Recent reviews by pimpmeister_99

I'm a long time Civ player but SC36 takes the prize as the ultimate management game imo. It's so complex that it takes a while to figure out but it's worth it. Players have complete control over every aspect of the game: industrialization, research, social investment, diplomacy, espionage, militarization, theater strategy, tactics, and more. You can play as whichever country you want (Uruguay, New Zealand,...), however you want. The game has an outstanding underlying economic model that's intricate, well balanced, and challenging to manage. Nation development is throttled but in a realistic way rather than the "you're just holding me back" methods other games use to slow us down. The enemy AIs are also fairly decent though I've not let my advisors have much control so I can't speak for the intelligence of your helpers. With this level of complexity, the UI can be clumsy at times but Red Goat seems to be improving it with intelligent patches. In the meantime, you'll want to save often because one mis-click can completely ruin a game and if you like to control every aspect of the game like I do, a game can take a very long time. Overall, it's just a very challenging, very fun game!