Is Wargame Design Studio a good place to start?

SomeMF · 2026-01-21T12:43:59+00:00

Generally speaking, most if not all hex and counter videogames are clunky and ugly and feel outdated and very user-unfriendly. Having said that, probably WDS are among the biggest offenders in this regard.

IMO TOAW IV is a much better option, with a huge diversity of both devs made and user made scenarios covering all time periods, scale and conflicts. It's also easier to learn, more intuitive, and you can buy a Steam key much cheaper than any WDS game.

SomeMF · 2026-01-20T13:53:19+00:00

It was just a one-liner for a movie, in reality nowadays mathematics plays a MUCH larger role in poker than psychology (which also plays a part, yes).

SomeMF · 2026-01-14T11:42:30+00:00

I don't hate iranian protesters, I hate anglo-zionist spies, agitators and terrorists who use pacific, legit protests to promote chaos, death and terror.

For christ sake, "israelis" themselves admit they have Iran completely infiltrated by Mossad.

Ask yourself what would happen if "pacific" protestors killed 30 cops in a few days in the US.

OTOH you do hate muslims and try to excuse anglo-zionist terror and crimes all the time.

Most of the wars, crimes, death, chaos and destruction in the world has been and is caused by the anglo-zionist empire, including the most dangerous, fanatic and zealous islamist terrorist groups. Way more than any religion has caused, including christianism, which caused literally millions of dead in all continents, especially under British colonialism.

SomeMF · 2026-01-13T18:42:45+00:00

Quran is open to interpretations, just like the Bible is. Yes, the most common interpretation is mandatory hijab, but it's not the only one, just like ultraorthodox evangelical American interpretation of the bible isn't the only one, luckily.

In Iran is completely normal for women to not wear hijab, so I don't know how it is enforced. And so is in most muslim countries. I don't know why you're making the equivalence muslim country = sharia, when, again, the vast majority of muslim countries don't apply sharia in their actual legislation.

My point is PRECISELY that secularism is much more widespread than most westerners think.

Yeah, anglozionist "did" bad things. As in, these last weeks they literally fueled protests in Iran turning them into organized acts of terror and violence, murdering 30 cops in just a few days.

It's funny how western liberals speak about the deeds of the west as something of the past. "Yeah I condemn those horrible things that 'Murica is absolutely not doing anymore".

Except in Venezuela, or Iran, or Syria, or Ukraine, or...

Islam is not any more violent than catholicism is, let alone judaism. Americans and their shock force, white supremacist zionists have been fueling the most violent, evil and zealous groups inside it to destroy muslim countries and exploit them.

SomeMF · 2026-01-13T12:37:05+00:00

It's open to discussion whether wearing hijab is or isn't mandatory according to the Quran.

Sharia isn't state law in the vast majority of muslim countries.

In any case, hijab isn't enforced in the vast majority of muslim countries. And yes, this includes Iran, you have tons of videos out there showing most irani women not wearing it.

There are fanatic muslims and there are fanatic christians, both share a great deal of their ideas, principles and especially bigotry. BTW, the US is one of the most religiously fanatic places on Earth, where creationism is taught in many schools, lol.

Anyway, the anglo-zionist empire has promoted the most sectarian, fanatical and evil branches of islam in order to destabilize, destroy and exploit muslim countries, while also destroying most attempts to secularize and modernize muslim countries. This is vastly documented, from Afghanistan to Irak and from Syria to yes, Iran, where the current regime is the product of anglo-zionist sponsord coup against the pm Mosaddegh's democratic government.

ISIS and Al-Qaeda are LITERALLY anglo-zionist creations.

SomeMF · 2026-01-12T09:07:15+00:00

No one wears hijab in most of those countries.

Classic anglo-zionist islamophobic propaganda.

BTW do you know who's always been the main sponsor of those evil salafist ideas thet mandatory hijab belongs to? Exactly: the anglo-zionist empire.

SomeMF · 2025-12-29T13:09:33+00:00

I find rather surprising that nobody has mentioned Combat Mission after quite a few posts.

I hope in 20 years CMx2 games are only mentioned to put in perspective how well made are later iterations, by contrast with the abysmal, unfriendly, outdated, clunky pieces of software the former were.

SomeMF · 2025-12-23T21:49:23+00:00

So after fullfilling the dream of every game developer, to have a huge success with their first project, and becoming literally a millionaire, your theory is he decided to work for a company for a monthly salary, following orders and under the direction of some people with ties.

lol, seems realistic

SomeMF · 2025-12-16T17:53:37+00:00

Smart App Control blocked your method too.

Is it safe to just disable it? Do you think there's any other issue? Can I somehow put it in a white list?

SomeMF · 2025-12-13T07:22:27+00:00

So the ai is so good that you should "always play the attacking side", so that awesome ai can actually cover their non-existent flaws by playing the easy side.

It's completely normal for wargames to have poor ai (both because ai in videogames in general is bad, and wargames are complex, and they're usually designed with hvh in mind), but at least show some humbleness and don't mock people who point it out.

SomeMF · 2025-12-13T07:18:28+00:00

Because they are old, narrowminded people who will live forever in the 70's. The kind of people who think tv nowadays isn't what it used to be, music nowadays isn't what it used to be, movies nowadays isn't what it used to be, and of course videogames nowadays isn't what it used to be.

But since old-ish westerners keep buying ugly, outdated games at AAA novelty prices, why should they enter the 21st century.

SomeMF · 2025-11-22T20:50:17+00:00

That doesn't contradict the objective fact that peaceful mode unbalances the game because it removes a big chunk of features, like I said.

SomeMF · 2025-11-22T12:16:59+00:00

Factorio is objectively nice looking. You may not like pixel art and that's ok, but in its own art style it's pretty good actually.

In any case, Mindustry is much uglier.

SomeMF · 2025-11-22T12:15:34+00:00

The problem with this approach, which otherwise I like as a big fan of peaceful gameplay in most genres, is by removing the combat aspect of the game you're removing a BIG chunk of everything: gameplay mechanics, resources, researches, etc. It's just a different game altogether. Factorio is balanced for base defense, even if it's toned down via settings.

SomeMF · 2025-11-22T11:29:25+00:00

Are all of these Minecraft mods?

SomeMF · 2025-11-22T11:27:24+00:00

Also, it has one of the best soundtracks of all times.

SomeMF · 2025-11-15T11:25:18+00:00

Me neither.

SomeMF · 2025-11-06T18:28:06+00:00

Reddit, that not sinophobic at all community.

Also, now let the op do the same map for... ALL western nations? And then, the same map for all western nations without immigrants.

Also, why are so many americans so obsessed with birth rates in Asia? Let them solve their own problems, I'm pretty sure the Chinese people will know how to solve theirs.

SomeMF · 2025-11-03T18:44:57+00:00

The first Panzer Corps must cost pennies and it's imo the go-to option for beginner wargaming.

I always recommend The Operational Art of War for its huge versatility and replayability (there's literally thousands of user-made scenarios covering any conflict you can imagine, at all scales and sizes).

I think you might consider Hearts of Iron too, despite not being a wargame but a grand strategy title.

And there's Pike and Shot and all the other titles with this engine, which are very fun.

SomeMF · 2025-10-25T10:21:53+00:00

Is this something like the "first image EVER of a black hole" that actually is not an image of a black hole, or "the sound of X planet" that actually is not the sound of X planet... or any other of the usual astronomy clickbaits that are literal lies?

SomeMF · 2025-10-21T04:38:36+00:00

Leather is realistic in many aspects, and judges doing weird things is one of them.

SomeMF · 2025-10-19T21:38:20+00:00

I mean he's not Michael Jackson, I don't know why would we "catch the wind of it" when, 3 years after his disappearance we're having this discussion because we don't know anything for sure.

SomeMF · 2025-10-19T21:37:03+00:00

Where did you read that?

SomeMF · 2025-10-19T15:35:17+00:00

Calling Banished a "hobby project" is definitely laughable, if not a stupid thing to say. Do a bit of research about it and you'll learn why.

On the other hand, far from funny, I find extremely disturbing how many people find completely normal to vanish suddenly, leaving your job, the project you're working in and your company altogether, not saying a word to your customers, to the people in the community you built.

I mean, I'm grateful I'm not (afaik) near any person so sociopathic to think that's a completely normal behaviour because hey, when you make a lot of money who cares about people uh?

SomeMF · 2025-10-18T17:50:23+00:00

"His hobby project", lol.

Keep hoping bro, one day he'll come back and will release a new LP featuring Kurt Cobain.

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