Awesome, thanks for all the suggestions.
I had no idea that the Great Battles of History series also had three Windows games released in the late '90s.

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Beyond that you're really looking more at individual developers/individual games rather than whole publishers, such as Unity of Command, Ultimate General Gettysburg and so on.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
Most of the grand strategy titles I've seen ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: mbelew<br/>
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Glad to see someone still playing this 10 years later <E>:)</E><br/>
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How about trying not to be timid? Keep your troops in a tight formation with their fronts facing the enemy and punish the enemy with flanking attacks when they show ...

<t> Matrix and Slitherine produce some battlers and tactical games that are a lot more 'hard core' than most, in the sense that they're both more realistic and more strategically involved than a lot of the mainstream faire. Aside from Matrix & Slitherine there is Paradox Interactive, famous for ...

<t> I have had both Tin Soldiers titles since they came out, and have recently reinstalled them.<br/>
The AI kicks my arse every time. I generally know the DBA rules, but the fact is I'm just not that great of a strategist (yet, at least) and I find it very difficult to get past the first battle ...