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teal said:
You may want to try Battle for Wesnoth. It is a single player computer game, with a strong theme, it is strategy based so it has some analysis, but is nowhere near the amount of analysis required for Dominions 2 (I would put it down at the level of hearts or cribbage). And it is free! It is a nice little war game with units representing individual soldiers, who get better as they fight through the campaign (if you can avoid getting them killed that is).
Teal
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Thanks. I've done that too. Somebody else recently recommended it to me.
It is a very good game--especially for the price! Kind of reminds me of the old SSI game Fantasy General (which used to be one of my favorites, though it never got as popular as Panzer General or others in the series).
I haven't played Wesnoth in a couple weeks, though, and I don't know when I'll get back to it. One pet peeve I have about games like this is recruitment. In such a fast-moving game, I find it annoying to have to take care of that "housekeeping" chore every turn. I'd rather just give some kind of general instruction to an AI "recruitment officer" (e.g., "Give me lots of archers.") and then have recruitment happen automatically during the game.
Funny you should say it's "at the level of hearts or cribbage." Cribbage is probably my favorite traditional card game: to me, it has just the right amount of luck vs skill--it holds my interest without straining my brain. Hearts seems like a tougher game to me--but it's probably easier than the likes of Spades or Bridge (neither of which I like, because I don't like bidding games--which is why I'm not at all interested in Shrapnel's game "Gladiator").