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Yeah I just moved the install over to steam for convience but it's still Ger v UK early access mode.
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Stairmaster posted:hopefully they're paying their devs this goaround It ended up going to a French labor court, but I can't find the final outcome anywhere.
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Pharnakes posted:So I see UA:D has hit steam, is the campaign still just Germany v Britain, perpetual war? It's hardly even that, the whole research thing doesn't really do anything in it because it's hard to not win with your initial fleet, and this ends the campaign. You can totally see how the campaign system has most of the parts needed to make a very interesting strategic layer, but the way they are put together mostly resembles a tech demo.
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Tuna-Fish posted:It's hardly even that, the whole research thing doesn't really do anything in it because it's hard to not win with your initial fleet, and this ends the campaign. See this is why I want to hold off on it for a while, it seems super cool, just not put together yet. How is age of sail?
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I’ve been trying to play To End All Wars and can’t get past the second turn. While I am very experienced with AGEODs system, it just seems too loving cumbersome for the scale they’ve chosen for a First World War game… and I am less convinced the AGEOD system is appropriate at all to model large scale naval combat. Also, I accidentally combine cards in stacks so gods drat much (I know you can lock them) because of these First World War armies with their 10 Corps a piece… I want to pull my hair out.
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just bought war in the east 2. i played the veliki luki scenario and now have jumped straight into the 1941 campaign as the soviets. wish me luck fellas
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Marshal Prolapse posted:That’s actually exactly how decisive campaigns ran it. It’s not the same as like hearts of iron multiplayer from my understanding. Still it should work fine for our purposes. I think having a separate thread documenting us attempting to win the war as one side together would probably be fun as hell. Played CaseB Blue Co op with a dude once that way, was dope
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ZombieLenin posted:I’ve been trying to play To End All Wars and can’t get past the second turn. Oh yeah AGEOD is wildly inappropriate for WWI.
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VostokProgram posted:just bought war in the east 2. i played the veliki luki scenario and now have jumped straight into the 1941 campaign as the soviets. wish me luck fellas Good luck. I'm loathe to admit that I've bounced hard off both of the War in the East/West titles every time I've tried. I can wrap my head around individual ships, squadrons, and pilots in WitP, but something about pushing counters around is just so disengaging for me. 
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BrotherJayne posted:Played CaseB Blue Co op with a dude once that way, was dope Yeah, it was a bunch of fun, even playing one of the Low Countries and getting my rear end steamrolled by the Germans.
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Aw man, I grabbed Warplan Pacific with the intention of playing it on my Surface Pro while off doing Christmasy travel,  Got Ardennes Offensive for the same reason, and it's a little better since it's just like Shadow Empire which looks pretty good on the small-size-high-res display. But I've got to get re-acquainted with Vic's UIs and level of detail again after playing stuff like the WDS Squad Battles. I know why it's not supported anywhere, but I still wish some of these tile and hex games had viable touchscreen controls. It'd be perfect. Squiggle fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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Dec 20, 2021 22:40
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The Troop has been released, $40. Early access etc. Downloading it now.
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Yooper posted:The Troop has been released, $40. Early access etc. Downloading it now. Are there actually infantry or is it just tanks? Edit: Ok I see in a screenshot there are infantry I missed that before. Let us know what you think, I'm interested.
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Popete posted:Are there actually infantry or is it just tanks?  It's pretty bare bones right now, only 8 or 10 scenarios total. I played through a Canadian Vs. SS Panthers and it was pretty good. If they add an editor for mission creation it'll be pretty damned good. It reminds me of a better Battle Academy right now.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:See this is why I want to hold off on it for a while, it seems super cool, just not put together yet. How is age of sail? Age of Sail is a lot more mature than Dreadnoughts. You'll be doing a mix of naval battles and land battles. Sometimes you'll fight a naval battle and then land the troops you use for the ground phase. The land game inherits from their Civil War game, and has had a lot of work since, so it's solid. I haven't tried a big naval battle yet. How the gently caress do I upgrade the guns on my ships in the campaign ?
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mllaneza posted:Age of Sail is a lot more mature than Dreadnoughts. You'll be doing a mix of naval battles and land battles. Sometimes you'll fight a naval battle and then land the troops you use for the ground phase. The land game inherits from their Civil War game, and has had a lot of work since, so it's solid. I haven't tried a big naval battle yet. Unlock better ones with research and buy new ones, they should be in the shop if you're asking about upgrading guns in Age of Sail. Also, why did you spoiler your question?
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Modern Naval Warfare trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZAcBt2_GH0 Looks like DCS for subs
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£31 seems a little steep for barebones EA but what the hell and I'm sure they'll expand on it. I really enjoyed the demo of The Troop I'll pick it up in a day or two when I have some time for it.
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Abongination posted:Modern Naval Warfare trailer 
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Armauk posted:How has the game kept your attention for this long? It's mostly for these reasons: 1.) I'm a writer, so I keep inventing new space species with unhealthily long and complex backgrounds just for the fun of writing, then putting them into games like some hosed-up AI experiment 2.) Paradox keeps adding new poo poo to try out and changes stuff, so the game keeps feeling fresh 3.) The game is sometimes incredibly buggy. The Grey Tempest event for example spawns super-fleets which only well-prepared players can defeat. Even the recently improved AI can't do this, at least not always: Set up your game in the wrong way, and the AI is too weak and since the GT-fleets can just delete planets, every game run with them often turns into a nightmare realm of you surviving in a sea of death. And the AI is programmed to rip out the gates releasing them on their own if you wait long enough. So every game randomly spawning them better also have high difficulty, or the run will just one day end with endless spawns eating up everyone. The rest of the bugs is kind of boring in comparison, and Paradox keeps fixing them. But boy oy boy, the amount of time I've wasted by playing for hours, only to win by default when the GT showed up. That and other aborted runs due to bugs or me just losing interest in my own scenario probably accounts for most of that time. In those 2800+ hours, there's just one singular game I ever managed to play through to the end. But as long as the game is fun, I keep going back
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Libluini posted:It's mostly for these reasons: yeah but aren't you that guy who has the 1000 page master of orion 3 let's play? i don't know if we should be taking space 4X advice from you
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Foo Diddley posted:yeah but aren't you that guy who has the 1000 page master of orion 3 let's play? i don't know if we should be taking space 4X advice from you I say this with love Libluini: A 1000 page MOO3 LP playthrough is a valuable service to the community. A historical record of man's reach exceeding their grasp. A documenting of the first faltering steps toward a 4X that doesn't require micromanagement. A chance to comment on how that ultimately circles back to the sliders of MOO1. Rounding out the LP with two additional playthroughs is where people start to doubt.
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I for one would love a link to the 1000 page MOO3 let's play.
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This should work. And is substantially shorter than 100 pages. Even with the expedition design contest.
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For Christmas, I want the perfect grognard game. Now, as an ideas man, I thought I would present design goals to any game developers who follow this thread. To begin with, the game should have a 700 page manual with grainy black and white screenshots and full of typos, with one page devoted to tutorial. There is no interactive in-game tutorial. The game comes with a PDF but you can also order a printed manual separately for $100 + shipping and handling which for a European is another $100. The printed manual is miniature bible size for convenience.
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The grainy black and white screenshots need to show UI elements from during the development cycle which have since been reworked or removed. The text obviously should make no mention of this.
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The game is only available as an $80 CD-ROM that has to be shipped to you by some overweight boomer with a mustache who got roped into running their brother-in-law's grognard game webstore. This webstore is coded in basic HTML and still features the <marquee> tag at least somewhere on the site.
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Has to be run in Windows Vista compatibility mode, and only ever uses a single processor thread
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The only community available for help lives on a 1990s-era forum and dismisses all your questions because you didn't play the 14 previous games in the series and are thus asking stupid questions they are tired of answering. The most popular thread is about how the libs caused the downfall of society and kids have no discipline these days.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Has to be run in Windows Vista compatibility mode, and only ever uses a single processor thread If you don’t have a dedicated machine running Windows 98, are you even trying to play the game correctly?
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FishMcCool posted:The most popular thread is about how the libs caused the downfall of society and kids have no discipline these days. And the most prominent mod/forum admin is some dude with an SS Totenkopf forum avatar and a name like "PanzerWolf Sturm & Drang" or something.
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Drone posted:And the most prominent mod/forum admin is some dude with an SS Totenkopf forum avatar and a name like "PanzerWolf Sturm & Drang" or something. 25% chance of a Rommel or Joachim Peiper related name/avatar.
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It has to have an extensive troop quality system where the lowest rank is 'conscript'. No German troops start at conscript.
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habituallyred posted:I say this with love Libluini: A 1000 page MOO3 LP playthrough is a valuable service to the community. A historical record of man's reach exceeding their grasp. A documenting of the first faltering steps toward a 4X that doesn't require micromanagement. A chance to comment on how that ultimately circles back to the sliders of MOO1. To be fair, some kind of cosmic force seems to agree with you, considering all the IRL-bullshit happening since September, forcing my LPs into endless hiatus My current plan reads "resume updates after Christmas", but today the eyesight on my still functioning eye dropped a bit again and now I'm not sure if I can hold to this plan. Next appointment to look at my eyes is on January 3rd, after that I'll know more. Hopefully. The water damage in my apartment is also still not repaired. loving landlords
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War in the West is 70% off on Steam at the moment.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:It has to have an extensive troop quality system where the lowest rank is 'conscript'. No German troops start at conscript. There is a mission where 5 Shermans and platoon of airborne infantry must take on a single Panther tank with only one squad of panzer grenadiers as support and it's considered balanced.
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Not sure if Mobious Front should be talked about here or on the strategy thread, but drat if the game is as frustrating as it is good. The AI is either very good or (mostly likely) knows where your units are at all times, so the game feels like really explosive chess.
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Alikchi and I are playing the Red God of War scenario in Wite2. Really enjoying the match without being overwhelmed by a ton of units. So now I'm trying to make a scenario... has anyone done it? If so, any good references?
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Mans posted:Not sure if Mobious Front should be talked about here or on the strategy thread, but drat if the game is as frustrating as it is good. The AI is either very good or (mostly likely) knows where your units are at all times, so the game feels like really explosive chess. It’s one of those games where if you gently caress up you know the only one you have to blame is yourself. It remains the only zactronics game I have ever completed.
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