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Akima:

--- Quote from: Mister D Nomms on 01 Apr 2012, 15:37 ---I was really excited when I read the title, because I thought this thread would be about board games. Do you like strategy board games?
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I enjoy weiqi, though I only play socially.

TheNameWithNoNumbers:

--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 01 Apr 2012, 00:47 ---Although the campaign map might be too heavily turn-based for you, I would check out the Total War series, in particular Rome, Medieval 2, and/or Shogun 2. If you like maneuvering guys around the battlefield and enjoy using real tactics to win battles, it doesn't get much better than those games. Except instead of a squad, you have an army of hundreds or even thousands of soldiers at your command. Massive, incredibly intense battles complete with flaming arrows (and pigs), elephant herds, and massive cavalry charges ensure. One of my favorite tactics involves the false rout: send in a small number of troops to confront the enemy force. Once your guys take a beating, have them charge in the opposite direction. With any luck, the enemy force will break ranks and follow, drunk on the hopes of victory. Little do they know that you're leading them between two hills where a whole mess of archers will shoot them to pieces and then a bunch of heavy cavalry will ride down the survivors! Man do I love those games. And if the campaign mode with its fairly complex geo-socio-political manuevering and management isn't your thing, you can always just play randomized and/or customized battles to your hearts content.

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YES.
I mean, Empire Total War's not for everyone, especially with the whole campaign system for me, technologies and shit.
Don't get me wrong, still good for me, just not the same...
As Rome, and Medieval II.

I remember playing the first two and how they were pretty goddamn good for their time (FUCKING SWISS PIKEMEN) and Rome changed it with the whole move system.


Oh. Also,
there's nothing like beating your enemy after an almost impossible fight.

PILGRIMS AGAINST DEM MAMLUKS.
FUCK YEAH!

snalin:
Just beat my second campaing in Rome after this thread started - one short Sciipi, and one saxon in barbarian invasion. Makes me want to fire up medieval 2 again. I remember that it was wicked fun to torch witches all over Europe, and throw crusade after crusade towards the middle east, just to never reach Jersualem and be stuck pillaging in the mountains east of Constantinople. And to slaugther prisoners of war. Really, they went out of their way to make everything horrible that happened in European history really fun.

EDIT: rome+medieval2+imperial+napoleon is 50 Euros on steam. BAG OF FUN!

Gregorio:
Right. I feel like a total Pleb, but I just can't get into the management aspect of Total War games. I really dig the actual combat, though. Currently taking a break from the genre as I've had my fill. Just got back into a shooter swing after picking up Serious Sam 3 in a Steam sale.

LTK:
I'm not usually one to take an interest in strategy games - any RTS is likely to make me ragequit at the slighest sign of a counteroffense and anything turn-based fails to hold my attention for long - but I have to say I quite like what I see in this video of Master of the Arcane. It's a turn-based strategy game in which you're a wizard, Harry, and you go around summoning beasts, casting spells and making an empire. I might pick up the demo soon, but what's the impression you lot have?

Gregorio, if you liked Serious Sam 3 you absolutely have to get Painkiller from GOG for a tenner. It's the best shooter of demons since the glory days of id software ended.

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