Lords of the Realm 2

Lords of the Realm 2 is a medieval strategy game published by Sierra and developed by Impressions Games where you have to carefully balance your gold, food supplies, armies, and weapons. The goal of the game is to vanquish all of the other players by building up armies and invading their castles. The reason why I like this game so much is because it's a little bit different than other RTS games.

The economy side works like this, each territory has a set number of fields that can be used to either grow wheat or raise cattle. Cattle are prone to disease while wheat can only be harvested once a year. Your population will grow as long as you have the food to sustain them and their happiness isn't too low. If it is they will emigrate to another county. You also have the option to tax your people. A low tax will raise happiness but not produce a lot of gold for weapons, supplies, army wages, etc. A high tax will make your people hate you and call you bad names and hurt your feelings (jk), but they will hate you.