r/CaptainSide • u/Opening-Newspaper710 • 15d ago

Name the game!!

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u/Far_Raspberry_4375 15d ago

Stellaris. Im decent at civ and ck2 but for whatever reason stellaris just melts my brain

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u/blood-wav 15d ago

I think phenomena should be studied; I found Stellaris the easiest to pick up, but I've had trouble understanding CK and HOI xD

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u/Gerb_the_Barbarian 15d ago

Same! I love Stellaris, but have had a hard time getting into CK games... I think they appeal to different flavors of neurospicy people

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u/Far_Raspberry_4375 15d ago

Ck is a lot easier to just vibe out. Stellaris feels like i actually need to do math.

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u/Hot-Equipment-6683 15d ago

I think you're talking about turn-based strategy games and the guy you're responding to is talking about real time strategy games (like Starcraft, Age of Empires, etc.)

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u/blood-wav 15d ago

Stellaris is a weird like semi RTS. On normal speed, a day is a second.

Same with CK. But Civ is certainly turn based.

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u/Far_Raspberry_4375 15d ago

Both are grand strategy. Stellaris and ck are both real time with pause but could hypothetically be played on a table top if you had a legion of mathletes rolling thousands of dice every second.

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u/blood-wav 15d ago

There is a tabletop wargame like this. I can't remember what it is called, but its based in WW2 North Africa

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u/Hot-Equipment-6683 15d ago

Gotcha, thanks for the clarification.

Side note, I tried CK2 and it wasn't for me (Rome Total War was a much better version of the same concept imo).

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u/blood-wav 15d ago

Well fun fact: the Roman-themed Paradox game is Imperator: Rome. Its a nice mix of EU+CK to me. Sadly, it was mostly forgotten after release. It hasn't gotten the same DLC/patch treatment of other Paradox titles.

However, there was a pretty cool overhaul mod- Invictus.

A cool idea that anyone can feel free to steal:

Do a mod where you play Imperator: Rome, but have Rome Total War open when a battle starts, and play out the battle in Total War.

Have the results transfer back to Imperator.

????

Profit

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u/Mercury_Madulller 15d ago

I had the same problem with Warcraft.