Top ten strategy games

[Green Raven]

The only rules are they must be currently playable on a PC

1. Total War: Warhammer (1 and 2 combined)
2. XCOM 2
3. Stellaris
4. Invisible inc.
5. Into the Breach
6. Darkest Dungeon
7. Command and Conquer: Generals
8. Orcs Must Die! 2 (and 1)
9. Total War: Shogun 2
10. Age of Empires 2

[Zane87]

Green Raven eredeti hozzászólása:

LibraExAnima eredeti hozzászólása:

1. Spellforce 1 + Addons
2. Warcraft 3 + Addon
3. ... Well, I don't actually have a "top 10" :D

Hmm... I never played spellforce. Now Ill have to check it out :)

The first game with all addons was actually amazing. For me it went downhill from there in the franchise, though :/

[zefyris]

As strategy games and only strategy games

1) Sacrifice
2) Starcraft (with xpack)
3) Warcraft 3 (with xpack)
4) Dawn of War 1 (full xpacks)
4) C&C Red Alert 2 (with xpack)
5) Age of Mythology (same)
6) Empire Earth II (same)
7) Total War : Warhammer (full game 1&2 + DLCs together)
8) Ground Control II
9) Cossaks (with xpack)
10) C&C 2 Tiberian Sun(with xpack)

[Green Raven]

Heh, Im suprised people dislike Shogun 2 so much

To me, it's a perfect game. And the Realms Divide mechanic is brilliant. Instead of steamrolling your way to victory, the third act is the hardest... no other 4x game has ever solved that quandry.

Honestly the only reason its not my #1 game is becouse Warhammer just has so much more content. It might not be as perfect as Shogun, but it allows you to pit dinosuars armed with laser cannons against vampires

[Thaxlsyssilyaan]

If the goal of this thread is to find new strategy game to play, i recommend distand world universe.

[Zane87]

FRThaxlsyssilyaan eredeti hozzászólása:

If the goal of this thread is to find new strategy game to play, i recommend distand world universe.

I very much second this. One of the best I ever played.

Be prepared for quite the learning curve, though (if you plan on manual everything, which I recommend)

[John]

1. Supreme Commander Forged Alliance
2. Dawn of War Dark Crusade
3. Total war
4. Company of Heroes
5. Starcraft 1+2
6. Warcraft 3
7. Wargame Air Land Battle
8. Command and Conquer
9. Sins of a Solar Empire
10. Age of Empires

The order doesn't indicate significance in my list, each game has something special about it.

[Green Raven]

FRThaxlsyssilyaan eredeti hozzászólása:

If the goal of this thread is to find new strategy game to play, i recommend distand world universe.

That is indeed the goal, and thanks for the recomendation.

[RED /(Weber)\]

FRThaxlsyssilyaan eredeti hozzászólása:

If the goal of this thread is to find new strategy game to play, i recommend distand world universe.

So...nothing to do with Warhammer?
♥♥♥♥...

[Green Raven]

RED Floyd /(Weber)\ eredeti hozzászólása:

FRThaxlsyssilyaan eredeti hozzászólása:

If the goal of this thread is to find new strategy game to play, i recommend distand world universe.

So...nothing to do with Warhammer?
♥♥♥♥...

Awww... its adorable what makes you lose your cool...

[starchaser]

ChaosKhan eredeti hozzászólása:

Shogun 2 is the most overrated piece of clone wars trash that I know. For me, it's the worst total war after Shogun 1, hands down and I am shocked that people even put it in the top 10.

Historically, troops within that japanese civil war period was much less diverse. For example, if we talk about late sengoku jidai era - typical army consisted from spear ashigaru (was main type of troops), supported by bow and teppo units. Katana samurais was not even a thing (katana was their sidearm, main weapon for bushi in melee role was spear (yari) due to much longer reach and for missile was longbow (yumi). Calvary almost not used in combat role (with some exeptions), mostly for tranport - battles was almost always fought on foot. Surprisingly they got firearms mostly right - they was less effective than bows during that era, but cheaper to train battlefield-useful fighter.

Always cringed when for a balanced army had to recrut katana samurais, which is more powerful in melee vs yari, LOL. It's like pistol-equipped unit beating riflemans in the firefight.

[KamiKaze]

1. Warhammer Total War 2
2. Warhammer 40k Soulstorm
3. Warcraft 3
4. Spellforce 2
5. LotR Battle for Middle Earth 2
6. Red Alert 3 (Japan best faction)
7. Total War Rome (first TW game i played so it gets bonus points).
8. Disciples 2 (3 did look better but 2 had more content...i think).
9. Heroes of might and magic 5 i think it was 5.
10. Star Craft 2 (Dont really like the fast paced gameplay but the units are nice).

[starchaser]

Green Raven eredeti hozzászólása:

And the Realms Divide mechanic is brilliant. Instead of steamrolling your way to victory, the third act is the hardest... no other 4x game has ever solved that quandry.

It was very ahistorical and illogical - Sengoku Jidai was decided in clash between alliances, not by single clan capturing whole of Japan. Yes, clans often switched sides, but it was the other way around - they supported winner, not loser. Boshin war wasn't large military conflict either (less than 10000 dead) - after abandonment of Edo bakufu pretty much collapsed and majority of clans switched sides in favor of emperor. Shogun loyalists made the last stand on Hokkaido - that was the bloodiest part of conflict, which actually resemblebled actual war.

[Green Raven]

starchaser eredeti hozzászólása:

Green Raven eredeti hozzászólása:

And the Realms Divide mechanic is brilliant. Instead of steamrolling your way to victory, the third act is the hardest... no other 4x game has ever solved that quandry.

It was very ahistorical and illogical - Sengoku Jidai was decided in clash between alliances. Yes, clans often switched sides, but it was the other way around - they supported winner, not loser. Boshin war wasn't large military conflict either (less than 10000 dead) - after abandonment of Edo bakufu pretty much collapsed and majority of clans switched sides in favor of emperor.

I dont know about historacally accurate... I just thought it was good game design

[starchaser]

Green Raven eredeti hozzászólása:

I dont know about historacally accurate... I just thought it was good game design

Which is fine if you play fantasy game but kinda wrong for historical titles. I play them because i love history. I don't like when game design decisions force you play in way, which is reverse of very logic behind events which happended back then.

For example, decisive battle of Sengoku Jidai (Sekigahara) between eastern and western armies, which consisted from clans wrom east and west of japan, not just between Tokugawa and Toyotomi.

There is japanese strategy series - Nobunaga Ambition, which handle this era with more detail, and with proper political depth.

[pokerhabs]

I am surprised theres no mention of Mordheim : City of the damned.

A really harsh almost unfair rogue-like turn based strategy in the warhammer universe.

A total gem, if you never tried.