What are some /his/ approved vidya?

I for one learned everything there is to know from Victoria 2.

>>2050024
would you like me to share some of my clever opinions?

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>>2049994

il2

Wargames.

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It's not very historical but I'm addicted to Civilization IV.

The Realism Invictus mod is fun too.

>>2050024
This. Vicky taught me that the liquor industry was behind the industrial revolution and that bureaucrats regularly ate cement.

>>2049994
What game is this?

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>>2049994
Hearts of Iron IV is pretty good if you like WW2, and it's brand new too.

>>2050125
>Realism Invictus mod
what does it do?

Which one is that napoleonic wargame where giving orders is actually realistic? So you write a letter and it gets delivered to the AI commander and then he hopefully succesfully performs them.

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>>2050200
Scourge of war: Waterloo

>>2049994
Mount and Blade Napoleonic mod

>>2050196
The Stg in this pic is so bad I have a minor stroke every time I come across it. How does one fuck up drawing a gun that badly?

>>2049994
Eu4
CK2
how has someone not said this yet.

>>2050279
This.

>>2050224
>tfw the last living King's soldier is a bagpiper
>he hides in the outhouse and plays "Amazing Grace" until Ivan finds and shish kebabs him
God damn that game is fun.

>>2049994
Does FF Tactics count?

>>2050279
Came here to say this.
I think Vic2 is far superior to ck2, but that's mostly me just being bitter over the marriage system.

>>2050196
>thinks HoI 4 is good
>posts anime picture
damn, it's good you retards are so easy to spot

>>2050196
>goy 4
>good

opinion discarded

>>2050136
Scourge of War: Gettysburg

>>2050196
>animufag
>like HoI4

Pleb spotted

>>2050024
Post liquor

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Nice taste OP

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>>2049994
Ultimate General: Civil War
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad
Total War: Shogun 2 & Fall of The Samurai
Mount & Blade: Warband Napoleonic Wars & Viking Conquest DLC

>>2050196
>HOI4
>Good
The game was fucking butchered to cater to newfags who can't handle army hierarchies and NATO counters. The AI somehow managed to be even worse than HOI3.

The game is fucking shit and ahistorical as fuck since the AI cant do anything right.

>>2050230
It's not an STG. It's an MKB42, which came before the STG.

Star Wars Battlefront

>>2050125
Realism Invictus has excellent look and feel, but lacks some very important gameplay additions from Caveman2Cosmos.

Then again, it's nowhere near as bloated.

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>>2049994

>>2050906
That looks fucking terrifying. What game is that?

>>2050933
Itl looks like Il-2 Sturmovik to me. Probably the best WW2 flight simulator ever made.

>>2050279

Love EU4. Especially early colonization and stealing money from african """empires""".

>>2049994
HIP mod for CK2.

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>>2049994
Pic related and AoE2 are great

>>2049994
I like Total War:Attila

Mostly because this era is so ignored.

>>2052291
I played this as a kid and the gore really got to me, as did the panicking soldiers and such

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>>2050230
>Stg

Guess again

>>2049994
The Waterloo version of this game.

Medieval 2 total war, probably my favourite game ever.

>>2052369
me too, it never got old for me.

>>2052369
first game was better

>>2052350
Worst version desu

>>2052377
I've never played the first I got into the series when Rome came out, from photos I've seen medieval 1 looks very dated

>>2052369
mmm and Empire, that game was great

>>2052391
After you modded the shit out of it

>>2052389
Plays better than Medieval 2 with better AI and mechanics. Looks fine too considering medieval 2 devolves into low quality sprites at a distance while they always look nice in MTW.

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>>2050337
>complains about anime images
>on an anime imageboard
When will you guys learn?

>>2050782
HOI3 wasn't some brilliant masterpiece anon, the only reason people think it was harder is because it took half an hour in real life to progress one day in game without screwing something up.

Besides, give it time, with all the free stuff they give us with updates it'll fill out soon enough.

>>2052403
>better mechanics
>can't take advantage of terrain AT ALL on a strategic level.

>>2053071
There's nothing wrong with anime, but it kind of emphasizes what kind of idiot you are when you attach it to an incredibly stupid post.

MoW:AS2

>>2050196
>An abhorrent post and an abhorrent image bundled together

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>>2050782
>shits on HOI4
>suggests Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

The Assassins creed games, while obviously fiction, do a pretty good job in recreating the cities as they appeared in the time periods the games take place

>>2050770
What's that?

Hegemony Gold is simple and fun. You can conquer ancient Greece. Hegemony 3 clash of the ancients is all about uniting Italy under rome or other kingdoms

I actually just ordered the first Rome Total War with the barbarian and Alexander expansions. Am I in for a fun time? I'm not a huge video game player, but enjoyed it the one time I played it.

>>2053331
To be fair, all those people shitting on him are probably /gsg/ autists with literally thousands of hours logged into paradox titles, it might as well be an enjoyable game for someone new to genre.

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It's still in early Alpha so there are lots of bugs and unfinished features, but Ultimate General: Civil War is shaping up nicely despite being made by a tiny team.

Pic related is me opening my counter-attack on the Yankee invader during the 2nd Battle of Manassas.

>>2053913
>he doesn't immerse himself in the autism.

>>2053896
I still play Rome Total war vanilla quite often

>>2053959
I heard about this being in 'early alpha' like six months ago or longer

>>2054075
It's only been in Alpha since November

>>2050024
Vicky 2 taught me that liquor factories were the real economic powerhouse of the 19th century. I think I'm going to write about the liquor industry's total economic control for my thesis.

>>2053959
That does look alright, but is this about replaying historical battles or are there skirmish modes too? What about multiplayer?

>>2053959
At least to this anon, that looks almost like wargame.
Keeping my eyes on it now.

>>2053896
Play Medieval (1) for both a more historically authentic game and a better strategy game.

>>2052369
I'm still salty about the pikes. Fuck CA.

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>>2049994
Verdun

It's a perfect simulation as to what dying in mud and pain and agony is like.

https://youtu.be/QlST2-4N-vY?t=1m

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Practically Any Paradox historical game and everything Total war related apart from warhammer.

Hey, friends. My main game is still Civ 4, but I'd be massively fucking interested in any game based around the medieval spice trade, or the British-Chinese tea and opium trade, or any of that shit, you get the idea. That's my favorite era & setting of history.

Anybody who could point me towards such a game would legit have my gratitude.

>>2054287
Trade? Empire total war, Europa universalis, victoria 2 in some senses, don't really know games that are super heavily focused on trade apart from those i mentioned.

>>2054123
>That does look alright, but is this about replaying historical battles or are there skirmish modes too?

Yes, there's single historical battles, a campaign where fight small skirmishes and large historical battles with some lite RPG elements , and a skirmish mode that lets you set up battles. It's pretty fleshed out for a early access game.

King of Dragon Pass is a shoo-in. The best game to get a feeling of bronze-age culture in general. Ironically the science-fiction Caves of Qud is also great at creating a bronze-age feel, but it is only a feel.

Dominions 4 is a better /his/ grandstrat than any Paradox game ever was. Paradox games are paradoxically overrated when it comes to history. The exception is M&B, which is God-tier.

Dark Souls must be considered. The original, specifically. Demon Souls too, probably, but I never played it. In this I am talking about feeling, atmosphere, similarly to KoDP.

Gary Grigsby games in general.
>>2054287
Unfortunately there are no good ones. Only the EU series, which is complex but lacks any depth at all. Believe me, I've looked.

I've hundreds if not thousands of hours in various Total War games, but I just can't get myself to play them anymore.

The huge turn-based campaign map movements and the constrained square battle maps just disgust me by now.

>>2054470
Don't discard Shogun 2; it is amazing at making you feel like a Japanese warlord. But, I admit I've never finished a game.

>>2053582
He's not wrong. The only HOI you should be playing is 3.

>>2054486
The only HoI you should be playing is Darkest Hour.

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This one

>>2054477
I have 377h in that title alone, though Fall of the Samurai also plays a large role.

It's an awesome game, and does much right - and much of what it does wrong is fixed by mods.

But I just can't overlook the strategic movement and battle map problems any more, and the absolutely atrocious AI.

>>2054495
kys

>>2054495
It saddens me that Reddit loves this game so much.

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I enjoy Total War Attila

>>2054547
You have to go back.

>>2049994
Pls tell me you only play in full autism mode

>>2052369
Don't forget Stainless Steel

>>2049994
warhammer 40k

Europa Univarsalis 4
Victoria 2
Mount & Blade Napolean DLC
Total War: Medieval 2
Total War: Rome

A lot of people like Graviteam Tactics, not really a fan of the UI though.

Anyone know of any way in which to meet other people who'd possibly be interested in an online/multiplayer game of either HoI:2 or HoI:3?

>>2050196
>le "just draw a line and whoosh, that's all the strategy you'll have to do" game

>>2054495
Nope nope nope. We have Verdun and you choose BF1?

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>>2054491

>>2054976
Verdun is ded tho

>>2049994
CK2

>>2054462
>King of Dragon Pass
God tier taste my friend.

>>2054499
the shogun 2 vanilla AI was a mega improvement compared to what we have seen in previous games.

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>>2053812
Alea Jacta Est, Ageod game

>>2055505
I have always wanted to "get" this game but can't find it in PB.

Any link or source/hint you could provide?

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>>2054257
This so much
>try and take enemy trench
>teammates killed within seconds
>pinned down in a shellhole in no man's land by some fuck off machine gun
>shellhole is filled with water but I can't get my head out because of the fucking machine gun
>choice between drowning in mud or getting shot

Truly grim, especially since about half the battles always end in a draw with neither team making any real progress

Who /ageofmythology/ here?

>>2055619
>http://steamcharts.com/app/242860
Except it's ded

>>2055626
Not if you play it at the right time. Admittedly it goes through a dead period of a good few hours each day but I've never had any problems with finding a decently filled game lately. That's if you don't mind playing with the same people quite often

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>>2054495

Forgotten Hope 1 and 2

>>2055622
It's a fantastic game but not /his/ approved.

>>2055464
Seriously?

It just pulls the same move over and over - every battle is the same.

>>2055619
Verdun is a shit game.
It looks like something off PS2 but runs like shit. The minimum requirements are a bloody GTX 960m.

The animations and sounds are also atrocious.

Oh, and it's dead and never gets beyond a few hundred players daily.

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>>2053582
Red Orchestra 2 is a historically accurate, realistic, intense experience

HOI4 is just gay

>>2055622
Etimos

>>2054976

Verdun is a shitty terrible looking game though, BF1 is actually a fun game that looks amazing, but it triggers the autismal because there's period-accurate semi-automatic and automatic weapons and variety of maps (all locations where ww1 was fought) that goes beyond anonymous stretches of poorly-rendered trench

>inb4 MUH FRANCE MUH RUSSIA

literally the next two expansions

>>2056073
Austria-Hungary.

>inb4 multiplayer
Don't care.

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>>2050024
This
>2050196
>Shekel Master IV
>Good game
I don't think so
>>2049994
CK2 is the best game

>>2056084

you fight against them in the campaign as the Italians though, so they are in the game.

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The Combat Mission series is great if you like tactical level strategy games.

Almost all are WWII but there's a US/RUS fictional modern day combat one as well

http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1481142169021.webm

>>2050196
Great game, I've really enjoyed playing as imperial Japan and stomping across south east Asia.

>>2054260
Is this from some mod or something?

>>2055683
Why are you so angry?

>>2056232
1) Why are the graphics so bad even for the most recent 2016 game?
2) How realistic is it? How does it compare to games like Men of War or Company of Heroes?

>>2056250
Finally someone agrees with me.

>>2056232
Why is it not on steam?

Hows the Scourage of War series? specifically Waterloo? Is being part of the chain of command fun idea or is it just a novel idea thats cool for just a few hours before becoming boring?

>aoe2 only mentioned once

Come on now.

AOE2 + Conquerors = GOAT of life

the new expansions are very cool but the campaigns are muddled and try too hard, otherwise they're nice.

Any Close Combat fans on /his/?

>>2056473

Getting too old I am afraid.

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>>2056419
It's made by a small private developer/publisher. Graphic's aren't really the reason to play the game.

It's much more realistic than either of those games. There's no base building or unit production or anything like that. Its almost more of a combat tactics sim than game. Full TO&E for nations and what not. You can play it in real time but the better way is the WEGO system.

>>2056430
Idk, people have asked that before. The developer publisher doesn't want to be on there.

The only thing about the games since they're niche is they're expensive. The Normandy to Market Garden one for example is like $110 with all the expansions. I believe there are demos for at least some of the games on their site though.

http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1481144181444.webm

>>2056516
>WEGO system
Fuck now I might have to try it.

>>2056543
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqynSK7yuRE

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>>2054462
>King of Dragon Pass
This
literally every other game can fuck right off from /his/
Perfectly captures tribal life and tribal politics.

>Dark Souls
what in the fuck

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>>2049994
M&B:NW is amazing

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>>2049994
>>2050200
>>2050209
>>2050696
>>2056435
I can't really recommend any Scourge of War. There are several things that bother me in them : The loss rate is ridiculously low compared to the efficiency of weapons. They say it is historically accurate, but I fail to comprehend how 400 musket shots can statistically only do one casualty. You can pit two entire compagnies in these games at point blank range for several minutes and they will only manage to do a few dozens of casualties. This is accounting the wounded, too !

Second problem : Cavalry doesn't charge at full speed, but rather is going at the trot. They say it was done this way, but then I wonder : why did they used horses at all ?

Third problem : The optimization is terrible. I wouldn't mind the bad graphics if at least it was going at 60fps. But topping at 16fps in battles for a 2D game in 2016 just doesn't cut it.

Fourth problem : You can't save a multiplayer game. You can't even change the speed in multiplayer games. This is important because a battle in those games can last half of a day, and many people can't afford to stay in front of their computers for that long, or maybe you just want to prevent your progress from being lost because of an internet connection problem. Most wargames offer the possibility to save the game, even in multiplayer.

Fifth problem : the interface is worse than Dwarf Fortress, because at least in Dwarf Fortress you don't have to use the mouse. I find that moving the camera and giving orders in Scourge is an hassle (one could say a... scourge, get it ?). The Order of Battle is a mess, it is very hard to know which echelon are you on, who are your superiors and subordinates and which units you really control. I feel like the game only hands you the bare minimum in term of ergonomics, it is like playing a game from the early nineties.

I wish they would just use the Total War engine to make realistic mods, instead of going along with this mess of an engine.

>>2056473
I liked AoE1 more. 2 has the better mechanics obviously but the setting of 1 is just the best.

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>>2054287
Anno 1404
East India Company
Merchant Prince
Ancient Trader (fictional I think, but medieval-based).
Patrician IV
Uncharted Waters (big series, I could not tell you which game to start with)

>>2057262
>I wish they would just use the Total War engine to make realistic mods, instead of going along with this mess of an engine.
What an ignorant statement.

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Anyone remember Cossacks?

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>>2053071
This is a history imageboard, faggot.

>>2055505
Is this game actually good? What should I expect from it as a big Paradox fan? I thought EU: Rome was complete garbage though and have been begging for a better sequel for ages.

>>2055665
what is this game

The Graviteam series is both one of the most comprehensive and poorly documented simulation series out there.
>when a scout goes into the woods with a German half-track platoon, and you lose comms, and then everything catches fire, followed 5 minutes later by the scout covered in blood calmly walking out of the woods and off to the horizon

>>2057456
it just got a remake

>>2050224
came to post this

>>2056264
in vanilla Greece can form the Byzantine Empire if it has certain provinces and is still an absolute monarchy

Mount & Blade Warband has lots of historical mods

>>2057262

>I can't really recommend any Scourge of War. There are several things that bother me in them : The loss rate is ridiculously low compared to the efficiency of weapons. They say it is historically accurate, but I fail to comprehend how 400 musket shots can statistically only do one casualty.


http://www.napolun.com/mirror/napoleonistyka.atspace.com/infantry_tactics_2.htm#infantrycombatmuskets2

>- According to R. Henegan the British infantry at Vittoria fired on average 459 rounds for 1 French casualty. (Henegan - "Seven Years' Campaigning in the Peninsula and the Netherlands", pp 344-345)

>Napier witnessed volleys fired by British infantry (in Spain) where out of 300 musketballs fired none hit the target.

>During one of the battles of the Revolutionary Wars, General Duhesme found his battalion firing at Austrian battalion at 100 paces. It was a lengthy firefight and Duhesme expected heavy casualties, he was however very surprised, there were only 3-4 men hit.

Dunno, seems pretty realistic to me.

>>2057817
Desperados 10/10

>>2049994
0 AD still on alpha but quite smooth and enjoyable although some inmbalance between civs

>>2050279
Eu4
CK2
and Stellaris if you want to enjoy happy space time

Objectively the greatest history games every made. And with the save converter you can continue your line from the start of CK2 to the end of EU4 unbroken. Crank up the difficulty and go at it.

>>2058093
plus its totally free and easy to download and install

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>>2058120

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>>2058105
Stellaris is a great space game, love the ethos and government systems. What would a fascist government be though? Star empire? Or military dictatorship?

>>2058185
>Franco sends the Blue Division to help Hitler kill Soviet fucking Shits
>Blue division are lazy cunts who the Germans pointed out took constant siestas (Naps)

>>2058185
>implying fascism is imperialist
>implying fascism is necessarily dictatorial

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>>2058211
Okay, so what then? Despotic hegemony? Military Republic? Martial Empire? Order Stratocracy?

>>2058211
Every fascists government has had a strong man style dictatorship. Don't give this bullshit that it can be done with democratic ideals.

>>2058275
>democratic ideals
Democracy is a system, not an ideology. The "democratic ideals" you're talking about are liberal ideals, I think it's essential to see systems as being independent of current or past ideals that may linger them.

>>2058243
Those are systems, not ideologies.

>>2058330
Okay, what ethos would a fascist government have? I think either:
fanatic-militarist & collectivist OR
collectivist + xenophobe + militarist OR
(fanatic) militarist + (fanatic) spiritualist/materialist
would work.

>>2054687
Probably one of my favourite total wars after M2TW.

>>2056073

Fuck off with BF1. It does not accurately protray WWI in any meaningful sense, so don't pretend it does.

>>2057456
>tfw the original ones don't work
Been playing Cossacks II, fun shit

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>>2054462
>Dominions 4
Doesn't get much more historic than that. For real though the system of planning your battles instead of dragging your guys around by the collar as it's happening works much better on pretty much every level with the exceptions of accessibility and convenience. You can't just sit down and play some quick Dominions but when a week long campaign culminates in you completely flattening the other guy's army it feels so much better than anything offered by other games.

Rome TW with Roma Surrectum II Mod. They turned those unit and building descriptions into a fully fledged library about everything and everyone happening in that time period. A+

>>2053276
It does have much better mechanics. The Risk style campaign is much more suited for the style of game and the AI is far more competent. I'll take AI that actually can defend a castle rather than gimmick battles and retard AI.

>>2049994
Invasio Barbarorum mod for RTW

>>2059335
Which campaign?

>>2059351
SAI (Somnium Apostatae something)

the mod itself has 3 campaigns (the one with Julian as emperor is the default one, you can install the rest in the campaigns folder) : Julian as Caesar of Gaul and Constantius II as emperor.
then Julian as emperor of the empire, and then the civil war between Procopius (usurper), Valens, and Valentinian

>>2059359
I'll have to try it sometime since I've only played regular BI. You using Steam or a retail version? I also need to try the Bronze age TW mod for MTW

>>2059364
you can use both versions, instructions are on the twcenter sub forum

it's a realistic and difficult mod though, most of the time you fight against stacks of barbarians with your 1 turn-levy (you must save your elite troops as best as you can)

>>2059367
I was asking due to having performance issues with the steam version after the steamworks update.

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>>2056232
>downloaded the demo for Black Sea
>30fps

>>2058078
>Napier witnessed volleys fired by British infantry (in Spain) where out of 300 musketballs fired none hit the target

calling bullshit on that one, how could he possibly determine that

>>2058695
>It does not accurately portray WWI in any meaningful sense

what exactly does it get wrong though? I hear this constantly but never any actual historical errors are ever pointed out, there's nothing in BF1 that wasn't around during WW1


>BUT THERES TOO MANY AUTOMATIC WEAPONS

they were all weapons literally used in the war


>MUH FRANCE

Verdun is the next DLC


>implying criticizing multiplayer as being inaccurate is a valid critique

>>2059723
Good questions. Waiting for response eagerly.

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>>2059723
Is this a b8 post?

> there's nothing in BF1 that wasn't around during WW1

What kind of fucking asinine reasoning is that, fucking infrared sights were around during ww2, it doesn't mean they were widespread. The only semi automatic rifle that was widely issued during world war 1 was the french modele 1917, and only in the later stages of the war. I haven't even played BF1 but from what I've seen everyone and their dog seems to be toting semi-automatics, hipfiring fucking water cooled HMG's and submachine guns. Just because the weapons themselves existed at that time doesn't make the game historically accurate in any way.

Now mind you, I'm not arguing the game itself is bad, it's most likely just your regular run of the mill battlefield game, but to claim that it's historically accurate is fucking retarded.

>>2054547
Because outside of some technical issues its a fine game?

>>2054687
Ancient Empires NEVER.

>>2057315
Yes, there is so few game about antiquity, and they are nearly all centered only on Rome. I would love to see a AoE1 game just with more difference between civilization.

>>2052291
A BIB A TOOT

>>2055608
try rutracker
They usually have all niche Matrix titles there (the ones I have looked for anyway)

>>2059149
Try installing it on Windows XP. If you really like old games, you should go as far as having a Windows XP 32bits system on dual boot.

>>2058078
I know of these account, but I don't believe them.

>>2059723

It's not that the weapons in it are being made up out of whole cloth, just that these weapons (particularly semi and full auto weapons) were incredibly experimental and, for the most part, used in tiny numbers. A better representation of fighting in the Great War would be bolt action rifles for the vast vast (>95%) of players for almost all of the game play.

It doesn't portray the reality of fighting in WWI. I am not saying it has to, or that it would be particularly compelling game-play, but no one should claim it is a window into understanding the history of the First World War.

Moreover, the depiction of tank warfare is basically totally wrong.

>>2059723
>what exactly does it get wrong though?
It's just a skin, with no ww1 feel. If you used cold war models, no one would notice it's from the Great war

How accurate is the latest Rome TW?
It does seem like they tried to portray armour and equipment accurately considering the time period (No classical hoplite bullshit and lorica segmentata everywhere) but I don't know shit so...thoughts?

>>2060013
>hipfiring fucking water cooled HMG's

t. hasn't actually touched the game

>>2060627
it's shit

>>2060627
It's a terrible strategy game.

>>2060627
DEI strongly recommended

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>nobody mentioned europa barborum

all of you ARE FAGGOTS!

>>2060627
just play europa barborum with the original rome total war. seriously its great, made by history autists

>>2053896
download these mods: roma surrectum II and/or europa barborum

>>2060886
If this is his first foray into TW games then that is a very dumb suggestion.

>>2060869
EB isn't actually very good for strategy just for historical autism. The movement limits and general pacing aren't a good fit for RTW. Rome Total Realism is better.

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>>2061177
>EB isn't actually very good for strategy just for historical autism
>just for historical autism
>historical autism
where do you think you are?

>>2050125
I love the Legends of Revolution mod. I'm actually playing right now. 10/10

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>ctrl-f "MEIOU & Taxes"
>ctrl-f "Historical Immersion Project"
>no results
srsly? ess em eitch tee bee eitch, 'ttebayo.

>>2055608
Can't help sorry
>>2057601
It depends, it's quite a crappy engine at times but I have alot fun with it. I guess you do need autism or something. I guess you could try the demo.

>>2061322
Yeah but the EB team spends too much time arguing about correct width of pteruges and whether or not Rorarii should be a unit or not rather than making a good mod.

>>2060627
the base game is underwhelming
I recommend using DEI.
It's the biggest overhaul, adds a working supply line and population system.
pretty comfy.

>>2061513
the people doing the scripting and the researchers are diferent people.

>>2060869
>>2060878
>>2060886
>europa barborum

Doesn't that mean, like, "Europe of beards"

>>2061572
That's "barbarum".
"Of barbarians" is "barbarorum".

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>>2049994

dominions 4

>religion
>history
>war
>economics
>magic
>execution id bewilderingly complex and yet comes across as shit at first
>/his/: the game

>>2061572
Well, barbarians did have beards...

>>2061591
You raised my interest. I'll try it.

>>2052291

CC3 a best

>hero "flamlngo" flammpanzer brewing up JSII's at close quarters in tightly packed villages
>nursing your guys from raw recuits to decorated tough guys over the campaign
>feel pain as casualties mean gaps open up in your units and you see less experienced guys take their place
>swatting cunts at range with your well hidden '88, and then having your crew die to a lucky mortar shell
>RIP Feldwebel Klammer & crew. you're in valhalla now.

>>2054260
Fuck off warhammer is the best 1

>>2061462
Did MEIOU managed to get EU great again? Didn't checked it since last year

>>2061636
It's currently rather broken, since most of the team is working on 2.0, which is """expected""" to be done in the first quarter of 2017.

>>2059714
He has a line of 300 people standing in a line, they all shoot at once and none of the people in the other line fall

>>2061591

I wanted to like the Dominions series but the mechanics absolutely bored the hell out of me. Interesting and very good lore though.

>>2060869
It's good, but the historical accuracy slows the game too much to be enjoyable. I prefer Roma Surrectum 2 more because it adds a hint of the EB accuracy, but keeps the vanilla flow of fun in my opinion.

>>2056073
It triggers because irrelevant Britain is all over the campaign while France and Russia arent even in the game
Aslo, in the era of WW1 german apologist, faggots werent even able to give us a Central Powers pov campaign

Truly garbage

>>2059723
The fact France is DLC while Britain is in the base game is enough to call this game cancer

>>2058078
The British were utter shit though
The only reason they won at Vittoria was numbers

>>2059149
i recently played cossacks 2 as well, its so fucking good but i can only play against one opponent which sucks, is there a way to play with several AIs at the same time in skirmish?

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Rule the Waves.

>>2061890
>Aslo, in the era of WW1 german apologist, faggots werent even able to give us a Central Powers pov campaign
If you actually care about Battlefield campaigns or base your opinion of the game solely on them you're a faggot

>>2061871
>vanilla flow of fun
>full stack battles everywhere with battles taking over an hour
That's not vanilla man

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>>2054486
>>2055698
>Red Orchestra 2 is a historically accurate, realistic, intense experience

You're missing my point.

>>2061931
what game

>>2062031
literally just said. Rule the Waves, by NWS

>>2061931
This is peak autism

>>2062042
Is it fun?

$35...

>>2062074
I've had a blast with it. Interface and graphics are peak grog, but the game's real easy to get a handle on.

I also want to strangle all of my destroyer captains for being colossal fuckups, but that's just part of the experience of running a navy.

>>2061627
But it's not /his/ related you shit for brains

>>2062100
Decent amount of replay-ability?

Watching some gameplay rn and it looks interesting. Only wish it went into WWII and had carriers.

>>2062204
good amount, yeah. Especially since they introduced the Variable tech option, which can result in crazy things like centerline turrets never being invented.

They're working on the sequel now, and that's supposed to go all the way into the 60's with carriers.

>>2059149
Get your nigger ass to GOG and get them. They work fine and cost like 5 bucks.

>>2050196
>tfw HOI3 is objectively the best HOI game
>every time I play it for like 30 mins it fucks up and crashes

I WANT OFF THIS RIDE!!

>>2061627
Warhammer TW is both a bad Warhammer game and a bad strategy game.

not sure if its generally approved here but i fucking love the total war series and i will defend that

>>2062215
>They email the activation code within 24 hours

what is this 1998

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>>2062401
Steam Powered.

which game let me commit genocide

>>2063114
Victoria 2 with HPM will

>>2054462
>>king of dragon pass
god tier, only right answer

>>2063114
ck2 with genocide mod (goodbye turkcroaches)

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>>2060718
Who would at that price? It's a polished ww1 bf game. That you have to pay 60 dollars to get an incomplete simple fps

EB1 is the best, everyone who disagrees sucks cocks by choice

>>2054462
>>king of dragon pass
Underrated game

>>2064136
EB2 > EB1

>>2064249
When its finished maybe, as of now no

>>2064221
how do i stop starving to death

>>2064261
the campaign map is more stable, larger and has even more autism.
it is better.

>>2049994
>tfw you bought SoW:Gettysburg six years ago and you can't download it now because they moved to Matrix Games

>>2058078
>Duhesme expected heavy casualties, he was however very surprised, there were only 3-4 men hit.

He saw many battles (he even fought at Waterloo, where he died) and saw what a usual line battles was like, which is why he expected more casualties, as per usual. He was therefore surprised at that result of so few getting hit,

>>2061931
Are there any games with that level of detail but commanding ground forces?

>>2063114
most total war games basically do, not the later period ones
attila turns this into an art

Anyone here played the Caesar series?
I fucking love that game. Though not historically, but just the buildings and stuff

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5351hgEq5RY

Men of War series anyone?

>>2054287

Try East India Company. It's a nifty little trade war game.

Hoi4 sucks so bad. I played a game as Canada, I had mods installed and even buffed german and the Japanese. In 1939 Germany invade poland they didn't finish them off and then declared on Belgium which set off ww2 in my time line.

So Germany took most of there forces away from Poland to invade Belgium and the Netherlands. They did not capitulate for a year. The British invaded north german and blobed out. Germany was defeated at the end of 1940. Japan like usual was being raped by China

>>2049994
Everything by Paradox and some of the Total War games

>>2055643
>playing with the same people quite often
the Napoleonic Wars experience

>>2064696
>le fire department simulator
My favorite was Pharaoh.

>>2064575
Mail them and they'll fix the problem for you. These guys legitimately care about their customers.

>>2061462
where're the north american tribes

>>2061931
we're talking about games, not spreadsheets

>>2063406
Interesting game mechanics in an abominable presentation.

The units practically all look the same, their appearance gives no indication to their nature or state, and having to manually hover over every single unit every single turn just slows things down.

>>2066459
I wouldn´t even mind the presentation, but some mechanics are just too annoying.

>victorious unit chases the routed unit without thinking, leading the victorious unit into enemy positions
>Light inf can outrun cav
>Light troops can't disengage from melee with heavy ones
>Can't fire into melee

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>Vic2
>be USA
>declare war to manifest my destiny from Mexico
>war is going well, army deep in mestizo heartland
>American Reactionaries have risen!
>American Jacobins have risen!
>UK has declared war against USA!

What are some /his/ aproved android games?

>>2066532
Mobilize your troops then, it will be cleaned up in 5 seconds.

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>>2066788
I had already mobilized by then for the war against Mexico
and my entire mobilization force was less than the first wave of reactionary stacks

>>2066796
>needing to mobilize to beat the beaners instead of skullfucking them with standing army
Anon, I ...

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Nobody mentioned a German classic.

Sad you are Padawan.

The Guild 2, check this out.

>>2066783
sci fi isn't his

>>2066924
>android smartphones
>scifi

>>2066933
> >>2066924
>your head

Would Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri be considered a /his/ game in the humanities aspect? All (original) factions do have different ideologies and stuff.

>>2056026
Prostagma

>>2067103
vulome

>>2049994
Rome 2 with DEI. Makes it so that things are a bit more "realistic". For example, you can only recruit core units in places which have a majority of your cultural presence, some units have a recruitment cap. The more armies camp in a region, the faster it runs low on supplies which leads to attrition. Attrition can be caused by a disconnect to supply lines, sieging, disease, low morale of men, low regional supplies. These are among the surface level changes to R2 in DEI, but you can just wait for Ancient Empires mod for Attila

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>>2060869
Arche Seleukeia every day.

>>2067256
is it worth installing RTW for EB? It's starting to look like EBII will never be finished

>>2067266
XC is better

>>2049994
Verdun. WW1 FPS focused on mainly trench warfare, pretty realistic

>>2054462
I agree with everything this man says

>>2056516
I actually really like the graphics. It's just some of the animations are a bit off sometimes but by and large I find it a game pleasing to look at.

>>2067256
muh arche

Honestly how can anybody stand playing Seleukia in EB

It's like starting a campaign right when it starts to get boring

>>2066018
In a submod, because they're completely irrelevant in 99.9% of games and serve only to slow the mod down even more until they're annexed.

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>>2054687
It is a lot of fun. Some basic mods make the Age of Charlemagne expansion my favorite campaign since Medieval 2

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>>2052269
So... which faction?

>>2068005
real men pick the Welsh

does Attila still run at 45fps on a 970?

>>2065012
Love this game.

Direct controlling tanks and driving them into hiding spots like barns and ambushing passing enemies is really cool

>>2068005
picts for dem crossbowmen
keep in mind VI is the expansion and is huscarl rape: the campaign

>>2068005
Irish just for the lulz

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>>2065012
Mowas 2 is the shit, and the world at war mod is dope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dot9eLmdIVc
this is a tournament game for world at war mod i played(and lost) but we did damn good for two noobs.

Can't wait to see how gates of hell turns out.

>>2060869
Just wish there were a simmilar mod based on barbarian invasions campaign.

>>2068119
Invasio Barbarorum

>>2049994
What is that

>>2055395
>>2056798
>>2063376
>>2064221
>>2067817
>>2054462

Any of you know any guides to KoDP? I can't figure out how to play or what to even do. No tutorial or tips in game either. I don't want a walkthrough out a handhold, just want to know how to play the game.

>>2068454
GOG version comes with a manual just read that.

>>2067266
play eb2 and shut up fag
also DEI.

>>2068502
why would I play an unfinished mod

>>2052291
Wait holy shit I think this is the game I forgot the name of. Are there navy seals in that game who can swim in water?

>>2068508
because it is already better than the original?
>multiple reform scripts
>far better stability
>more factions
>a far more immersive colonization system.

>>2068628
>more immersive colonization system
How does the AI handle it? That's the most important thing.

>>2068630
end up eventually building polises in historically accurate places.

Is war in the East good? I am waiting for a sale since the developers are Jews and want $70 for it.

>>2066893
I honestly prefer the Guild One

>>2068984
Tell me your reasons.

>>2068996
I dunno. Probably just because that was the one I played a lot more.
It has a certain charm.
I often find myself doing the thieves whistle too.

>>2068628
>a far more immersive colonization system
Did they finally fixed the OP conversion bonus from governors?

>>2068159
This. Great mod.

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>>2054495
>ww1
>Poilu are dlc
>magically fast Big Willies that never malfunction
>everyone has automatic weapons
>experimental weapons that rarely worked in real life are used by everyone and are effective
>no trench warfare

how the fuck do you expect the gameplay to represent ww1 at all?

only 2 games satisfied my /his/ roleplaying side

Victoria 2
M2TW Stainless steel+submods

>>2069738
SS is alright, but the CAV is WAYYYYYYYYYY too overpowered. You have low-tier cav completely decimate high-tier infantry on a frontal charge, it completely ruins the fun.

>>2050279
Haven't played EU4 in a long time because there were too many DLCs being released (too broke to buy the more expensive ones).. is it still fun to play the vanilla version of the game or am i missing a lot??

>Stainless Shit

Deus Lo Vult with the Battle Balance mod is the ultimate autismal medieval RP experience

>>2069738
>>2069792
>not Bellum Crucis
plebs

who tf plays video games nigga what am i a fuckin nerd just go read a book

>>2069704
It's Dieselpunk. The 'WW1' theme is just a gimmick... It really is Dieselpunk.