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The best Paradox game is Cities: Skylines.
Any of you have Thrones of Britannia? Please help me with these shader files, I don't wanna buy it or abuse the refund functionality. Requires switching Steam beta to "allegiance update".
https://steamcommunity.com/app/325610/discussions/0/1744479064005576968/?ctp=4
Having bought Rome 2 and Attila, and ran half a campaign for Shogun 2, I summarize as such:
Vanilla Rome 2 is a glorified map painting sim. There's no grounding in reality and it plays little different than Civ. I haven't played DeI yet though. Whereas Rome 2 is a cakewalk, WRE in Attila is murderous and has decent historical basis. In Saxon campaign I've done very similarly to what really happened, simply because it was the path of least resistance (held coast east of the Rhine and colonized Britain).
Suprisingly battle AI in Rome 2 is decent. It's somewhat worse than Attila in that I didn't find myself flanked in the ass, that enemy doesn't regroup with reinforcements properly (at the start of battle) when pressured, and that it's too eager to suicide the cavalry when there's no decent opening. The formation attack toggle is problematic though, in that the AI may not always use it optimally. The morale and fatigue mechanics are inferior to Attila.
Rome 2 has absurd replenishment bonuses, and it's sensible to play the later third of the campaign exclusively on autoresolve (I haven't tried legendary difficulty). Also province management is piss easy with public order growing on trees. The requirement to take a province (rather than liberate, or actually raze) raises corruption sky high.
In Attila, it was always a hard choice whether to form another legion. It's a drain on the income, and I couldn't just spam 20/20 doomstacks to make things easier. Up till the end, even with pimped-out cash cow provinces.
Attila has good AI, but there are some non-exploit ways that work each time:
- cavalry chases off archers, then main army walks into range
- battle lines form, then cavalry has utterly free reign
- second line does a crescent-like movement, enveloping the enemy's line
- in sieges, javelinmen have basically free reign with AI swapping front-line units as they get damaged to hell and back
- when sieged, wait till the enemy commits the infantry, then get 1k kills with basic horse equites garrison (first the archers, then slam the rest)
- enemy uses archers and they barely manage ~50-70 kills each if they ever manage to expend all ammo, and pila throwers manage 200-300 and burn through ammo quick
- chasing missile units with any shitty melee unit makes them run away to the point of cheese, but on very rare occasions the AI can kite
Shogun 2 has decent AI, comparable with Attila, but it's so simplified I won't be buying or playing it. But it has a siege defense semi-exploit whereas it'll assault immediately if you simply walk out of enemy archers' range (to the other side of the compound). Also the wall climbing is fucking asinine.
I should play Attila without pausing. I think I managed with WRE simply due to the pause functionality. I should also try Ancient Empires, but the province management is shit.
I'm actually in love with Attila's narrative campaign, it's truly revolutionary. I wonder how long a timespan could a narrative campaign hold without collapsing -- say, from the Punic Wars up to including Caesar Octavian Augustus? A man can dream.
Are the WH games better battle-wise? I don't like the trashy (even if grimdark) fantasy and "awesome button" units...
You can still have a lot of fun battles, but yeah it's clearly oriented towards AWESOME e-sports commentary gameplay for retards (yuropoors and spics).
You can still have a lot of fun battles, but yeah it's clearly oriented towards AWESOME e-sports commentary gameplay for retards (yuropoors and spics).
I tried playing this like a Total War game and failed miserably. As opposed to awesome button units, you know what is awesome? Getting 1500 kills on a scout equites garrison in a single battle, prior to winning. It would make a better commentary as well, except for the retards.
In any Total War game, you can kill an exhausted Praetorian Guard (or other top-tier heavy infantry unit) by surrounding them from all sides with naked barbarians. WH2 general units ride on dragons that are physically larger than old-school 160-men units and survive being surrounded with anything, horse-sandwiched, etc.
Switch the pause key to space and show orders from space to whatever. That's what made it manageable for me.Tried getting back into TW with Attila - I really enjoy the period and the strategy level but my god the battles just seem so ridiculous. I hate real-time micromanaging.
I'm getting too old for this shit.
The AI falls for the same tactics as always. Just snipe their general with flanking cavalry, then proceed to charge in enemy back line for an easy win. As for the strategic layer, I found the best experience in Attila to be playing as WRE and trying to survive. The game advises you to fall back and let enemies eat a bit of your lands if they want to, but that's actually a shitty advice - the refugee mechanic will obliterate your public order everywhere if you allow that to happen. Best to stop the enemies at the border whenever you can, while investing all your money into raising public order and removing pollution wherever you can. Once you get public order under control, you've basically won.Tried getting back into TW with Attila - I really enjoy the period and the strategy level but my god the battles just seem so ridiculous. I hate real-time micromanaging.
The game advises you to fall back and let enemies eat a bit of your lands if they want to, but that's actually a shitty advice - the refugee mechanic will obliterate your public order everywhere if you allow that to happen
Once you get public order under control, you've basically won.
Just snipe their general with flanking cavalry, then proceed to charge in enemy back line for an easy win.
It's a lovely quirk of modern technology that I get to have my peak childhood nostalgia game on my phone
Best TW game: Medieval Total War.
Best Paradox Game: Crusaders Kings 2
Guess its different for everyone. I like original Rome: TW and EU4 the best.