Thread 2178450

I've been wanting to play a turn-based WW2 game, something on a small scale like XCOM, is there a good game like that?

Also, general WW2 strategy game thread I guess.

>>2178450 (OP)
nucom is not my cup of tea but I'd suggest you give the strategic mind series a go. They got their faults, and more than a bit of lapring going on but the gameplay is quite alright for someone hungry for panzer general content.

>>2178450 (OP)
HoI IV is the ultimate World War 2 game and probably always will be. It encompasses all dimensions of the war from the politics and intrigue to all branches of war.

That is without even mentioning the multi-faceted additions modding brings to the table.

>>2178570
Hoi4 ain't even the ultimate hoi game.

Your options are the silent storm series, classified 1942, or forgotten but unbroken.

They're all subpar in different way. Silent Storm is probably the most notable for the physics, but it's pretty old now and not as tactical in ways that the other two are. The other two are xcom tactics lite.

>HoI IV is the ultimate World War 2 game
lmao

>>2178450 (OP)
Didn't couple of new games come out something like partisans 1942 and that other game by Hatred devs?

>>2178450 (OP)
Headquarters ww2 is pretty ok.

But you should probably try combat mission first. It's got the Wego system instead of sequential turns.

>>2178570
boomers will never recover from this truth nuke

>>2178596
I accept your concession.

>>2178570
>visual novel focus trees simulator
>ultimate WW2 game

>>2179314
>tranime reaction image

>>2179314
>aryanime reaction image

>>2179314
honestly the ultimate WW2 game would actually start in 1919 (or 1923), last until 1950+, and try to simulate econ, domestic politics, and foreign politics in a historically plausible fashion. No focus tree bullshit. You wouldn't get the same WW2 every time but hopefully something that is plausible enough. The alt history would emerge in a plausible way. Probably best to use Vic2 as a starting point for developing a game like that

>>2179692
yeah dude the ultimate ww2 game would have 30 years of not-ww2

>>2178450 (OP)
Will we ever get a good coh game again?

>>2179692
>the ultimate WW2 game would actually start in WW1

>>2179692
OR and hear me out, new blitzkrieg but actually good and you can shove all that tacked on civilian crap up your ass.

>>2183909
no
just like we will never get a good xcom ever again

it's beautiful (unironically)

The skirmish AI in Coh2 really doesn't fuck around does it

>>2178450 (OP)
While not turn-based, check out Commandos 1&2 and Origins

>>2182807
you have two pills, first pill is you get what anon suggested, and play it. second pill is you don't. which do you choose?

>>2178570
also my man here is asking for a squad based tactics game, and you bring up HOI. holy shit. There's a bunch, depending on scale I'd include steel panthers, WinSteelPanthersWW2 is free now, I think. Never got into it, but it's decent. For a more xcom-like experience, I gotta do some digging, but there's a few of those with a narrative style experience.

>>2187154
Let me guess, one's brown and the other black?

>>2186509
It's insanely bad and builds random shit, it wins only when it cheats with resources.

>>2186509
Like anon above said, it's not smart at all, but at higher difficulties it gets so many resources that it can build tanks extremely early and spam grenades and shit, but it's easy to understand how it works and punish it every time

>>2178450 (OP)
Forgotten but Unbroken or something

>>2188066
>>2188101
I didn't say it's smart I said it didn't fuck around
>yfw three king tigers 5 min in

>>2188202
jesus christ

>>2188213
I actually enjoyed the asskicking. Too many RTS just coddle the player.

>>2179692
>zoomed who's never played Darkest Hour or HoI3 describes them both

>>2186509
Its terrible at making decisions, so it seems to the player like it is trying to flank. Once you realize that it never uses abilities, it's pretty easy to fight. Just get some team weapons pointed at general areas to protect. Don't try anything fancy.

>>2178450 (OP)
coh1 was the best

>>2178570
>HoI IV is the ultimate World War 2 game
>doesn't even get the borders of the Transnistria Governorate right
no

>>2178450 (OP)
Silent Storm 2