So if you gave Pikmin guns and vehicles...

[lazyfatbum]

You'd have Battalion Wars!

So who's got it and who loves it? Short game but the designers made it with alot of replay and sandbox play. Definite cons though which need to be fix'd in the sequel:

*Multiplayer
*Customization
*War/map editor

A capture the flag scenario with 4 players would have been the bees knees but alas we are denied.

Looking past that, what is available is a highly addictive type of 'action real time strategy' that feels like a military version of Pikmin, which, as you could guess, is awesome.

Anyone get an S rank on the Xylvanian levels? They keep handing me my ass.

[Great Rumbler]

I'd probably already have it if I wasn't trying to save up enough to get an Xbox360, but since I am I'll have to wait until I can find it used.

[A Black Falcon]

I want this eventually, but I want Fire Emblem more...

[big guy]

i want fire emblem too. i might pick it up this friday if i have enough money left over after i get the internet hooked up in my apt. but those two things definately come before battalion wars.

[A Black Falcon]

Fire Emblem is great... just one problem. Once it's done, it's done... but the strategic model allows for so much more... online Fire Emblem would be awesome. I wish that it'd been a PC game... :) It's like... okay, I'm done. What now? Wait for the next one?

Sure, you can replay it harder, or spend a hundred turns getting the stupid supports (a great idea for storytelling purposes, but horribly executed... yes, TES made it quicker. It's still bad.), or whatever, but that's no replacement for real new content or multiplayer. If Warcraft III had been like this, I'd have stopped playing it after a month... in other genres I don't miss online as much, because I haven't played them as much online (the occasional FPS, the occasional racing game, but not one I've put lots of time into online...)... but strategy games? Those I have. (and Guild Wars, but that's different...)

I know, GBA doesn't have online multiplayer... I'm just saying, this or Advance Wars are just about perfect games for it, and I miss it...