>starting a new country from nothing is fun
>exploring the map is fun
>claiming valuable land and resources is fun
>developing your economy and infrastructure is fun
>defending your borders from barbarians is fun
>fun stops when you get to war because while you were busy building a nice country another player was just spamming troops and rushing military technologies so you just get stomped with doomstacks for merely existing
I genuinely wish there was a game that was based ONLY around this early phase of every civ game where you explore the map, expand your borders and grow your economy without the part where some agressive player rapes you. Preferably with more detailed economy.

'cado VVON

Marge games

What is a strategy game for farmers that want to plant Tomacco and raise a Mosanto funded private island

I've watched some recent CK3 AARs and it seems like the bordergore is a lot less disgusting than it was on launch. Props to Paradox.

DAY 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3450310/Europa_Universalis_V/

NEW FORUM POST
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Should I pirate eu5 now or is there a big update coming up?

>Play Vic II
>Play as Austria
>Refuse to savescum
>Want to expand through Balkans and don't want to create Germany
>After 20 years realize Prussia is weaker than me
>Maybe I will just create South German Federation since Baden is attacking northern OPMs and Prussia anyways
>Forgot this won't include Austria
>Now I have a big puppet and two bordergore provinces
>Released an OPM but still have one (1) bordergore
>Fuck it, now I have to create Germany or I will be stuck with bordergore untill the end of the game
>Push through necessary wars
>Have to fight at least four wars (one of which was a Great War) to demote Prussia to secondary power
>mfw Britain steals my Suez canal since Spain conquered Sinai because Egypt was allied with Yemen which was conquered by aforementioned Spain and had "Liberate" casus belli which meant I couldn't intervene and in spite of having 6% nitroglicerine RNG just wouldnt let me have it
>Waste 10 bad goy points on taking it back
>France keeps attacking for Alsace every 5 years like clockwork
>Can't just sphere Prussia since we have a truce and couldn't just add casus belli since I had too much infamy.
>Try "add to sphere" to save time and having to deal with other Great Powers
>Fuck too much bad goy points
>Russia, Netherlands, USA and France with its allies attack me in a span of couple of months
>Meanwhile Boxers fail to interest anyone
>too much bad goy points so German and Italian allies refuse to help me
>in a war so no way to drop infamy
>fuck will have to reload
>wait for the magic number to drop so I can have the same war over the same reason
>Finally create German Empire
>Get like 10 decisions, half of which are dedicated to Prussia (which is weird, since in this timeline Prussia is the one to fail the test of time)
>pic related
>Schleswig is NOT annexed for some reason
>no will to continue the campaign
Do (You) sometimes feel like the mechanics of Paradox games limit the player in a way that feels artificial?

Ok, I've seen enough. I've had my fill, I've played my money's worth. When did you realize you were done with your favorite strategy game, and that it was time to move on?

Year 3 season pass just revealed

If you see a gibberish post, it was made by raiders, ignore it.

No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it never will be. Neither will EU5. On the otter hand, Project Caesar is /gsg/-approved kamige and you should preorder it now!

How fares your empire, /gsg/?

On this day in history, the 3rd of November:

361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia; on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.
1534 – The Parliament of England passed the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church of England, supplanting the pope and the Catholic Church.
1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1867 – Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
1898 – France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
1935 – In a widely criticised referendum, almost 98 percent of Greek voters supported the restoration of George II (pictured) as King of the Hellenes.
1946 – The Constitution of Japan is adopted through Emperor's assent.

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Warcraft 3 General - This entire thread needs to be purged.

An awful thread for devs and no-devs to post their awful ideas for strategy games that will never see the light of day, etc.

previous thread:
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I don't know why or how, but last thread bump limit, so here is the sequel.

How much randomness do you like in your strategy vidyas?

Why did Microsoft fumble AoM so hard?

/oxce/ - OpenXCOM

>OXCE?
OpenXcom is a free open-source game engine for the original 1994 X-Com: UFO Defense (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown) and 1996 X-Com: Terror from the Deep games.
OXCE extends OXC modding capabilities and is home to megamods like X-Piratez, X-Com Files, 40k ROSIGMA and more.

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>Resources
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Previous thread >>2143007

They tried making something, they put themselves out there. They took a big leap and a risk.

Considering how some of you have been behaving, I'm pretty sure future developers will think twice before even attempting to make an RTS. It honestly blows my mind how entitled some of you are, the worst types of consumers that I can only describe as bitter and hateful man-children.

It's perfectly fine to feel disappointed by a product, being toxic, harassing developers and coming up with Alex Jones tier conspiracy theories isn't though.

I have no idea what they did to warrant the amount of resentment besides daring to hope to be a spiritual successor to Starcraft. Was it the kickstarter stuff? That'll happen sometimes when you invest into something whether it's time or money. It isn't -always- going to go exactly how you want. Don't do it if you can't handle it maturely.

The old RTS-games you enjoy are still there, they didn't ruin or break any of them. You can still play those. What's the problem exactly? Is the game not good enough? What's stopping you from being constructive rather than just hating on it?

I have 0 affiliation with Frost Giant, I don't particularly like Stormgate either. I do respect them trying though, I respect anyone who actually tries to make something regardless if its successful or a failure. Chads.

Why isn't there more hoard defense games

Best city builder in your opinion?
>Cities: Skylines
Shitties of them all in my opinion. In this one you have shit like 16 people living in a skyscraper and you can't even build realistic sized cities. The traffic simulation is supposed to be good but its nonsensical (drivers are incapable of changing lanes, the game puts pedestrian crossings through roundabouts etc.).
>Cities: Skylines 2
Not even top tier computers can run this past a certain city size.
>Simcity 4
You can build massive cities in it. Its a shame that the game was designed to build american style cities though (no mixed zones, no public housing, etc.). Game runs like shit too because of its old engine.
>Citystate 2
This is the best one in my opinion. Economics makes sense and you have neat details like poor people building slums if you can't fill their housing demand either through making enough housing zones or building public housing units. There is also an entire legislation system that allows you to make anything between a communist hellhole and an anarcho-capitalist dystopia. I wish the game was moddable though.

Anno thread.
Anno 117 gets a timed demo tomorrow. Expectations? Personally I hope they don't fuck it up, anno 1800 was great.

cursed build edition

Menance dead on arrival? Or just an elaborate subsidy fraud?

Why is the game not doing any automated trades for me?
Market automation doesn't want to make new trades. I tried turning automation on and off. Tried turning it off for a couple months before turning it back on. There are a bunch of profitable possible trades. I tried removing all manual trades and setting all trade capacity to automatic. None of these worked. What do I do? My save is being bricked by this shitty bug. Pic rel is my trade screen after months of waiting for the automation to start doing something.

Any good terraforming-themed city-builder/factory games out there?

I'm only aware of
- Surviving Mars (yawn)
- Per Aspera (shittiest pathfinding known to man)
- Infraspace (fine, bit ugly)
- Plan B: Terraform (least bad option)
- Terraforming Mars (port of a board game)

Am I missing anything?

Talk about new mods, mods you're hyped for, etc.

CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.html

NCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/index.html

If you see a gibberish post, it was made by raiders, ignore it.

No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it never will be. Neither will EU5.

How fares your empire, /gsg/?

On this day in history, the 9th of November:
694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1180 – The Battle of Fujigawa: Minamoto forces (30,000 men) under Minamoto no Yoritomo defeat Taira no Koremori during a night attack near the Fuji River but he escapes safely with the routed army.
1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
1720 – The synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor Consulate Government
1867 – The Tokugawa shogunate hands back power to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1923 – In Munich, police and government troops crush the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch.
1938 – Kristallnacht occurs, instigated by the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as justification.
1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.

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Is it just me or would anyone else really like to see Paradox release a cold war/recent history/near future game to bridge the chronological gap between HOI4 and (at least partway towards) Stellaris?

I'm thinking 1946 to 2046, focusing on postwar economic reorganization, decolonization, the Cold war, nuclear proliferation, the rise of the Asian economies, the GWOT, and potential future conflicts.

I feel like it would be extremely fertile ground for the paradox formula, taking pieces from their previous games, reworking them for the time period, and adding new systems and mechanics to handle stuff like nuclear brinkmanship and non state actors.

Not sure what the point of this thread is, just wanted to discuss and maybe theorycraft a bit.

APOCALYPSE NOW edition
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Stard*ck says they fixed a lot of issues and moved engine to 64bit with modern directX. Hopes, expectations, and fears?

Hello /vst/, its been a while since this has been talked about hasn't it. Yeah, needless to say Spring went horribly, in fact I couldn't even post to tell you guys the cup was going on because the fucking site was down. Regardless, it didn't go well and as such /vst/ is playing this autumn. To sum up the last year of /vst/'s performance in the cup. Well, to put it bluntly /vst/'s currently more cooked than Sigurd was after the end of chapter 5 in FE4.
However, there is light at the end of the tunnel, /vst/ has found a new manager and for the first time since Summer 2023 which if I can remind you all was the last time /vst/ made an elite final day. Finally, /vst/ has a triumvirate as a management group once again and I have full confidence in the other two co managers to steer this team in the right direction

Anyways to anyone who doesn't know what the 4cc is
>What is 4chan Cup? 4chan Cup is a virtual Association Football tournament, played with AI vs AI on Professional Evolution Soccer by Konami, featuring teams made up of various 4chan boards playing against each other.

As I have already recapped the state of the team the link to the poll is here: https://forms.gle/rcq7j3QuX4fxoFbU7

If you got any questions about the team please go while and ask away in the thread

how many playthroughs should i do before im ready to play Long war of the chosen mod?

Does anyone know any espionage strategy games? Where you run spy networks or something? Idc if it's retro.

MoO1 vs 2 vs apparently we don't talk about 3 vs Conquer the Stars where apparently mods make it OK. Which Master of Orion do you prefer? I've only ever played 2 but love it dearly, minus some of the micromanagement with planets that tends to happen

SOUTHAG is out
This div is super fun

>demo so successful they drop even more unplanned content
demo chads FEASTING
>we get mechs
welp time to wait for monday

W&R:SR thread

Discuss the engoodening of Early Start, get mad about feature creep and post your decrepit commieblocks.

Why the hell can't I get any more human immigrants in my city?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ryr8UF4SX4

It's out (in 20 days). Thoughts? We now have italians on both sides.

They're really just letting anyone open a bank nowadays aren't they.

>A Paradox game that's actually really good right at launch
Holy shit how do they managed to do it, after the disasters CK3 and Vichy III still are?

DAY 3
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1.0.2 PATCH OUT
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ITT: Strategy games that no one besides (you) have played. Recommend rarities and discuss games that you vaguely remember playing as a kid or seeing in a magazine that one time.
Continued from: >>1919459

I'll start: Conflict Zone.
Early 00's strategy game that I haven't seen anyone mention in my entire adult life. I remember it being unique because you public opinion was a key currency. As totally-not-NATO that involved airlifting civilians out of conflict zones, and as the bad guys it involved sending TV crews to film you blowing up enemy troops and enemy atrocities. The better your rep, the more advanced units you could bring in. Actually pretty surprised few games tried to make public opinion part of gameplay. Not a great game, but certainly a mechanically unique one.

Your turn, anon!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW

So guys, how's the best C&C game of a decade?

With No Compromise, No Surrender ( and the Czech Content Pack ) rolling out in the new future, what are your thoughts on it? And how do you feel about them adding in Seaplane Tenders as a Naval Unit?

Old Thread >>2070984

UI and controls for it are a little obtrusive, but the idea and execution are really neat, and the depth is really nice too. Demo has enough to let me know I'll likely be hooked.

I started Jagged Alliance 2 at least 12 to 20 times at various points in my lifetime.

I never got past the first four towns or so. I only finished the game once when I snuck into the final time and solo killed Deidranna. Are there any good tips & tricks to keep in mind for tactically challenged players? Is it possible to finish the game while letting the auto-battle resolve all the militia fights? I hated the militia fights.

Thread inspired by this >>2175383 thread. Post only the most cringe looking strategy units.
Starting off with Praetorian from Homm6. Tier 1 unit btw.