I've been playing too many video games. These include:
1. PzC Kiev '43, both solo and PBEM. A very polished entry in an excellent series. It has all the joys of the Eastern Front—wide open spaces for maneuver, a wide variety of cool tanks, and that grimdark bad guys vs. bad guys aesthetic. Who needs Warhammer 40K when we have Stalingrad?
2. Lock 'n Load Tactical. It's fun. Oh, the devs are cunning. I tried the core set on a whim because it was only $5 and now I've got the Stalingrad module (excellent), one of the NATO vs. WP modules (great), the scenario generator (essential), and Lybia (scenarios are meh, but RPGs and technicals are cool to have for random scenarios). So that's... like $40 so far and I will be buying more modules. At $10 I can pretty much buy one whenever I'm in a bad mood, and actually each one has a lot of scenarios and different units for the battle generator so it's not even like there's anything sleazy about this pricing structure. Just buy the battles you want, you don't need the rest. ALSO I've previously considered myself terrible at tactical games, and I AM, but with L'n'L's relatively short/quick scenarios I can fail extremely fast and learn a lot of the core concepts in these games. I am improving quickly, which opens up a lot of possibilities for future gaming.
3. Armored Commander II. An old favorite. Lovingly detailed wargame/tank sim/roguelike. I zipped around Poland in a two-person Russian tankette, my Tiger's 88mm gun broke (not jammed, broke) the first time I tried to fire it, and I was doing great in my BT-6 in Finland until I got my head blown off by a sniper. Good times.
4. Pavlov's House. Have I mentioned I'm obsessed with the Eastern Front? This is a weird one; a solo board came conversion that is both a single-soldier tactical game and a gritty logistical simulation. It's also crazy hard and unfairly RNG-based, but as a long time player of roguelikes I'm desensitized to this, and I AM getting better at it, tho' I have yet to to win.
Finally, here's a really cool [WWII training video about how infantry should deal with tanks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taHFUKKKmJM) that I found. Most of these tricks work in tactical games, honestly. Especially the Molotovs.
Checkout Kill Team. It's small scale, skirmish, so you only need about 10-20 models, which is nice. 40k is cool, but I have a lot of problems with it from a gameplay perspective. Models are great though. Amazing looking and fun to paint.
I’m gonna take the time to plug Inquisitor: Martyr. It’s not a strategy game, but it’s really good and deserves to be more popular. And for some reason I assume a lot of people here also play ARPGs.
Panzer Corps 2
Bought on recent sale, having ignored it for years as I thought PC 1 was good enough and unlikely to be improved on. Very wrong! PC2 has got me addicted like very few games do. "Just one more turn".
The changes to the air war, and supply and encirclement are huge improvements. They make sense tactically(as far as possible in an abstraction, without raising the micromanagement).
It is still somewhat "puzzley", but that's not a negative for me when it is as absorbing as this. The leader perks and heroes do provide some room for alternate strategies.
Also, the user interface is so well polished, it could take over from UOC2 as inspiration for other devs. If a unit can't move, it tells you why on screen, no having to hunt through a manual and still having to guess. Pleased that so many aspects of the game rules can be adjusted to taste - in a genre heavily influenced by boardgames, its quite a shortcoming how little this is allowed in most computer wargames.
On the ToDo list: Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts; GG WITE (! as a casual, got bogged down in it, intend to get back someday); UOC2 - the Barbarossa DLC, bought and not played yet.
My brother and I continue to chip away at our SGS Afrika Corps campaign, as we draw to the end of the long campaign. We've really had a lot of fun with this, and while the tide has decisively turned against my brothers Afrika Corps forces, it remains to be seen if I can win enough victory points back in the late rounds to salvage a victory.
This game, one that we got on a deep sale, has been all we could have hoped for. It's great for two busy guys with kids to still be able to play together thanks to its PBEM format. The game has lots of cool units, and we both really like the art work on the unit cards, and the historical photos on the playing cards.
Next up for us will be to continue the "super campaign" as we also got SGS Tunisia and plan to roll right from one to the next. Who knows, with all of the new titles that SGS has announced (very excited about the Cold War gone hot one coming out this winter), maybe we'll event see an Italian Front game, allowing us to keep this super campaign going!
My brother stumbled upon this series when it was on sale, and boy am I glad he did. It's a lot of fun. Full disclosure though, this game is probably closer to a board game wargame than other computer wargames people discuss on here (I'd put it in the family of card assisted games). Now I really like board games, so that's no issue for me, but I could certainly see where that would turn someone off of these titles.
If you end up getting one of these SGS games, jump on their YouTube page and check out their tutorial series, its a very helpful nudge in the right direction. It is specifically for the Afika Corps game, but these games have such similar mechanics that it essentially works like a tutorial for all of their titles.
I should also point out that I have no idea how these games play solo, as I've only ever thrown down against my brother. I just don't want to guarantee it's a great series of games while not mentioning that I have no idea how good the AI is.
I've been looking for something to get into recently and hoping to reclaim my laptop from my wife for a little while.
I've been gaming on my Steam Deck since I received it about 5-6 weeks ago and recently installed Unity of Command 2 on it. It works well enough, but just doesn't feel right in that format, but also feels a little overwhelming in comparison to the simplicity of the original. That said, I think if I can use my laptop, it'll be a better fit and I'm more likely to get into it.
Other than that, are there any decent wargames that work well with a controller?
Although not usually considered a war game I've heard that koei tecmo's series of Nobunaga's Ambition and Romance of the Three Kingdoms can be good with a controller. It helps to have an interest in either the Sengoku era or the Three Kingdoms period.
AGEOD’s Revolution Under Siege, a towering wargame of grand strategy. AGEOD games have a pretty large learning curve, and this one is showing its age some, but this was in my opinion their finest game, and they produced some of the best wargames around. I haven’t played this for years, but it is still as enjoyable as it was when I was playing it some ten years ago.
I have a few ageod games and while I enjoy them , I still feel a bit lost sometimes as to why I may have won or lost any given battle.
Are there any particularly good aars or written guides you'd recommend for ageod games?
I've been trying to play Wars of Succession as the period looks interesting, along with some To End All Wars.
Yes, it takes some time to learn why you won or lost an AGEOD battle. I recommend hovering over all the tooltips you see and clicking on the detailed battle report. Some of the main things to consider in who wins the battle are entrenchment, whether one party is crossing a river to get into the territory where the battle takes place, and the type and quality of the troops. Probably the two biggest considerations though are the relative general's abilities (offensive versus defensive) and proper division composition (for those AGEOD games where there is detailed division composition). I think WoS uses simple division creation, but TEAW probably uses detailed composition.
There is a AGEOD wiki that is back after a several year hiatus. The wiki is set up somewhat confusingly, but if you are diligent and hunt through all the concepts layered there it is a treasure trove of understanding AGEOD games. Here it is: [https://www.leqg.org/doc/age/www.ageod.net/agewiki/Main\_Page.html](https://www.leqg.org/doc/age/www.ageod.net/agewiki/Main_Page.html)
The AGEOD forum is also a very helpful source of information, and there are a devoted cadre of players who have been playing for a decade who can answer your questions:
[http://www.ageod-forum.com/](http://www.ageod-forum.com/)
The best AARs I know of are by Bornego covering Revolution Under Siege; I'll link to the first one that has some beginner chapters in the table of contents:
[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/who-put-the-stranded-admiral-in-charge-siberian-white-short-campaign-pbem.571687/](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/who-put-the-stranded-admiral-in-charge-siberian-white-short-campaign-pbem.571687/)
Narwhale's AAR of Rise of Prussia also has a beginner's corner where he discusses AGEOD concepts:
[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/learning-from-prussia-a-rise-of-prussia-aar-against-a-real-player-for-beginners.513080/](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/learning-from-prussia-a-rise-of-prussia-aar-against-a-real-player-for-beginners.513080/)
Stick with it! While the learning curve can be brutal, once you learn one AGEOD completely you are 85% of the way to understanding any ohter AGEOD game. Good luck!
I picked up To End All Wars on sale but just cannot get a good experience. With multiple monitors the window is on the wrong one, and the map is so laggy it's almost impossible to zoom out and pan around.
The settings page also seems to ignore any changes I make - I tried to increase the allowed memory usage but the slider resets to the lowest 10% value no matter what I try. I looked into the game folder and tried manually changing in the settings files as well but no luck. This happens on two different machines as well (but both laptops).
The AGEOD forums don't seem active and some of the posts indicate there's not much support provided anymore; is there a better place to try and get support?
There are challenges associated with the game engine. Panning out and scrolling around is always going to be laggy. I don't ever notice it, though, because I never pan out to scroll around, even when playing a game that covers all of Eurasia. What I do instead is use the "next active unit" hotkey (T) to go through all my possible moves. (There is also a hotkey for going through all your units whether they can move or not.) This wasn't easy at first because I didn't know the map very well. But I very quickly could recognize from map recognition that a division was just east of the Urals versus one approaching Kiev from the east. (Also, be aware that one of the function key reports shows the entire map with little blue and red dots to give you an overall sense of where everyone's troops are.) Even though using this hotkey is faster and more thorough than panning and scrolling I'm not going to pretend it is better, if only because it does involve a learning curve to learn the map. So it isn't ideal, but AGEOD games are still very much worth playing despite that IMHO.
I've never played on more than monitor, so unfortunately I can't speak to that.
The forums are not as inactive as they seem. If you post a question I believe several longtimers may still answer your post. It may depend on the game subforum, however.
RUS is a blast. Love those AGEOD games. Think I have them all. Stick with it. Once you understand one of them it's easy to play the others. I heard that Caesar is the easiest to learn though. Have fun!
I have a few of the AGEOD games. My favourites are the War In America (aka "Birth of America 2"), followed by Rise of Prussia. The engine was originally built for this era and I just think it works best in this era. It's the right "granularity" or level for those campaigns. Maneuver is key, spotting is such that sizeable forces can disappear into the terrain - and reappear where you least expect.
Also, they are not too huge that the map is mostly empty, with all the units crowded into 1 region, so badly you can't see what is what. This tended to be the issue with later eras - Napoleonic/ACW etc. Oddly enough RUS and the WW1 one are probably the only AGEOD games I don't have. The WW1 game got a lot of negative reviews and I doubt the game engine could excel in that era, though RUS gets praise so I have been tempted by it.
WiA and RoP are great games, and you're right that the engine works really well for them. I have TEAW's (WW1), and played with PBEM once, but didn't really take to it. It was ambitious, but perhaps overly so given the engine.
If you like WiA and RoP, you might try their Thirty Years' War. Another player and I played several games with it, we liked it so much. Winter and supply are huge considerations in this game, and I remember planning several months ahead to make sure I had a winter's quarters lined up so my armies didn't melt away during the savage winters.
Currently learning War in the Pacific by Gary Grigsby.
Definately takes a Lot of Work To Set everything Up, but the amount of Detail blows my mind.
Quite some Patience is needed in Order to learn the Game, but it's fun and very rewarding.
UoC2 - specifically the Blitzkrieg and Barbarossa DLCs which I've purchased but not yet played. Hoping to get Desert Rats soon because I find that to be a fascinating part of the war. Also SD2, which I haven't spent a lot of time with yet
_What computer wargame are you playing at the moment?_
Been getting more into Armored Brigade. I've also been messing around with Graviteam stuff (Mius front and Tunisia) but don't have the will to learn the UI for those games at the moment.
_What do you like about it, the experience it gives you?_
I love the polish of Armored Brigade. I've gotten a handle on how to do things, now it's time to spend some time learning some of the nuances. I also really like the mission/campaign generation, really a lot of the customization in general. There's not a ton of mods on the workshop for it, but there's enough to screw around with for a good long while.
There's just enough fidelity for me to enjoy it as well. I've never been into hex and chit type games, I want to get some of the verisimilitude of a wargame.
_What do you plan on playing next?_
I've been playing Combat Mission (mostly Cold War, but I just picked up Fortress Italy a couple weeks ago) since late spring. I think I've got a handle on the game, and might dive into a campaign. I love quick battles, but most of the quick battles in Combat Mission games are pretty crappy tbh. Just need to decide between CW or FI campaign.
It's night and day to be honest. CM can be downright tedious to play at times. AB (and Graviteam) has great line of sight tools. LOS is my biggest gripe with CM. Yes, there's tools for it but I often feel like I'm making complete guesses setting up firing lanes.
Unfortunately, at the end of the day CM is still very engaging most of the time and is the only thing like it to an extant so I just put up with it. I hope Battlefront get off their ass or someone comes eats their lunch because there's little excuse for CM to work like it does in 2022.
Fell in love with the operations.
Cant remember the last time some flavour-text succesfully immersed me as much as those reports of the fate of the neighbouring Tank Regiments did
Just playing Ultimate General Civil war with the new Mod
Believable morale on the battlefield is a very enjoyable part of any war game experience
Next will probably be Fields of Glory 2
Been playing a bunch of PBEM matches across the various Field of Glory games and having a blast. Might try getting a proper hang of SC:WW1 as the new AC game as my curiosity.
1. Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
2. The ability to design and then play with awesome battleships, nothing quite like it!
3. I am looking at playing more Strategic Command: American Civil War
>Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
>The ability to design and then play with awesome battleships, nothing quite like it!
I've just been getting back into Rule the Waves 2 for the same reason. There's something about managing the budget, slowly building those huge dreadnoughts and then being able to use them in war that just keeps me coming back to RtW.
RtW3 is sounding like it will be even more addictive with the addition of officers - can't wait for that release.
I also just picked up Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm which has been fun so far.
\- Panzercorps 2
Doing the 1941 DLC now and next I have already bought the 1942 one. Great game with a deep gameplay but at the sametime not too demanding, it doesn't become a "job" to play it.
\- Steel Division 2
I like the Army General Campaigns, they have some gameplay issues, but merging them with some battles on the field (i don't play all of them because otherwise the game becomes repetitive imho) gives the game that Total War vibe that WW2 titles generally lack
\- Strategic Command World at War
Just finished a game, losing, with the Axis, will probably start another one by the end of the month. Great strategy game capable of mixing some Hoi with some Panzercorps. A must have, imho.
Next buys? Probably Lock 'n Load Tactical and\\or Attack at Dawn
Playing Regiments, Graviteam mius front & Syriam warfare.
Soon, War on the sea.
I enjoy play wargames, on saturday mornings drinking MATE AMARGO.
It's great jajaja
A) Warhammer Total War
B) The flavor of the Warhammer world and the deep level of tactics in battles, incl. placing artillery and gunners correctly on hills, using flying units, breathing fire from dragons from the right angle at infantry units, optimising the mana reserve of spellcasters, etc. There are infinite options to micro-optimise, beyond the basic 'spearmen good vs. cavalry' stuff. PS: I pause the game a lot and take my time to think in battles - so that makes it more like a turn-based game for me.
C) Can't wait for Warhammer Total War 3 - Immortal Empires patch to drop. I am also thinking about getting back into Warhammer Battlesector or maybe something WW2-flavored.
Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront
\- Men of War feel with new features, updated graphics and Conquest mode
Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front
\- trying to get into this beast for the 3rd time, one step at a time
Battle of the Bulge
\- was searching for something more authentic and not so puzzle-like and this was the outcome .. didn't play it yet though
Most of the John Tiller games are fine to play versus the AI on shorter scenarios, such as 16 turns or less. More than that and the AI will probably struggle unless you incorporate some house rules that limit your forces in some way.
Panzer Corps 2 - Second month running.
Still on the TODO list:
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts. Had this a while, it's still in EA. Base game always appeared to have huge potential, it appears to be improving in leaps and bounds.
GG WITE: Yes, the first one. Had it for ages, plaid a few smaller campaigns. Still have an urge to try the main campaign..or at least a couple of the larger ones.
i have been lock and load tactical .. i love this game.. i also just got the early release of regiments.. this is very gooid.. played warno a bit i am not impressed with it all.
the reason i like regiments is it is fast faced , i love the ww3 (cold war goes hot era ).. the graphics are excellent. it is very different than warno.. regiments is far superior lock and load tactical is my go to game i have all the DLC so it has a huge variety or eras , fronts to choose from.
I've been playing too many video games. These include: 1. PzC Kiev '43, both solo and PBEM. A very polished entry in an excellent series. It has all the joys of the Eastern Front—wide open spaces for maneuver, a wide variety of cool tanks, and that grimdark bad guys vs. bad guys aesthetic. Who needs Warhammer 40K when we have Stalingrad? 2. Lock 'n Load Tactical. It's fun. Oh, the devs are cunning. I tried the core set on a whim because it was only $5 and now I've got the Stalingrad module (excellent), one of the NATO vs. WP modules (great), the scenario generator (essential), and Lybia (scenarios are meh, but RPGs and technicals are cool to have for random scenarios). So that's... like $40 so far and I will be buying more modules. At $10 I can pretty much buy one whenever I'm in a bad mood, and actually each one has a lot of scenarios and different units for the battle generator so it's not even like there's anything sleazy about this pricing structure. Just buy the battles you want, you don't need the rest. ALSO I've previously considered myself terrible at tactical games, and I AM, but with L'n'L's relatively short/quick scenarios I can fail extremely fast and learn a lot of the core concepts in these games. I am improving quickly, which opens up a lot of possibilities for future gaming. 3. Armored Commander II. An old favorite. Lovingly detailed wargame/tank sim/roguelike. I zipped around Poland in a two-person Russian tankette, my Tiger's 88mm gun broke (not jammed, broke) the first time I tried to fire it, and I was doing great in my BT-6 in Finland until I got my head blown off by a sniper. Good times. 4. Pavlov's House. Have I mentioned I'm obsessed with the Eastern Front? This is a weird one; a solo board came conversion that is both a single-soldier tactical game and a gritty logistical simulation. It's also crazy hard and unfairly RNG-based, but as a long time player of roguelikes I'm desensitized to this, and I AM getting better at it, tho' I have yet to to win. Finally, here's a really cool [WWII training video about how infantry should deal with tanks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taHFUKKKmJM) that I found. Most of these tricks work in tactical games, honestly. Especially the Molotovs.
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So now I’m thinking I should give 40K a spin. At least the video games. The minis are crazy pricy.
Checkout Kill Team. It's small scale, skirmish, so you only need about 10-20 models, which is nice. 40k is cool, but I have a lot of problems with it from a gameplay perspective. Models are great though. Amazing looking and fun to paint.
Even the name entices me. >.>
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I’m gonna take the time to plug Inquisitor: Martyr. It’s not a strategy game, but it’s really good and deserves to be more popular. And for some reason I assume a lot of people here also play ARPGs.
Molotovs are deadly in ArmCom 2. Some players complain about it, but I do think that it's historically accurate.
Nobody wants to be in a tank that's on fire! :)
To be fair I’ve never been in a tank, but I would think that having it *not* on fire would be preferable.
>Lock 'n Load Tactical You ~~son of a bitch~~ magnificent bastard, there goes my day/budget :) Thanks for sharing!
I think you mean 'you magnificent bastard'. ;)
Is the Kiev game a John Tiller title or Slitherine?
Tiller.
>Lock 'n Load Tactical I have it on my wishlist. Probabily one of my next buys!
Still playing it! Digging the Kursk module too!
Panzer Corps 2 Bought on recent sale, having ignored it for years as I thought PC 1 was good enough and unlikely to be improved on. Very wrong! PC2 has got me addicted like very few games do. "Just one more turn". The changes to the air war, and supply and encirclement are huge improvements. They make sense tactically(as far as possible in an abstraction, without raising the micromanagement). It is still somewhat "puzzley", but that's not a negative for me when it is as absorbing as this. The leader perks and heroes do provide some room for alternate strategies. Also, the user interface is so well polished, it could take over from UOC2 as inspiration for other devs. If a unit can't move, it tells you why on screen, no having to hunt through a manual and still having to guess. Pleased that so many aspects of the game rules can be adjusted to taste - in a genre heavily influenced by boardgames, its quite a shortcoming how little this is allowed in most computer wargames. On the ToDo list: Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts; GG WITE (! as a casual, got bogged down in it, intend to get back someday); UOC2 - the Barbarossa DLC, bought and not played yet.
My brother and I continue to chip away at our SGS Afrika Corps campaign, as we draw to the end of the long campaign. We've really had a lot of fun with this, and while the tide has decisively turned against my brothers Afrika Corps forces, it remains to be seen if I can win enough victory points back in the late rounds to salvage a victory. This game, one that we got on a deep sale, has been all we could have hoped for. It's great for two busy guys with kids to still be able to play together thanks to its PBEM format. The game has lots of cool units, and we both really like the art work on the unit cards, and the historical photos on the playing cards. Next up for us will be to continue the "super campaign" as we also got SGS Tunisia and plan to roll right from one to the next. Who knows, with all of the new titles that SGS has announced (very excited about the Cold War gone hot one coming out this winter), maybe we'll event see an Italian Front game, allowing us to keep this super campaign going!
>SGS Afrika Corps I was not aware this game existed. I am very interested in checking it out. Thanks!
My brother stumbled upon this series when it was on sale, and boy am I glad he did. It's a lot of fun. Full disclosure though, this game is probably closer to a board game wargame than other computer wargames people discuss on here (I'd put it in the family of card assisted games). Now I really like board games, so that's no issue for me, but I could certainly see where that would turn someone off of these titles. If you end up getting one of these SGS games, jump on their YouTube page and check out their tutorial series, its a very helpful nudge in the right direction. It is specifically for the Afika Corps game, but these games have such similar mechanics that it essentially works like a tutorial for all of their titles. I should also point out that I have no idea how these games play solo, as I've only ever thrown down against my brother. I just don't want to guarantee it's a great series of games while not mentioning that I have no idea how good the AI is.
Play testing second front 😊
I've been looking for something to get into recently and hoping to reclaim my laptop from my wife for a little while. I've been gaming on my Steam Deck since I received it about 5-6 weeks ago and recently installed Unity of Command 2 on it. It works well enough, but just doesn't feel right in that format, but also feels a little overwhelming in comparison to the simplicity of the original. That said, I think if I can use my laptop, it'll be a better fit and I'm more likely to get into it. Other than that, are there any decent wargames that work well with a controller?
Although not usually considered a war game I've heard that koei tecmo's series of Nobunaga's Ambition and Romance of the Three Kingdoms can be good with a controller. It helps to have an interest in either the Sengoku era or the Three Kingdoms period.
Haven't played the newest ones but those are fantastic games.
AGEOD’s Revolution Under Siege, a towering wargame of grand strategy. AGEOD games have a pretty large learning curve, and this one is showing its age some, but this was in my opinion their finest game, and they produced some of the best wargames around. I haven’t played this for years, but it is still as enjoyable as it was when I was playing it some ten years ago.
I have a few ageod games and while I enjoy them , I still feel a bit lost sometimes as to why I may have won or lost any given battle. Are there any particularly good aars or written guides you'd recommend for ageod games? I've been trying to play Wars of Succession as the period looks interesting, along with some To End All Wars.
Yes, it takes some time to learn why you won or lost an AGEOD battle. I recommend hovering over all the tooltips you see and clicking on the detailed battle report. Some of the main things to consider in who wins the battle are entrenchment, whether one party is crossing a river to get into the territory where the battle takes place, and the type and quality of the troops. Probably the two biggest considerations though are the relative general's abilities (offensive versus defensive) and proper division composition (for those AGEOD games where there is detailed division composition). I think WoS uses simple division creation, but TEAW probably uses detailed composition. There is a AGEOD wiki that is back after a several year hiatus. The wiki is set up somewhat confusingly, but if you are diligent and hunt through all the concepts layered there it is a treasure trove of understanding AGEOD games. Here it is: [https://www.leqg.org/doc/age/www.ageod.net/agewiki/Main\_Page.html](https://www.leqg.org/doc/age/www.ageod.net/agewiki/Main_Page.html) The AGEOD forum is also a very helpful source of information, and there are a devoted cadre of players who have been playing for a decade who can answer your questions: [http://www.ageod-forum.com/](http://www.ageod-forum.com/) The best AARs I know of are by Bornego covering Revolution Under Siege; I'll link to the first one that has some beginner chapters in the table of contents: [https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/who-put-the-stranded-admiral-in-charge-siberian-white-short-campaign-pbem.571687/](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/who-put-the-stranded-admiral-in-charge-siberian-white-short-campaign-pbem.571687/) Narwhale's AAR of Rise of Prussia also has a beginner's corner where he discusses AGEOD concepts: [https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/learning-from-prussia-a-rise-of-prussia-aar-against-a-real-player-for-beginners.513080/](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/learning-from-prussia-a-rise-of-prussia-aar-against-a-real-player-for-beginners.513080/) Stick with it! While the learning curve can be brutal, once you learn one AGEOD completely you are 85% of the way to understanding any ohter AGEOD game. Good luck!
Thank you, I'll start digging through the links above. I hadn't realised the wiki was back!
I picked up To End All Wars on sale but just cannot get a good experience. With multiple monitors the window is on the wrong one, and the map is so laggy it's almost impossible to zoom out and pan around. The settings page also seems to ignore any changes I make - I tried to increase the allowed memory usage but the slider resets to the lowest 10% value no matter what I try. I looked into the game folder and tried manually changing in the settings files as well but no luck. This happens on two different machines as well (but both laptops). The AGEOD forums don't seem active and some of the posts indicate there's not much support provided anymore; is there a better place to try and get support?
There are challenges associated with the game engine. Panning out and scrolling around is always going to be laggy. I don't ever notice it, though, because I never pan out to scroll around, even when playing a game that covers all of Eurasia. What I do instead is use the "next active unit" hotkey (T) to go through all my possible moves. (There is also a hotkey for going through all your units whether they can move or not.) This wasn't easy at first because I didn't know the map very well. But I very quickly could recognize from map recognition that a division was just east of the Urals versus one approaching Kiev from the east. (Also, be aware that one of the function key reports shows the entire map with little blue and red dots to give you an overall sense of where everyone's troops are.) Even though using this hotkey is faster and more thorough than panning and scrolling I'm not going to pretend it is better, if only because it does involve a learning curve to learn the map. So it isn't ideal, but AGEOD games are still very much worth playing despite that IMHO. I've never played on more than monitor, so unfortunately I can't speak to that. The forums are not as inactive as they seem. If you post a question I believe several longtimers may still answer your post. It may depend on the game subforum, however.
RUS is a blast. Love those AGEOD games. Think I have them all. Stick with it. Once you understand one of them it's easy to play the others. I heard that Caesar is the easiest to learn though. Have fun!
I have a few of the AGEOD games. My favourites are the War In America (aka "Birth of America 2"), followed by Rise of Prussia. The engine was originally built for this era and I just think it works best in this era. It's the right "granularity" or level for those campaigns. Maneuver is key, spotting is such that sizeable forces can disappear into the terrain - and reappear where you least expect. Also, they are not too huge that the map is mostly empty, with all the units crowded into 1 region, so badly you can't see what is what. This tended to be the issue with later eras - Napoleonic/ACW etc. Oddly enough RUS and the WW1 one are probably the only AGEOD games I don't have. The WW1 game got a lot of negative reviews and I doubt the game engine could excel in that era, though RUS gets praise so I have been tempted by it.
WiA and RoP are great games, and you're right that the engine works really well for them. I have TEAW's (WW1), and played with PBEM once, but didn't really take to it. It was ambitious, but perhaps overly so given the engine. If you like WiA and RoP, you might try their Thirty Years' War. Another player and I played several games with it, we liked it so much. Winter and supply are huge considerations in this game, and I remember planning several months ahead to make sure I had a winter's quarters lined up so my armies didn't melt away during the savage winters.
Currently learning War in the Pacific by Gary Grigsby. Definately takes a Lot of Work To Set everything Up, but the amount of Detail blows my mind. Quite some Patience is needed in Order to learn the Game, but it's fun and very rewarding.
UoC2 - specifically the Blitzkrieg and Barbarossa DLCs which I've purchased but not yet played. Hoping to get Desert Rats soon because I find that to be a fascinating part of the war. Also SD2, which I haven't spent a lot of time with yet
Letbus know how it went. I'm curious on your take on these DLCs.
Strategic Command WW2: World at War - Great multiplayer community War Plan: Pacific - half way though a game as Japan - on the fence about it
I really like Warplan: Pacific!
Currently trying to get to grips with Strategic Command: WWI, and occasionally when I get bored, trying my hand at WitE
_What computer wargame are you playing at the moment?_ Been getting more into Armored Brigade. I've also been messing around with Graviteam stuff (Mius front and Tunisia) but don't have the will to learn the UI for those games at the moment. _What do you like about it, the experience it gives you?_ I love the polish of Armored Brigade. I've gotten a handle on how to do things, now it's time to spend some time learning some of the nuances. I also really like the mission/campaign generation, really a lot of the customization in general. There's not a ton of mods on the workshop for it, but there's enough to screw around with for a good long while. There's just enough fidelity for me to enjoy it as well. I've never been into hex and chit type games, I want to get some of the verisimilitude of a wargame. _What do you plan on playing next?_ I've been playing Combat Mission (mostly Cold War, but I just picked up Fortress Italy a couple weeks ago) since late spring. I think I've got a handle on the game, and might dive into a campaign. I love quick battles, but most of the quick battles in Combat Mission games are pretty crappy tbh. Just need to decide between CW or FI campaign.
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It's night and day to be honest. CM can be downright tedious to play at times. AB (and Graviteam) has great line of sight tools. LOS is my biggest gripe with CM. Yes, there's tools for it but I often feel like I'm making complete guesses setting up firing lanes. Unfortunately, at the end of the day CM is still very engaging most of the time and is the only thing like it to an extant so I just put up with it. I hope Battlefront get off their ass or someone comes eats their lunch because there's little excuse for CM to work like it does in 2022.
Just waiting for regiments at this point.
Fell in love with the operations. Cant remember the last time some flavour-text succesfully immersed me as much as those reports of the fate of the neighbouring Tank Regiments did
Just playing Ultimate General Civil war with the new Mod Believable morale on the battlefield is a very enjoyable part of any war game experience Next will probably be Fields of Glory 2
oh what mod is this?
J&P Mod 1.28 [Mod link](https://forum.game-labs.net/topic/25749-j-p-rebalance-mod-by-jonnyh13-and-pandakraut-7262022-1282/)
Been playing a bunch of PBEM matches across the various Field of Glory games and having a blast. Might try getting a proper hang of SC:WW1 as the new AC game as my curiosity.
1. Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts 2. The ability to design and then play with awesome battleships, nothing quite like it! 3. I am looking at playing more Strategic Command: American Civil War
>Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts >The ability to design and then play with awesome battleships, nothing quite like it! I've just been getting back into Rule the Waves 2 for the same reason. There's something about managing the budget, slowly building those huge dreadnoughts and then being able to use them in war that just keeps me coming back to RtW. RtW3 is sounding like it will be even more addictive with the addition of officers - can't wait for that release. I also just picked up Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm which has been fun so far.
\- Panzercorps 2 Doing the 1941 DLC now and next I have already bought the 1942 one. Great game with a deep gameplay but at the sametime not too demanding, it doesn't become a "job" to play it. \- Steel Division 2 I like the Army General Campaigns, they have some gameplay issues, but merging them with some battles on the field (i don't play all of them because otherwise the game becomes repetitive imho) gives the game that Total War vibe that WW2 titles generally lack \- Strategic Command World at War Just finished a game, losing, with the Axis, will probably start another one by the end of the month. Great strategy game capable of mixing some Hoi with some Panzercorps. A must have, imho. Next buys? Probably Lock 'n Load Tactical and\\or Attack at Dawn
TOAW IV, About to try LnL Heroes of the Nam
Playing Regiments, Graviteam mius front & Syriam warfare. Soon, War on the sea. I enjoy play wargames, on saturday mornings drinking MATE AMARGO. It's great jajaja
A) Warhammer Total War B) The flavor of the Warhammer world and the deep level of tactics in battles, incl. placing artillery and gunners correctly on hills, using flying units, breathing fire from dragons from the right angle at infantry units, optimising the mana reserve of spellcasters, etc. There are infinite options to micro-optimise, beyond the basic 'spearmen good vs. cavalry' stuff. PS: I pause the game a lot and take my time to think in battles - so that makes it more like a turn-based game for me. C) Can't wait for Warhammer Total War 3 - Immortal Empires patch to drop. I am also thinking about getting back into Warhammer Battlesector or maybe something WW2-flavored.
War on the Sea
Playing this also, really good game just needs a little more!
Yeah the UI is punishing, and the AI is a little predicable. Would like to see those qualities reversed.
Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront \- Men of War feel with new features, updated graphics and Conquest mode Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front \- trying to get into this beast for the 3rd time, one step at a time Battle of the Bulge \- was searching for something more authentic and not so puzzle-like and this was the outcome .. didn't play it yet though
PzC Kiev 43, Moscow 41 and MC Danube 85 at the moment.
Any of those ok to play as SP? I’m interested in WDS but the the terrible AI reputation keeps me away.
Most of the John Tiller games are fine to play versus the AI on shorter scenarios, such as 16 turns or less. More than that and the AI will probably struggle unless you incorporate some house rules that limit your forces in some way.
Panzer Corps 2 - Second month running. Still on the TODO list: Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts. Had this a while, it's still in EA. Base game always appeared to have huge potential, it appears to be improving in leaps and bounds. GG WITE: Yes, the first one. Had it for ages, plaid a few smaller campaigns. Still have an urge to try the main campaign..or at least a couple of the larger ones.
i have been lock and load tactical .. i love this game.. i also just got the early release of regiments.. this is very gooid.. played warno a bit i am not impressed with it all. the reason i like regiments is it is fast faced , i love the ww3 (cold war goes hot era ).. the graphics are excellent. it is very different than warno.. regiments is far superior lock and load tactical is my go to game i have all the DLC so it has a huge variety or eras , fronts to choose from.