A good strategy game?

howyegettinon1

looking for the above, can anyone recommend something?

Last good one I remember was "Commandos" spending hour to complete a mission? Anything similar out recently and decent graphics?

Generic Dreadhead

X-Com Enemy Within / Unknown
Jagged Alliance 2 Gold with the Main Gun Mod

/thread :P

Yemowt

If you are looking for a WWII type one that you can basically take over the world if you make your country/alliance big enough, Making History The Calm And The Storm.

You can go through the WWII era but instead of the allies versus the axis, some weird things can occur.

I have had Britain declare war on the US and several other strange things.

If you want a slightly more complex game I would go for Hearts of Iron 3.

Sephiroth_dude

Company of hero's

Omikron1

If you liked Commandos, they came out with with 3 sequels. Commandos 2 is good, 3 was ok and never got around to 4, I don't think it's thought too highly of though. Desperados and it's sequel are good and they're the same type of gameplay as Commandos but with a wild west theme.

TerrorFirmer

Company of Heroes is an incredible game. You would not think it's an almost 9 year old game, I still play it regularly. The action is just fantastic.

howyegettinon1

Omikron1 wrote: »

If you liked Commandos, they came out with with 3 sequels. Commandos 2 is good, 3 was ok and never got around to 4, I don't think it's thought too highly of though. Desperados and it's sequel are good and they're the same type of gameplay as Commandos but with a wild west theme.

yeah i think I played all but the 4th. I was about 10/11 when I played them though and haven't since but remember it as a great game.

Must try out a few of the above

howyegettinon1

Company of Hero's looks pretty good I must say! From a quick glace a good bit of action to keep it entertaining too.

The_Valeyard

Cormac... wrote: »

X-Com Enemy Within / Unknown
Jagged Alliance 2 Gold with the Main Gun Mod

/thread :P

This!!!! X-Com unknown is class.


Also give Wasteland 2 a go.

mahoganygas

I recommend X-Com. It's a turn based strategy game. You control a small unit of soldiers on the battlefield, fighting against aliens who are landing on earth. Each soldier has different abilities and loadouts and you are allowed two moves per unit before the aliens have their turn.

Each mission lasts about 20 minutes or so. Great strategic gameplay. Graphics are not fantastic - the game is fairly old at this stage but there's a sequel coming soon.

Another strategic element to the game is what you do when you get back to your base. Managing base layout, hiring and promoting soldiers, researching weapons etc. You gather resources on the battlefield then spend them back at your base.

I've put in about 50 hours over the last month and I'm really enjoying it.

Generic Dreadhead

Best way I have of putting it is:
Company of Heros is Commandos but Faster/More Units and more RTS like
X-Com is like Commandos but Slower/Smaller Squad and Turn Based.

It all depends on if you wish Commandos was a bit faster, or a bit slower really

The_Valeyard

Be advised, when you loose a squad member in X-Com it hurts

IvoryTower

rome total war, the total war series is great

roll on warhammer

Digital Solitude

XCOM XCOM XCOM

And Civ V
Hearts of Iron III

Generic Dreadhead

IvoryTower wrote: »

rome total war, the total war series is great

roll on warhammer

Digital Solitude wrote: »

And Civ V

While these are both GREAT strategy games, they are really worlds apart from Commandos, Apples and Pears really.

I'd be more inclined to recumbent Myth: The Fallen Lords over those cause of the game type :P

Mickeroo

howyegettinon1 wrote: »

yeah i think I played all but the 4th. I was about 10/11 when I played them though and haven't since but remember it as a great game.

Must try out a few of the above

The commando games are on steam now if you fancy a trip down memory lane.

IvoryTower

forgot all about myth, some game!

Generic Dreadhead

IvoryTower wrote: »

forgot all about myth, some game!

Stop the lights.... wish it was given a bit of Kickstarter Polish and redone

1 was great, 2 was good.... 3 I don't remember enjoying 1/2 as much.

The Lore / Story was brilliant though. Totally surpassed a LOT of Fantasy Fiction and I'm a BIG fantasy Fiction head

Sephiroth_dude

+1 XCOM , So much fun .

.ak

Must replay Company of Heros! Such a good game... Is there any plans of a new version?

strelok

.ak wrote: »

Must replay Company of Heros! Such a good game... Is there any plans of a new version?

they did release company of heroes 2...


also i can't believe no one mentioned world in conflict

shame on you all

.ak

Yeh never played the 2nd one, and looks like a new expansion is coming out for it!

strelok

me either actually. i was all hyped for it and then just... didn't bother

Retr0gamer

Valkyria Chronicles is excellent and plays a bit like XCom. Don't be put off the anime visuals (which I think looks gorgeous) it's a great strategy game.

Sephiroth_dude

Men of war if you want something hardcore

TerrorFirmer

.ak wrote: »

Yeh never played the 2nd one, and looks like a new expansion is coming out for it!

COH2 is good but just not as good as the first game was relative to the time, it's better now with the expansions though. There's the Western Front Armies add-on, the new Ardennes campaign, and the British army add-on is coming out soon.

One thing about the game though is that it's really hardware intensive when the game gets going.

Skerries

strelok wrote: »

also i can't believe no one mentioned world in conflict

shame on you all

I was going to mention it but he was looking for more of a strategy rather than an RTS game

super_furry

Having a lot of fun with Massive Chalice at the moment, which channels a medieval X-Com.

mahoganygas

super_furry wrote: »

Having a lot of fun with Massive Chalice at the moment, which channels a medieval X-Com.

That sounds really cool! I'll check that out tonight.

Generic Dreadhead

Really want to go back and Play Myth The Fallen Lords now

IvoryTower

played warhammer shadow of horned rat earlier. it didnt hold up well at all. Myth doesn't seem to be available on steam or gog

howyegettinon1

downloading XCOM Enemy Unknown and Company of Heroes now:D

Generic Dreadhead

howyegettinon1 wrote: »

downloading XCOM Enemy Unknown and Company of Heroes now:D

Why not Enemy Within? It's like X-Com 1.5
Its an expansion with all the original stuff

howyegettinon1

Cormac... wrote: »

Why not Enemy Within? It's like X-Com 1.5
Its an expansion with all the original stuff

ok ill download that one so

The_Valeyard

Cormac... wrote: »

Why not Enemy Within? It's like X-Com 1.5
Its an expansion with all the original stuff

WHAT!!!!!!!

I thought it was a separate game, I've been playing Enemy unknown until then was going to move on to Enemy Within.

Generic Dreadhead

The_Valeyard wrote: »

WHAT!!!!!!!

I thought it was a separate game, I've been playing Enemy unknown until then was going to move on to Enemy Within.

Well yeah, like I sold my copy of Enemy Unknown when I got Enemy Within. It was the Vanilla, all the DLC and then the new stuff all in a happy bundle. The new missions/story take place alongside the Vanilla mission/story. They are parallel, not sequential.

Sorry, just for clarities sake, the Steam/PC verison requires the Original. The Consoles re-sold Enemy Within as a different boxed game. Either way, playing Enemy Unknown content is during the same time period as the mani game so no reason NOT to own it.

XCOM: Enemy Within is an expansion pack for the turn-based military alien invasion strategy wargaming simulator XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The Windows and OS X editions require XCOM: Enemy Unknown to play; Enemy Within was released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as part of the Commander Edition bundled with Enemy Unknown. The iOS and Android versions were released as stand-alone apps not requiring the original mobile port of Enemy Unknown to play.

Dardania

My humble suggestion - a bit different from what people here are saying, but Ground Control?:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/254820/

Francie Barrett

howyegettinon1 wrote: »

looking for the above, can anyone recommend something?

Last good one I remember was "Commandos" spending hour to complete a mission? Anything similar out recently and decent graphics?

Try out the Combat Mission series of games. It's turn-based rather than RTS and allows to command a whole pile of different units like men, tanks, artillery. Nothing more satisfy than identifying a narrow bottleneck in a map, deploying your troops there in hiding and then waiting until the last minute as the enemy tanks hit your minefield while your bazooka men pop out from the trees, annihilating an entire column of enemy tanks.

Aimead

Loved Commando’s, but it became too easy to exploit the brain-dead AI sometimes. Take the example of a patrol that has a fixed route. Simply set your bear trap and, when the alarm dies down, repeat. The alarm doesn’t go off on subsequent killings, making it fairly simple to clear out whole sections of the map.

Any of the suggestions given in this thread avoid this issue?

Sephiroth_dude

Give men of war 2 a look in too :pac:

The_Valeyard

Cormac... wrote: »

Well yeah, like I sold my copy of Enemy Unknown when I got Enemy Within. It was the Vanilla, all the DLC and then the new stuff all in a happy bundle. The new missions/story take place alongside the Vanilla mission/story. They are parallel, not sequential.

Sorry, just for clarities sake, the Steam/PC verison requires the Original. The Consoles re-sold Enemy Within as a different boxed game. Either way, playing Enemy Unknown content is during the same time period as the mani game so no reason NOT to own it.

Ahh. Balls. I'm too far into it to restart the game.

Generic Dreadhead

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Ahh. Balls. I'm too far into it to restart the game.

You're going to be replaying anyway. Everyone knows it! :pac:
Trying to get the perfect base from the start, all the DLC content, trying Harder Modes etc. Such a great game. Especially after a few months break and a return

YouSavedMyLife

Finally went ahead and installed Company of Heroes after all the praise it's receiving here. Why did I wait so long? It's everything Dawn of War is and more. Will defiantly get the DLC and the second game

degrassinoel

i didnt like the dlc for the first game, but the dlc/expansion (ardennes assault) for CoH2 is quality, the rest is fairly meh

Starscream25

Any casual strategy games I could download on the iPad? I've played xcom, fantastic game, so anything similar for the iPad would be great if anyone knows of any game half decent.

AbusesToilets

Cormac... wrote: »

You're going to be replaying anyway. Everyone knows it! :pac:
Trying to get the perfect base from the start, all the DLC content, trying Harder Modes etc. Such a great game. Especially after a few months break and a return

Have you played the Long War mod for it? I've looked at it but not sure I have the time to dedicate to it or a wife understanding enough to let me.

Dair76

Starscream25 wrote: »

Any casual strategy games I could download on the iPad? I've played xcom, fantastic game, so anything similar for the iPad would be great if anyone knows of any game half decent.

Take a look at Frozen Synapse (YouTube vids or whatever). It's not similar in terms of visuals etc, nor is it to everyone's tastes. It is however beautifully refined tactical planning that can be played when suits you. Personally, I loved it.

strelok

http://www.gog.com/promo/weekend_promo_stratagems_310715


gog are having a strategy game sale atm

men of war: vietnam looks kinda like what OP is after


oh there are actually a **** load of men of war games there

Sephiroth_dude

strelok wrote: »

http://www.gog.com/promo/weekend_promo_stratagems_310715


gog are having a strategy game sale atm

men of war: vietnam looks kinda like what OP is after


oh there are actually a **** load of men of war games there

Thats what i recommended

The_Valeyard

Cormac... wrote: »

You're going to be replaying anyway. Everyone knows it! :pac:
Trying to get the perfect base from the start, all the DLC content, trying Harder Modes etc. Such a great game. Especially after a few months break and a return

In lost a squad member last night, was tough, he was with me since the beginning, max rank, best gear, tough fecker. Got killed by enemy overwatch

the incredible pudding

Frozen synapse is an amazing strategy game. The learning curve is a little bit steep but the pay off is really worth it. Both teams give orders to their units and then they're acted out in real time. It's a fantastic idea that's very nicely realised.