SOTH was good, as was DO - halcyon years of gaming tbh.
Mature games for a thinking audience, rewarding careful planning, forethought and strategy over micromanagement, build queues and intimate tech tree knowledge.
Exactly Panda - everything nowadays in strategy games is either about mastering some gimmick the developers have thought up (like Ruse) or just deploying the highest number of rock/paper/scissors troops to the field.
And Murder all those poor poor troopsYou should pick up men of war assault squad. It's very in depth (almost impossibly complicated) but even a clown like me who couldn't micromanage for toffee can get a lot of fun out of it.
And Murder all those poor poor troops