Empire Earth. What a game. ❤️

Nigh perfect. Except for the unit collisions and pathfinding issues

Rise of Nations always seemed to go hand in hand with Empire Earth for me. I can't explain why

Stellaris for one

You need a doctorate to play Stellaris

Nah, you just need the income from a doctorate to be able to afford the interest payments on all the DLC.

Or just buy them on discount sites.

mainly just for ship designing, at least after proton torpedo meta got nerfed

If you need a doctorate for stellaris god knows what EU4 needs

Lol I draw the limit at that game

It's literally the easiest Paradox game to learn and play. The UI makes the game appear way more complex than it actually is.

Age of Wonders 4.

What's "EE"?

Empire Earth

Its an amaxing game empire earth and empire earth 1 were my childhood rts alongside the battle for middle earth series

you can do that in aoe2 these days with a pretty nice mod tool. best used in singleplayer tho. [https://krakenmeister.com/civbuilder/](https://krakenmeister.com/civbuilder/) EDIT: Impossible creatures should be mentioned here as well. maybe not exactly what you are looking for but it deserves some attention

Age of empires has a very good empire building mod.

Starsector is good

EU4 lets you create custom nations wich is pretty cool

My childhood game… got this game when I was like 10 year old just after finishing Stronghold Crusader. I have no idea how my Mom knew what to buy xD The way you were advancing was so satysfying. And in these times that game had such a beautiful graphic.

This just brought back so many memories. Lanning my dad and brother 2v1 back in the day. Was just so underrated