The only turned based game I miss is HOMM3 multiplayer/hotseat with friends. The ice giants were OP with their lightening bolt!!! the trade off was that you're sub soliders were pretty weak and had to pray that you didnt lose to much upgrading up till the point where you had ice/titan giants.
http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/Tower
But imho:
Something happened there with turnbased games after that era and they pushed for more "graphical" development over game play - I guess that's actually a symptom of most genre's for that era.