While Supremacy 1914 and Call of War: World War II make a grand strategy game out of the First and Second World Wars, respectively, Conflict of Nations does something similar for a hypothetical ...

It might not be the only one, but 'Axis & Allies' stands above the rest of the World War II strategy board games.

The way it delivered an etched-out and well-designed RTS game in a fictional World War 2 setting stood out the most. It had massive scale, with a unique integrated base-building system.