/vst/ - 151 threads

/vst/ is a place to discuss all types of strategy video games, including both turn-based and real-time strategy, turn-based and real-time tactics, single-player and multi-player (including MOBAs). All...

Sun elf supremacy edition Previous >>2304069

The greatest stress-test for a computer is trying to run Kaiserredux until the 50s.Previous >>2367793Now with baking!——-MODDING RESOURCES———>bit dot ly 3GPdwPDGeneral Index of tutorials for p...

Chapter V editionprev >>2344418

I can't state enough how much I fucking hate Sara Monzon Ramirez's art. It single handedly ruins all ambience this game could possess. This is especially apparent in her event pictures but e...

Strategy gamers look like THAT?!

body cam footage edition>OXCE?OpenXcom is a free open-source game engine for the original 1994 X-Com: UFO Defense (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown) and 1996 X-Com: Terror from the Deep games.OXCE extends OX...

The Sun isn't rising /vst/. We need more BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!Aztecs are finally here.

TOUGH GUYS edition

Is it worth it to learn hoi2(darkest hour) or hoi3 at this moment? I found hoi4 too gamey and the map looks ugly.What game should I play among them? I've played vic2 100+ hours and I've hear...

If you see a gibberish post, it was made by raiders, ignore it.No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it never will be. Neither will EU5.How fares your empire, /gsg/?Random Country Pickerhttp://orph.link/...

You've read that right, it's getting new beta branch patches for a bit since February and they're going to check in these patches into the main game soon.THEYFIXEDEVERYTHING(i hope)

Today, reigning Champion Zerg Gigachad Park Sang Hyun, aka Soma, DOMINATED a Terrany and a Tosser, guaranteeing his second ASL title in a row, and the SIXTH consecutive Zerg ASL tile. Thank you for yo...

I have almost 5k hours in Victoria 2 and over 1000 in CK2. I can safely say no other grand strategy games are as good as these two>Have you played anyNo and I'm yet to see a reason to

dwarven ethics editionPrevious: >>2312368Avaliable for free at https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/or as a paid premium version on Steam or Itch.io>What is the difference?Both are the same gam...

There's no way this is good. CA simply lacks the ability to pull this off.That being said, my Imperial Guard regiment will be based on my beloved jobbers, the Moebian 21st.

Let's discuss the greatest fantasy turn based strategy series of all time.>Heroes of Might and Magic IIIThe greatest fantasy strategy game ever made, contender for best TBS ever along with SMA...

Watcha>playan>listnan>unit favanFor me it's the RA allied campaign, TD's Depth Charge and I love the artillery, I just think it's neat.

For some time now, with your help, I have been creating my game - an RPG/strategic Dark Lord simulator.And now it is the time for the big update, focusing primarily on the endgame. Players focused on ...

True Ruler of Calradia Edition>M&B Wikihttps://antifandom.com/mountandblade/wiki/Mount_&_Blade_Wiki> BANNERLORD >Latest Patch Notes - WS v1.1.1 / BL v1.3.13https://steamcommunity.com/...

ITS OVERhttps://youtu.be/a4UTRCabl3E?si=pKnjBgAir0i8QKja

>be 2026 >still no mod nor official update that allows you to convert to Ikko Ikki religion from outside that clan Do you know how it could be possible? Or if there is an obscure mod that allows...

Just want to talk about the game. Don't want the level of discussion on Reddit either. Flex your famed armors, weapons, orc weapons, bros. https://www.bbplanner.xyz/

Some people give it a bad rap, but I'm never upgrading. Why would I? Just feels like a good pair of jeans

With No Compromise, No Surrender out in the wild, what are everyone's thought on it? What are some things that you feel should be improved on as of now, and what do you expect ( or wish to see ) ...

there are dozens of us, dozens!

So now that the dust has settled,>what went right?>what went wrong?>hopes and copes about new content & dlcs?

An awful thread for devs and no-devs to post their awful ideas for strategy games that will never see the light of day, etc.previous thread:>>2032893>Useful resources for making gamesFree ico...

How come no one is ever discussing this on /vg/ other than to talk shit about orcs and how they're a bunch of savage barefoot pieces of shit who genocide every people they come across and drink d...

How does 3 more hours of comfy turtling against the AI sound, king?>>2369715

I unironicaly prefered it over other NuCom clones just because it didn't have the shitty action points system. Could it have been better? Yes, definetly. But the combination of unique mechanics a...

Are there any good /vst/ or /vst/-adjacent titles I should consider? Everything looks like wokeslop or indiejank.

so this game just released in open early access, they had a closed beta before I had it on my wishlist for a while, I didn't expect that the game will be so focused on economy and selling what yo...

>passing laws is now slightly less annoyingAmazing! At this rate the game will finally be be fixed by 2035!

Strategy games aren't popular because people are idiots. They're unpopular because devs can't understand the average joe.1. If your tutorial is dogshit or takes hours, that's on th...

Artillery rework and LANDJUT just dropped!Decent framework to expand upon or just a step in the wrong direction? I think the rework should've included an artillery salvo option.More division and ...

Post modded bs. Post new mods to use. Post update i dunno

has anyone tried tis game?

How come there are no other games like Mount & Blade?Kingdom-managers where you roam on the map, encounter characters and bandits en route, and witness a village being burned down.Compare it to CK...

any games that feature monasteries or focus on ecclesiastical life?

I've been feeling kinda tired of commanding armies and civilizations lately. I've been feeling an itch for a more personal strategy game. Something like being a small town mayor or minor cri...

Can we have a comfy vicky 2 thread?

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint just got out of the EA. It's an xcom-like cyberpunk turn-based tactics.Thoughs?

Look what I found on jewtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdcJKMwwmSMFrom what I can tell from the trailer, It has the tile system of Civ 4 while having a hero system similar to WC3, I have no idea ...

it should've been the first multiplayer extraction RTS.

Gigachad editionPost about Illwinter Game Design's Dominions series

CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.htmlNCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/index.html

I like to think it wasn't just the anarchists that destroyed the empire. There used to be a mention of an unknown thread and it being aliens but it would be really lame if it actually was. Part o...

WHY IS THIS FUCKING GAME NEVER UNDER $20!!!!

>ITT: You are Blizzard, and have to make a new Starcraft RTS gameHow would you do it? What would you add/change gameplay-sense? Any plot ideas?>Hard mode: You are forced to add TWO new races, an...

What are the prettiest looking 2d rts games in your opinion (or just strategy games in general)?Why don't developers go back to 2d, it's better for strategy gamesI like Twisted Insurrection,...

is this game really the best of the series?

Geralt sounds cool and elf girl is hot so it looks promising.

Holy fuck why nobody told me about this, this shit is crack. Especially considering there is nothing like it on 360

I don't want Medieval 3.I want Empire 2.

How fares your empire?post picture proof of your empires

Roadmap revealed>One last major update of 2025, including allied bot support for skirmish>1st DLC will be free and coming early on 2026. Full reveal on December 9th>will add a new "allie...

Why are tier 1 skeleniggas so expensive to raise in this shit game

You are in charge of making a new AOM expansion by adding the Chaos as the next civilization, how would design it?

What /vst/ game was he playing? Were there any good /vst/ games on psp?

Previous thread: >>2187019What are people's ideas/hopes/wants for the next DLC? Do you strive to expand across the entire map, or build a singular megacity? What's your largest republi...

A management game where people go to hell and you laugh at themhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2213700/Sintopia/I thought satire was dead and yet this game really takes the piss out of the modern i...

You guys think this game is gonna be an FF6 style game with an ensemble cast or will it continue the Fire Emblem tradition of being shackled to decades long tropes?

i want to defeat germany and the ussr so i kinda need to know how to git gud at britain in hoi4

Crusader Kings but fully played from the family tree layer. If anything, its actually a pretty decent implementation of the old social climbing ttrpg En Garde. Anyone else play it yet? Gotta get a key...

Xenonauts 2 released today. Is anyone playing?

Total war - warhammer is on saleAny of them worth getting?Why do they still have denuvo 20 years after release?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ryr8UF4SX4It's out (in 20 days). Thoughts? We now have italians on both sides.

Friend recommended this game to me. Is it any good?

it's still shit

9.00 beta is ongoing. have they finally fixed aux ships? are torpedo bombers in a playable state at last? we'll find out once the changes are finalized.

Is it kino? First impressions?

Since /twg/ is mostly about Warhammer now, let's have this again. Talk about historical Total War games and their mods (fantasy mods are also welcome). previous thread >>1991167

>be me, Roman with Celtic ancestry >choose the Iceni >found in Steam Workshop the 'Iceni Legionaries mod' >gives to the faction uniformity, Roman armors and straight banners >...

https://voca.ro/1578dKIn0iAV

It's unfortunate that the Definitive Edition for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War completely failed to address the biggest thing that's holding it back from unlocking its multiplayer potential....

Friends, Tropicans tell me, will it suck? I only like 3 and 4.

This game has spoiled me as far as QoL in gaming goesI don't care if you like it or not, if you're a SucKom moldy sandwich hugger or campaignlet or whatever, what I'm saying is that the...

One thing that I will always stand by in gsgs especially those by paradox is that you can't polish a turd. All this is is more bells and whistles that do not interact with the core game mechanics...

Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, and any derivatives in this thread!The Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is out, as well as the Tactics Ogre remaster. Also shilling the excellent One Vision mod for ...

yeah i'm the best mod of all time. how can you tell?tttttt

ITT: Strategy games disproportionately remembered for their soundtracks.For me, it's the original Dune. Much superior to Dune 2, if you ask me, even though the latter started the cookie cutter C&...

Any other genre that peaked years ago? Pic related, peak RTS.

why is Austrian empire the most fun nation to play in pardox games?

Finest Hour is a pretty fine update, but I really have no idea how you are supposed to take out the Churchill MK VII.Especially as germany. The only units with enough armor penetration are the 10.5 ar...

>removes features from the game and replaces them with unfinished onesit's over, isn't it? we will never get a proper city builder with combat

Amevian edition0.70 is live

Why can the war in heaven happen when there's only one fallen empire Why does paradox just torpedo your endgame with 800k power fleetsI literally built a fleet to fight them, i beat their 400k st...

Got this game recently at a discount, it seems pretty good. An old RTS that is very simple to play with very quick matches lasting 5-10 minutes each. The game is mostly dead, only finding matches at n...

All guides i find online write that Darth Vader is one man army super unit that can take planets in ground battle at his lonesome, but i found him to be too underwhelming. what he is great blaster mag...

>industrial annihilation is dead and abandonLong live Planetary Annihilation community development!

>game hits just the right itch of a long form Majesty-like>gets fucking deleted twice off of steam due to some Chinese controversyWelp.Does anything come even close to this gameplay wise?

does this mod hold up to the lategame?I want to play this til the revolutionary era. has anyone tried it that far?

>play chesshttps://lichess.org>join our team and tournamentshttps://lichess.org/team/vietnamese-basket-weaving-forum2026 FIDE Candidates - Cyprus | After Round 3Caruana (USA) 2.5 pts +2Sindarov ...

Thread to discuss Graviteam Tactics and Combat Mission games.Screenshots and AAR's welcome.

Which path is best

Best city builder in your opinion?>Cities: SkylinesShitties of them all in my opinion. In this one you have shit like 16 people living in a skyscraper and you can't even build realistic sized ...

Why has no one tried to recapture the magic of Metal Fatigue? Yes, I know there are other games where you can partially design your own units (Warzone, KKND, or for turn-based games SMAC).But Metal Fa...

Space combat would honestly be easy, make it somewhat like homeworld with full 3d positioning but still keep the EAW arcade feel. Change ground combat so ground units are grouped as full armies instea...

tldr:-server hosting company got purchased-online services will continue until end of april-the game will be patched to be playable offline-if frost giant receives more funding they will bring servers...

How did they manage to make a game this bad?

Is it worth it now?

>No Distand Worlds 2 threadwhat gives? It's basically the better Stellaris

I'll start with the fact I don't like the Populus games even 3.

No thread for this game? I just picked it up during sales and it truly scratched the right itches for building huge shit and autism I barely slept for a few days, and there’s still so much shit to do,...

Is stellaris an RTS?

Timberborn finally releasedIt has redstone computers nowI'm getting wiped by back-to-back badtidesDistrict management seems to be basically as bad as it always was but at some point they made it ...

Do we have a group here? The only place on this site I found that discusses the game was the /dom/ general of all places

The future of strategy games is here

>4 on the floorwhat did he mean by this?

I've been completely out of the loop on what happened to PM for the last couple of years. More or less gave up on them with the launch of Limbus, and the old mongolian basketweaving forum alongsi...

Everyone play now!1 Kill 1 Million Card GameChoose a survival map, e.g., Town. When you score points, see who has the most. Sometimes you get the feeling that someone is lurking, which is exactly why ...

Stop me if you heard this before but we went two more months without updates.TNO devs have taken down some of these links. Will audit them once the leaks slow down.https://www.youtube.com/@ThomasLands...

I love this game. I like it more then AOE2. Discuss it.

Dudes who made Syrian Heroes made a new game, anyone played it?>https://vkplay.ru/play/game/gostomelskie-bogatyri

You better back this game on the kickstarter

Dorfspeed dorfnificent dorfchads https://youtu.be/XSziQqeRc1o?si=B-EjiyJ7j5V5QeTj

Raggedy Anne EditionGeneral Guide Mastery Set Effects, Mastery Drop List etc:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1349483727Finding Masteries, Modules, and Troublemakers:https://stea...

TFR is dying edition——-MODDING RESOURCES———>bit dot ly 3GPdwPDGeneral Index of tutorials for photoshop, GFX, scripting, etc. This is a google doc, so be aware.>https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modd...

>Total War Medieval 3 director says recreating its predecessors "would not make a good game">"Without nostalgia and rose-tinted spectacles, Medieval 2 would not stand up to modern...

>pick up ck3 for a few bucks with a coupon code on steam>give it a try to see if it's any better than CK2>manage to unify ireland and have conquered half of england in about 2 hours flat...

lmao they just posted this on the steam page then deleted it half an hour later/r/eu5 is banning anyone who even mentions itprevious thread: >>2369026

Help me /vst/, my emotions, Im feeling them getting scammed away from me.>what game is itEspiocracy, a cold war GSG project by a polish dude>what's going on in the screenshotdev said this i...

Anything to add/change?

LOL

Congratulations, brothers.

Hello. I have played many games of strategy. But what is missing is the human cost. I want to be able to raze and sack cities and let my soldiers have full use of the city. I want to deport errant pop...

ITT: Strategy games that no one besides (you) have played. Recommend rarities and discuss games that you vaguely remember playing as a kid or seeing in a magazine that one time.Continued from: >>...

>ai creates this monstrositywhat do?

>half the mods posted in these threads are just teasers>they'll never be released>some of the dev teams have expressly stated this>they still get postedwhy.previous: >>2271833

I'm in the mood for some pre-dreadnought naval warfare. What are the best games for it?

*teleports an Engineer next to your Construction Yard*why was this allowed???

I try to make small and casual strategy about Immunity. This is game UI. Please give me feedback, how i can make it better?

Token somethingit has a gun and is turnbaseHelp!

shill me on this game. is it better than shogun 2?

Can anyone tell me why my guys are starving despite available logistic points being like 7 times higher than consumed ones? Are they just too fucking lazy to pick up their stuff or what?Logistics man,...

>campaigning as GDI in C&C3 (pic rel)>struggle with GDI's base defences against Nod using Scorpion Tanks and the like>no wall structure among building options>eventually I just bu...

ASL 21 will be taken by a Zerg Chad, indubitably. The only question is, which one? Will Soulkey return for a fifth one? Will Soma get a second one? Will Zero display his old man strength by taking a t...

What strategy game has the best logistics mechanics?

I have looked into the files in Civ 5 (vanilla, no major DLCs) to get a basic understanding of how warmongering works in this game (See GlobalDiplomacyAIDefines in Asset>Gameplay>XML through ste...

If you see a gibberish post, it was made by raiders, ignore it.No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it never will be. Neither will EU5.How fares your empire, /gsg/?On this day in history, the 22nd of Ma...

now that it has been cracked, whats your excuse for not playing the BEST anno title?

which rts game has the best chokepoint maps?i've seen some in red alert and company of heroesmy favorite thing is to hold a chokepoint against masses of ai

>*fixes CK3*Imagine ever doubting GODhan. They will fix EU5 too!

what the actual fuck?

Anyone here plays this? The game's going 1.0 in like two weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ueIe0ZuNgY>what is thisbasically DF and Rimworld but medieval and Z levels>okay, but it is a...

Devs released a space combat simulator if y'all want to see how fighting will be like

W&R:SR threadDiscuss the engoodening of Early Start, get mad about feature creep and post your decrepit commieblocks.