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What is your favorite TBS game series?

XCOM 11 8.59%
 
Civilization 29 22.66%
 
Heroes of Might and Magic 13 10.16%
 
Panzer General 3 2.34%
 
Ogre Battle 6 4.69%
 
Fire Emblem 31 24.22%
 
Advance Wars 7 5.47%
 
Worms 2 1.56%
 
Master of Orion 3 2.34%
 
Other 23 17.97%
 
Total:128
sethnintendo on 04 July 2017
Azuren said:
Jpcc86 said:
Ogre Battle 64. To me, almost a perfect game.

I wouldn't consider it turn based, but it's easily my favorite N64 game. Hell, it's my favorite 5th Gen game.

Never played Ogre Battle on SNES/64 but it does show up as RTS on wiki page...  I'll just consider it Ogre Battle series which includes the Tactics Ogre games which are 100% TBS.   So the series is a mix of RTS and TBS.  I could have put Tactics Ogre up there but lets just stick with Ogre Battle because I'm calling it quits on messing with the poll.



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COKTOE on 04 July 2017

I think the original FF Tactics might still be my favorite. Might. It's been 20 years. I didn't like FF Tactics Advance 2 as much. Fire Emblem as a series is probably my favorite, although XCOM has made serious inroads recently.



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sethnintendo on 04 July 2017
Miguel_Zorro said:
I love turned based strategy games but don't play them as often these days because I'll get carried away and stay up all night playing just one more turn in Civ.

Any recommendations for turn-based strategy games on iOS?

Don't think his games are on iOS but you can check.  He made decent ones (different time periods like USA Civil War, WW2, etc) which the style reminds me of the Panzer General series. 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudworth.operationbarbarossa

Best to scroll through the pics because the first pic is one without unit images.  If you check out all his games most of them have 4+ ratings.  They aren't quite the sellers but he has carved a small niche market for himself.  Plus he continues to push out updates for almost all his games.  So he continues to tinker with them sometimes perhaps even taking suggestions from the fans.



vivster on 04 July 2017

"Yeah, Let's just make a turn based strategy thread without mentioning Dragon Quest. That will go well."



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sethnintendo on 04 July 2017
vivster said:
"Yeah, Let's just make a turn based strategy thread without mentioning Dragon Quest. That will go well."

RPG fans are welcome too!



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Chazore on 04 July 2017

I really love RTS games more than TBS, but I do like my Worms, XCOM, Advance Wars, Disgaea and older FF games.



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Vodacixi on 04 July 2017

Final Fantasy Tactics A2



TheBraveGallade on 04 July 2017

Arg its a toss up between civ and advanced wars.
Btw I consider strategy RPGs its seperate genre. And in there FE is king to me.



HoloDust on 04 July 2017

It used to be TalonSoft's Battleground and Campaign and SSI's General series back in 90s...and after that Battlefront's Combat Mission.

Although there are better games out there, CM (especially CM1 series - Beyond Overlord, Barbarossa to Berlin and Afrika Korps, though I like CM2 series as well) has special place for me.



VAMatt on 04 July 2017

Civilization 3 is the only TBS game I've ever played. I enjoyed it. I'd like to play a more modern Civ, but I don't want to buy a gaming PC just for that.

Actually, does Populous count as TBS? I played that on Genesis 25-30 years ago. Liked it a lot, but was too young to be any good at it. I remember we called it a "god game" back then, but don't remember the gameplay well enough to classify it today.