Warcraft Game Like X-Com?

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I was playing X-Com again recently and I wished there were more games like it. The replay value and turn based combat, along with base building and troop improvement, is just fantastic. The X-Com series of games really are some of the best turn based strategy games around.

I was thinking how they could also be very well translated into the Warcraft Universe. 2 Campaigns. Alliance and Horde. While a war between the two is going on, there are base building and tactical assaults and things going on to further the war effort. With all the classes, there would be great squad variety. And assembling a squad of 5 to accomplish objectives. Research new weapons and armor for them.

I know its just a guilty pleasure ask, but it could also easily be adapted to all consoles. (Nintendo Switch, to play it on the go would be great).

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Wasn’t a Starcraft game in development at some point that was akin to the X-com games? That was canceled Or did I make that up in my head? :thinking:

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Hard to beat or even match X-Com.

There have been several attempts, but no victors.

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YOu might be thinking of Starcraft: Ghost - and i believe that was more a first person shooter rpg.

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Well, not warcraft related but more so fantasy related, the Fire Emblem series plays very similar to Xcom and is a lot of fun. If you haven’t checked out those games, the latest (Three Houses) is really good, which is on the Nintendo Switch.

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I would play the sh** out of that, also… still waiting on a Totalwar style warcraft game.

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I beat all 3 campaigns. Solid game. But classic fire emblem. I would be game for warhammer, warcraft, LOTR. Some fantasy trope X-Com style game. Done as well as X-Com.

I can pick up X-Com and play it any time. Such a great series of games.

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I think the mission table should be redone as a tactics game tbh.

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Can I miss with a shotgun point-blank? Then its not xcom.

Here is a vid of a dude using a lifetime of luck

https://youtu.be/JDeFT8871jo

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http://i.imgur.com/Czh3blo.gif

That’s XCOM, baby

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Thats part of its greatness. Eventually you rarely miss. But till that point. ohh its a crap shoot.

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My favorite is after they miss like that.

“Yeah, I didn’t get it.”

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At that point I just give them credit for holding the gun the right way

Positive reinforcement and all that

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Silent Storm was an amazing repayable xcom style game during WWII. It had one expansion to add a little more fun to it as well.

Silent Storm is a 2003 turn-based tactics video game developed by Nival Interactive and published by JoWood. The game is set in a fictionalized World War II Europe with science fiction elements.

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I’m going to get you! …oh crap it’s a danger noodle!

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XCOM-style Warcraft could be amazing. Honestly, the dungeon-crawling style and pod mechanics of XCOM translate incredibly well to WoW. Like, legitimately I use the terms like “dungeons” and “pulls” for Chosen Strongholds already.

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Kicked my butt repeatedly in the 90’s.

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You mean TFTD?

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Oh yes. China just kept surrendering and left me crying over my ineffective gauss cannons.