[The one who flew]

I was wondering if anyone could recommend me a game or a gameseries to try out. The type of game I'm looking for would probably fall under the "strategy game" genre, but I'm more interested in games that are won on the tactical level.

As an example, from the Total War series I've played Shogun and Rome. R:TW campaigns tend to have a series of interesting battles at the start, then after a while the game turns into me moving unit stacks and fleets across the strategy map, autoresolving the battles as I can't be bothered fighting endless (and meaningless since even if I lose there's a whole lot more where they came from) full stack vs full stack battles turn after turn. Shogun is similar (me vs Hojo Horde).

Even my (probably) favourite game of all time UFO: EU (x-com) falls apart at the strategic level as you can just manufacture laser cannons or milk alien base supply ships for unlimited resources. At this point the tactical battles turn uninteresting since units and resources become expendable. And mind control is broken. But it's still a good game.

So I guess what I'm mostly looking for is squad or regiment level tactical battles like the Myth series or Warhammer series, or Jagged Alliance, it doesn't have to be about swords and sorcery. And anyone interested in this sort of stuff who hasn't played those games should play them (not Mark of Chaos).