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That, and the instant teleporting of troops. But it's still one of my all-time favorites.

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And by the way, I just finished playing a few games of Laser Squad Nemesis with my wife. It's as fun now as it was then. Even more so now, probably, with the introduction of 2 new races since I last played. And they've added a web interface to handle the email component. You just click on the web buttons to process and send files, no fiddling with attachments.

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Nexus war eh? Does that mean that that's Agema from Team Laser Explosion?! It's Bang/Dethnutz/I'm an engineer... small world eh?

Regarding independent games, Mount&Blade is a great medieval mounted/army combat game with an active modding community. It's been in development for years and keeps getting better. Demo lets you get to level 6 before having to buy.

Transcendence is a completely free action space roguelike developed by a single (awesome) person who has added tons of modding support over the various iterations. It's basically a finished game, although he'd like to add some extra content on the end and frequently adds new content to what's already out there. There's an active modding community there, too (check out the enhanced weapons mod if you try it, definitely worth a download).

I second Weird Worlds: Adventures in Infinite Space as a great game. I love the fact that it really does only take 10-30 minutes to play through a game once you get the hang of it. It's like candy.

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mandatory seconding of the plug for DF. also, must note that I've heard starchamber is favored amongst dominions players, but I just really can't get to like card based games.

Also, if it hasn't been mentioned, Mount and Blade is very good.

EDIT: oh... I'm about 15 min too late with M&B. Wow, transcendence looks slick. It reminds me now of another indie-outerspace-roguelike: Flatspace.

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I just wanted to add a note to thank whoever it was that mentioned Laser Squad Nemesis. I am hopelessly hooked again and bought several subscriptions for the family. Simple game on its face like chess is simple ( :cool: ), full of strategic and tactical depth. If anyone wants to fire up a game, send Regnor Vex (two words) a challenge.

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I enjoyed Battle for Wesnoth. Possibly the best free strategy game out there. And it is fantasy based!

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the first public release of 3069 was made just hours ago!

it's based upon the futuristic roguelike '3059'. gameplay seems very similar too. I like 3069 because it has qualities that I'm using in the dominions roguelike, namely non-tile based world and different sized stuff (i.e. an elephant doesn't occupy the same space as a roach).

get it here:
http://sites.google.com/site/free3069/

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id love to try laser squad nemesis but the thing is:

dominions is hands down my fav game(and believe me i have played ALOOOOOT)... the only thing that sucks is that singleplayer is worthless and MP is only done turn wise(a reason im going for the 1vs1 league :P ). I need something to fill the cracks between my turns without starting a buttload of MP games and getting frustrated and stalling/quitting.

laser squad is sadly also played like dominions though in MP :(

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ugh. thanks ill try. big roguelike fan here :)

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Well explicit meaning is explicit, and implicit meaning is implicit ;)

Thanks for the welcome. :angel