Yes the previously mentioned Pandora is a spiritual remake.

Titans of Steel is mech based free(!) game in spirit of mechwarrior. Its ofcourse more tactical than strategic, but nice game if youre into mechs.

http://www.titansofsteel.de/

Titans of Steel sounds awesome, I will try it.

Got it, thanks a lot! Hope they implement the secret project in upcoming patches and make it to GOG here ;)

You're right, it's not a tbs in a traditional sense, but there are turn-based elements, which made me think of it.

Here's the other one I mentioned: http://store.steampowered.com/app/208140/

Hello,

It is an old game and a 4x mammoth. Emperor of the fading suns. It is a 4x grand strategy game with different factions, technology tree, space combat, planet invasion, land battles on hexagon battlefields, detailed planetary maps without east-west link. It is from 1996.

Perhaps you are looking for X-com? It has a scifi setting, a grand strategy world map, tactical battles, base building technology research and air combat. But what i am blubbering, everyone knows X-com.

Have a nice day.

There are many games with random elements, most of them generally behave themselves quite well and do not slap me in the face with bad luck very often at all. For example, Civ2, Civ3 and Civ5 behave themselves. But Civ4 is a HUGE face slapper with bad luck - i have to keep my finger on the reload button for that prick of a game.