Because people keep getting them mixed up?

Battle For Wesnoth
hex-based fantasy game plays kinda like a mix between Advance Wars and Fire Emblem.
Lazy, so have some text I ripped from the homepage.





The factions while most being very different from each other maintain a strong sense of balance.
Also, the newest version came out about a month or so ago.
also, also, expect to get pissed off at the RNG it seems to like ♥♥♥♥ you over alot.
http://www.wesnoth.org/

I really do wish I wasn't terrible at BfW

I'm decent enough, I guess. Weznoth is a good game.

Master Of Orion 2:The Antarens attack
a very nice turn-based space game...
similar to Imperium Galactica 1,but more in depth strategy is needed.

(there is no in-game screenshot...)

Pretty much any of the games from the x-com series, though most especially apocalypse.

This was a great series. Build and maintain a base of operations, including recruiting and equipping your units and vehicles. Then sending out your agents into the field into a turn based (optionally, though I always played it that way) combat trying to take down alien invaders. I lost many many hours to those games.

A close second is final fantasy tactics.

I used to be totally and undeniably in love with Ogre Battle 64.

Fallout 1/2. Taken? fudge. Then I go with fallout tactics. Not turn-based enough?

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MONOPOLY




For fans of X-com, there's an actually pretty neat remake called UFO: AI. It's a freeware AND it's awesome, but the only real upgrade is the 3D, since there really isn't any walls to break.

Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume, for the Nintendo DS.

Hands down. You get more items+gold for aquiring a level of sin in a match. Yes. You get more stuff for SINNING.

I don't know if it qualifies completely as turn based but toribash is certainly my favorite. http://www.toribash.com
forum = http://forum.toribash.com/
no pic but i have youtubes!

tut = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVZN0LRIN9w
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trailer(I think) = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzjl0Cu9HgM
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other:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjXz8gXgW6I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P69PYp2HN78&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxMXF1_8IQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w98zgP8OcMo
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description:

toribash is an online turn based(?) fighting game designed heavily around ragdoll physics. when you start a match both of your characters start in the traditional "T" position and from there you proceed to beat the bloody pulp out of eachother. the game is won by either disqualification or points when the match is over. more often than not disqualification, I.E. touching the ground with something other than your feet or your hands(this includes disembodied limbs)
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description on the website:

Toribash is an innovative fighting game where YOU design the moves! Join us today, and pit your skills against other players all over the world.

Earn credits by winning matches, then customize your character in the store! Trade items with other players. Win prizes in weekly tournaments. Climb the rankings. Earn your own Black belt. Better still: be one of the few who make it to 10th Dan!

Toribash is Addictive! Try Wushu, Sumo, Kick Boxing, Sambo, Swords, Judo and more. Create fighting movies and post them on YouTube. Watch other players fight. Chat with them. Defeat them!
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all in all toribash is definitely worth checking into.

Super Robot Wars, any of them.
Very fun little tactical RPG, with a plot based on a crossover of several mecha shows, or, in the OG games, crossovers of the original characters that the maker, Banpresto, added in. I don't know whether it would be as enjoyable to people who don't like mecha shows, though.
Graphics tend to be ♥♥♥♥, and most, with the exception of the two Gameboy Advance Original Generation games, are in Japanese, but the gameplay is simple enough that you can quickly pick up what you need to play.
You may lose the plot, but there are pictures with the dialog, so just invent your own. It's all HOLY ♥♥♥♥ BLOW UP TEH ALIENS WITH UR GIANT ROBOTZ LOL anyway.

Master of Orion, I love it. Its very close to Stardock's Sins of a Solar Empire, but its turn based and has better diplomacy (The most complex diplomacy system I've seem in quite a while). Its also got beautiful pixel graphics.
No link, 'twas made in 1993.

GOLDEN SUN YEAAHHH

Also Advance Wars (all of 'em).

Master of Orion is abandonware. Get it here: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/101/M ... Orion.html
You'll need Dosbox.

To add something from myself:
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/23/Ce ... +Rome.html
Ancient Rome and stuff, played it a lot back then.

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/549/L ... Realm.html
What can I say? I love to design and customize stuff it adds much fun to game. In this one you can design castles.


Look for them few pages back.


I played Toribash sometime ago. Fun game but its quite hard to get dummy do what you want, usually it just ends in some futile wiggling around.

Golden Sun was fun, but I suspect that's because it's pretty much the only JRPG that I've ever really played, and I get the feeling that the formula doesn't change much. But still, GS was a good little series.