Best empire management game

[sheek]

I was really disappointed by RTW so I was thinking back at all the good empire managers I've played.

The best in a kind of historical setting I think must be the ones of the KOEI series: Nubonaga's Ambition, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Genghis Khan etc.


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Now that I think KOEI are a massively under rated company. They also did Celtic Tales (Irish mythology-themed strategy) and Uncharted Waters (hybrid RPG/Strategy/Trading like Pirates).

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Europa Universalis 2 by a long shot. The ROTTK games are great and all, but EU2 brings me orgasmic joys that only the most obscure of ancient asian tantric secrets could bring. It has nearly everything you'd want and does it nearly flawlessly.

A close runner up is Supreme Ruler 2010 simply because of the massive, MASSIVE, MASSIVE[/B] amount of info and detail put into it. Speaking of which, I need to go back and play it. Props to Battlegoat for putting so much work into it (with a 4-man team, no less!)

 

[AlanC9]

The two Imperialism games are also up there. The economic model breaks down in the endgame, and the combat suffers from having no real incentive to use anything but mobile artillery, but they still offer a lot of gameplay, assuming you like a game where the main aspect is economics and production.

 

[Mantiis]

There seems to be a distinct lack of these types of games of late; I am a bit of a graphics whore so playing all the golden oldies these days gets less and less appealing. I am over playing Rome: TW and Civ4.

Ghengis Khan was awesome; I believe I will start a new campaign...