[the_af]

A bit like Laser Squad Nemesis then? (Also by the Gollop brothers if I recall correctly).

I should be ashamed: I own Frozen Synapse, but I think I've never played it. Yet another impulse buy :(

[eru]

Yes, Frozen Synapse pays explicit Homage to Laser Squad Nemesis. I think it's quite a bit more polished though, because it's deliberately more streamlined.

If I remember right, LSN still had tiles (and thus probably discrete units of time)?

Frozen Synapse, for better or worse, goes for a much more continuous approach. Making for a very different feeling game.