The real time strategy / turn based strategy / grand strategy thread

Cromulent · 21 Sep 2015 at 01:00

Been a busy weekend but managed to get some serious time to play EU4 and I'm loving it. I'm playing as the Ottomans and my expansionist policy is going well.

I'd love to play a multiplayer game with someone if they were up for it.

Cromulent · 26 Sep 2015 at 11:35

Kreeeee said:
Tried Starcraft 1/2?

I've never owned any of the Starcraft games I'm ashamed to say. One of these days I'll correct that.

Digital X · 26 Sep 2015 at 11:48

I want to get into RTS, but always found it way too complicated. I have Company of Heroes for free so that may be a good starting point. Any one else struggle to get into them?

Cromulent · 26 Sep 2015 at 14:02

digitalx said:
I want to get into RTS, but always found it way too complicated. I have Company of Heroes for free so that may be a good starting point. Any one else struggle to get into them?

Company of Heroes is a great game to get into RTS games with.

I've never really had a problem getting into RTS games but then I've been playing them since I was about 6 or 7 years old. Even grand strategy games that take a few hours to learn how to play I normally get into pretty quickly.

In fact the only 2 genres of games I play on the PC are strategy games and RPG's. The rest I always play on consoles.

Ewanb75 · 26 Sep 2015 at 14:39

Dawn Of War is on a free steam weekend

Digital X · 26 Sep 2015 at 14:45

^Sweet, cheers. Will give it a shot.

Cromulent · 13 Dec 2015 at 14:04

Just thought I'd bump this thread.

I've been watching some videos about Victoria 2 and have fallen in love with it. I'm definitely going to get it. Hopefully it'll be on sale on the Steam Christmas sale but even if it is not it looks well worth the asking price especially given the amount of hours of playtime you get from Paradox games.

Anyone else play Victoria 2?

HungryHippos · 15 Dec 2015 at 01:43

I've been getting better and better with CK2, highlight for me was the other day. I was playing England, with Primogeniture succession (my oldest son inherits).

My oldest sons oldest son would be next in line of succession, but he was born with the "slow" trait, which made him awful. Yep, I plotted and succeeded in killing a 5 year old grandson just so he would never inherit my glorious Kingdom!

Cromulent · 15 Dec 2015 at 14:59

HungryHippos said:
I've been getting better and better with CK2, highlight for me was the other day. I was playing England, with Primogeniture succession (my oldest son inherits).

My oldest sons oldest son would be next in line of succession, but he was born with the "slow" trait, which made him awful. Yep, I plotted and succeeded in killing a 5 year old grandson just so he would never inherit my glorious Kingdom!

I've got CK2 but what with my current game of the Ottomans in EU4 and getting back into HoI3 (In preparation for the HoI4 release next year) I don't really have the time to learn it properly. This might be wrong but it feels like one of the hardest Paradox games to get into. It certainly looks fun.

Bubo · 15 Dec 2015 at 15:28

I recently finished a HoI3 campaign as the USA, won the war by the back end of 1943, all axis powers puppeted. Pretty much cannot fail to win as the USA. I broke my record for staying up late whilst playing this time, Twenty past four in the morning :eek:

. Played as Brazil in my first game and Soviet Union in the second, it is a magnificent game if you are at all into conquering style games, all the Paradox games are.

Gooner Leroy · 15 Dec 2015 at 16:58

I bought EU4 when it was on sale the other day. Had a quick couple of hours on it. Sure is going to take getting used to. I loved HOI2.

Cromulent · 15 Dec 2015 at 18:22

Bubo said:
I recently finished a HoI3 campaign as the USA, won the war by the back end of 1943, all axis powers puppeted. Pretty much cannot fail to win as the USA. I broke my record for staying up late whilst playing this time, Twenty past four in the morning . Played as Brazil in my first game and Soviet Union in the second, it is a magnificent game if you are at all into conquering style games, all the Paradox games are.

The problem with playing the USSR is you have to spend ages at the start of the game sorting out the OOB which I just find boring. Hopefully they streamline the process a bit in HoI4. I know historically the red army was in a mess at the time and thus the game is more historically accurate from a purely fun perspective I just find it a pain.

I don't want them to remove the feature in HoI4 just make the interface a bit easier to manage to speed up the whole process.

Cromulent · 15 Dec 2015 at 18:23

Gooner Leroy said:
I bought EU4 when it was on sale the other day. Had a quick couple of hours on it. Sure is going to take getting used to. I loved HOI2.

UnstableVoltage on YouTube has some really good EU4 tutorials but (from memory) they assume you have some of (if not all of) the DLC for the game. They are a little out of date now that the Cossacks DLC has been released.

Bubo · 15 Dec 2015 at 19:12

Cromulent said:
The problem with playing the USSR is you have to spend ages at the start of the game sorting out the OOB

You can either strategically move everything to your capital at the start of the game and once its there reorganize everything into stacks in the neighboring provinces, then move them out to where you want, or use the custom game start to move them there before even starting the game, and do the same reorganzing into the nearby provinces. Or even just delete them all in the custom setup and create the ones you do want at the start. It's a good idea, though gamey, to move everything to your capital at the start of the game for the first few years anyway, as you save loads in supplies which can then be spent on producing stuff. You don't need anything on your borders until war is about the start.

Gooner Leroy · 15 Dec 2015 at 21:05

Cromulent said:
UnstableVoltage on YouTube has some really good EU4 tutorials but (from memory) they assume you have some of (if not all of) the DLC for the game. They are a little out of date now that the Cossacks DLC has been released.

I'll look his videos up, thanks. I've not got any of the DLC, just playing vanilla to get a feel for it and if I get into it, I'll probably invest.

SuperG · 13 Jan 2016 at 15:31

Upcoming 4X title set in China and Mongolia:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/357310/

davisdavid · 13 Jan 2016 at 16:00

Just had a look on the Steam store and EU4 and CK2 were still a little pricey so I had a quick look on G2A for the Paradox Platinum Pack (£89.99 on steam) and just picked it up for £8.54 inc fees.

Got EU4, CK2, Cities in Motion, Magika, Worlock 2 and Knights of Pen and Paper so pretty good deal!

Paradox Platinum Pack

Cromulent · 26 Jan 2016 at 01:07

davisdavid said:
Just had a look on the Steam store and EU4 and CK2 were still a little pricey so I had a quick look on G2A for the Paradox Platinum Pack (£89.99 on steam) and just picked it up for £8.54 inc fees.

Got EU4, CK2, Cities in Motion, Magika, Worlock 2 and Knights of Pen and Paper so pretty good deal!

Paradox Platinum Pack

Yeah that is a pretty awesome deal. If you can pick up Victoria 2 as well cheap then I highly recommend it as it is one of the best Paradox games they have done.