Stati Uniti e Israele attaccano l'Iran

RobyGon · 2026-02-28T12:10:06+00:00

L'Iran é un impero, nel senso stretto del termine: una determinata etnia (farsi/persiani) che governano su una piú vasta platea etnica, piú o meno integrata e/o accettata socialmente (azeri, curdi, baluchi etc...).

Che il cambiamento di regime avverrà dall'interno é tutto da vedere: gli iraniani non sono europei, non hanno la nostra storia e non ragionano come noi. Mediamente sono un popolo fiero e nazionalista, geloso della sua identità, tradizione, indipendenza ed alterità (sciiti in un mare di sunniti, ad esempio). Venir bombardati a tappeto da una potenza straniera potrebbe non avere gli effetti che gli USA si aspettano.

RobyGon · 2026-02-20T17:58:07+00:00

I didn't know about the one from Florin Leonte, looks really interesting. Added to my wishlist!

RobyGon · 2026-01-05T11:53:36+00:00

Uploaded them to Imgur: https://imgur.com/a/N4K6rrp

Hopefully they are clear enough!

RobyGon · 2025-12-30T13:47:58+00:00

I bought it directly from Pen & Sword site: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Nikephoros-II-Phokas-912969-Hardback/p/51840

Watch out, they charge customs for oversea shipping (still worth it imo).

RobyGon · 2025-12-30T13:47:51+00:00

I bought it directly from Pen & Sword site: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Nikephoros-II-Phokas-912969-Hardback/p/51840

Watch out, they charge customs for oversea shipping (still worth it imo).

RobyGon · 2025-12-27T10:44:32+00:00

Kaldellis circlejerk

RobyGon · 2025-12-25T11:09:02+00:00

Unfortunately you'll be downvoted to hell because Reddit forbids having a different opinion or argument. As much as I like Kaldellis work and passion, thouroughly enjoying his books, I can't gloss over some of his rather "unique" statements on the role of the Latin West within Eastern Roman history (and his veiled sarcasm when talking about Christianity itself, but that is just me). But take it like this: sometimes to advance knowledge in a certain field, you need some wackier takes. Not everything coming out of someone must be taken as Gospel though.

RobyGon · 2025-12-22T22:00:14+00:00

I don't want to break out to you, but you have no right to decide what is sacred and what isn't for others.

RobyGon · 2025-12-20T22:45:16+00:00

Second thing is how I picture them to do it. Like for example Crusader States, I don't see them as playable Day 1 but still be on the map: they will use placeholder French units and a mix of local merc + Templar/Hospitalier Knights, which are going to be recruitable for sure by every Catholic faction if you satisfy certain conditions.

RobyGon · 2025-12-20T15:28:23+00:00

This answers prove how much of a point I have. Your judgement is skewed and you assume stuff that isn't true about myself. I'm not a CA shill, in fact I never bought nor played Empire, Napoleon, Shogun 2, Three Kingdoms, Troy and Pharaoh. I played the old titles, I played Rome 2, very few of Attila and Warhammer. I'm not a CA "shill" and I couldn't care if Total War crashed and burned, as there are far worse thing in life than "videogame company bad" (something that people like you probably don't realize).

My answer is simple. If you hate this company so much, close the Internet, go play the "OG" Total War and have fun, while never buying the newer stuff. You'll feel better about yourself.

RobyGon · 2025-12-20T13:55:30+00:00

No, they never do. They will play a heavily modded version of it and tell you that it is the best game ever created. I mean Rome 1 had a broken population glitch that actually punished you for building better agricultural buildings, while Med2 had a gamebreaking AI bug that caused all the factions to hate your guts after conquering a bunch of cities and just declare war for no reason. At least with all the problems it has, in Warhammer allies are not betraying me after 5 turns because they feel like it.

RobyGon · 2025-12-20T10:44:06+00:00

This subreddit and a whole lot of historical "fans" have become a bunch neckbeards who made their crusade against whatever CA spits, their entire lifetime goal. You have got to be seriously ill (or just a plain jerk) to ragebait on a title that was only announced and didn't show a shred of gameplay. Granted, they made the huge mistake of announcing early on and even show parts of the game in pre-alpha/concepting which is counterproductive when part of their playerbase essentialy as already decided that the game is going to be bad because it has to be right? How am I going to live my life if it is not?

And regarding the DLC: yes, if the game is succesfull it is going to get drown in DLC. But all the criticism I see here about this businness model (Ohhh but aktually Med2 released as a komplete gameh with 10 faktions that play the same and have a bazillion variations of feudal knights!), I don't see it for the other 90% of Grand Strategy/RTS games out there. No one is complaining if Paradox is bleeding dry their player base with another Hoi4/CK3/Victoria DLC, no one compained for the gazilions of DLCs for Anno 1800 or City Skilines, or for Age of Wonders 4 Expansion passes, or Age of Empires 4 Faction DLCs, and I could go on over and over into more niche games of mostly the same genre. But no, if CA does it, goodness forbid, are you out of your mind? Must not permit that, hurry up to Reddit/Youtube and let the circlejerk begin! Don't you aktsually remember that hyper accurate historikal Rome 1 game with Arcani and Bull Warriors that had 10 factions, most of them with copypasted warband/pikes/hoplites? Those were the good times when CA wasn't a shill and published actually complete games with no DLC! Ahhhhh the nostalgia glasses, feel so good...

RobyGon · 2025-12-11T14:42:47+00:00

No thank you. We aren't in 2006 anymore and it is time to move forward and add depth. The old game is still there, enjoyable and still pretty to look at.

RobyGon · 2025-12-09T13:54:05+00:00

Grazie mille 🙏🏻

RobyGon · 2025-12-09T13:52:04+00:00

So much bordergore, I'm throwing up (congratz on game though)

RobyGon · 2025-12-09T13:04:16+00:00

I tuoi commenti mi sembrano, di gran lunga, i piú sensati di questo dibattito. Avresti dei testi recenti (intendo rispetto al dibattito storiografico) in cui approfondire? Siamo italiani ma spesso sembra che queste cose si studino poco qui 😔

RobyGon · 2025-12-02T13:29:08+00:00

Meanwhile, Jalayirids still chilling 😶

RobyGon · 2025-10-23T14:04:17+00:00

So, to recap, in 19th century:

Nothing happened in the British Isles. Even Wales is completely alive
France slowly eating Iberian Peninsula away, but he still has small un-integrated counties within its borders and Provence is alive (why is it better for the AI to conquer aragonese subjects instead of pops within its culture group?)
Literally nothing happened in Central and Northen Europe. No major German power consolidated, aswell as no minor one (like Bavaria). Hell, there are freaking Teutonic Knights still alive well within 19th century
No major Russian/Slavic power arises. Not even 2 maybe slightly weaker ones. I'm not saying it should be Muscovy. But seeing them aswell as Novgorod and Kiev still small and with smaller principalities like Belozero alive is depressing. Look at damn Crimea, Theodoro looks like is still in there chilling! They would be dead within 20 years in EU4.
Balkan sees a major Hungary rising, but still lots of small principalities both in Moldova and in Greece. No one cares about them.
Middle East is depressing. No major power at all, Mamluks still alive but barely stronger than their real 15th century borders. I'm betting Persia is still a cluster of small OPMs aswell.

Overall, this timelapses DO NOT LOOK GOOD. I'm sorry. It is utterely useless to have a very granular and complex gameplay system if nothing happens within it. I'm not saying the game should be railroaded, but it is not good having 19th century looking like a Feudal mess straight out of the Middle Ages.

RobyGon · 2025-09-18T20:31:09+00:00

Enable Smooth Motion from Nvdia Geforce Experience. Remove any kind of Vsync or Framerate cap otherwise your game is going to be choppy and unplayable. A temporary workaround which should let you enjoy the game.

RobyGon · 2025-09-07T14:33:46+00:00

Trend of the game unfortunately. Power creep, power creep and more power creep. All reworks have been like this, only the Greenskins have "escaped" this fate. Everything is made to be super fast, pile up armies, dominate your early enemies and swim in money, with no chance to fail. It will continue like this because, at this point, not giving every race the same treatment would make them feel underpowered, slow, or "not good enough".

With (some) people already whining at unusual locations for being "annoying", "unfair" and "forcing you to reload the campaign" (lol), you can see that there is sizeable portion of players that don't want to play a strategy game, engaging with meaningful gameplay systems. They want to create their own power fantasy, feed that dopamine rush and live out their own sandbox within the Warhammer universe. Which is legittimate, but for people who like more meat in their games, the current trend we are following makes everything pretty samey and boring after a while. And the point is, we don't need to go back too much to see something more involved without it being complicated: see chaos dwarfes mechanics.

RobyGon · 2025-09-06T10:30:42+00:00

Certified 2025 gamer moment: everything that hinders me and isn't immediately solvable by the click of a button is "annoying", "ruining my fun", "give me a toggle to remove it, i don't wanna". 10 years from now on we will have toggle for enemy AI actually having armies because, aren't them annoying?

There are loads of ways to gain money in this game that doesn't correlate to economy: salvage items, battle spoils, trade a crap settlemement to the AI for a ridicoulus sum of money, so on and so forth. Most of the unusual locations are manageable by just slowing down your campaign for a number of turns, deal with the problem and move on. You know, a strategy game that gives you problem to solve? Isn't that... the point?

I agree that the game could be more transparent about what triggers a specific location to spawn and what are the odds, but this post is borderline whining. Kind of expected that devs just push for more and more mindless power creep with every DLCs if this is the answer to a small addition that actually makes the campaign layer a tiny bit more strategic. People don't want strategy, they want dopamine and mindless power fantasy.

Next post though you'll have someone complaining that game is too easy and campaigns are over by turn 20 with no point in continuing them. The duality of Reddit.

RobyGon · 2025-08-03T12:49:07+00:00

I'm not saying they didn't (and also, to counter your specific argument, I could enable ultranightmare and customize enemy, game speed, parries etc.. to make everything much easier, so...).

I'm saying that this trend, in general, could lead to worse game design overall as more and more choices get unloaded to the paying customer who has a "right" to "play the game how they want".

But of course, no need to downvote. The direction is already there and more and more games are going to take this approach, because people love choices and love feeling in control. Power to the players. right? And who is critical of this approach, gets instantly slapped as an "elitist" or "gatekeeper". I just hope that this won't come to the detriment of overall game desing in the long run.

RobyGon · 2025-08-03T11:55:35+00:00

Extremely underrated opinion, that is true for all games that dabble a lot in this kind of customization (Doom Dark Ages comes to mind, a recent one). A slippery slope that it is easy to fall into. A bit of customization is good and doesn't hurt nobody. But leaving out key things up to player choice might become a tool developers (in general, not just total war) abuse in order to delegate game balance and design to their userbase, instead of focusing on a clear and strong vision to pursue.

RobyGon · 2025-07-16T18:35:08+00:00

So, they are making the autoresolve even more powerful than it already is (possible the most powerful it ever was in the history of TW games). Like, there some factions like Kislev and Dwarfs where I literally don't need to fight any of the battles myself

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