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Ask Soylent: Turn Based Space Themed Strategy War Games?

posted by n1 on Saturday July 12 2014, @02:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the new-empires-to-conquer dept.

buswolley writes:

I am a fan of turn-based, multi-player strategy space-themed war games. I am not a fan of real-time games mostly because I ike to mull my decisions, and it is difficult to get everyone together at the same time.

Currently I play the aging, but still great Space Empires IV. This game has some great features including being very mod-able, and great depth and variety of game play). There are some other old but great space-themed, turned-based strategy games (e.g. Master of Orion), but most of these either had no multi-player, or required everyone to be playing on the same computer.

Anyone on Soylent play a great turn-based strategy games which is space-themed, of which I might not be aware?

 
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  • (Score: 1) by forkazoo on Friday July 18 2014, @05:48PM

    by forkazoo (2561) on Friday July 18 2014, @05:48PM (#70899)

    Sword of the Stars is pretty good fun on a 3D map. Each species has appreciably distinct propulsion, which has a huge effect on strategy. (The rest of the tech tree is mostly pretty similar.) There are a bunch of expansions which are generally all pretty solid. There is also a sequel that was apparently badly botched, released broken, and has some dumb ideas. Customise ship designs, send then into 3D-ish battles on a 2D plane. The tactical battles are the most visually impressive part of the game, but also the most frustrating, IMO. OTOH, you will often have much better luck taking control in a battle than letting autoplay sort itself out.

    Endless Space was also mentioned elsethread. Similar, but maybe a bit less polished, and a bit less interesting ship customisation IMHO.