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I started a new game as well - all the art mods makes a massive difference!
There are rumours of rats of unusual size roaming the wastelands - this is of course complete nonsense!
It’s comments like this that make me want to try this game.
I just worry it will be too much of a mental investment to understand it and too full of painful micro.
Me, too, but that post made me reinstall it anyway.
I haven’t played in about a year, but I was able to mostly get a handle on things. I would just play, learn a few new things, then quit/restart when I decided the new things I’d learned would help on a restart. The game was interesting enough that I enjoyed that ride. But I can see many others not enjoying it enough to go thru this sort of cycle.
I treat each turn and game like a learning sandbox. The first few hours were very confusing. Watching a “getting started” video helped. By 10 hours I understood the basics (40% of the game). By 20 hours I was experimenting with multi-player with friends. By 40 hours I felt confident, but still did not understand 25% of the game (advanced model creation, logistics and Human Resources).
I stopped playing for about one year. This time it took 5 hours to get back to basics, and by 10 total hours I was learning new things. I binged this week and played almost 30 hours. I love it, it’s great. It’s very immersive, there is a lot to juggle, making progress is very rewarding.
Will try and record a “normal” turn or two and upload it so people can see what is takes. I follow my script above very closely each turn. So far it’s working. :-)
It’s less complex than Dwarf Fortress but more complex than Dominions.
I like the fact I can dig into details and see every shot and every counter attack from every troop in a massive battle between hundreds of units that lasts 10 rounds. Or I can just watch the little pictures and see who lives or dies. It scales well from macro to micro.
Which one?
That one is the right balance of a good overview but not too much detail. 35 mins total.
Das Tactics has great ones, but they are 30 mins per topic across 10+ topics. Save those for later.
Excellent, thanks. And thanks for your own guide posted earlier. Time to get back into this!
Added this mod. Edited my post above to link to all four mods:
Beveled unit cards, so I can more easily see multiple unit stacks: Beveled Units Mod (v4.1) - Critters Update
Alien wildlife is easy, they said. No match for modern troops.
The first chitinous 3 bird-beaks had skin as hard as armor plates. (Infantry used their hard attack, ugh.)
The second nasty platypus / mollusk things got four attacks per round. Four! My troops panicked instantly.
(Yes, those fights were somewhat staged - look at the low readiness, I would not have pressed those attacks.)
Boats! (but not yet).
I watched that “bare essentials” video up above and that was enough to get started. I feel like I understand barely the essentials, but I’m not dead yet and start each turn with an idea for something to do. So many layers I don’t have a clue about.
You appear to be well supplied, nice work. :-) Feel free to ask questions.
Am starting a competitive 1 vs 1 game with a friend soon, so I need all of the practice I can get.
The guys in the top left are looking a little hungry.
You’ve quite a lot of spread out units for early doors, I’d be tempted to get your transport hub nationalised if you haven’t already? I’m guessing you’re planning to grab that tasty triple ruins group to the east?
Every time I see this in my library I think “maybe this is the weekend I finally start learning this” and then every single time I come to this thread and read something like this and I’m like “nope, I’m too dumb for this game.”
Dude it’s amazing. Read the great manual and dive in.
There is literally a button that say “Nationalise” on it 😁
There’s magic little people who build their own little enterprises and you as big state can pop over and just buy it from them. It’ll be, theoretically, more productive, but you’ll have to pay the wages of the labourers.
The magic people private sector is one of my favourite bits of SE
Okay, okay, I’ll watch some videos and finally install it! You guys have convinced me!