What is the ultimate strategy game for you?

[Alcibiaties of Athenae]

Victory at sea, the Hamblien varient.

Theyt made counters for it, I know, I have em.

very hard to win for the axis, the USN can concentrate on europe, wipe out the Italian navy, and have smooth sailing vs japan.

I also have the Russian and French navy varients for WAS.

I'll let you know on a time, football today.

 

[Pillager]

Imperialism. That was a brilliant game.

 

[Rowan]

Chess and civ II.
[dance]

 

[Thrawn]

Well civ3 is the best in the series imo. Imperialism II was pretty good, although I always seemed to run out of one type of resource.

Love Shogun, now if only I had a decent graphics card.

Got Red Alert 2 the other week, love it, but its too easy. Did some missions in under half the par time. Finished the Soviets campaign, on the last Allied mission.

 

[A_Bashkuev]

Chess is the Best.
Go - next second, but with very big yawning gap.

Yep, these games are beautiful, because you haven't any chance factors here.

Chance games:
Dice gamesw: Settlers.
Card games: Bridge.
Collectible card Games: Magic the Gathering.

Computer games:

Turn-based Strategies:
Civilization 2 - the best;
Master of Orion (first) - close second;
Heroes of Might & Magic 2 - third with big gap...

Real-Times Strategies (mix to be exact):
Medieval - Total War - best now (Shogun/Warlords are lame due to very simple strategy (tank rush to be exact)< but Medieval has totally different best strategies for each Faction & there are 12 dif Factions! Wow, marvellous job, indeed!
Starcraft - second best (maybe first, but I prefer "pure-historical background" here);
Dune II - Battle for Arrakis.

Sincerely yours, Alex

 

[october]

Best strategy games....

Civ 2 and 3 ( I have to stick with 3 now for I gave away 2 when I got 3)

Starcraft and Empire Earth (I am surprised nobody seems to talk about EE that much)

I really like the Rainbow Six games. I have Rogue Spear and Urban Operations missions pack

And of course, I LOOOVE Chess and Risk.

 

[Dell19]

I didn't really like Empire Earth, mainly because of the priests. I dislike the idea of losing a fleet of battleships to a priest...

 

[october]

But what if you, Dell19, destroyed your enemy's battleships with one priest? It's all even, you know.

I never used priests or prophets. I prefer a straight fight.

 

[Dell19]

Well it would be okay if you could remove them from the game but the AI still build them. Its a really annoying way of trying to balance the game by giving a low tech unit the possiblity to destroy really good units.

 

[Kennelly]

OK,I think I only own Strategy games and my favorites are:

CIV III
C&C Series
Imperialism II
AoE Series
Alpha Centauri
BotF
Pacific Admiral

 

[puglover]

Civ 3 of course!!!

 

[VinCaiden]

Civ 2, 3, Heroes II, Master of Orion 1 & 2
Favorite? Probably not really a strategy game but Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. Gotta love a game who's only drawback is being too short.