Jagged Alliance 2
Silent Storm
Those are mostly PC games so I guess if you haven't played Front Mission those are pretty good.

Now if you aren't afraid of having to do some reading or just diving in head first you could pick pretty much any Paradox Interactive game that isn't Rome and it'll be good.

On that note, I'd just LOVE to see Mo0's facial expression when he fires up Europa Universalis II and subsequently has a brain aneurysm.

Only pros play EUII. EU3 is where all the honeys go to get they Crusader Kings import on. (plus you can move units in the political map)

Only problem is it's kinda ugly, plus going from historical simulator to historical sandbox takes out a lot of the neat events you could get, like winning the 100 Years War as England.

http://www.thegond.com/rp/chaosisland.jpg

guys, i think my balls just fell off and touched the cold cold ground :(

I would like to add a caveat to my review that says Square went a little over the top when making the rare monsters in this game rare. I thought I'd catch up on some guild tasks over the last couple of days and in a good ten hours of playing, managed to find about seven of the ones I was looking for, even using the detailed spawning guides all over the internet to expedite the process. Also, I do like the way you can play through the game with no particular effort put in to grinding or specialised party building and have a team that will decimate story bosses but you'll get insta-murdered by the hard DLC bosses. I tried to fight Fiery Gates last night and didn't even beat the initial guard units whereas I'd just blasted through Base 6 in a matter of minutes, paying very little attention to what was going on. :(