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/vst/ is a place to discuss all types of strategy video games, including both turn-based and real-time strategy, turn-based and real-time tactics, single-player and multi-player (including MOBAs). All platforms are welcome.

Does this mean discussion of strategy games is banned on other video game boards? No! /vst/ is just a separate board specifically focused on strategy games where discussions about your favorite games can thrive.

Please familiarize yourself with the rules and remember to use the spoiler function where appropriate!

Please note that, like /v/, "Generals"—long-term, one-after-the-other, recurring threads about a specific game are not permitted on /vst/. Such threads belong on >>>/vg/


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Honestly it's looking pretty good with lots of anti-gookclicking features.
Looks like us RTS fans are finally getting a real sophisticated RTS.
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>>1759983
>Ignore the people that can only criticise.
You're an idiot if you think homeworld 3 gameplay is good compared to homeworld 1.
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>>1759992
You are the idiot
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>>1759668
>I feel like all this racism is detracting
No it's not.
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>>1759990
>there is a significant amount of players that are like 45+ w/ kids and are just enjoying the game
They all deserve death. Their debased standards are ruining it for the rest of us
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>>1759983
Homeworld 3 added gookclicker mechanics you buffoon. It's one of the many reasons why people are saying it's gameplay is inferior

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What is a good and flavourful set up to use for dark elves?
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>>1755458
fire bolt is basic spell, spells have the same rule as normal damage aka 30% hit chance (unless its something like chaos bolt) and get reduced by armor, when hitting multi figure unit its better to use something like fire ball cause it hits all units at once
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>>1756341
I think I see now. I used the minimum power with my spell, which rolled poorly and only would've targeted a single spear-men anyways

I guess I'll keep trying to git gud. Scourging cities from afar is cool and all, but it just doesn't soothe the soul like a combat spell would
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>>1760007
Chaos Rift is great, since it makes a strongly defended city ripe for conquest. Just dont forget to switch it off, after you sack it.
Full chaos run with halflings is one of my favorite strategies, but very high in micromanagment. Casting chaos channel on every slinger, then sorting out the ones with demon wings. Flying elite slingers are no joke, and it gets really mean with chaos surge and warped reality.
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>>1760011
>chaos channel on every slinger
>Flying elite slingers
absolutely horrifying. Base slingers already melt anything that isn't hiding behind a wall.
That's why I just open a rift over walled halfling settlements and wait; there isn't a mortal army on Arcanus or Myrror that can storm such a place without staggering losses, and most summoned creatures fare just as poorly
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>>1760028
Slingers have only a few shots per battle and there are spells like warp wood which disable them. In close combat they suck. Also a fast moving hero (buffed with spells) like Torin or Fang will make quick work of them. Last option for chaos sorcerers: flame strike. really mean.

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>GTFOs Kaiser fags
>Kills TNO trannies
>Murders Bronies

Literally the only good HOI4 mod
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>>1757036
>I'll wait for the inevitable Fallout Equestria version
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2307988796
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>>1756158
Those other three killed themselves. And so did OWB.
There isn't a single good alternate reality mod for HoI4 and there never will be.
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>>1756158
is there a Courier 6 path or mod for New Vegas?
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>>1759942
well IIRC courier six does exist in the base mod as an agent for New Vegas
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>>1760055
bruh...

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Get in here and talk about hoi4 modding.
>OWB 5.0 update dropped
>TFR 2nd stream on March 29th
>Kaiserreich Ireland rework incoming
Also share your modding tips here as well.
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>>1759096
He committed the crime of making the Legion act like an actual army of enslavers and rapists. (Not really, but it's clearly not shown in a bad light, because the narrative is from the POV of the members themselves.)

He isn't, he has it privated until he finishes it up. Find him somewhere, he hands the link to anyone who asks.
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>>1759305
It's shown in a realistic, or at least as realistic as you can get within HOI4 boundaries, light. The Bone Cohort isn't really about good or evil.

The current and perhaps future OWB devs may point at it and censor it and say it doesn't deserve to exist, but in the keeping of the Christian beliefs of the brother, Australis, in the mod, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

Bone Cohort shows a realistic depiction of the Legion, and perhaps infinitely more realistic than that of OWB's Lanius or Legion itself, which were made by devs who no longer wish to associate with the mod due to one reason or another.

And that's not counting the disaster that was 5.0, which was touted to be the biggest thing since Mexico, and yet instead fell apart into developer OC nations that contrast or outright contradict the Fallout setting without adding, changing, or even removing anything new from it, unless you count the Metis Congress being made by actual American Indians, or Manitoba being shifted from a former developer who was removed simply because he made an off color joke that other devs didn't like, despite being infinitely more productive than any of them.

Ultimately though, the Bone Cohort doesn't pass judgement on any of the OWB nations it interacts with, it lets the player decide, which is what the spirit of Fallout, being a role-playing game, has always been about, compared to the OWB mod itself, which has turned into a parody of what it used to be, and setting players on choiceless railroads that give the illusion of choice, and yet mean nothing than whatever the developer wants to beat into your head, much like a modern day Bethesda game.

That's my two cents at least.
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>>1750848
KX Github is the uncensored version on top of my head, The Flag for NatPop Native American in Alask has Swastika before Paradox issues them to removed it. I think that's still available in the GitHub version?
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>>1752001
It's too reformist for Hardline.
It's too authoritarian for Social Democracy
Too ideologue for Despotism.
So it's should be somewhere around broad Socialism sub ideology. You know the one where "Alternative Socialism" type went to.
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>>1759706
Only flags got censored?
Also, why can a bunch of mods plast the swastika everywhere, but KX can't?

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what mods do I play?
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>>1759971
What are you talking about? I'm talking about hazard pay. Also the path, pirates, and indys are the only factions with any common sense.
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>>1759965
>fikenhild vs some hellhole about to get satbombed because the retard faggot owner installed 8 alphas to save 5k/cr per mo
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>>1760004
Thats what you get for being a heretic.
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>>1760004
Hard for the hegemony to sat bomb when they get gangbanged by 5 high commands worth of fleets.

You do put high commands on every planet once your colonies are full size, right? It's just wasting credits otherwise, and high commands help you stabmaxx so you can afford an extra player owned colony or two.
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>>1759973
>Also the path, pirates and indys are the only factions with any common sense.
Next time put some effort into your bait.
Bend over.

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FOR THEY ARE WEAK.

GUARD OUR SPIRITS. AND KEEP US

FROM ETERNAL DARKNESS.

"HE OPENED THE Total War: Attila Thread,

AND BEHOLD THE SUN BECAME BLACK.

AND THE MOON BECAME LIKE BLOOD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lXsYjQz3g0&ab_channel=CPr0d

The day of reckoning has come.
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>>1759756
That's a difference in playstyle then my main damage source are cav, or flanking ranged in the worst case. Infantry only serve as anvil for me, something the spears fo better than melee infantry.
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>>1759773
That does sound like a good strategy but at the moment my cavalry really sucks. Scout Equities can't 1v1 any cavalry unit and I often rely on luring enemy cavalry into my spearmen and archers.
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>>1759891
You shouldn't be using your cav to 1v1 enemy cav.
Tactically speaking, Attila combat is almost ALWAYS decided by whoever can surround the enemy first. 1 Scout Equites is passable, but 2 scout equites can kill just about anything if they can surround it, outside of the highest-tier cav. Always 2v1 if you can help it.
Anyway with regards to infantry, WRE sword units generally come in 2 categories: really tanky anvils like Legio and more killy hammers like Armigeri. You can usually tell which is which based on whether they have the stationary or mobile testudo, respectively.
Armigeri and other units from their line are good if you want something a bit faster to wrap around and start rolling up the flank of an enemy infantry line, but they'll usually take a bit more of a beating than, say, a legio on account of their lower armor and less sturdy testudo.
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>>1759948
I have noticed that one you begin to flank and rear charge enemies then their morale just completely shatters and it usually develops into an outright end of the battle.
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>>1533421
>magyar
>white
>???
Also despite lacking no historical basis whatsoever its funny that your trying to claim a guy who's only real reputation is destruction of civilization kek

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does anyone still play this game?
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WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE REPLAYS OF STARCRAFT BROODWAR?
WHY DID THAT TL.NET TAKE BROODWAR REPLAYS OFF THE FRONT PAGE?
WHY ARE THEY PUSHING HOMO SEX VODs?
WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE REPLAYS OF STARCRAFT BROODWAR?
WHY DID THAT TL.NET TAKE BROODWAR REPLAYS OFF THE FRONT PAGE?
WHY ARE THEY PUSHING HOMO SEX VODs?
WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE REPLAYS OF STARCRAFT BROODWAR?
WHY DID THAT TL.NET TAKE BROODWAR REPLAYS OFF THE FRONT PAGE?
WHY ARE THEY PUSHING HOMO SEX VODs?
WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE REPLAYS OF STARCRAFT BROODWAR?
WHY DID THAT TL.NET TAKE BROODWAR REPLAYS OFF THE FRONT PAGE?
WHY ARE THEY PUSHING HOMO SEX VODs?
WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE REPLAYS OF STARCRAFT BROODWAR?
WHY DID THAT TL.NET TAKE BROODWAR REPLAYS OFF THE FRONT PAGE?
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https://tl.net/plus/
pay up starcrump
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Why do tl posters hate the Saudis? Don't they know SC2 would be dead without them?
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it's weird to see the thread alive since /scv/ is dead on that other site.
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the faggot who spammed alpha investment videos ruined that site for me
kill yourself if you're reading this by the way, rudy sucker

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What made Civ 4 so special that people designate it as the cut-off point from when the series started declining?
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>>1759467
Downloading them right now. Might give Colonization a try too, but I dunno about the change of making 'defeating the motherland' your only victory condition.
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>>1759500
Aight, have fun. One thing to keep in mind when playing 4, prioritize building units over buildings and wonders. Except for a few, such as granary, buildings are not crucial.
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is this true?
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>>1759605
Looks true to me
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>>1741197
i'm sure no one ever heard about half-life 2 or was enraged about steam requiring always online connection. i sure hope you're a troll.

All I hear on here is how bad any given game/mod is. I want to try something that the majority of the board would say is a "good" strategy game, so toss a recommendation.

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Just optimize it, fix the late-game, do a bit of balancing and add more flavor to railroad it towards historical borders and wars and it will be better than Vic2.
It's like 3 patches and an HPM mod away from being good. The base mechanics are all very solid and an improvement over 2.
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game is unplayable due to military causing CTD's
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>>1759818
Complete Turkish Death?
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>>1729486
>t's like 3 patches and an HPM mod away from being good.
What's funny is that V3's starting map is a very close copy of HPM's, but they don't really understand how or why it changed over time. I have never had a game where Peru-Bolivia dissolved. As an aside, why the fuck can't they just hardcode Switzerland/Sweden to be neutral unless they take a decision not to be. Vanilla V2 had this same problem.
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>>1760039
because then it's "LE RAILROADING :(((((((" and the redditors get mad Swtitzerland doesn't snake into Italy anymore
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>>1759896
if only

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>"gookclick"
Is this the ultimate calling card for the "I'm terminally dosghit at rts" type of person?
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>>1760025
Cope, you're not forced to like competitive or even multiplayers games but there is an itch they scratch and many people like to compete against other players in games allowing for skill expression
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>>1760027
Yeah, like Dota2, not CS, you humongous retard.
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>>1760029
Ok cope more I guess
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>>1760034
So I'm somehow "le coping" because you're a clueless retard? Are you OK?
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>>1757418
where is the fun in "winning"?
I just want to build pretty things. I fire up tiberian sun in skirmish mode with an easy opponent and keep them quarantined so that i can fill the map with my immersive buildings. i build concentration camps that i fill with tiberium monsters that i create by sending my own units into tiberium. i carefully avoid harvesting too much tiberium and crater monster so that i can have the entire map filled with them as much as possible. i preserve those civilian buildings so that i can have a pretty environment. i constantly build and rebuild my bases with autistic perfectionism to achieve peak aesthetics. i fill the map with silos and then carpet bomb them just to see the explosions.
who the fuck wants to "win"?
RTS is a garbage genre.

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What were your thoughts on the ending?
What does the future hold in store for Valhalla?
And most importantly, which waifus will make an appearance in Banished Children?
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>>1759294
The bigger problem is that like fifty of the fuckers show up, and rush into melee .
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>>1758541
>>1759294
Clowns can't kill you if you can't die.
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>>1759640
Based Immortality abuser
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The first time I saw that Immortal Spoon guy and he said, "it breaks my heart to see you here," I thought he was Albus's dad or brother or something
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>>1760012
It'll be disappointing if John's not in the sequel. His power level is Carter-tier and he's a massive oldfag who's served more than one Sharky. We know from Leton that Valhalla occasionally enlists powerful people in exchange for wiping their criminal record, so him just being arrested isn't necessarily a sign that he's gone for good.

Any plans for a new playthrough when the DLC drops, anon? Aside from the wet fart that is the endgame crisis, 7.0 beta is pretty good. For me, I've been wanting to do a custom Eleventh Hour start where I try to ally with the Split and form a separatist Argon faction. So I think I'll finally do that.
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>>1759981
German company, it's accurate to the demographics they see in major cities.
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>>1760014
Kek, so much for diversity.
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>>1760014
I audibly laughed when the terran with the 80s hairdo shows up dark as fucking night. "SUP WE RESEARCHIN OR SUMPTIN?"
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>>1760022
Lmao, just did those missions. Nice afro, "Feynman".
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>>1760026
>*aggressively throws down cardboard square*
>*breakdances in your direction*

Will you finally buy it?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1575940/Sins_of_a_Solar_Empire_II/
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>>1759865
>they couldn't even afford to spend few grand for a good score
Grim.
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>>1759865
Ever since godhand IGN giving a game a low score means it's a hidden gem.
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>>1759952
>hidden
I found it first
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>>1759865
Why are they reviewing a game before it's reached version 1.0? It should improve vastly over just a few months when it releases.
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>>1760020
It's IGN, they are idiots. They are trained wrong as a joke.


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