The worst thing about the getting people together is when everyone starts fighting over their favourite map projection– maybe you like the Watterman Butterfly, but your cousin really digs Gal…
I don’t really consider Paradox grand strategy games to be the same genre as 4X, they’re really their own beast and the complexity of even their older games makes Risk look like a game for toddlers.
Projection? Risk is played on a network with vertices representing the territories.
So literally like Stellaris
Every 4x game ever is just risk with different bells and whistles when you come down to it
I don’t really consider Paradox grand strategy games to be the same genre as 4X, they’re really their own beast and the complexity of even their older games makes Risk look like a game for toddlers.
That’s too reductionist for me to upvote. It’s like saying every bird is just a coelacanth
No man, birds are coelacanth with bells and whistles