I've just got myself Europa Universalis III series recently & it struck me that there are tons of other games out there that belonged to the same genre. Being a RTS gamer all this while, I have always been under the impression that this kind of games mainly suits those who prefer to take their own sweet time & keep the stress level to the minimum... until I check out Europa Universalis III.

I guess the main differences of these games compared to RTS are their delicate micro-management where you'll have to take every single small details into account, failing which will turn the tide against you before you can even say TSUNAMI! In the past, I played the Chinese language Romance of 3 Kingdoms game (with language modifications) where you're on a mission to unify the whole China. It was kind of similar but not as hard & complex.

Anyway, since I'm still new in this particular genre, I would like to gather some opinions out there on what are nice & what to avoid. As far as I know, these are the list of games that I can think of now.

- King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame (new)
- Civilization 5 (series)
- Europa Universalis III (series)
- Total War: Shogun 2 (series)
- Hearts of Iron III (series)
- Victoria II (series)

I'm kind of interested with King Arthur since it's new & not by Paradox Interactive. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing with Paradox Interactive's games but they're kind of monopolizing the genre with 3 out of the 6 games I listed above published by them.

This post has been edited by talexeh: Dec 8 2010, 11:39 PM

Ahh... thanks to you, I learned something new today. Grand Strategy Wargame, eh? I guess StarCraft 2's inter-galactic pew-pew-pew'ing isn't grand enough.

Joke aside, do you think that the Civilization series doesn't fit into this genre?

I've renamed the thread title as well.

Have you tried any other grand strategy wargames aside from the Total War series?

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