RTS + city builder thread

TBS like Civilization or more like XCOM?

Possibly none lel
I'd say Company of Heroes but heard it doesn't have that much basebuilding and I didn't play it personally

More like Fantasy Wars/Elven Legacy. Or maybe Age of Wonders 1 - 2/SM (one of my favourites), though it had weird simultaneous turns option.

CoH is the gold standard, and its awesome.

Pharaoh has so much soul. I still have the manual around somewhere, it's a book that's something like 300 pages long and it finishes with a paragraph along the lines of "We hope you enjoy playing Pharaoh long into the future"

I played a lot of CoH, but didn't really like 2. I want a new game if I'm going to play something so I'm just interested if there's anything good since, not the best.

I get what you're saying, but
>age of empires 3

Official GOAT RTS List

CoH
CoH2
World in Conflict
AoE1
AoM
TW: R2
TW: S2
TW: E
Empire Earth

>I want turn based strategy games with story campaigns.
heroes of might and magic 3, heroes of might and magic 2(succession war), warlords 3 darklords rising(banewars+drak-dum), age of wonders, age of wonders, age of wonders shadow magic, age of wonders 3(dreadnought campaign, I've only played one, elf one seemed shit).

It wasn't that bad

men of war is fun once you get into it, no basebuilding though

>Or maybe Age of Wonders 1 - 2/SM (one of my favourites)
Ah you've played those.

>Port Royale 4
Kinda looking forward, but only kinda.
After Patrician, PR3 and that mediterranean one, it's pretty obvious that they keep remaking same thing over and over with very little variation.
It's not Tropico for sure.

SimCity 4 is the best citybuilder and has yet to be dethroned. Argue with me.

Also has quality mods

Sure, but the point was it's a 3d game without camera rotation. Not an interesting debate by any means, not really sure why I brought even it up.

I just started Grey Goo, 2 missions in but the campaign feels pretty good so far. Pretty highly produced and has that C&C-style slowly-introducing-units-as-you-need-them.

Age of mythology?

This might be true if you're playing vanilla.
With gorillion bloat mods, it turns into a non-game about an autist playing in a sandbox and manually placing everything to jack off to his moronic vision of a city.

What are some good ones? I've never investigated

Fucking love Pharoah

Damn, that's nice.
I never played Pharaoh and others, think those can be still enjoyed if I can run them on win10?

these threads are the reason i come to v

40k one for AS2 is bloody fantastic

Only mods I use are for functionality, what is the point of a game without it's gameplay?

Anyone played Cliff Empire?
It has some neat ideas, keeps throwing you off with events that actually force you to adapt and not just pause and manually disable shit.
Unbalanced and has shit UI, though. Also has some retarded ideas that are pure annoyance.

Starship Troopers is looking like total shit.

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Thank you friend, I liked those threads myself so now I try to make one each day.

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What kind of functionality?
Just automatically placing vanilla stuff for you or making the game pointless and trivial by removing the whole challenge of traffic management?

could just be by the looks of it, thanks

i have no money on my credit card and pharaoh is on promo so i'd need to go out. want to buy it but dont wanna get corona'd

What does Electronic Arts do to the Command and Conquer franchise? It shouldn't be hard to just release a game where you build a base and shoot a bald guy's army

>Does it have elf and or dark elf factions?
Warlords 1 has an elf faction, and a cluster of dark elf cities, but anyone can produce elves if they just occupy those cities. The elf faction also gets +strenght in forests. No story campaign though.
Warlords 2 it depends on the map, and as long as you conquer elf cities you can produce elves, so it doesn't really feel that much like you have your elf faction. No story campaign, but lots of story elements scattered in each map.

In Warlords 3 each faction in each map has a unique army set. There are story campaigns, but none where elves are the main guys. In the Banewars campaign you're knightly humans and in some missions you're allied with elves and have elven soldiers as mercenaries.

Elves(dark or otherwise) are common on the skirmish maps as a playable faction, and you can create your custom army set with your own elves.
Here's how the army creation looks like, a screenshot where I was putting dwarves and elves together.

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Are you sure they're all available in multiplayer? There's a race unlocker for Soulstorm out there.

Really don't want to deal with registry fuckery on top of explaining my friends what to do step by step.

They're still falling for the online-only with microtransactions meme, and C&C4 scared the shit out of them

NO ONE CAN ACCEPT THESE GOODS

that's ok... I can use the rest...

what are some rts games with good singleplayer campaign(s) i can play through and then move onto multiplayer during quarantine

My supplies sold like hot cakes! I'm going back to the bazaar for more.

I've been kicked out of my home and through no fault of my own..

>Are you sure they're all available in multiplayer? There's a race unlocker for Soulstorm out there.

Yes they're already unlocked in multiplayer heck you can play any faction you want on single player. Idk where you got info that you need to unlock them one by one

My dad used to play this game's play demo.

What am I in for bros? Just bought it on sale.

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Why is no one talking about spellforce? it's a RPG+RTS hybrid game but it sure is fun to play.

>Desperados 3 is by the same people as Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Definitely worth keeping an eye on that one if you're into stealth.

NAM with slightly increased capacity and diagonal road tools, slope mod, terrain textures and new stuff to grow and that's it. My cities still exist on a knife edge budget and fully work. I've been playing the same region since 2013 and it now has about 16 million sims living in it and still brings my PC to it's knees. Cities Skylines on the other hand is the exact experience you're describing.

Commandos 4 when?

Been playing this game. It's pretty comfy. Found it on GoG randomly and didn't even know it existed. Made by the same guys as Caesar and Pharoah

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Just a reminder that 1800 is fantastic and worth your time.

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>removing the whole challenge of traffic management?
SC4s vanilla traffic is so immersion breaking and annoying that i cannot believe you'd imply changing it is a problem

too bad their engine is badly optimized. can`t run it well on my toaster

How is Imperator: Rome? I've been meaning to get into the genre and I would love to get some recommendations.

>found it on GoG randomly
Admit you just watched hey-hey-people guy's video bruh

Comfy but unfortunately simple.

Its fine on W10, just make sure you install the widescreen mod.

So what do you think about pic related? Will it flop?

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It's basically part of a Paradox series of Grand Strategy games that are all very similar. The problem is, Imperator: Rome is one of the worst ones. The only advantage to playing it is that most of these Paradox games have like $500 of DLC that make the game enjoyable, and Imperator is so new it doesn't really have that yet. So it might be a good place to start based on that, even if it isn't the best game.

Even so, I recommend Victoria II. Get it in a bundle with all the expansions (it's not much). It's the absolute best Paradox game so far. Some people will tell you Europa Universalis IV or Crusader Kings 2 are better, but again, you need to spend like 10 thousand fucking dollars to get all the content.

Alternatively if you like sci-fi 4X games, consider Stellaris. It's a mix between a Paradox Grand Strategy title and a game like Sins of a Solar Empire.

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Close Combat the bloody first, not for the casuals.

I played it since early days of EA, at first it was great but after space station update it all went downhill.
Starving, freezing and wolfs eating children while bears are killing elderly, also use animal limits because these little shits breed like rabbits.

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>random shit e-celeb makes video about game
>JUST ADMIT YOU FOUND IT ON VIDEO BRUH LMAO

I don't know or care who hey-hey-people guy is and I certainly haven't watched his videos. Let me enjoy my game in damn peace.

>Franchise about settling down and making a city
>New game is about literal nomads who don't make cities

>what is karakorum

Also it's not just about Mongols, it's about China and Japan.