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King's Bounty: The Conquerors Quest (Genesis)
I first played this as a preteen and even on later attempts just didn't quite get it. Not until later entries in the series did I understand some of the non-spoken strategies you need to engage in. You actually have to play the game pretty much opposite to what you expect and after having learned that fact I beat it in less than 300 "turns" (for those not in the know, hard mode gives you 300 turns and under 200 is a difficulty labled "impossible").

Something to note is that beating this game is actually possible (but highly unlikely) without ever fighting anyone, a unique feature for a turn based strategy game. Like imagine you could beat FFT without a single battle and you have what this game secretly wants you to attempt to do.

I think I could have actually won under 200 turns, but I actually liked, you know, playing turn based strategy fights.