While Battalion Wars isn't necessarily bad (well the boring boring boring stereotype characters are...), I'd be horribly disappointed if that's the closest we get to some relevant RTS game on the system that isn't Pikmin-like. This would be my only chance to play any modern RTS, so can we just have some of that? A Civ game? Starcraft 2? XCom? Please?

What I mean is that they're doing a fair job of bringing their most recent releases to the console: Gaiden, Ken's Rage.

You would be disappointed if you started playing Xcom or Civilization expecting it to be a RTS :-/

Ok, Civ is excusable but I knew XCom wasn't RTS, how did I make that mistake?

But I do hope to see some cool strategy games in general on Wii U.

Agreed. The genre has long been ignored on consoles, aside from the likes of LKS and Battalion Wars, but that's like saying Facebook has a simulation game because of FarmVille.

I suspect the real strategy games will remain largely on PC and iPad for the foreseeable future though. Which is a pity because the gamepad would be great for it.

Yeah, I think the GamePad has some great potential for these type of games, but I also thought the Wii Remote and Nunchuk had a lot of potential and it just never seemed to be fulfilled (Still waiting on my FPS-ish lightsaber game. , maybe one day....). Knowing that Battalions Wars 2 was released within the first year of the system, and it had online, maybe later this year we'll see a Wii U version?

I honestly have no clue what is going on in the industry though, everything seems upside down at the moment.

It would be great if a Battalion Wars game came out sometime in the summer drought.

I want a good Real time strategy with multiplayer 1v1's so give us this game!