Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game?
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Total War Warhammer 1/2/3! I hate RTS combat. If these games were turn based they’d be amongst my most played.
I’d be so all over a proper turn based Warhammer game.
Shadow of the horned rat and dark omen both do the same but just a little closer to the tabletop game afaik (but they’re a pain to get properly running).
Then there’s SOVL which gives a proper turn based mechanic that’s pretty close to Warhammer fantasy of old in the style of classic white dwarf battle reports.
There’s also a game in cooperation with the people behind 9th age but also, didn’t get it working yet.
Meager pickings :/
For the record you can auto complete the battles and just play them as turned based strategy games with no tactical component. That may or may not be what you’re looking for, but just figured I’d let you know.
My experience with autoresolve is that it punishes you for not fighting manually. You can basically always get better results if you take charge, and in the (old) Total War games I played resolving often cost half your army even when you vastly outnumbered/leveled the enemy.
Anyone who knows their way around the tactical battle system can generally outperform the autoresolve, but for their use case (no tactical battles at all) that just sets a new difficulty baseline. If that’s too high, bring the game difficulty down. Problem solved.
Yeah, I know. It’s barely even half a game at that point though so what’s the point?
I mean, there’s enough game there that people routinely run “Auto resolve only” multiplayer games, so clearly there’s a decent number of people who think it’s worth doing.
Alternatively, if you want to keep the tactical battle element but find the “real time” aspect hard to manage, I’ll point out that you can give orders while paused. So you can effectively make it into a turn based game. Total War combat is pretty slow already, compared to stuff like StarCraft, and there are plenty of tools for building multistep orders and so on.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 days ago
A civ 40k would be awesome!
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
A good one yeah :)
They did however already make an OK one with a terrible DLC strategy (there’s €200 of DLC).
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 days ago
WoTC and shoveling slop with their ip, name a more iconic duo.
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Is it owned by WotC now? I thought it was Games Workshop.