Ohh yeah, The Fire Emblem games are pretty cool too. Mostly played the more recent ones of the series. I do have a few older ones in my library, but somehow I never got the time to get into those.
I was always more fond of the campaign mode of WarCraft III. Online matches always demanded to get the most optimal setup ready as fast a possible. I kinda hate the micro-managing of strategy games, like manually buffing units and keep tracking of where each unit should exactly stand. If you watch those replays, it is just insane the amount of mouse clicks that are executed each minute. Somehow it just turns into a game where it all matters about how fast you can click and how much shortcuts you can bind to your mouse, which causes the strategy factor to be diminished. So yeah, Age of Empires is more aligned with more. Age of Mythology was exceptional, it is just sad the genre is practically dead.
I don't know if it counts as strategy too, but simulation-based games such as Banished are awesome too. Your population is a resource too, should they all die and not be able to reproduce anymore and it is game over. I also liked the original Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader. Firefly Studios never managed to make a great game again after the those two originals.
Ohh, and the Anno series. Anno 1404 (also known as Dawn of Discovery) is definitely the best in the series before it started going downhill from there. Anno 2205 just sucks.
I was always more fond of the campaign mode of WarCraft III. Online matches always demanded to get the most optimal setup ready as fast a possible. I kinda hate the micro-managing of strategy games, like manually buffing units and keep tracking of where each unit should exactly stand. If you watch those replays, it is just insane the amount of mouse clicks that are executed each minute. Somehow it just turns into a game where it all matters about how fast you can click and how much shortcuts you can bind to your mouse, which causes the strategy factor to be diminished. So yeah, Age of Empires is more aligned with more. Age of Mythology was exceptional, it is just sad the genre is practically dead.
I don't know if it counts as strategy too, but simulation-based games such as Banished are awesome too. Your population is a resource too, should they all die and not be able to reproduce anymore and it is game over. I also liked the original Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader. Firefly Studios never managed to make a great game again after the those two originals.
Ohh, and the Anno series. Anno 1404 (also known as Dawn of Discovery) is definitely the best in the series before it started going downhill from there. Anno 2205 just sucks.