I just went through and picked up Armageddon Empires based on the little I read from today's Penny Arcade link. My hobby project is pretty much exactly the sort of market this game is in (hex based strategy on the PC by an indie sort of developer and priced accordingly) which means:

1. I'm interested in those sort of games.
2. It's useful to investigate to see what they did, what worked/what didn't.
3. I want to support them financially, since I would want the same once my game ever gets done.

Now to give it a test drive. Psuedo review will likely be forthcoming!

[edit: psuedo review!

The game really, really, really needs some sort of auto-resolve, but seems otherwise neat, and quite akin to the old Chaos Overlords game]