ITT: /his/ approved video games

Total War isn't bad.

>>2292857
>memeopa memeiversalis ImemeV

>>2292857
>mana manapolis tjohanis

>>2292857
REMOVE KEBAB

liquor-factory simulator 2

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>>2292857

HoI2 and its derivatives are the only right answer

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>>2293523
Darkest Hour produces some great Alt-Histories with mods.

>Playing a Fascist France run starting in 1914
>Play WW1 out till 1918
>Elect progressively right wing parties through 1924
>In 1924 Giacomo Matteotti wins the Italian general elections on a socialist platform
>Mid 1925 sees Mussolini's blackshirts and fascist supporters in full revolt throughout Italy
>By August Mussolini declared the formation of the Italian Social Republic, backed by Italian Naval and Marine forces, and Sicilian peasantry
>In early 1926 Fascist French forces invade in support of Mussolini, ending the Italian Republic

This led to a crazy late 20s-early 30s with Soviet backed socialist Germany toppling central European governments. WW2 started in 1936 when the German/Soviet coup attempt in Yugoslavia failed, leading Communist Hungary and Austria Invading. Yugoslavia was backed by fascist Italy, who quickly called in French support. The Germans and Russians declared war to back their puppets in the Balkans. Germany then launched a surprise attack through the lowlands in a repeat of the WW1 invasion of France. This brought the British in nominally on the side of France. By 1937 the "allied armies" were advancing in Germany and the Caucuses, but retreating in the Balkans and Italy. Crazy fucking war

Victoria II is phenomenal, especially if you mod it.

>tfw modded the shit out of it based on a Napoleonic victory timeline

>>2292857
Ebin GroBOttomanums xd.

What do you think of Anno? Was thinking of playing 1701

>>2292857
>Superpower 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eSfNu-bBWk

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>had the chance to grab CKII complete for like ten bucks on a steam sale a year or two back
>now the basegame goes down to ten bucks at the lowest and all the dlc is still like $80

>>2294072
Great game, not historical. That said, though, if you want entertainment play a game. If you want to learn history read a book, listen to a podcast or watch a documentary.

>>2293798
What mods do you use?

>>2294072
I grabbed 1404 recently, and it's more a comfy chill-out game than anything for me.

Pathing from production buildings to the port/warehouse is really fucky though. And sometimes your entire populace suddenly decides they're starving.

>>2293798
The UI for darkest hour is fucking disgusting. How can anyone play a game with such a shitty interface? Autistic Micromanagement: The Game

>unironic turkblob

>>2294152
say what you will about the ottomans, but every turkish woman I've met has been qt af


i have met two turkish women total

>>2292857
> map painting simulators

I played my share of paradox games, but ultimately painting the map is all there is to them. Simulation-wise there really isn't much emergent behaviour.

eu4 is good, im going to conquer norway as hungary just like i did in real life with my penis

CK2

undertale

liquoria2

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Thoughts?

>>2294161
This literally only applies to eu4

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>>2294253
>implying

It really irks me how shit the map looks in memecux games. But why put in the effort when modders do it for free I guess.

>>2294096
Just pirate the DLCs, the developers are snowjews and don't deserve your money

Age of Empires.
>>2294259
>German "Reich"
when is this meme going to end?

>>2294112
thats HOI3, HOI2 was kino and HOI4 is normie edition

>>2292857
>tfw this game is too complex for me
I bought Crusader Kings 2 and only have an hour on it cause I can't even beat the tutorial

>>2294848
dude what?
if it's really that complex for you just watch a few youtube let's plays, that's a fast way to pick up

>>2294259
HOI4 blobbing is for fags.

The correct way to do it is aesthetic expansions and annexes to give yourself enough resources to be self-sufficient, then set up puppets and an empire spanning the whole map.

>>2294848

Keep trying, CKII is close to a perfect game even with its terrible, terrible UI.

>>2294848
>>2294964
I(other anon) would argue to not bother with the ck2 to euIV converter

>>2294160
Yeah well you got lucky or you have seriously low standards. Turkish women are average at best

>>2292857
Gary grigsby games. Really anything by Matrix/Slitherine.

>>2294986
It depends really. Turkish women from the West of Turkey are very beautiful.

>>2292857
Cossacks Battle for Europe

>>2294161
CK2 and Victory go way further than that. In CK2 you have to deal with successions,plots,balance of power,inheritance and crusades. And in victoria expansion is secundary and some times not even profitable. EU4 is just painting the map though

>>2292857
2676 hours niggers
Get on my level

Nobunagas ambition anyone?

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HoI4 is quite good.

>>2293798
>autism: the game

>>2296401

you clearly never played HoI2

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Too bad I forget to screenshot the battle results.

>>2296414
I did, but it was like 10 years ago, I don't remember shit. I do remember playing HoI4 recently and it was quite good.

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>>2296401
HOI4's way to easy

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>>2296414
This.

HOI3 and HOI4 are clear steps backwarda compared to HOI2 which was the pinnacle of the series.

>Less micromanagement
>Cluncky political system
>Easymode
>Less historical accuracy
>Simplified tech trees

HOI4 is shit.

HOI2 Armaggedon with Stony Road or CORE mods is where it's at.

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>>2296417
I gotchu.

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>>2296552
>jihaded by all the mussies.

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>>2296565
>Crusaded by dirty pope cause I wiped out the Milanese and killed the kang and prince of France in one fell swoop causing the english to take Normandy.

>>2296570
Portugese* not english.

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I've played 400+ hours and had no idea this was a thing.
I laughed for a good 15 seconds.

>>2296459
Care to elaborate why HOI3 wasn't as good as HOI2?

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>>2296978
lack of proper mods and it has a simplified tech tree

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World At War is the best CoD game not necessarily because it of its faith towards historical events, but towards historical tone.

>>2292857
Why do people prefer Europa Mappaintsalis to Liquoria 2? Like are they too dumb to comprehend Victoria or what, EU is such a simplistic plebeian game and the only thing you can do there is declare war.

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>>2297068
I find the period to be unaesthetic and totally uninteresting, the diplomacy sucks hard and the economics are still totally inferior to games like Distant Worlds.

Fuck Liquoria.

>>2297068
The fact that liquor happens to be the most valuable good in-game should tell you why.

>>2296978
It isn't, DH babbies just can't handle anything more than divisions and corps and call the OOB "complexity for the sake of complexity" despite it having actual effects on the game that players have to take into account.

The fact that Kaiserreich, which is basically a visual novel for DH, is the most popular mod should tell you that DH's war mechanics are so shit and simplified that modders have to rely on events to make the game interesting.

>>2297127
>19th century
>unaesthetic
Best be trolling nigger

There's a game called "Die Römer" (2006) (published by CDV) in German. Its gimmick is that it has a complete Latin translation.

Does anyone happen to know its English name? Can't find it.

>>2297501
I'm not. I genuinely strongly dislike most aesthetics related to the 19th century.

>>2297518
Then you're a fucking faggot.

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>>2297528
Opinions, duh.

>>2297531
>Yoba
Figured you'd be some mongoloid from KC or 2ch.

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>>2294680
Correct.

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>>2296590
I was playing a multiplayer round of CK2 with my friend who asked me for a concubine. I suggested Glitterhoof and he graciously accepted.

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who /norman/ here?

>>2294259
Lol Italy got shit for their contribution

>>2298463
i didnt ask them to join the war. i just steamrolled paris and britain and got the peace conference for the allies where i annexed canada, new zealand , australia, india, south africa, all of africa and the philippines. after that i just focused on killing the communists

>>2297049
Forget tone, it's all about that sick beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zexRToMLGOY

Anyone got thoughts or ideas for their ideal /his/ game?

>>2298503
Vic2 nation/kingdom management + Total War battles/tactics + Mount & Blade combat/player participation.
Different historical starting dates like 300AD, 1100AD, 1450AD, 1600AD, 1800AD, etc.

>>2297551
That is Age of Empires II

>>2294642
they patched the activator, pirated dlc is useless now.

>>2298503
timeline of civ, battles of total war, map and choice of nations of eu/vic/hoi

>>2296178
V2 basically just limits expansion through RNG infamy hardcaps and limited timeline. Once you hit great-power status you can just gobble up whatever you want, especially once great wars are unlocked. It has an interesting early game, but mid-game and late game always seem to play out the same.

>>2298863
nope still works check the pastebin in /gsg/

>>2293805
I always try to play as a map painter but it never works. I couldn't care less about my people, I just want to WIN AND HAVE MORE LAND AHHH

>>2300559
>I just want to WIN AND HAVE MORE LAND AHHH
You have to be at least 18 to post on this site.

>>2292857

Bought EU4 and Crusader Kings II not too long ago, toyed around for about an hour but didn't really know what I was doing.

How hard is it to really understand it all?

>>2300752
Not very hard. All the complexity is front-loaded. Once you understand the mechanics and how to exploit the AI, the games are fairly to play. You could always watch a video tutorial or LP series on Youtube. It might not be the /v/-approved way, but if can be helpful to see how a game plays out.

>>2300695
>You have to be at least 18 to post on this site.

This is a blue board you fucking idiot

>>2300826
http://www.4chan.org/rules
>2. You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.

>>2294096
>buying Paradox games
top lel

>>2297497
>implying hoi 3 is actually complicated

it's exactly the same shit as hoi2/dh just with shitton of provinces and with a lot of redundant technologies

>>2300901
>with shitton of provinces

This is what makes it over-complicated. Hoi 2 had good sized provinces that kept the front simple enough for a human to grok, hoi3 just zooms waaaay on in and the result is that you literally can't micro manage your shit and are forced to rely on the AI, leaving you feeling that you're just watching the game play itself.

>>2292857
Civilization VI

>>2300931
>and are forced to rely on the AI
I've never once had to rely on the AI. Maybe you should slow your game down or, you know, pause.

>>2300955
>turn-based
lol

>>2292857
I'll get one historical game of your recommendation right now, /his/.
Which one should I get?

>>2301108
Panzer Corps

Is there a map for Civ4 where you can play as Greek city-states?

>>2297497
You need events to make any HOI game interesting.

>>2298503
CK2 timeframe and ruler roleplaying but with Vicky 2 pop management and HOI2 battle mechanics

>>2300502
What the fuck is /gsg/?

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>>2292857
[Fredman's Epistles plays gently in the background]

Currently working on a cultural and religious genocide CN campaign in multiplayer.

>>2301205
/Grand-Strategy General/

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Anyone here play Tiger Knight?

>>2301236
>>>/vg/167058315

Thread is on /vg/ if anyone is autistic like me

>>2301262
Stop shilling you dumb chink, nobody wants to play your shit game.

>>2301234
Shouldn't Roman culture be in the same group as the Italian cultures?

>>2301537
It's listed as a "lost culture"

>>2300826
Neck yourself you retarded underage cunt

>>2301205
A cancerous shithole filled with autistic cunts

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Soon

>>2301735
rude

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>>2292857

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>>2302088

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>>2302090
Fuck the Otomo in particular

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>>2302096

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>>2302100

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>>2302103

Rule the Waves is good. Visually basic, mechanically good. Great fun.

>>2292857
new in this board. what game is this /his/?

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>>2302109

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>>2302119

>>2302116
Crusader Hearts 3: Rights of Man

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>>2302126

>>2302131
sweet. thanks anon.

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>>2292857
>This triggers the Habsburg

>>2302116
Don't let this fool >>2302131 fuck with you.

It is definitely For Honor

Eu4 is honestly a much better game than any of the other series. None of the others are even games so much as roleplaying create-your-own-story visual novels for kids who flunked history class.

>>2296570
BYZANTINE TRIGGERING
GET OUT DIRTY VENETIANS

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>>2294259

>>2298503
Age of Empires 3, but better
Allow for proper pike and shotte
Melee that works
Allow both Europe and around the globe rather than just colonial pursuits
Get line troops and larger sized armies to simulate Napoleonic warfare
Natives that provide benefits beyond meatshields and are powerful early on

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What's the most impressive thing you've seen an AI do?

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>>2301284
Is there a shit hole worse than /gsg/?
/ksg/?
/twg/ is comfy

>>2302148
please do not blob anon

>>2294979
Agree on this. EUIV seems to be the less historically interesting game anyway. I prefer the dynastic intrigue of ck2. I don't need Sweden or France to take over all of Europe, I need my family to sit on their thrones, and have my family rule over all facets of life, eventually becoming the global ruling class. This game I'm in right now has my dynasty holding the papacy, most of the cardinals are my dynasty, all the little independent merchant republics are held by cadet houses of my family (I embargo whenever they don't and all nations ruled by my house join and we beat them down until my cadet branch is the only one with money enough to become elected, besides the prestige of my house helps), the caliphate is held by my dynasty (not the main empire, just the religious title), and France, aquitaine, Italy, England, and of course the Byzantine Empire.

>>2302116
Jihad Sultans II: the raper's due

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Can't help but enjoy Paradox Megacampaigns. They become so far removed from reality, even at the end of CK2, but each progressive conversion to a new game is worse.

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How often do you guys make mistakes in these games?

I often forget a ship or something and end up costing the country the lifetime's work of 100000s of people. I can't help but think of how mad everyone would be at me and call me stupid and incompetent if this were IRL.

>>2303263
What if the world is like that? We assume that what we are seeing is "normal" and about the most likely thing to happen but in reality the world is extremely chaotic and unpredictable and this is just survivor bias.

Just an example but duhmeriflabs just elected a reality TV show host and trust fund babby with no experience either in politics or the civil service as president, we are witnessing another break from the timeline.

>>2303219
The idea of a proper graphics 3d aoe2 gives me boners every time. Those shiny kettle helms, knights' horse animations.. I see it in my dreams.

If you want early modern though I suppose you should play Cossacks.

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>>2294252

Rename it to “American National Action League“ for the sweet acronyme.

>>2299511
>V2 basically just limits expansion through RNG infamy hardcaps and limited timeline
This is true, although even without that stuff, your conquered land isn't assimilated nearly as easily as in EU4. Vic 2 doesn't hand out cores for free, nor do you get to choose accepted/non-accepted cultures. You can blob, but the result is an unstable empire instead of a bigger nation like in EU.

>>2298503
Mount & Blade style third/first person action game with more open customization of your warband, not simply upgrading them between types and tiers but instead outfitting your troops yourself. Less focus on kingdom building and more battlefield work as one division of a larger army.

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>>2303263
Somehow this made me laugh.

>>2303296
Well yeah but we play historical GSGs because of history. When I see shit like Moscow controlled by the Emirate of Ireland I lose all immersion and interest.

>>2303227
Creator of that picture has to be one of the most ass ravaged Turks in existence. Literally getting buttblasted over countries people play as in videogames.

>>2303697
This is why I play CK2 as a fetish simulator with Dark World. If I want a historical game I play Victoria 2 or Darkest Hour and don't play EU4 at all.

>>2292857
I use ck2 as fapping tool.

>>2303772
Wew, you too? What's your favourite thing to do?

>>2297049
that's not B I G R E D O N E

Graviteam Tactics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7n-qHX-uBs

>>2303780
Play as one of swedish tribe. Import sum brown or nignog from africa as husband for my daughters. After some time whole family turns into black.

>>2303818
Try Dark World and CK2+.

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COMFY
O A
MALTESE
F T
Y E
S
E

KINGDOM
INGDOMK
NGDOMKI
GDOMKIN
DOMKING
OMKINGD
MKINGDO

Also rate my income and borders
Not shown is venice, which i own

>>2303868
How do you get so much income?

>>2292857
>Not even taking Vienna
Why live?

>>2301128
Yes.

>>2303226
I see this happen more times than should be allowed.

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>nobody mentioned Medieval II yet

>>2298503
MMO played out in "century" and people join nations/kingdoms and help their faction become stronger, each season 1 team wins

>>2292857
I almost finished EU3 with Otomans but I decided to ingore badboy in last years and its unplayable with like 100 badboy score.

age of empires

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rip france

>>2303780
Bride shopping makes me tingle
Just like browsing Tinder, the thought of women wanting me is appealing

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>>2304305
It happens

>>2303868
Different anon, but having the pope + merchant republics as vassals is how I get waaaay too much money. In one of my games I'm getting over 50 gold a month.

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>>2292857
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

>>2292879
>Female gladiators
>Gladiators as combat units

>>2296401
Literally fuck off. HOI4 is terrible unless you mod it to fuck.

>No more army hierarchies (Army groups, command structure, etc)
>Butchered map that looks horrible
>Autistic civil war mechanics
>Every minor nation neglected
>Retarded fucking AI who can't do a single intelligent thing (I beat Soviet Union twice as Poland, using only armies made up of infantry and some cavalry. Only took like 500,000 casualties. Soviets took 2,000,000.)
>AI does autistic ahistorical shit like Japan sending their entire army to Europe to help Germany
>AI launches autistic invasions of coastal provinces that get stomped out quickly becaus they only use a single shitty colonial garrison division
It's literally autism

>>2297049
What historical tone? All I noticed about the game was the glorification of violence, the historical inaccuracies, and the blatant ripping-off of Enemy At The Gates in the first Russian mission.

So what do you guys think about Victoria 2 Historical Project Mod?

>inb4 liquoria meme

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Ireland is so fun to play in every game

>>2304430
>>Female gladiators
Gladiatrix is the correct term. And they did exist. They were rare as fuck though.

>>2303780
i like to cuck my entire court

>>2297127
Interesting. 19th century is my favourite period of modern history.

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What about city building series? I still play Caesar III and Emperor.

>>2304430
>WW2 game map so small that you can't flank.
>Very limited artillery and armor support.

See? You can use this meme on any game.

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>>2304602

>>2304602
goat
>>2304618
what is this

also is there one for medieval or dark age time periods?

>>2304430
>Implying Rome II is the only Total war game.

>>2304618
>>2304790
Pharaoh

That game was amazing.
I played my ass off as a kid.

>>2296978
Lack of historical research compared to HOI2. Shittier mechanics. Shittier AI.

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>>2302119

>>2303263
Hey Synanomouss

>>2304984
Yo

>>2304430
Gladiators were used as merchanry or combat units in times of need. Escpially in city of rome. Swords were banned so only gladiators had them. So some senators used to as show of force.

>>2298547

seconding this: >>2298547

mr market researcher ;)

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Anyone ever done the Third Odyssey mod?
>play Byzantium
>flee west to the Americas
>start a new kingdom there
>build up, conquer Indians
>eventually gather a large enough army to invade North Africa
>take back rightful Byzantium lands from dirty Ottomans

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>>2305334
Christ, I don't remember that webm being that awful

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>>2292857
How the fuck do people actually play this game? I bought it when it was on saie but I didn't even get past the tutorial.

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>>2305341
you have to acquire autism first

>>2296570
>>2296565
>>2296552
>>2303907

Is Stainless Steel 6.4 still the best mod for Medieval 2 or are there better options now?

Any good Stainless Steel 6.4 sub mods?

>>2305341
I think it took me maybe 4 or 5 failed attempts to finally understand the majoriry of EU3's systems.
Try Castile or Portugal for safety. I just never fought offensive wars and mainly spent my time colonizing the Americas. Setting up a trading post in Havana was god, as my non aggression style brought 3/4 of the New World through my ports.

>>2305341
Absolutely NOTHING is as complicated as it seems.

TRADE
>Your country will have a main trade "node" (the squares that arrows go through on the trade map)
>For England, for example, it's "English Channel"
>The arrows show the direction "trade" goes
>Put a merchant in rich nodes and make him "point trade" toward your main node/a node that connects to yours
>This brings you more money

WAR
>Build spy network
>Fabricate claim
>Win enough to have maximum warscore/very high warscore
>Colour the map in as you like
>"Core" the areas using administrative points (one of the three types of mana along the top)
>Kill rebels until it's peaceful

COLONIES
>pick an explorer for your fleet (at least 3 light ships and 3 heavy ships)
>give him a mission to EXPLORE X
>give him a mission to EXPLORE X COAST
>click on coast
>send colonist
>if it's too far, level up your diplomatic technology or get exploration ideas or conquer land closer to it (for england, conquering ireland helps etc)
>Send troops there to stop natives, remember that most natives are weak as fuck so for 1500 natives 1300 men will probably do
>There are "colonial nations" (check wiki to see where) and they form when one person makes a bunch of colonies all next to each other, making them gives you a claim to most of that section of new world

It's not to bad, lad.

Go castille, reroll until you can make good allies (it seems to be a bit random who sets you as a rival between a few big nations) and take it slow.

As Castille you can usually eventually annex most of aragon and make Spain which makes you very powerful.

>>2305341
Try Crusaders Kings 2 and feel the real pain!

I don't see the appeal of strategy games

so fucking dull

>>2305334
>Novgorod made it to 1821

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>>2305341
Basically it's only complicated on a very cursory level. Once you spend an hour or two getting used to the interface and figuring out how to accomplish your objectives as you see them, you'll have already understood much of what the game has to offer.

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>>2292857
>>2296590
CK2 is nice

>>2303705
t. Prussia Pro

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>>2303705
based Erdogan

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What did they mean by this?

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I cannot git gud at HoI4
How do you have so much of the map painted anyway

>>2306088
Nice empire bb

>>2303895
What is its name?

>>2292879
only with historic accuracy mods like roma surrectum

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>not modding your game to look like parchment

>>2294072
It's alright but if you played it once, there's a very little chance of returning to it. No replay value at all

>>2298503
Incorporate the mechanics of EU4 and Vic 2 and HOI3/4 into CK2. As your state develops, more and more opportunities develop for characters within your realm, as privateers, conquistadores, MP's, industrialists, merchants, etc. The Merchant republic mechanics can be modified to simulate charter companies in the West and East Indies and corporations, tribal mechanics can be used worldwide, and more and more government and other positions can open up for characters as institutions expand and society develops.

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>>2306899

>>2306826
RS was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaàaaaaaay too complicated

>>2306952
>anything
>too complicated

think harder

>>2306766
Okay

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>>2302090

dd

Are there any games about Greek city-states?

>>2306899
>cheating

>>2307650
There's the first Hegemony game, which lets you play as several Greek city states and is like a weird RTS version of Civ/Total War

http://store.steampowered.com/app/202690/

>>2302088
Checked
>>2302090
And kekt

>>2304469
why is glorification of violence a negative?
especially in an FPS?

>>2292857
>not creating inbreed retards with your family in Cruader Kings

So far I've only played CKII and I want to try out another Paradox title.

Do you folks recommend EU4 or Victoria II? Which one do you personally prefer? I heard Victoria II is a lot more complex but I think I'll be okay with that.

>>2306468
HOI4 is fucking easy, mate.

What are you struggling with?
Tell me who you want to play as/what you want to do.

HOI4 combat revolves around
>give an army a front line that isn't too long for them
>give them a battleplan to move forward in a direction that will capture victory points
>rinse and repeat

>>2308190
Stop being a smartass. That only works if you have the advantage in army power on that line, either through numbers or better division design, which mostly means playing major powers without buffing other major ones.

The important things to learn in HOI4 is looking out of absolutely terrible terrain for some units type not to attack with terrible debuffs and how to design good divisions (golden 7 inf - 2 arty ratio for general use as front line holding and defense, armored with tons of breakthrough for attacks, motorized/mechanized for helping armor with overrunning). Rest is mostly knowing what to prioritize in tech tree, and other minor things.

>>2308277
But division spamming with front lines is a guarantee of a win.
You can beat the axis as-for example-Poland without a navy, airforce or really any tank divisions.

I won my first 3 campaigns and conquered most of Europe without learning Naval Combat, I only used it to do naval invasions to spam more divisions.

The game is far too easy, only absolute newbies to the genre or people trying to fail will struggle with it.
It's why they literally included a setting to strengthen nations, base game even on high difficulty is far too easy.

You shouldn't be able to beat Germany as Belgium, fascist or not. And yet, it's very easy to.


The AI can't handle multiple front lines.

>>2308288
>But division spamming with front lines is a guarantee of a win.
You can't just spam frontline and attack with smaller forces and still win, it's AI either way. Either you're talking about Germany driving forces to another frontline leaving nothing to defend your part or you're actually doing early attacks/optimizing divisions at the very least. But if it's frontline shift you're pretty much letting your allies do most of the job either way.
>You shouldn't be able to beat Germany as Belgium, fascist or not. And yet, it's very easy to.
Most of it stems from retarded fascist manpower bonuses without any repercussions. Hey you just mobilized your entire male population but everything is going fine with your production and economy. Or going fascist early on and doing shameless land grabs before the war is even supposed to start.


Overall Axis isn't really strong enough and I always give them buffs and sometimes turn ahistorical on just because it often results in easier time for them. As a newbie you could for example pick Canada, learn how stuff work and desant a few divisions in Europe and Allies would still win the war alone in 1943 depending on how long it takes them to invade Japan.

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Whats the opinion on Empire: Total War?

For some reason whenever I play the U.S. the Dutch have always BLITZED Europe before I can get there.

>>2303226
Theodoro beating Crimea + The Ottomans just because France decided to be a dick with it's great power status. Releases Byzantium from the Ottomans, Theodoro full annexes Crimea, Byzantium, Theodore, and France team up and rekt the Ottomans over 200 years until Byzantium controlled all of Anatolia and the Balkans and Theodoro controlled all of Crimea, the Caucasus, and a little of the Asian steppes.

>>2308649
I haven't played Empire in a long fucking time, but I seem to remember the Dutch getting some sort of buff to their trade income, that means they can afford to buy and maintain larger armies then other european powers which means that you get implausible shit like this happening.

>>2308649
Some people dislike it
I share Frederick the Great's boner for lines of infantry and the roar of lines of shot.
Playing Austria is fun. I convinced the Turks to like me while the Polish wanted to invade. Meanwhile, the Prussians got their ass kicked by the Poles and the Saxons, so I took Saxony and Berlin (from the Saxons) and pushed east to take Warsaw while allying with the Prussians. Then Russia allied with PLC and fought in the east, while the Turks stand still doing nothing, although at war with Russia.
Meanwhile, France was being a dick, as they do, taking Spain and allying with Portugal, making enemies of Spain and England, so I also marched west, taking France and Italy, leaving the Franks in Spain.
In other words: Austria, Prussia, England, Spain vs France, Poland, Mughals, and Russia
Meanwhile, the Dutch took the Rhineland and Bavaria, but are content with me, and Sweden can't overpower Hannover.

>>2297551
whoa, a DF reference!

strike the earf

>>2298503
gamedev here with backers. we are listening.

>>2308649
One of the best campaigns I ever had was in ETW as the Ottomans. After realizing that I could get several universities up and running in a handful of turns, I cut ties with my vassals, sold off indefensible border territories for tech and friendship, and forced a republican revolution to acquire the best leader and cabinet possible before moving onto constitutional monarchy for the sake of diplomacy.

Ended up so far ahead in the tech race that I was taking on Persian, Russian, and Austrian armies much larger than mine and still wrecking them hard each time while building up an army to inevitably take Vienna for a complete prestige victory.

Everything changed when the Maratha Republic attacked. A huge united India blob sending wave after wave at my eastern borders made me commit everything I had and still I got pushed back to Anatolia. I ended up making peace with Europe and a strong alliance with Poland, Prussia, and Britain at first to guard against a two-front war but eventually to help support Europe as the Marathas landed an invasion force in the Netherlands and began conquering France and Western Germany. Shit was insane, and turned what should have been another Ottoblob curbstomp campaign into a world war where battle hardened nizams stood shoulder to shoulder with Prussian line infantry supported by Polish cavalry against stack after stack of Sikh warriors carrying their war wheel banner.

>>2308894
>suddenly Indiablob
The Mughals suddenly landed two full stacks in Genoa against me once
I was properly pissed

>>2308649
The tribes are too op in Multiplayer.

>>2298503
sid meier's civilization + paradox + total war

It would require a 3d globe which might be a bit of a leap programming-wise, but the globe is more of a guideline.

Tiles/provinces built by the players or AI (or determined during map creation) are the business end of game mechanics and play like a paradox game or the total war campaign map. They build a city and it automatically claims an area. The map is used to determine the properties of the province and these properties are saved so they don't have to be calculated over and over again.

Provinces have minds of their own, to build an empire you have to keep their loyalty by maintaining lines of communication and supply lines for your troops. If they are cut they will either push for autonomy until they are all but independent or you will have to war with them knowing your troops can't reach them. Technology and development determines if you can establish supply lines, otherwise the province remains tribal.

Armies play on the globe map, but they have a limited amount of supplies (depletion depending on the supply lines to the province and pillaging). They have to return to the province city if they want to camp out somewhere. Forts built between borders can cut supply lines and may have to be taken. More forts are needed the longer the border. and the fewer the natural barriers like rivers and broken terrain (all calculated during province creation). Battle terrain depends on the location of armies on the globe map.

Each coastal province has an ocean "province" created next to it. Trade routes passing through it can be blocked. Trade is determined by a hierarchy, there is 1 trade center for every 8 or so connected provinces, the owner of these trade centers can then try to establish connections with other trade centers or oversea provinces by finding a route on the global map.

>>2308850
>>2298503

Master of Magic 2.

Make it happen.

>>2308649
Broken and uninteresting unless you get Darthmod. Then you have to deal with Ottoman turn lag ruining every game.

>>2309186
>Broken and uninteresting

How

>>2298503
Game called something like Forgotten Wars. Rts game based on Battle for Middle earth engine, with numerous instalments, with wars ranging from Crimean war to Falklands. So having like Franco prussian war, Boer wars, Russo Japanese war, Balkan Wars, Soviet Polish war, Spanish civil war, Jews vs the Arabs, Bush wars etc. Each new war would be expansion, with full campaign, nations playable in random map and something like BFME 2 dynamic campaign with Strategical map where battles are played out in real time.

>>2298503
A Medieval/Renaissance battle simulator that's neither janky like Mount&Blade: Warband nor just a glorified RTS built on number modifiers.

>>2304449
Actually this post is more autism

>>2308649
The AI is really bad. I've never played modded, but I've never played a game of Empire where I didn't control almost all of Europe on turn 4 or 5 because a single DoW and annexation starts a fluid chain reaction of me conquering pissed off neighbors.

>>2305908
>Fucking Mongols
>Fucking plague
>Fucking seducers
>Fucking holy wars
>Fucking raiders
>Fucking rebels
>Fucking whatever religions arn't yours
>Fucking every country attacking you at once
>Fucking Aztecs if you're stupid enough to put that shit on
>Fucking incest and retards becoming kings
I love it.

>>2304449
>Literally fuck off. HOI4 is terrible unless you mod it to fuck.
Yeah, but if you mod it to fuck, it's great. And what, are you NOT going to mod it to fuck?

>>2309456

whats some good mods in your opinion anon?

I just want something that makes division composition more realistic, fuck these sub 9k manpower armored divisions

>>2304449
A lot of these are correct but for me the far worse thing is how shit the production menu is, if you're a major industrial power you have rows of equipment production it's legit suicide inducing

>>2292885
>I'm just too cool for this that I'm going to call it a meme, yeah that'll bring all the other cool people to me
Hahaha, EU4 is absolutely epic, make a suggestion other than "Meme". This board is cancer and I only just came here.

>>2295027
because turks in the west of turkey have a much larger indo-european genetic substrate

they literally look better to you because they're less turkish

>>2294680
>>German "Reich" when is this meme going to end?
1945

>>2298503
Wargame: Hearts of Iron X: Total War
basically Wargame:Red Dragon styled tactical battles, but with global map and with management of industry, politics, diplomacy and research like HoI
and you can manage everything about your divisions, from number of tanks in a company to what shape of helmet your infantry uses

maybe even have a randomize planet feature that generates completely different continents and nations (just for fun)

>>2292857
>when /gsg/ raid /his...

>>2298503
A centurion simulator where you're less focused on slaying hundreds of enemies yourself and more focused on maintaining discipline and order in your stretch of the front line.

>>2296417
>Camping edge of the map in a noob square

You're a fag

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>>2309840
>

>>2309875
PULLO
FORMATION
PULLO

>>2302119
>woe to the conquered
>drops brains on scale
Brennus you joker.

>>2299511
CK2 has badboy score too in later patches, but there's an easy way around it by pressing you mother's claim on whatever you want and then waiting for her to die.

>>2311172
>fight war for Mother's claim, sacrificing yourself, your brother, and passing onto your uncle, who dies and is finished by his son
>turns out they have elective succession
I need to read more, sometimes
At least I had allies on the throne of Bavaria until the end date

Total war games, paradox games, and warband are good fun.

I'm playing a lot of Napoleon Total war again but using the mod NTW III. Only online, most people you play with and against are pretty cool and won't do cheap things like general snipe.

>>2304430
Fuck you its hot to see a blood thirsty woman impale a man with glee

>>2298503
Mount and Blade + Elder Scrolls but all based on the era of the Crusade where they removed kebab

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>>2311477
>Crusade
>removed kebab

>>2298503
SimCity 2000 but with a Medieval theme

>>2308894
>india outta nowhere
I remember that happening as well.
>sending boats to exploit the natives and to steal all their gold as based Sweden
>on the way there notice tiny and rickety mughal rafts entering European waters
>kek and think nothing of it
>a few turns later: Mughals have conquered France!
CA not even once

>>2308277
lad i conquered the world as hungary
if you are playing a small nation eat up your weaker neighbours 1 by 1 before allies guarantee ppl

use your army mana to design infantry dvisions with 2:1 inf:arti
10:5 works great

use encirclement tactics
build mil factories
mobilize your population

the combat is ww1 style thanks to the artillery trumps all method

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>>2303227
>>2306177
>tfw i used to be a major prussia pro asshole until roughly 2 years ago

I fucking hate myself every time i remember those days, it's like looking back on home videos and remembering how fucking autistic you were as a kid.

>>2296978
Not him but I remember HOI3 had utterly shit map in beta. Dunno I they fixed it.

>>2305405
Third age with DaC is bretty damn good, but it's fantasy

Europa Barbarorum 2 is bretty fuging great as well, I'd say it's better than SS

Regarding submods, check what's going on with Titanium submod. Might be a decent one.

>>2306462
You 'Protect Trade' with Light Ships on trade nodes. Increases your trade power and steering

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>race mixing is b--

>>2312067
>Sultanate of S U Q Q

>>2306088
>janvier

Bon jeu

>>2312067
>he doesn't realise he's been cucked
:^)

>>2312549
i checked the entire realm, there isn't anyone Turkic or white, and the girl came to my court as soon as she was able to.
It must be a game mechanism.

>>2312855
yeah i was kidding
Unfortunately CK2 doesn't have mixed race portraits

>>2298503
A Mount & Blade mod or a stand-alone game with a single county as the focus, where you either start out as the count or rise up to become one. Instead of nonstop warfare have a lot of management and building, allowing you to turn a dilapidated backwater into a prosperous and advanced land with a hands on approach - riding around to hold court, resolve disputes, oversee construction, train soldiers, and subjugate rebels, bandits, and raiders.

>>2312936
That would be comfy as fuck. Would be nice if the game strictly contained that one county but the world outside of the county would change and you could hear about what all was going on.

>>2313723
There could be a few other counties, perhaps enough for a proper duchy, but I think it could complicate things and turn it back into regular M&B with its constant warfare. Maybe force everyone into a single faction, and designate a site where two lords could meet to do battle. But you could still have outside happenings in the form of armies passing through, or even invading.

>>2312855
Maybe she was pregged before she arrived.

>>2312936
You could totally do this in M&B, and I wish someone would. Most mods try to scale the combat up to a level the engine just wasn't made to handle, and it's always felt a bit ridiculous that you can spend 4 days to ride across 5 different biomes and kingdoms made up of a few dozen villages, 3 or 4 towns, and led by kings who only have a few hundred soldiers to their name.

It's the same with Total War. Everyone's obsessed with kingdoms and continent spanning warfare, but the games could be so much more refined if they didn't force themselves to branch out like that.

>>2309728
>hahaha
>absolutely epic
>this board is cancer
>i only just came here

we can tell

>>2312936
Make it a real RPG experience with lots of NPCs to run across and interact with. Your knights aren't just generic troops, they're named barons and other nobles with their own stories and politics. Also, have the ability to go undercover in disguise like when you have to sneak into town in M&B, but just to be able to spy on people without them knowing who you are.

>>2314771
>>2313723
>>2312936
Sounds like a super comfy Harvest Moon/Rune Factory clone, but with more scope and authority than a kid on a farm.

>>2308649
It's a giant fucking mess but still oddly endearing.

Fall of the Samurai surpasses it in every way as a gunpowder Total War, though.

>>2314803
Wouldn't be complete without some waifus though.

>>2314896
Barely a problem.

>Daughter of courtier who is also your childhood playmate
>Tsundere hostage from a noble family defeated in a prior war
>Idealistic and tireless mayor's daughter of a town always coming to you with plans and projects
>Sickly pilgrim recuperating at your manor/hospice while giving alms to the poor

And so on and so forth.

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>>2314925
Don't forget
>older woman in the woods who doesn't act like a Christian but is very smart can provide medicines

>>2315521
In keeping with traditional pastourelles, it should be a wandering shepherdess that the PC can flirt and seduce and/or rape.

The witch should instead be a cheeky rural prostitute and part-time sorceress/herbalist who is a regular at court trials for expert sex testimony.

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>>2315545
I was mainly just going for the older woman route, but that's okay

>>2315563
You could easily rewrite the pilgrim to be older, maybe even divorced or a MILF.

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>>2309452
>finally get my 20something year old son in line to the Byzantine throne after spending two centuries as a vassal with at most 5 year stints as emperor because I only ever got elected when old and senile
>fucking black plague happens

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>>2303226

Shirvan somehow surviving and blobbing into asia, growing bigger than Russia.

>>2303263

That's why this shit is fun. The games would be super boring if they just followed history.

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>>2311650
Seconding Europa Barbarorum 2.

Fun and one of the most historically accurate games I've ever played.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioqSlJbgnK0

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I would say Euro Truck Simulator 2 can be seen as historical game and kind of represent EU and its expansion.

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CK2 is fun, especially mods like HiP and GoT, but gets boring when you get too good at it. But roleplaying/not blobbing/playing "historically" makes the game fun again

>>2316579
Abbasids in this game are Zoroastrian. For some reason I had an abbasid claimant in my court, I converted him to Zoroastrianism and conquered Abbasids for him

playing feudal as a raiding culture in CK2 gets fun when you start to raise armies of 20.000 men and can raid any coastal province you want

>>2309770
And this is news for you?

>>2316579
Portrait mod?

>>2316664
>Irish Viking
>reformed Germainc religion
>Become feudal
>Calling holy wars all over Scotland and England
>It's all mine
Fucking glorious mang. I'm waiting for the pope to call a crusade against me, but the mongols are making really good ground so maybe the pope will go after them.

>>2294072
I've been playing the series since 1602, that one was good. And 1503 was dope. The newer ones aren't really that good, in my opinion.

>>2316687
The one that comes with HiP, CPRplus.

>>2316579
how many of your relatives have the inbreed trait?