JudasIscariot: Well, ummm, Master of Magic is certainly nothing like HoMM. For starters, the battles can be set to auto-resolve, they don't take as long, you have two worlds you can explore, you can cast debilitating spells at your opponent's cities, you can cast overland spells, capture nodes....

JudasIscariot: Well, then I am kind of out of ideas as turn-based strategy games aren't my specialty only because most of the ones I know of are basically HoMM-likes :P