History and video games

AGEOD is prety gud

The Spartan hoplites were not very Aesthetic, I thought, they did not have the same homo-erotic feel like the movie 300, also they could've made unrealistically OP.

Joking aside, RTW has a lot of unrealistic crap built on it for gameplay purposes, German spearman did not form Phalanxes, Legionary cavalry is an oxymore, Praetorian Legion was the emperor bodyguards and not heavy units sent in wars.

Absolute shite. The pirate one was good, cos it was a good pirate game.

Everything after 2 has been a slow decline.

>He doesn't achieve victory before the Marian Reforms

this senpai

>Triarii, not Legionary. Praise Mars.

>what is Victoria II

Triarii are unironically the best Roman spear unit throughout all eras, in multiplayer people had Marian legionaries in their front line and triarii on the flanks.

And abandon the Manipular style? That's blasphemy. Post-Parian Cavalry is cucked and playing with cohorts really limits the number of strategies you can take in a battle.

when i played rtw campaign mode, i dedicated rome to making as many triarii as i could support so when the marian reforms rolled around id use them in special armies insread of the shitty auxilia the italian cities were garrisoned with hundreds and hundreds of triarii it was great.

It would've been great if they formed testudo formations, pre-marius reform units are exposed to missile fire but having enough Equites ready to bait them away can make up for it

Sorta pointless anywau since testifies makes you vulnerable to cavalry and the triarii’s role in multiplayer was to sprint around the flanks like a bunch of marathon hoplites warding off whatever cavalry was trying to get into your rear, they weren’t used historically at all and testudo wouldn’t have helped them in that particular role

That's a general problem with historical video games. You get 'units' but without any of the historical baggage or culture that shaped them.

>getting Roma Surrectum 3.1 to work on Steam.
It feels great.

I would, if I was an ant.

>Dude 1 million socialist rebels in America every other month lmao

fucking how?

>Not passing social reforms
>not having 10 billion fascist revolts every week
Pleb.

discord.gg/m9vH92

post vidya

I followed this guide.
youtube.com/watch?v=FNOhyGx2NhQ

that nigga has a video as his background. How gauche.

>hellenic era Egypt in Rome TW
It's more fucking ancient kingdom egypt though isn't it, besides a few phalanxes

Total war shogun 2 (fots dlc) when you realize stopping modernization is futile. Also that ashigaru battalions are conscripted farmers which you use as cannon fodder

my favorite is Amazon Chariots!!!

>German spearman did not form Phalanxes
Pretty sure Romans noted that the Marcomanni fought in phalanx-like formations.

Did you get it to work though?

>Not modding to play as rebels
>Not bringing your warrior women from the edge of the map to sack Rome and Athens.

So do you guys just take Rome from the Senate and let the population stagnate?
Also this is now an Attila posting thread

The praetorians fought in wars all the time, on the Rhine, on the Danube, for or against usurpers.

>mfw playing as Western Rome and abandoning all towns, but Africa
>mfw watching Germanic kingdoms tear each other apart and come back years later to rebuild the empire

How do you get this filter

The phalanx in the game is the macedonian phalanx, which most definetly was not in use by the germans.

A phalanx, as described by the roman historians, refers to simply a shield wall. The phalanx was, for all intents and purposes, pretty much just a very disciplined shield wall with uniform weaponry across the line.

try Reshade and download all filters you can

there's one that turns your game into 8bit pixels o even a bunch of 1s and 0s in scanlines.

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I found this from a /v/ thread about fotosketcher.
The Total war images in that thread were great.

Slytherine has a pretty good catalog for wargames Tbh. Obviously not on the GS scale though some games like WiF come extremely close.

The whole of Ultimate Genearl:Civil War
>Win a decisive victory as the Union at First Manassas
>Just go to the next battle
>Win a decisive victory at Antietam as either the North or South
>War still goes on
>Win a decisive victory at Gettysburg as the South or the North
>WAR STILL GOES ON
Seriously fuck that game. If you are going to have a campaign with RPG elements at least have the campaign be somewhat dynamic, fucking Civil War Generals 2 had a campaign with alt history battles.

*Ultimate General

I've been playing as Hawai'i. Became Fascist by 1905 and am currently adopting a policy of "Kamehameha did nothing wrong" and uniting the Polynesians under one flag.

[spoiler] Even fought a war with Britain and won [/spoiler]

[spoiler] There's also been four World Wars and America invaded Vietnam in like 1911 [/spoiler]

Aside from some axemen, all they have for melee infantry is phalanxes. Really the only new kingdom shit Egypt had was the chariots, but that's all anyone ever talks about with Rome 1.

Just got one from my Fall of the Eagles campaign

>playing as Worst Roman Empire
>not helping the Visigoths meet their victory conditions

>>>/reddit/
>>>/underage/

>people never actually though about putting cannon on an elephant and creating panzer division in 15th century.
why is Veeky Forumstory so boring?

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>phalanx in the game is the macedonian phalanx

I don't have a brainlet image saved, but if I did I would post it.

if you haven't played Rome 2 stfu they do use phalanx

>stopping modernization is futile
yea, but whats great is using mass levy infanty to hold your lines and using tech tree artillery to fuck shit up in first person.

>victory before the Marian Reforms

worst part of the game really. rome was so op that the marian reforms breaks the game unless you attack a mac phalanx head on and still you may win with an experienced unit

The germans don't have a phalanx in Rome 2, first off. And second off nothing about the formation is indicative of it being macedonian other than the length of spears, likely due to laziness of only coding one spear for phalanxes. The back row holding their spears up is not a macedonian-only thing.

actually the Indians used those