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[NRDL]

Any free strategy games out there are that good?  RTS, turn based, grand strategy, unconventional warfare ( Guerrilla Warfare is awesome ), etc, it doesn't actually matter, just post away.

Oh, and make sure these are actually decent games, free, easy to download, doesn't have a DF-sized learning curve, etc. 

[Kay12]

WarZone 2100, post-apocalyptic RTS, used to be commercial but source got released some years ago. Excellent game, but a bit difficult at first.

Battle for Wesnoth, high-fantasy turn-based strategy/tactics, very good apart from occasional plot clichés.

[Pandarsenic]

Thunder Brigade is a fun but extraordinarily small in scope TBT.

UFO: Alien Invasion is an X-COMlike.

[Sonlirain]

Command & Conquer And Red Alert1 got released for free (classic RTS games)

Ground Control 1 got released as freeware as well. No unit production on the battlefield only pure strategy.

Rise & Fall Civilizations at War is free and it's a GREAT aincient themed RTS that includes advanced siege and naval warfare options (like using grappling hooks and boarding the enemy vessel) also shps in this game are actually small pieces of floating land your soldiers and heroes can actually walk on instead of being bolted in one place or disapearing like in other games.
Same thing with walls that work just like in stronghold (cept they can only be destroyed by siege weapons). Fighting on walls is quite common.

Rise & Fall is probably my personal favourite here.

[Dutchling]

Rise & Fall Civilizations at War is free

Is it just me or is only the demo free?

[Flying Dice]

Well, Aurora qualifies, especially once you get to the actual combat, which is pretty much like playing a David Weber space battle. Added pluses of incredibly detailed shipbuilding, research, etc. Downsides... Well, if you have less than 1024p vertical res, you're kinda fucked by the fact that the windows aren't resizeable, but you can get around that with 3rd party apps.

[Digital Hellhound]

Rise and Fall is free? Since when?

Anyhow, it's a great game. Sonlirain oddly left out the fact that you can actually take control of your Hero in a third-person mode, which is always awesome. There's also a pretty good scenario editor. Ahh, why am I still writing when I could reinstall it?

[Dutchling]

@flying Dice
900p vertical res works for me with reduced height mode. I assume you haven't updated for a while ?

[Rex_Nex]

World of Tanks. It's a free-to-play MMO in which you drive historically correct WW2 tanks and modify their gear with the earnings you make in game. Actually very fun.

[Rakonas]

World of Tanks. It's a free-to-play MMO in which you drive historically correct WW2 tanks and modify their gear with the earnings you make in game. Actually very fun.

Is World of Tanks altered to make it more balanced or are some tanks realistically overpowered? Rounds essentially bouncing off the armor of a Tiger, kind of thing.

[drkpaladin]

@flying Dice
900p vertical res works for me with reduced height mode. I assume you haven't updated for a while ?

I know this is off topic a bit, but are you referring to an update for windows or an update to aurora?  I thought I was trying the latest version a few days ago.  I was hoping to pick up that game without resorting to third party apps to work around the screen size.

[PTTG??]

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- The successor to Age of Empires
- Amazing Graphics
- Open Source
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http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/page.php?c=46

[Dutchling]

@flying Dice
900p vertical res works for me with reduced height mode. I assume you haven't updated for a while ?

I know this is off topic a bit, but are you referring to an update for windows or an update to aurora?  I thought I was trying the latest version a few days ago.  I was hoping to pick up that game without resorting to third party apps to work around the screen size.

Aurora
There is a reduced height mode you can turn on in-game. It's on the main menu thing (what you start).


Ontopic: I recommend the Rise and Fall too, although only the demo is free

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Artillery Boat FTW

[Kicior]

Turn based: winSPMBT, winSPWW2. Free and fun (until you get mad because RNG hates your guts )

[Askot Bokbondeler]

rise and fal has a very interesting engine, but the complete lack of respect for anything resembling historical accuracy turns me off