The introduction thread

[Saint Scylla]

Hello and welcome to Turn-Based Tactics!

The goal of this group is to discover and recommend other games of our beloved genre in a neutral Steam forum (not hosted by a specific game) and to write reviews as a Curator. Feel free to advocate for any turn-based game deserving to be played and loved!

As for me, I'm a 37 y.o. gamer from Paris, France, addicted to TB since Heroes of Might & Magic II and Medieval Total War. I'm quite a fan of the Warhammer world and I'm currently enjoying the video game adaptations of Mordheim and Total War Warhammer, after finishing the Shadowrun series and Darkest Dungeon. My todo list for next year is already pretty full with Invisible Inc, Dungeon Rats, Battle Brothers, Expedition Viking... but I'd be really interested to learn of any great title which could have slipped under my radar.

Let me know of any suggestion or question you have. Thanks and have fun!

[screeg]

Always loved turn-based games going back to Jagged Alliance 2, but I don't play on Iron Man. In RL I work in design and also contribute to indie games like Age of Decadence, Dungeon Rats and Battle Brothers.

[Llch]

24 y.o, Addicted since Heroes Might and Magic lll, camerman and photographer by calling and craft, so by nature I'm a man who likes to take his time to plan and conquer. Although I have weakness to 1-st person RPG but there is just so few good of them.

[moogmg2]

Dungeon Rats? Have you played Age of Decadence?

[Saint Scylla]

Originally posted by moogmg2:

Dungeon Rats? Have you played Age of Decadence?

I haven't. Since there are so many games I want to try, I figured I'd play the latest instalment in the series.

[Banezilla]

Hi guys , 45 yr old here , love TB games cause im old and slow . im a disabled vet and i dont sit at a desk so its hard for me to find fun games that i can read the small text on . lookin forward to the 2 new Warhammer games coming out at the start of next year thu.

[Saint Scylla]

Welcome, Banezilla. Which Warhammer titles do you mean?

[JerryMullins]

I'm new here and I play Space Hulk Ascension as my favorite TBS game. I have 43 hours logged on it. Do any of you play Space Hulk Ascension?

[Nimrias]

Hi guys. I'm 38 and I learned to love TBS by playing a lot of chess with my father in my childhood. Nowdays I like the planning that TBS games allow. I feel like harder challenges bring greater rewards when you overcome them.

@Jerry: I have put 300+ hours into SH:A and it was my first perfect game. I'm glad they were able to work out all the bugs. But sadly, it seems like it wasn't soon enough to save Full Control Studios.

[JerryMullins]

Originally posted by Nimrias:

Hi guys. I'm 38 and I learned to love TBS by playing a lot of chess with my father in my childhood. Nowdays I like the planning that TBS games allow. I feel like harder challenges bring greater rewards when you overcome them.

@Jerry: I have put 300+ hours into SH:A and it was my first perfect game. I'm glad they were able to work out all the bugs. But sadly, it seems like it wasn't soon enough to save Full Control Studios.

Yeah, the only things that bother me are low FPS (Could be my integrated graphics card), and that you deploy blind.

[Brasidas]

hi and thanks for the invite. i'm a long time TB gamer though i've played other genres too (RPG, RTS, SIMs, etc.)

Some TB games i love:

Original Jagged Alliance series
original XCOM
XCOM EW & EU
Original Fallout series / Tactics
MOO and MOO2
MOM
Warhammer Chaos Gate
Civ series (mostly V)
Mechcommander (although this was RTS with pause)

and some newer games i enjoy:

Age of Wonders III
Shadowrun series (Dragonfall, Returns & Hongkong)
Space Hulk: Ascension

I just bought Age of Decadence and hope to test drive it over the holidays.

Feel free to ask anything or add me!

Happy gaming!

[Banezilla]

Originally posted by Saint Scylla:

Welcome, Banezilla. Which Warhammer titles do you mean?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/553210 and http://store.steampowered.com/app/502370

[The BlackVision]

Hello everyone, Scylla offered the details of the group on the Renowned Explorers: International Society (RE:IS from here-on) forum, and being a part of the challenge development team, thought I'd say 'hi' here :)

I'm 29, live in England and love most game types, but TB games are among my all time favourites - I got started on Ultima V back when I was about 6, and not stopped moving through TB games since.

My family and I are also very much into board-games (even to the extent of creating our own that we play most times the family is together) and the structure similarity between TB computer games and many board-games is a big thing.
i've played a lt o TB games in my time, ranging from XCOM: Apocalypse right up to the modern day ones.

I'm very much into RE:IS, and recommend giving it a look at if you haven't - it's got both tactical and strategic elements, a great replayability and lovely atmosphere, both in-game and in the forums - one of the friendliest gaming communities I know of. (Plus I've had a hand in a lot of the community-challenges)

Other current games I''m very much into include: Total War: Warhammer and XCOM 2 (which I also play around with modding, though not finished any to my satisfaction yet, and not updated or played so much since the latest DLC as haven't had the time), Magic the Gathering (various games, more because I played the MtG somewhat when younger than because I'd recommend them as games), Darkest Dungeon (Lovecraftian TB combat semi-Roguelike) - great for Poe or Lovecraft fans.

Ones you may not have heard of, but which I have very much enjoyed: Steamworld Heist - tactical TB combat in the Steamworld series, Invisible, Inc (excellent Klei game, cyberpunk espionage/action game), and ADOM (Advanced Domains Of Mystery) - extremely in-depth and extremely punishing turn-based roguelike and, another like ADOM, Caves of Qud.

Other games which I'd call hybrid-turn-based would include: Shadowrun (Returns+Dragonfall+Hong Kong), Baldur's Gate 1,2+DLC, Fallout 1+2 and Wasteland 2. I think of them as hybrid TB as athough they aren't turn-based as such, you can play them a little like they were with rapid time-freezes and command issueing. and to succeed in them, you need to do so, to a degree.

[Gloomseeker]

Hello fellow Turn Based Tacticians, I'm 38 (at least for a few more days) from Lyon in France and I did start playing strategy games with Heroes of Might and Magic 2 back in the days.

Over the years I've diversified a bit but I've always gone back to Turn Based games. I've tried dabbling in RTS but as a rule I much prefer taking my time.

I'm also a huge fan of the original Fallout which is still my favourite game although it's been almost twenty years (but who's counting?) and I still play old isometric games like Arcanum, BG, IWD and a few others.

I usually have strong opinions about games and I miss the old days when I did have the time to complete the games I owned.

I have a certain fondness for indie games that usually don't get much love from mainstream reviewers, games that have heart and ambition like for instance games made by Spiders Studios (I had a great time with the Technomancer) and end up surprising you because they're not afraid of taking chances.

I've just finished playing Tyranny and I've decided that I should actually go through Pillars of Eternity and Xcom 2 before Battle Brothers comes out but there is very little chance of that actually happening.

I've also been meaning to play more of Legends of Eisenwald and a few other games like Expeditions Conquistadors or Lords of Xulima which I've been meaning to play for quite some time now so as you can see there is a definite pattern.

[The BlackVision]

Good call on Pillars of Eternity - dunno how I missed that from my list :s

Also need to finish that one sometime. Only reason I hadn't was cause my main save hit a major bug that broke the save. Fortuantely, that's been resolved now, but I'll still have to start over.

[Metamorphosys]

Hey gang. I started gaming way back with the original Atari 2600, although my family had Intellivision instead (ever hear of that??). Moved on to the Atari 520ST and played RPG and TB games Phantasie and Ultima (Think that I started with Ultima 3).

Love the Civs and started with Civ2, don't have Civ6 yet, but play Civ5.

Really just got back into gaming maybe 5 years ago. On a Mac so I am somewhat limited.

Invisible, Inc. is a favorite, went through XCom 2 once already - what a great game. Playing Divinity Original Sin EE now, which has turn based combat.

I'm also a soccer/football nut so I play a lot of Football Manager.

Thanks for the group and all of the recommendations as they will greatly influence what I purchase in the future.

Cheers.