A strategy game with realistic units?

yannis76

yannis76

yannis76

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Hi,

I was wondering whether there is any strategy game which includes real air/naval/land army units? Something like TA but with real and not future units?
All the strategy games I know are either only land (Company of Heroes) or not strategy games...

thank you in advance
 
WIC is just about clickign around and directing units though, quite boring IMO. Not really a RTS.
 
if we're ignoring the op's requests and simply listing common or garden ww2 rts, then the commandos series is challenging, has ageless isometric graphics and is great over LAN.
 
the only 1 with indepth content and realism is "men of war" coh is like a game of snap in comparison.

I urge you to choose men of war mow, best rts i've played in years, mp rocks a lot
 
Command & Conquer Generals was the best one.... wish they'd release a more updated version instead of the hash they keep releasing with crappy units. Can't tell what the hell's going on most of the time.
 
I am also crying out for a game that fits the bill having modern realistic units.

There are too many fantasy RTS games around. I would suggest you look at Empire Earth but I didn't find it that realistic, not to mention the graphics just looks bad. The most recent Empire Earth 3 wasn't well received and was criticised for being too dumbed down.

I find myself constantly switching from playing one RTS to another to try and satisfy my needs!

I would really like to have an RTS that starts around the year 1800 and moves upto around the year 2100. With a huge range of buildings and economy depth that covers not just the war units but the cilvians and their jobs, housing etc on a scale like TA supreme commander.

I keep waiting.
 
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I think the problem with this request is that it is quite simply unfeasible to mix realism with RTS gaming as we know it; doing so would no longer make it playable.

Main problem is the scales involved in modern warfare, they're simply too big and even a game like SupCom would be inadequate to capture realisticly the huge sizes, distances and speeds associated with modern military hardware. Even things like simple tank battles would require massive maps, let alone fighter aircraft which would probably require something 100x bigger.

This is why most of these so called realistic RTS games are no more recent than WW2.

Anyone remember the cruisers from Red Alert? :p Thank god the game itself was very fun!
 
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