Saying ‘Nice Doggie' (till you find a rock)
Diplomacy challenges you to fight a war using your enemies as allies, and makes it so you can’t even trust the backstabbers. It’s great fun for strategic minds.
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Dominating Turn-based Gaming
Turn-based war gaming is not dead. With Domination, the sequel to Massive Assault, the beleaguered genre may make a full recovery.
My Roman Holiday
Rome: Total War is a seamless blend of turn-based planning and real-time combat set in the bloody days of the Roman Empire. As a boon, it boasts spectacular visuals and stunning sound.
A New Angle Of Attack
Hearts of Iron 2 not only looks better than its predecessor, it brings many new and fun features to the strategy table.
Election Time Fun
The Political Machine puts you in charge of one of the biggest battles ever: the race for the White House. Lead Kerry, Bush or yourself to victory.
Classic Conflict
Those who remember the classic game Archon game will be right at home with Wrath Unleashed. It blends strategy and action.
It’s a Kind of Magic
I’ll make this clear up front: I’m not a great advocate of ‘collectible card games.’ I’ve played Magic: The Gathering and some of the other ones. But the sheer volume of knowledge required to even handle the basics seemed like too much squeezing for the juice. All the accounting required to keep everything straight killed the fun of it for me, and there would always be questions that arose during play, such as cards with seemingly opposable powers and situations that arose that required the intervention of a referee to determine what the correct course of action was. But now … Continue reading It’s a Kind of Magic
This Wonder Takes The Throne
The development of wargames over the past few years has followed two distinct tracks. The far more popular one has been in the direction of real-time strategy games, with a role-playing modification being the feature of note lately. The road less traveled is turn-based. Despite wonderful real-time games, I have remained a steadfast fan of turn-based games. The genre almost died out a few years ago, but was saved mostly by the Might and Magic, and perhaps the Warlords series. (Does anyone still remember when Might and Magic was an RPG?) Today, turn-based strategy remains popular, though I doubt it … Continue reading This Wonder Takes The Throne
Disciples 2: Dark Prophecy
From the smoldering ruins of the great war, four tribes claw and scratch to rebuild and gain control. Afghanistan? No, Nevendaar. This is the basic story behind Disciples 2: Dark Prophecy, the turn -based strategy sequel to Disciples: Sacred Lands from Strategy First. In Disciples 2: Dark Prophecy, like its predecessor, you control one of four races; the humans, the dwarven mountain clans, the undead, or the legions of the damned. There are full campaigns and one-mission sagas type games for each of the four races. Disciples 2 is completely old school turn- based strategy. During each turn, your squads … Continue reading Disciples 2: Dark Prophecy
Civilization III: Yet Another Wonder of the World
Sid Meier’s Civilization III is the latest strategy game from Sid Meier (what, you were expecting Dani Bunting?) and which, in the grand style of its predecessors Civilization, Civilization II, and Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, calls upon the player to take control of some poor group of villagers and turn them into a nation-state that will change the fate of the world. If you’re interested in turn-based strategy games, but have never played a Sid Meier game, then don’t bother reading beyond this paragraph- just get a copy of Civ III. Sid Meier is a legend in his field because … Continue reading Civilization III: Yet Another Wonder of the World