Doesnt sound like a space game
janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
I’ve looked it up and anyone calling this “the most complex …” clearly have never played 80s board games e.g. The Campaign for North Africa (takes more than 1000 hours to finish)
OrdinaryDemiGuy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 2 hours ago
Fair, but: Star Fleet Battles Traveller Adventure 5: Trillion Credit Squadron
For TCS - you have literally control of around hundred of space ships that each can hold many sub-spaceships, crew, tanks, etc. and you control each and every weapon.
Some random blogpost about TCS:
Sadly, Trillion Credit Squadron does nothing whatsoever to make it simpler for the math-impaired to build and battle starships. Indeed, the TCS includes among its recommended materials “calculators or adding machines” and even suggests the use of programming a home computer "to handle much of the tedium of the design process
Programming skills was almost a requirement to play and compete in this game.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Funny how you dismiss Terra Invicta out of hand without playing it or understanding the scope of what is required from the player. First you need to convince Earth that it is being invaded AND this is a bad thing while 6 other factions try to take advantage of what’s happening. The aliens are also a faction that plays a lot like right wing governments - lots of information control and emotional encouragement to accept atrocities.
While this propaganda war plays out across Earth the aliens are building bases into the solar system like it’s WW2 and they’re island hopping towards the enemy homeland. So you need to get out into space (before the other factions get there and claims all the good rocks). And that takes in game years, which also adds to the handling time.
While these two big things are playing out in the game you will also have technology to research and the tech tree is HUGE. The “late game” is something you get to after a couple weeks of playing.
Tell me more about your silly adventures across half a continent. I will tell you how I conquered a solar system, went to the alien system, and made them stop fucking with Earth.
janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 35 minutes ago
I didn’t want to dismiss it. For what I see, it’s probably a really fun and complex strategy. It’s just that retro board games are on a whole another level of “complex” and I doubt we will ever get close to it in the future.