Suggestions for the best Strategy games

[Pinotage]

I was looking for suggestions for some good strategy games. I'm thinking along the lines of games such as:

Age of Empires
Total War Series
Dragonshard
Heroes of Might and Magic
Battle for Middle-Earth

In other words, your general resource management strategy game with a little fighting involved and conquering.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Thanee]

Real Time Strategy or Turn Based or both?

For RTS: Dawn of War is nice.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Pinotage]

Real Time Strategy or Turn Based or both?

For RTS: Dawn of War is nice.

Bye
Thanee

I don't really mind, to be honest. HoMAM is turn-based, but the others are all RTS. I'll take a look at Dawn of War! Thanks.

 

[Thanee]

There's a Dawn of War Anthology with the game and all the expansions out.

I havn't played Company of Heroes myself, but heard it's a very good game as well.

And then there is, of course, the unrivaled ruler of the RTS genre: StarCraft
(Part II currently in the works; maybe next year?)

Others can probably give you better suggestions for the Turn Based games.

One, that I have heard a few times... Sins of a Solar Empire.
There was a thread about it here recently.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Merkuri]

Warcraft III has been a favorite of mine for a while. It takes everything that was good about StarCraft, builds even more on it, and puts it into the Warcraft world. I like the plot of StarCraft better, but the interface of Warcraft III is so awesome that I can't bear to play StarCraft anymore. It just feels too clunky, not being able to tab between types of units in a squad.

 

[Thanee]

I didn't really like WarCraft III.
The stupid heroes alone ruined the game for me.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Pinotage]

Thanee and Merkuri - some very useful suggestions there. I played the original Warcraft and Warcraft II back in the day, but haven't touched them since. Perhaps it's time to go to III (I don't think I really have the time for WoW).

Starcraft looks interesting. There was an old DOS/Win95 game I think called Starcraft as well. Are these two related?

Keep the good suggestions coming!

 

[Thanee]

There is only one StarCraft (it came out after WarCraft II).

The sequel is currently under development... StarCraft II

Bye
Thanee

 

[Merkuri]

The Starcraft we're talking about was made by Blizzard (makers of Warcraft) between Warcraft II and Warcraft III. I don't think it could run in DOS so I don't know if you're thinking of the same thing we are.

I could take or leave the heros in Warcraft III, but I really REALLY liked how you could put multiple types of units in one squad and still activate all of their special abilities. In Starcraft you pretty much had to restrict yourself to one type of unit per squad if you wanted to use them effectively. Though I did miss being able to completely overrun your opponents with huge numbers of cheap zerglings.

I think my ideal game would be if they made Starcraft with Warcraft III's interface... I really hope that's what Starcraft II turns out to be.

 

[Thanee]

...without the stupid WC3 style heroes.

Well, SC2 surely will have all those features and more. Every modern RTS has them.

Bye
Thanee