>>1490882
It has had two major updates since it was first released.

Honestly, it was almost unplayable when it was first released. It got vast improvements since then.

And the team is working on the next release, but these things take time.

>>1490899
>and the ability to dismount knights

Thats a hard-coded impossibility for M2TW mods, unfortunately.

And its a real shame, because I would love to see my Cavalry dismount and fight as infantry during siege battles, instead of staying on their horses the whole time like idiots.

I once heard that Rome Equites fought dismounted all the time.

>>1490936
I know Rome 2 has this, but cavalry always tends to be utter shit at dismounted combat

>I once heard that Rome Equites fought dismounted all the time
I'm sure they engaged in protracted combat on foot, but a large part the equites even fought in battle was to cut down fleeing opponents after the infantry win their engagement. If I remember correctly, the equites were given the order to dismount during Cannae, but this made it easier for the Celtic and Iberian cavalry to cut them down.

>>1490770

The best rts out there in my opinion.

I still play it weekly, its great fun.

All other rts I played where mediocre compared to aoe II.

However as far as historic accuracy goes its not that great.

The campaings can teach you a bit of history but not all of it is accurate.

I highly reccomend playing it, no other game has got me coming back to it like aoeII does.

>>1491633
This, you should play AOE2 because it's a damn fine game.

I've been playing Rule the Waves which is a naval wargame made to represent the naval arms race and naval combat from 1900-1925. Turned based strategic map with really fluid simultaneous turn based combat that gives the impression of being real time, in fact you can run engagements as if it were. Visually very basic but mechanically a joy to play.

Only thing stopping me from recommending it wholesale is the price, unfortunately like many wargames it has a pricing structure that is a relic from the days of limited reach and low sales through mail order catalogues. I feel they are missing out on a much larger potential market by pricing their game at $30.

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EB2 is fookin awesome

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Bellum Crucis 7 niggas

>>1490902
>>1490921

Huh. you learn something every day I guess.

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>>1490911
King of Dragon Pass is way too /tg/ for /his/.

>>1490469
>Europa Barbarorum II

Ah yes, EB I and II, the mod that makes shit up and claims it's all historical, but if you ask for their sources, you'll never find it. They also use endless made up names in butchered ancient languages which there's no possible way to know.

EB has shit historical research for the Seleukids. Fucking idiots fell for the meme that they allowed easterners to be in the phalanx.

>>1490921
>>1490902

TRIARII

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Victoria II

You fags should try Pike & Shot, very few games deal with 16th/17th century warfare.
And if someone is playing it, can you tell me how can I modify unit size in a scenario?
Like in that Great Turkish War campaign you have 1000 men cavalry units, but in editor all are 200-400 men.
That makes some scenarios awful because in reality Ottoman and Russian field armies were quite bigger.

EB2 isn't historically accurate.

>>1490770
Only one of the best RTS ever made.
It manages to be rock solid without a whole bunch of gimmicks like a lot of other games.

>>1492407
what's with the hate for that game? it's still more realistic then cuck kings II or Kaiserreich.

>>1490469
EB2 is garbage though, EB beats it by far in all but graphics.

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>>1492407
Best menes

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Silent Hunter 3

Where my fellow Kaleuns at

>>1490911
>Pharaoh Gold
Oh God that soundtrack... I'm welling up.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d13DV0gMDXE&list=RDd13DV0gMDXE#t=54

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>sending US marines to siege a fortress full of samurai, then using fucking ironclad ships with torpedoes against puny wooden ships
It's not very historically accurate, but it was fun as fuck.

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>>1492431
t.john

What are some historically accurate action-adventure games? Could be Shooters, Flight sims or what not. I know there will probably never be that many since most /his/ games are usually strategy.

>>1490469
Yeah probably the closest to it. Nothing like playing the Arche Seleukia and trying to put down insurrections across the east with your phalangitai.

Maybe HIP mod for CK2 too.

>>1492712
except the Seleucids are one of the reasons why EB isn't accurate at all

>>1492737
>All historical sources mention that only the land owning Greeks and Macedonians served in the phalanx

HURR EB2 EASTERN PIKEMEN

>>1490469
If we talk mods then there is no better than Roma Surrectum II. Srsly play ir if you can.

>>1491660
Any torrent version?

>>1490751
A mod's a mod, you can't just call it a game.

>>1492283
Yeah, they also have Carthaginian pikemen which never existed.

They also still made Egyptian natives look like Bronze age Egyptians

>>1492626
Modernisation is so OP but so fun

>mowing down Samurai with a collection of riflemen, gatling guns, parrot cannons and revolvers

>>1490469
Attila > Rome II
Shogun 2/RoTS/FoTS with Radious mods > EB

>>1492745
did you just shit yourself?

>>1492860
Attila is awesome, feel like it fizzled out very quickly even though it's arguably the best total war game. I love the time period it covers so I might be biased though

>>1490469
Mount and Blade DLC's

>>1492407
t. liquor pro

Lux Invicta CK2

>>1490770
it's nonsense historically. still unbelievably comfy as a game, even today.

>>1492874
Playing a lot of Atilla lately after realizing its way more fun than Rome 2, gave me an interest I never had in the time period desu. It's cool because it really feels like the point where antiquity became the Middle Ages.

>>1492938
There are a lot of fascinating emerging kingdoms that really paved the way for what we know of the middle ages. It's also really interesting how Rome survived through the church and these tribes/factions/kingdoms that destroyed Rome really just inherited the mantle. Such a fascinating time period without much historical information, you get to almost experience what a true apocalypse would be like.

>>1492703
LA Noire. The inaccuracies are extremely minor.

Is Pride of Nations any good?

>>1492874
Byzantine/Sassanid eras?

>>1493015
Yes around that era, it focuses mostly on migrating tribes, sacking and fall of Rome and the turmoil in the east with the Sassanids. The mechanic they added where you can actually play migrating tribes and settle moving cities is really awesome, you can pretty much form massive hordes with your armies

>>1492775
>Yeah, they also have Carthaginian pikemen which never existed.

EBII is a lot better than EBI in regards to history. There are no Carthaginian pike-men.

>They also still made Egyptian natives look like Bronze age Egyptians

What?

>>1490469
Did they manage to fix the absolute shitshow that were pikes in medieval 2? Also how the fuck did CA manage to ruin pikes so much between rome and medieval 2?

>>1493037
I'm a Persiaboo so I mainly play as the Sassanids and the worst thing is dealing with the Hunnic tribes and Attila's faction. I can always manage to negotiate peace treaties, trade agreements, and defensive alliances with Christian or Pagan factions but jesus fuck do I hate German barbarian factions and Huns.

>wipe out multiple huge stacks of horse steppeniggers
>a dozen others pop up
>while raiding my provinces and causing food shortages and sanitation problems up the ass

>>1493213
Welcome to Late Antiquity with massive migrations taking place all over Europe and the Steppes

>>1492938
Late Antiquity is terribly underrated as a time period.

>>1492898
This is fucking great.

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Series that got me most interested in history, picked up EU3 in middle school when my parochial school had taught me nothing post-medieval and pre-ww2 except American History. Gameplay itself often winds up with massive historical inaccuracies of course, but detailed national ideas, events, disasters etc birthed a deep interest in european history that school never gave me.

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FUCK HUNS

>>1490469

I had no idea they'd actually completed it. Maybe I should wait for EB3 for Rome 2

>>1493209

EB2 removed the secondary weapons from pike units. The hardcoded problem with M2TW was that the pikemen would switch to their swords way too quickly. So without their 2nd weapon, they can't switch at all!

It wasn't a perfect solution, because now it looks really stupid when on the walls. But they work as pike-men at least.

Basically, mods can't do anything about stupid hardcoded limits, and mods have to work around that.

>>1492769
Not that I've seen, sorry.

>>1494386
It's not done yet.

>>1492435
im sold. is this on steam?

>>1494407
Yes.

>>1494386
There is never going to be an EB3.

No TW game after medieval is mod-able to the same degree that Rome and Medieval 2 is.

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No game has more accurately portrayed the Eternal Anglo.

Ancient empires fucking when?

>>1492957
And the gameplay + replay value is absolutely fuck-all

>>1494445
I would have just started using cheats.

...Dont judge me...if they didn't want me to cheat they should have solved problems like that one during testing and modified the ai to better respond to requests from their player allies.


I have similar beefs with m&b.

>>1494429
Didn't they make a fucking ww1 mod for empire?

>>1494498
I think it even had tanks.

>>1494498
>>1494519
It was for Napoleon, and it's a'ight

>>1494543
Isn't napoleon just an expansion?

>>1494565
No, it's really not. It's just Europe, basically, but more provinces and shit.

>>1494489
>I have similar beefs with m&b.
If you turn the strategic difficulty up it purposefully makes all your allies retards

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>>1494407
>>1494424
you need both of the dlc's though or the game is awful

>>1494498
yeah, it was barely playable for me, constant crashing.

>>1494565
It's a standalone game with no improvements carried back to Empire.

>>1492860
>radious
ELITE ARMOURED SHARP SPEARS VISIGOTHIC REINFORCEMENTS (Light Cavalry)

>>1492246
whats this game?

I am fairly certain everything I did in Mass Effect 1-3 will come to pass. Of course, you'll all be long dead before you can confirm any of that! Ahahaha!

Obviously so will I, so I can't be too smug... yet.

>>1492860
>radious

MOUNTED HEAVY SKIRMISH SCOUT ASSAULT ZWIEHANDER NINJA RIFLEMEN (grenade launchers)

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>>1490469

>>1494834
Reddit: the post

>>1494849

Alright, fine, you miserable cunt.

Theatre of War. Watching tanks explode because a Soviet AT gun 2.5km away in a bush survived your 140 shell bombardment, and knowing there's no way the crew who've been with you since the first push into France have survived, is dreadfully realistic.

It was also kind of a shit game and hasn't run on either Windows 8 or 10.

>>1490770

Best RTS of all time. Along with Rise of Nations.

Age of Empires III is also awesome, check it out if you get the chance. It's a ton of fun and does a lot of unique things. I actually prefer it to AOE II.

>>1494841
>tfw I'm absolutely fascinated by WitE, but I know I'll never get enough time to play an entire campaign
>tfw I still have 5 unfinished battle scenarios in TOAW3 that I must finish
>tfw too many wargames to play them all

>>1492442

SHIV reporting in. Game is difficult but fun.

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Campaigns on the Danube for the best operational simulator of Napoleonic warfare.

Advanced Tactics Gold for best all-around 20th century warfare game.

>>1490469
>Europa Barbarorum II
Is it good yet? It was unfinished and buggy last time I played it.

>>1490811
Rome 2 may suck donkey balls, but with DEI it is by far the best of the series IMO

>>1492874
AoC is fun, but something about how archers work really makes me hate it. I think missile troops were done much better in Rome 2

>>1492860
>>1492874
Love atilla, especially AoC. Danes campaign is super easy, just raid every coastal settlement and amass all the money. Seriously, by like turn 20 you can have 100,000 gold easy

>>1494445
>15-30
>have bigger army
>better weapons
>backing of multiple superpowers
>still lose to a rebel faction fighting a 3 way war with no food, handmade ammunition and supply lines
>ITS ALL BRITS FAULT
lol okay :D

>>1490902
Goddamn that looks retarded. It makes me angry that they have eyeholes on their heads.

>>1494875
Discipline. I play a few turns of WITE a day with others in PBEM. TOAWIII is badass too. Look up Panzer Corps on steam.

>>1494978
I love em. Saw a few at the British museum. I just think it's so funny that soldiers kept wearing them up like that so the designers just said "fuckit, you don't wanna protect your face, fine!"

>>1492712
>using your phalangitai in the east.

>Not using cheep locals in the east so you can use your expensive phalangitai in the west against Pergamon and the Ptolomies.

Dwarf Fortress

Unless you are one of those Historian types that likes to masturbate to Romanticized depictions of the past and a modern interpretation of its institutions.

>>1490811
>still no total war set in Japan that allows you to invade those Korean fucking shits and their chinese pimps.

>>1490469
Is it fixed and playable yet or should I go back to Dota and waiting?

>>1495329
>there still isn't a total war that includes a map of the whole world

>>1495329
Look in the upper left corner of the Shogun 2 map when playing a campaign. My guess is they planned on it but it got cut due to the inevitable butthurt it would cause.

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>>1495479
I'd much rather see a Total War game that focuses extensively on a limited geographic and chronological scale with in-depth campaign mechanics, complex politics and character development aspects.
Kind of like a Paradox game but with much expanded military features and real-time battles.

>>1495479
There are mods

EBII is great.

I'm looking forward to All under heaven, when that one day gets released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrroLh3tQo8

I'm thinking of downloading Broken Crescent.

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>>1490469
>not playing assault squad 2.

>>1490811
>>1490469

Imagine. Europa Universalis depth with Total War battles. My wet dream.

>>1491582
>but cavalry always tends to be utter shit at dismounted combat

It was first implemented in Shogun 2, and it worked well for siege battles because as infantry they could still wreck ashigaru units 1on1. Though you're right that its worthless in R2 (and Attila) because there isn't such a large gap in troop quality.

>>1495730
2muchrealism4me

I wouldn't want to spend 10 hours on the military alone before any action occurs

>>1493213
You can wipe the Huns out early-game if you're lucky. Once Attila takes control though the only way to get rid of them is to kill him personally (in battle, killing him with an agent only wounds him), otherwise he will just spawn full stacks for every one you kill out in the fog of war.

>>1494962
They're bad in both because of the HP system they implemented. There was going to be a sub-mod for ancient empires (basically Rome2 in Attila) that reverted back to the combat system for medieval 2 but they've apparently scrapped it, or at least took it out of the public build they released.

In the new games all units have 1 hp, and armor/shields give a temporary buff, that's why you usually see 0 casualties in the first couple of volleys then they start dropping like flies, opposed to older series where you would see more uniform damage.

>>1495329
Buggy mod but the its the next best thing.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?696644-Download-Morning-Sun-Version-2-4-1

>only two Mount and Blade
Why focus on the bigger picture when you could get so much of the smaller details to a fine and immersive point?

>>1496027
Because even though Mount & Blade is the best thing ever to come out of Turkey, its developers are hopelessly slow and sloppy, the engine is a completely mess to work with as a modder, and even if the sequel should be released it probably won't be playable for several years.

And I say that as someone who has over 9000 hours in the various M&B games. I wish I were kidding about that number.

>>1490761
only when they develop their own game and not use someone else's work

Jesus Christ.

EB is a mod, not a game.

>>1495690

Hardly a realistic depiction, THERE ISN'T EVEN A SINGLE SWASTIKA. Also all the german rifle wear hats but the SMGs guys get SMGs? Totally unrealistic. Even the gun ranges, a man can't shoot another man with a rifle unless they are 60m apart. And usually even if he's facing right in his direction he won't see the guy until they're like 30m apart.

Totaler Krieg mod for Battle of Empires 1914-1918 is the most realistic WW2 land battle simulator imo.

>>1495730
Victoria 2 depth, with Total war battles with involving tens, if not hundreds of thousands of men on screen. Also as historically accurate as possible.

I would never go out of my house ever again.

>>1496132
Mount & Blade became your gf I guess?

>>1495623
When did CA started worrying about politically correct?

>>1495827
>In the new games all units have 1 hp, and armor/shields give a temporary buff, that's why you usually see 0 casualties in the first couple of volleys then they start dropping like flies, opposed to older series where you would see more uniform damage.
It's actually the opposite. In the newer games, all units have HP, and they have to lose that HP before they die, and this is why they start dropping like flies after a few volleys.

In the older games, all units except for a few exceptions had only 1 HP, and they defense stats decided how likely they were to get hit, so you had more uniform damage.

>>1496744

When the Japanese bought their company?

Japanese-Korean relations are still a bit troublesome.

>>1495657
You know any? Pls link or name

>>1495629
>qt
>best taste in Total War games
>best taste in Total War factions

I-is this love?

>>1494869
AOE3 is amazing. The period is great and allows for a really diverse roster of playable civs. Also, I really like how the RPS dynamic of rush, fast-fortress, and semi-fast-fortress works in AOE3.

>>1496027
AFAIK there is no such thing as Calradia.

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>>1497147
Yes, anon. Strange feeling, I know

>>1497314
There are also two mods that expand gameplay features, add new factions and entirely new theaters: Napoleonic Era and Wars of Liberty
Pic related is a screenshot of NE
vid is Wars of Liberty (Formerly War of the Triple Alliance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC52sKTXvkI

>>1497377

Damn I need to play these!

>>1497314

Agreed! I feel like it was kind of overlooked though, which is a shame. It really is a great, unique game. The setting is freaking awesome and I love the home city shipments.

Hey /his/torians. would anyone like to come play Medieval Risk - 1200AD?

Thread is on /tg/. This is a history RP game and historical critiques and story addition are welcomed.

>>1497389
>Agreed! I feel like it was kind of overlooked though, which is a shame.
I'll never understand the huge amount of people who think that AOE2 was better than 3. 3 was like 2, but without all its flaws, such as a lack of faction diversity, outdated controls, and tediousness.

>>1490469

Too bad economy is broken.

Any tips playing with Makedonia?

>>1494804
Are you actually retarded?

I mean really? What the fuck?

>>1494589
>Victoria 2
>Having difficulty sliders

>>1496717
While I cannot deny having wasted months of my life on M&B, it never was sexual.

>>1497538
sorry m8 ive just never come across it and your answer was less than enlightening

>>1498134
Its literally stated in the post

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Fuck yeah HORSEARCHERS

>>1498194
Being Baktria is suffering close to these assholes.

>>1490902
Imagine the hilariousness if an arrow pierced exactly through that hole.

>>1490770
>Eastern civilisations like Turks, Persians, Mongols and Japanese having cavalry and infantry with European chain mail
>A campaign about Huns vs. Rome, which was already covered in AoE: Rise of Rome
>Byzantines speaking Latin and not Greek (also while I'm at it, >Byzantines >Roman)
>Saracens not simply being called Arabs but instead pretty much a slang word

It will always be one of my all time favourite games, but you play it for the fun element, not for historical accuracy. Great soundtrack too.

>>1498273
Those are memes you drongo.

Any aut/his/ts play 0 AD? Pretty much the spiritual successor to the AoE series, you pretty much build up your empire and armies using the same methods.

It's still a work in progress, so not entirely perfect, but it's free, and you can tell the developers are really passionate about history.

>>1498283
What are memes?

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Europa Universalis- the original BOARD GAME is the most /his/ game ever created.

.the video game clone does not capture the essence of the game.

the only problem with it is that a 4 player game takes ~60 hours to finish so it is hard to schedule.

>>1498293

here are the details of the game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Universalis_(board_game)

but it is Out Of Print and very expensive

>>1498289
What a fucking surprise, the drongo doesn't know what memes ACTUALLY are. Gtfo

>>1498324
No, I simply don't know what you're talking about you tool.

>>1498293

played a game like this at the end of my history course in college for shits

it was set in rome though, after caesar was out in gaul and everyone was going nuts

>>1492431
its economy and pop mechanics are irrepairable hence the liquor meme

>>1498339
Maybe open a book for once in your cretinous life you mongoose.

>>1498166
i just asked what it was as in what do you do? why is it good? is it on pc or something older like an amiga?

>>1498283
AoE2 predates the whole rise of internet memery bullshit.
I get that you've probably seen people call them memes in other threads. I get that the context of these other threads probably make memes a genuine factor but being a docuhe to another anon whose initial post was made in a completely dfferent context kinda makes you look like an idiot or an 8/10-made-me-reply tier troll.

Let's be the change we want to see, people.Let's not be morons.

>>1498435
Someone's angry.

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>>1496666
>Victoria 2
>Sensible market system
>Enjoyable

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>>1499029
>being this pleb

>>1499040
>says the liquorfag

>>1490902
what is this style of helmet called? can't find any information about this

>>1498435
>Because the definition of memes are so often in books
What do you read? The dictionary? Nerd

>>1498980
>turkey
>fighting isis
haha no

>>1499069
nevermind,

>>1490921

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>>1490469
Crusader Kings 2 but also Victoria 2 is pretty good

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>>1492898
Awesome, Sol Invictus is best religion desu

I played Europa Barbarorum 2 once and a fucking tiny battle where I had a massive advantage took like 10 minutes to win and it took fucking 15 turns to recruit one chariot. It's boring as fuck and anyone who likes it is boring as fuck

>>1492898
The mod is updated? If yes, where can i find it?

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>>1490469
We all know the correct answer here

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>>1498980
Saved that image. We're gonna take barb down, after ISIS is finished then comes the asatru skin heads.

>>1499130
There's a patch for 2.5.2: https://github.com/DarkReborn/lux-invicta-repository

>>1497147
Uhhh, actually the Brutii is the best

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Eu4 is peak.

sad that Paradox went full cuck and dlc pusher

>>1499187
Thanks bro

>>1499145
HURRAH FOR OLD NOSEY!

>>1499238
EU's option for starting any day of any year and being able to see actual history play out via the the map in the country select screen is such an awesome idea. Its a shame they don't do that with any of their other games.

>>1494445
you should be lucky he peaced

>>1498259
lol I was thinking of that, but its pretty good if you got a forehead itch you can just adjust your helmet so your finger can reach it through the hole

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>>1490469

Holy shit...

>>1495329
As well as losing the war afterwards. It's unfortunate

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>>1497529
Haven't played as Makedonia but if my successful Epeiros campaign is any indicator, Rome would start to send stacks to Southern Italy, therefore forcing Epeiros to send a general and some units to Taras (I saw them do this before when I played as Carthage, as well). I think Epidamnos is relatively poorly defended and there are very profitable mines there. The Koinon Hellenon spams stacks like no other, but a proper and carefully constructed phalanx army can chew through hoplites if properly supported by cavalry. Remember, as Makedonia this is your créme-de-la-crop until you expand out east and are faced with Kataphractoi. Otherwise, just take the usual counter-measures when you're hemorrhaging money. Disband non-essential, expensive units, lighten-up garrisons or send costly units to minor settlements (they have free upkeep there) and increase taxes until public order reaches about 100, any lower and you're susceptible to rioting if something unexpected happens. Always sack cities if you're not forced to exterminate them due to cultural-differences. Then, build roads, farms, ports and mines to create a more robust economy. Total War is all about getting the ball-rolling.

>>1498194
>>1498204
>>1498208
I actually rage-quit my Baktria campaign because they sent unlimited stacks to raid and besiege me multiple times every turn. I was able to cope with it for the initial attacks, but as I pushed into Khwarezm, it intensified to the point of having 3 settlements besieged by stacks at least at 3/4 strength. Considering how loosely I garrisoned my outer-settlements, I stood little chance of defending them ( they were mostly Nomadic camps)

>>1498287
I play it scarcely, but I thoroughly enjoy it when I do. Every factions feels unique and inspired, with a particular eye on historical authenticity. Shame naval engagements are so lack-luster considering how cool they could be in AOE3.

>>1499802
the trick of playing as Bactria on any TW game is to stay low, trying to cap south, keeping massive garrisons on walled cities and never over expand until you have the tech to create cavalry for defeating the eternal steppenigger.
After that you can steamroll at will

>>1492246
Holy fuck this game was so interesting. The myths in that game felt like real old school religious myths.

>tfw you genocide the ducks early on to get rekt by the beastmen alliance later on

>>1490770
CHHH CHHH

HAAWWWW

>>1499076
>Allowed Kurds to be given reinforcements in Kobane
>Frequently uses artillery and airstikes against ISIS on the border
>Allows NATO to launch coalition airstrikes against ISIS from Incirlik airbase and several other air bases.
Man you're a tard if you believe PKK/YPG propaganda.

>>1493213
>>1495809
Don't forget that huns have infantry that will tear through fucking legions in a head on clash.

dark souls obviously, all about the history of humanity

>>1500228
Really? Playing as the Romano-British currently (mod), figured I'd be able to help my WRE best buds out by that stage.

>>1500261
NOPE.

hunnic elite infantry will beat yours the fuck down. Massive attack, effective vs armor, armored, higher morale.

They eat comistatenses alive.

>>1490873

It's an Apulo-Corinthian helmet. It's a stylized design.

>>1500267
Hmm. Damn. Should I bother capturing Scandinavia? I've just got the Frisian sort of region and can continue the war up through the top of Denmark but I'm not sure there's much point with clomate change, haven't really played any of the base game, few factions I'm interested in playing as.

>>1500318
No. It won't produce anything at all for you. Also, the attrition trying to take it will be fucking awful. Jsut wipe out the whole shithole with navies.

>>1490469

It seems really well researched, so sure.

Generally Paradox and modded Total War games are the most /his/.

>>1492874
Attila fizzled out because it runs at 40fps on 970s. Then WH came out and it didn't run like absolute shit.

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M&B has some good historical mods.

>>1499248
Crusader Kings 2?

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Any Cossacks or American Conquest fans on /his/? These games were really good and the dev studio recently got rezzed.

>>1500607
Cossacks was my thing in high school. Dem muskets, playing on maxed speed, peace time, and i thought the graphics were amazing.

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>>1500607
I hope Cossacks 3 is a challenge to Total War

>>1500625
I've never been huge on Total War as an actual /his/ thing or battle simulator. It's just an arcadey 4x-lite with battles that consist of smashing squares together.

Does anybody on /his/ play actual simulation type-stuff? I like what I've played of the Close Combat series.

>>1494869
>Rise of Nations
this and Empires: Dawn of the Modern World are my faves.

>>1500652
I only really play modded TW, the engine does have the capacity to provide quite a realistic experience, but CA always go for the arcade style to please the masses.

I play a lot of men of war which again when modded is a realistic experience.

>>1500709
What are considered to be good Total War mods? I tried Total Realism with Rome and while I appreciated Rome actually being made important by being my sole source of ROMAN units, finally, the battles were still just endless hammer & anvil fests where I'd win with 1-10 casualties every time which got boring quickly.

>>1496622
>Even the gun ranges, a man can't shoot another man with a rifle unless they are 60m apart. And usually even if he's facing right in his direction he won't see the guy until they're like 30m apart.

Explain

>Swasitkas.

You can mod it in.

>>1500727

>Explain

What's there to fucking explain? The gun ranges are waaay to small. People can't shoot anyone unless they're within talking distance lmao.

>You can mod it in.

No excuse, it's not a very historical depiction if it requires mods to make it more historically accurate.

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>>1500652
Great Battles of History is pretty good; both the PC games (can be found on GoG) and the board games (pic related, is a game of Chandragupta I played yesterday, after turn 1).

Alea Jacta Est is also good, but not great. I've played several scenarios but I still don't know all the parameters for the battles. In the board game world Pax Romana is a great grand strategy game.

I mostly have experience with Ancient stuff though. I actually really enjoy Total War, but because it is arcadey bullshit, not despite of it.

>>1500756
>no excuse
What about the devs being able to sell the game in Germany?

>>1500720
Have a beefy computer
Play DEI with 40 unit stacks
Live the autism.

>>1500758
>great battles of history
I've actually been looking into those lately. I think I might get them soon.

>>1500766
>have a beefy computer
one of these days I'll get a GPU

>>1500768
or you can play on low graphics
All that matters is that you have 40 unit stacks so that you can't out micro the computer and do cheeky movementss that were not available in real life because armies clash.

My personal favorite is letting my foot soldiers slog it out with the enemy while I take control of a fat stack of cavalry and chase down routers.

>>1500761

Lol @ all the game getting cucked by german swasitka laws.

Anyway, most games just make a separate german version that get's rid of the swasitkas, the new Wolfenstein game did this I'm pretty sure

>>1499391
where can I get this?

>>1490469

I saw this thread and downloaded EB2. Its pretty good but the CTD's are a pain in the ass.

>>1500788

It pretty much looks like Blitzkreig / Sudden Strike and is made by the same company

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Scourge of War series

Also, the Sid Meier's series. Gettysburg, Antietam, Waterloo, Austerlitz. All free now!

>>1500720
DeI for Rome 2
Ancient Empires for Attila which will be releasing soon
RTR is still going and just had a new release
EB2 is good though i have some problems with it, mainly their attitude

>>1500788

I got it off a torrent site back in the day and put it on a usb. Not sure if it's there anymore.

Icy Hell is literally Hell no matter what side you play on. Play the Finns and you're constantly outnumbered in every possible way, your supply trucks will be working overtime to keep what few troops you have armed. Delaying actions is the best you can hope for. You'll be pulling the majority of your troops back and being forced to leave a unit behind to cover the rest ;_;

The Soviets side is just as, if not more terrifying. The Finns lay down huge land mine fields, leaving your armor disabled and the only way to get them going is sending in the mechanics. Except the Finns have snipers covering the landmine fields and picking your mechanics off. Well shit, you figure, I better call in my artillery. The moment you fire the first rounds, Finnish artillery zeros in on yours and takes it out. So you better send in your infantry to search and destroy the emplacements except you stumble into ambushes from buildings and hidden bunkers and trenches, so you go to direct some artillery fire and... OH FUCK, THE FINNISH SKI TROOPS HAVE WIPED OUT YOUR REAR! CYKA BLYAT!
T

>>1494971
it's just a game Nigel

>>1499029
>that filename
also, are they recreating that cossacks painting where they write a letter to some turk?

>>1500902
What attitude?

>>1492442
Are you still playing Vanilla?
Grey Wolves Mod is the shit. Take a trip to Subsim.
Apart from GWX there's LSH3, NYGM, etc...
Pick your poison.

>>1501053
That they're 100% historical and the authority on everything when actually a good deal of it is wrong or misunderstood. They also embellish far beyond what is acceptable for their claims of historical accuracy. At times they have lied out their sources too. They claimed to have an inventory of a Carthaginian armoury but have never been able to produce it. Such a thing doesn't exist.

>>1490936
>>1491582
I'm curious if anyone has any more information on this. Reading Caesar, the largest role the cavalry seems to have is to run ahead in raiding parties to hassle the enemy's marching line/protect their own from the same.

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>>1494841
>>1494891
>>1500893
Great taste guys. Also Ageod.

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>>1501433

If you play any of those and want to do multiplayer, let me know man, I'm always looking for people to play with.

ATG is especially great for PBEM multiplayer.

>>1491691
>tfw no full translation yet
I do really enjoy the mongrel Englitalian to a degree though.

>>1498062
>9000 hours
>months
You've literally spent more than an entire year, just playing this game, you must lead a sad, sad life and I say this as someone who spent 1800 hours playing TF2, I hate myself for this already but 9000 hours is just pure idiocy, this whole time, you could've become a great artist, learned an instrument to perfection and modeled your body like that of a Greek God at the side.

>>1491582
Depends on who the cavalry are desu. Its hardly an uncommon feature in warfare to ride to your location on horseback quickly, then dismount to do the actual fighting, especially if your horses aren't actually very good for mounted combat.

>>1500607
>couldn't figure out how to run it on 7
Suffering desu

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>>1494543
>>1494498
It's not very functioning, buggy as fuck and mine crashes after a few dozen turns. The combat is unbalanced towards the player so much it's fun though

Although in this case I'd probably call it entirely accurate.

>>1501433
What game is this?

>>1501433
Nvm found it

>>1501433
>>1501635
>>1501648
Different guy here, trying to download it, pls seed you fucks, stuck at 38.4%

>>1501694
With games this niche, torrenting is an utter pain, I usually don't bother. Buy it on steam, make sure you don't play more than two hours, and then just refund it if you don't like it.

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>>1501694
>>1501714
Don't want to shill or anything but bundlestars has a lot of Ageod games on cheap. Also Alea Jacta Est has a demo on the website I think if you want to try first.
Too bad /wgg/ is dead...

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>>1499238
For me the main problem of this game is retarded ai that makes the whole thing too easy and pointless.
Hence why multiplayer is so good. Some of the most fun i've had with video games, especially with mods. EU4 multiplayer is fucking great.

btw i'm the yellow kingdom in black sea/middle east, what do you guys think i should do next ? keep in mind greece is my only ally i don't really want to betray him

>>1501864
Invade adjacent nodes. You've got crimea locked down but you should also try to hold astrakhan and kiev if you want to stem westward trade. Constantinople can be a SERIOUSLY rich node if you can lock it down, and you've got a grip on alexandria. Cool borders from everyone, by the way!

>>1501864
>ai that makes the whole thing too easy and pointless.
Its retarded but in no way is it easy.

They fucked it up by making AI derive every fucking move from your own action. Since like half a year ago, they patched it up, and now i am literally center of the whole world politics in every game. Few days ago, i was comfy expanding in northern Germany when fucking Ottomans allied my one province minor neighbour for no fucking reason at all except to block my blobbing.

>>1501864
colonizing newfoundland is always cosy

I guess you should annex brown and maybe give some money to greece so they can try to gain valuable territory in spain

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>>1501864
I'm >>1501869 again
I still genuinely enjoy singleplayer but mostly when you just go for the memey achievements. It's a nice, long game I can kick back with and de-stress because I'm a shitter who gets pissed off really easily at first person shooters and mobas. Pic related, this is from my "Sinaasappel!" campaign, had a lot of fun with it.

One of the things I like to do is play a CK2 game, by achieving a modest amount with a tag, then switching to another character on that same map. And so on until the game ends and there are a bunch of decent but not OP nations all over the map. This lets me set up a converter game in EU4 for some decent alt-history games.

Instead of, you know, just playing one CK2 tag from start and having an OP realm dominating the EU4 game.

>>1501879
>>1501901
The thing is Kiev and Astrakhan are owned by Poland-Lithuania, allied to the crazy strong light blue >Holy >German >Emperor
But i could in fact get much more out of Constantinople, you're right on that

Also had no idea they changed single player since i haven't touched it in a while, i'll check it out

>>1501889
Funnily enough i planned to attack Persia which was much stronger, and then he collapsed on his own due to rebels and loans
I feel bad about attacking him t b h but i'll probably put have to put him out of his misery and take his trade soon

>>1501908
What I like to do is start a new random tag every time my character dies.

That way it's less like some god is commanding an entire dynasty to be perfect, I'm just acting how I want until I die, and then being "born" as someone new. That way the new ruler of the old dynasty may be just as good as I was, or worse and let the work I started crumble.

Company of Heroes 2
I would have mentioned the first one instead but then I remembered that 2 is better than 1 in every single way except for the fact that you need to buy dlc to play as America

>>1490469
I'm seeing comments about how the game's still being worked on. What factions other than Rome and Carthage could be considered "finished?"

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>>1490469
If you install this, will it delete your Stainless Steel files, or can you have both?

>>1502119

I've been playing as the Pritanoi first and they seem good enough, apart from some things like roads going over the sea and a "hill of tara" in scotland. All the units look the same on the battlemap but that does not really bother me since they are basically naked barbarians

>>1502128

I have both, they are standalone installs.

Also EB2 only crashed once on me so far and I've been playing it all day

>>1502128
You can have both.

Unlike Rome I, Medieval 2 has a mod folder.

>>1502133
How is it? I've heard good things, but I don't really know what the point of playing as barbarians is. Why not just play Rome 2?

>>1502135

Its not finished but its good enough

>I don't really know what the point of playing as barbarians is

I really enjoy gathering a horde, sneaking through the forests and over the alps and sacking the shit out of anything I can get at. then in the late game you have hordes of heavily armed infantry coming at you and its quite a challenge.
I like playing as Greece too with hoplites but find phalanx pokefests to be boring and Rome is too easy. This is all based on the previous rtw version though apart from the Pritanoi.

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>mfw I bought Hoi4

>>1502129
Good to know. I've seen that some of the numidian buildings don't have names. Some of the temples are called "placeholder temple level 3" and that kind of thing.

>>1502135
It just has more depth in my opinion. More difficult and everything takes longer.

>>1494597
this graph is so bad

>>1492773
What's a mod and what isn't? Most games still have a lot of code from previous games, and think about things like Counter Strike, even half life still has recognizable code from quake.

>>1495629
oh the memories

>play total war
>take screenshot of battle
>put it through a filter
>looks just like historical paintings

>Implying HOI III with all dlc and black ice mod isn't the most /his/ experience in gaming

Do any of you guys play Naval Action?

Been wondering whether it is worth my time or not

>>1503059
BICE is just shitty artificial difficulty.

>>1503099
As soon as I get my rig going I'm gonna buy it. I'll report back in two months.

Hey guys is the new total war game that warhammer one historically accurate? Did 16th century Germans really have mages, and Griffins, and tanks and sheet?

>>1503462
What are you talking about? They still have mages. You dont have any where youre from?

>>1501323
To be fair. EB1 is riddled with historically inaccurate units like the Selucid Thorakitai, Carthaginian pikemen, the entire Casse roster,etc.

EB2 on the otherhand has less fantasy bullshit and the facts from EB1 has been pit under heavy scrutiny.

>>1503099
Mate and I were seriously considering it, but reviews have been sour of late, I'd have a serious consideration of all of the points before buying in.

>>1499802
I used to play that game what is that called again

>>1503898
Most of the bad reviews I've seen have been complaining about the travel times, which in my opinion means they shouldn't be playing a game about the Age of Sail.

>>1503059
>hitler brigade

>People are not getting EB Ahistorical units.

Shit such as the Seleucid Thorakitai" "Asian Phalangites" and the """"Cataphract Reforms"""""" reflect alternate histories in which the Seleucids and others managed to survive longer than their IRL historical shelf lives.

Though the fucking Goidelics are weird though.

>>1505601
Holy shit, all I've wanted is a TW that does this.

>play as Byzantines in M2
>fucked for lategame units because lol they got Turk'd IRL even though my playthrough has been teaching those damn Franks what it means to be a Roman Empire

>>1499909
>Guyze I did not genocide the kurds, see I'm fighting ISIS nao

>>1502773
>doesn't have mauryans
>doesn't have the comfy colony system
Campaign wise EB2 is miles ahead. You haven't realized what comfyness is until you have created a greek polis in the middle of central asia.

>>1502119
Rome isn't finished. Most barbar factions are still barbaric, and the Mauryans have a lot of their historical roster set.

>>1490469
Victoria II. Plus it's absurdly easy to mod, so you can make up alternate historical timelines for fun.

>>1503256
not really man.

>>1505754
>entire soviet tank armies get spawned out of thin air

>>1503462

Germans were black in the 16th century you fucking racist.

>>1490469
The first Total War game/mod where I like to play Arabs.

>>1490811
Rome I with Roma Surrectum is pretty good

>>1492442
>>1501219
>>1494888
>>1492407

These are pretty based. SH3 with GWX3 is a fantastic simulator and Victoria II is just a solid game.

>>1490770

AoE2 is also fun as fuck. Comfiest game

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>>1506488
>>1492442
>>1501219
>>1494888

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>>1498287
0 AD is godtier and it already has several mods under work, like Aristeia and some other ones (among which one made specifically for those who love a "certain" cartoon series, just putting that there).

>>1501433
Is that Alea Jacta Est? Seems like a cool game.

>Those faction icons

Was it by chance made by the same guys who made or published Pax Romana? That game was incomplete and buggy, but hell was it something unique when it came to politics and administration.

Also I'd like to suggest Hegemony 3, even though it may not be historically accurate enough for this board.

>>1501461
It's still better than my 1000+ hours on Skyrim to be fair. He has it better in my opinion.

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>>1502998
Post pic(s) pls.

>>1505601
Nah they claim its historical.

>>1502129
>All the units look the same on the battlemap but that does not really bother me since they are basically naked barbarians
They weren't though

>>1501927
you could do a deal, pay off his loan and let him keep some territories to the east if he lets you colonize astrakhan and whatnot in peace

>>1501019
They are
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks
>the crick in our dick
>fuck your mother
>by land and by sea we will battle with thee

Imagine being the poor soul that has to read this aloud without chuckling at the hard bantz to the Ottoman Sultan...

I guess I would say paradox games introduced me to a lot of history. Also Rome total war

>>1501864
I would continue expanding through the Anatolia and the Middle East and try to link my territories. Maybe ally Persia as well and try to block their expansion westward while they're weak. After that I'd expand elsewhere when possible until you and your allies can surpass Poland-Lithuania before fighting them.

>>1507208
>same guys who made or published Pax Romana
Yes it was I think

>>1494861
I bought it and it's expansions but never got around to playing it since Men of War is so superior

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>>1490469
There's a video game adaptation of Twilight Struggle, but it's a straight port, so I guess that's cheating.

>>1499248
It is really fascinating. They said they stopped it because no one ever uses it or any other start dates than 1444, and it's simply too much work to be done when no one enjoys it/uses it

>>1507270
they don't.

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>>1502155
lad...

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>>1509781
In any case, I'll suggest the Close Combat series.

>>1509786
they do

>>1509832
they specifically mention them as what if units and provide sources as to why they were going that way.
The elite african pikemen are specifically a more macedonian styled phalanx due to the influence of greek mercenary generals and acquired roman equipment.

>>1509801
yeah, its a god tier game.

>>1509852
Nigga i've had arguments with them where they claim they have no historical errors and every single unit is backed up by evidence.

The Carthaginians never had pikemen, they could just say they're alt history but they try to say its historical.

>>1509852
>The elite african pikemen are specifically a more macedonian styled phalanx due to the influence of greek mercenary generals and acquired roman equipment.
Why would roman equipment help create pikemen?

>>1502128
These colorized photos always get to me. I'm fucking older than Custer in this picture. I can smell the woods and tobacco; I can hear the laughter when one of them cracks a joke.

I know it's a completely asinine statement, but for whatever reason they're real to me now. I mean I know that they existed, but I just... You read about history or even contemporary figures and you forget they're actual people. I don't know, I sound like a babbling fool.

They're just fucking kids. Jesus Christ.

Any love for Rise Of Nations here?

>>1499208
>>1497147
Both incorrect, if you aren't bringing the ethnic diversity with Germanic Berserkers in the name of Woden and Donar the figures of peace then you're doing it wrong.

>>1509801
Close Combat is pretty based. It really gave me an appreciation for how easily things can go wrong in battle.

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>>1498980
>Not uploading the full picture
Kill yourself

>>1509852
>>1509868

EB1 does have those historical inaccuracies.

But EB2 does not have Carthaginian pikemen. Carthage did use Greek mercenaries a lot though. so they are capable of hiring Greek pike-men.

>>1499838
Fucking arrogant ducks, i let them keep their lands only to get some duck on my land telling me ducks are worth three times as much as men

>>1499238
>blobbing simulator 2013
>good

>>1499238
>sad that Paradox went full cuck and dlc pusher

What do you mean? They make games they are updating constantly, I don't see the problem with buying expansion packs.

>>1512016
Honestly if you don't like DLC model just buy the base game and pirate the DLC, not like its hard.

In the modern world of DLC Paradox has one of the more sensible models

>but mah cosmetic mods they hold me hostage

No fuck you, they provide a faction for £2, pay up or don't download it, its not a crucial part of the fucking game as you get to play the rest of it, often with the new tweaks.

>>1499238
CK2 is peak, and they've ALWAYS pushed DLC. So what? They're basically old school expansion packs that keep the game fresh and half the shit is free in a content patch anyway.

>>1501433
Got this in a bundle, looks interesting but is it hard to learn?

>>1512225
Expansion packs almost always had a better cost/quality ratio. They didn't make you pay separately for skins and music, either.

>>1512526

AoE II's expansion was GOAT, along with Rise of Nation's Thrones & Patriots Expansion.

Also AoE III's Asian Dynasties Expansion was great.

Expansions >>>>>>>>>>>> DLC's

>>1512526
Yeah, and they were far and few between, meanwhile EU4 and CK2 are still fresh.

>>1512596
EU4 and CK2 are rotting under their own bloat and shitty changes and mechanisms. I can't even play them anymore since they became so bad. They are, especially EU4, good examples of "change for the sake of change". And they make you pay so much for these DLCs with so little content.

>>1512600
You could always just disable the expansion...

>>1512646
Most of the bad changes are in the patches.