Poll: Calling master strategists
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i'd say SupCom.
i almost never play chess (no one to play against)
i've only played Medievil Total War, and i could never be bothered to see it through
Warcraft, AoE, starcraft, DoW, Sins of a Solar Empire etc etc i just turtle up, turtle up, turtle up, and the EXPLODE outwards from my base in an unstoppable wave of fully upgraded super units and cannon fodder, and roll over all things in my path
Sup Com is just too damn big for that to work. defenses have to be placed where they'll be most effective, defense armies need running around inside your lines, and you have to manage an economy worse that ours is all the damn time. seriously, building power crashes your mass, buildin mass generators crashes your power. building anything else crashes both.
i'ts all balanced on a knife edge, and to cap it all off, the AI just keep on coming for you
i almost never play chess (no one to play against)
i've only played Medievil Total War, and i could never be bothered to see it through
Warcraft, AoE, starcraft, DoW, Sins of a Solar Empire etc etc i just turtle up, turtle up, turtle up, and the EXPLODE outwards from my base in an unstoppable wave of fully upgraded super units and cannon fodder, and roll over all things in my path
Sup Com is just too damn big for that to work. defenses have to be placed where they'll be most effective, defense armies need running around inside your lines, and you have to manage an economy worse that ours is all the damn time. seriously, building power crashes your mass, buildin mass generators crashes your power. building anything else crashes both.
i'ts all balanced on a knife edge, and to cap it all off, the AI just keep on coming for you
. <---- There you go. Copy and paste that period so you can use it. Sorry to hear yours is broken.lizards said:
As for pure strategy, Go is the ultimate game. In terms of video games, I'll have to say civilization and the Total War series when you're in civilization mode. Tactically, it's definitely Total War. In terms of mechanical skill, Starcraft takes the cake.
You forgot Total Annhilation, a game which is still around in the TASpring style with mods out of the ears.
I prefer that to SupCom, since SupCom was basically 'Spam same unit until bored'
I prefer that to SupCom, since SupCom was basically 'Spam same unit until bored'
I believe this to be true. We'll wait...Souplex said:
Chess and Total War, for me. I feel most of the other games you can create arse loads of units in most of those other games and swarm the enemy, resulting in overkill, something you can't do in either of the above games. Don't get me wrong though, it's not always possible, and those games are rich in strategy, but that fact is still there.
And no C&C? Really?
Loved that game. God if I have time or I finish all of the stuff I'm playing now, I may have to unearth it.Mr.Switchblade said:
So online chess, when you win do you shout 'PAWNED!'?
Ahem, anyways, I'm not a huge fan of the genre but I felt Gladius was hugely overlooked on XBOX, was a gladiator themed 'Advance Wars' or 'FF Tactics' style game.
Ahem, anyways, I'm not a huge fan of the genre but I felt Gladius was hugely overlooked on XBOX, was a gladiator themed 'Advance Wars' or 'FF Tactics' style game.
Same here, did the same thing for roman tactics with Rome. mind you online in Rome comes down to an Urban cohort and spartan phalanx spam.Wasder said:
ah yes it is good, but it is less a strategy and more a story.Souplex said:
Personally I prefer total war and chess, the former for the empire management, real time command, and the like. the latter is just an excellent exercise in strategic though. but chess does require more forethought.
I'm a huge fan of DoW1 for multiplayer. Games are fast, intense, and offer much more scope for innovation than ritualized and sluggish games like AoE or Supreme Commander. Dont get me wrong, i love any RTS, it's my chosen Genre, but DoW has a visceral speed and control that is the core of any good RTS with no added baggage.
DoW 2 is also a huge amount of fun, but the lack of game modes does do it an injustice. I hope an expansion sees this rectified, and my prayers go to a 'Meat grinder' mode, where one player must hold off waves of the enemy that the game spawns for them to control, with similarly timed reinforcements. Bloodshed alley was one of my favorite DoW1 maps, and seeing a game mode in it's tribute would be awesome.
DoW 2 is also a huge amount of fun, but the lack of game modes does do it an injustice. I hope an expansion sees this rectified, and my prayers go to a 'Meat grinder' mode, where one player must hold off waves of the enemy that the game spawns for them to control, with similarly timed reinforcements. Bloodshed alley was one of my favorite DoW1 maps, and seeing a game mode in it's tribute would be awesome.
Grammar nazi? Give me a break. Your shit is too hard to read when you don't put a single punctuation mark in it. I'm not asking you to proofread your work or even give you shit about comma usage. I'm asking you to at least get your writing up to a point where somebody can read it and actually understand it.lizards said:
It might be because the simplest way to beat that game is to take about five of so units and only use them. it makes it ridiculously one sided when a lv. 20 paladin goes against a lv. 10 knight.Souplex said:
You could argue for RTSs but in my experience the winner is always the one that is able to do everything the quickest and overwhelms the other players.