Looking for some strategy game recommendations...

Dawn of War. The sequel is also very nice.

 

Rage of Mage series got a detailed LP in our forum. Check it out.

But my recommendation is Warzone 2100. It's a blend of strategy and tactics, with elements of design-your-unit coming in, and some aspect of economic/logistic issues.

Economic is just build oil rig to gather energy. They are quite limited each map and a point of hot conflict. Logistic is more lke the management of your group of repair tank, to make sure that the repair process doesnt interfere with combat, or get ambushed on their way.

Warzone 2100 is freeware, if I remember correctly. There's still a small hardcore fangroup still played it.

 

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/313 ... the.Aegean

 

Get Dawn of War and play with your fellow codexers!

http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=51851&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

 

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. There's resource gathering, but it's not so much like gathering finite resources in strategic locations. You can basically make your own resources as the game progresses. The main focus is building your forces and obliterating the enemy.

FA fixes some problems with the original SupCom and works as a standalone game. Unfortunately, I've heard SupCom2 sucks, so I never tried it.

 

company of heroes.

 

Supreme commander is kinda meh imo. Best just stick with Total Annihilation, or look up the open source Spring project.

CoH is'nt bad, if you like it make sure to get Dawn of War Dark Crusade (Soulstorm is not worth it, DoW2 is not worth it, supposedly gets better with expansion.)

Also
Myth: The Fallen Lords, parts 1, 2, 3.
A great game with great atmosphere, and
absolutely no resource gathering here.

 

i have dow2 and addon and it's just a retarded and dumbed down version of CoH. it pratically oozes console out of every hole in the gameplay.

never played DoWI though, interestingly enough. i heard it's miles ahead of DoW2? is the gameplay CoH-like?

 

Rage of Mages is more of an RPG than an RTS, though.

Oh, Rage of Mages 2 is excellent


As for recommendations: apart from already mentioned, try King Arthur: TRPWG and Lionheart: King's Crusade. Also, if you want to try Dawn of War, for God's sake, get DoW1 instead of 2.

 

What about trying Spellforce?

 

As others have mentioned, get Warhammer: Shadow of the horned rat and Dark Omen, they fucking rock, no resource collection, just all tactics, though you do have funds for reinforcements and so on between missions, seriously get these games.

 

No love for the Kohan series?

The series completely spoiled me as far as RTS games go and I've found other games impossible to play online on anything beyond the "casual" level. Largely because one isn't required to micromanage units in the same fashion as a more typical RTS (All recent releases by Blizzard, for instance).

Could go into more details, but I'd rather avoid writing up several pages on the game, which is what I tend to do when this type of topic comes up, heh...

 

Great "non-resource gathering" game.

Also:

I would highly recommend Hannibal: Rome and Carthage in the Second Punic War from Matrix Games. A definite sleeper game of the year.

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/388/details/Hannibal:.Rome.and.Carthage.in.the.Second.Punic.War

The AI is simply phenomenal and very brutal. Brutal, I say!

 

Men of War is great, definitely look into that.

 

This topic was created because I'm looking for a similar game.

 

Men of War suffered from one serious problem - they simply got the scale wrong, the level of detail and controls are fine for a 2-4s quad ltactical game, but in some missions you get to order some 100 units.
So you either sit on slo-mo and babysit all the shit, or you take heavy losses.

For this reason, I would recommend Faces of War first, its a bit earlier game in the series and imo it was a bit better in that regard. Not sure if Red Tide made any attempt to fix this, or is it any good.

 

It has been many year since I played Kohan, though I enjoyed it so I'm going back to it. Is the expansion or sequel worth it or better?

 

Beast And Bumpkins... a reproduction centered game. It's all about fucking!

 

there's also a single player expansion for moh (red tide)

 

Oh gosh, hated Faces of War, everything felt off. To be honest, those defense missions with dozens of troops were the best missions to me. Nothing beat putting the difficulty to max and playing it with a couple friends.

 

Came into this thread wanting to make a C&C4 gag but the description in the OP fits that game.

 

I'd go for Ground Control, Dark omen or RUSE.