/his/ approved vidya pic related though my autism isn't

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>>2225495
did somebody say...
...alcohol simulator?

Cossacks
Verdun
CMANO
Decisive Campaigns series
AGEOD games like Rise of Prussia
Pretty much anything Matrix Games has

Paradox games are what got me into history.

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Age of Empires II

Rule the Waves

>>2225495

I'm skeptical that your autism isn't strong enough considering the Paradox titles are baby's first grand strategy games. How did you approach Vic2?

>vicky 3 when it comes out will invariably become a bloated piece of shit thanks to the infinite stream of dlc
>vicky 2 has bugs like artisans being eternally starving and exploits like >>2225499
>other paradox games are just not as good
Fuck everything

>>2225550
Not him, but I agree. Played a bit of HoI2 in high school but I no longer have the patience or the will to try and relearn them.

>>2225550
it would seem that vicky 2 is for advanced babbys because i havent really ventured into it at all

i was told to start with EUIV or CK2 so thats what i'ma do

>>2225550
Let me guess kurek vic1 is better?

>>2225565

HoI has been and probably will remain the one Paradox game that doesn't play like the others. It's much more like a traditional wargame. Vic/EU/CK all operate on very similar principles and are really straightforward. You just have to accept that first time you play a Paradox game, your nation/dynasty will not last long. It's a learning experience. Enjoy what is basically an alt-history simulator.

>>2225582

Vic2 is my favorite Paradox game, but I haven't played HoI4 yet.

>>2225601
>I haven't played HoI4 yet
If you liked HOI3 i'd stay away from HOI4 if you enjoyed the intricacies from the previous one. It is kind of unfortunate how accurate the comparison to a mobile game HOI4 is.

>>2225550
Victoria 2 has an insanely intricate economy. Pick it up before you criticize.

>>2225632
I think the criticism here is that if you pick USA or Prussia you can ignore most features and just cruise through the game doing little but feeling like you accomplished a lot.

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Europa Barbarorum 2.

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>>2225495
Mount and Blade
Any /gsg/
4x games
Total War

I also like shooters like Verdun and Red Orchestra

>>2225664
Does that shit not crash yet?

>>2225709
The third updating is coming at some point. Its OK now, but getting better

>>2225731
Aight i'll give it a another shot.

>>2225753
I'm waiting for the next update before I get it again, myself.

When was the last version you played?

>>2225761
The first like, release version 2 year ago? I think.

>>2225774
Its on version 2.2f right now. Its come a long way, it was unplayable at first launch I'd say.

I'm waiting for 2.3

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has anyone played pic related? if so what did you think? reviews on steam are currently mixed

>>2225788

It's really good. If you've played one of the old Cossacks games and enjoyed it, you'll enjoy this because they really don't do much different. The major change is the visuals and the polish but at it's core, it's faithful to the old games. Some people would say to a fault but I don't mind people pandering to nostalgia when it's for games that were already pretty damn fun.

>>2225495
My /his/ autism is so strong now I can't enjoy any of these games anymore, and want to make my own.

>>2225787
All right, thanks.

>>2225709
>medieval 2 game
>crashing
you dumb.
The campaign is better than EB1.
Just autoresolve the battles.

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>tfw tried to play Victoria II but end up staring at the screen and doing nothing because there's so much to do I'm overwhelmed
>Tfw the only """"Strategy"""" games I've played is Total war and I suck at it

>>2225495
yeah same, only enjoyment i get out of it is fucking up other countries

>>2225849
>he gets scared by an interface
I bet you think starcraft is a game about strategy as well huh.

>>2225838
>Just autoresolve the battles.
Then what's the point of even playing?

>>2225849

I think you're overwhelmed by the UI, there's not that much to do. Yes, Vic2 has a deep economy but you don't have to get in the weeds with it - especially as more powerful nations. EU3 was my first Paradox game. I started it as France, and mostly just watched and observed how the game played out. I was okay with losing horribly because losing horribly is how you learn the mechanics. Failure is useful.

>>2225868
building a comfy empire.
The mod has enough depth to act as an antiquity simulator.

The battles work, don't just auto-resolve it!

>>2225864
I've just always been really bad at video games

>>2225870
I don't think TW mechanics lend themselves to comfy building. Eventually it just becomes a matter of buying every building you can afford each turn.

>>2225881
good luck going that in EB when you have to disband levies half the time.

The colony and government system is pretty damn good. Also, you are supposed to play EB like a bit of an RP game as well as a checkbox manager.

>>2225889
I've played EB1 and it's not really that different. You just have a tighter purse and some scripts that limit what you can buy at any time and place.

I think Shogun 2 and later games did this a bit better where you could stack certain buildings, region bonuses, and emphasized techs to maximize the effectiveness of a certain way of gameplay, but even then it's limited.

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>>2225495
Scourge of War is pretty good but I don't see it mentioned much

>>2225923

Those games have the worst UIs I have seen in strategy games in a very, very long time.

Shogun II > Atilla > Medieval 2 > Rome 2 > Rome > Empire

>>2225495
Total War: Warhammer of course

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Polk's vision realized

Mount & Blade is one of my favorites.
Lots of historical mods to use.

I hope someone makes a good Three Kingdoms mod for Bannerlord.

Does anyone remember the original Empire Earth? That was probably the best civ builder I've ever played, though not at all historically accurate if I remember correctly.

>>2226028
>no 54-40
i bet you didn't even fight

>>2225664
The Vorenus and Pullo of their decade.

I will second that EB 2 is great when it's not crashing. How's Hegemony? I need more Geek shit.

>tfw no Diadochi focused game

>>2226028
Won't take Oregon to 54° 40', but will attack Mexico to appease some slave owners.

>>2226073
Hegemony 1 is probably getting pretty dated. 3 isn't bad but it desperately needs the ability to speed up games.

>>2226081
Both the US and Mexico would be better off today for this.

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>>2226037

>>2225495
This is a fucking great game.

>>2226114
Based Cao Cao poster.

Divide et Impera 1.2 is out, with a working population system. Pretty comfy to be pretty honest with you guys.

>>2225903
Again, you aren't supposed to mindlessly build every other building. Read the building descriptions and what they mean.

This is even more clear in EB2 when they literally have a colony system that allows you to create colonies of your people around the world.

When you start off as rome, you can only recruit camillian soldiers from roma itself while your allies provide the bulk of your soldiers. Every 4 in game years (16 turns) you are given access to a colony of roman settlers that you can plop in territory that has has the requisite government type. Building the building in a city slowly romanizes/hellenizes the province over time.

My personal favorite campaign was my Epirus run where I crushed the military might of rome, took over magna graecia and just turtled over a century and a half while slowly hellenizing italy.

Europa barbarorum 1/2 is about embracing the historical autism.

>>2226073
use the LAA patch. my game runs pretty stable

>>2226135
>use the LAA patch.
The what now?

>>2226140
Large address aware. It allows the medieval 2 executable to use more than 2GB of ram.
It's basically a requirement for the game now.

>>2226145
....fuck.

So if I do this then it won't randomly crash even when I put the settings so low it looks worse than Medieval 1?

>>2225495
I fell you. You need at least 90000 autism levels to enjoy vic

>>2226150
yes.

Here's a helpful link.
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?142868-If-you-suffer-from-crashes-and-you-have-a-64bit-system-this-may-help
while this is for Rome Total war, its the same thing for medieval 2.

... just watch someone playing the game, that's all you need to learn how to play it yourself

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what should my borders be

>>2226241

Take Vienna.

>>2226241
What mod

>>2226135
>Europa barbarorum 1/2 is about embracing the historical autism.

If only. What you just explained is my major complaint with the campaign mode. It's like trying to mod Skyrim - you can pretty it up all you like and add lots of content, but it doesn't change the underlying mechanics. It's still a waiting game, and the extent of its role playing is waiting for a character to reach a certain age and then having them wait in the right place with the right time period and development level to trigger a script that gives them a trait.

This is not historical autism, but autism involving triggering the right flags at the right tie to fit someone else's timeline. It's the worst part of playing paused in a Paradox Game combined with the worst part of hitting end turn constantly waiting for all your building queues to finish in Civilization, but with an unstable battle system that sets a TW game apart from both.

Hats off to the EB guys for their dedication, but it's better served just making a giant wiki database.

>>2226241
The Danube, the Tigris, and the Nile

>>2226241
Everywhere with an Altaic speaking majority is your rightful clay + all of North Africa to Ethiopia.

>>2226251
It's the best we're ever going to get.

>>2226244
That's a given

>>2226250
My autism mod

>>2226256
Then I guess I'm almost there

>>2226270
This.

>>2226275
>My autism mod
It looks beautifel pls post

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I fucking love Napoleon: Total War
I may be bad at it by I still enjoy it

>>2226295
https://www.mediafire.com/?otaf444g3aofngm

If you don't want the name changes and stuff just delete everything but the map folder

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My list:

Victoria 2
Europa Universalis 3
Crusader Kings 2 (actually don't like it that much now but w/e)
Company of Heroes 2
Civ 5 (only MP tho)
Stronghold Crusader
AoE2
Verdun

Total War games:
Rome 1, 2 (with mods)
Medieval 2
Empire (with mods)
Napoleon (with mods)

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>2017
>Ancient Empires still isn't out

Also, I love historical boardgames; I've got a full game of Virgin Queen coming up at the end of January, and I actually managed to find a used copy of Pax Britannica, and a group that wants to play it, which I'm hyped for, even though the game designer might be slightly insane,

>>2225650
>USA or Prussia
>Not UK
Bruh I saw a vid where the guy just started the game, set speed to max, then came back the following day once the game time had run out. He still managed to be the highest scoring nation.

>>2225938
>He's never played Aurora 4x

>>2226343
just play DEI friend :^)

>>2226360

Playing as the UK in V2 is like loading up someone else's save.

>>2226271
What, you mean EBII? Come on, dude, best at what?

How exactly is Vic 2's economy deep? Doesn't it have loads of bugs with interest and demand?

>>2226409
It's obtuse and unpredictable. It's probably the best economic sim I've seen in a game but that's not saying much.

>Doesn't it have loads of bugs with interest and demand?
...maybe? The only one at Paradox that knew how any of it worked left between expansions. So no one actually knows.

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I want to say Total War: Empire.

>play Russia
>waves of linemen in green coats sweeping across Russia's enemies
>taking cannister shots to the face without wavering because everyone is a turbo badass after burning Chechnya to the ground about five times
>literally all military research has been put into improved bayonets
>they're so hard core that despite previously mentioned cannister shot tanking they suffer fewer casualties than the population of Moscow during the literally constant riots (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbcoOqGKFi8 just replace America with Russia, irradiated with frozen, Mega City One with Moscow and judges with Cossacks)
>massive campaign against Turkey to retake holy Constantinople
>meanwhile the Siberian backyard is 95% animalism

>play India
>got a sick ass man eating tiger
>kick out all the muslims
>kick out all the yuros
>next muslim country is butthurt and declares war
>wipe the out
>next one is butthurt and declares war
>wipe out
>currently invading the ottomans
>meanwhile bongs declared war because they were allied with poortugal
>make peace with poortugal but bongs are still assmad
>build a massive fucking navy of third and fifth ships of the line
>i fucking suck at naval warfare in that game
>literally every naval battle is won by a swarming the enemy with at least five times their number in 3-5th ships of the line firing cannons in all directions and ramming and circling each other in utter chaos and confusion
>brits fucking invade in the east while the whole army is off fighting in the levant
>british mercs tear assing around india burning shit to the ground and causing rebellions chased by bottom rung indian infantry and the newest fanciest cannons
>the curry armade sets sail for britain to colonize them

>>2226441
Wish Napoleon had the global scope of Empire, it's mechanically superior but I love the multiple theatres of the latter.

>>2226423
If vicky 2 is your best idea of an economic sim /gsg/ really does rob people of real video game experiences

my advice would be to try and pick up something without a map you autist

>>2226461
>kek you autist stop with your baby games and play nongraphical indie econ sim games

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Kaiserreich, anyone?

>>2226486

Me, but i havent play since months. Now im busy with Call of Warhammer, a mod for Medieval 2 tw

>>2226486

update when

>>2226486
So is this commie fanfic: the mod or what?

>>2226470
>strawman strawman strawman xD

Why is /gsg/ so incapable of providing anything resembling human conversation?

I could code a shitpost bot to make better conversation.

>>2226250
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/mod-collection-kryos-eu4-mods-tot-rbm-and-more.836350/

>>2226511
That's not what "Strawman" means.

>>2225838

I unistalled EB2 yesterday because it was unplayable with all those CTDs
Stainless Steel and Third Age are way better at this moment.

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>>2226517
that's not what "shitposting" means

>>2226531
That doesn't even make sense.

>>2225552
>vicky 3
never gunna happen

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>>2226534
+1

what do we think about HOI4?

>>2226547
What is happening?

>>2226510
Germans win WW1, dominate much of Europe, help keep the Bolsheviks out of power, France and Britain go commie.

French govt goes in exile to Africa, British colonial empire collapses, royal family goes in exile to Canada.

Pretty fun really.

>>2226540
We can hope, those filthy Swedish kikes.

>>2226559
Sounds like a thin justification for commieboos to make non-Slavic third world shitholes Communist. Is there syndicalism in it?

>>2226562
It's syndicalism instead of communism yes.

It actually has a lot of focus on Germany and Russia, Tsar Wrangel Russia is fun as shit to play if the syndies beat the Germans. A-H and theocratic Italy have quite a fair amount of content too.

Entente powers try to take back their homelands from the syndies, Germany looking to keep a hold of their new sphere of influence, Russia can either join the syndies or seek to regain all of her lost land and create a new order in Europe, the Mad Baron tries to conquer everything with his mongol horde, chinks and japs try to get big, 2nd american civil war.

lotta content

>>2226580
>It's syndicalism instead of communism yes.
All the special snowflake commies are gay for syndicalism for some reason.

>>2226561
we don't have to hope
the guy who's coded the economy system in V2 left and took his knowledge with him
paradox can't recreate the system let alone create and updated version

>>2226590

I don't know why you think that would stop those soulless hacks.

>>2225495
Liquoria 2 isn't complex.

List of recommended /his/ games:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hg54SCNIHrP7xaoDrw9xrFTekQZ_Eg6N175s8ywl1ng/edit#gid=562314500

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>ctrl+f
>no Command: Modern Air Naval Operations

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newfags

>>2227049
>mk 1 eyeball
haha lmao xd

Started playing CKII recently and i think it represents medieval politics really well

>>2226441
>playing netherlands in empire total war
>fighting france and spain in all theaters
>drive them out of the caribbean
>poo in the loos boat with full army passes by
>next turn they declare war and land a full stack on my island
>a few turns later i see they took scotland from britain
THIS FUCKING GAME, I SWEAR

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>>2225495
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad and Rising Storm are great

>Period correct uniforms
>Great voice acting. Soldiers yell insults and call eachother "Bolshevik" and "Nip" and so on.
>Gore
>Realistic tank combat with fully modeled interiors for tanks
>Good variety of weapons, all with cool animations.
>Very detailed maps based on real locations. Really gives you the feeling that you're in Stalingrad.

>>2225705
How is Mount & Blade /his/ approved? It's set in a fictional world.

>>2227091
FH2 is better.

>>2227099
Wrong.

>>2226580
One problem with Kaiserreich is, that Germany has only enough man power for one war, so if you don't fight them yourself, they are a paper tiger push over, even if they win, and nothing like a final boss.

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>TFW Paracucks have monopol on GS

Are there any competitors ?

>>2227107
ne you.

>>2227091
>>Realistic tank combat
It has no armor or ammunition modeled, it's just some very simple and unrealistic bullshit mechanic. I also recall the tank models looking somewhat wrong.

>>2227120
Fh2 has realistic tank combat with multiple types of tank rounds, variable penetration and front, rear and top armor.

>>2227092
mods. for example 1257 AD.

>>2226009
>Rome 1 below Rome 2
This site is 18+ you know?

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What mods would you guys recommend for Napoleon TW?

>>2227141
18 dont mean much these days sorry to burst ur bubble bruh

>>2227161
I'd reccomend Darthmod for Empire.

Unless you really wanna play as Napoopleon then just play Vanilla. It's pretty polished and a huge improvement over the travesty that was day 1 empire

>>2227141
people think rome 2 is still stuck on release date.
>tfw divide et impera 1.2
>Playing as Macedon and slowly turning dacia into a respectable greek homeland over a century and a half while empires rise and fall around me.

>>2227177
I tried darthmod ages ago for empire. I enjoyed it back then but soon fell into the hole that was paracuck GSGs.

I'll give it a go again, thanks.

>>2227178
I own the Emperor edition and while its much much fucking better it's still shit compared to what Rome 1 was on release. crappy mechanics that the AI can"t handle (though things like army tradition was fun), a shitty engine which is not optimised for primarly melee combat and the worst fucking cavalry controls since Empire

Shogun 2 FOTS > S2 > Medieval 2 with mods > Rome 1 > Medieval 2 > Attila > Rome 2 > Napoleon > Empire

haven't played warhammer

>>2226562
>>2226589
>>2226510

>boo hoo a different political ideology is being represented in a game

You know the syndicalists are the bad guys in it?

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What do yall think of the campaign of CoD World at War?

>>2227413
I thought it was ok. I would of liked it more if we got to see World War 2 through the eyes of other soldiers, such as being one the Luftwaffe trying to protect German airspace, or one of the Polish rebels in the Warsaw uprising.

>>2227200
>engine not optimized for melee combat.
Please die in a fucking ditch.
Warscape is literally the rendering engine you mongoloid.

>>2227413
I remember absolutely loving the music from the Black Cats mission.

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

>>2227447
Call of Duty 3 has a few missions where you play a Polish tank crew.

>>2227542
Hmmmm. Never played Call of Duty 3, maybe I should grab it up. It's on the PS2 right?

So which one is better? Roma Surrectum or Europa Barbarorum ? I played Roma Surrectum recently and I thought it was all right and I also played Europa Barbarorum but it was ages ago so I don't remember much about it.

>>2227599
/his/ is full of fruits so probably RS

>>2227161
LME

>>2227599
EB for a better complete deal

RS if you are a complete romaboo

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>>2225495

I like how CK2 and EU4 can link together games with the converter DLC.

Its a cool way to set up some alt-history games. But instead of picking one guy and creating an OP realm in EU4 that's no fun, instead start in crusader kings 2, create a decent sized realm, then switch to another character and create another decent sized realm, keep doing this until you reach the end of the game and good sized but not OP realms are everywhere, then convert to EU4.

Once Vicky 3 comes out, you can probobly do the same with with a converter DLC or mod, creating the possibility to make CK2-EU4-Vicky4 games.

>>2227694
That picture is mad as fuck

>>2227114

AGEOD games are better. Look into Pride of Nations. Same time period as Victoria.

>>2227091
>not ro1 with DH
It actually has multiple models of armor for each side.

>>2225495
>he thinks Liquoria II is complex or needs autism to play
Laffin

>>2226510>Not knowing the history of it

It's literally Russiaboo: the mod.

Original concept was focused on rebuilding Russia after Germany won WW1.

>>2225550
This, retards here are as bad as r/paradoxplaza. These games require no skill or strategy, it's just blob and snowball weaker or small nations. I've put over a 1000 hours into them and I can say Victoria II is the worst next to the first Vicky and Hoi4. The economy isn't complex it's broken you autist.

>>2227945
>hating on vicky
>muh broken economy why cant i become #1 industry as bhutan
>calling others /r/paradoxplaza
lad...

>>2227945
>the economy of Vicky2 is broken
T. /r/paradoxplaza

>>2227732
This

>>2227945
Vicky 2 certainly isn't perfect, but with HPM it's better than any other mana simulators Paracox puts out.

>>2227945
All right then. What strategy video game would you recommend?

>>2228079

Not that anon but here to spread the good word.

The problem that I have, and a lot of people have, with the standard Paradox crowd is that they tend to view (consciously or not) those games as the only options for strategy. And yes, they have a monopoly on the grand strategy genre but there is a lot more out there to tackle.

If you're genuinely interested and not just gain-saying - tell me about what you want in a strategy game. Specific time period? Specific art style? Specific complexity level?

>>2227945
>vikky 2 is the worst
t. EU4 shitter
While Victoria 2 isn't that hard or complex, its much better than the mana and DLC simulator called EU4.

I really like doing stupid stuff on EU4, like converting the Ottomans to Catholic and getting a turk chosen as pope.

>>2228177
An economic simulation better than Vicky

>>2228197
>liking any of them

Paradox grand strategy games are DLC farms. Stop supporting them and stop shilling their company.

>>2228380

That's not very helpful. Do you want one set in the Victorian era? Do you want one on global scale? Do you want pure economy or do you want other mechanics to juggle as well?

>>2227049
I bought it but so far I haven't mustered the courage to play it.

Any tips on how to get started?

>>2228383
Luckily the dlc is super easy to pirate.

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>>2227092
It's very /his/-approved. Along with >>2227130's example, there's Brytenwalda.

>>2228396
How about you give a list of games you think offer a more challenging experience than paradox games?

>>2228460

Because I'm not here to get into a dick-measuring contest over who is the biggest historical grognard. The hex-and-chit tabletop guys will eventually show up and they will always win because they are clinically insane. If you don't want actual recommendations that's fine.

>>2228473

Why are you such a [passive aggressive faggot. Recommend some games or fuck off.

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>tfw in all grand strategy games including major mods of them, my nation is minor and irrelevant
>not even the most far-reaching alt-history fantasy make for engaging gameplay
>made a custom focus tree for it in HOI4 just to make it semi-interesting

feels bad

>>2226028
>1911
>literacy: 61.7%
>industry: 4
>score: 3

IN 19 FUCKING 11. Jesus Christ man.

>>2228473
Okay then, recommend some strategy games set in the Victorian Era.

>>2228561
Medieval II: Kingdoms has Ireland as a playable fraction.

>>2228561
I just make up my own countries

Why is HOI4 so fucking basic

No depth whatsoever

>LOL GUYS £15 FOR SPEARHEAD COMMAND THING

>>2228695
That's not gs

>>2227413

King Tigers in Stalingrad

Over.

>>2227161

The best mod for me is Le montee de l empire.

>>2227053
fuck off with this pile of shit

muuh 12yo streamers n1 game lol kek xD rofl hehe

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>>2227092
1257ad my dear faggot

>>2228708
see
>>2228383

Paradox /gsg/ers are the same type of people who open up the paint function on a .png world map and try to paint in "correct" borders for Germany. Pick any other genre.

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>>2225495
>tfw want to buy more /his/ vidya but keep spending my money on /his/ books instead
Hmmmm

>>2228766
Just pirate it then

>>2228779
Well it's kind of tricky for me. Believe me, I'm a massive fucking pirate, but I'm running GNU/Linux, and just about every game available for pirating would be Windows only. I have Steam which has options of Linux, but I very much doubt that the pirated options would have that.

This is until I get a dedicated desktop at least.

>>2227141

I did that because Rome 1 doesn't have as much of a niche anymore.

If I want a historical Rome TW, Id play Europa Barbarorum 2. If I want a 'wardogs and women warriors' cool-shit fest, I'd play Rome II, that has naval battles and stuff.

Rome 1 has some strong points, but I don't put as much time into it as I used to now that Rome II and EB2 are both things.

tfw not smart enough to play paradox games

>>2226028
why does the us have such a fuck huge army in 1911?

>>2229011
it's not even that big by Victoria 2 standards

>>2226241
how about you stop being a sand nigger and defend europe

>>2228177
Not that Anon but I'm a Hellaboo. What's some good classiccl Greek or Diadochi stuff? The more autistic and nitty-gritty in detail the better.

>>2225572
Both are great games. Sadly you will need to get expansions on both in order to play them enjoyably.

>>2226322
why no shogun 2?

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>>2225495
>ctrl-f "MEIOU"
>ctrl-f "M&T"
>no results

>>2229493
Whoops--the version number should be 1.26.02.

>>2229493
> Uyghur face
:D

>>2229493
>trying to bring vicky mechanics into mana simulator
"no"

>>2226114
What about that sweet dynasty warriors mod? Tried that one?

>>2227085
CK 2 is more like a medieval drama simulator, but I love it for what it is.

>>2225664
Broken Crescent is underrrated

>>2227555
PS2, and I'm pretty sure it's on PS3 and 360 too.

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>>2227964>>2228079>>2228065>>2228197
Never said these games were bad, just that they require no skill which I recognize, there just some fun I can sink a couple hundred hours into each. I recommend Eu4, CK2, Darkest Hour, Civ 5, etc and their expansion packs, just not the cancerous skin pacts.

I have been enjoying Hearts of Iron 4 (please don't laugh) but am finding myself a bit frustrated by things that seem to have been streamlined from other games. In particular, the focus trees and ideology options seem fairly limited; I would like to attempt some kind of Syndicalist or Futurist or Third-Alternativist government, but you can't even change the name of the countries to fudge it without making mods from whole cloth. Additionally I would like to play for a longer timespan, maybe from 1900 to the 70s or so. Anything worth looking into for these specific itches that need scratching?

>>2229999
>not buying skin packs
It's like you don't want to pay to be black.

>>2225619
HOI3 is very poor on historicaly accuracy though.
HOI4 is just shit.

HOI2: Doomsday with either the CORE or Stony Road mods was the peak of the HOI series.

>>2230002
>the focus trees and ideology options seem fairly limited
>I would like to attempt some kind of Syndicalist or Futurist or Third-Alternativist government
>Additionally I would like to play for a longer timespan, maybe from 1900 to the 70s or so.

>Anything worth looking into for these specific itches that need scratching?
See >>2230022

Dynasty Warrior

>>2227120
>It has no armor or ammunition modeled, it's just some very simple and unrealistic bullshit mechanic.
I don't remember seeing anything like that at all

As far as I remember you can hit the ammo rack of a tank and with an AT rifle you can only penetrate T34s in certain spots like the turret ring or near the tracks

The tank models look fine also

>>2227413
>Stalingrad mission copied straight from Enemy At The Gates
>Germans using American flamethrowers
>Konigstiger in Stalingrad
>Those shitty incorrect German uniforms that look like they're soaked all the time
>Reused animations from COD2
>Reused German voice lines from COD2
>Panzer IV with schurzen in Stalingrad
>No Volkssturm in Berlin

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is anyone enjoying this as much as I am? battles are immensely more enjoyable than total war imo.

anything else with satisfying combat? besides total bore

>>2226114
I came here to laugh at you

>>2229493
what is that looks cool

>>2230111
It's really good. Nothing quite like the gut punch of seeing the manpower ticker drop by 200 in about a second and a half because you misclicked.

I wonder if they're going to include gatling guns.

>>2230124
fucking this. cav def needs some work though.

>>2230123
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=MEIOU

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>>2225495
Medieval 1 Total War
Stronghold Crusader
Age of Empires 2
King of Dragon Pass for the prestigious

>>2230035
THIS
H
I
S

>>2230124
>tfw you hoard enough 24 pdr howitzers or Harper's Ferry as the north and equip them to your best brigades and that brigade single-handily holds off 3 rebel infantry brigades.

Mount and blade warband
Age of empires 3
Stronghold Crusader
Rise of nations

>>2230123
This is the map of the MEIOU & Taxes mod, for Europa Universalis IV, in the year 1356 (the earliest playable date).

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Hypothetically speaking, what would a Total War: 1949 look like? What difficulty setting would each starting faction have? And if you were to think of history as a simulation of the game, who played well given their starting points and who played poorly? I'll be honest: I'm asking this because I've been thinking about how the newly formed PRC might have played their cards better, and if entering the Korea war was a mistake.

>>2230333
it would hypothetically be shit because CA are lazy hacks now

>>2225650
Polandis hard mode

>>2226299
Napoleon wasn't the bad one, Empire was. Which is what your screenshot is from.

>>2226241
Take Malta and Sicily

>>2226041
I fucking loved that game. The campaigns were great.

>you will never travel in time to stop Russia from conquering the world under its robot dictator

>>2226486
Break the chains!

>>2227360
>

The totalists are scum desu, though all the exiled empires and Germany are worse, break the fucking chains.

>>2228561
To be fair trying to take back Northern Ireland in HoI4 was fun until Britain went fascist and ruined all my plans

>>2230002
Syndicalist? Oh boy get on Kaiserreich

"Pirates Gold" got me into geography when I was very young. If you have kids, should get them that, although probably better games now.
Any history-related games now with a SJW lesson inbuilt?

>>2225495
>227 replies
>No Gary Grigby's WitX
Plebs

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>>2225495

Vicky 2 is quite easy once you get the hang of it

If you want real autism try this >>2231355

>>2230333
>what would a Total War: 1949 look like
Wargame: Red Dragon.

>>2227555
Do not grab CoD3. It is a steaming diaper dumpster fire. Worst in the series BY FAR and that is saying something given everything that has been released since BO1.

>>2231355
>>2231387
please refrain from discussing current /gsg/ shitposting topics

>>2231404
Fuck off cobra

>>2230203
>tfw I made some mistakes at Shiloh and my vets are almost all gone
Feels bad man

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Weeb out and play as the Oda in Shogun 2
>Gonna be like my animu samurais
>Gonna be Shogun n' shiiiet
>Do well, take 8 Provinces, be close allies with the Takeda to the east, who have control of the entire North along with the Hojo
>No enemies, several allies and trade partners at this point
>March on Kyoto
>Fuck their shit up
A year passes and finally I'm kang
>suddenly every clan on the island wants my poor shogun head
>Fight everyone along with my bros the takeda for a while
>they betray me too
>mfw my shogunate is shrinking from every direction
>mfw I'm bankrupt
>mfw I achieved peace with the Takeda and the Hojo after giving them my sons as hostages
>mfw they slaughtered my sons on the next round and resumed fucking my shit up

>>2231740
>rock paper scissors simulator: samurai edition
Never understood why the Total War games are popular. That's literally all they are: swordsmen beat spearmen beat cavalry beat skirmishers beat spearmen

>>2231753
Name another game with battles that play better

There aren't many

>>2231992
Mount and Blade, arguably - but that one croaks when you have 500+ people on the field, the realism factor is still pretty meh, the AI is a placeholder and tactics or strategy are downright nonexistant.

>>2231992
Wargame series, Ultimate General series, Graviteam Tactics. At least they try and aren't Rock Paper Scissor simulators

>>2232069
These are great, but they are from modern times.

>>2232078
>but they are from modern times
???

Ultimate General just released in the last three months. Wargame: Red Dragon released less than two years ago and has been continually updated with expansions since. Are you trolling, ignorant or just stupid?

>>2232089
Misread, disregard.

>>2232044
I always love the way the AI holds a formation while traveling down the entirety of the map just to go full retard by breaking formation and charging balls out at one small section of my line in the last 50 yards.

>>2230333
Wouldn't work

Total War doesn't allow you to have armies of millions of men. The best is maybe 20,000 to 30,000 if you're really really rich and big. It doesn't have command structures either.

>>2232089
>Are you trolling, ignorant or just stupid?
The game is SET in more modern times you fucking retard.

>>2232089
anything 1750 plus is modern times you fucking retard

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>>2225540
This right here. Also, all the Civs up till IV.

>>2232120
>>2232122
RTFT holy shit >>2232090

>>2232120
>>2232122
Calm down, lads. He apologised.

>>2232122
Really? I would say that modern warfare started with American civil war. Considering that industry finally played the decisive role.

>>2232069
Ult General is fantastic. Line battles have not been done better imo. The scale feels just right too. Wish there were more like it.

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>>2231740
That's because you're doing it all wrong, grasshopper.

>Be Oda
>Bonuses to Ashigaru means screw Samurai, the bulk of your army will be peasant conscripts. Hold off on building Samurai units until later when you have provinces with blacksmiths, focus on outnumbering your opponents by huge margins with Ashigaru
>first turn build up your port and get a 2 unit navy off the ground ASAP. assault Saito, make them your bitch, then return your army to Owari and crush the Oda rebels when they attack your stronghold
>Tokugawa moves his army into your region but that's what you want him to do, because you can march your army from Owari to Mikawa in a single turn, assault Toku's stronghold and force him to become your vassal without having to engage his army.
>When Imagawa attempts a naval invasion, you'll have those two units of ships to toss his big ass army into the sea without actually having to fight them.
>Now that Imagawa is defenseless Tokugawa will take him out and continue moving west, allowing you to focus on conquering the Japanese heartland around Kyoto. The idea is that you want to conquer an area big enough to build up and fortify with economic buildings but not so big that it triggers realm divide.
>After realm divide everyone unites against you. It's virtually impossible to keep allies at this point even with hostages and marriage so focus instead on building up a big enough army to go conquering in all directions.
>If its possible intervene in conflicts where one faction is emerging as the clear dominant and take them down a few pegs without capturing any of their territory. You want it so that when Realm divide strikes you can quickly take Kyoto and then expand into the peripheries against opponents which are still bitterly divided and squabbling.
>Don't be afraid to pull out of a province and make a rebel buffer state. Computers won't attack rebels after Realm divide and rebels won't attack anything outside of their own territory.

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"Crusader" kings 2

>>2232196
So was it a bad thing that I was a giant state right in the middle of the island when I took Kyoto?

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>>2232244
No that's where you want to be, all around the center of Japan, but you want to put off on conquering Kyoto for a while until you can develop the shit out of your territories. Really crank up the production of economic buildings like markets and sake houses, building an army large enough to war on two fronts takes a LOT of koku. Make the civic techs which increase your money supply a top research priority. More money = more Ashigaru = Shimazu and his precious Katana Samurai don't have a chance against a max star general with an army that outnumbers them 5 to 1.

The problem that you'll eventually run into is that these huge armies cost a lot of upkeep and you get more bang for your buck later in the game with Samurai units, but you only want to build them in dedicated military provinces that have bonuses like Blacksmiths and religious buildings so that you're really maximizing the cost-effectiveness of each unit late-game by kitting them out with elite gear or training. Every other province should be devoted to economic buildings

>>2232279
Noted, I'll load the save prior to the siege of Kyoto and focus on expanding economic infrastructure.

>>2226322
>Civ 5
is shit. Even 6 is better without mods and DLC

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Been playing a bunch of Total War Empire as the Russians. I must say it's pretty solid.
>Ottomans and me throwing armies left and right
>Sweden being super cool and trading Estonia for Eastern Finland
>Suddenly Georgia, Some other sand nigger nation and Persia declare war
>Having to fight full stacks of sand niggers with swords every other turn
>Can't capture land fast enough because of MUH RESISTANCE TO OCCUPATION
>Austria and Poland not even lifting a finger to help me with Ottomans.
This shit is great.

>>2232196
The AI is retarded. Why anyone needs any kind of guide for any TW game is beyond me.

Barring artificial difficulty constraints like player debuffs/AI unit buffs every single TW game is piss easy.

>>2231740
Your mistake was thinking the AI, diplomatic or otherwise, was anything other than a poorly thought out mess. The game, as all TW games, is designed to not stagnate. When you have a neighbor they will invariably declare war and attack you. Even if its stupid, even if all logic and experience says that's a dumb move, even if you're "bros". And CA always finds a justification for these shenanigans, if it isn't "action oriented" its some retarded nonsensical infamy system that has no practical ingame counterweight.

Rarely though the AI will retard itself into not attacking you, usually out of some sort of bug or glitch.

Ironically this breeds a sort of stagnation born of predictability, knowing the AI can never ever be trusted.


Anyway, what I'm saying is you should have known better than trusting the AI at all and should have been ready to get stabbed in the back since having allies in a TW game always ends like that.

Noob

>>2232338
>Even 6 is better
Shit. I stopped playing at 3.

>>2232485
Dumbass, he's talking about the realm divide mechanic in Shogun 2 which makes everyone hate you after you become shogun. It's an infamy system similar to pacts and coalitions in Paradox games. The diplomacy AI is only broken and backstabby in Rome 1 and Medieval 2, it works properly in subsequent games.

>>2232338
vox populi >>> civ 6 right now.

>>2232600
don't let him get rid of his delusions.

>>2232600
>he's talking about the realm divide mechanic in Shogun 2 which makes everyone hate you after you become shogun. It's an infamy system
That's why I specifically mentioned infamy systems. I know what he's talking about anon, that doesn't make its implementation any better. In fact since it's such a noticeable feature of the game his unreadiness is that much more of a garbage move.

>The diplomacy AI is only broken and backstabby in Rome 1 and Medieval 2
We can go in circles regarding how empire, napoleon, shogun, r2's AI is or isn't shit just to come to the correct conclusion that it's a matter of opinion. So lets simply say I have different standards than you and CA.

>>2232690
>I have different standards
>AI personalities are clearly defined on the campaign map.
>are generally friendly with their cultures.
>willing to accept peace if you sack their cities.
>willing to trade and generally remain allied instead of breaking treaties unless they are untrustworthy.

>>2232698
A lot of that isn't true though.

>>2232698
>be in Rome 2
>ai still can't counter an echelon formation
>used this shit in Rome 1
>ai is gewd guise
>honest

>>2232708
>when you open the cai_tables that determine how the AI works but Anon knows better.

The worst thing to this relatively fresh system is the imperium penalty which is the Definition of pointless artificial difficulty.

>>2226365
>he's never played black desert online

>>2232718
>talk about CAI
>talks about BAI.
eric.

>>2232718
The tactical AI is different to the diplomacy AI. Rome 2's tactical AI is trash. The diplo AI is pretty good though, despite the lack of diplomatic options.

>>2225552
>vicky 2 has bugs like artisans being eternally starving and exploits like >>2225499
Artisans starving isn't a bug, and are you saying that alcohol wasn't historically profitable?

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>>2227091
mein kamaraden

Any vidya besides paracux and total bore?

>>2232757
It's "meine Kameraden" you stinking Untermensch.

>>2232766
Anything by Matrix games if you want ultra autism

>>2232777
seconding this
Squad assault is pretty bork though.

>>2232766
warband

>>2232766
Warband and history/realism mods

>>2232782
>>2232795
paradox

>>2232863
it wasn't made by paradox, only published by them. and they since dropped the publishing license to warband.

>>2232777
Their games are all built on a terrible engine, and more often than not, they are turn-based as well.
>>2232782
>>2232795
The battles are shit in Warband. They are just mindless brawls without any kind of tactics.

>>2225495
warband with 1257ad

>>2232887
Some mods add formation AI. But really it's not a game about having a total war level of tactics, it's about the directional combat which is very good.

>>2232907
>directional combat which is very good.
No, it isn't. The combat is really stiff and ridiculous and unrealistic.

>>2232910
name a game with better melee combat

>>2232917
Exanima. It's not perfect at all, but it's already miles ahead of Warband combat.

>>2232917
inb4 chivalry

>>2232887
>mindless brawls without any kind of tactics
t. never played multiplayer

>>2232933
I've played multiplayer, and it doesn't change the ridiculous animations. It's irrelevant anyway because multiplayer is boring since it has none of the historical and management features of single player.

>>2232910
>stiff and ridiculous and unrealistic
what did he mean by this

>>2232781
>pretty bork though.
Bork?

Bork, bork.

>>2232941
in animation based combat, especially in a game like warband, the animations have to be clear and easy to see, and the animations do that well

sure they dont look great but no other game has directional combat with the same skill ceiling and depth

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>>2225838
>Just autoresolve the battles

>>2226241
>>2226256
Not enough. Gibraltar, the Rubicon, and the Caspian Sea.

Also
>ctrl+f gekokujo
>0 results
>Medieval 2 History mods mentioned
>No sign of The Italian Wars or 1648
Shame

>>2232941
>multiplayer is boring
You obviously never played Napoleonic Wars.

>>2232988
NW is meme trash

>>2232910
kys faggot. Even Matt Easton said that the combat is pretty good and realistic.

>>2233007
You're meme trash

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Is this /his/ approved?

>>2232887
>any games besides x?
>hurr those do not count because a non-argument
Very few Matrix games are on the same engine and not all of them are turn-basef. They have an extremely varied catalog.

>>2227413

Should have just been pacific missions tbhfam.

replayed the first russian mission the other day and the general you have to assassinate is wearing this retarded mismash uniform. Hes wearing a wehrmacht jacket, with a swastika armband, and these ridiculous plumed pants. It makes it feel like Im playing through a comic book instead of a historical battle.

really liked the airplane mission in the pacific part though. Also in like the second mission I think. When you are taking that fort at the end and you pretty much have it, if you walk in through the side, a jap takes out a grenade and kills himself.

>>2234305

for some reason, that reminded me of an american and jap version of the "I GOT YOUR BACK" meme

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just started pic related

is the whole thing as boring as the first 20 minutes????

>>2235107
Company of Heroes was very fun when it came out, even if it's an RTS rip off of Men of War. It's a little dated now, but still fun. The first few missions are grindy, but it gets much better after. Stick with it.

EU4 seems fun in theory but it's tutorials suck and whenever things are going well it's horribly boring.

>>2235289
Thought it was more convergent evolution than anything, CoH has a lot of mechanical heritage in DoW

I usually use http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=631545981&tscn=1484579939 for my EU4 games, but MEIOU has caught my eye.

Which mod? Give me a country and some goals

>>2235289
>men of war fags try and hijack company of heroes.
fuck off. Most of the mechanics come from dawn of war and relic used the havoc engine for the physics.

>>2225601
What are the main differences between HoI2, HoI3, and HoI4?

I have HoI2: Darkest Hour and was totally confused. Haven't spent much time in it. HoI4 is much more intuitive, though still has a steep learning curve.

>>2235504
Play MEIOU and create a comfy trade empire in the Netherlands

What is the best way to play as USA in Vicky 2?

>>2236044
Alcohol.

>>2226241
The west bank of the Rhin in legitimate kebab clay.