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Best pc Strategy Games of all times:
Number 4:
The copper or “wood” medal goes to the sierra entertainment game of Pharaoh. This city management game, based on the previous experiences of the Ceaser series, has the least amount of bugs I ever encounted in a game. This can be considered the fifth game of its kind, from the same publishers, and eliminates all of the problems of the previous ones. Ambientated in Ancient Egypt, You start with a ripe land and build up your city from scratch, starting from roads leading to late game high commerce, food management, and massive monument buildings. Options for war are limited. The focus is heavily on Urban planning and micro management; Employment, anything from extracting, producing or importing raw materials and re-exporting over 20 varieties of finished goods to other cities, or giving access of them recources to citizens that can grow from tents to grand manors. Watch as your province transforms into the most powerful city of ancient Egypt. Don' t watch for too long, however, or you will face serious problems that will undermine the stability and lead you to ruin. For those who prefer, build great pyramids and gateways to the after-life.
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Very difficult to get board, easy enough to understand and variance in every game thanks to the event manager. A fairly good editor, and epic sounding campaigns to learn the game, learn your history of how the Egyptians lived, and become Pharaoh of Egypt.
Number 3:
The Bronze metal goes to Age of Empires II. This game has the most accurate history re-enactment I have ever seen. The cyclopedia can integrate your learning of history books university level. You start with a town center and a bunch of villagers, to progress to fully medieval towns and grand massive armies, land or sea your choice. The campaign embarks you on historical journeys of the medieval past, Ghengis Khan, Saladin, Barbarossa and the Holy Roman Empire to name a few. You will be sad once you hit the last level and finish the tale of your choosen Leader. This game is based on war.
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Battle is on the center of the stage, and economy is solely based on making your population grow and funding research for the war machine. Truly yours, every civilization has unique native speaking people, little tunes that carry you into the loading screen, and some of the most carrying in game music, making you use the in game music at least 10 times before deciding you have had enough (for now anyway). Online multiplayer too.
Number 2:
The Silver medal goes to Civilization II. In Omnia Paratis. This means, ready for anything. Don' t be fooled by its common place appearance. The most complete and covering all ages of recent humanity, Since the times our ancesters made farming a stable enterprise. You start in the Bronze age, 4000 BC, and lead your civilization into modern problems such as global warming (or not a modern problem you decide) and sending a spaceship to colonize other solar systems, possibly faster than other civs. The most all round comprehensive planned game. From online interest and support by fellow “civ fanatics” , to economy planning, war, research, diplomacy, you name it.
![[image loading]](http://www.todocivilization.com/images/icons/CivII.png)
The balance of your success is on the tip of a spear, and you may be profiting from an unseen choice or hitting disaster from a badly planned action of a few turns ago. Everything is accounted for. This game lets you find out what kind of a commander you want to be. Be conservative, or risk-taking, and dominate in the way you choose to dominate. The cyclopedia is a preconcept of wikipedia, and lets you find out more about wonders, units, and in game concepts. The scenario builder is high tech and relies on actual coding.
Numer 1:
The Golden medal goes to Starcraft Broodwar. Just so we are clear, I am not giving Starcraft number 1 because I am a Broodwar Elitist or I' m afraid the Spanish Inquisition might question my soundness of mind. Its because I actually consider it to be the best strategy game ever released up to date. The balance, or triangular perfection, is a concept not lightly made into something tangible. With high hopes for the year 2018, when it will become public domain, and this should affect other game making, as the code will be released, and the professional scene.
![[image loading]](http://i.i.cbsi.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/01/16/fmimg8214078797552960204.png)
But what is all the fuss about if you don' t know the game? You start with a command center and a bunch of workers. And watch as your race turns into mining precious minerals and gas to become a future colony of the Galaxy. A fast pace game. Ambientated in deep space, far from Earth, where 3 different unique races with unique everything, including alien language, you fight to maintain control over the planets or space station of choice. Micro and Macro management are required alike. Be your master of your destiny, and overpower your opponent, with war. But what kind of war? frontal assaults, economy bombing, side attacks and double sided attacks to name a few. Establish your position and lure you opponent into a deadly trap. Online multiplayer strategies have developed beyond the original game, more than any game I have ever played. Theorycraft at its best. And yet gut instinct, personality and emotion control have determined many games I have played or many games I have seen played by pros and semi pros alike. It has a great playability wheter you are a newbee, or an all time specialist. Just face an opponent that is in your same category of skill, and see how emotional, in either way, this game will leave you once you are done playing.
Other Notable games:
Worms classic
Warzone Tower defence
Rise of Nations
Chess (Board game)
Poker (Card game)
Go (Board game)
Avernum Classic Series (RPG)
Warcraft III
 
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you're missing dota, try it. nothing quite like the realtime positional awareness and soundness of mind needed to play a blink lina or puck or rubick. the strategy is in being able to predict your opponents' (and teammates') decision-making and toolset on a second-to-second basis and counter with your own. and that's just the "micro" aspect of dota; you also need to figure out how to "win the game"
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On January 07 2016 16:52 FFGenerations wrote:+ Show Spoiler +you're missing dota, try it. nothing quite like the realtime positional awareness and soundness of mind needed to play a blink lina or puck or rubick. the strategy is in being able to predict your opponents' (and teammates') decision-making and toolset on a second-to-second basis and counter with your own.
I think the OPs post is good how it is. 
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Where's Dota? Dota with it's branched out competitors/copycats is the most successful pro-gaming games of all time, arguably next to CS. So how can it miss from strategy games
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On January 07 2016 13:58 pebble444 wrote:
With high hopes for the year 2018, when it will become public domain, and this should affect other game making, as the code will be released, and the professional scene.
That is only the case for any patents that Blizzard might have filed along with the release of SC1 (patents last 20 years), and I don't actually know that they have any. The source code, and any art assets, story, etc. will most likely still be protected by copyright by the time we're dead (for pretty much all countries in the world the protection is atleast 50 years after the (last surviving) authors death).
Obviously Blizzard could decide to open source some of their older games, which they very well might do if the games no longer sell. But if they don't SC1 isn't gonna be public domain for a long, long time.
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Civilation is not real time. It's turn base no ?
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i would like to see a bit of a philosphical explanation behind how you rank. You seem to give an edge to classic games.
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On January 07 2016 21:55 FFW_Rude wrote:
Civilation is not real time. It's turn base no ?
just strategy games, not real time. so they could be real time or turn based. notice chess and go as notable mentions which are both turn based.
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On January 08 2016 00:30 FlaShFTW wrote:Show nested quote +On January 07 2016 21:55 FFW_Rude wrote:
Civilation is not real time. It's turn base no ? just strategy games, not real time. so they could be real time or turn based. notice chess and go as notable mentions which are both turn based.
I'm a dumbass. I read "RTS" and not Strategy games.
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I would put age of empires as #1 personally  .
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Man threads like these remind me of how op some stuff were, like Spain in age2 or Blademaster in wc3...
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M.U.L.E. is a great PC strategy game.
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scbw will definitely not be open source in 2018, as much as that sucks  <3<3 bwbw
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On January 08 2016 08:09 Jerubaal wrote:
SETTLERS!
:O How could I forget. Yeah, that list is missing its actual number one.
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On January 08 2016 06:09 Endymion wrote:scbw will definitely not be open source in 2018, as much as that sucks <3<3 bwbw
I've heard rumors about blizzard considering releasing some of their older games with open source licences, so I don't think we can rule it out. I mean if they aren't selling much, they might as well do it for publicity. But I do agree with you that it probably won't happen.
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On January 08 2016 08:25 Big J wrote::O How could I forget. Yeah, that list is missing its actual number one.
I think that's in the "So bad it's good" catergory. ;D
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age of mythology was a pretty good underrated strategy game
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yeah id put dota on this list as well.
of every single game i have every played none have been as strategically demanding as dota.
games like civ are very complex as well, but the game doesnt reward quick thinking etc, whereas dota you need not just strategic understanding of the game, but the fingers and mind to apply it in milliseconds.
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Germany3367 Posts
On January 08 2016 08:25 Big J wrote::O How could I forget. Yeah, that list is missing its actual number one.
I'll never forgive the responsible people for ruining this series.
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are the dota people trolling in this thread?
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I don't think so... Why would they be ? Dota is a great game.
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On January 08 2016 19:44 TheOneAboveU wrote:Show nested quote +On January 08 2016 08:25 Big J wrote:On January 08 2016 08:09 Jerubaal wrote:
SETTLERS! :O How could I forget. Yeah, that list is missing its actual number one. I'll never forgive the responsible people for ruining this series.
Is any of the Settlers after 2 and 3 worth trying, besides the Settlers 2 remake?
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On January 08 2016 21:26 Mysti_ wrote:
I don't think so... Why would they be ? Dota is a great game.
I think we are disputing whether Dota is a Strategy game. I don't think it is and I think the proof is in the pudding: It was made from Strategy games by removing most of the elements of a Strategy game. Just because it has strategy doesn't mean it's a Strategy game.
I know we really didn't want to have this conversation.
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no dawn of war/ company of heroes/ red alert?
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I personally liked Caesar III over Pharaoh, but agree pretty much with the list.
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Alpha Centauri > Civ2 imo, I think it's the best turn-based game made to date, also the space theme is done so well
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Civ 4 is my favorite Civ game and my personal nr. 2 in my "top 5 strategy games"
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On January 09 2016 10:48 Cele wrote:
Civ 4 is my favorite Civ game and my personal nr. 2 in my "top 5 strategy games"
Oh yeah, I spent so much time on that. Hm, I guess in terms of "felt" time spent, my list would look like
SC2
Civ 4
Dota
Settlers 2
Broodwar
from there it is really hard to judge, but I guess it would feature
Red Alert 2, Caesar 3, Rome TW, Settlers 3, Red Alert 3
I'm putting MobA's in there because that's just the public reality. MobA or Action RTS is a subgenre of RTS games according to most strategy game rankings in gaming magazines, on youtube and wikipedia. I don't think that is up for discussion at this point, whether I agree with it or not.
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Japan11286 Posts
DotA is one of my favorite games of all time but I wouldn't put it up there because I don't think it fits the mold of strategy games (it has it's own genre for a reason.)
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Original stronghold was awesome.Personally i still think it holds up well today.
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