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Computer Gaming / Europa Universalis V - havent ...

Last post by undercovergeek - Today at 07:16:35 PM

I may have missed it and if so please delete or merge, im sure someone here would have seen it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIoTu4ftlak&t=145s

This is an ex paradox community manager who i follow for my Aurora 4x advice, and he has a couple of discussions on the upcoming EUV - which despite the first discussion has gone way past rumour and into actual dev logs

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Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...

Last post by FarAway Sooner - Today at 06:18:33 PM

Paying attention to important stuff seems more and more difficult.

I think it's grown more and more difficult for policy makers to pay attention to important stuff because money rules American politics these days, and special interests are extremely well-positioned to use money to influence incumbent politicians. 

I think it's grown more and more difficult for the public to pay attention to important stuff because the Internet mass media algorithms have figured out how to serve us a steady diet of confirmation bias and outrage, so it gets easier and easier to live in our own little information bubble.  That tends to make us overlook information that might tell us that the world is changing and new stuff is becoming important.

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Computer Gaming / Re: Next three rumoured Total ...

Last post by Skoop - Today at 03:18:11 PM

Well seeing that empire at war is the best Star Wars game of all time and no chance in hell for that series getting revived, smart play going total war Star Wars.  It will be interesting to see how they do space combat and planet combat, it could be really cool.

 I hope the space combat allows boarding ships with animated boarding battles inside the ships.

 Or space battles that transition to planet battles or orbit to planet battles.

As you can see, total war stars wars will be a big feat.  If they simply cut and paste Star Wars into the total war system, it will be lame.  If they take the time to do it right, it could be epic.

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Computer Gaming / Re: Next three rumoured Total ...

Last post by rss334 - Today at 02:46:29 PM

I would buy 40K in a heartbeat.  Star Wars, not so much.

haha I would buy Star Wars in heartbeat, 40k not so much ......

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Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...

Last post by Gusington - Today at 02:45:59 PM

Paying attention to important stuff seems more and more difficult.

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Computer Gaming / Re: Next three rumoured Total ...

Last post by Grim.Reaper - Today at 01:48:21 PM

Doesn't mean people thought done well

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Computer Gaming / Re: Next three rumoured Total ...

Last post by JasonPratt - Today at 01:41:47 PM

Re rifle warfare in TW: that goes back at least as far as Shogun 2.

I mean Nappy.

I mean Empire.

I mean Shogun 1.

...rifle warfare goes back at least as far as Total War games. 

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Computer Gaming / Re: FREE --> Endless Legend @ ...

Last post by bobarossa - Today at 01:24:47 PM

Well, I picked up the remaining three DLC at 85% discount thanks to this offer so THERE! 

.......even though I haven't played one second of the other DLC.

or the game.

ever.





I feel like this is a legit investment for the future! 

Steam says I've played a little over 100 hours, but not since 2021.  Didn't know/remember there were DLC. Must be why I felt the game was kind of limited. 

One of my achievements is playing at least 10 turns over any number of playthroughs.  Only 66% have achieved that so don't feel alone at never playing.

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Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...

Last post by FarAway Sooner - Today at 01:21:32 PM

No one in the west is willing to switch their economy over to war time production to produce 70,0000 arty shells per month, cause that's what it will take to win this. 

The Pentagon states that they'll be able to hit production targets of 100,000 155mm shells per month by Summer of 2025, as funding for that (along with many other things) was included in the $65B spending bill that the US recently passed.

Your basic point still stands:  Readiness costs money, and Western democracies have proven pretty reluctant to make that commitment, even after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

The West in general (and the US in specific) has always prided itself on spending money instead of lives.  I think that one lesson from the Ukrainian war is that, while money matters a lot, we might need to rethink how we spend that.

In particular, we might need to recalibrate the mix between quality and quantity.  There's a role for high-value weapons (e.g., F-35s dropping a half-dozen PGMs hundreds of miles behind enemy lines) and low-value weapons (e.g., a battery of 155mm howitzers dropping a curtain of dumb HE shells across enemy troops advancing along a broad front), but I think Western procurement strategies have strayed toward the high end. 

Simple things like rifle ammunition, trucks, and AP rounds for tanks are necessary before the wunder-weapons can do their thing.

I'm more worried that the US won't be able to keep their eye on this ball and Congress will go back to allocating pork to key defense contractors, rather than maintaining the broad industrial base to allow us to ramp up ammunition production quickly. 

It's kind of similar to the plan proposed (and ignored) in 2017 (?) to keep surgical-mask production facilities mothballed but ready-to-roll in the US for $150M a year.  It ain't cheap, but it ain't that expensive either.  It just requires us to pay attention to the important stuff.

https://www.defenseone.com/business/2024/04/goal-100k-artillery-shells-month-sight-army-says/396047/

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2022/04/18/us-army-document-details-plan-to-update-wwii-era-ammo-plants-and-depots/

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Computer Gaming / Re: Next three rumoured Total ...

Last post by Senex - Today at 01:17:18 PM

I would buy 40K in a heartbeat.  Star Wars, not so much.

Lord Vadar finds your lack of faith disturbing.