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ionic atomic

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Excluding twith-heavy RTS games, what strategy titles have a large enough following to be able to easily match up for a game with strangers? The only ones I can come up with are Total War, Civilization series, Dominions and Paradox titles. Anything else?
 

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I know you did not want Twitch-heavy RTS games, but StarCraft 2 has loads of arcade maps (among them other RTS games, no kidding, but not sure how twitchy they are) as well as Co-op where it arguably doesn't matter how blazingly fast you click.

What about Age Of Wonders 3? According to Steamcharts still about 500-1k concurrent players.
 

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Third vote for FOG 2. Plenty of online opponents. The match-up system is very convenient and people take their turns in a timely manner.
 

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Company of Heroes games are amongst the least twitch heavy RTSes that exist and they still have playerbases.

Heroes of Might & Magic 3's unofficial, high quality expansion Horn of the Abyss adds a bunch of quality-of-life changes and a ladder functionality, so you can play that. HotA isn't like WoG in that it adds a ton of weird looking unbalanced shit; it actually does feel like something NWC could have cooked up at some point, especially if you remember the people of Regna from the mainline Might & Magic series. However, the HoMM3 meta can be brutal and the level of people you'll play with can be daunting. If you rush Capitol and your favourite hero is Sandro, you are guaranteed to lose.

Civ4 was the last Civilization game with good MP functionality. Join the CivFanatics community to play succession games (basically single-player where you mail the save game of one nation to other players and socialize over the game while thinking up the best course of action for your civ; often the game is played with a gimmick) or pitboss games (you log in to the game at any time, do your turn, and every time a cycle passes (say, 24 hours), you log in the next day and do your turn, and so on, and you compete with people like this). Some niche places still have a devoted 1v1/2v2/3v3 community, check out the Polish KAC - you can speak English there, they will figure you out if you just want to play. It's Polish, but ironically, the undefeated melee player is a Serbian. Civ5 and 6 fucked up multiplayer, sadly.
 
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Age of Wonders 3 has a pretty healthy playerbase afaik. I'm not sure if you're counting it as one of the Paradox titles.
 

Tolias

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Check out:

a) https://cncnet.org

Hosts servers for Tiberian Dawn, Dune 2k, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 (plus some mods of all the above)

Of these, Tib Sun, Red Alert and Red Alert 2 consistently have players online (like 50-150 each), plus Tib Sun and Red Alert are totally free to get from EA.

Just d/l the launcher and you're set.

b) https://cnc-online.net/en/

Hosts Generals & Zero Hour, Red Alert 3, C&C 3 & Kane's Wrath.

All these get players, like 50-100 each, but not at every hour of the day.

The skill ceiling might a bit high - since a lot of these players have been dedicated for years - but, hey, on the plus side you'll git gud a lot more quickly :D

c) http://www.voobly.com

Dunno if you consider Age of Empires 2 twitch heavy. But there's a vibrant community surrounding AoE 2, 1000 players online regularly, up to 2000 on peak times.
 

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