Real life lore is a really mixed bag of hilariously generic and fascinatingly unique.
Like after WW1 the authors clearly didn't know what to do next and just said hey, let's have a WW2. Like come on they just told the same story but killed more people and made the bombs bigger like any lame cash grab action sequel.
Then there are other things like the changing of the calendar being centered around the death of a single homeless man which some of the planet literally believe is God, others believe is just magic, others believe was just a guy, and others believe never even existed in the first place. Which is incredibly detailed and layered lore WHICH THEY LEAVE OPEN TO PLAYER INTERPRETATION!
I'd say the real life setting is a pretty fun one to explore, and I've had a pretty good time with it for the last 24 years or so.
It's the correct response. There is no reason to namegay in this thread- It's not a comic storytime or anything else going on where you'd want to identify the poster of that particular pile of cat vomit.
>namegay thinks WWII is a lame cash grab sequel
This is undoubtedly the worst take I have ever seen on /tg/. WWI has a much more kino start but every single other thing about it pales in comparison to WWII.
I must respectfully disagree, anon. As a big fan of the World War Trilogy, I think the Great War is the most interesting setting to play in
>early tanks massing in the hundreds >individual heroism is thrown aside on the ground in favor of a meat grinder while the heroic exploits of aces flying bits of wood and canvas overheard fill the papers >The push and pull of the various campaigns ensure that there's no real clear winner >A fricking communist revolution in one of the major powers tears it apart into a fricking four way civil war and takes it out of the war just as the eleventh hour comes and the central powers are at their zenith >GAS GAS GAS >entire generations of frogs and Germs thrown away on the West, black feather cap Italians wearing suits of museum armor and fighting with SMGs as shock troops, Canadians sneaking into German trenches to murder them with meat cleavers and taking ZERO prisoners before melting away in the mornings, Napoleonic tactics with machine guns in the East >The last gasps of the dying monarchies, with several centuries old polities utterly disintegrating under the crushing press of modernity
>they just told the same story but killed more people and made the bombs bigger >doesn't understand kino >prefers mudcore trench shit
Get the frick out.
Actually the opposite. Past about 1500 Europe’s borders are too set and you have boring shit like >20th war of Spain, Austria, and some German and Italian states vs France and some German and Italian states >Decisive French victory ten towns gained by France and one French town handed over to the Spanish Netherlands
Middle East has the balance of powers between the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals each blending traditional pre-modern warfare with newer gunpowder weapons and trying to use other powers and religious minorities against each other >Ottomans and Safavids fight each other on and off for 30 years, Iraq changes hands entirely three times until finally the exhausted Ottoman Empire captures and holds it until its collapse 250 years later
>Europe past the 1400
Cringe! Good thing the objectively best Europe period is the high middle ages. Although the Romans and the "dark ages" are kino too
>High middle ages >England and France deployed the full might of their nations in a massive battle where 4,000 English fought 5,000 French resulting in a decisive French victory with 100 French dead and 300 English dead.
If I had to choose an era for Europe I’d say late classical period >Mediterranean divided between thenpowers of Macedon, Egypt, Seleucids, Rome, and Carthage >Gallic tribes being a menace to all civilized peoples assailing Rome, invading Greece, and being mercenaries who fought with Hellenes and Carthage >Rome has a formalized semi-professional military augmented by their socii allies >Sparta being morons LARPing as a superpower and getting their shit pushed in when anyone finds them annoying >Italian, Greek, and Anatolian cities and petty kingdoms acting as third parties who can side with anyone
I would say after the 3rd Macedonian War Roman hegemony was permanently secured over the other Mediterranean powers.
Luckily I have not, real life can appear very shittily written at times. I have also seen arguments about "dumb" or "unrealistic" or "badly written" things in media multiple times, and my hobby was pointing them in the direction of a real life occurrence that was equal or worse.
>Five out of Seven Coalition Wars >War of Spanish Succession >Nine Years War >Franco-Dutch War >War of Devolution >War of the League of Cambrai >Franco-Breton War >Mad War
You also have the Italian Wars that France lost as well.
Why would a bong mention how France mogged all of Europe at warfare for nearly 400 years? Of those wars they only lost two coalition wars and two Italian Wars where the balance was slanted against France. Going 12:4 while fighting most of Europe is a pretty solid win rate, better than Britain has had with most of Europe on its side whose only underdog victory had them carried by Prussia and a moronic Germaboo tsar.
All the North American stuff stopped being interesting after the seven years war. Once they just made it British playground territory instead of having the competing British, French, and Spanish colonization going it went to shit. Even having them break away for an American faction is boring.
>Hey guys, you remember my underdog MC who technically got conquered by uhh...who again? >Well, they were just minding their business in India when the evil Bengali king went and punched the richest guy there and he hired some of our tax-farming bureaucrats to overthrow the king. Then we tricked half of the people involved by TECHNICALLY not writing their name on the REAL list of conspirators who get to split the kingdom, hehe. >Now we rule all of Bengal, and also, the Mughal Empire is still dyi-- >We rule India and took their rocket technology. Just in time for some random guy to start playing with steam press-- >We rule the waves, our technology has embarrassed the world, and it's never been the same since. >Our empire is dying, but you remember that breakaway colony with the best geography the planet has to offer, which was hand-fed European tech during the British Empire's glory days? They inherited everything.
This story is dumb.
>American continents >Never even begin to contribute to the game >Sub-Saharan Africa >Soil too barren, outside of maybe 3 or four small locations, to contribute. >North Africa >Giant desert gives them little content to work with beyond Mediterranean piracy. >Asia >Can't have them get ahead of the MC continent, so have them just get conquered by mongols whenever you need to hold them back. >SEA >Relegated to being India's summer house >Europe >Shredded coastline >Constantly benefits from trickles of knowledge coming in from Asia. >Can just dig up more soil >Can pick up water off the ground, and insects are killed or suppressed by nature itself every year >Massive natural borders to define polities >Gets carried by American crops and minerals
Frick off.
>there were more interesting people and dialogue in my local taco bell than all of GoT >at least the fire escape plan map in my hotel is clearly defined and with detail, more so than AoS >id rather visit my grandma and hear the same old stories I've heard too many times than watch blm star wars
the list goes on. when soulless, boring people enter any space, they drain the creativity and intrigue pretty quick
Real life is unironically a good setting, it's very hard to make worthy strategy game maps compared to RL
Past Europe, this is entirely untrue, as the Mongols, Spanish, and various Persian empires have shown.
Those are just expansion content
>Major empires rarely last and the world continues to fall back into a struggle for dominance
Real life lore is a really mixed bag of hilariously generic and fascinatingly unique.
Like after WW1 the authors clearly didn't know what to do next and just said hey, let's have a WW2. Like come on they just told the same story but killed more people and made the bombs bigger like any lame cash grab action sequel.
Then there are other things like the changing of the calendar being centered around the death of a single homeless man which some of the planet literally believe is God, others believe is just magic, others believe was just a guy, and others believe never even existed in the first place. Which is incredibly detailed and layered lore WHICH THEY LEAVE OPEN TO PLAYER INTERPRETATION!
I'd say the real life setting is a pretty fun one to explore, and I've had a pretty good time with it for the last 24 years or so.
Eat shit namegay
Never change, /tg/.
It's the correct response. There is no reason to namegay in this thread- It's not a comic storytime or anything else going on where you'd want to identify the poster of that particular pile of cat vomit.
just horrible
>namegay thinks WWII is a lame cash grab sequel
This is undoubtedly the worst take I have ever seen on /tg/. WWI has a much more kino start but every single other thing about it pales in comparison to WWII.
I must respectfully disagree, anon. As a big fan of the World War Trilogy, I think the Great War is the most interesting setting to play in
>early tanks massing in the hundreds
>individual heroism is thrown aside on the ground in favor of a meat grinder while the heroic exploits of aces flying bits of wood and canvas overheard fill the papers
>The push and pull of the various campaigns ensure that there's no real clear winner
>A fricking communist revolution in one of the major powers tears it apart into a fricking four way civil war and takes it out of the war just as the eleventh hour comes and the central powers are at their zenith
>GAS GAS GAS
>entire generations of frogs and Germs thrown away on the West, black feather cap Italians wearing suits of museum armor and fighting with SMGs as shock troops, Canadians sneaking into German trenches to murder them with meat cleavers and taking ZERO prisoners before melting away in the mornings, Napoleonic tactics with machine guns in the East
>The last gasps of the dying monarchies, with several centuries old polities utterly disintegrating under the crushing press of modernity
reddit leave
>they just told the same story but killed more people and made the bombs bigger
>doesn't understand kino
>prefers mudcore trench shit
Get the frick out.
gay
yurop is gigakino beyond words
rest is dogshit
maybe japan saves itself, but barely
Actually the opposite. Past about 1500 Europe’s borders are too set and you have boring shit like
>20th war of Spain, Austria, and some German and Italian states vs France and some German and Italian states
>Decisive French victory ten towns gained by France and one French town handed over to the Spanish Netherlands
Middle East has the balance of powers between the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals each blending traditional pre-modern warfare with newer gunpowder weapons and trying to use other powers and religious minorities against each other
>Ottomans and Safavids fight each other on and off for 30 years, Iraq changes hands entirely three times until finally the exhausted Ottoman Empire captures and holds it until its collapse 250 years later
>Europe past the 1400
Cringe! Good thing the objectively best Europe period is the high middle ages. Although the Romans and the "dark ages" are kino too
>High middle ages
>England and France deployed the full might of their nations in a massive battle where 4,000 English fought 5,000 French resulting in a decisive French victory with 100 French dead and 300 English dead.
If I had to choose an era for Europe I’d say late classical period
>Mediterranean divided between thenpowers of Macedon, Egypt, Seleucids, Rome, and Carthage
>Gallic tribes being a menace to all civilized peoples assailing Rome, invading Greece, and being mercenaries who fought with Hellenes and Carthage
>Rome has a formalized semi-professional military augmented by their socii allies
>Sparta being morons LARPing as a superpower and getting their shit pushed in when anyone finds them annoying
>Italian, Greek, and Anatolian cities and petty kingdoms acting as third parties who can side with anyone
I would say after the 3rd Macedonian War Roman hegemony was permanently secured over the other Mediterranean powers.
>4,000 English fought 5,000 French resulting in a decisive French victory with 100 French dead and 300 English dead
Kino
Greek Hoplites for fighting 60000 Persian soldiers
Cringe
>Two tiny armies that are indistinguishable is more interesting than large armies with extremely different methods of warfare
Let's not forget ancient Greece, here
Luckily I have not, real life can appear very shittily written at times. I have also seen arguments about "dumb" or "unrealistic" or "badly written" things in media multiple times, and my hobby was pointing them in the direction of a real life occurrence that was equal or worse.
>It’s a France declares war on all of Europe and wins episode
I am so glad they retired that antagonist arc.
That only happened once, the napoleonic wars.
>warS
>once
The nap wars were one small season, it was effectively one continuuous event.
>Five out of Seven Coalition Wars
>War of Spanish Succession
>Nine Years War
>Franco-Dutch War
>War of Devolution
>War of the League of Cambrai
>Franco-Breton War
>Mad War
You also have the Italian Wars that France lost as well.
Bad teeth typed this post.
Why would a bong mention how France mogged all of Europe at warfare for nearly 400 years? Of those wars they only lost two coalition wars and two Italian Wars where the balance was slanted against France. Going 12:4 while fighting most of Europe is a pretty solid win rate, better than Britain has had with most of Europe on its side whose only underdog victory had them carried by Prussia and a moronic Germaboo tsar.
All the North American stuff stopped being interesting after the seven years war. Once they just made it British playground territory instead of having the competing British, French, and Spanish colonization going it went to shit. Even having them break away for an American faction is boring.
Sure. Any given mudcore setting. In fact, this is also their main appeal, too
Just because it has good lore doesn't make it good to play in.
>Hey guys, you remember my underdog MC who technically got conquered by uhh...who again?
>Well, they were just minding their business in India when the evil Bengali king went and punched the richest guy there and he hired some of our tax-farming bureaucrats to overthrow the king. Then we tricked half of the people involved by TECHNICALLY not writing their name on the REAL list of conspirators who get to split the kingdom, hehe.
>Now we rule all of Bengal, and also, the Mughal Empire is still dyi--
>We rule India and took their rocket technology. Just in time for some random guy to start playing with steam press--
>We rule the waves, our technology has embarrassed the world, and it's never been the same since.
>Our empire is dying, but you remember that breakaway colony with the best geography the planet has to offer, which was hand-fed European tech during the British Empire's glory days? They inherited everything.
This story is dumb.
>American continents
>Never even begin to contribute to the game
>Sub-Saharan Africa
>Soil too barren, outside of maybe 3 or four small locations, to contribute.
>North Africa
>Giant desert gives them little content to work with beyond Mediterranean piracy.
>Asia
>Can't have them get ahead of the MC continent, so have them just get conquered by mongols whenever you need to hold them back.
>SEA
>Relegated to being India's summer house
>Europe
>Shredded coastline
>Constantly benefits from trickles of knowledge coming in from Asia.
>Can just dig up more soil
>Can pick up water off the ground, and insects are killed or suppressed by nature itself every year
>Massive natural borders to define polities
>Gets carried by American crops and minerals
Frick off.
40k
Warhammer. It's pretty fricking bad.
yeah, every time there is a "/tg/ makes a setting" thread.
>40k
Tell us where the error is, GW corpo.
Shit map.
Marvel and DC
>there were more interesting people and dialogue in my local taco bell than all of GoT
>at least the fire escape plan map in my hotel is clearly defined and with detail, more so than AoS
>id rather visit my grandma and hear the same old stories I've heard too many times than watch blm star wars
the list goes on. when soulless, boring people enter any space, they drain the creativity and intrigue pretty quick
Real life has impeccable world building.
>Unbirthing
>Genderbender
>Species transformation
>Impregnation