Which RTS?

Bane · 19 May 2007 at 11:53

Any RTS that you don't need to partake in the warfare to win? Still want the conflict element, but I prefer to research tech trees and build a city than solely churning out combat units and wasting them.

I used to enjoy Age of Empires 2 in multiplayer, as I could be the support section while my ally dealt with the warfare aspect.

And it would be nice if you didn't have to keep restarting from scratch each subsequent level, like the Homeworld series.

Does such a RTS game exist?

Cartho · 19 May 2007 at 11:56

I have them all and love them all!
However M2TW is not really an RTS - I would call it a wargame.

If you had to buy 1... Well I would say M2TW as it has the most replay value... Looks stunning too

Tute · 19 May 2007 at 12:23

InwardSinging said:
Went for Medieval 2, Supreme Commander and COH - all under £15 each

Meh, you missed out the only good one of the bunch!

Actually, CoH isn't too bad.

Energize · 19 May 2007 at 19:02

sup3rc0w said:
COH is a "games for vista" game afaik.

"Games for windows".

Curio · 20 May 2007 at 05:35

CoH and SupCom are both utterly brilliant games - makes you realise it's rubbish when people say "games aren't as good as they used to be"

If only CoH didn't have the incredibly tiresome, corny and stupidly overused "Private Ryan" carp....and proper rendered cut scenes....it would have been pretty much perfect.

SupCom is just epic. Absolutely huge battles and tense gameplay. Need a powerful dual core CPU tho - brings my little X2 to its knees!

Can't go wrong with either one.

Metalface Mark · 20 May 2007 at 08:21

I had the Total War: Eras brick drop through my letterbox yesterday, im going to give Rome a whirl today before Medieval 2 turns up.

Curio · 20 May 2007 at 16:34

InwardSinging said:
I had the Total War: Eras brick drop through my letterbox yesterday, im going to give Rome a whirl today before Medieval 2 turns up.

Never really got into Rome personally - found the AI a bit too dumb. Tell a company of archers to go somewhere and they would usually get there by trying to barge through the entire enemy army

Weebull · 20 May 2007 at 16:48

Bane said:
Any RTS that you don't need to partake in the warfare to win? Still want the conflict element, but I prefer to research tech trees and build a city than solely churning out combat units and wasting them.

I used to enjoy Age of Empires 2 in multiplayer, as I could be the support section while my ally dealt with the warfare aspect.

And it would be nice if you didn't have to keep restarting from scratch each subsequent level, like the Homeworld series.

Does such a RTS game exist?

The Total War series? I've not actually played them, but from what I understand, you can let the battles auto-resolve themself, can't you? Leaving you free to mess around with just the resource/poltics side of the game.