Favorite Strategy Console Games

[Venturin]

Wow I'm surprised at all the love for Vandal Hearts out there!

I suppose that game was a lot of peoples introduction to strategy-RPG's.

That game hooked me so bad that I couldn't stop playing, every battle was a total joy.

With Ring of Red I was having so much fun that I never wanted it to end.
When I got to the final battle I couldn't believe it. Even though the game text said that "this is the final battle" I wasn't convinced. I was sure there would be just one more afterward.

I bought a friend Fire Emblem for the Cube and he tells me he is having a ball.
Did anyone enjoy Battalion wars for the Cube?

[Poofta!]

turn based strategy i prefer to be portable. but one console strategy game i aboslutely loved was front mission 4 for ps2.

[maxlords]

Looks like all my favorites have been nailed. Tops on the list for me though are Warsong and Military Madness, followed closely by Shining Force I and II.

Other favorites:
Tactics Ogre and Ogre Battle
Zone of the Enders: Fist of Mars
Final Fantasy Tactics
Vandal Hearts 2
Saiyuki: Journey West
Fire Emblem series
Vasteel
Front Mission 1 & 3
Arc the Lad Collection (I consider them strategy/RPGs)
Advance Wars series

The one series I'm surprised no one has mentioned yet is the Archon series (Archon I-III)...continued with The Unholy War and Wrath Unleashed. They're not standard traditional strategy but they're DAMNED good games....some of my favorites EVER.

[Venturin]

There's soooo many of these games I have yet to play. It seems like the Front Mission games would be right up my alley. I will have to give one of those a try.

Ogre Tactics for the GBA was so good I played through to the end, but I just cannot get into FF Tactics on GBA, even though I beat the PS1 version.

Just seems too unfocused for some reason to me.

[Daniel Thomas]

I loved Herzog Zwei enough to write a pair of extensive online strategy guides for the game. It was frustrating for me to learn the game without any available help on the internet. It's a pretty tough game to figure out without any instructions. Thankfully, I've been able to rectify that.

After Herzog, I guess, would be the Advance Wars games. AW2 is the best of the three - why the DS version didn't include online play remains a mystery to me. I hope they make another version to solve that problem.

[Zadoc]

Shining Force (Genesis)
Shining Force II (Genesis)
Shining Force III (Saturn)

These are the SRPGs that rule all other SRPGs.

Eat your heart out, FF Tactics!