[Erax]

SE4 is not a war game, it is a strategy game. A war game is just that; war. They focus on manuevering predetermined forces against each other in combat. They are complex, but they do not encompass nearly as much as SE4 does. A strategy game is war + economics, essentially.

Both SE4 and Chess are strategy games.

Fyron, is there a contradiction here ? Personally, I see no reason to make a distinction between 'war' and 'strategy' games, they're all strategy games to me, with war games as a subset. The important point is that they all appeal to the same kind of player.