Ok, /his/ Any games for a history enthusiast?
Big fan of AoE and Civilization, btw.
Total war games are pretty cool.
>>1684033
The entirety of the Total War series.
Crusader Kings 2
Europa Universalis IV
Victoria
>>1684053
Be sure you play Victoria 2 with the Legacy of Slovenia mod.
Mount & Blade Warband with one of the many historical mods: 1257AD, Viking Conquest, Brytenwalda, L'Aigle, etc.
>>1684061
>Legacy of Slovenia
Wut
>>1684061
t. reed
>>1684064
Mount and blade: warband is probably my favorite game both single and multiplayer
Is Pride of Nations any good?
>>1684064
Great game, but the historical mods are buggy and unpolished. Hopefully bannerlord gets some real sheen put on the mods.
>>1684033
Rise of Nations
American Conquest
>>1684033
Both Paradox' titles and the Total War Franchise offers games set in several time periods with similar gameplay of conquest and empire management. Paradox' titles are more focused on state management whereas Total War are obviously about conquest. I enjoy both.
You should browse the catalogs and pick out the game with the time period that interests you the most.
Personally, I prefer;
from Total war
>Rome 2
>Napoleon
from Paradox
>Hearts of Iron IV
There are earlier titles, but I'm not a /v/ contrarian that hates anything published after I received my first pubes.
>>1684331
>Hearts of Iron IV
I keep seeing people shit on this game. Did Paradox fuck it up?
>>1684405
>I keep seeing people shit on this game.
If by people you mean /v/ contrarians, then my first reply would be to tell them which game they haven't shit on (except Morrowind)?
It's a good game. It's not as autistic as HoI3, but it's a hell of a lot more fluid, easier to manage and has a much better interface.
>>1684412
Agreed. I love the multi but the 5-6 hour games are a bit much sometimes. Nobody other than NEETs can sit around for that long so it really limits the audience that can play it.
>>1684405
A simplified and dumbed down version of hoi3 which still fails in nearly every aspect. If hoi3 seems too autistic then there are still hoi2 stand-standalones to choose from which manage notautism way better than hoi4.
Hoi3mods=hoi2standalones>>>>>>hoi4
>>1684061
>Slovenia
*sniff*
>>1684777
PURE IDEOLOGY.
>>1684033
Cossacks
American Conquest
Both are rts games developed by GSC Game World of STALKER fame and both are awesome. I consider them two of the best rts games ever made.
>>1684033
Faces of War/Men of War/Assault Squad are great Real Time Tactics games about WWII. They also have an editor which is very easy to use, so you can create your own battles or scenarios.
Mount and blade with the Brytenwalda mod.
>>1685303
>meme and feast with the boringblanda mod
Yeah nah youre a cunt
>>1684061
>[V2] - Make Liquor Great Again for HPM 0.3.5.5 by Liquorlad*°
>This minimod reverts liquor production, consumption, and price values back to vanilla.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o42kc4rjg24rtiv/makeliquorgreatagain.rar?dl=0
>[V2] - Legacy of Slovenia v1.01*°
http://pastebin.com/72Yhqm5i
>>[V2] - unHPM v1.5*°
http://pastebin.com/zK3YrpNx
>>[V2] - Robmod v2.5°
http://pastebin.com/MHswMhZi
>>[V2] - Visegradmod v3.2°
http://pastebin.com/C8swKB9t
>> Updated Waggle Pastebin*°
http://pastebin.com/33A7wXdB
* The R&I may sperg out if you download this
° Talex and his Grandi Youth may harass you if you download this
Remember that the R&I reports all posts made by or about unHPM and is prone to delete entire discussions on it because he's a petty cunt, so if you want to report bugs or suggest something, contact the mod maker at Steam.
>>1684061
What's with all the autistic memes in this place? I posted a game with Germany yesterday and I got swarmed by "HAHAHA GROßGERMANIUM XDDD" posts. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EXPECT A NEW PLAYER TO POST YOU FUCKING AUTISTS??
And before that I asked a simple question on how I crack the game and I again got swarmed by fucking autists with all their unfunny inside jokes. Fuck you and fuck those games, they are literally one of the most boring shit I've ever touched. Also fuck the guy in /twg/ who suggested I try out those autistic map painting simulators and "ask for guidance on the /gsg/ general and they will help you". Bunch of manchildren.
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>>1684033
The Assassin's Creed series
>>1684328
Like a slavic jeremy clarkson
Conquering most of the Roman Empire as Byzantium in EU4 was priceless. In Iron Man mode of course.
>>1685403
shit b8
>>1684033
>Pike and shot
>Decisive campaigns: Barbarossa
>AGEod Alea iacta est
>Kingdom Come (incoming)
Should I get Rome Toal War or Crusader Kings 2 first? Never played these types of games before.
>>1685454
Don't get ck2. just pirate it, unless you want to pay 200$ to make the game playable
>>1685473
Yeah the DLC bullshit is insane. Unfortunately my college has a way of detecting piracy. Which DLCs are the most important?
>>1685484
Detectin piracy ? What do you mean ? Also it depends on what you want to do, you can ignore charlameme and islam dlc if you aren't into that, probably india as well.
EU 4 and CK2 were great history games. Victoria is old and hard to play.
>>1685500
Vicky isn't hard at all, it's probably one of the easiest of gsg if you know the basics.
>>1685513
You don't have to download it at school you know, also what a shame that /gsg/ archive got fucked.
>>1685513
Also it depends on what you want from the game, ck2 is medieval the sims + blobbing simulator. Total war games are just blobbing simulators with rts elements
>>1684033
The story is dumb, but the assassin's creed games are good. It's fun to just run around in revolutionary Paris or Victorian London.
>>1685414
you disagree?
>>1684149
Brytenwalda and VC aren't really that buggy. 1257 has some scene bugs but it's still one of the best M&B mods. L'Aigle is just unfinished.
Don't forget to join the official /gsg/ discord for general discussion of grand strategies:
https://discord.gg/rxVKN
>>1685699
Nope
>>1685699
theres a hastebin that contains links to cs.rin forums that have all the dlc and games. downloaded the dlc for CK2 from it and my computer didn't contract anything so I believe its safe.
>>1685367
HPM is decent. incorporates NNM and adds a good amount of historical decisions for countries both relevant and irrelevant. T.alex's economy changes are a bit weird though.
>>1685718
t. grucia
whats a hastebin?
>>1684331
>recommending HoI IV to anyone
Even if you have good reasons to like it, don't ask anyone to payout for it until Paradox do their usual jewish DLC thing, and it all ends up cheaper in a sale a year or two down the line.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/236850/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/203770/
Also Darkest Hour is best HoI, I thought people knew this. IV is babbys first grandstrat, you can't lose no matter how much you mess things up.
>>1685884
>buying Darkest Hour for any reason besides Kaiserreich
Poor man's Victoria 2.
Just open it with MS Paint and have loads of fun painting the map.
>>1684061
I played EU4. Tragically though I died of boredom.
0AD
Though I feel like it's not a complete game.
>>1684405
You can conquer the entirety of Russia with little difficulty as Italy. It's a map painting game, basically. If you want a fairly easy game to get you into grand strategy, I'd recommend EU4 over HoI4 because it feels a teeeeensy bit less ridiculous when you paint the map as irrelevant one-province-nation #32214; and there's no easy to play game of the same scale that covers the same time period.
>>1686120
Literally no difference except you save yourself 65 dollars
Caveman2Cosmos mod for Civ 4.
Goodbye 400 hours.
>>1684033
http://www.unrealworld.fi/
You are a guy (or girl) in late Iron age Finland. You do your best to survive and then eat a bad mushroom and die in agonizing pain because the local healer doesn't like you and won't help you.
Or you get badly mauled fighting an animal and bleed out.
Or you freeze to death because you underestimated the cold and how hard it is to survive in winter.
There are a lot of different ways you can survive and do stuff, and it's pretty grounded, more or less. I like how the animals wander around, and will do things like hunt each other or try and steal your food and attack your animals, and stuff.
It's also incredibly fun to track an Elk for hours and hours (in game) and finally confront and kill it. Then you have to figure out what to do with all of the meat and hide and stuff. I got some good stuff trading with a lot of the Elk, but then I had to throw away quite a bit because it went bad in spite of me roasting it. I should have just traded it for arrows and assorted tools and stuff.
>>1686256
Or you can just download it for free. Also Victoria 2 is not a map painting simulator like EU4.
I'm playing Rome Total War and I want to play as the Suebi but I don't really know what to do with them because I want to make them into vikings and just conquer Britain but first I have to make it to the coast.
I hate everything.