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Anon·04/25/25 19:59·No.2019657

/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 platforms are welcome. Does this mean discussion of strategy games is banned on other video game b...

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Anon·01/10/26 00:56·No.2318765

Disciples

Fuck dwarfs

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Anon·01/22/26 19:34·No.2326313

/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General #2

Today is Ganesh Jayanti (also called Ganesha’s Birthday), let's celebrate and play some Hindustani/Gurjarat/Dravidian/Bengali team games! Here I am wrecking some noob as off-civ warmup, mom is making tikka, life's good friends

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Anon·01/27/26 03:11·No.2328884

Godsworn

>Godsworn is a classic mythological RTS. Experience an epic fantasy retelling of the Baltic Crusades, where pagan gods and their tribes clash against crusaders and armies of heaven. Choose a divine hero, rally worshippers alongside mythical creatures, and smite the unworthy! Act 2 update just came ...

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Anon·12/21/25 17:47·No.2304069

EU4: Anbennar

I love the Jadd edition Previous thread: 2167441

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Anon·11/23/25 23:45·No.2257703

Dawn of War: Definitive Edition

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. The lack of information transparency. The game tells you like 10% of the things you need to know to properl...

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Anon·01/29/26 04:29·No.2330103

EAW

Love this game like you wouldn’t believe.m, minus the meh land combat. Any games similar to it without the Star Wars theme?

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Anon·01/23/26 18:25·No.2326883

/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General

prööööööö edition Previous >>2319314 [/vst/thread/2319314#p2319314]

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Anon·10/13/25 15:21·No.2170917

Starcraft Brood War - Soulkey Avenged Edition

In less than 24 hours, Park Sang Hyun, also known as Soma, will defeat Bisu, qualifying for the ASL 20 final, wherein he will defeat Snow, thereby avenging Soulkey's aberrant defeat and keeping the title in Zerg hands for the fifth ASL in a row. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Anon·01/26/26 17:48·No.2328611

Civilization 3

>adopt monarchy >my profit immediately goes down by like 20 coins I feel bamboozled. Anyway I've picked up Civ3 for the first time in who knows how many years. It's definitely less bloated that later entries from the series, which has its charm. What's your opinion about the game? What's your favori...

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Anon·11/14/25 06:28·No.2236332

Thoughts on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms strategy games made by Koei?

I almost never hear any strategy game fans mention this series but apparently it is very good?

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Anon·01/08/26 16:33·No.2317766

Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children

Autistic Mechanics Edition General Guide Mastery Set Effects, Mastery Drop List etc: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1349483727 Finding Masteries, Modules, and Troublemakers: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1971619284 Mastery/Module Descriptions: https:...

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Anon·01/27/26 23:07·No.2329332

Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding

Five minutes to 1.1 edition Brought to you by idea guy. Now with baking! ——-MODDING RESOURCES——— >bit dot ly 3GPdwPD General Index of tutorials for photoshop, GFX, scripting, etc. This is a google doc, so be aware. >https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modding General article hub on modding, also has a l...

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Anon·01/24/26 10:24·No.2327352

Terra Invicta

Release edition is out! Who you playan?

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Anon·01/23/26 21:31·No.2327006

American Conquest

Has anyone played this game? It's like Age of Empires 2 but set in America during colonization. You can play as both the European powers and the natives. I think it's pretty good.

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Anon·10/30/25 22:33·No.2193516

This game has spoiled me as far as QoL in gaming goes I 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 QoL that this game has introduced is by far the best experience in controlling anything in an RTS and makes me u...

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Anon·01/23/26 13:38·No.2326689

/eu5g/ - Europa Universalis 5

aka Imperator Rome 2.0 Liever Turks dan Paaps Edition Johan realized that all the QOL features of eu4 like the unit builder or navies returning to harbour at war weren't just bloat and are adding them now https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-95-21st-of-january-2025.1896...

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Anon·10/12/25 22:26·No.2170480

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

just finished a round of Alpha Centauri. seems as good an excuse as any to create a thread about it >It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people! - Chairman Sheng-ji Yang

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Anon·12/13/25 16:18·No.2295364

/eu4/ - Europa Universalis IV

This is a FOUR thread, Fivers keep moving I can't be the only one still playing this game, right? This was my latest campaign

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Anon·11/25/25 16:28·No.2261396

Broken Arrow

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 "allied" country, which will be available to the US side as a spec in multiplayer (likely the Baltic units from singl...

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Anon·01/28/26 19:48·No.2329907

Fallen in war we belong to history How many men have died under your command?

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Anon·01/03/26 05:34·No.2314411

/mbg/ - mount and blade general

best girl and animu mods when edition (looted): >>2297392 >M&B Wiki antifandom.com/mountandblade/wiki/Mount_&_Blade_Wiki > BANNERLORD >Pastebin https://pastebin.com/tAvcAbpT >Custom Banner Maker https://bannerlord.party/banner/ >Banner Code Sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MEM-0Fz0...

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Anon·12/03/25 07:33·No.2276712

FIRE EMBLEM THREAD

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?

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Anon·01/16/26 21:17·No.2322764

/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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 is EU5. How fares your empire, /gsg/? On this day in history, the 16th of January: 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Byzantine Sen...

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Anon·01/14/26 18:38·No.2321734

Conquest of Elysium 5

>Playing the troll king in dark ages >Struggling getting more unit due to lack any good gold source >Mum join in as I discover the gold mine >Recruit few meat shield and rash the gold mine >Victory! Finally I can get some good shit >Fog random event ? Ehh not big of problem >The dead rise from their...

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Anon·12/13/25 23:37·No.2296016

Command & Conquer

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

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Anon·06/02/25 18:35·No.2057168

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

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Anon·01/25/26 10:07·No.2327957

War in Spain is out now. Anyone played it? Is it a prototype for War in the Mediterranean or a WitP2?

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Anon·01/27/26 17:03·No.2329118

OH NO

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Anon·11/23/25 21:11·No.2257460

The Campaign Trail

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

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Anon·01/02/26 19:52·No.2314137

Victoria 3 /v3g/

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

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Anon·11/08/25 17:29·No.2218452

Civilization thread

I know I'm late, but I finally tried Civ VI with all its DLCs, holy moly the downgrade. Civ V(anilla) still invictus. Not only it's more tedious, but the DLCs don't add anything fun, immersive (they just unnecessarily overcomplicate things for the sake of it, to make you waste more time while trying...

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Anon·01/16/26 17:13·No.2322641

Heroes of Might and Magic

Let's discuss the greatest fantasy turn based strategy series of all time. >Heroes of Might and Magic III The greatest fantasy strategy game ever made, contender for best TBS ever along with SMAC obviously. >Heroes of Might and Magic IV Greatest soundtrack in the series, most innovative game too but...

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Anon·12/13/25 21:44·No.2295867

Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding

>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 posted why. previous: >>2271833

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Anon·01/16/26 10:58·No.2322499

/asd/ - Amateur Strategy Development

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 games Free icons: https://game-icons.net/ Free HQ textures: https://ambientcg.com/ Kanban for organization: https://w...

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Anon·01/09/26 19:14·No.2318570

The siege towers do not work in this game, is there any way I can fix this? My soldiers pile up in it but never get on the walls.

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Anon·01/24/26 21:02·No.2327703

Age Of Mythology Thread

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

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Anon·10/12/25 15:52·No.2170163

Empire at War: are Sith not that good?

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 magnet and that's it. Emperor is kinda weak as well. Jedi hero on other hand are all fucking OP as hell...

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Anon·10/17/25 02:53·No.2174434

Tactics RPG's

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 the PSP version of Tactics Ogre, which rivals and even exceeds the Reborn remaster, depending on t...

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Anon·12/27/25 14:24·No.2309261

Sudden Strike and Blitzkrieg bread: Linux edition

While I am aware that both games are different and people who like one, might dislike the other, to me they are inseparable. Think of na era in gaming history, when people tried to take make cool and unique stuff and wonderful games were created. Anyway, for those unfamiliar or returning: >where to...

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Anon·01/28/26 11:14·No.2329596

On one hand it's great we had so many episodes of King's Bounty, on the other hand, I wished we had more. Imagine, a King's bounty game every 2 years, forever, until the fatigue eventually set up (it wouldn't).

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Anon·01/27/26 22:22·No.2329295

Damn. I love this "Game"

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Anon·11/22/25 19:14·No.2255151

The future of strategy games is here

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Anon·01/16/26 17:51·No.2322664

Starsector

Eagle appreciation edition

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Anon·11/16/25 22:20·No.2242516

/trb/ - Football Manager

Are you sticking with 26 or going back to FM24?

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Anon·07/31/25 00:14·No.2108622

CK2 thread

Is after the end worth playing? If so which version? Also CK2 thread

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Anon·11/30/25 12:48·No.2271084

Foundation or Farthest Frontier. And I guess Manor Lords but that's still in early access.Which is the better medieval city builder? How they differ? Personal I don't play often city builders but I do like Anno series which has some city builder elements.

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Anon·07/08/25 13:29·No.2088485

X4 foundations

Diplomacy update public beta out NOW

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Anon·12/19/25 17:25·No.2302069

Rimworld thread

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 of the appeal of rimworld is that earth was the singular origin point of life in the universe and so it'd ...

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Anon·12/12/25 02:39·No.2292993

Best RTS mod coming through

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Anon·01/19/26 18:30·No.2324558

CK2 hate thread

Post pics or greentexts about stuff that happened in your campaign that make you ragequit or give you the urge to do it. Mine >be tengrist Ilkhanate >actually doing pretty good >this retarded unskippable event happens >all my progress to reform Tengri nearly got wipeout (Same bullshit happened in ...

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Anon·01/19/26 22:53·No.2324745

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

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Anon·01/18/26 21:38·No.2323994

Is it worth it to start with rts games in 2026? Never played one before.

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Anon·01/23/26 19:46·No.2326944

what do we think of it?

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Anon·11/18/25 08:53·No.2245907

>play >press buttons faster than the enemy >win Why is this considered strategy and allowed on this board? This shit is basically just Osu but without the music and in pvp mode.

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Anon·01/01/26 19:15·No.2313366

RIP

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Anon·11/06/25 22:47·No.2213020

Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ryr8UF4SX4 It's out (in 20 days). Thoughts? We now have italians on both sides.

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Anon·01/21/26 13:41·No.2325576

Graviteam Tactics/Combat Mission - Eternal Rivalry Edition

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

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Anon·01/20/26 09:37·No.2324959

Hearts of Iron IV Thread

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 ) on the new SEA-Oceania focused DLC coming out in the second quarter of 2026? Also, Hearts of Iron IV Thr...

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Anon·01/21/26 03:35·No.2325407

Thoughts on boomer wargames? I've been learning the new flashpoint campaigns over the last couple of days. I've been on and off with War in the East 2 as well, but the lack of simultaneous turns is really immersion breaking

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Anon·09/24/25 16:24·No.2152693

Is stelaris worth playing

I can get the game with 3 DLCs for super cheap on steam. Is the game worth buying and learning? How long does it take to learn?

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Anon·12/31/25 05:23·No.2312368

/dfg/ - Dwarf Fortress General

goonicorn edition Previous: >>2298043 Avaliable 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 game on the same version (53.xx). The free version uses ASCII as a tileset (but you can mod other usermade til...

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Anon·01/26/26 01:07·No.2328306

RTS will never quite match the daunting complexity of a hex-based wargame

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Anon·09/29/25 16:04·No.2157733

>"KNIGHTS!"

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Anon·01/08/26 21:25·No.2318012

EU5 EUV WHAT'S GOING ON?

I was thinking of (pirating) this game. Why are 52% of the recent steam reviews negative?

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Anon·01/25/26 01:20·No.2327844

POV: You've been banned from my park. You will never get to return to this land of wonder. Jealous? Yeah I thought you'd be.

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Anon·12/11/25 12:28·No.2291866

How do I acquire proficiency?

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Anon·01/11/26 08:56·No.2319623

>never been surpassed

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Anon·12/31/25 21:17·No.2312855

Horn of the Abyss 1.8.0

It's out! Download: https://h3hota.com/en/download Changelog: https://download.h3hota.com/upd/changelogs/eng.txt

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Anon·01/08/26 19:00·No.2317887

/oxce/ - OpenXCOM

"Recruiting" more hybrids. >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 OXC modding capabilities and is home to megamods like X-Piratez, X-Com Files, 40k ROSIGMA and more....

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Anon·01/19/26 10:16·No.2324264

/HTW/ Historical Total War thread

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

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Anon·01/25/26 01:59·No.2327855

Games only you played

Played a demo of this game a long time ago and it kicked my ass since I was a stupid child back then but I remember enjoying it a lot, decided to replay it recently and it's fairly fun and quite funny and it's far easier than I remember.

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Anon·01/01/26 20:19·No.2313409

OpenTTD

OpenTTD 15.0 released! https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/01/01/openttd-15-0

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Anon·11/14/25 08:58·No.2236485

/bbg/ - Battle Brothers general

Tabletop edition How are your dudes faring?

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Anon·10/28/25 15:36·No.2189263

>the cancer that killed total war

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Anon·01/18/26 16:19·No.2323713

this is releasing in two days. we hyped or not? prince of macdeon (THE PRINCE) also has a gameplay video from a couple days ago.

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Anon·01/18/26 12:08·No.2323607

The great debate

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Anon·10/26/25 21:28·No.2187019

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

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

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Anon·01/02/26 02:47·No.2313644

Songs of Syx

Amevian edition 0.70 is live

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Anon·01/12/26 15:12·No.2320291

What's the /vst/ verdict on Old World? Is it worth picking up? Is the Paradox-like slew of DLC good?

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Anon·01/05/26 07:31·No.2315678

Three Kingdoms

What's the verdict on this?

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Anon·01/11/26 18:02·No.2319803

Most advanced Medieval 2 Total War mod yet just dropped. https://www.divide-and-conquer-ago.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IyAmjMXOkA

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Anon·01/13/26 22:24·No.2321282

Just played through the Songs of Conquest campaigns. Hero progress carries over between missions which is nothing unusual, but also between campaigns when you're fighting the guys you controlled in a previous campaign. Silverlink still had all of the resource generating Glimmerweave items I stacked ...

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Anon·01/21/26 02:28·No.2325387

The alienation of their fanbase continues. That's why right after I pointed out that Hector Doomhammer was my favorite C&C streamer, they released the update removing the one unit voiced by him from their mod. Couple that with my favorite faction (China) getting nerfed the next day alongside my acco...

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Anon·12/13/25 16:22·No.2295368

TNO thread

Thanks for not baking on page 7 this time. https://gofile.io/d/zAJ2RV - Full DV leak repository. Proposal, charts, maps. https://www.youtube.com/@ThomasLands - Leaked build footage. Nearly finished and scrapped Italy, very unfinished Germany/US reworks and more. https://space.bilibili.com/385529615...

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Anon·07/11/25 20:44·No.2091209

Rare /vst/ games thread #2

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: >>1919459 I'll start: Conflict Zone. Early 00's strategy game that I haven't seen anyone mention in my en...

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Anon·07/06/25 02:06·No.2086255

Shadow Empire

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, how the fuck do they work?

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Anon·01/02/26 07:21·No.2313750

Naval Wargames

Happy new years edition! Lets have us all a friendly ship design competition, post your boats! Use the 1935 start, ship must be legal. Best looking or impressive wins (You)'s! Thread theme: https://youtu.be/t8s_Z13jEeo?si=EtXoWTdrMUWKNp4s

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Anon·12/21/25 00:29·No.2303478

why is nobody talking about this? biggest total war mod just dropped for attila and it made the games peak population triple overnight.

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Anon·12/31/25 21:49·No.2312877

I am making a game suspiciously resembling EU4, what realism features, mechanics and other misc things did you feel Eu4 lacked? Making a list to take note of.

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Anon·12/02/25 12:33·No.2274633

Sid Meier's Colonization

play the original? or the Civ IV spinoff? or Imperialism I (or Imperialism II)? I did play the original Colonization a bit as a kid but concerned how the DOSBox version (GOG version) runs

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Anon·12/04/25 22:34·No.2280089

Best TW for a complete newbie.

I've been lurking around here and people seem to mention Total War a lot. I talked to one of the guys at my local GW I know, and he recommended Medieval 2, but Rome Remastered looks pretty interesting (Rome is cool). I know basically nothing about Total War. I have only played traditional RTS games ...

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Anon·01/02/26 20:44·No.2314155

Endless games

Discuss games in the Endless universe. Endless Space 2 has recieved a community patcb that squashed bugs, improved AI, and nerfed the Nakalim. https://community.amplitude-studios.com/amplitude-studios/endless-space-2/blogs/1022-community-update-out-now

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Anon·11/06/25 20:18·No.2212465

Lost technology

Has anyone tried this game? could a smooth brained person like me enjoy it? I found Dominions and Conquest of Elysium too much menuing and strategy for my taste

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Anon·01/10/26 17:24·No.2319080

Unpopular vst opinions thread.

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

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Anon·01/24/26 05:54·No.2327267

>game predicts isis

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Anon·01/19/26 12:53·No.2324362

Am I playing CK2 wrong?

>see a lot of CK2 videos in YT >looks like a cool RPG / Grand-strategy SANDBOX game, it's also FREE >got it, play it, pretty boring, where the RPG? where the strategy? where the sandbox? >get the DLCs, just reskinned / renamed vanilla mechanics that make things into something unnecessarily overcompl...

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Anon·01/25/26 17:41·No.2328115

Do people still play this I recall this game had threads on /vst/

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Anon·01/21/26 21:26·No.2325877

I last played this game 3 years ago and i remmeber I almost fnished the campaign before the chaos expansion. Should I restart of finish it? Not sure why I quit but IIRC I can move my guys to the next campaign.

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Anon·12/30/25 12:41·No.2311546

4X / Grand-Strategy games with good AI?

Also, is it there a mod for CK2 that makes the AI an actual Artificial INTELLIGENCE?

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Anon·01/24/26 08:12·No.2327307

how do fix mental omgea

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Anon·09/26/25 15:11·No.2154626

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

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Anon·01/09/26 11:59·No.2318372

What are some citybuilders with military? I love stuff like the impressions games because you get to build a city and then fight inside of it. Just citybuilding by itself is boring.

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Anon·01/18/26 01:38·No.2323427

ohhhh so THAT's what she means when she says she "needs to find a mousehole"

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Anon·12/18/25 21:28·No.2301273

Rise of Nations

Anyone else ever play this game? Never see any threads on it but its always been one of my favorites. The CTW campaigns are incredible, immersive and all the nations pretty well balanced (fuck the mayans though). Despite a few things that could be improved it still holds up well to this day. The sou...

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Anon·01/23/26 06:33·No.2326561

RTS oddities

>too many units on the map means certain units can't attack

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Anon·01/20/26 19:09·No.2325191

Cats Who Play new release

>The game "Gostomel Bogatyrs" will be released on February 24, 2026, the 4th anniversary of the start of the Second World War and the landing of troops at Gostomel Airport. >The game will be priced at 750 rubles. >We're still working with Steam, and if we receive approval from the platform, we'll ce...

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Anon·01/23/26 19:29·No.2326925

kino

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Anon·08/29/25 23:23·No.2133117

wargame/warno/steel division

SOUTHAG is out This div is super fun

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Anon·11/22/25 20:44·No.2255389

RTS Campaigns

I love a good RTS campaign. What are some good ones? What makes a good RTS campaign? What are some underrated ones? Did Arthas really need to purge that city?

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Anon·01/02/26 23:40·No.2314265

No one survives edition >M&B Wiki https://antifandom.com/mountandblade/wiki/Mount_&_Blade_Wiki > BANNERLORD >Latest Patch Notes - WS v1.1.1 / BL v1.3.13 https://steamcommunity.com/games/261550/announcements/detail/517481543704250508?snr=2___ >Pastebin https://pastebin.com/tAvcAbpT (embed) >Custom ...

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Anon·12/30/25 16:48·No.2311724

/WDOSOTHG/ - Warhammer Dark Omen and Shadow of the Horned Rat General

With the recent release of Warhammer Dark Omen on GOG and with its prequal Shadow of the Horned Rat also being available, a general to discuss would be welcome. Questions, After Action Reports, Screenshots and Discussion are welcome. See below to purchase either game: https://www.gog.com/en/game/...

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Anon·01/23/26 21:35·No.2327008

War of Dots

>mogs HOI4 >mogs total war >entirely free on steam you're playing the most fun game of 2026, right anon? The 4 player mode is insanely fun

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Anon·12/09/25 17:32·No.2288856

Hardest RTS campaigns?

I'm currently playing Earth 2140 on NORMAL and holy fuck. I'm 20 hours in and haven't finished the UCS campaign yet. Granted, some missions were harder than needed because I didn't realize you could call in reinforcements on some maps, BUT >Maps are a grind and sometimes come down to who runs out o...

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Anon·01/23/26 23:43·No.2327089

https://ferion.com/en are there any oldfags here who remember ferion? it's been rebuilt and in beta. It's also free to play in beta. for those who have never heard of it: it's a (used-to-be massively) multiplayer, 24/7, arena-style MoO clone. One game takes about 4-6 weeks to finish.

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Anon·08/27/25 06:01·No.2130728

Any good Vicky 2 mods come out recently?

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Anon·01/20/26 18:35·No.2325181

SC2 ESPORTS IN TROUBLE!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSePJlYxHpE

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Anon·01/12/26 20:52·No.2320505

Theotown thread

I just think it's neat.

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Anon·12/16/25 15:53·No.2298996

Terra Invicta

1.0 releasing soon. Did they ever fix the early game or is it still incredibly fucking boring?

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Anon·10/03/25 07:34·No.2161270

>starting a new country from nothing is fun >exploring the map is fun >claiming valuable land and resources is fun >developing your economy and infrastructure is fun >defending your borders from barbarians is fun >fun stops when you get to war because while you were busy building a nice country anot...

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Anon·12/13/25 15:18·No.2295291

Turn-based or RTS

Do you ultimately prefer turn-based or real-time strategy games, and which are your favorites? RTS has always filtered me hard, having to juggle multiple things going on all in real time is tough (maybe this thread can change that). So for me with turn-based it's: >Master of Orion II >Civ IV >Conqu...

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Anon·12/12/25 03:28·No.2293021

Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000

So... 40K TW is confirmed. How shit will it be?

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Anon·01/20/26 20:34·No.2325237

against the storm

Is it any good?

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Anon·01/10/26 21:56·No.2319314

/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General

Tupi edition previous >>2301469

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Anon·12/26/25 16:44·No.2308602

Northgard

Is this game basically modern iteration of Settlers? I played it and it feels not as good as dune by same dev. Any other game besides this, settles and battle realms where you build military units out of basic workers?

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Anon·12/18/25 20:35·No.2301211

WE SO BACK STORMGATERS

WE SO BACK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYwSBQ1cebg

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Anon·01/06/26 05:44·No.2316284

Strategy Games to hone political sense

Greetings. I am looking for strategy games, preferably grand strategy, that will help hone my political abilities and train me for my future career in politics. I am looking for accurate simulations that allow access to all policies, do not enforce socialism as the default winning strategy (all Para...

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Anon·01/04/26 19:49·No.2315345

how come the a-train series never took off

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Anon·12/12/25 15:24·No.2293797

Nurgle triumphed, all is ugly this days

>DoW 4 looks like DoW 3 >TW:40k looks like DoW 4 Why would anyone want 3 DoW 3? >nvm, people payed full prices for 3 TW:WF

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Anon·01/02/26 23:23·No.2314256

most fun rts ive played in a long time. is almost similar to a immersive sim in what you can do. did /v/ get filtered by this game cause i hardly hear it ever talked about. People complain about the AI, but i feel like every single strag game people say the AI is shit

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Anon·01/02/26 00:34·No.2313586

Battle Realms - Zen Edition

Has the Zen Edition meta been figured out yet? I still have PTSD from all my ranged deathball strats being nerfed, haven't played the game since I barely finished the Serpent campaign on hard.

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Anon·12/26/25 08:43·No.2308316

when balancing RTS should the dev focus on only the top players as they are fully capable of knowing the ins and outs of the game or should every player (or let's say every player with a certain amount of matches) be taken into consideration? personally i lean towards option 1 but I've witnessed pl...

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Anon·01/14/26 20:20·No.2321774

Shitty Historical Mods

>want to download a mod for Empire Total War >every single overhaul is filled with pseud retards that incorrectly remove grenades "BECUZ GRENADIERS DINT USE DEM ANYMO" despite being objectively wrong due to written treatises and archeological evidence Why do retards with zero historical credentials...

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Anon·12/29/25 12:04·No.2310941

It looks so grim

>CA promises to revisit old titles to fix them, again >Shogun 2 / Rome 1 remaster drama all over again >and more bad, cringe things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9asiq729RhI

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Anon·10/16/25 14:58·No.2173791

Warhammer 40k Total War

>Supposedly under development >Type of warfare that hasn`t been tried in TW format. >Ranged and melee still suck and are broken >Units get stuck on everything and charges break down. >Dumbed down campaings compared to historical total war which is already dumbed compared to any 4x >Battles are dumbe...

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Anon·08/02/25 12:37·No.2110457

Best city builder in your opinion? >Cities: Skylines Shitties 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 cities. The traffic simulation is supposed to be good but its nonsensical (drivers are incapable of changi...

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Anon·01/07/26 09:41·No.2317012

Let's have a chat about games you personally hate to like but still do. Also dune bread I guess.

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Anon·01/06/26 17:04·No.2316565

Game

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Anon·01/10/26 21:35·No.2319306

Pharaoh remastered

so now that modders fixed the remaster, what's your excuse for not playing it?

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Anon·09/01/25 11:14·No.2134850

Paradox can't help themselves. eu5 is done.

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Anon·01/09/26 05:03·No.2318267

Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding

Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? Now with baking! ——-MODDING RESOURCES——— >bit dot ly 3GPdwPD General Index of tutorials for photoshop, GFX, scripting, etc. This is a google doc, so be aware. >https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modding General article hub on modding, also has a lot of i...

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Anon·11/30/25 17:21·No.2271392

/ckg/ - Crusader Kings General

waiting for elder kings edition prev >>2229560

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Anon·12/27/25 04:35·No.2309065

The Guild - Europa 1410

cautiously optimistic this time also whats wrong with 3? was it really THAT shite?

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Anon·01/16/26 20:07·No.2322727

'bout to download this to experience Dawn of War 4 beforehand. What am I in for?

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Anon·10/21/25 16:24·No.2179973

Worst looking units

Thread inspired by this >>2175383 thread. Post only the most cringe looking strategy units. Starting off with Praetorian from Homm6. Tier 1 unit btw.

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Anon·01/17/26 01:36·No.2322919

sad satan by ZK

weird game isnt?

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Anon·01/12/26 14:39·No.2320279

How long until Paradox abandon EU5? This was supposed to be their magnum opus.. no one wants to play..

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Anon·02/09/25 21:11·No.1954445

Graviteam Tactics/Combat mission

Fuck that specific spot edition Thread to discuss Graviteam tactics and Combat mission games and others like them.

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Anon·11/09/25 06:24·No.2220582

Hearts of Iron IV

Ok, I've seen enough. I've had my fill, I've played my money's worth. When did you realize you were done with your favorite strategy game, and that it was time to move on?

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Anon·01/10/26 18:29·No.2319141

AI War series

What does /vst/ think about these games and their expansions?

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Anon·12/31/25 03:51·No.2312338

King of Dragon Pass

And Six Ages. Post your tula.

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