What's the best turn based grand strategy game? Civ is just not holding up nowadays.
Been playing Dominions 4 and enjoying it, but I want something with more politics and better objectives than just "cap all the thrones." I don't mind the setting, but space and historical are particularly appealing. Speaking of which, best space turn based 4x? Endless Space/2? Setallaris? Master of Orion?
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Just play alpha centauri for the rest of your life. It's what I do.
does anyone have access to the alpha of John Shafer's At the Gates?
you'd think one of the cucks who fell for it would have released it by now as revenge
Stellaris isn't turn based
Someone in a recent HoMM thread recommended Eador: Genesis to me.
I can't stop playing it, in the last three day I must have put in more than ten hours. It's damned good if you can get past the graphics, and I don't mind them. It's a mix of Civ, HoMM and Age of Wonders. Give it a try, there's a free version with a mod that adds even more content, I'll try to link it.
Here's the full version, with the mod
eador.com
Is that the prequel to Masters?
I like Masters of the Broken Realm but it gets grindy as shit.
sounds awesome, I'll check it out.
had no idea. I have literally zero interest in realm time stuff, so that's off the list
how are the other two Eador games?
>grand strategy game
Drop that autistic gay shit and play some Warhammer, son. It will grow hair on your chest.
yea. People say Masters is really a downgrade, only the graphics are better
It's also not very good. Maybe it will improve with more DLC.
Though Paradox games aren't turn based, they don't feel too much different to me unless it's multiplayer I guess. They can be run at extremely slow speeds.
Don't forget GalCiv 2. It tries to focus a bit more on the whole politics and alternate objectives thing so you might like it.
Worse in every way except visual. Less content, shitloads of bugs.
how's 3?
Worth a shot. Honestly GalCiv isn't my cup of tea for some reason. Much as I like Space 4x I find it hard to really get behind some of them. GC3 had a fairly simplistic tech system, but one neat thing was you could choose specializations for tech. You could only research one spec, but you could trade for the others. You can also use any image from your computer to customize faction portraits.
On a related note I wouldn't recommend Endless Space 2 in its current state. Endless Legend is a better game but it's fantasy.
>I`m American and I can`t read
Endless Legend is good
Paradoxgames are real time, but with pause.
Also they're very slow so you really have time for strategy and not STARCRAFTGOOKCLICK tier things.
>try to fight the enemy, but they always come out with gaint armies
>people dislike you, revolts and bad luck everytime
>Cannot win after the passing of 30 minutes becouse enemy got to powerful
hardcore
The older Total War titles are pretty good with mods.
Other than that I would definitely recommend Twilight Struggle, classic cold war boardgame with tons of interesting historical cards if you're into that sort of stuff.
The problem I had with campaign is that early on in the campaign medium maps can be grindy as shit since you don't have access to tier 3 and above units and the middle of the map is littered with absurdly strong units so it takes a long time to finally clear a map to move on to a new one.
this, it really shits on civ i think
I thought that Endless legend was the most boring strategy game I've ever played. I pirated it like 3 years ago without any expansions, so it might have improved but it just left a terrible impression.