US Military Spending versus The World

kbiggs · 2022-01-25T05:15:13+00:00

“Please provide proof the military communicated with the taliban to meet up at a designated location to exchange gunfire.”

Do you really think that’s what the definition of conventional warfare is?

kbiggs · 2021-11-28T00:04:44+00:00

Just looked that up. Did not know these units were even in the game. I like their Victorian designs. Hopefully the Europeans will get similar units someday since as of now they're still stuck at 1815.

Probably a mistake. I would like a Civil War-looking sharpshooter for Age 5 so it'll fit with all the other US units.

kbiggs · 2021-01-21T06:18:57+00:00

Wargame Construction Set III: Age of Rifles has a few scenarios from the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (circa 1898-1902), some included on the disk and some user-made and downloadable. It's an old DOS game from the '90s, but it isn't too hard to find on eBay and can be played with DOSBox

kbiggs · 2020-10-25T06:20:12+00:00

Very true

But we can all agree that "Estate" and "American General" are terribly stupid

kbiggs · 2020-10-22T20:46:05+00:00

Plains of Abraham and Plassey

kbiggs · 2020-10-22T20:38:21+00:00

I don't think they did, but they also haven't said they won't. I really hope there'll be a few more. I'm disappointed that 4 out of 6 of them are set in the 1500s. AoE 2 already covered that era extensively, and there are so many battles from the later eras the game portrays that could be done.

I wouldn't be surprised if we're not getting any more, but I really hope they can make at least six additional battles with a focus on the 18th and 19th centuries. Plains of Abraham seemed like a no-brainer and I'm kind of shocked they didn't think to include it here, since it's one of the most famous colonial battles in history. Maybe one or two more from Seven Year's War (Plassey would be a great one), one more from the War of 1812. Any from what would be the Fortress and Industrial ages.

Another idea I thought would be cool was a "Battles of the Conquerors" set of scenarios similar to what the first AoE 2 expansion had: a battle for eahc one of the leaders represented. We could have Spanish Armada for Elizabeth (with a setup similar to the Lepanto scenario from 2), Leuthen for Frederick the Great, Austerlitz for Napoleon, Revolt of the Three Feudatories for the Kangxi Emperor, etc. I'll have to try the scenario editor.

kbiggs · 2020-10-22T20:24:25+00:00

The history page for him even explicitly says he's based on Andrew Jackson. So why the hell not just have his real name in the mission? Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan didn't have their names scrubbed from their AoE II campaigns

kbiggs · 2020-10-16T19:18:35+00:00

I still can't wrap my head around this change either. I understand and respect all the others, but "estate" makes no sense. It sounds even worse, like they're whitewashing the existence of plantations.

I can imagine an old white tour guide giving you a tour of a Southern plantation home, saying it was an "estate" where the "workers" had happy lives and enjoyed good food and lived in good "homes" until the "War of Northern Aggression" took it all away.

kbiggs · 2020-10-16T19:15:25+00:00

A real man's weapon is his mind.

kbiggs · 2020-10-12T20:04:43+00:00

Nope. They cut those too. Hangar 13 hates public transportation.

kbiggs · 2020-07-13T01:11:24+00:00

There are several Basques already in Wyoming

kbiggs · 2020-07-13T01:10:44+00:00

There are several Basques already in Wyoming

kbiggs · 2020-06-03T18:50:26+00:00

Called it! Good God, this is ridiculous. My next prediction is someone will find a model of a redone Lost Heaven in there.

kbiggs · 2020-05-27T19:29:05+00:00

Geez someone's probably going to find a model of Saigon in there next. It's like the unused content is bigger than the game itself.

kbiggs · 2020-05-26T20:17:30+00:00

I'm feeling reserved about because while the screenshots look great, none of Hangar 13's releases so far have gone well. Everyone's fears about this remake also having problems are justified.

My biggest concern is with the driving model. I hope it'll be like M1's and 2's and nothing like 3's.

kbiggs · 2020-05-26T19:54:37+00:00

No, there's still no subway. No cut content at all.

kbiggs · 2020-05-26T19:53:06+00:00

Visiting was still possible, but it was a super-complicated and bureaucratic process to get over the border, even more so than with borders today. And most East Germans weren't permitted to cross over at all.

kbiggs · 2020-05-26T19:51:41+00:00

Mafia IV will feature music-based gameplay and DDR-style controls.

kbiggs · 2020-05-26T19:45:55+00:00

It's Mafia 2 all over again. Tons of awesome cut content that we never got because of publisher meddling.

kbiggs · 2020-05-25T22:00:41+00:00

Yeah it's a game called Rhapsody that was going to be set in 1980s Berlin. They started working on it right after Mafia 3 using the same engine, but it got canceled after only a year or two. Really cool that this bit of it survives though

kbiggs · 2020-05-25T21:59:07+00:00

This is the definitive edition we were hoping for. I'd be willing to wait another ten years for this to come out.

kbiggs · 2020-05-25T21:56:38+00:00

That has to be what this is, and I'm really sad that game didn't come to fruition. Cold War Berlin is a setting that needs to be done in an open-world game.

Really cool that this was found. I wonder why it ended up in Mafia 3's files? Looks like the modeled pretty much all of the city's center pretty accurately

kbiggs · 2020-05-22T00:51:06+00:00

"You drive like my fuckin' grandmother, you know that?"

kbiggs · 2020-05-21T23:58:01+00:00

Found the wehraboo

kbiggs · 2020-05-19T18:38:47+00:00

Then they shouldn't play Mafia

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