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/vst/ is a place to discuss all types of strategy video games, including both turn-based and real-time strategy, turn-based and real-time tactics, single-player and multi-player (including MOBAs). All platforms are welcome.

Does this mean discussion of strategy games is banned on other video game boards? No! /vst/ is just a separate board specifically focused on strategy games where discussions about your favorite games can thrive.

Please familiarize yourself with the rules and remember to use the spoiler function where appropriate!

Please note that, like /v/, "Generals"—long-term, one-after-the-other, recurring threads about a specific game are not permitted on /vst/. Such threads belong on >>>/vg/

What really caused the fall of RTS?

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So, I'm playing C&C Remastered. It's practically identical game as old 1995 original, and I'm having a lot of fun. More when compared to much newer games in the series, or newer RTS games. There is some jank with unit pathfinding, some NOD missions are designed for save scumming, but everything else is holding really well. AI is smart and challenging. There's plenty of unit variety. Campaign is replayable, while story and lore are fantastic.

It got me wondering if the genre moved into the wrong direction by embracing multiplayer, or if they simply focused on the wrong design elements. Or it's the lack of production values that's missing.

Age of Empire 2

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Wake up boys! New expansion to AoE2 dropped!

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Age of Empires 2
Why is black forest even on the 1v1 map pool, delete arena if that's going to be a thing

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>be europoor dev
>need shekels
>have Unreal 4 license
>make assets and ui
>hire artist?sound design? programmers?, easier just to market as total war killer to big youtubers
>hype.exe
>almost a decade goes by, close to launch
>tell fans to lower expectations and gaslight them by saying it was always intended to purely be a city builder

So it takes almost a decade to half a half made EA title with no point in playing.

>Look how many apples i harvested
>look how big my city and pop is!
>now i just have to wait 5 years for it ever actually mean anything ingame!

Did you fall for the scamor lords meme, /vst/?

Our Adventurer Guild

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Has anyone played this before?

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Redpill me on a-train.

Is it really the dark souls of economy sims?

we never even left

Post your realms, The west has risen edition

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Why didn't any non-real time strategy game succed in being a competitive one?

Kerbal Space Program

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This technically counts as a strategy game right?

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Why is it that when I play a medium distance away from a major, so that I'm not able to hamstring them early, they always turbo blob to the point I know it's going to be torture later on.

Also general EU4 thread, post your maps!

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Song of Syx thread since last one archived.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1162750

It's a low fantasy city builder in the vein of Caeser or Pharaoh series. Oh and for whatever reason, the creator decided to over reach and bolt on a total war component so you can micro like an RTS while taking over the world. City builder is pretty much done and the latter has the foundations in but still unbalanced.

Demo is free-forever and is only a few versions behind the latest stable, good to try so you know whether you will like to core gameplay.

Fantasy means many races with their strengths and weaknesses like Vegetarian pigmen, tall dwarves twice the size of humans, cannibal elves lizards and bugmen. Oh so you want to min-max with all these races don't you? Well, too bad they are all Racists as fuck and prone to murder each other without careful planning. Good thing there's a very robust slavery system for you to prosecute and exploit the undesirables yes?

Battle Brothers

>want to start new game
>spend 30 minutes trying to generate a map that isn't either straight up broken or nonsensical
Definitely something that's going to have to be improved in the sequel.

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Nexus 5x (not to be confused with the phone, and previously known as Stellaris Nexus) is out - has anyone played, how is it? I'm all for shorter games. having children is painful.

Suzerain: Kingdom of Rizia

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LOCK HER UP!

Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children

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CHOOSE

The Campaign Trail

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>"I will never ask you to vote for me again!" - Park Chung-hee

Previous Thread: >>1644652

How the fuck are you supposed to play this game?

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No matter what I do, I lose.

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I enjoy the remaster

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BTA3062 or Roguetech?

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I'm relatively new to Anbennar, but somewhere here I came across information that the mod has been sanitized over time (for example, Orcs have lost their bloodthirstiness). I'm particularly interested in the "elven supermacy" trees here.

Can anyone confirm this?

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I'm very curious if Pink Panzer has learned anything since TNO. Has he finally learned to respect his players' time by not bothering them with unnecessary text in a strategy game, or has the new game given him new opportunities to spread his unbridled need for graphomania?

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Thinking about thos necromancers

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>He gives his dorfs 2x1 bedrooms
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Anyways how is your fort going?

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>fucking communism and immigration confirmed for a game set in the late medieval ages
it’s all so tiresome anons.

Project Ceasar/EUV

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>filters shitters
Have you bowed to Johan (PBUH) today yet?

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Pausing every second to close 100 pop-ups simulator.
What's that, you want to watch your cool space battle unfold?
Too bad, we found an ameoba on an asteroid in buttfuck nowhere - what's the plan boss?!

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Are they gonna kill him off?
I’m hoping they don’t since they could do a lot with the character

OpenXcom/Xpiratez/X-com Files

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You only need one peasant to save isolated villages.

>>1699449

Anti-blobbing mechanics

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What makes them good or bad?

Every mechanic (any game) essentially falls under the category of external or internal.
External anti-blobbing mechanics allow foreign powers unity against a threat.
Internal anti-blobbing aims to cause internal issues like revolts or reducing the goods gained from conquered lands.

EU4 completely fails at these things. Coalitions fail because AE is fixed on local development instead of the relative value of its conqueror, and ultimately it just slows expansion. And its revolt system is a wacky-mole.
Imperator does better at these things, but the lack of coalitions makes expansion too easy.
CK3 fails miserably because factions are beyond idiotic.

Company of Heroes

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Relic finally fixed their engine edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbI--hIXb18

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0TLo3rfQ3o

Prison Architect 2 delayed

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No doubt this is going to be hot garbage with Paradox associated.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri / SMAC Thread

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Get in here
Fav leader?

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>what if eu4 but with pops; the game

Project Alice / OpenVic

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>PA is now released version 1.0.13
>OpenVic hasn't had a dev diary in 5 months

Bros, come on now, you really gonna support chudgun over actual progress?

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More like surviving boredom

Dynamic Standoff Theory

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https://youtu.be/w4_li-bSuOc?si=CFRNf4SV4IpeoGJ2&t=895

This is why Total War melee engagements last minutes at most, but melee engagements in history lasted hours.
Everyone stayed just outside of spear reach most of the time.
There needs to be games that model this, instead of having suicidal troops fighting in close quarters. That way, battle can truly last hours like they did in real life (fast forwardable obviously), which allows plenty of time for maneuvers, skirmishes or just sitting back and enjoying the scenery.
Add the realism of command, ie. incomplete information on enemy/own positions and numbers, incomplete info on the state of the battle, troops getting lost, troops not following orders, confusion, chaos, Murphy's law and we can have a real tactical wargame.
You also shouldn't get the overhead view until the replay.

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Any plans for a new playthrough when the DLC drops, anon? Aside from the wet fart that is the endgame crisis, 7.0 beta is pretty good. For me, I've been wanting to do a custom Eleventh Hour start where I try to ally with the Split and form a separatist Argon faction. So I think I'll finally do that.

NO MERCY FOR THE WICKED

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FOR THEY ARE WEAK.

GUARD OUR SPIRITS. AND KEEP US

FROM ETERNAL DARKNESS.

"HE OPENED THE Total War: Attila Thread,

AND BEHOLD THE SUN BECAME BLACK.

AND THE MOON BECAME LIKE BLOOD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lXsYjQz3g0&ab_channel=CPr0d

The day of reckoning has come.

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Realistically, how do we fix this franchise? It seems like no one in the strategy player base is fully happy with it.

Hearts of Iron IV

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the War Effort Patches continues....

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What's the verdict

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We will get a new game one day, right?

2024 is a year of city/colony builders

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Any other promising games coming out this year?

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Anyone playing this?

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How hard will this game mindbreak the paradox fans, when it releases and turns out ot have been absolute shit all along?

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>2 mo after the demo drop
>basically 0 hype
they're gonna pull the plug aren't they

Fabledom - Official 1.0 Release Date Teaser Trailer!

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Fabledom - Official 1.0 Release Date Teaser Trailer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGqPa_9hl_4
Finally out of early access!
Hopes? Fears?

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Warno? or Waryes?
Thoughts?

Also general warno, wargame, broken arrow thread.

Total War Warhammer

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Dead since 2015. It's joever.

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are the mods good at least?

Infection Free Zone

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Is it good? Worth the pirate?

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Whenever i see new city builder released it gets called Banished clone, Is it really the king of city builders?

Yup, it's kino.

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Best HoI4 mod there is, can't wait until the Russia update comes out.

WarcraftIII

Does the singleplayer campaign still hold up after all these years? I just realized I have RoC+TFT discs from more than 15 years ago yet haven't played the game except for a few matches at an internet cafe.

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Who is 'ThatAnxiousGamer' and why has he made the worst review video on SG Beta so far?
Just watched the absolute worst review of SG Beta, and am totally shocked that it hasn't been taken down by YT yet...

Don't be suprised when he gets sued for libel...Biggest pack of lies I've ever heard/seen.

https://youtu.be/jh9BLU4i3RE?si=a9_YWt4MGvD5QJk9

Clealr has literally no understanding RTS genre, or game development. This guys is the biggest joke on the internet right now

Shadow Empire thread

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I know know hoe logistic works

Age of Mythology Retold

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Hopes? Fears?

CK3: Roads to Power/Landless

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hopes? dream? if they pull it off it could be one of the defining features of 3
~~they're gonna mess it up aren't they?~~

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Who is your /vst/ waifu?

We are so back Imperator patricians

BACK

Let's design a (simple) game

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I'm a programmer, so i will be able to do something like a free browser game. Ideally I'd want collab, but if only have ideas, that is fine too.
We will solve everything polls.
Let's begin with the setting (12 options):
https://strawpoll.com/poy9WXkzJgJ

Endless Space 2

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Thoughts on the Academy and Nakalim rework.

Hoi4 Modding Thread

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Get in here and talk about hoi4 modding.
>OWB 5.0 update dropped
>TFR 2nd stream on March 29th
>Kaiserreich Ireland rework incoming
Also share your modding tips here as well.

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Lands of Lords thread

How goes your fiefs m'lords? I'm trying to make the highest quality wax and soap around just for the sake of it but it's not coming together well.
How about >(You)?

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What am I in for?

less average modded battle

Graviteam Thread: Fart Escaped Edition

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Last thread was live for 6+ months, with anons posting quality content and good advice for those struggling with command, let's try that again shall we?
New DLC dropped, set in September 1941 and features windmills and oil rigs as well as a rather weird Sunday release date.
It's been over a month since the operational phase update release, so there should be plenty of opinions to share.
As usual, share your victories, defeats, rants and stuff you struggle with, so helpful anons can lend a hand.

and I made germany bigger

post your aesthetic germanias you formed in vic2

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I want to live in amazonian town. Gather berries and flex my body around while women do all the work.

ITT: Unique and original strategy games that no one discusses

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I'll start.

>Play Sacrifice as Stratos/Persephone/Charnel/Stratos.
>Years later, try replaying it, thinking I would try some of the other ones.
>Basically do the same with small differences in the middle.

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Is manor lords gonna save the rts genre single handedly? I can't believe it bros we're gonna be so back soon. Just one more month and rts is back.

Into the Breach

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¨10/10 but i cant ignore the feel that could have more content.¨

thoughts?

What is the best space 4x in life?

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I’ve been chasing the dragon since the original Master of Orion. Nothing has taken that crown. Perfect mix of macro strategy and scalable space battles. Races had flavor and character, and diplomacy seemed logical and coherent.

The only general 4x game that is at the same level is Alpha Centauri.

Please tell me what the best space 4x game is out there right now… I am looking at Aurora 4x but read that it becomes unplayable in mid to late game and there is no diplomacy.

After the End CK2/CK3

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aka the GOAT ck2 total conversion
Any news on the ck3 port?

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The worst game ever made.

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shogun 2

SOVL: Fantasy Warfare

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Asked about this in TG in the Warhammer fantasy thread and no one engaged. I get that everyone hates Total War Warhammer and shits on anyone who brings it up (though not sure why - it’s a solid game and revived square bases at Games Workshop).

Has anyone tried it? It’s free to play. I’ve been kicking around on it and am absolutely in love with what the dev did here. Not only is it by far the best adaptation of Warhammer fantasy to the PC, it’s a solid game with a beautiful UI and plays well.

Would love to hear opinions and thoughts on this one.

Red Alert 2 thread

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>3 factions
>set during hypothetical WW3
>time travel is heavily implied
>western blues
>eastern reds
>3rd faction is splinter from reds using psychic clones, mutants, ufos, virus spreaders, chaos drones, mind control towers
>leader of the 3rd faction is romanian

What did Westwood mean by this, also any other soft disclosures in 90s games?

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By the will of Kou Shibusawa, the latest Koei thread begins anew!

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Should I buy the Astral Planes DLC for Stellaris? Is it worth it?

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ITT: The hardest RTS campaigns you've ever played

Unicorn Overlord Unit Comp Thread

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I'm fascinated with the possibilities between different unit types and gear/tactical instructions. I'm only about 10 hours into the game and trying to dip into the finer details before the difficulty curve becomes less comfy.

What builds are you guys running and what lessons have you learned?

Civilization 3 compare pros & cons of Hittites Russia Ottomans Germans Incas India

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Let's talk about a series that is slowly dying off.

Heroes 3 (HoMM3) - Horn of the Abyss

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So... how is your Factory campaign going?
Also, just for fun, come up with (your) theme for a town.

https://h3hota.com/en/download

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Just optimize it, fix the late-game, do a bit of balancing and add more flavor to railroad it towards historical borders and wars and it will be better than Vic2.
It's like 3 patches and an HPM mod away from being good. The base mechanics are all very solid and an improvement over 2.

Reverse Collapse

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One of the harder SRPGs I've played in a hot minute

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What's your go to set up?
I've recently become a fan of garlic/spikeweed/gloom shroom.

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I played ck2 more than 1000+ hours, I got tired of six months ago. I realized that I never played hip or ck2+, they can refresh the gameplay? I played vanilla and later big mods like ate and ek.
Also I noticed mod Winter King, it works on the latest version? Is it good?

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what game can i play as a yakuza boss?

Most realistic WW2 rts

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What's the most realistic WW2 rts available?

I am looking for something so autistically detailed you could play it with a military handbook on the side.

Command & Conquer

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Which "post-Westwood" game do you think was the best? (Or the least worst, if you're one of those people)

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Is playing monopolies and corporations mode for a culture victory cheating? Or does it just give you something you would have gotten already faster?

I ask because I just spent at least an hour spamming rock bands and barely making any progress because I didn't have monopolies and corporations mode on.

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>I put the archers behind the spearmen, wait for the melee then charge their backs with cav
This is how the average strategy gamer thinks of strategy. A smoothbrained subhuman can come up with the above. *Executing* it is the hard part of battle.
The real challenge in battle stems from chaos, and dealing with that chaos is what separates good commanders from the bad.
The TW games and other strategy games you can micro each of your units from a bird's eye view and tell them exactly where to go, and they'll 100% follow your orders instantly.
It's like God has the command of one side of the battle. Of course you'd win every time.
Real battles are full of misinformations, misjudgement about enemy size/position and even own position and size. Units also do not respond to orders instantaneously or follow them correctly most fo the time. Even a good strategist like Napoleon, during Waterloo, had 1/3 of his army off-map chasing after some phantom enemy, had his elite cavalry charge into square without his consent, only for that phantom enemy to appear on his flank securing his defeat. This would never happen to the player in an average strategy game.
Real battles are chaotic and it takes actual high IQ and most importantly, LUCK to win.
Are there any games that do this?
pic rel is a board game that does this quite well

Russia rework will be out before the end of the year.

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any1 else dress up as a knight while playing medieval 2?

Are RTS games the greatest, most high IQ genre ever conceived?

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>Incredibly dense gameplay whilst allowing lots of room for creativity.
>Has the highest learning curve and skill ceiling out of every genre ever made. Perfect to filter out ADHD-ridden zoomers and nu/v/.
>Heavily tests the full breadth of the mind, such as reflexes (APM), spatial perception (micro-management), logical reasoning, etc. You'll get quickly punished if at least one area of your mind isn't in tip top shape.

How can any other genre even come close? RTS has pretty much everything you need in a genre.

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Why is the ability to blob bad? If you don't want to do it, just don't.

XCOM EW/Long War Thread

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I haven't played Enemy Within since like 2015 and I wanted to try out Long War for the first time. Can we have a thread about the nu-com games please?

What is a good multiplayer strategy game?
Grand strategy, rts, turn based, 4x, hell, give me a city builder, I don't care as long as its strategy and multiplayer and preferably has combat.
Only exception is it can't be pbem, if turn based it should have simultaneous, not cause its better but because my friends cannot cope with pbem for some reason.
This is a list of games we have played but which they burnt out on or rejected and thusly there is no need to suggest them, thank you in advance.
All the Paradox slop
All the Eugen slop
All the Civ slop
Warhammer Gladius
Men of War Assault Squad 2 and GoH Ostfront
Northgard and Spicy Worms
Company of Heroes(All of them)
8 bit armies
The Age of Wonders games
All the Total War slop
Ymir
Age of Conquest IV and Demise of Nations
Empire at War
Tropico
Epicinium
YOMI hustle
Nebulous Fleet Command
Sattelite Reign
Dawn of War slop
Empires
Homeworld Deserts of Kharak
Silica
Halo Wars

Doorkickers

Spanish at the Battle of Rocroi

What is it about the pike & shot era that scares strategy game devs so much? Literally more strategy games have been set in the Bronze Age than in the pike & shot era.

TNO memes n fandom tthread

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>mfw when i realize that there's a group of people that uses burgundian as an adjective irl

ITT: Games you are no longer excited for.

Starcraft Rising

It's Starcraft in a command & conquer t-shirt with most units for one faction copied straight up from Terrans up to and including a deployable siege tank.
Completely overdesigned by a literal who from Shitter that works full time on part time Polish wages because 3D realms were in cost cutting mode.
Said designer likes all the worst RTS games.
Everyone circle jerking because a unit is a ball that rolls over stuff.
Half the team got sacked.
Missions in the campaign cut from 15 to 10.
Third faction no longer going to be in the base game, cut out to be paid DLC that costs the same as the base game.
Game previously announced at $34.99 but will now cost $70 + tax + tip.

BAR

this is more fun than Starcraft and AoE combined. Is it doomed by the rts genre alone, or is it niche because of it's still early development? BAR succeeded where Supreme Commander failed, so I hope to see it grow further beyond it's current scope. It feels way more approachable than it's predecessors, especially with the more reasonable scale, QoL controls, visual readibility.. and it being FREE.

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Let's talk about a good fantasy simulator indirect control game.

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dominions bread
hopes/dreams/fears for dominions 6?
total list of known (so far) changes in 6: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2511500/discussions/0/3807281445020039925/

Anno series is dog shit

>play 1503
>tutorial sucks doesn’t explain anything well enough
>quit
>play 2070
>half the features are locked to online mode not even worth playing
>look at 1800
>comes with Ubisoft launcher and uplay
>nope

All I could tell in my time was the controls are shit, mechanics are shit, and the overall game is shit.

In short fuck Ubisoft. Shit game. 0/10.

Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance

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While a formidable evil emerges, an unexpected alliance is taking shape! It will take the finest warriors of Linirea and the relentless Dark Army to stop it. Beware! Though they may journey side by side the ever-changing winds of fate could swiftly alter their course.

ABOUT THIS GAME
With greater power and menace than ever before, Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance offers a fresh, exhilarating experience, building upon the fast-paced and captivating gameplay that made its predecessors award-winners.

As a formidable evil arises, an unexpected alliance is taking shape! It will take the finest warriors of Linirea and the relentless Dark Army together to stop it. Beware! They may journey side by side for now, but the ever-changing winds of fate could swiftly alter their course.

Planned Release Date: Jul 25, 2024
This game plans to unlock in approximately 2 months

Your thoughts?

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Do you have any strategy game recommendations for casuals that can eventually prepare me for the heavier stuff? It feels like half of the strategy games I've seen out there are for masochists

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I keep coming back to this boring-ass strategy game, but now I'm hopefully off it for good.

What are some boring strategy games you couldn't stop yourself from playing for a while?

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Anyone played this before? Opinion are mixed but price tag on steam is tempting (-90%) i need some new RTS to play

Why do you think of this game ?
What the good point of this game ?
Did you play it ?
What clan ?

Civilization IV

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What made Civ 4 so special that people designate it as the cut-off point from when the series started declining?

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RTSes with good naval combat?

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TNO

Symphony Of War

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Any bros played this?
Turn based strategy with squad compositions and perma death. Story is generic and rubbish, but gameplay is good.
I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did. Game is a bit easy even on hard though, clearing most missions with S rank and no casualties.

A lot of cool units, although its weird how much dragons suck ass. Foot archers, Samurai, Light Infantry(Other than Swordsmasters) also all seem like traps.

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>I put the spearman INFRONT OF THE ARCHERS
Do you retards really enjoy this shit?

Mount and Blade

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Mount and Blade is dead
Long live Mount and Blade

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Still waiting for a game set here...

Why have there been no good city builders in years?
You'd think it would be easier than ever with how fast CPUs are today.

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Which Penultimo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm_jift5QMM&list=PLD6AB805B15D2CFC4&index=7

Total War: Rome 2

Rome vs Carthage

Is there any greater feeling than conquering Carthage?

Stormgate massive update

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwOLIcX76nQ

Where can you recruit elephant mercs in EBII?

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Is it me or did Blizzard destroy the balance of the Reign of Chaos campaign when they merged everything into one game?

Whats the verdict?

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From streams gameplay looks like a mishmash of RTS and 4X, how competent is the AI?

Millenia roadmap

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How long do you think its going to take before its polished? IMO probably a year at least, perhaps longer if DLCs slow things down and then need to be fixed themselves

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/millennia-2024-roadmap-update-1.1667317/

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>lose one single fight
>the game is now unwinnable because of how hard it snowballs
>the only way to avoid this is to have a tp in your inventory at all times so you can teleport out the second you suspect that a fight might not be in your favor
Heroes are such a shitty mechanic.

Dune_2000_(Game)

What's the risk that the recent popularity of Dune due to the movies will lead to someone trying to do a remake/remaster of the old Dune RTSes?
Are there any developers you'd trust to do it right rather than the more likely option that someone will screw it up?

BirzGame

Post your Birzartansens->Phoenix Empire runs in the hit mod Anbennar, released in 2018 for the hit game Evropa Vniversalis IV by Paradox Interactive, known for releasing similar Grand Strategy Games for PC.

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Low micro thread

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ITT games with emphasis on macro, strategy and meaningful decisions over micro, tactics and babysitting everything in the game.
Because I like feeling important enough to delegate the small stuff, and picrel certainly wasn't personally managing every single of his regiments.

Vicky 2: I like this one despite how bad the army management is, because conquest itself isn't that strong compared to most games. Industry management has various settings, including a fully capitalist-driven option. Yet the game doesn't exactly play by itself, and if you suck at it, automation will definitely not save you.

CK2: It's far from perfect but I like how alive the realm feels. Vassals can handle weak neighbors and indirectly contribute to your expansion, but also challenge your power. Sadly it's not a very difficult game in the long run.

Civ IV: Warfare is everything and you have dozens of units, but army stacks make it tolerable. There's still quite a bit of army management but the game is interesting enough to make up for it. AdvCiv has competent AI too.

Ultimately microing everything will always give you an edge, but if I can't afford to overlook anything in your game then I'm not interested.

terra invicta

been awhile
is the game any different than it was at launch?
I remember the early game being massive slogs with its fake ass turn base shits

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No thread dedicated to the Anno game series? Let’s rectify it...

David Kim and Uncapped Games

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what are they cooking? any insider here?

Sands of Salzaar

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chink mount and blade with diablo combat. after getting burnt out on too many hours of bannerlord and starsector I've put a few dozen hours into this game and it manages to scratch the same itch.
travel around, collect units from villages, train them up, fight bandits, get into barfights, do errands for nobles, fight in tournaments, collect named heroes, start your own faction, get dogpiled by the entire fucking map because HOW DARE you start your own faction, impregnate sexy dancing girls in taverns and raise the child to be an overpowered death god wizard who conquers the world.

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What do we think of sidescroller Xcom?

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These games were kino.

April Humble Bundle

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3 strategy games plus some extra crap, each going for more than the monthly subscription.
what's the catch? how are they making money?

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My wet dream is a Democracy, but instead of mana, there is an advanced character system to represent all 200 parliament members. In order to pass stuff you have to bribe or obtain favors from them.
And instead of everything being on a national level, there would a local level and countries you can invade.
Would anyone play such game?

I would make this game if I wouldn't be so busy.

Why do people like RTS games?

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They're usualy just about spamming one type of OP troop at the enemy's OP troop he is spamming. Or they have anoying hero units that ruin the immersion.

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>Why yes, I am the best Dawn of War game, how could you tell?

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Someone please tell me what game this is.

Any games like Terra Invicta but without the Alien/Intergalactic shit?

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I liked the geopolitical aspect of it, but I am not interested in the stuff with the aliens.

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Is it even worth buying as I know it is currently on sale. From what I have heard it is not that good if you are planning on doing something different than a Fire Emblem game. Would just getting the latest RPG Maker with some plugins be better?

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Anything

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What went wrong? I never see discusions about this game

Star Wars: Empire at War

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A toast, gentlemen! To the Empire! In this thread we discuss the game Empire At War, which was recently updated to become 64-bit. Most of us these days are playing one of the several total overhaul mods that significantly change the game like EaWX and AoTR.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/32470/view/5455609499987684896?l=english

Discuss:
>destroying rebels
>crushing rebels in trash compactors
>shooting rebels out of airlocks
>bombing rebels with TIE bombers
>annihilating rebel fleets with Imperial Star Destroyers
>shooting down rebel X-Wings with TIE Defenders
>capturing rebel planets
>sending Super Star Destroyers to fight stacks of corvettes and frigates

total war postbattle

Any mod that makes battles in any total war game less lethal?
Sometimes you play 20 minutes of campaign only to get to battle and either route the enemy or be routed within thirty seconds of frontline contact
I wish frontline units would get locked longer doing and receiving less damage so there could be more maneuvering
>you will never finish campaigns if battles last longer
I never finish campaigns