Favorite Turn based Video games

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-02-05 09:32am

Worms Armageddon!

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2004-02-05 09:35am

Depends on the genre
For 'management' style hybrids, the Civilizations series. (I like Call to Power best, haven't really sat down with Civ 3 yet)

Pure military:
Toss up between military madness (TG16), the newest version of Risk I have, and a shareware game I once had called Global Thermo nuclear war (grin)

Action:
a Star Trek game I had for the commodore

Favourite Real Time Strag game:
Dungeon Keeper series (evil grin). Fun game, if a little restrainted...

A turned based version would be enjoyable:
The various 'Age of Empires' engine games (Age of Empires, Age of Mythlogy, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds)

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-02-05 10:14am

Fallout 2.

Though for something a bit wee more I'd say Civ 2.

Thunderfire · Post by **Thunderfire** » 2004-02-05 11:20am

RPG: Fallout 2
Tactical Squad: Silent Storm
Tactical Military: SPWAW
Strategic Military: PG Series
Space: SE4
Fantasy: MOM

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-02-05 01:57pm

Super Robot Wars.

Any of them.

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2004-02-05 02:01pm

FFTactics, Ring of Red(PS2) and Gunbound.

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2004-02-05 02:18pm

Heroes of Might and Magic II and III & Master of Orion II. Also Birth of the Federation (I'm sorry, even though it was very flawed, I still had a lot of fun playing BoTF)

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-02-05 03:58pm

populous: in the beginning
Civ 2
Starcraft
Final Fantasy Tactics

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-02-05 04:00pm

Hero's of might and magic is good and How coudl I forget The Shining force series... which is my favorite

Luzifer's right hand · Post by **Luzifer's right hand** » 2004-02-05 04:03pm

Alpha Centauri.(Civ III is a step backward imo)

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-02-05 04:17pm

Steel Panthers Main Battle Tank
Civilization II

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2004-02-05 04:44pm

UFO: Enemy Unknown, and Medieval: Total War (Yeah, I know it's not entirely Turn-based, but it's great anyway)

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2004-02-05 04:55pm

X-Com: Enemy Unknown and Terror from the Deep. TFTD still has me hiding. Disciples 2 and its expansions, Master of Orion 2 and the more recent Reach For the Stars.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2004-02-05 05:02pm

UFO: Enemy Unknown. If only it worked properly on my newly upgraded PC.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-02-05 05:56pm

Final Fantasy Tactics, of course.

Also, creech; Dragon Force was a great, addictive strategy game, and it alone made the Saturn worth owning, but it wasn't really true turn-based strategy.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-02-05 06:07pm

Joe wrote:Final Fantasy Tactics, of course.

Also, creech; Dragon Force was a great, addictive strategy game, and it alone made the Saturn worth owning, but it wasn't really true turn-based strategy.

I realize that but it was kind of a mixture of turn base and realtime. Either way it still kicked ass

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2004-02-05 09:56pm

Crazy_Vasey wrote:UFO: Enemy Unknown. If only it worked properly on my newly upgraded PC.

Turn DirectX off or download the newest version of the major editing program for it. But be prepared to kick the speed down a good deal

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-02-09 01:15am

These are the only turn based games I still play...
Steel Panthers: Main Battle Tank
Steel Panthers: World War II

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-02-09 01:58am

Solauren wrote:Depends on the genre
For 'management' style hybrids, the Civilizations series. (I like Call to Power best, haven't really sat down with Civ 3 yet)

I'd recommend you get it. It includes the best aspects of the Call to Power games, and drops the annoying factors that hurt them, with the best of the real Civilization line.

Macross · Post by **Macross** » 2004-02-09 02:46am

X-Com
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic
Alpha Centauri
Civilization III
Jagged Alliance 2

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2004-02-09 03:04am

Crazy_Vasey wrote:UFO: Enemy Unknown. If only it worked properly on my newly upgraded PC.

There is an updated windows release...

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-02-09 03:50pm

For PC: Fallout
For consoles: Shining Force II.

Solid Snake · Post by **Solid Snake** » 2004-02-09 08:06pm

Final Fantasy Tactics
Starfleet Command

Butterbean569 · Post by **Butterbean569** » 2004-02-10 01:35am

The original Panzer General and Master of Orion 2

I had the pleasure of not having my good computer avaliable to me over the entire course of winter break...leaving me to cry at the keyboard of a crappy 100 Mhz Pentium. It was terrible

Until I remembered I had Panzer General on it

Maybe it was because of the situation I was in, but I had just as much fun playing this old game as I do now playing BF1942, KOTOR, and SWG. My only complaint is the difficulty. The game is SO DAMN HARD! After I kept failing to take France quickly enough (that's how hard it is lol) I took of the Fog of War and put the settings to very easy. Even then it was tough...but a week later i was marching upon Washington

So much strategy and fun in such an old game...gotta love it

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-02-10 09:28am

As the most played game I'll say Heroes 3 and 3.5 (WoG).
But as my favorites: Fallout 1&2&Tactics and Might&Magic 6&7&8&maybe 9

They are not trully turn based, but I played them only in this mode. I'm not the Diablo-style fan so a turn based mode suits me better.

And, of course there are other I enjoyed, like Worms Armagg and Panzer Gen 2