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Old October 31st, 2004, 03:15 AM

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Default OT: Anyone know of any other good TBS games??

Though I hate to say it, sometimes I can get a little burned out on SEIV, but I honestly dislike almost all games that aren't a turn-based strategy game. So, here's the question; does anyone know of any other good turn-based strategy games? Below are the ones I have (albeit there's only a couple)

-SEIV
-Galactic Civilizations

Suggestions are very welcome.

GalCiv Lasted me for a month or so when I took a break from SEIV (except for PBW). However, there are several things about GalCiv that....really annoy me. So it's done with for now, and I'm playing SEIV again. But in the future, I'm going to get burned out on it, and need something else to play.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions that are posted.
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Old October 31st, 2004, 04:13 AM

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Default Re: OT: Anyone know of any other good TBS games??

Well, there's Dominions 2...
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Old October 31st, 2004, 04:48 AM
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Default Re: OT: Anyone know of any other good TBS games??

There are always the old classics, like Master of Orion 1/2 and Master of Magic. Very few worthwhile TBS games have come out in the past few years...
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Default Re: OT: Anyone know of any other good TBS games??

Dominions qualifies under TBS, though it is quite different from SEIV (Dominions emphasises the military, while SEIV is mainly focused on economics).

You might want to look among older games, including some that aren't widely known. Emperor of the Fading Suns for example, or one game whose name I have forgotten (Tales of Balor, or something along these lines; I will look up for the correct name). Then you have Civilization and its siblings, including Alpha Centauri, but I have never been fond of Civilization.
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Default Re: OT: Anyone know of any other good TBS games??

Not strategy, but it is turn-based, and it's probably the greatest game ever made:

www.nethack.org
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Default Re: OT: Anyone know of any other good TBS games??

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Not strategy, but it is turn-based, and it's probably the greatest game ever made:

www.nethack.org

I prefer Slash'Em

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Though using ASCII, not with tiles
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Default Re: OT: Anyone know of any other good TBS games??

Well you could try Civization 3 Conquests. Its quite a mainstream game, but there are a lot of mods out there, which transfer the game into a science fiction world, or even in the warhammer universe. Other than Dom 2, MoO 2 its probably the best TBS game out there, excluding SE 4
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Not strategy, but it is turn-based, and it's probably the greatest game ever made:

www.nethack.org

I prefer Slash'Em

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Default Re: OT: Anyone know of any other good TBS games??

Great suggestions everyone, I'll have to check out some of the demo's for the games you mentioned. But feel free to keep offering suggestions
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Default Re: OT: Anyone know of any other good TBS games??

anyone played a game named UFO AFTERMATH? from what a read it's very similar to X-COM, but i don't think it runs on my computer UFO AFTERMATH
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