Looking for a strategy game...

[yannis76]

...where technology, weapon/fleet/army loadouts and battle plays a critical role. My favorites so far have been the XCOM series, Total War, Battletech, FM and MOO2 when I was much younger.
I tried Stellaris and some others but most of them lack in the battles part. Any other suggestions?

Thanks

 

[Tombstone]

...where technology, weapon/fleet/army loadouts and battle plays a critical role. My favorites so far have been the XCOM series, Total War, Battletech, FM and MOO2 when I was much younger.
I tried Stellaris and some others but most of them lack in the battles part. Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Something like Gothic Armada 1/2 maybe?

 

[yannis76]

Something like Gothic Armada 1/2 maybe?

Tried, but never felt ship upgrades or technology made such a huge difference

 

[SkeeterUK]

endless space 2?

sins of a solar empire?

homeworld games

 

[Unseul]

Phoenix point? Very similar to xcom (made by a lot of xcom developers) with some key differences.

 

[Vinno]

Xenonauts

 

[yannis76]

endless space 2?


sins of a solar empire?

homeworld games

Don't like the fact that you watch the battles with no intervention at all. I think Sins of Solar Empire is the same, with minimum intervention, no?

 

[yannis76]

Phoenix point? Very similar to xcom (made by a lot of xcom developers) with some key differences.

Quite good, although worse than XCOM

 

[jimjam81]

If you like Warhammer 40k try Mechanicus. Little bit like Xcom.

Some of the stellaris mods like new horizons and the Star Wars one are very good with bigger differences in combat. Likewise Battletech with Roguetech.

The Expeditions series of games, conquistador and Viking have turn based battles, though can’t remember if can equip characters or not.

If you want a little gem try Battle Brothers, solid little indie game.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

There is the battlestar galatica game, that was pretty good.

 

[SkeeterUK]

There is the x series of games by egosoft. X4 Foundations is latest tho needs a good cpu tho. That ud probs like with the ship interaction in battles.

Homeworld tho imo is one of the best for interacting in a grand battle with space ships tho. Cant wait till next year for hw3.

 

[Old Man]

What about Men of War?

New one coming out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbG3HGaYwKI

 

[Craig R]

Gears Tactics is very similar to XCom

 

[Oblivion007]

Gears Tactics is very similar to XCom

I'm going to give this a bash this weekend. Looks v interesting

 

[MoNkeE]

Homeworld tho imo is one of the best for interacting in a grand battle with space ships tho. Cant wait till next year for hw3.

Unfortunately the remastered version was quite disappointing. The first game still has all the oomph it used to, but the formations and tactics (evasive manoeuvres etc) are unsupported by the engine (HW2 engine) and as such don’t work.

Gears Tactics however is a very competent game. Only thing that let it down to me was a lack of coop. The XCOM series is guilty of this too - how hard is it to assign half the squad to one player, and the other half to the second player?!

 

[Craig R]

I'm going to give this a bash this weekend. Looks v interesting

If you have Game Pass it's on that. Or at least it was when I played it last year.

 

[Oblivion007]

If you have Game Pass it's on that. Or at least it was when I played it last year.

My game pass ran out last week - typical. Didn't get round to playing it, but I did check and its not particularly pricey on Steam. Given the hours I've sunk into XCOM, I reckon I'll get my monies worth at least.

 

[Subzero85]

just seen war mongrels come up on my reccomended on steam, looks like it could be good, kind of looking like the old commandos games set in the eastern front ww2

 

[BUDFORCE]

Xenonauts

+1000000000000

 

[Bubo]

I feel it is necessary to mention the best turn based strategy combat game ever made, which is Jagged Alliance 2 1.13. May be an old game now, but it is that awesome.