For many of us, Catan was the first time a board game felt like a small, living world: dice clacked, resources shuffled, and suddenly you were bargaining for brick like your life depended on it. If you’ve exhausted the island’s coastal real estate and want that same mix of resource tension, expansion and player interaction…
	Exploring the RTS aisles beyond Age of Empires II can feel like discovering secret chapters of military history you never knew existed. These nine titles share the core thrill of city-building, resource-scrambling, and battlefield choreography. Some lean into myth, others into scale—but all capture that same rush of watching villagers turn into armies. Ready to…
	
								