military strategy games

MooseJam

Does anyone know of a military strategy type game that starts with set piece battles and allows you to command the troops, sort of like a RTS but with no resource gathering or town building ?

Timans

Medieval 2 Total War which you bought from me

That's all I can think of, coincidentally, I prefer the other sort of Stat Games.

MooseJam

nice one lol that arrived in the post this morning shall have to fire it up, anyone know of any others ?

SeantheMan

Rome : Total War / Barbarian Invasion
Medieval 2 : Total War

The main series of games for that sort of thing :cool:

However, Warhammer recently released a game of that sort aswell, called Warhammer :Mark of Chaos

Rome will cost ye about 6 euro, as its on one of them best selling series now, and Medieval and Warhammer probably about 25 each :rolleyes:

Or you could download demo versions to test em out yourself before you go and spend your money

Best place i find to download demo's of games is
http://www.gamershell.com

Hope that helps

ambro25

Can I heartily recommend the Close Combat series? That's if you're not too bothered about your strategy games being 2D or 3D. Never been bettered IMHO.

Auvers

ambro25 wrote:

Can I heartily recommend the Close Combat series? That's if you're not too bothered about your strategy games being 2D or 3D. Never been bettered IMHO.

Agree wholeheartly with Ambro with Close Combat 3 being the best IMHO.

humanji

Yeah, Close Combat games are some of the best of their kind, although, my favourite was CC5: Invasion Normandy, but they're all good. (except the FPS version)

muppetkiller

I enjoyed the Sudden Strike and Cold War Conflict games.
Also Blitzkreig (Spelling)

ambro25

muppetkiller wrote:

Also Blitzkrieg (Spelling)

Fixed

= "Lightning War" in plain English.

Sand

Theres the Combat Mission series, latest one is called Shock Force and is set in a modern conflict between the US and Syria

Possibily you might like the Take Command series as well - ACW centered wargames that dont look better than Medieval Total War [the first one] but compensate with scale. Its scenario driven, but some of them are excellent and can be replayed at different levels of command - Brigades, Division or the entire army.

MooseJam

Sand wrote:

Possibily you might like the Take Command series as well - ACW centered wargames that dont look better than Medieval Total War [the first one] but compensate with scale. Its scenario driven, but some of them are excellent and can be replayed at different levels of command - Brigades, Division or the entire army.

cheers, just what i was looking for , would have been happy with any time but all the better its acw, didn't think there was any out there, some of these games don't advertise themselves well enough !

Sand

didn't think there was any out there, some of these games don't advertise themselves well enough !

Its a specialist/niche product - it would/does get slated for not being C&C outside that specialist/niche audience. One of the huge advantages of PC gaming is that games like that get made at all and are available.

Toolbag

Moosejam check out Sudden Strike - it fits your description exactly