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If we're talking mobile games for phones, I know off the top of my head the best non-super heavy microtransaction ones are The Walking Dead No-Man's Land, a zombie XCOM-like with vague Clash of Clans like outpost building. Quite good, just play a couple missions a 'tick' and take it slow otherwise you run out of your 'gas' which is parlance for 'timegate'.

Everyone knows about Fallout Shelter but here I go again; Fallout Shelter's a very decent little builder/management game that's also got a ProgressQuest like side game where you send vault dwellers out into the wastes to come back with random shit.

D already posted about the Trese Brothers, good board games for decent prices.

Minecraft Pocket Edition is pretty good, if you want Minecraft on the go. It's a little behind the 'main' game but it does get occasional updates to bring it closer to the main version.

There's always phone Agar.io if you wanna accidentally run into things bigger than you and die cuz you couldn't react fast enough using touch screens.

Warhammer 40k Space Wolf is a turn-based tactical strategy game that uses a card mechanic. The cards can be something like 'sprint' or it could include any weapon so occasionally your single tactical marine will somehow lug a rocket launcher, flamethrower, and heavy bolter all at once.

Star Wars: Uprising is a sort of mini-MMO that was vaguely appealing until I had to delete it for space. I didn't get too far, but it's basically a mission based RPG.

And that's my list of ok mobile games. What I really wish is for a good mobile sort of Magic the Gathering type game. Yeah I know, Hearthstone, but still.

Fuckin' teamers. It goes completely against the spirit of the game, its a dog eat dog or cell eat cell world!

Not even Russian analysts can figure what the fuck is going on in America

Sigged, this made me chuckle.

I just noticed on the video that the 2H the dev was using actually slashed across multiple opponents. My hype has officially hit critical levels.

I can't seem to make it work.  For instance there are half a dozen scattered territories in the interior of africa I never bothered to conquer because they are empty desert.  I added them to the garrison zone of my african army.  The african army did  nothing.

Garrisoned forces move solely to hole up in cities/bases. Empty space, like the farmlands in Mid-America, get passed over until the enemy moves in. When an enemy moves in only a handful of your divisions in the army assigned to the garrison will respond. The larger the enemy, the larger the response. This is how its supposed to work, I think; I tested this by assigning all the national guard units America starts with to an army to get them garrisoning the continental US and to get them training, the general moved a few divisions to fortify the major cities and just let them sit there until Mexican (i supported the Mexican rebels, Viva la Capitalism!) forces moved into Texas, upon which all the nearby units moved to defend.

I think I should perform more mechanics !science! later, but this is how it appeared to work in my test game.

I feel like the Reich is actually quite underpowered in the game. My Dutch infantry has been wrecking their motorized and light armored divisions for two years and they have almost no air force whatsoever.

If you started in 1936 they might have the same supply issue America has and has to get back up to speed, but the AI seems horrible at it. Also, were you doing research? I spent from 1936 to 1942 as America just building civvie factories and doing research and we already had assault rifles and crap, so when England called me into the war in 1942 my infantry only divisions (don't forget to have a general do exercises early, i didn't even know about that when i was building up, so I didn't have advanced division formations D:) i utterly smashed German occupied France with only one army of 24 infantry divisions.

Homeworld Remastered Collection is on sale on steam and Green man gaming for around 17 bucks. I highly recommend this classic space RTS for EVERYONE EVER.

Quote from: JimboM12 on June 06, 2016, 02:21:10 pm

Quick started as America in 1936 and started building civilian factories cuz the Great Depression. No Idea if its helping.

That's still debated to this day, so don't sweat it.

It actually turned out to be a good idea since you can use the factories to produce trade goods to help yourself get back to full strength: America 1936 starts at a deficit of infantry weapons and support items. By having the factories make more factories and using the new factories to make trade goods for the construction of the weapons you can somewhat quickly get yourself out of the slump. You can't get out of the "Something- Isolationist" economic policy yet and that hurts the production, but getting this done early helped big time when it came to shoring up the existing units you start with.

Next game now that I kinda have the basic idea down: Filipino world domination.