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RIP your cathedral lmao.
Dumbass.

I see that Men of War 2 is 75% off but its reviews are mixed. Have any of you guys tried it?

>>566894613
I did get a fantasy Stronghold game but I haven't played it, yet.

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>>566895960
>fantasy Stronghold game
OH? WHICH ONE

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HAK HAK HAK

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I can't really explain it, but the Abbot has a really thick English accent in French. To a point he sounds like that guy from Life of Brian who doesn't says "roman" but "woman".
>viens à mon secouws contwe ces affweux bawbawes!

>>566896192
after the crisis ended my map has infested worlds that can't be bombed down to the usual barren+terraformable

>>566896050
Stronghold Legends.

>>566897905
Ha, that one. It's not really janky compared to Stronghold 2, but it's still quite unbalanced. Ice faction is excellent on defense.

Such is the power of Nagash.

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Play Age of the Ring.

>>566911292
why

>>566911292
play with my cock

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>>566896192
HYUK HYUK HYUK

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>>566911538
Because it picks the factions from Battle For Middle Earth 2, and makes them more better and more respectful of the universe.
Now Gondor's soldiers are considered high-tier, but they need to be led by Boromir to maximize their potential, and until they can be churned out, Gondor relies on their allies from the fiedroms. And also the Guards of the Fountain are no longer T1 spearmen but hero units that extremely difficult and costly to recruit but will murderfuck any cavalry, monster or hero units.
meanwhile rohan sucks because they have shit infantry and awful siege and their cavalry can be killed by a goblin with a long stick

I wish I could go back to when I played Stellaris and got into the late game for the first time, thinking I was on an easy victory track. I had no clue about what an end game crisis was. I was hit by the Convergence as a robot species, witnessing their immense power emerge. It took two centuries and most of the galaxy to die, but I just barely survived and won. One of my favorite gaming memories.

>>566915398
aIwish I could go back to /civ4xg/ being good before the Stellariscucks arrived and then started to spam how much they hate Stellaris while playing literally nothing else.

>>566921061
I mean, I also play Total War, but there's a separate general for that.

>>566921153
Age of Empires 2? Age of Mythology? Age of Empires 4? Halo Wars? Age of Empires 3? Age of the Ring? Age of Empires 1? Dragonshard? Age of Empires 9 3/4? SEVEN KINGDOMS 2?

>>566911292
>>566914351
looks kinda shit
im going to play the first game for some campaign kino if i want to play middle earth rts

>>566921241
I play a bit of Age of Wonders 4, but I'm not well versed enough to talk about it. I absolutely adore Conquest of Elysium, though, if that matters.

>>566921241
All the games that failed to pass the test of time.
Same reason why no one wants to talk about civilization 5, while 4 and 6 are discussed

>>566921374
excellent bait

>>566921257
cringe

>>566862942
devs keep balancing around this power by the way
isn't that epic

being galactic emperor sucks
it should add more oppressive ways to your power later

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How does my colony sim list look like? Any gem i'm missing?

>>566927132
Does the Kingdom series count as colony sim? Kingdom: Two Crowns specifically.

spiderfaaaaaaaaaaaaaag

how do you say "I am drunk" in francais

>>566929246
Je suis ivre.
Senpai.: je suis bourré, or je suis beurré.

>>566929574
>Je suis ivre.
what the fuck does this mean? is ivre an adjective or a verb

>bourré
>beurré
what conjugation of the verb 'boire' is this

>>566912901
kek

>>566929774
Ivre is an adjective.
Bourré and beurré are both slang, bourré means literally full (of alcohol), and beurré is a corruption of the first one. It means literally "buttered".

>>566921257
Plays kinda like shit too from what I remember.
>first game
Good man.

>>566896828
crisises seem bugged to shit in 4.3
i had an issue where i couldnt destroy the unbidden and all they did was hang out in one system with 20 million fleet power ontop of a xenophobic AEs homeworld without bombing the planets or anything
the situation log says they have 10 anchors and a portal but they have no controlled system kek

i'm starting to think that the endless series is just bad gameplay wise and all it has going for it is lore and narrative/characters

>>566927132
Do you need new games? Aren't the ones you have enough?

>>566936278
I was just asking if there's something i missed, i know i have (to my liking) the best colony sims. Tbh the only "game" i am going to buy is all the DLCs of EUIV during summer sales, and that's it. So yeah, to answer your questions they are enough.

setting economy to extraction reducing science is soooo stupid

>>566927132
Startopia, ony, cultivation sim, ratopia, space colony

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So you can use the pacifist shield colossus on habitats, it just looks weird and the habitat doesn't even get a shield around it afterwards but it does provide the society research

>check shilled warcraft 3 killer, 9 people online
>check shilled c&c killer, 400 people online
>dawn of war 4 doesn't look like something that will be popular too
I think only microsoft had the right idea this decade with age of empire 4, others just copy worst parts without thinking why people played games in the first place

what is the use of automated workforce? they seem costly and dont get bonuses your pops get for working? it confuses me because most full automation stuff is late game FE buildings but by late game you have too many pops?

maybe a vassel limit will fix the AI vassalization issue
thoughts?

>>566943868
To fill jobs you don't have pops for

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Is there a punishment for saying not to worry and then declaring war in a few turns?

>>566946804
yeah i remember the other AIs trust you less

>>566950337
For how long you cannot attack without a penalty?

Thoughts on Anno 1800? I am thinking of buying it for 15 eurobucks, is it worth it without DLCs?

>>566952814
I think it's the best game in the series, good even without the DLC so just go for it if you are interested, can always buy the DLC later or pirate a full version

>>566951521
depends on game speed
30 turns on quick and 50 on standard according to a reddit thread i found
i don't know the exact numbers but you can find it on the wiki somewhere im sure

>>566953119
Tempting...it will be on sale for a while so will have time to think it through, thanks for the response though

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>only 700 fleet power for capital ship
Well, at least you won't steamroll ai empires easily

>>566956395
i imaigne the arkship is like a king piece you need to protect and not that powerful

>>566952814
Not even worth a pirate as far as I'm concerned. It's pretty but that's about it. Something very silly about making your game all about ever more complex production chains with goods exclusive to different regions and then allowing the player, as core mechanics so not as some exploit or whatever, to completely ignore those regions or most if not all of the steps in those production chains. And don't get me started on NPC traders and how they have a couple of goods they'll pay bloated prices to buy making them literal infinite money printers.
I do like what they did with the propaganda and influence systems.

>>566952814
my favorite city builder
absolutely worth the money
the dlc are for later if you enjoyed the game and want more

It’s amazing how much better it feels to play void dwellers as a gestalt than an individualist

>>566912901
>Replace pethoryn scourge by Disney, whom "sue" the existence out of mortal life because they hold the patent for basic biological life processes and consider any other lifeform a copyright infrigement

The Mouse shall rule the cosmos

>>566961458
No thank you, I play games for the fantasy aspect.

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I think I'll have to uninstall the tactica mod, it makes the AI design even more retarded ships than usual

>>566961771
That ship hold must be nothing but ammo boxes as far as the eye can see.

>>566961771
Why not play ST: Infinite while you're at it?

>>566961771
why cant anyone make a mod that gives the ai premade designs

Refugees is finished

Honestly, it was pretty damn easy once I got that canning workshop boost. It's crazy, a fuckton of rations. They give you a ton of steam cores too, so you can get automatons manning mines and drills pretty quickly. And even if they didn't give it you'd still have hundreds of workers + food and coal outposts. The challenge was supposed to be the lords, I guess, but they're not even hard to deal with. You just keep discontent down with patrols/night masses and build a shit ton of homes.

So pretty good. Not deathless sadly because I wanted to see how the Order path was since I did Faith last time, and it caused some poet to kill himself. Oh well.

The last one is fall of winterhome...that's definitely gonna be a hard one.

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nomads look weird

>>566952814
>ubislop

>>566970120
Given how much they apparently had to change for it, zero chance it's playable on release.

>>566971646
>>566970120
>try to make a 10 year old game into something it was never meant to be
Its gonna suck and will be a collossal failure.

Hmm, I really should try to play the game before this nomad update comes out and breaks literally everything

Any reccomendation of a modpack or just your own list? I haven't played in like 2 years.I can't use any mod that depends on dynamic HUD because my screen is too small.

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SPACE HEAVEN HAS HIT 1.0
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
I REPEAT
SPACE HEAVEN HAS HIT 1.0

https://store.steampowered.com/app/979110/Space_Haven/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/979110/Space_Haven/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/979110/Space_Haven/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/979110/Space_Haven/

>>566971983
Is this a survival colony builder?

>>566971983
Niiice. Hope it gets modding, especially lewd one.

>>566971983
Buy an ad

>>566971983
Based, ontopic poster who really pissed off the /gsg/ reject.

So warcraft 3 tournament scene is just happy vs lyn, and no one else is even close to them?

>>566971983
Bitchin! How does it work?

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I haven't played it since it came out in EA. There are now toilets.

>>566972438
>Is this a survival colony builder?
Yes. Earth has been destroyed, humanity has escaped on ships. Now there are space stations and fleets of humans and ayylmaos.

>>566972482
>Hope it gets modding, especially lewd one.
It has some basic modding with the 1.0 launch, and the devs will be adding more capabilities in future updates.

>>566972764
>Buy an ad
I made you reply :3

>>566974817
>How does it work?
2D Rimworld/DF on spaceships.

>>566976421
>It has some basic modding with the 1.0 launch, and the devs will be adding more capabilities in future updates.
I know, i played on pirate a smidgeon.

>>566976421
I don't mind the game anon. I mind you being a low effort fuckwit. You know, say something about how it's not barebones EA jank anymore, post some screens of your own and shit instead of here's a steam shop link go at it piggy.

>>566978982
I will sound your peehole and milk your prostate from inside.

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Is all the tutorial crew nips and spics?

>>566981648
>random gibberish
Alright man, fuck you and your piece of shit game.

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>>566982252
I'll translate fagotrons message for you.
>>566981648
"I will stick a toothpick inside your penis and make you cum from the sensation"

>>566981957
Hi /pol/fag. Friendly reminder that your shit general got anned by the BASED mods.
Take the hint.

>>566986353
>you need hk47 to translate some weird sandraider ebonics
Very lore accurate. Also kek.

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Don't you just love constructing defensive fortifications?

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>>566993109
Don't you love chain of command?

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Anons... Falling frontier... Any news?...

>>566996429
I'm jerking it

>>566996429
Publisher hasn't dropped them yet so that's probably a good sign. On the flip side they're the oldest "in development" game the publisher has that remains unreleased, and the only other games they list as "upcoming" are literally less than a year old from when they were listed on steam. www.hoodedhorse.com/games

The guys behind Hooded Horse seem to generally be loathe to drop a game that they still see potential in, and there's no way anyone else would've been lenient on an indie game made by a no name dev. My bet is that it launches to midling success, with fans loving it but the premise being too niche for the general market to care.

>>566999601
I'm beginning to think that the dev just pocketed the money and is laughing at us for waiting on a game that will never come.

Is the Rule the Waves 3 DLC worth it?

>>567006102
No.
Yes.

>>567000545
Eh, I have faith in Hooded Horse.

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Welp, I just fucked up big time.
This is Sintopia, and it's actually fucking closer to bloody Factorio because no matter how hard I try, I cannot make any money, there are too many souls for me to process, they walk and wait for too long, and because everything is so costly, I cannot afford to tear everything down and rebuild it.
So yeah, that's a restart, and next time have the highest torture infrastructures closest to Charon's bus stop.

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I need a Lord of the Rings nerd here. Now.

>>567023617
how can I help sweetie

>>567023617
What the fuck is going on here
What faction's buildings are those
I got to watch Turin show off the AotR mod with like 10+ factions rolled in but that was months ago and I already forgot half the options

>>567023991
First the Rise of the Witch King, then Age of the Ring, both added wizards, Age of the Ring with a very odd "not from the order of the Istari".
Is it possible for a human to become a wizard without being a maiar like Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast, or the two blue dudes?

>>567024169
Misty Mountains.

>>567024174
the black numenoreans practiced sorcery, the witch-king was... a witch, and wizards are mentioned here and there.

it's important to mention here that LotR magic isn't the "shoot fireballs" kind of magic

>>567024174
>Is it possible for a human to become a wizard
No, the term "wizard" is specific to the Istari, who you listed. Other people can do magic, but only those guys are specifically wizards.

>>567024909
>wizards are mentioned here and there
Gonna need a source on that. To be very explicit. Also I'm curious about the Witch-King, he became the Witch-King after becoming a Nâzgul, right? He wasn't one before?
In Age of the Ring, the Harad use some kind of soul sorcery with human sacrifices, and Rivendell can train druids.

>>567025006
So not all magic users are wizards?

>>567025490
>Gonna need a source on that.
shit dawg I don't remember

>>567026497
Darn. Was it in Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion, or Tolkien's letters?

>>567025490
Yeah, there's plenty of magic floating around. Obvious stuff like magical creatures, but there's a lot of magical crafting done by elves and dwarves, as well as stuff like Galadriel's prophecies and the witch-king's blasting. Things are a little muddy because different groups consider different things magic, Galadriel even talks about it to one of the hobbits. For humans specifically, Numenoreans like anon said are the prime example, arguably Aragorn himself too.

>>567027283
I see. Well, I'm not surprised for the elves, they're almost like angels, but yeah, I remember a lot of fancy stuff that isn't outright called magic but might be.

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Finally, China is mine.
Also this really reminded me why I ended up hating Civilization when I played hundreds of hours back in the days. I hate the cheating. I know China didn't have the money to buy units, and I doubt it magically produced all of this out of tin air at the same time.

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>>567029074
Does it have allies?

>>567029194
Only one city state.
I guess technically the units at the back are damaged, so perhaps it just hid them until now, possibly escaped from a previous battles. Though also it does seem like it got 4 fully healed units.

>>567029074
How is Unciv these days? I'm still waiting for BNW to be implemented before giving it another go. Cheating AI sounds authentic, but I'm hopeful that someone will port the Vox Populi or other balance patch mods that tone down the cheating but also try to keep the AI challenging and not completely braindead.

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>>566993109
>mfw i can recognize the map by seeing just this mg nest placement
truly it was kino compared to the abominations that came after and somehow the tiger from 2006 looks better than the one from almost 20 years later
same with stronghold crusader which is the best game they ever made and now keep remaking every couple of years because everything else is a flop

>>567033669
>I'm still waiting for BNW to be implemented before giving it another go
I don't think it is ever getting implemented by the main devs. There is some mod that does it, but not fully yet. I remember reading it is very challenging implementing BNW features.
Honestly I am continuing a game from 1.5+ years ago. At the time I played it even without a BNW mod, so still am. And honestly, it is not like I remember the original Civ 5 well enough to compare.
BMW aside, it works. Works well on android too. Only wish it had some cloud integration so that you could synch saves between PC and android, though as long as you don't forget to export your latest save, it is not that hard.
If you want Civ on your phone, it is great. There are already many mods, including an "Alpha Frontier" that I might check out later. No Vox Populi, though there is LekMod, which is a popular rebalancing+ new stuff mod. Interesting the BNW mod is less popular than stuff like RekMOD, DeCiv or Alpha Forntier. Or simple has less stars on github (which is the ranking you can see in-game).

>>567024431
Okay I think I remember them. Were they the one orc/gobbo faction that could tunnel units between structures like the dwarves could? That seemed rad if I'm remembering right.

>>567037568
Yeah. In Age of the Ring, they're "Misty Mountain" so mostly unaffiliated goblin, orcs and trolls that aren't aligned with Mordor or Isengard.
They have snow trolls, who are terrifying biological ballistas, throwing spears at high range.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAvanIsalyk

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No more China.

>>567040061
what game is that
its clearly civ but which

>>567041789
Unciv. Open source Civ 5.