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cross posting from 'help us identify a game' thread, since we're stumped for once:

There was a game I used to play a couple of years back, probably on android or maybe PC (though I doubt it). I think it was recommended to me here on something awful, so I hope someone recognises my description.

"It was a simulator /management game where you controlled a medieval era mercenary company, similar to the strategic layer of xcom or football manager or the diamond dogs parts of MGS5. You hired different types of units like sappers or cavalry to form squads that you sent on different kinds of missions to earn more money, hire better troops and so on. I remember it was all done through menus and had a very brown colour pallet, and I think the name was something Company or Company of something."

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 02:30

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gradenko_2000 posted:

that sounds like Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance

A couple of years back would mean 2015-2017, not the nineties, but neat suggestion! Please keep 'em coming.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2019 16:29

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I'm looking for a relatively casual WW2 game to crack open some spare time with. I like grand strategy but not complicated mechanics, HoI is a nightmare for me, for example. I enjoy logistics at the level of stuff like Panzer General. Any suggesions?

# ¿ Oct 12, 2019 12:26

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Q_res posted:

Have you taken a look at Panzer Corps? It's basically a modern Panzer General.

I play all the Panzer Corps :mil101:

V for Vegas posted:

Strategic Command 3 - either War in Europe or World at War.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/593030/Strategic_Command_WWII_War_in_Europe/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/957720/Strategic_Command_WWII_World_at_War/

Get something like the Boardgame Map Mod as well - https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4193147

This looks interesting! Thanks a lot!

# ¿ Oct 12, 2019 13:42

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I ended up splurging for SC: World at War, but I'm actually stumped by it.

Are there any kind of website, tutorial or strategy guide I can look at? I get the general concept, but there's a lot of stuff to handle at once :ohdear:

# ¿ Oct 13, 2019 19:56

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Steam has a Paradox Sale. Are there any strategy games I have to try while it's on?

# ¿ Oct 18, 2019 20:16

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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!

# ¿ Oct 18, 2019 20:45

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ZombieLenin posted:

Which makes it even weirder a Danish salvage company got away with pulling stuff off of British Jutland wrecks, which are both official war graves and still the property of the United Kingdom.

Only if you ignore the fact that every Danish government in the last 30 years have been xenophobic dicks that think they own the world.. Or, wait, when did it happen?

# ¿ Oct 22, 2019 09:22

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Someone just gave me MBT, Panzer Blitz! and Wooden Ship - Iron Men. Are they playable, or will I drown in counters on hexes? :ohdear:

# ¿ Apr 16, 2020 19:21

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gazza posted:

Also, having played the Cauldron of War beta, it's a pretty neat simple Barbarossa game that nevertheless does a good job of capturing the feel of the campaign. In a lot of ways it feels like a super duper streamlined version of Decisive Campaigns Barbarossa. It also doesn't shy away from acknowledging German war crimes, which Decisive Campaigns Barbarossa really seemed to gloss over.

Can you or someone else explain how to play Cauldron of War? I got the beta, and used the tutorial and am now in-game, but it's really confusing. Even straight up assault moves and shelling seem to cause very little damage and 0% advancement of operation, and I often get "exposed flanks" tags on my units which I'm not sure what does but is clearly a malus and I don't know how to remove it.

# ¿ May 26, 2020 14:38

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Great stuff! I wish my good for nothing SS Volunteers wouldn't go off murdering civilians on drunken sprees, but thanks to your advice things are shaking out nicely

# ¿ May 26, 2020 17:56

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 02:30

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A perfectly cromulent map, Hypnobeard! :getin:

That reminds me, I should get our WW1 test game going.. So many lives are yet spared because of my inept image editing skills :v:

# ¿ May 27, 2020 10:18

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