i caved

[Rusty Shackleford]

and spent $8.00 and bought Empire Total War.

i went for a few months without playing a single damn game. i got so much done! i cant hold out till skyrim. :(

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[Leonid Brozhnev]

Never really like the total war games but I did buy ETW instead of pirating it because a lot of people were going on about how awesome it was... I regret it now, it turned out just as boring as the rest of the Total War series.

[Tablo]

I haven't been much into TW games since Medieval 2. I might get Shogun 2 if it's good since I got started out with these games on the original Shogun.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Total wtf? Never heard of dis shit. The only war game I'm obsessed with lately is Advance Wars: Dual Strike.
So many lost hours of sleep before work!

[Red Commissar]

spent $8.00

You did what? Get out of here you petit-bourgeois capitalist shit.

[Rusty Shackleford]

You did what? Get out of here you petit-bourgeois capitalist shit.
i cant pirate anymore.

[Tablo]

i cant pirate anymore.
Sucks. I can't pirate by normal means when I'm at school as the university will cut my internet if I do.

[MarxSchmarx]

One thing that's always bugged me about potential leftist video games is that the strategy games are basically left out. FPS are easy enough to envision, as are role playing and flight simulators. But how do you manage a stateless empire?

For example, I've always wondered how the CNT faction in a Spanish civil war total war game will play out. Instead of naval battles we will need air battles. But that's the easy stuff. For example, should the player constantly win reelection as the generalissimo among his troops?

[dernier combat]

how do you manage a stateless empire?
Isn't a stateless empire something of a contradiction?

[Rusty Shackleford]

One thing that's always bugged me about potential leftist video games is that the strategy games are basically left out. FPS are easy enough to envision, as are role playing and flight simulators. But how do you manage a stateless empire?

For example, I've always wondered how the CNT faction in a Spanish civil war total war game will play out. Instead of naval battles we will need air battles. But that's the easy stuff. For example, should the player constantly win reelection as the generalissimo among his troops?
Hearts of Iron actually allows you to play out the spanish civil war from a strategic point of view. the militia units are anarchist and international brigate units ;)

its fucking hard to defeat franco.


also, in Empire Total War, i just led a revolution. i was playing as russia and i guess i was a shitty autocrat and so revolution came, i was given the option to be anti or pro government.

went with the revolutionaries.

russia now flys the tricolor and is a bourgeois republic.


viva la revolucion de 1740!

[Il Medico]

I enjoy Empire. Not as much as Med 2, but thats life.

Total War is a solid series all around though.

[praxis1966]

For example, I've always wondered how the CNT faction in a Spanish civil war total war game will play out. Instead of naval battles we will need air battles. But that's the easy stuff. For example, should the player constantly win reelection as the generalissimo among his troops?

I'd wager it'd be something like the city morale system in the Civilization series... That you'd have to perform X, Y, and Z actions to keep the troops happy. If you did, you'd just get a notice every so often that you'd been reelected. If not, you might have certain units mutiny and join the POUM or even the Nationalists :ohmy:... Or, perhaps, depending on the situation the game could start out with you at the helm of the smallest unit possible and having to work your way up through the ranks... If you fail at the higher levels you could then be demoted or something.