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Alchenar posted:This is one of the best air defence systems in the world, your only real option is mass. The scenario scoring algorithm seems to think that I should not be taking any losses whatsoever so I figured maybe there's a trick. I think I could drive my Kalibr boat up to it and just 76mm it to death bc I don't think the scenario designer bothered to add in anything to prevent that but that's a little gamey. Maybe I'll try Iskandering everything supporting it and then burning in at sea level with OECM and cluster? Ah wait I got it, Iskander everything around it and then make it shoot at Kryptons until it runs dry should do it. Those gigantic missiles can't be that great at chasing Kryptons??
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Update: boating up to it and giving it a taste of the e: idk why I'm doing this silliness but driving up to it with the Iskander does NOT work, Iskander seems to be unable to detect it with its Mk1 eyeball even when parked right on top. aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Oct 16, 2019 |
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Against a Gargoyle, approaching off the ocean the question simply becomes can you put over thirty missiles in the air simultaneously to make it run it's ready supply of missiles dry before dumping the rest of your munitions onto it while it reloads. If not then lol. For the localisation get two ELINT planes airborne simultaneously and have them at widely separated angles from it so they can triangulate it.
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aphid_licker posted:Update: boating up to it and giving it a taste of the this sounds like an echo of Grey Hunter's Japan WITP LP
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Saros posted:Against a Gargoyle, approaching off the ocean the question simply becomes can you put over thirty missiles in the air simultaneously to make it run it's ready supply of missiles dry before dumping the rest of your munitions onto it while it reloads. I hadn't even thought about triangulation, that sounds like it should do it. It's always kinda hard to tell which things this game does very cleverly and which it does really stupidly. The Gargoyle seems to have zero ability to hit an Iskander at least when I'm shooting stuff around it so I think the sole problem is getting the fix on its position. e: for the record I am absolutely not saying that the scenario designer is an idiot who should have included something to stop me from boating up to the Gargoyle, it's outside the basic idea of the scenario, which everyone understands, and not really hard to avoid doing so it's not a problem. gradenko_2000 posted:this sounds like an echo of Grey Hunter's Japan WITP LP I mean that was a lot worse since WITP just consistently failed to do things that it absolutely should have been able to do, whereas CMANO absolutely lets me have a good time trying to crack that nut while I stay inside the implicitly agreed-upon bounds of the scenario. aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Oct 16, 2019 |
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Started a new WITP:AE pbem game as the Allies and finally finished my first turn a week after I started it, so many drat boats to get moving.
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Where did you find an opponent? I've been asking around for a while now.
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Oct 16, 2019 19:43
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I'm playing against Baudin who I've done a game with before. I think your best bet is to post in the WITP:AE forums on matrix games, or use their unofficial discord. https://discord.gg/NwXr6vr
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Oct 16, 2019 19:55
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I’ve played against Pharnakes. Can vouch that he’s an awesome opponent. I wish I had time for it nowadays.
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Post updates as you go through!
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Played some Deadlock 2 (works fine on Windows 10) for the first time. Still a great game but doesn't have the same vibe as the original with that awesome soundtrack and crazy alien cinematic. Apparently the campaign is fun though. Resource locality and transportation cost of both is an interesting and realistic mechanic, makes the game much more strategically complex.
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The original Carriers at War is available on archive.org, and is downloadable https://archive.org/details/msdos_Carriers_at_War_1992
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wide stance posted:Played some Deadlock 2 (works fine on Windows 10) for the first time. Still a great game but doesn't have the same vibe as the original with that awesome soundtrack and crazy alien cinematic. Apparently the campaign is fun though. Are you playing the GoG version? I had so much fun with it when I was young.
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Any thoughts on Steel Division 2 as a single player game? It just went on sale on Steam.
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Oct 17, 2019 22:47
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Eugen treated all their Devs really poorly and didn't pay them etc, there were strikes. So don't buy the game in the interest of worker solidarity comrade
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dublish posted:Birth of America 2 is the most recent one I know of, but... it's AGEOD... The Birth of America series is good, for what its worth. It is a scale of conflict that the engine can handle well, and the front is limited and manageable. It covers the seven-years war in NA, the American revolutionary war, and the war of 1812.
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Splode posted:Eugen treated all their Devs really poorly and didn't pay them etc, there were strikes. So don't buy the game in the interest of worker solidarity comrade Yeah its a sweet game for SP, but this is a valid concern imo.
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Steam has a Paradox Sale. Are there any strategy games I have to try while it's on?
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Tias posted:Steam has a Paradox Sale. Are there any strategy games I have to try while it's on? *shrugs* Battletech? I presume that by 'strategy' you are ironically not including the core Paradox titles because they're mostly good and you should own them but that's a paradox megathread question.
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Alchenar posted:*shrugs* Battletech? I presume that by 'strategy' you are ironically not including the core Paradox titles because they're mostly good and you should own them but that's a paradox megathread question. I'll go there, then :o Thanks for the heads up!
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hottake: balance of power is not that good a game
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Tias posted:Steam has a Paradox Sale. Are there any strategy games I have to try while it's on?
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Poil posted:That depends on how many hours you're willing to spend watching out-of-date tutorials, reading explanations, guessing and just generally learning how to do anything at all. You did check the thread you are posting in, right?
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Alchenar posted:You did check the thread you are posting in, right?  , but there is still very different amount of work you need to put in to even be able to play the game depending of which title you chose. For example just compare naval battles between EU4 and HOI4. One is just selecting your fleet and ramming it into the enemy fleet (if you manage to catch it) while the other involves convoluted settings and ports and zones and home ports and fleet compositions and hope for the best because lol nobody knows how it actually works in full. Or just doing anything in CK2.
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Stairmaster posted:hottake: balance of power is not that good a game they can't be all that bad -- there are so many of them. the market has spoken!
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lol my bad. I got it mixed up with Supreme Ruler
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Or Open General, which is literally open source Panzer General II with 50 built in total conversion mods. I really liked the vietnamese campaign from the north's side, do recommend. I checked this out and the plethora of Waffen-SS campaigns got me down but the ability to play as GIANT ANTS from the 50s sci fi movie picked me right back up
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Speaking of which, the Supreme Ruler devs just announced something called Galactic Ruler. Steam Store Page Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138440 Announcement Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdBROy_48qI It sure is... something. Supreme Ruler engine stretched to multiple planets and systems, with an extra hex-based space map. Considering how they never managed to build a competitive AI or describe how the game’s systems actually work, I have a feeling this will go poorly. Mokotow fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Stairmaster posted:hottake: balance of power is not that good a game It really isn’t but there’s nothing like it 
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Top Hats Monthly posted:It really isn’t but there’s nothing like it twillight struggle
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Mokotow posted:Speaking of which, the Supreme Ruler devs just announced something called Galactic Ruler. Wow, those screenshots. I get that graphics aren't the priority here, but god drat There are a lot of reasons that this won't work, but my favorite is the AI. For fourteen fuckin' years people have been begging Battlegoat to teach the AI how to do an amphibious invasion, and they just could not figure it out. Now they're making a game where every invasion is basically an amphibious one. Maybe they finally cracked that nut but I seriously doubt it And everything else about the game just doesn't even scale to one planet, much less dozens of them. I really wonder what made them think this was a good idea
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Foo Diddley posted:And everything else about the game just doesn't even scale to one planet, much less dozens of them. I really wonder what made them think this was a good idea
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Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts posted:Hello Admirals,
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quote:PS: For those players anticipating problems in purchasing the game, we will soon offer alternative payment methods to suit their needs. Couldn't help but notice this. Just how full grog have they gone here? Did they look at the Rule the Waves lads and say "Hold my beer". Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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Nah they went with xsolla, which doesn't play nice with European banks apparently, my own included. Ironically the fix to this is going to be very close to RTW's system probably.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx-K97iTf_A A video showing off WarPlan, the new and oddly capitalized WWII strategy game from matrix. So far, it seems to be around the complexity of Commander, with the same larger scale - limited to Europe, but giving a 1939 start, which is rarer in games. I can't tell you much more yet, but I'll update with my thoughts as we go!
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https://twitter.com/TheBaseLeg/status/1186156619433824257
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Thanks for posting that. I really like Strategic Command 3 so I've been looking at WaRpLaN, but other than the recent Twitch stream there is very little about it. But that 44% Matrix anniversary voucher is burning a hole in my pocket...
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18,000', I assume that's deep enough it's not going to be looted.
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