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Bleak
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Turkey3059 Posts
November 11 2015 00:16 GMT
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Hello these days I am really looking for a turn based strategy game where I can plan invasions on a grand scale and fight battles where I can practice mobile warfare and try to encircle and destroy the opposing army. I am looking for something similar to the Hearts of Iron series. I am waiting for HOI 4, but I need something to fill in the void in the meantime. If anyone has any good recommendations, I would love to know.

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Fecalfeast
Profile Joined January 2010
Canada11355 Posts
November 11 2015 01:37 GMT
#2
While a lot more like Civ5 than HOI I really enjoy Endless Legend. It's incredibly in-depth and even though I just mentioned the similarities, is leaps and bounds ahead when it comes to combat. I has a heroes of might and magic-esque system where your 'unit' can contain multiple different units which you use to fight on a separate battle grid from the main game.

Also I've never heard of hearts of iron so if I'm way off base from what you like my bad
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Archeon
Profile Joined May 2011
3260 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-11 14:00:33
November 11 2015 13:55 GMT
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On November 11 2015 09:16 Bleak wrote:
Hello these days I am really looking for a turn based strategy game where I can plan invasions on a grand scale and fight battles where I can practice mobile warfare and try to encircle and destroy the opposing army. I am looking for something similar to the Hearts of Iron series. I am waiting for HOI 4, but I need something to fill in the void in the meantime. If anyone has any good recommendations, I would love to know.

If you liked HOI3, try out paradox other series . I personally like Europa Universalis 4 a lot, although the warfare is more about outmaneuvering and knowing when and where to fight and very rudimentary in terms of battlefield planning. From what I can tell from the differences between CK2 and EU4, all grand strategy games from Paradox use a very similar basic system and mainly have a different focus in their system. In CK it's their focus on the dynasties f.e.

Strictly speaking eu isnt turn based though, despite playing a lot like f.e. total war.

The total war series is another no-brainer, so is the civ series.
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Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
11923 Posts
November 13 2015 06:16 GMT
#4
Steam has the Grand Strategy tag. http://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=4364&page=1

Not all that many games has that tag (5 pages), check them out and see which you like.
Destructicon
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
4713 Posts
November 13 2015 09:23 GMT
#5
I know its different from what you've described, but have you tried Galactic Civilisations III? Its a ton of fun, the sheer variety of customizations you have for your starships is breathtaking and once you learn to use the size tools the possibilities become infinite. You also have tons of options for building a custom civilization, and a multitude of ways to win.

Now, while I wasn't a fan of Civilization: Beyond Earth taking the series of-world, one thing that I did like was their influence system. When you completed a task for a civilization not only did you gain some rep with them, but also influence points that you could use for special actions, like forcing a civilization to declare war on someone else, or end a war etc. It was something that I felt diplomacy lacked till then and it meant that you could finally just focus on your own economy and fight a war by proxy if you so chose.

I think you can probably do mobile warfare in both the games I described but you could also try a Total War game. While the best results often come from you fighting directly, if you grow your empire large enough you can just focus on army movements and empire management, while also diving in for the occasional grand slam. In particular if you pick one of the cavalry based civilizations like Parthrians in Rome 2, then you could have tons of fun harassing your enemies to death with cav archers before breaking their line with heavy cataphracts.
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Bleak
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Turkey3059 Posts
November 15 2015 07:23 GMT
#6
Thanks for all suggestions! I will try the latest Total War
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