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War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition
Skyrim
tossup between Railroad Tycoon 3 and Tropico - I just can't decide!


serious contenders:
Balder's Gate
Steel Panthers
Red Baron II
Grand Prix Legends (I suck at it, but it's a loverly sim!)
Civ IV
Imperialism
Fallout III
Uncommon Valor
Links LS 1999
Age of Sail (too bad AOS2 sucked so badly, it was beautiful but unplayable)
Oblivion
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My top three..
1. Panzer general/Panzer corps. Been playing this game for at least 18 straight years. Top that.
2. Civ IV
3. Tie fighter/x-wing
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What's your favorite civ to play? Is it perhaps the English ? [:'(] to be honest it depends the mood I'm in. My favorites in no order are Germans the French and the English sometimes the Aztecs also.
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Based on time spent playing

1. Civ II/IV
2. Rome Total War
3. Commander The Great War
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It seems to me a game like this would be a good port to tablets. While tank battles 1944 is not SPWaW it reminds me of it very much.
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Good question, I wonder my self. Wish they would make a major updated version.
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What I find odd is that several of you join me in picking SPWaW as one of your all-time faves. Matrix Games has had several failed attempts at coming up with a successor to this game, but why is that? I honestly have no idea.

It would seem that a modernized tactical game with SPWaW's depth would be a natural choice, but so far they have come up empty. I have some suspicions as to why, but I won't speak of it any more. Let me leave this subject by stating that at one time many years ago, SPWaW was Matrix' flagship game. The ownership of the source code was bought up by Matrix, and the development of the game as it now stands was done by fans of it with assistance from Mike Wood, who was one of the original programmers. This is how the Enhanced Version came to be. It was a strange series of events, and I still don't understand what happened to this day why Matrix decided to wash its hands of it.

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rogo727 tries to be special
1. Panzer general/Panzer corps. Been playing this game for at least 18 straight years. Top that.


Well, I can't beat you but I can match you. I have also played PG/PC for 18 years.
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1. Operation Flashpoint: CWR
2. Elite
3.(Ex aequo) Deus Ex and Over Flanders Field

Contenders:
ArmA II
Panzer Corps
Panzer General
Historyline 14-18
Baldur's Gate 2
No One Lives Forever
UFO:Enemy Unknown
CIV I
Dungeon Master
Dragon Age
Monkey Island
Pong
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1. Master of Orion 1/2
2. Civ 3 / 5
3. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
4. Empire
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What's your favorite civ to play? Is it perhaps the English ? [:'(] to be honest it depends the mood I'm in. My favorites in no order are Germans the French and the English sometimes the Aztecs also.
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Based on time spent playing

1. Civ II/IV
2. Rome Total War
3. Commander The Great War
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For Civ II I can't really remember - other than after visiting Egypt I played them for ages. But for Civ IV, yes, I think the English are the most played civ - you gotta love the Cross of St George

I also like playing the Russians, the Romans and the Portuguese.
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Lemonade Stand

Pong

Pac-Man

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Easy.

1. TOAW III

2. Baldurs Gate Trilogy

3. Dominions 3

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Armored Brigade

Fallout

Operation Flashpoint
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I agree with pretty much everyones top games here. Some have jogged my memory aswell or I've kicked myself for missing them out. Dominions 3 for starters and UFO Enemy Unknown and X Wing vs Tie Fighter...and..I could more or less list everyones games here!! All I would say are classics in their own time and genre.

What is strange considering we are all wargamers is the overall lack of wargames in our lists.
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What is strange considering we are all wargamers is the overall lack of wargames in our lists.

(No lack of wargaming here). [:D]

1). World in Flames Global Campaign (Vassal)

2). Starcraft-Broodwars Armageddon

3) Close Combat III/COI: The Russian Front

4) Duke Nukem, Colonization, Doom II, Medieval Total War, Age of Empires-AOK, IL2, Age of Mythology Titans

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EVEN BETTER THAN ALL THE REST (ALMOST): [X(]
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Wodin I couldn't have said it better! Simply put we put away our favorites to try new games but we always come bs to what we love.
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I agree with pretty much everyones top games here. Some have jogged my memory aswell or I've kicked myself for missing them out. Dominions 3 for starters and UFO Enemy Unknown and X Wing vs Tie Fighter...and..I could more or less list everyones games here!! All I would say are classics in their own time and genre.

What is strange considering we are all wargamers is the overall lack of wargames in our lists.
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Hurrah..we finally meet on common ground..may it long continue
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Wodin I couldn't have said it better! Simply put we put away our favorites to try new games but we always come bs to what we love.
ORIGINAL: wodin

I agree with pretty much everyones top games here. Some have jogged my memory aswell or I've kicked myself for missing them out. Dominions 3 for starters and UFO Enemy Unknown and X Wing vs Tie Fighter...and..I could more or less list everyones games here!! All I would say are classics in their own time and genre.

What is strange considering we are all wargamers is the overall lack of wargames in our lists.
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rogo727 gets it right
Wodin I couldn't have said it better! Simply put we put away our favorites to try new games but we always come bs to what we love.

That is spot on. I have tried, and enjoyed, pc/platform games of every genre, but I always return to war games.
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Thanks wodin for not pointing out my on going battle with auto correct. I meant back and not bs.
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Hurrah..we finally meet on common ground..may it long continue
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Wodin I couldn't have said it better! Simply put we put away our favorites to try new games but we always come bs to what we love.
ORIGINAL: wodin

I agree with pretty much everyones top games here. Some have jogged my memory aswell or I've kicked myself for missing them out. Dominions 3 for starters and UFO Enemy Unknown and X Wing vs Tie Fighter...and..I could more or less list everyones games here!! All I would say are classics in their own time and genre.

What is strange considering we are all wargamers is the overall lack of wargames in our lists.
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I would choose

1 - War in Russia by SSI and I still have the original box with 3.5" disk right behind me.
2 - All the old SSG Battlefront games
3 - I love TOAW3 and of course SPWAW would be top two if the graphics issue was fixed to be more crisp
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My choices would be:

1. Civilization (stayed up many nights playing this one)
2. MOO2
3. Baldur's Gate series

All fun games and sucked up a lot of my spare time.
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