Help me pick out a new game or two

[A Black Falcon]

Eh, these people only know about TBS games from Advance Wars, so of course the very concept of levelling up in one is shocking and new and worthy of a genre subdivision.

First, I expanded my above post; see that first. :)

Second... lack of knowledge does not excuse an inability to change your position once you learn the whole picture...

Of course it is difficult because at heart strategy games, RPGs, and wargames all have the same roots, so differentiating between them can be difficult and the line fuzzy, but we have built up definitions of how the three genres are different, and it's very clear that games like Fire Emblem are strategy games.

... yeah, it is hard. I mean, many PC RPGs have much deeper, more strategic combat systems than most early console SRPGs, or many PC strategy games too, but they are RPGs. Games often don't just follow clear, easy to deliniate, genre defintions... but still, we like to categorize games, so we have to create some somehow, and once that is done the definitions need to be evenly applied, not selectively based on factors like the platform the game was released on.