Quote Originally Posted by oweb26 View Post
The question becomes do you want bases or not bases?? The days of base building are gone unfortunately ( as I loved C & C 3). For what I think you are asking Age of Empires is your best bet....... The total war series is pretty good but its a mix of 4x and RTS. Those kinda games are few and far between now which is unfortunate...if you want to just collect resources and fight you have the Wargame series.

I made a pretty easy transition from Age of empires II into total war series, were personally I like total war the most but they kinda aren't comparable.

I haven't played the HD version or III so I can't help you there.
I think I want bases, I'd like to build a headquarters area or a fort where the troops/fighters originate from then I sent them out to battle.

I have Civ V and I really enjoy it but the only thing con that I don't care for is the turn base. I'm not sure what it's called, but similar to Sim City, you just play and play, no waiting for the CPU or opponent to take a turn.

It seemed like in the videos I've watched on Citadel was what I'm looking for, unfortunately it has such horrible reviews I don't want to take the risk. I can understand some reviews not being favorable or people like or dislike a game but that one seemed to get a huge F, across the board it seemed like people wanted to give it a 0 our of 10, and they all say not to waste your money. That's disappointing b/c it looks great.