: : For TBS it's Warlords 2; for RTS, Age of Empires 2 and Warcraft 3 are both
: For RTS, I'd replace Warcraft 3 with the original Starcraft (of course, I've
: never played Warcraft 3, but whatever). Nothing beats the thrill of
: amassing a fleet of twelve Battlecruisers against your enemy, or slowly
: crushing a Terran encampment into dust with Siege Tanks and Marines, or
: watching as a wave of Zerg beasts annihilates an unsuspecting foe.
Yeah I played SC1 for the first time after having played SC2, so it will never be a benchmark for me - I guess it really comes down to time spent when the game was current ... although for you possibly not as you weren't even born when SC1 was current! WC3 is amazing though, you should try it ... graphics that still stand up 12 years later; campaign gameplay and storytelling that makes for really a lot of fun. Skirmish gameplay against the computer that was just ridiculously hard .. yeah it fell down there, but LAN play was great.
