I remember one time that I was outnumbered 3 to 1 in a match in Rome:Total War and I've won.this feat was never repeated

My favourite strategy game, sixteen years after I first played it, remains Warcraft II. The demo was enough to get me hooked, and I got the full game for my tenth birthday.

I remember the first time I played the eighth Orc mission, in which you must attack a heavily defended island on which are a runestone and a castle, capture (i.e. move a unit next to) the former and destroy the latter. I underestimated the size of strike force I would need, or perhaps I just wasn't very good at directing the assault (I was ten), with the result that I destroyed all the fortifications on the southern half of the island but my entire force was wiped out apart from two catapaults - the usual RTS siege weapons, deadly against buildings but easily killed by other units. Fortunately all the remaining Human forces were just far enough to the north of the castle for the AI not to bring them down on my catapaults as they attacked it, so I was able to wait while they destroyed the castle under their noses!

Nice giveaway ..already have it but kudos for doing this :)

Beating Master of Orion 2, around 9000 times.

It was not my first time beating Master of Orion 2, but it is one that stands out to me. I was playing as the Trilarian, had two systems on an average sized map when one of the galactic votes came up, and the Sakkra won. After refusing to accept the vote, and everyone getting mad at me, I suddenly had fleets heading towards my empire. I had all the planetary defensive research that I could get missile base, fighter base, and I just researched, and bought, battlestations for my planets. All of their fleets died attacking my defenses. I then system hopped, exterminating all life on their planets, and finally winning the game. It was fun, but it was also a let down because I expected more fight for a galactic leader.

I haven't had a chance to play a grand strategy game, but in Front Mission 3 during the mission where you have to protect Alyssa my team's wanzers had been destroyed except for Dennis', whose wanzer was crippled and couldn't attack so I ejected and managed to take down the boss with just the pilot's pistol. It took over 100 turns and it was only possible because he doesn't attack and heads straight across the map to the place you're supposed to defend, and I parked my wanzer in one space and ejected into the other. Still was hilarious.

And in Yggdra Union once the RNG conspired so I scored 3 critical hits in a row (for instant kills each time) on Gulcasa on the same map (44, the next to last battle with him). Gulcasa is pretty nasty to beat and earlier battles with him are road block for new players since you have to know how the gameplay mechanics work and approach the battle a fairly specific way to win because he can easily steamroll your entire army with Genocide if you let him build up his super bar. First time I got a critical hit it was in a situation where his super bar was full and was about to use genocide which would have wiped out the rest of that party member's morale and removed him or her from battle. The third time was after he returned in his Awakened form, and I was just trying to steal from him but ended up instantly winning and reducing his morale to zero ending the stage (and it doesn't really matter since I got the stealable item as a drop anyway).

As I said, I haven't had an opportunity to play any grand strategy games yet and have been interested in AC for a while, so thanks for the opportunity.

Well if turn based counts. My absolute favorite strategy titles were the Romance of the Three Kingdoms games. namely RTTK 3 on the SNES. While other people were playing Super Metroid I was Conquering china.

It was the very first game I stayed up all night playing several times. My family always called the game China land.. because of the music. They'd know i was playing it, I had epic battles that go on and on. I always made my own ruler, Kinto Ryu was what he was called..completely made up name. My goal was always fortify the land, make the people happy both civilians an the generals under me. First and foremost. conquering town after town without winning over troops and citizens only led to trouble later.


Nothing more awesome than getting into an allied war where you marched troops in and back troops from one of your other cities, and then allied trooped and your opponent had reinforcements and allied reinforcements. You know you were in for a long grueling battle then. I also loved dueling other officers.

Well, for me, of the strategy games that I've played, my favourite RTS is C&C: Red Alert 2. Why? Because I could actually play the single player and stand a chance! Managed to finish the Allies campaign and got to the last level on the Soviet campaign (but couldn't beat that last level, got so close but not close enough). So yes, that has to be my best RTS game and I loved just being able to play with a chance (I usually just get smashed by the PC mid-campaign).

As for TBS, well, it has to be X-COM: Enemy Unknown, and yes I did complete it (albeit on an easier difficulty setting). It was great just finding out more and more about the aliens and their plans, researching their weapons so that I could use them, going from being the inferior human soldiers to a force of equal strength and taking it right back to the alien brain. :)

Assuming RTS's count...the installer for the original command & conquer was superior to most games released at that time. It was electrifying.

XCOM has moments. The first time I had a (carefully nurtured) squad completely wiped by a blaster bomb, shortly after disembarking, was definitely memorable. Then in the aftermath of nearly everyone dieing, the few survivors ran around panicking and firing wildly, as some of the aliens began to appear into view. It was like a scene from a genuine military disaster movie.

It's brutal, but no modern games are brave enough to give you moments of pure unscripted drama like that.

Though.. I have quite high hopes for the remake.

Thanks for the giveaway.

I beat Civilization 1 with one military unit by conquering the whole world. Needles to say it was the easiest difficulty setting.

I am talking about SHOGUN 2: Total War. I was on the advanced battle tutorial, and was really struggling with it - the game basically said go and attack a castle. I did so - many, many times. But when I beat the tutorial, it felt good.

Thanks for the opportunity, btw

I remember briefly of me playing Civ III for the first time without touching the tutorial, and it was pretty... strange. I kept entering other zones, exploring a lot and NOT building anything, kinda. I must I didn't like it that much, at the time.. :)

This might fall under the tactical rather than strategy category, but it was in an x-com battle, at an alien base, where I had cleared out the base except for the control room, where most of the enemy officers were holed up. If anyone's played xcom before you'd know that the control room is quite difficult to storm because the elevator in is large, so its easy to get line of sight, but the elevator rises into the middle of the control room, so you can get reaction fire from all directions even though the entrance below is only 1 way. After losing 3 guys to that death trap, I had one of my remaining soldiers search the base below for enemy corpses, pick up a blaster launcher (I don't use blasters, too much potential for blowback), and fire it into the control room. End turn, combat over.

I remember how amazed I was watching the videos in Red Alert 1 between the missions. Tanya literally sucked me in :) later on though I had discovered command&conquer universe has much more charismatic characters. well... Kane!

and thank you for the giveaway

I don't recall the exact details but I managed to get a space race victory on Civ 4 in the early 1900s on I think either warlord or noble.

I actually never played Alpha Centauri...I played other civ games including Civ 1 and 2 and loved them. Kinda missed Civ 3 and totally love Civ 4 in which I play to this day :)
Also I kinda sat Civ 5 though. Maybe when there will be a complete complete edition I'll get it.