Is there anyway to enjoy snowballing, or does the game (TW3, but TW games in general) just get inherently less fun once you make it out of the first 20-30 turns and establish some breathing room? I love starting new campaigns, but as soon as the "game" becomes spending over half your turn time making sure your gorillion settlements, lords and heroes are progressing how you want them to, it just feels like a chore.

I came back to play WH3 co-op with some friends, and I have to say I'm glad I returned to the game after a few years, but now that we're 50+ turns in, so much of the enjoyment is from shooting the shit or helping out in battles where one of your friends gifts you a strong unit or two and lets you go nuts. The only thing left to do is paint maps, run around with our doomstacks, and suffer an overworld management UI that doesn't feel fit to handle organizing 25+ settlements and a ton of characters.

Branching off from my initial questions, are there any factions that are designed around little to no settlement management, and only managing 22-3 armies max?

Voiced protagonist and Mass Effect dialogue wheel neutered it as an RPG, and most dialog choices can be categorized into: Yes, Yes (Sarcastic), Fuck You (But Yes), No (Yes). They also simplified the level up system, and IIRC a lot of the perks are just percentage increases that don't really change playstyles or allow for that much in the way of build variety.

Another problem is the overreliance on the settlement system, which probably led to less handcrafted towns and cities, on the reasoning that you'll just build your own (to do shitty radiant quests with no meaningful impact on the world whatsoever). Then you also have the shitty weapon variety, and most of the limited customization options going towards those awful fucking tinkertoy pipe guns. I remember armor being in similarly dire state. I never touched the game after launch, so maybe some of the DLCs rectified some of these problems, but I heard only Far Harbor is decent and the rest are shit.

The only thing FO4 improved on was the gunplay, and even then it feels like shit compared to any dedicated FPS/TPS released at the same time or even years prior. I remember when FO4 threads were more common, there'd be people acting like the gunplay was amazing, and made up for all the shortcomings, and I was completely dumbstruck by how somebody could think that unironically. It feels like 3/NV, just slightly more polished and responsive.

Ultimately FO4 is a shitty looter shooter with hamstrung RPG mechanics, and a gameworld that should have had more handcrafted POIs instead of outsourcing settlement creation to players with a build system that sucks ass without mods.

This is a longshot, but I'm looking for a photo of a dog outdoors wearing a boonie hat with a M79 grenade launcher leaning against it. It may have been taken during the vietnam war, as the photo looked pretty old. I cannot for the life of me find it anywhere. I believe the dog was black and it looked like a short haired labrador / pointer / rhodesian ridgeback.

/k/ animal thread otherwise I guess.