Looking for a new RTS

tomanders91 · 22 Dec 2007 at 12:08

Looking for a good fun RTS to play, basicly something where i just build up a base, defend for a while, then send out a huge attack sort of thing. Similar to the old C&C's, but not C&C 3 because i got bored of that in a few days.

I really enjoyed Dawn of War and Company of heroes + commando realism mod (although i havent had company of heroes for about 6 months), thinking maybe getting the company of heroes expansion off steam, is that any good? Sup com is another one which bored me, too slow paced for me.

cheers.

Zip · 22 Dec 2007 at 13:19

I liked the new company heroes

The British base is built with Trucks so you can move it around the entire map

You can build trenches and all sorts. Its a big improvement IMO

I'm now just waiting for a realism mod for it now

Neil79 · 22 Dec 2007 at 13:30

How about this , SunAge

http://www.vertex4.com/sunage/

snowdog · 22 Dec 2007 at 14:24

tomanders91 said:
Sup com is another one which bored me, too slow paced for me.

Have you tried playing it @ +10 speed ?

tomanders91 · 22 Dec 2007 at 14:25

no, i just didnt like the fact that some games took about 3-4 hours to finish, the fact that it takes half an hour to build stuff.

Its just not my type of game, i can see how other would enjoy it though.

West · 22 Dec 2007 at 14:57

I bought Act of War and AOE 3 the other day, looking forward to getting those for christmas

Indy500 · 22 Dec 2007 at 15:33

tomanders91 said:
no, i just didnt like the fact that some games took about 3-4 hours to finish, the fact that it takes half an hour to build stuff.

After about 25 minutes, a good player is at T3, churning out waves of units. It only takes 30 minutes to build if you set a T3 engineer on artillery or something.

early expansion avoids a stalemate like the ones you mention.

manic111 · 22 Dec 2007 at 15:42

World in Conflict?

snowdog · 22 Dec 2007 at 16:16

sr4470 said:
After about 25 minutes, a good player is at T3, churning out waves of units. It only takes 30 minutes to build if you set a T3 engineer on artillery or something. early expansion avoids a stalemate like the ones you mention.

Yep, supcom can last 4 hours, but that's if you play like a noob and play @ minus 5 speed or something

, just play it at far above standard speed and it's just 1 hour per game.

I'd advice against World in conflict, will get boring VERY soon due to just being temoporarly same battles all *** time, even no base building.

I bought Act of War and AOE 3 the other day, looking forward to getting those for christmas

Haven't looked into act of war, but as a hardcore aoe, aoe2 fan: aoe3 is terrible, once you're done with the campaign you'll never touch it again, even age of mythology was far better (imo anyhow).
I really wouldn't recommend aoe3 tbh...

Atm I don't think anything can compete with CoH and Supcom and m2tw atm, shame really.

Indy500 · 22 Dec 2007 at 16:22

snowdog said:
just play it at far above standard speed and it's just 1 hour per game.

That makes it even harder to multitask though

building eco\production has to be balanced. Then you have to tech up and keep engineers flowing. As well as managing harassment of the enemy, scouting, and defensive patrols.

Dougsnake · 22 Dec 2007 at 17:47

snowdog said:
I'd advice against World in conflict, will get boring VERY soon due to just being temoporarly same battles all *** time, even no base building.

Still a great single player story non the less

Loosecannon · 22 Dec 2007 at 18:19

Universe at War - Due at the end of jan.

Dont buy it wanting multiplayer tho - -the best modes are reserved for gold membership of windows live or whatever it is....