When I saw the name of this episode I looked up from chair in my parents home to see star war empire at war : forces of corruption the shelf over their pc which I briefly played years ago and remembered really liking the stragetic layer and not caring at all for the more prominent RTS aprt so I will definitely be picking up rebellion. From what I heard on the podcast Attila total war does this with the western roman empire but is there a 4x equivalent ? No hearts and minds through and it's from the insurgent side.Īlso is there any strategy games where you start with alot of non-renewable/ hard resources but over time they are whittled down as the original size of your empire. It's a game where trying to play it as a traditional 4x will see you lose very quickly and the amount of expansion you want to do is as little as possible to destroy the AI home worlds while having a decent layer of worlds to defend your own homeworld from the AI attacks. Rob mentioned how few insurgency/counter insurgency games there are and would AI: Fleet command fit into that model.
