Played Europa Universalis III to death.  Tried Heroes of Might and Magic V, seemed pretty shallow.  Done the Civ thing.

Any games I need to try?

King's Bounty looks cool, I'll look into that.

Alpha century was my favorite turn based game

It's kind of old, but I remember Heroes of Might and Magic 3 being really good. I never tried Heroes of Might and Magic V, so I can't compare the two.

I thought HOMM3 was really good too, I only tried the HOMM5 demo, owned HOMM4 too, thought 3 was best.  Not a huge fan of Gal Civ myself, but it's a decent series.

Not wanting to turn you away from PC, but do you have any other platforms?  A Gameboy Advance or Nintendo DS?  Xbox 360?  I feel like in recent years consoles and handhelds have gotten most of the breakthrough TBS titles.  Advance Wars is a long running series on Nintendo platforms.  Culdcept series on 360 and DS (and older platforms) is great IMO.

Disgaea series, Final Fantasy Tactics series, Fire Emblem series, and Metal Gear Acid series.

I would say while turn based they require a far different taste than the games he said he enjoyed. He may like them, he may not. Either way, they don't replace PC turn based goodness, they're a very different kind of goodness imo. Advance Wars is perhaps the more similar style.

Forgot to say, try out Silent Storm. Action point based etc.

Does it have to be PC? I played the hell out of the Advance Wars games....

Jagged Alliance is supposed to be great.

So is the X-COM series. Especially Enemy Unknown, apparently.

Fallout's combat system is unpolished, but it's a great roleplaying game, but Tactics is supposed to add a great combat system at the cost of story and whatnot.

Yea there's some great older ones.

Jagged Alliance 2 is amazing.  X-Com series is great, but I've played less.

I didn't like Silent Storm so much.  A lot of people like Freedom Force but I didn't like those so much either.  If I remember right Freedom Force was a lot like Silent Storm.

There's also absolutely crazy stuff in a genre they used to call 'wargames'.  Korsun Pocket is a good example.

Age of Mythology, IMO.

"Age of Mythology, IMO."

There's also absolutely crazy stuff in a genre they used to call 'wargames'.  Korsun Pocket is a good example."

Empire: Total War on a decent difficulty?

Umm..Hello what about  Master of Orion  THE single best turn based strategy game ever?

Sins of a Solar Empire is good... not exactly turn-based, but you should still look into it...

Heroes III is a million times better than Heroes V

"Heroes III is a million times better than Heroes V"

The Close Combat series was pretty good... i used to play these all the time, WWII but dont let that fool you, its a brilliant turn based game....
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X-com good.... Jagged Alliance games are great.... cant really think of many others right now

The Battle For Wesnoth is awesome, and it's freeware.

"Empire: Total War on a decent difficulty?"

"The Battle For Wesnoth is awesome, and it's freeware."

I live by Civ 3.  4 sucks.

"Hearts of Iron 3 is coming out soon, which is by the same makers as Europa Universalis 3."

    I'm not bumping this thread, im posting on it so it would drop down to the buttom of the forum list in a few minutes (at the moment its stuck at the top)        

Rome: Total War, hands down the best in the Total War series.
 
Also, good times to be had with HOMM3 hot seat :P