RTS and TBS?

So I have played a couple of RTS' and am going to pick up Red alert 3 Tommorrow, plus I'm thinking bout getting Dawn of war. The thing is I am also Looking at preordering Civ 5 But its TBS and I have never played a TBS. So whats The difference really and is TBS fun? Cheers!

Well, TBS is kinda like chess. You take turns to move your units and attack.

Youtube "Heroes 5 gameplay" and you'll see it.

in TBS, you and the enemies, be they cpu or other players, have limited action or movement point per "turn" for strategic management. all the resources will be counted in the same manner: xxx amount of gold per turn.

Civilization games are more like Empire-buiding TBS; warfare is certainly important, but there are more political and ecnomic elements than in say HoMM games.

Total War games blend empire building TBS and RTS battle together.

The most recent TBS is Disciples III, pretty much like typical RTS (no Civ's empire management), just in turn base fashion, and a RPG leveling system.I personally like TBS, in all flavors, very much.

whether you will like this genre...well, try out some demos before you spend your $$$...

So its just like RTS' But if some1 is attaking u, u can't stop them till your turn?

Well, it's not real-time so in order to engage an enemy hero or a creature, you must walk up to him and then the battle starts.

Only the world creatures don't move, so they can't attack you.

It's hard to explain, you should watch some vids.

So its just like RTS' But if some1 is attaking u, u can't stop them till your turn?

creaturemagic

it depends, but oftentime, "battle" is different from resource/base management; yet it's still in turn: during the battle, each unit, yours and enemies' will take turn to attack.

on large scale turn base -- Civ -- combat move does count as one action during the turn.

also, other factions (not all hostile, such as in Civ games) do walk around all over the maps, you may attack others or be attacked. Like in Disciples III, netural factions (they won't attack you unless you do) will not move, but enemy factions would go out take resource node, including those you've conquered or attack your troops.