Warcraft 3

I play Hearthstone quite a lot. Probably too much.

As a kid I used to play Magic cards. Those were the days!

cs 1.6 these days was sick :)

Hearts of Iron and Civilization. Love and hate those games. They're fun but when you start playing the whole day just flies by.

Hearthstone is great. Definitely makes you think outside of the box and keeps you well-engaged playing the game. Good practice in a type of way for poker too I believe.

I've never played Go before but watching the Netflix documentary on it made it seem really interesting.

My guilty pleasure is def. Chess... I try to play less, as it tends to use up my time immensely once I am in. Hooked on Chess Puzzles..
Absolutely avoiding really studying the game, as I know it would totally capture me

I've grown obsessed with Go. Coincidentally I started learning a couple months before I saw that documentary. I planned to be a 9 dan like a year ago. It hasn't gone to plan unfortunately and I'm probably about average now :( I really enjoy Michael Redmond's go commentary and strategy talk. He seems like the Galfond of the Go world.

I've played almost all the RTS games dating back to Command and Conquer/Warcraft 2 but to this day I think nothing tops Starcraft. My claim to fame is beating Elky best two of three probably 8 years ago. Lost temple, I selected Zerg he went random - first game he succumbed to an all in cheese. Second game he lost to quick lurker.

Great thread!

AlphaGO it’s a very good watch for anyone who likes strategy games and/or artificial intelligence applied to them. Highly reccomended.

I personally have played plenty of strategy games during my life, started with Chess as a child, then Magic the Gathering, Starcraft 2 and finally discovered poker and got completely obsessed with it.

For those of you who enjoy Hearthstone (I played a heck of a lot of this one as well) I reccomend you to try Magic, you’ll see that the game is a thousand times better and the random component it’s almost non existent as opposed to hs.

What about board games with a big strategy component? I like those a lot as well but I haven’t played that many. The one I’m currently playing on occasion with my girlfriend it’s Kingdomino, a very reccomended 1-4 player game.

When I was a kid I've been playing MTG local tourneys, it was pretty fun.
For now I'm sticked with poker and trying to learn chess.

Beside this I like some games avaiable at Steam, the last one was the South Park: The Fractured But Whole. hahaha

I've grown playing Age Of Empires II every day..

Now i like to play Dota2 ocasionally.

Age of Empires was (is) amazing.

Hearthstone, brood war, civilization

I'm surprised that no one chose Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

Grinder

Fortnite.

I don't care if it's not a strategy game. It's just a great game, guys!

PUBG !

I'm also a chess master and my favorite variant of the game was playing blindfold. I got up to playing 10 games blindfolded simultaneously, but it gave me severe migraines. That may partially explain why the Russians banned it for years.

I really would love to battle in Stratego or Quoridor. Stratego seems like a wonderful synergy between chess and poker and Quoridor is just a blast.

Hearthstone Arena mode for me mostly

Risk is absolutely sick!!!

Magic the Gathering. I'm a little surprised MTG didn't get more love in this thread. This is not just a fantastic game it is actually very complimentary to poker. You have to know how to play each deck in the meta game. You have to know how to sideboard against each deck, and how each deck sideboards against you. Hand reading is also very similar. You know roughly what sort of cards they have in their deck because of the type of deck they are playing because you have also played with it as well. You can then guess what cards they do or don't have in their hand considering how they deal or fail to deal with a situation. There is even a sort of balance to play that most MTG players that don't play poker are not truly aware of. The super common sort stuff that happens every game like whether or not someone plays a shock land vertical and takes 2 damage on turn two when playing blue then passes turn. If they leave it tapped and pass turn I can probably rule them out having any two mana counterspells or serious threats at two mana and can play my hand out more aggressively. If on the other hand they keep it up take the 2 damage and then leave the mana open and pass or advance their own board say by playing a Tarmogoyf or something they keep their hand way more dynamic as they can still have all these cards in their hand. Most players fail to see the meanings of these interactions all together and simply take their 2 damage when they have stuff they want to do or leave it tapped when they can't. I remember I got scoffed at once when I told someone just that that they should leave their shock land face up and take the two against almost all decks in the format for the above reason. It was sort of comical because all the people that laughed at that had win/loss records that were dismal compared to mine.