Can we talk about historical war video games that /k/ is looking forward to?
I hope that pic related will be good, but the Total War devs really lost their touch after Shogun 2, in my personal opinion. Although that depends on whether you like their fantasy-type games which I absolutely have no interest in.
Two other ancient Egypt war and nation-building strategy game I enjoyed are Predynastic Egypt and Egypt: Old Kingdom.
Do you have any games you recommend in this vein? Feel free to skip the well-known titles like Hearts of Iron.
Why is the pharaoh a black guy?
Everyone knows that Egyptian leaders were genetically similar to a spectrum of humans spanning the Levant to the ancient Celts.
He clearly isn't. Feel free to get on topic.
Nta,but that Pharoh is way to brown,into the trash it goes.
He's one of the claimants you can pick. Rightmost guy is for those who want the we were kings experience.
Why do they look like fricking Smite characters?
The far left and far right guy look fairly accurate, the middle left guy is wildly goofy and not sure what they were going for with him. The woman is a bit odd but not so outlandish it's unbelievable. Ancient Egyptians were weird motherfrickers.
because TW post warhammer basically is smite
because CA are marvel fans and hate history so have to turn normal people into capeshit super heroes with magical abilities
This is Three Kingdoms but Egypt. Prepare for magical abilities and monsters like in the Greek one.
>mobile game characters
Total War is dead
the slaves dont want you to know this but the Pharaoh built the pyramids all by him self in the hot hot sun
>Why is the pharaoh a black guy?
Because that's Ramesses III and CA actually is being accurate, rare as it is.
>Both mummies were predicted by Whit Athey's STR-predictor to share the Y chromosomal haplogroup E1b1a1-M2 and 50% of their genetic material, which pointed to a father-son relationship
>Haplogroup E-M2, also known as E1b1a1-M2, is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. E-M2 is primarily distributed within sub-Saharan Africa.
Pretty wild. Didn't know that, thanks.
Sub-Saharan Africa 4000 years ago, just as black as today. Just as the olive-skinned black hair Greeks of today look like their pre-ottoman invasion counterparts.
Well he's not the Pharoah cause he's not got the funny hat.
But he's probably a Nubian since the Nubians had a lot of crossover with the Egyptians, and there was a line of Nubian Pharoahs (also Sudan has more pyramids per square mile than Egypt).
Those imitation pyramids SUCK though
Only like 3 pyramids are cool, the rest were nubian tier.
2. One of the 'great' pyramids kinda sucks. Sone Arab goat fricker ripped a chunk out of it trying to find gold.
Actually most of the Nubian pyramids are older. It's just the Egyptian ones are the biggest and fanciest so everyone thinks of those.
>Actually most of the Nubian pyramids are older. It's just the Egyptian ones are the biggest and fanciest so everyone thinks of those.
Egypt dabbing on the Noobs since the battle of kadesh
most of the Nubian pyramids are older. It's just the Egyptian ones are the biggest and fanciest so everyone thinks of those.
>Egypt dabbing on the Noobs since the battle of kadesh
Forgot pic related
Egyptian kings had a wide variety of funny hats to choose from. The guy in OP's pic wears the Khepresh, or the Blue Crown (sometimes called the War Crown). It was popular with New Kingdom Pharaohs and they were often depicted wearing it in battle scenes.
Thanks. Egyptians really understood that top guy needs top hat.
Nose is to angular to he a we wuz and nubians were far darker than this. They were sub saharans plus a lot of sun exposure. This guys skin tone just looks like a middle easterner's with a tan.
Nubians were massive egyptboos and even occasionally ran Egypt. I went to a nubian artifact exhibit and its egyptcore tonthe extreme.
True?
yes, all the ruling dynasties but one very short lived one came from the lower nile
>Why is the pharaoh a black guy?
he's not black you mindbroken gay, he looks exactly like some of egyptians living today
I went from playing TW: Rome II. Really enjoying the depressing late empire aesthetic, but guys how so I save the western empire? My legions can hold their own, but they're spread so thin I cannot respond to every barbarian incursion.
Depends on the dynasty. I haven't been following Pharoh, so I'm not sure who's who admittedly.
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I like to play Runescape.
In terms of total war just stick with modded Rome 1 and Medieval 2. You can get some pretty great mods for either, such as Fourth Age, Europa Babarorum 1 and 2, Tsardoms, and Third Age DAC AGO.
Regarding Paradox, they stopped being good after Stellaris. Stay away from those fat disgusting swedes.
I stayed in Stellaris 1.9 since it's been downhill ever since after each update.
been thinking of replaying shogun 2, shame sega fricked it with some shitty drm launcher that broke everything
You mean the FTL update?
Shogun 2 works pretty good with the launcher and all the major mods are now on the workshop.
I modded Medieval 2 with Stainless Steel but I hate how it keeps randomly crashing during battles.
Also I tried looking for the Warhammer mod but apparently I need to find the original Russian version AND THEN patch that with the eng mod callrd botet. Quickly gave up when all the original Russian warhammer mod download links were dead so now I'm stuck with a semi-playable unstable Stainless Steel
For me SS crashes during sieges mainly. Random ctd's are rare on my old brick laptop. The trick ive found for siege battles is if it stutters during deployment phase turn the camera away from the walls so you are facing the edge of the map and just wait a minute or two and it will run fine. That said, ive been temoted to castrate myself when it crashes after i win a major battle i shouldve have won. Also how tf do you win as mongols without cheats? Im forced to raze each city unless its the khan as general and they just rebel like 10 turns later when im balls deep into the middle east. Ive tried suiciding my entire starting hordes and running just basic horse archers and light cav but i can never loot enough money to not be -100k+ by like turn 20 ish. Also those ottoman archer dudes are OP for siege defense on the walls. Crusaders and teutons are probably my fav factions. Taking the levant with the crusaders and waiting for the mongols to buttfrick muslims while they jihad jerusalem is ebin kino
*shouldnt have won
Atilla has a mod called Medieval Kingdoms. Its been in development for years.
It is the deFacto medieval 3 with faction mechanics, new map, rosters for each faction and victory conditiona for em.
Give it a look, a big update is coming this year.
Atilla was the last “grounded” Total War. Units felt like they had impact and the battles had this kino feeling of authenticity.
The Medieval II LOTR mod is a 10/10 but while the old games have massively superior campaign mechanics, the old engine’s battles — apart from collision physics — have aged like milk compared to the newer titles (when you don’t factor in the dogshit MOBA game design of Rome II and onwards)
I am prepared to die on this hill.
>Moba game design
Wut
Yeah i love attila. I wish i could figure out how to mod the pirated version i play as i refuse to give money to CA anymore. Its annoying to have every settlement around you razed to the ground halfway through a campaign. I usually play hun so i just kill the nomads with that amazons starting stack as the leader and his turn 1 new horde both bumrush the germans around rome so i can sit and shit as long as possible raiding medolanium or whatever its called. I had one campaign as white huns where all satrapies rebelled turn 4 and i made the persians my b***hes after a few battles. Its a very satisfying game for my history/metagaming autism
>I wish i could figure out how to mod the pirated
Pretty sure you just have to throw the .pack files into the game's data directory.
Skymods should have attila mods.
play fields of glory 2 instead of total war. much much better wargame and you get all periods from bronze age to late medieval
Turn based tactical and no strategic. FoG is great but it's not at all the same
its more strategic than total war. games are decided by who has the better strategy. total war is trash in comparison
>what is tactical versus strategic
Fields of glory does not have a strategic component. It has a much greater tactical depth than total wars though
tbh i personally really enjoyed Attila, in fact its my favourite TW game
>Do you have any games you recommend in this vein?
honestly, outside of things like historical mods for Mount and blade, there really isnt much to recommend
Are there mods to slow down combat and to stop formations for breaking and stopping seemingly massless units from sliding inside each other. Every unit feels so fragile and I hate the politics minigame
It's interesting Total War has introduced a mechanic for israeli influence.
Underrated, made me snort my drink
Total War is about real time battles not strategy or nation building, also Three Kingdoms is considered to be one of the Top 3 Total War games and that is their latest game with Warhammer 3 having one of the most feature rich maps and factions of any 4X game.
>Three Kingdoms is considered to be one of the Top 3 Total War games
implessive
Yeah I know, I know.
But the fact is that diplomacy, general cultivation and user experience is some of the best in the series, especially diplomacy, battles is Warhammer 3 ofc.
>battles is Warhammer 3
is it?
I stopped paying attation after WH2 because the campaigns were just using metastacks to auto resolve yourself to victory while the battles were either missile spam or giant creature spam
>Spearmanii: Total Wank 8
Yawn
>Do you have any games you recommend in this vein? Feel free to skip the well-known titles like Hearts of Iron.
There's a couple of /k/ historical games that I'm looking forward to.
>Last Train Home
Czechoslovak soldiers taking a train back home after the Great War.
>Tank Squad
WW2 Tank game, it doesn't look too in-depth but it has co-op which is what appeals to me since I have a couple of tank autist buddies.
>War Hospital and Conscript
Not really /k/ but they're set during the Great War so it's worth mentioning. One's a management game and the other is a Silent Hill type thing though.
I wish I had more but I have not bothered to keep up with gaming shit at all in the past months, I bought Anno 1800 recently and this shit's like crack so it's keeping me entertained until these games and Broken Arrow come out.
PIKE AND SHOT : TOTAL WAR
PIKE AND SHOT : TOTAL WAR
PIKE AND SHOT : TOTAL WAR
Will be historical, just hasn't happened yet.
Total war is so unrealistic in its troop commands, realistically they would be placed initially in formation with the rest of the army, given a set of orders for the match and left to auto resolve.
Morale would be more important than army health too.
>morale would be more important that army health, too
It kind of is
>Pharaoh
Oh boy, I can't wait to smash my spearmen into the enemy spearmen!
And then hit his clump of infantry from behind with chariots!
(Every faction will be like this)
Except the ones which are shit and die in 3-4 turns every time
They lost their touch with shogun 2. Everything they did since then was lesson learned from shogun 2.
HEARTS OF IRON IV - only autists need apply.
Best mods?
-I like Rt56 as a sort of Vanilla+ (though that's it's own mod but I don't know what it changes.
-The Great War is nice, but I think the focus too much on being historically accurate rather than letting you branch out into other possible routes.
-Kaisserreich, it's too cute for it's own good, and balkanizing everything means you're lucky to field even artillery, and it's more focused on setting you down narrative paths than playing in the sandbox. I don't get why it's so popular.
-Pax Britanica, I like what it's doing with a steampunk world, but I don't see the point of all the grimdark and honestly it's just broken right now save for a handful of countries.
-Old World Blues, I think some of the equipment clutters up your management but that's what you'd expect in the post-apocalypse, think they still need to make some adjustments to air and naval. Biggest problem though was how they split off early game expansion of the NCR and Legion to vassal countries. Why? You want to grow from a small to big country play any other tag. Why remove the early game expansion for the majors? Also I appreciate they use lore from cancelled games and spinoff to inform what they do in different parts of the map that we don't know much about rather than just making up shit from nothing.
-Equestria at War, I feel they should go for a more tongue in cheek approach, but it's the opposite of Kaisserreich's gameplay, higher industry than your population encourages everyone to use tanks which is the good shit. I also like the industrialization mechanic they have. Just wish they'd do something to make the naval game engaging.
> Plays equestria at war
You should jump off a building
If you ignore the presence of ponies (which is hard, that one anime-styled mod helps a bit, but not much) it is one of the best mods for HoI4.
Works more smoothly, since ponyfrickers can somehow code better than those fricking swedes at paradox and gameplay-wise it is way better than vanilla game.
Rt56 is great, but imo it needs other mods (like that one that enchances performance, since after 44 the game might be a powerpoint slide presentation.
Is OWB good at current iteration? I haven't played it since they added Mexico.
Yeah, they added a 'mojave territories' vassal to the NCR who does all the real fighting around vegas, meanwhile Lanius gets his own vassal state that conquers out west rather than Caesar. I just don't see the point.
Runs better because the population is way lower, which leads to smaller armies, less big numbers to calculate.
Also I don't get being too offended by ponies to play a good mod. I mean sure the premise is absurd, but when you get down to it it's like any other total-conversion mod.
>IV
III or go home
I've tried rome 2 some years ago and didn't like it but recently I installed it with DEI overhaul and it's been great so far. Always nice to see mods being developed for years without crashing and burning in the process (looking at you hoi4).
pharoh is gonna suck bro
>Colonel I thought Apophis died in our Infirmary?
I’ve been playing a lot of Medieval 2 TW lately. Are there any mods or even other games that expand on the role playing/ “governance” aspect? I want to be more involved with managing things like dynasties and conquered peoples. Yeah the battles are fun, but for me, the strategic element is the real meat and potatoes of the game
I really wish ultimate admiral dreadnoughts was better. Anyone here tried rule the waves 3?
so video game threads are allowed on /k/ but not discussions of police shootings
cool
I told you people /k/ is just diet /b/ now