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TheFuriousWombat:
While I definitely agree (still jonesing to play Crusader Kings II), I think it's worth pointing out to the uninitiated out there Paradox games generally come with a fairly steep learning curve. If you just want to dive right in and blow stuff up - and that would be very understandable - HoI is not the way to go. If you're cool with devoting several hours to figuring out how the game works then it's an awesome choice.

schimmy:
Oh yeah I forgot about that. "Fairly steep" is putting it extremely lightly. It takes me hours, if not days, to even start to get to grips with how to play each game.

ackblom12:
Yeah, HoI is a very very good series, but understand that it's only really outpaced by Dwarf Fortress and Aurora in the learning curve department.

Gnomes2169:
Have you ever tried out TBS games? There's a series called Heroes of Might and Magic that goes back a few decades that makes this platform very interesting and involving, to say the least. Everything before 5 was made by a different company that went out of business, and then Ubisoft took over and I must say that they have done rather admirably with their two installments.

HoMM is sort of an epic TBS, you have champions and heroes running around leading ever-growing armies into battle with a multitude of other factions. You conqueror and fortify towns, hire minions and guide hero growth as they lead their armies by investing in skills that either improve their creature's effectiveness, or improve the hero himself. One of the best things about this game is that there is no right or wrong strategy (well, besides losing), you can constantly adapt and create new ways to defeat foes and there are always new strategies to unlock. The game is highly re-playable and highly enjoyable. So yeah... If you like/ can stand TBS games, I recommend it.

Gregorio:
So my computer came yesterday, and I bought Company of Heroes, and it's really awesome. One problem I have with RTS games is that they frequently feel like just a bunch of little figurines running into each other, but zooming in on encounters just shows off my combat decisions and really draws me in. I was a bit worried about the Carentan counterattack mission where I was able to make one mass of random troops and rip enemies apart, but that strategy made me lose within 5 minutes in the next mission. I'm not a fan of the off-screen attack perks like artillery strikes, but it's hard to complain when the rest of the game is so fun.

I didn't realize that Hearts of Iron was made by the same company that did Europa Universalis (a series I enjoyed quite a bit). I'm really interested in world history from 1930-1950 as well as WWII, so it's been bumped up to a definite buy for me.

UPDATE- GAMES I'VE TRIED:

Company of Heroes is a lot of fun, but has the most fucked-up difficulty curve I've ever seen in a game. It starts out pretty easy until you get to the Red Ball Express mission where it took me over an hour of base-building, scouting, fortifying, capturing, defending, and tons of other crap, and segues into a bunch of straight-forward missions with reasonable difficulty.

Hearts of Iron 2 is going to be an ongoing thing for me. I boned up on the tutorial and started doing some stuff, but I've found that I can only handle the game in short bursts, like if I need to kill half an hour or so. Fun, but it loses my interest during extended plays.

Valkyria Chronicles is fun. Some of my enthusiasm wore off when I realized that I'll pretty much die on the first mission, then memorize all of the scene triggers and plow through it the second time.

Tried out the demos for Empires: Total War and Men of War and was put off by both. The former felt kind of wonky and stiff (though the naval battle was fun), while the latter was clunky and cumbersome to navigate. I borrowed my friend's copy of Rome: Total War and plan on installing it tonight.

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