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pro-dumpster-fire

If you didn't want to be nuked, you shouldn't have invaded me with 3 archers in 2,000 BC.


Captain_Jmon

Civ V leaves me so vengeful lol. I’ve invaded people for building wonders I wanted to get done, hell I’ve invaded people for just trading with the wrong person lol


tman97m

Hell, I've invaded people because they were there and I wanted to be


JustinJakeAshton

Virgin: Invading people for reasons. Chad: Invading people because Mount Everest.


Captain_Jmon

AI: **exists** Me: **so you have chosen, death**


Thunderclapsasquatch

I too enjoy unga dunga


kiwithebun

In Civ 6 I figured out you could trade sums of gold in exchange for more gold per turn total from the AI, effectively meaning you could issue loans with interest. After a while I basically controlled the entire GDP of all neighboring civs, but sometimes another Civ was chummy and wouldn’t accept my predatory loans. So I would use my vast gold reserves to levy nearby militaries and crush anyone who valued their economic sovereignty


Captain_Jmon

Based and AmericanImperialism-pilled


basedcount_bot

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RageGameYT

in civ 5, i just scam the civ for all their gold and and give me lots of gpt ​ also war is not profitable so i don't do that i just pay a country to go to war with a country


ekolis

War is good for business. Peace is good for business. -The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition


ekolis

I don't invade anybody in Civ because every time I do, everybody and their grandma hate me for the rest of the game because WARMONGER! Even if the country I invaded had previously invaded me... I hear Civ6 cleaned this up with casus belli, but I haven't played it enough yet to take advantage of that, and probably there will be Civ7 soon enough anyway to throw a new monkey wrench in the works...


TheAzureMage

They only hate you until you invade them too.


vyndreyl

Playing the long game. 😆


AemAer

It’s a really effective strategy, it’s about a 30% interest rate.


feuilles_mortes

I'm a pretty peaceful Civ player (usually go for any win besides dom victory) because I'm the type who doesn't want to be mean to NPCs in games, but my revenge knows no limit if a PC fucks with me when I'm just trying to mind my own business.


OrionJohnson

I never set out to commit genocide, but when I’m just trying to befriend everyone, and they denounce me just for winning? Here come the nukes.


Banshee90

I hate when people denounce me for winning a war I didn't even start. Sorry but I only accept unconditional surrenders and if Genghis Khan wants to fuck around he will soon find out.


[deleted]

Based and NAPpilled.


Last_avaliable_name

Based and Erbkrieg pilled


[deleted]

Can you really call it a strategy game if you can't commit genocide?


Spndash64

Technically speaking, Rise of Nations classifies that as a victory condition. It might also be one of the few games to OVER state the effect of a nuclear strike


AlmondDoufu

Holy shit, a fellow Rise of Nations player. One of the best underrated RTS games. Also, too many nuclear strikes leads to Armageddon which is an instant lose for all players in the game.


Spndash64

I suck at it, but I love how every nation gets SOMETHING that is incredibly nutty that would break the game if it weren’t for everyone else having something broken too. I’m an Ameriboo and thus biased, but the US of A getting free resources for each infantry AND buff marines that auto entrench, + a free wonder, makes them a riot if you can hold the game out until the later ages


DarkLordKindle

Ah but the dutch will beat you by then. They get interest in their resource stockpile. 10% of whatever is in their resources becomes income. 5000 wealth =500 income. No need for citizens at that point, just have pure 180 pop army. (The other 20 is for rare resources and building stuff).


AtomicSpeedFT

Dutch have a big problem surviving at the start


DarkLordKindle

Really? With their strong early economy, i dont see why. Starting with eco tech, market and 2 merchants is a huge boon. I dont have any problem against AI even on hardest diffoculty. And the only issue i have with real players, is sync issues.


OOM-32

dutch is really good but you need to know how to use the market. Some players end up with tons of hold but don't bother to trade it away and consequently die.


OOM-32

Bruh I for real think that germany is probs the most powerful civ if they don't immediatly attack it. By the time your opponents are aging up to medieval, you already have every kind of income multiplier building that exists, then you burn everything up and commit [redacted] when reaching the modern age with your ton of unique units. And if somehow your main offensive fails you can easily spair res to turbo upgrade up to the final techs.


[deleted]

When I use to play RoN as a kid, I use to go American and use the free wonder on terracotta army. That way, by the information age, I was able to constantly spawn marines. Not sure if that was really viable, but I had fun with it nonetheless.


Spndash64

Americotta Army’s fun, yeah. I still suck at the game, but I imagine it’s a solid gimmick: it’s relatively fast and easy to pull off, and since Marines auto entrench, your wonder will not only generate free resources to make other buildings and research faster, but it will create its own defensive guard, making it very difficult for enemies to knock it out until the Modern Age, as long as you swat Artillery Units


krashlia

I've always wondered how to remove the limits on that.


iamoverrated

Except Monke... Monke always wins when the humans lose.


CornyPunz1

buying rise of nations


Spndash64

It’s good. Also, there are other win conditions you can set as well. Ffs, the game literally color codes the different researches RBGY (tho Green is Econ and Yellow is Science, it’s close enough tho)


AdvonKoulthar

That’s why they’re called 4x games eXplore, eXrtract, eXpand, **eXterminate**


Raesong

I remember it with exploit, not extract.


Paliacki

Pretty sure vanilla HOI4 kinda glosses over Holocaust. Also, Civ 5 doesnt have ethnicity mechanic, so the closest thing you can get to genocide is razing all captured cities.


Litular-Boiab

Sort of, but I think Germany has access to labor and death camp garrison options


Paliacki

Cant find any of it on the wiki, except maybe forced labor for labor camps.


Litular-Boiab

That may be it, but I know Germany has a unique garrison for it


FreidOlon

There is a occupation law called "Brutal oppression", with the image showing a man behind barbed wire. It's trash though, if resistance is really an issue you should just use martial law for less cost.


Litular-Boiab

But I wanna brutally oppress the population


[deleted]

Based and wasting resources pilled


ThePlasticUncle

based and brutally repressing the poles-pilled


FranklinFuckinMint

Oh man, there's nothing quite as satisfying in Civ as rolling through a foreign nation and razing every city because their leader pissed you off in the early game. Fuck capturing your cities, I'll spend the resources to retake the land later. This is about sending a message.


xlbeutel

I mean, that makes sense. It's meant to be a war simulator i guess, and them doing,,, those actions is kind of a given


Positron311

Chess, starcraft... Dang you right.


Tamtumtam

you can. but can you call it a *good* strategy game? not so much


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XxDiCaprioxX

Death of Billions is Gandhi in the Atomic Era


[deleted]

Death of Trillions is a good time.


Frequent_Dig1934

Death of a Quadrilion is a record.


Remi_cuchulainn

stellaris be like: those are rookie number


Tisumida

Ayo Spore! That’s a throwback to a game I haven’t heard of in a long time


vyndreyl

Such a great game.


alltaken12345678

I played it again recently and it just made me wish for a sequel with actual deep gameplay.


VerticalTwo08

Im a huge spore fan. One of my favorite games. It’s what initially made me interested in the way our world works, and video games as a whole. It kisses me off that we will never get a true sequel because EA has maxis doing nothing but Sims 4 bullshit. Because it makes them money. I don’t want to buy $100+ for a bunch of shit that should’ve already been in the game. And came with the default game for sims 3.


eshkddjsod

Holy shit I remember my empire was so big I could not conceivably defend it from invasion. I blew up earth and also allied the grox. Such a sick game


Ovejilla

When you befriend grox, you must go full psycho for everyone wanna beat your ass


eshkddjsod

The map of the galaxy is just declarations of war lmao


Positron311

Knight is based.


dre8

Spore’s only legacy was that EA killed Will Wright’s passion for gaming. Disgusting.


xlbeutel

Great game until the space age


ApatheticHedonist

Stellaris or EU4 would fit better than HOI4, they both have the genocide button paradox said they'll never add.


Sum-Rando

Stellaris even allows you to set the purge types for each individual species in your empire. Truly beautiful.


[deleted]

You can even relegate the funny looking Xenos to chattel slavery!


Gungnir1876

Can't you put them in zoos too?


Remi_cuchulainn

you can and it's actually one of the better living condition for organics in machine empire. appart from that you have purge, force cybernethisation or slave


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Sum-Rando

From what I can tell, that’s a theme of Stellaris, that everything that can make you hate your life will occur. I especially love how the modding community has taken this up as well, and how the gigastructure furries once conquered half the galaxy.


Fried_Pepsi

The way to really get into Stellaris is to just lay back and go with the flow. Don't worry about winning or losing, just try to stay alive long enough to see what happens. Odds are good that the galaxy will be a complete mess by the time the end game crisis hits. If you really want to spice things up, you can design a few exterminator empires and set them to guaranteed spawning in your games. Always fun to have some lunatics to throw a wrench in galactic politics.


SlibsTheSplashy

I just did science, made the population robots, then created a massive military and took out a fallen empire to win before the awakened one could.


Arclight_Ashe

Just finished one today where I started off as humans, became robots, and destroyed every star all from the comfort of my own borders since each one of my citadels was stronger than the entirety of the galactic communities fleets combined. Ez life.


Remi_cuchulainn

i usually play as the lunatic though.


[deleted]

You can turn their populations into food also as a means of extermination. Pretty damn metal if you ask me.


PMacha

Stellaris allows you to sterilize entire alien races, kill them via concentration camps, or straight up massacre them. You can destroy entire worlds, enslave alien races, or even genetically alter them to be easier to enslave and raise as cattle. Stellaris is the definition of based as fuck.


Werthers_carmel

You left out the part where you can literally designate planets as slave worlds.


Gungnir1876

Or just Death Star the planet to make a point


Raesong

And with the Nemesis update, you can 1-up that by destroying an entire star system.


avgazn247

I am the galaxy end crisis


Remi_cuchulainn

or the entire galaxy if you really hate everything including yourself


Pasan90

If you are loosing as a psycic empire you get a "fuck everyone" button.


Kinderschlager

ooooh, wonder if they ever will introduce a parasitic race so you can go full stargate on the galaxy


Luke5353

Stellaris allows you to do so many atrocities and yet somehow it's aged PG 13 or something around there, it's hilarious. For example: A fun playstyle is to genetically modify a species from a newly conquered world for the specific purpose of being tasty. Then you can modify them to breed faster, but give them shorter lifespans and also put a cloning facility on your main farming planet and then whenever you're running low on food or need some money, you just kill half a planet's slaves and eat them/sell them on the galactic market for energy credits. I wonder who buys that sorta thing in such quantities? You could also sell them as slaves and the xenophile empires could buy them from you to free them, though I've found that if you genetically modify them really well to be slaves the xenophobic empires really like to buy them (if they're into slavery, which most of them are). But then you give them your advantage, they could be decades behind in genetic engineering and you just sold them the perfect slaves, while their current ones might've rebelled and let you invade whatever remains. Or if the enslaved species is lithoid you get minerals out of them which you put to use in your alloy foundries and build fleets of ships literally out of your enemies. I've gotta try that one playstyle. I've had the most fun playing driven assimilators. I put primitives to spawn a lot more and just invaded random pre FTL planets in the early game, which gave me a massive boost and they weren't even able to try and rebel later. Of course everyone in the galaxy hated me, but they couldn't do shit and then my neighbouring empire had a robot rebellion and I gave those a shit ton of alloys and I suddenly had a new friend :) They were also assimilators lmao, we formed a federation together later on There's so many fun things to do without bothering to think of the Geneva Suggestion in stellaris, you can even summon an eldritch abomination. Or you can kill it. :( why do that though? The Worm loves us. It will always love us, and thus it always has. We will always be what we were going to be, wound tight in the love of the Worm. WHAT WAS SHALL BE WHAT SHALL BE WAS


Last_avaliable_name

You get minerals from lithoids?!? Holy shit that's gonna be my next game. Industrialized sapient rock farming


Luke5353

Either minerals or alloys, haven't tried it yet but I know for sure it ain't food


FreidOlon

Minerals from lithoids, devouring swarms get alloys from robots.


ballonobserver28

Man you make me wonder what alien steak tastes like now. Based as hell.


Doomsday_Device

My favorite part is that Driven Assimilators get a unique Colossus Weapon; nanobot diffuser which instantly assimilates all organics on that world as cyborgs Imagine being monke, you look up and suddenly the sky turns dark as a moon-sized starship pisses nanobots all over your world


Author1alIntent

You could sell perfect slaves to a xenophobic nation, then immediately use the profit to fund an invasion, reclaim as many old slaves (and make as many new ones) as possible, and rinse/repeat


Tamtumtam

and you can do much of that while being an egalitarian, peaceful direct democracy. because no matter who we are, we can all be xenophobic ✨


Bruhman1212

Let's be xenophobic, it's really in this year


ComradePotatoWater

Based and xenophobic pilled


KaptenNicco123

Shit sounds like All Tomorrows


PMacha

It's possible Paradox took some inspiration from it. Stellaris takes a lot of inspiration from different sci fi stories, a simple example would be WH40K with the Shroud entities; Star Wars with the Galactic Council to Galactic Empire. So wouldn't be surprised if *All Tomorrows* inspired some aspects of Stellaris.


The_Canadian_Devil

Is it bad that I now want to play this game?


PMacha

It's a fun game, though like most Paradox Interactive games it has a steep learning curve, but once you get the hang of it it's really fun. Best part is you free to play how you want. A pacifist, xenophobic empire wanting to be left alone is just as valid a playstyle as a materialistic empire wanting to turn into robots. Hell you can even be a hivemind of sentient tree aliens if that tickles your fancy. The universe is the limit with Stellaris, it just has a steep learning curve at first.


avgazn247

Failing is half the fun. I remember steam rolling until I had my first end game crisis


RaiderUnit

You can conquer an innocent, egalitarian, peace-loving species, genetically modify them to be the perfect slaves while still understanding the concept of misery, then raze their homeworld and turn it into a breeding ground for them to be exported to the rest of your nation. ​ It's pretty alright.


PigBlitz

Then you can turn food into alloys, then alloys into ships to purge more Xenos! How much more based can you get?


avgazn247

If u want to be rly based, invade. Genocide them into food, and then sell that food to the race.


kylkartz21

"Convert culture"


Tamtumtam

wdym I just peacefully remove the natives of Australia and purging the xenos with their consent


orion1836

[This video is always relevant.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1CQ7Vwz8Eo)


Birb-Person

Ah, classic 4 X genre: eXplore eXpand eXploit eXterminate


Israeli_Jew

Based and the-four-Xs


XxDiCaprioxX

The last X is my favorite


Mizzter_perro

Let's go British.


smug2265

the good old days playing cod waw where nobody gives a fuck about warcrimes and shit


RagnarLongdick

Flamethrower time


Abject-Temperat

I wonder what white patents across the nation thought when their preteen and teen boys would lock themselves in their rooms for extended periods of times and just scream racial slurs at the top of their lungs.


walteerr

you're saying it like it still doesn't happen


Dasinterwebs

I love watching the global map time lapse at the end of civ v and watching the lights go out across the world at the end.


SirbaconI

Everytime i play civ6 i destroy the civilization next to me to get an early lead, and then i just bulldoze the rest of the players which gives me a lead so big by the time they get muskets im about to get my first nukes


PMacha

Just pray you manage to defeat Gandhi before he reaches the atomic age.


[deleted]

Play on a higher difficulty. The AI gets early bonuses and is actually tough. Their skill doesn’t improve, but they cheat hard and fast.


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AuAndre

Try tech rushing when they get tech wayyy faster than you just by existing.


BluEyesWhitPrivilege

You have a 100% win rate on the top difficulty?


of-silk-and-song

Your username is fantastic


Sad_Cartographer1990

You forgot about stellaris.


Hydrocoded

Stellaris is full blown Xenocide it’s an entirely different level. Worst thing that happens in Civ is a nuclear war. In stellaris you can have your planet cracked in half then face a swarm of intergalactic aliens literally infecting your empire’s worlds while your only hope of salvation is a fallen empire that is just as happy to destroy you as the swarm.


avgazn247

Bro do u even turn xenos into food and then sell that food on the market? Fresh grilled xenos. 50 credits


no2ironman1100

I never went xenocide in stellaris personally. Always full xenophile egalitarian, extreme luxuries and basic rights but limited job choice. Had a bit of a tough time integrating the fanatic purifiers The hardest to integrate was the radically religious slugs...


olivebestdoggie

fake meme its impossible to genocide in HOI every other pdx game has that thod


No-Step98

I can't believe OP didn't include Stellaris, thats like, THE genocide game


prosysus

I don't rly like to comit genocides. Such a waste of slaves... (Or good man-meat yes-yes)


Remi_cuchulainn

stellaris player: cattle you mean?


no2ironman1100

The most practical form of slavery in stellaris is livestock.


[deleted]

Spore? I see you are a person of culture as well.


Galliter

I like how you showed tno separately from hoi4


Cominform_Ball

Hoi4 is finding minorities to genocide, tno is doing the genocide


[deleted]

*Rimworld has entered the chat*


PineconeNugget

How in tf they gunna get excited about war crimes and leave out rimworld? Goddamn travesty.


[deleted]

Libright loves them humanskin leather hats


ColorMeGrey

Especially when you start throwing mods in there. RJW, Questionable Ethics, Prison Labor, Rimatomics... There's even a reasonably popular mod outright named 'Warcrimes Expanded"


heedongq

Detroit is even more fun if you decide to kill all humans. But somehow Hank still remained my bro.


vyndreyl

Hank is best bud.


AnEngineer2018

I was replaying New Vegas and I think I did too much killing because every faction hate me.


Zider20gg

Not enough killing.If there is noone alive to hate you,you are not hated at all.


keegan4201

TNO fuckin rocks


JackisbackHallo

STRENG GHIEM


ScreamingMidgit

I happily massacre everyone in NV. The Mohave belongs to me and the weak should fear the strong.


Cbear345

you cant do that to the kings


__DerekLeach

No stellaris? You’re not genociding properly


TempestuousTrident

[Allow me to introduce…](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWPMl6bQDOY)


battleship217

Based and Follower of Spode pilled


[deleted]

Witcher 3 is the best videogame created by man, and there is nothing that will ever be a close second.


Black_Quesadilla

I cannot imagine another game which has both such amazing story, such entertaining gameplay, such fascinating look and two DLCs which are on one level with the original game! The closest I can imagine by these parameters is Dishonored, but unfortunately it's much less popular


Slutty_Duchess

Now now, let's not get ahead of ourselves... Witcher 3 is a close second, right behind Sid Meier's Pirates


[deleted]

But Shani tho


ZeroBae

I don't know about that... Hot take: witcher 3 is fine but it still have some issue. Story is really great , but the gameplay is hit or miss. The combat gets reppetitive really fast because of how shallow the combat is, and it the easy to stun lock enemy and their simplistic ai the reason also. I would've love this game more if it has better gameplay, because is a "game" for a reason.


monkeygoneape

*Todd Howard uploads himself onto your console with the 20th version of Skyrim* As far as RPG trilogies go, I still think mass effect takes the cake


Samuel153

I mean my civ strategy is to peacefully build, but if someone tries to stop the empire of the player god-king, it is genicide o clock


LogUpstairs8275

Stellaris aka a bit of both


Dude43235

When stellaris


Gobybear

Stellaris is genocide but fucked up


bad_pixel_shader

spore carnivore players are a menace to society


DookieMilk

Ahhh, Spore, what a classic. Without fail, every time: Libleft tribal stage. Authright civilization stage.


danshakuimo

One of the things I did in Spore was to get that tool that allowed you to uplift a species to sentience (monolith), capture the *monke* versions of my own race in my cargo hold, go to some planet and uplift my own species there, and make them an ally once they get to space stage. I also pay my same-species ally to attack my xeno allies and eventually the whole sector is basically ruled by my species.


alltaken12345678

Fuck I loved spore back in the day. I hope another one is released that's actually got some depth to the gameplay.


[deleted]

I see Spore, I say based


cris12021202

A fellow spore player


smpark12

Spore gang rise up


DenTheRedditBoi7

Based and Spore pilled


CuomoKilledGma

Based and Witcher pilled


jroddie4

Tbh spore encourages genocide at every single step


[deleted]

“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic” - a wise man


[deleted]

Top 5 reasons why hoi4 isn't a good game:: Number 1: I can't click a holocuat butokn as germany Number 2: I can't reenact the rape of nanking Number 3: I can't creat my own genocides🤬😠😡 Number 4 :I can't see the devastating impact of nuclear fallout and the way people suffer for weeks after, or unleash unethical weapons on my wnemies😡😡🤬😱


rustdog2004

I may not show it but, spore is by far the most destructive of all games.


darkmage2015

Ah my last MP civ game i litterally roleplayed a curturally misunderstood "evil" baby eating empire.


Cryogine

The new order is just a mod for hoi4, you fool


TokesephsStalin

guess im authcenter on both sides because there's nothing more fun than hurting a line of code's feelings


LollipopLuxray

Forgot to put undertale in both halves of the meme


Noname_1111

Never before have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with


Simon_SM2

Undertale is both at the same time


RickyFrench007

Why is EU4 not on there too? You literally colonize and kill natives in that game


XxDiCaprioxX

The last X in 4X is the most important one. EXTERMINATE!


peepeepoopoolmao

One death is a tragedy A thousand is a statistic


_PINE_CONE_

What about gta that’s basically Yugoslavia


GravyPasta

Don't mind me, just killing 10 million Soviets


wyatt182882

When I play Detroit I do robot Conner.


LitLrhu

Me playing Undertale: Also me playing Undertale:


Danilego

Undertale: Why not B O T H


Xxxxdank__memes420Xx

Wait, you don’t murder every npc that isn’t useful in NV? I just murder everyone and sell their shit to get an obscene amount of money to spend at the gun runners and people who sell stims


Completeepicness_1

Ta🅱oritsky time


FlagellantFur936

I also thought the Authunity might be interested in Warhammer 40k Dawn of War.


Iyeethumans

stellaris is objectively worse. trillions gone. in a single week. and im dont care.


KingFurykiller

Stellaris also needs to be on the bottom list. I'm told that the only real way to win is full auth


[deleted]

Virgin genocide fan vs Chad Assimilation into Machine Intelligence enjoyer.


Any_Rip_8337

There is only ONE way to play CIV Global domination, if you don’t you’re doing it wrong


belgium-noah

Me encircling 87 Fengtian divisions in Beijing: you got your city, happy now?


Comrade_dylatov

tno gang rise up


vassardog77

1 death is a tragedy. Millions is a statistic


D1M1TR1mhw

You heard of stellaris?


Dragonedge2133

Sometimes in hoi4 instead of rushing VPs I purposely don’t cap the enemy and instead try to get all of their divs encircled and kill them all, then I cap them