/vst/ - Video Games/Strategy

A total converter that turns HOI4 into mapping software.

https://github.com/N0zza/MappaMundi/commit/fe832a06412261247b0053816dede46daf127762

>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.

>Game
https://www.gog.com/en/game/xcom_ufo_defense
https://openxcom.org/downloads-milestones/

>Mods
https://mod.io/g/openxcom
https://www.moddb.com/mods/x-piratez/downloads (XPZ)
https://mod.io/g/openxcom/m/the-x-com-files (XCF)

>Resources
https://openxcom.org/forum/
https://www.ufopaedia.org/
https://xpedia.netlify.app/ (XPZ)
https://xcf.trigramreactor.net/master (XCF)

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>Empire Total War MOBILE gets a nice update
>STILL no word from CA on M2TW remaster or anything else
What gives

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

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

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

Is the game actually good, or do people just like the setting?

Ira Won the Waifu Vote Edition

>M&B Wiki
https://antifandom.com/mountandblade/wiki/Mount_&_Blade_Wiki

> BANNERLORD
>Pastebin
https://pastebin.com/tAvcAbpT
>Custom Banner Maker
https://bannerlord.party/banner/
>Banner Code Sharing
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MEM-0Fz0yetJ8cZgLrPpHuDU6dO33bhsFiHsiWwiCDM
>Asset Extractor
https://github.com/szszss/TpacTool
>Create Custom Companions
https://butterlord.com/wanderers

> WARBAND
>Warband Pastebin
https://rentry.org/x7u7t
>Noob Guide (READ This) https://imgur.com/a/FMAqV
>Anon's Mods and Upstab Guide: https://pastebin.com/agwZu9Df

>Thread(looted): >>2076392

>Fire Emblem
Good gameplay, shit ass story
>Advance Wars
Good gameplay and okay story

The only reason why Fire Emblem is still alive is because of the units with monster titties, or am I missing something?

It's over.

https://archive.is/tDVof

Devs refuse to implement the surrender button because Russians never surrender.

Tools:
>https://ba-hub.net/ - laggy but with detailed player and match statistics
>https://barmory.net/ - detailed unit stats and 1v1 unit combat simulation tool

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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/?

This week in history:
August 24, 1743 – The War of the Hats: The Swedish army surrenders to the Russians in Helsinki, ending the war and starting Lesser Wrath.
August 25, 1258 – Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under Michael VIII Palaiologos, paving the way for its leader to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
August 26, 1071 – The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most of Anatolia.
August 27, 410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
August 28, 2024 – Announcement of Age of Enlightenment.
August 29, 1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
August 30, 1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.

Random Country Picker
http://orph.link/random

>Archive (mods only)
https://mega.nz/#F!plMxFYTB!sn9MTrvJ0tYjWSHgM8CZow

>Where to get these games
https://web.archive.org/web/20190720131512/http://hastebin.com/raw/moqugasume

>Mods
>> READ THIS FIRST.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200712212437/https://pastebin.com/33A7wXdB

>>[V2] - Niggermod
https://pastebin.com/Xgjd5LvG

>>[V2] - Crimeamod
https://www.moddb.com/mods/crimeamod

Previous thread: >>2117178

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-79-3rd-of-september-2025.1857843/

Hello, and welcome to another Tinto Talks, the happy Wednesdays where we talk about Europa Universalis V!

Today, we will talk about two more Situations that may happen in the Mid and Late Game, related to the spread of Colonialism: the Columbian Exchange and the Colonial Revolution! Let’s start, without further ado:

Started playing after some anon recommended it here and its good, nice quick rts (match dont usually take longer than 20 mins) with masssive ammount of units.
its basically free and i had some fun so far.

previous >>2038398

>Essential downloads:
https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2024/essentials

>Guide to Football Manager:
http://www.guidetofootballmanager.com/

>Tactic and Strategy Guides:
https://community.sigames.com/topic/495115-tactic-and-strategy-guides/

>Training and Mentoring Guides:
https://community.sigames.com/topic/495114-training-and-mentoring-guides/

>Team Talks:
https://strikerless.com/2016/02/19/the-hartman-doctrine-why-the-hairdryer-treatment-works-surprisingly-well/

>Macca's official /trb/ database:
(2015) (embed) (embed)http://pastebin.com/uj27eQhe(embed)
(2016) (embed) (embed)http://pastebin.com/7e3Vv0ap(embed)

https://community.sports-interactive.com/forums/forum/19-tactics-training-strategies-discussion/

FM26 teaser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD__lhNVBdM

Can anyone tell me why my guys are starving despite available logistic points being like 7 times higher than consumed ones? Are they just too fucking lazy to pick up their stuff or what?
Logistics man, how the fuck do they work?

So apparently they are making a new one. Why is there no thread yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAPm8fIy5mg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsf2hN1rPEw

you may now call me a shill etc.

All the alternate rules I've read don't really add any depth to the game.

As Graveyard of Empires finally receives the polish it should have had from day one, how are anons finding it? And with the devs hinting and finally working towards on the Asia-Pacific Front of the Second World War as well as reworking the faction mechanics of the game, what do you hope to see?

Old Thread: >>1970026

>FTL but 40k
Kino, sign me up

modding is pain

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

ASL 20 information: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/ASL/20

Q: Why is Flash ducking Soulkey?
A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhewOR_gRXY

Old: >>2048326

We must gondinue building gommunism

I know this is really an AoE2 thread, but please be kind to the others

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Previous: >>2080588

Avaliable for free at https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
or as a paid premium version on Steam or Itch.io

>What is the difference?
Both are the same game on the same version (51.xx). The free version uses ASCII as a tileset (but you can mod other usermade tilesets and graphic packs)
With the premium version you pay for a premium tileset + premium OST + access to beta branches and steam integration (if on steam).

>What is next?
Fort mode siege mechanics changes, rework and general spice up is the next update. Hatches and doors no longer stop invaders, and constructed walls vulnerable confirmed so far. Ranged combat reworked in the most recent update.
End of Lua beta and merge into the main branch

>What has changed since I last stopped playing X years ago
Check the version history on the wiki
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Version_history

Dwarf Fortress has an extensive wiki which can help you with your question about DF as well as providing info about modding and 3rd party tools:
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Main_Page
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Utilities

Utilities you should know about

DFHack: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Utility:DFHack
Dwarf Therapist: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Utility:Dwarf_therapist
Legends Viewer: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/Utility:Legends_viewer


>Tutorials :
Quickstart Fortress Mode: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Quickstart_guide
Quickstart Adventure Mode: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Adventure_mode_quick_start
Other tutorials: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tutorials

>A bunch of guides to various parts of fort-based living:
http://imgur.com/a/nGyRF

Strike the earth!

What ruined Stellaris?

>add V2's world market
>game is suddenly good now

What the-

Let me see what you can do with this anons.
>what is this?
Some random ai-generated alt-history strategy game
https://www.paxhistoria.co

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint just got out of the EA.
It's an xcom-like cyberpunk turn-based tactics.
Thoughs?

FUCKING APOLOGIZE

I still don't get how Legions are supposed to be better than Levies.
Sure, Legions don't take pops away from your jobs and your research, but they cost a lot, cannot pillage cities (and pillaging cities makes MAD dosh), aren't any bigger than Levies because they take troops from the very same region, and they're not any stronger either because Levies receive the same technology buffs.

I don't fucking get it. Why not stick with Levies for the entire game?

Anyways Imperator thread

>Download new strategy game (pirated)
>Set AI to braindead
>Cheat for resources as soon as the match starts
>Look at the pretty buildings as I build them
>Look at the outfits becoming cooler as I upgrade my soldiers
>Send my soldiers against the AI
>They completely outmatch the enemy in every aspect, single soldiers destroy entire enemy squads.
>Uninstall the game, since I clearly mastered it
>Look up the next one, repeat steps above
35 years unbeaten, here is to the next 35

>Elemental is an online 1v1 card game where players build their decks and take turns playing cards from them. Their decks start weak, but they can improve them by buying better cards or removing weak ones. Each player also has some mana (used to play cards), gold (used to buy cards) and HP (if it reaches 0, the player loses). Some cards give gold, deal damage or restore HP, while others provide various forms of utility, shielding or buffs. Seven elemental dice determine the strengths of various cards: Chance, Fire, Earth, Water, Nature, Gold and Magic. They are rolled at the start and stay as they are. However, some cards can change the values of these dice, thus changing how strong other cards are.
>Elemental scaling is Elemental's core unique mechanic that sets it apart from other games in the genre.
>Many cards' descriptions have an element symbol instead of a number, e.g. "Deal Fire damage to your opponent". This means that the amount of damage dealt is equal to the current value of the Fire die. We say that this card scales with Fire. Note that the die is not rerolled when playing such a card.

>This mechanic makes dice control (using cards that can change the values of the dice) crucial, as doing this can drastically change the strengths of other cards. One player might have a deck that is on paper 2x stronger, but if all dice it scales with are 2s, while all of the dice the opponent's deck scales with are 7s, the opponent is still stronger.

New gameplay showcase is now up: https://youtu.be/F1p0CdXhxBU [Embed]
And here is the itch.io page: https://indjev99.itch.io/elemental

SOUTHAG is out
This div is super fun

Endless Legend 2 waiting room and Endless series discussio

Abandoned another run halfway through award

Hooded Horse is now the primary publisher of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Ubisoft still clings to the IP and sticks around in the project, but looks like their straits are getting dire enough to need co-publishers.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3105440/view/532102384016426733

Alright, Mr. Anon. You got one shot.
Tell us your best-selling strategy game idea.

Paradox vacation is over, time for dev diaries
All Under Heaven DD tomorrow
Coronation DD thursday

Eranshar is the best tag

So I decided to replay it after about 21 years since the last time in '04. And boy oh boy, is nostalgia one hell of a drug.

For starters I appreciate that the Steam version works out of the box in W11. I was prepared to use dxvk and dgvoodoo if necessary, but there was no need. So I went and played a hard early medieval campaign, like god intended. And after 10 this is what I think:

- The UI and controls suck beyond human reckoning. Nothing new about this since they are the same as the first Shogun's, but still. No drag selection and left click to move are certainly annoying. And where the fuck is the run button, I want my soldiers to run AFTER I put them in formation.

- Speaking of formation, soldiers can't keep formation for their fucking lives. Any move order and they do the classic "left wing crushes into right wing" move. And good luck trying to order a retreat followed by a 180 turn to front the enemy.

- Even though the manual shows a lot of mechanics used during the battles (very nice manual, by the way), most of them only work half the time, at best. Skirmish mode is non-functional, which makes skirmishers completely useless. Not that it works great in future games, but it straight up doesn't work in this one.

- The so-called "great AI" makes the exact same move, every single battle: camping on the highest hill. I mean, yeah, it's the logical move, but it ain't exactly fun.

- I'll give the game some leeway regarding sieges since it's the first game with them. But man, are they bad. Specially during the early medieval period when you don't have access to decent artillery and you CANNOT build siege equipment like in Rome.

- Unit bloat is real, by god is it real. CA really took to heart the criticism in Shogun about only having 7 units, but in Medieval it's just too much, and too many almost identical units. I started to miss the lean roster of Shogun.

Cont, 1/2

And RTS... is saved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THcm-QXStPA

Darkest Dungeon 2: Kingdoms - Crimson Court

the last of the DD2 kingdoms updates released today. anyone who will be playing?

They are adding another race.
What recipes are they going to fuck up now, like they did with field kitchen?

We've moved from a Theseus's Paradox to a Sorites Paradox.
Thread mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWODKxGeDBs

https://gofile.io/d/zAJ2RV - Full DV leak repository. Proposal, charts, maps.
https://www.youtube.com/@ThomasLands - Leaked build footage. Nearly finished and scrapped Italy, very unfinished Germany/US reworks and more.
https://space.bilibili.com/385529615/upload/opus - BiliBili leak video repository.
https://files.catbox.moe/80z6tb.png - Bormann TNO2 flowchart (never releasing).
https://files.catbox.moe/cdag1w.pdf - Vote Pig, the US rework proposal. Read all about this hot new TCT mod.
https://files.catbox.moe/j8tp21.pdf - December roundtable notes. Germany never.
https://files.catbox.moe/c5pdqt.png - Japan rework. OTL PMs only, please.
https://files.catbox.moe/xlhrjj.pdf - Sweden proposal. Dev still lurking, will respond to all bait.
https://files.catbox.moe/ycctp0.png - Sweden flowchart. We lost Pakt Sweden for this OTL-fest.
https://files.catbox.moe/l70qhw.pdf - Burgundian Eulogy: Burgundy 2 was real but got scrapped like everything else.
https://files.catbox.moe/zff5y4.pdf - Serov "facelift" document. The first leg in the now confirmed Komi rework.
https://files.catbox.moe/ymgaur.pdf - Amur rework doc. Over two years in dev hell, still no release date.
https://files.catbox.moe/iwmxg6.pdf - Manchuria doc #1.
https://files.catbox.moe/cgaqrz.pdf - Manchuria doc #2.
https://files.catbox.moe/y2hc34.pdf - Manchuria doc #3.
https://files.catbox.moe/96kjev.pdf - Manchuria doc #5.
https://files.catbox.moe/vdpi8k.pdf - Red Italy proposal.
https://files.catbox.moe/3n9lq9.pdf - New Granada walltext.
https://files.catbox.moe/r86sw7.pdf - 200p walltext about Colombian soccer mechanics.
https://files.catbox.moe/izg02l.png - 6th (?) space race mech rework mockup.

Is it good?

>almost as successful as Rimworld based on the number of steam reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive (122,724))
>never saw anyone talk about it here or on /v/ unless it is brought up in a Rimworld or DF shit-flinging thread
What gives ?