# Looking for TBS Suggestion

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [April 17, 2011, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-tbs-suggestion/578713 "2011-04-17T11:44:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-tbs-suggestion/578713/1 "2011-04-17T11:44:17Z")

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Hi Everyone

I hove been looking for a new game, and I thought that the collective wisdom here might have some suggestions.

I am a huge fan of the turn-based military games. I really do not like the real-time games. Don’t know why, they just don’t do it for me. Unfortunately, the golden age of TBS seems to have passed. However, I figure that there must still be some folks making decent ones, and so I am looking for suggestions.

Just to provide a little context, my two favorites of all time are Panzer and People’s General. I still play them from time to time, but at this point they are pretty used up. I do like Civ (IV was great, I am not that impressed by V) but it is a war game second.

Also, I think I like a “medium complexity” game- some games just go a lttle too deep into the administrative activities, and for me, if that is what I wanted I would get a job. That’s why I think I like the General series. It is not over simplified (like the original Empire), but not a slog like Supreme Ruler 2010 (great concept, just too much work). As an aside, I was disappointed that they advertised that somewhere as TBS, but in fact it was RTS- their rationale was that you could set it to pause at the end of each turn. BS, I say, since I sitll had to manage the moment by moment actions of my units.

Anyway, any thoughts?

THanks

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-tbs-suggestion/578713/2 "2011-04-17T17:41:41Z")

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You may want to look around for the **Close Combat** series. There are several games using the same engine, using scenarios derived from D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, the Russian Front, Operation Market Garden. The Russian game is very tank-centric. These are older games, and I dunno if they’ve been updated for modern systems.