Strategy/Tactical games with the focus on micromanagement

from what little I know of the game banished might fit that I could be wrong

I don't know of anymore games like the ones you mentioned, but i'l bump the thread since I am interest I also want to find more games like these.

What about something like Freelancer?

the old XCOM games?

You have a strange idea of what strategy/tactical micromanagement is, but I'll toss this one out there:

Expedition Conquistidors

If you like micromanagement, check out Infested Planet

In a weird way think actually you might like the Wargame series a lot if you are into the micromanaging where taking care of your units matters. Basically in Wargame once you lose a unit, that is it gone. Forever. You cannot replace it.

Other thing I can think of is XCom.

Here's a few sugestions that might fit your description:

1. Star Wars Kotor (1 or 2): your unit is a squad of 3 people which can depending on your playstyle require lots of micromanagement and you ugrade each of there specefique gear. (plus its in star wars universe)

2. Wizardy/Legends of Grimrock : Old school rpgs where you control a party of adventurers (unit) and lvl them up/equip them)

3.The Guild 2 : not sure about this one but it requires a hell lot of management and you can't control more than 3 familly members at a time.

legend of grimrock is a very good game you could like :)

More suggestions:

1. X-Com: UFO Defense. Well, old ones have pretty large squads to micro-manage. If you think that looks and feels too outdated, try Xenonauts.
   XCom: Enemy Unknown is a worthy successor too, but gameplay wise it's a completely different animal. Focusses on smaller squads and less managing in general (no more time units or inventory puzzles) in favor of faster-paced tactics.

2. Dawn of War 2 + expansions: Unlike 1 which is more of a typical base-building RTS, this is more like a realtime version of the tabletop game. You get 4 units/squads out of a selection of 6, and you customize them with bits of loot (or wargear as the game calls them) and experience points/levels, and it will take micromanaging the various skills etc. to get through the games.
   Runner-up: Company of Heroes, made be same folks, and which paved the way for DoW2's gameplay but uses World War 2 as the setting.

3. Anomaly: Warzone Earth. One of the better tower offense games - guide your convoy past the turrets, optimize your convoy order and the route taken to get past the levels. Becomes puzzle-like in working out the strategies quite fast.

Vangers might fit this description - imagine a trippy RPG where you are driving a vehicle around alien planets.

Something more like XCOM, but only one "unit" might be Project Zomboid

Any of the X games or Evochron Mercenary would play a lot like Pirates, and Kinetic Void will be there eventually.

Port Royale Trilogy
Whales Voyage
Weird Worlds
Nethack
Prince of Qin

Man, if you played Dungeons of Dredmor and other roguelikes you must give Tales of Maj'Eyal a chance. It's sooo good and it's free if you download it from the official web. ToME is the game you are looking for, believe me.
Have a nice day!

From your title i would have said war in the pacific admiral edition rofl.

Dwarf Fortress has both a mode where you build a fortress if you want a city sim and an adventurer mode if you like rogue likes.
Check out Zeus Master of Olympus as well.

The latest X Rebirth is supposedly bad but you manage one main ship apparently.

There was an old game i forgot the name of, battleship something about a space battleship, from the 90's.

What about something like capitalism 2 ?

Kenshi might interest you, it's an early access game, and seems to be updated slowly, but the concept looks good and it's actually playable...

Any SRPG, really. They are always turn based, and having too large of a group would make the game last too long so they have small groups.

Total War

I know that on the PC, Dragon Age: Origins can count as this if you choose to operate with the tactics view. You can be as little or as much hands-on as you want to be, and you could even set certain automatic routines if you want to cut out some of the micromanagement.

I think this could also be considered for Neverwinter Nights 2, where you can use the strategic view and pausing to micromanage your party rather than letting them operate on their own.

Hmm. Maybe try War of the Human Tanks?

For something a bit older, I'd say Fallout: Tactics. Not as popular as the other fallout games but a lot of fun and you can play either real-time or turn-based. It's squad based, so you can manage up to 6 team members - or you can use only 1 - its really up to the player.

Europa Universalis IV

Men of war,big and micro management.