Turn Based Strategy?

[Western Deity]

Anybody enjoy TBS games? They never seem to lose their appeal over time. ATM I'm playing Alpha Centauri, but I can crack out my old copy of Master of Orion (yes, the very first one) and still enjoy it. We're talking a DOS game with 320*200 res (fullscreen) and bleep-bloop sounds...

(^ That was strectched over the entire screen. The ships are nothing more than a few coloured pixels .)

Classic...

 

[Key Peninsula Redneck]

Lets see:

In the way of TBS games, I've got

Steel Panthers: World at War
Starlords
Master of Orion 3
Civil War Generals 2

They are pretty fun, but they take forever to play.

 

[Sanguine]

Civilization 1,2 & 3 is the way to go. Master of Orion peaked at 2, 3 was a disgrace to its predecessors. Heroes 3 isn't bad either.

 

[ond_magiker]

Silent Storm is a pretty good WW2 squad-based TBS.

The new Pirates! is supposed to have turn based land combat. Rock!

 

[Tissue]

I love turn-based games. I still have Space Pirates II on my old computer, and I play that quite often. The only problem is, my computer freezes up during it. I also have the original Colonization but, again, my computer freezes up during it.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance just plain awesome. I loved that game. I've heard Final Fantasy Tactics is even better, but I've yet to play it.

 

[the Colonel]

I love turn-based-strategy. Had the entire Panzer General series. Have played almost the entire Civ series (only excluding SMAC). I'm currently into Civ3. I just picked up a copy of MOO3 because I heard so much about it and it was cheap ($5!). YUCK! No thanks. The redone Reach for the Stars is WAY more fun (if not a little buggy)!

 

[Kelly]

My vote is for Silent Storm (except when it goes scifi towards the end!)

 

[ElvishSolution]

I've never been a fan of true TBS games, however, the hybrid ones such as Rise of Nations, and the upcoming Rome: Total War are quite apealing to me. This is because they take the best of RTS and TBS and combine them.

 

[Dracil]

Galactic Civilizations.

 

[Smidlee]

Galactic Civilizations.

I agree this is a good space TBS. Stardock did a great job updating this game to make it better (over a year of support).
I like total war game as well but not a true TBS since it would fall a little short without the RTS battles.

 

[Dust and Ashes]

I can't believe how many hours I lost playing Civ 1+2. I'm starting to tinker around with FreeCiv a bit on SuSE but I haven't played enough to mention it. I liked Rising Sun when I tried it a few years ago. I haven't thought of playing a good TBS game lately. I need to do that.

 

[Ryder]

Wow, people have heard of Heroes. Heroes 4, the latest Heroes, failed to improve much, and the graphics were done a little too cartoon style. Although I really did like the inclusion of the actual 'heroes' into the fights. Heroes 4 wasn't balanced the greatest either, but it wasn't as bad as it seems on first glance, a lot of the balancing issues disappear as you get better at the game, some races were just easier to learn, and others required careful attention. Equilibris, a free mod for HOMM4, helps a lot too!

 

[Hitokiri Shadow]

The Civilization games are very good. My tops probably don't fall under this category. They would probably fall under Strategy Role Playing or something like that.

My favorites are:

1) Final Fantasy Tactics
2) Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
3) Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

 

[Key Peninsula Redneck]

Anyone else played any of the Steel Panthers games?

 

[Croesus]

It depends on my mood. I loved SMAC (with alien crossfire), and I liked MoO2. I've played others, but those two seem really good. I really want to buy some more, but I haven't gotten around to it.

 

[Western Deity]

I've played some old-ish Steel Panthers, although I can't say it was that enjoyable .

And I can understand the thing about moods; playing SMAC on any reasonable map size is a marathon... you really have to want it .

 

[JBucky]

I love electronic TBS games.

What REALLY floats my proverbial boat is Warhammer 40k. Anybody here play?

 

[Dust and Ashes]

I love electronic TBS games.

What REALLY floats my proverbial boat is Warhammer 40k. Anybody here play?

I played a demo for it once and really enjoyed it but I never got the game. That might be a good one to start back with! Thanks.

 

[Skymon]

Advance Wars is the best TBS I've ever played.

 

[Touring3D]

Advance Wars 1 & 2 are awesome games. Great strategy games!