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I’ve played so many strategy games over the last couple months and I think my favourite is still Dominions. The high level of abstraction and dedication to doing as much weird shit as possible is like catnip. I don’t even go for that many of the factions, it’s just T’ien Ch’i and Marignon that I play.

That said, playing four hours of Songs of Syx and three hours of Warno yesterday has given me a strange double tetris effect of exploding nato IFVs and mass-scale iron age furniture production

99% this was a false flag

it’s an odd way to play the game. It feels like success is measured in the number of infantry weapons you manage to produce, especially since in nonhistorical mode the USSR seems to get stuck in a civil war and come out swinging several years too late against a supercharged germany and italy.

next time I’m going to build more surface AA and remember to upgrade the railroads as infrastructure gets strained

god help me I’m becoming irrevocably obsessed with the idea of hoi4 communist france in nonhistorical mode. at least I didn’t pay for the game. On my fifth attempt I managed to kill two million fascists on the maginot line, in the alps, and in the pyrenees until summer of 1943