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Round Two of the "Best Strategy Game" side-event ended with some ties. Let's break them!

• You can vote for 1 game per tie-breaker.
• The top game in each poll will advance to Round Three.
• You can't change your votes once they've been submitted, so click carefully. Voting closes on Saturday at midnight ADT.

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Tie-Breaker 1 of 2
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (2007, Wii)
Jagged Alliance 2 (1999, PC)
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (1995, PC)

Tie-Breaker 2 of 2
Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII (2003, PS2)
SimCity (1989, PC)

Sorry Warcraft and Jagged Alliance, I don't have a lot of exposure to you two but my vote has to go with Radiant Dawn.

Hmm. As much as I love Radiant Dawn (I keep saying that, but I gave it the shaft in the other category, too), Warcraft II is too important a strategy game to let die here. It was also the first online game I ever played! It was also one of the first games with a level-designer of which I took full advantage, building huge complicated maps for my friends and I to test. What a hoot.

The second poll is tricky, too. SimCity 2000 is already advancing to the next round, and better RTK games were eliminated. It would be insane to have a strategy game finals without some Koei in there.

This Old Neon wrote: ↑22 Apr 2019 06:15 Tie-Breaker 1 of 2
Jagged Alliance 2 (1999, PC)
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (1995, PC)

Tie-Breaker 2 of 2
Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII (2003, PS2)

Winners.