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Re: Terrible list. Like they just did a genre search on Steam and listed the by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/09/2020, 6:34am PST
Mischief Maker wrote:

Snubbing Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Battlefleet Gothic Armada?!

WH40K Mechanicus is not a very good game, it just has a great soundtrack and plot. The best tactical 40K game is Sanctus Reach.

Druidstone is pretty, but also is not a very good game. If you want a great SRPG, Fell Seal is the Final Fantasy Tactics 2 we always wanted but never got.

The absence of any Age of Wonders game, especially Planetfall, is a huge gap.

A bot could have written this list.


So leaving X-COM and Jagged Alliance out because they are different genres, and knowing the genre better than them, I am thinking/hearing:

Age of Wonders... but which game?
Ancient Art of War
Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock
Civilization II
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Crusader Kings II
Dune II (Does it still hold up?)
Galactic Civilizations (I? II? Both?)
Nebula Commander (Vectrex. A hipster pick but I'll stand by it.)
Warcraft II
Warcraft III
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Sid Meier's Gettysburg (or Antietam?)
Sins of a Solar Empire?
Starcraft II
Starcraft III
Supreme Commander
Trash RTS


Was Stellaris actually good?


Seems like an easy article to not fuck up. Happy to get a list of recommended titles and bust it out. But I don't know RTS that well.

Haaaalp!
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I would like pinback's opinion as to missing "Best" strategy games by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/08/2020, 7:55pm PST NEW
    Terrible list. Like they just did a genre search on Steam and listed the results by Mischief Maker 11/08/2020, 8:11pm PST NEW
        Re: Terrible list. Like they just did a genre search on Steam and listed the by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/09/2020, 6:34am PST NEW
            More thoughts by Mischief Maker 11/09/2020, 9:58am PST NEW
                Also "Dominions is like Solium Infernum?" WTF??? by Mischief Maker 11/09/2020, 10:08am PST NEW
                    Well, he was saying they're both a bit inscrutable for new players. by pinback 11/09/2020, 3:55pm PST NEW
                        If "Into the Breach" makes the list, then so should "Bad North." NT by Mischief Maker 11/11/2020, 7:54am PST NEW
    Seconding what MM said. CK3 should not be here, CK2 is missing. And KoDP over Si by Saltlord 11/09/2020, 9:17am PST NEW
    Re: I would like pinback's opinion as to missing "Best" strategy games by laudablepuss 11/09/2020, 11:24am PST NEW
        Re: I would like pinback's opinion as to missing "Best" strategy games by laudablepuss 11/10/2020, 10:49am PST NEW
    I'd trust MM's opinions more than my own, but... by pinback 11/09/2020, 12:31pm PST NEW
        I'm gonna do it. F 'em. If we don't have 50 then that means there aren't 50. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/10/2020, 9:39am PST NEW
            Of course there's more than 50 that someone could reasonably claim is a best gam by Saltlord 11/10/2020, 12:51pm PST NEW
                I'd be into it. But do you intend to exclude tactics games? NT by Mischief Maker 11/11/2020, 7:55am PST NEW
                    To me, squad-based tactics and RTS or Master of Magic style games are different by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/14/2020, 10:04am PST NEW
                Re: Of course there's more than 50 that someone could reasonably claim is a best by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/13/2020, 4:37pm PST NEW
                    We can do it by category. Fabio's category for best is idiosyncratic to by Saltlord 11/13/2020, 11:59pm PST NEW
    I would LOVE for pinback to finally do a full review of "Sorcerer King" NT by Mischief Maker 11/13/2020, 3:02pm PST NEW
        He also threatened to demonstrate the superiority of Shadow Empire. NT by Saltlord 11/14/2020, 12:01am PST NEW
    Well, I got Sid Meier's Antietam! by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/18/2020, 11:41am PST NEW
 
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