I already have the game, not entering, but just wanted to share the memory.

I remember playing Age of Mythology: Titans in coop with my brother. We were both (well, we always are) Gaia. We played on high difficulty in no-time we ended up overwhelmed. After repelling attack, we made wall out of Gaia forests, recruited some archers and started shooting at enemies that wanted to get past the forest. Eventually removed the forest and raped their sorry buts. :D Great times, wish we had more free time so we can do it again....

I loved the first age of empires and the expansion. I still remember not the playing hours but the hours reading all the amazing story that age of empires provided with each campaign. Since I'm a little freak of history that really catch me and I spent hours reading. But the game at the time was phenomenal, and the age of empires II the same thing happen when instead of being playing with joan of arc I was instead reading xD.

Thanks for the giveaway :)

When I was young, the military service was compulsory, but you could sneak it by claiming moral issues with it, so you were assigned to do social work. I was assigned to a local neighborhood association to do secretary/maintenance work: just booooring. I had a little PC where i did the news pamphlets and send 4 or 5 emails a week.

The other thing the PC was good at, was playing Alpha Centauri. Man, that were good times...

I don't need the giveaway (I already have it, physically and here) but that were good and memorable moments, not for gaming but game related.

Warcraft III - Using the 'Whosyourdaddy' cheat when I have one peon left.

Thank you, you are very kind!

I'm not participating since I already have the game.

Playing Warlords on amiga with my neighbour and his brother, those were some long gaming sessions...

Also beating Colonization for the first time in my life, i was still a kid then...I showed those redcoats what guerilla tactics is all about.

Thanks for being so generous. I also have the game (no entry), so good luck everyone! =)

Unfortunately, I don't have a ton of experience with strategy games, but I usually have fun when playing with a friend or two. Fairly recently, started a game of Civ IV with two friends and while I was still trying to get my bearings as to what I was doing, they basically took out two nations pretty quickly.

What else... loved playing Starcraft back in the day, but I pretty much always sucked at actual head-to-head fighting, so I played Use Map Settings-type games that were trying to be RPGs with the gameplay. Fun times were had, fun times indeed. :D

Thanks for the giveaway, good luck to all the entrants!

Ahh, the days of Medieval 2: Total War. There were so many memorable moments, even against the "I'm a brick, wooo" computer. One time, I launched a crusade against the infidels in Jerusalem (Mameluks, I think). Obviously, everyone and their Imams declare war on me in that part of the world, and I go by ships to get as close to the city as I can. So I get there, find that the city is lightly guarded, and assault it. My general (also my king's younger sun) and his army of mostly armored spear-men and swordsmen take the city after a quick series of "knock on the gates, kill all inside". Because my general was a kind sort, I let slip the whole "infidels are for the bonfire" doctrine and spare the city residents. Obviously, I get a lot of unrest from the residents because of this. Figures. After a bit of doodling with the rebels, I get my first report from the scouts: Three full stacks of Egyptians to the south. Hmm, not good. And one full one to the north. And FOUR full to the east. Oh you have got to be kidding me! Ok, since I'd had to have some sort of divine intervention, or a seriously dreaded night-ops general to survive this (all I had was a good natured upstart prince with a holy sword that had "I went on a crusade to Jerusalem and all I got was this lousy epic blade"), I touched the city (sold every building), and got taxes up sky high. Then I destroyed the army up north, moved to the coast and boarded a ship. Jerusalem was lost, first to the rebels and then to the egyptians again. Then my army got back to europe, and my King and his eldest brother die in a series of unfortunate accidents. The new king marries his sister and we all live happily ever after.

Back when I used to play Age of Empires: Age of Mythology, I was playing a random map as Egypt vs AI controlled Norsemen. This was a long time ago, so I don't remember exactly how it happened, but somehow I managed to steamroll the enemy base to the point where the game essentially declared me the winner and asked if I wanted to quit. Being the sadist that I was, I decided I'd rather finish smashing all of their nice things, just because I could. Somehow, and I've no fucking clue how, the enemy managed to then fight off my attack and go on to rebuild their defenses by the time I'd finished maxing out my unit cap with replacement mooks. Quite humiliating to say the least.

Also, a story regarding Impossible Creatures. For those of you who don't know, it's an RTS where you make custom units by combining parts of two different animals together, and naturally the default name of any given unit is a combination of the names of the original animals. Much to my delight as a wee, immature lad, I discovered that you can combine a hornet and a grizzly bear to produce a beast known as the horny bear.

Hm...Well, there is Total Annihilation. I played and played. Something about the game made me want to keep playing and finding out the story of the warring factions.

I remember one time, I don't remember which level it was, but I was building from 3 or 4 factories, a bunch of little Jethros and such, and at an Advanced factory, was waiting upon a super-weapon type machine. When I finally got it working, I set everything else to guard it (except the Commander of course), and then went to town on the enemy base.

It was sweet, sweet, glory......As I swept through their base, I sent the Commander up to put down Metal Extractors. I even left the last couple units until I got all of them secured. Then I let the Commander use his D-Gun on the poor souls!

Quite a win!

Oh, thanks for the giveaway, you are very kind ( = free stuff, give it to me now!)!

My most memorable strategy game "moment" were the countless hours I spent playing with Warcraft 3 & TFT. First, the story, then the multiplayer, and finally the custom maps (especially AoS and DotA). I loved that game.

I remember playing my first Civ game - Call to Power. Of course, I set up some random, not too hard, settings just to test things out. I finished - as usual, and as some people already mentioned - in the morning the next day. However, it was not the end of my gaming experience. I went to bed extremely tired from the night of world conquering, and the game invaded my dreams! The yellowish 2D backgrounds haunted me throughout my sleep, but even there I finally beat the bastards ;D This all somehow become very memorable to me.

I also fondly remember the pure glee of playing Dungeon Keeper 2 and getting the random silly messages from the narrator: "Your dungeon is on an incline. Angry creatures cannot play marbles."

Playing Civ 2 many years ago while working in a remote part of West Virginia and living in a seedy motel. I set up a random earth like map and selected England. I started from scratch, stone age tech and by now it was the 1960s or so. I was at war with India- minor border skirmishes. India had taken a couple of cities and I decided to put a stop to it.

After liberating the cities, I amassed a sizable force on the border with India. Ghandi implored me to stand down and end the war as they were a peaceful people, etc... I had a couple mechanized infantry set up with regular infantry in a few key locations, however the bulk of my forces were in one English city- mech infantry, jets, bombers, cruise missles, lots of marines, etc... many, many important units. One turn after Ghandi begs me to end the war, I hear an air raid siren... a single ICBM moves across the map from an Indian city and makes a bee-line to the city containing my large invasion force.

That pretty much ended the war... for a while anyway. :)

I really have to thank my Dad and brother for introducing me to strategy games, since most of my gaming as a kid was done on the PC

however, one of my most memorable experiences with strategy games was with M.A.X

As an 8 year old...playing that game for the first time just blew me away, with a little help from both of them I got accustomed with the game and learned how to play it in almost no time

I was on cloud 9 when I learned that it's available on GOG