Originally Posted by The Batlord

You should check out the Total War series. Like Civ but with a lot of the mechanics simplified cause it's a combination of Civ and real-time strategy. Like you're playing Civ until you actually have units battle and then it goes to an RTS screen where you command armies in mass units rather than single units to give the effect of ancient mass battles of thousands of people marching in formation that are about maneuvering rather than build orders like in StarCraft. I'd put the Total War series on the same level as Civilization.