Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, WWII theater. It was one of my favorite games when I was younger. Never got to play the sequels, though, but I heard they were pretty good. It also taught me loads about air combat theory.
Mount and Blade: Warband. Somebody suggested Crusader Kings 2 for politics of the middle ages, and while this game is also about expanding your kingdom and becoming a badass king, the core of the game is recruiting or hiring lowly peasants to transform them into a badass army, and you're practically needed to lead the battles on your own in real time, being both the best soldier in the field and the main strategist.
Problem with the game is that there might be a learning curve and you might need to get the hang of the controls. On the plus side, there's also a lot of mods for this game, one of them based on Game of Thrones, and there's even one based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Mount and Blade: Warband. Somebody suggested Crusader Kings 2 for politics of the middle ages, and while this game is also about expanding your kingdom and becoming a badass king, the core of the game is recruiting or hiring lowly peasants to transform them into a badass army, and you're practically needed to lead the battles on your own in real time, being both the best soldier in the field and the main strategist.
Problem with the game is that there might be a learning curve and you might need to get the hang of the controls. On the plus side, there's also a lot of mods for this game, one of them based on Game of Thrones, and there's even one based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail.