Mystica Fantasy Board

This is a map control game.

It's a good game. Are there any variations, versions? Peak achievements like HoMM III?

And balancing the budget.

Lord, hen, what budget? You have to sell alien technology, and that's enough for the first: P

Better to pack what you can into satellites right away. Can you trade live UFOs? In the last mission I caught three sectoid commanders and one muton and I have a large surplus of livestock // orc

Only a corpse. You can only question them.

Next, IMHO, the pinnacle is UFO: Enemy Unknown
Possibly Terror from the deep

X-com is fun to play, but not enough time to figure it out. Skirmishes are too fast for me, too small units, and you can't play tag on a bigger board.

And in this climate (i.e. the newer X-com) I would add, for example, Incubation. Admittedly, they are only skirmishes, but IMHO is very atmospheric, with suitable music and story. Although quite simple to play. And also a turn-based game! A released about 20 years ago.

Incubation was more like Space Hulk