Post your the best RTS

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>>275869749
Dark Reign

supcom: forged alliance
no picture cause I gtg

world in conflict for sp
compamy of heroes for mp

>>275869749
You already did.

>>275869749
I only played this game to build cities, gather resources and construct shit, never actually did pvp against the CPU. Did anyone else did this? It's just so comfy.

Stronghold Crusader
Horse Archer FTW

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I don't know about the best. Age of Empires 2, perhaps? My personal favourite is Kohan.

Just a random save file from campaign loaded

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Does anyone know how the combat even worked in this game? I seriously never really figured it out, all I really understood was that you moved the units somewhere and if they wanted to attack they would otherwise nope

Also was it too fucking hard for them to pay some nigger $3 to record some sentences in Chinese why did they have to make up some fake pseudo-Chinese for the peasants to say when clicked on

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>>275870102
>Playing locally with a group of others
>There's this one guy who doesn't really know how to play but joins in anyway
>He ends up stuck in the dark ages building a small city while everybody else fights
>Uses wooden walls too
>Somebody else casually sends in a single ram to destroy his entire city

Cossacks:the Art of War

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'bootin

>>275870102
Not really, city building is kinda boring, to be frank.
Also because I'm a Hun player which means no houses.

Also, does anyone else enjoy dropping castles and towers (especially bombard ones) right at the doorstep of the enemy base?

>>275870775

I've actually been playing recently and I love everything about the Mayans except that they don't have bombard anything

>>275870775
I enjoy building infinite trebuchets and playing as the Moderately Honourable Artillery Company.

>>275870415
YAHRR CUSTOOM LORKS WUNDAHRFAHL MAH DEHUR

>>275870775

> does anyone else enjoy dropping castles and towers (especially bombard ones) right at the doorstep of the enemy base?

I did. With the AI I liked to turtle and whittle him down to nothing while losing as few units as possible. That meant choking him with castles and towers.

>>275869749
>two blacksmiths
>poorly saturated wood line
>2 useless castles in the corner of the map
>bombard cannons without halberdiers and skirmishers defending them
>trade carts not in use
>useless walls protecting the useless castles
>house walling ineffective
>ineffective tower placement
>barracks and siege workshop not on the front line
Kill yourself.

>>275870961

MY NIGGER! SupCom just wasn't the same.

>Core Essentials, Frank Klepacki Tier
Command & Conquer
Red Alert

>Great Sequels, Fun Games Tier
Tiberian Sun
Red Alert 2

>Bad C&C game, but a great RTS on its own
Generals

>SHIT Tier
Tiberium Wars

>ABSOLUTE FUCKING DISGRACEFUL THIS DOES NOT EXIST TIER
Tiberian Twilight
Red Alert 3

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>>275870541
I played against a guy like that, on black forest. He has just gone castle age when everyone else was late Imperial. We ended up chopping through the forest with Onagers and destroyed his city from behind.

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>>275871081
>Moderately Honourable Artillery Company.

I can SMELL the earl grey wafting over the pond.

>>275871271
Any more art like that?
Also what's your elo?

>>275871265
Come on, Tiberium Wars wasn't THAT bad.

>>275870415

Also I remember being a nigger and when I needed more workers I'd just build some shit houses on the other side of the map, fill them with people and then just leave them. If they burn down or have no food, fuck if I care

>AOE II
>build a massive circle (square) of reinforced walls around my city while I slowly expand and gather resources
>only do it against the CPU of course, for fun

Good luck, I"m behind 7,000 walls

Rome: Total War with the 'Europa Barbarorum' mod.

Not only is it a great immersive game, but you learn alot of all the empires, kingdoms, states and how people lived back then.

EB is a must-have for people that are interested in the ancient/antiquity period.

Age of Empires or Empire Earth does not even come close to EB's scale of depth.

You'll never go back to vanilla RTW once you play EB. Infact vanilla RTW is terrible and full of inaccuracies, it's a fantasy game compared to EB.

>>275871493
It's better than TT and RA3, but it's not better than the classics.

TW was mediocre.

>>275871265
>Generals
Are you including Zero Hour? Cause if so, that should be in Fun Games tier at least.

>>275869749

This, but the non-HD version

>>275871493
Tiberium Wars was meh.
Kane's Wrath made it better.

Scrins pulls it down a notch.

>>275871703
I just wish RTW didn't shit itself when doing sieges in huge cities.

>>275870102
>>275871271
Super comfy game. I still use the scenario creator to just build scenes, villages, nature maps etc. Recently found out they had added wooden bridges too, so now the small towns will look even better. Some of my favourite maps that I've made are pirate islands, a nottingham forrest map and an aztec temple map.

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>>275871271
>Cut through forest with Siege Onagers to reach enemy base
>Don't cut all the way through, leave a good amount of trees around still
>Use Trebuchets to take down key buildings
>They can only use their own to attack them, no archers or other siege can reach them

You just gotta be careful that they don't get Onagers too and use your path as another pass. Forgotten Empires/The Forgotten makes regular Onagers able to kill trees too, and since many civs get mid-tier siege the opportunity is there without requiring one of the most expensive upgrades in the game.

>>275871265
>still thinking TD and RA1 were the best C&C
>2014

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>>275871641
As long as you don't double-wall

>>275871824
>This, but the non-HD version
Why? Isn't the HD version superior?

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Standard game is great but this mod makes it so much better.

Rise of Nations is objectively the best.

>>275871195
That's Cortez's base in what I think is the second-last Aztec scenario. Note the warning message and the gaia trade carts in the base, as well as on the sides of the mini-map.

The player starts at the bottom of the map as Green.

>>275870704

This, god damn it.
With modern TECHNOLOGY this could be the game of the decade.

And if they'd fix some shit like sniper laser never hitting the target because of it's shooting range

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>Defeat the AI players
>Leave the last one walled in without resources (pic related)
>Build comfy cities and shit

>>275872185
sick fuck

>>275871265
Tiberium Wars is great and absolute top of the series was Yuri's Revenge, fight me, and yes, TD>RA1.

>>275872185
Woooooop.

>>275872185
I did that when I only had the demo
I made woodcutters cut paths through forests to open the map up for more building space

>>275871610
I essentially did the same in Pharaoh.

Game was absolutely amazing, still one of my favourite games, but some technical designs are seriously shit. (Pathing is fucking horrible, too.)

>>275872029
Original has practically got free Forgotten Empires (missing only some tweaks and some updated textures), is more LAN friendly and easier to get going thanks to no Steam integration, and there's more settings to play with when you have UserPatch.

HD version makes modding much more accessible and has an online playerbase I guess, plus the AoF team asked Microsoft to help make their mod become official

>>275870872
aww shit good times

>>275871783
But Generals has nothing to do with the C&C universe at all. It's gameplay mechanics and sources are also very different. EA just slapped the 'C&C' title on it so it sells more.

Don't get me wrong Generals is an alright game but it's not part of the Tiberium or Red Alert universe. It's also when EA retconned the series and fucked over the hardcore C&C fanbase.

>>275872239

The AI player who started in Australia couldn't advance past Dark age for some reason so he was a prime target

>>275872036
I love Mental Omega but fuck, those bases that they keep posting are just begging to be destroyed.

I know the whole point is showing something that would never be done in single player due to practically but just look at this shit. What kind of a goddamn moron would spread out all his production, power, tech buildings and even his goddamn construction yard at the outskirts of his base, near ledges from where the enemy can easily attack and can fucking cripple him without having to worry about all those scary Railguns and Antares Batteries in the center.

For fucks sake, the power isn't even spread out and a 2/3 of the plants are near the construction yard. Just one attack could easily turn all those defenses into a big liability.

>>275871929
>best soundtrack
>best atmosphere (dark, gritty 90's warfare)
>best singleplayer story
>the unit screams
>the photo-realistic comfy graphics

The classics are the best SP games.
RA2/TS are the best multiplayer/skirmish games. TS still had a great SP, with ambience in a dark post-apocalyptic world. But RA2's singleplayer is too fucking cheesy and over-the-top looneytunes-tier goofy.

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>>275869749
>Post your the best RTS
>Only rts ever played is some hl2 mod
I luv it.

>>275873207
TS had an amazing atmosphere but fuck, the SP gameplay was 2slow

>>275872036
>>275872938
How is Mental Omega and how well balanced is it?

I never liked how Yuri was OP as fuck in the expansion

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As always, the best remains the best

>no mention of age of mythology
>no mention of warcraft 3

kill yourselves.

>>275873207
>too fucking cheesy
Can't get too cheesy
>and over-the-top looneytunes-tier goofy
and this is the RA3, with soviet battle bears and animu girls in power armour, atleast it has Tim Curry.

>>275869749
Men of War. Shame about the netcode.

>>275873325
Amp up the gamespeed, noob. They even had keybindings for it.

>>275871253

True that dude...ARM FOREVER

>>275873514
>RA3
Don't mention that shitty game.

I want it erased from my memory.

>>275873614
Then don't bitch about RA 2 being cheese, it has perfect amount of it, plus Udo Kier who is godlike.

>>275873470
>warcraft 3
>every player has 3 units that can take on entire armies on their own

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>>275873409
>Cossacks/American Conquest screenshots always show these neatly arranged lines of infantry
>My battles always end up in a confused blob of men accidentally shooting each other even when using officers

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>>275873775
>neatly arranged lines of infantry
Naaaaah that's marketing, shit like that doesn't happen it's not that i'd feel like a retarded or anything if it did

>>275870775
i love watching a battery of trebuchets swinging their arms.

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>>275871842 (me)
Whipped this out in 10 minutes, based on >>275872185

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>>275874056

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>>275869749
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvC6kpdvS7k

>>275874143
Well that got messed up. I'll try again.

>>275874056
>>275874143

Now assign the villagers to mine the rocks via triggers and you're set

>>275870541
funniest comment in awhile

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>>275874364
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>>275871271
Post more art faggot.

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>>275874715

>>275870415
>>275869749

My childhood. God-tier games.

>>275872105
Well that's alright then.
Autism disengaged.

>>275870872
great game

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>>275874715

>>275874837
How Do I Turn This Thing On
Furious The Monkey Boy
Aegis
Cheese Steak Jimmy's
Robin Hood

That's all I remember.

>>275873304
Hey that looks kinda neat, what is it?

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>>275874364

>>275875078
>Forgetting lumberjack

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This will never happen /v/

>>275875024
>>275874837
These are great. Where did you find them?

>>275875171

SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTT UPPPPPPPPPPAAAARHAHRHRHA

>>275875024
The AoE1 priest triggers my autism.

>>275875171
The prophecy must be fulfilled.

>>275875376

There are AoE1 villagers too

>>275875328

Can't remember, I think I saw mine on /v/ first but didn't save it, and then googled it later

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>>275875171
>you will never build a railroad for your german railway cannon unique unit to bombard the american drone center
AoE V, on the other hand, would have very high potential to be shitty though, unless they threw out the generic sci-fi and worked with someone who's very good at imagining future geopolitics. I want to play as the new russian empire to fight the destabilizing EU.

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This is what i like the most about AoE II.
I make a huge city/fortress with all the needed supplies (gold,wood,stone and farms).
While i let 5-6 CPU's team up 5-1 me , on hard.

Its a real fucking challenge because 5 CPU vs you alone is a losing battle , you either get a quick steamroll force that hopefully does not get wiped.
Or hold out a wonder.

It always surprises me how fast the CPU is on hard once you start sending your army they already have a city and a small force as well.

>back in 2000

>be a teenager again

>for birthday want to set up my first LAN-party

>main event of the LAN: a big 2v2 fight between my best friend and two other best friends who always shittalk about how anno 1602 is better than aoe2

>they use shitty arguments like "in anno, a fire destroys your house, but in aoe2, your buildings burn forever and never get destroyed"

>my friend and me use shitty arguments like "anno is a game for old people, even your grandpa plays it"
>decide to settle this at LAN in about 3-4 months
>best friend and me immediately join aoe2 communities and start reading up on all tactics we can find
>everyone including rivals go full autist, carrying big folders with printed out tactics full of notes
>they always walk around with them through school, always discussing und quickly closing their folders when friend or me approaches
>each day a new civ is banned for the LAN because someone somewhere on the forums said they were op
>friend and me practice every day, playing build orders against computers over and over again until perfect
>we both are afraid of getting our asses kicked, no confidence in winning because both always beat us in console games
>in the end, 2v2 on island, friend and me as britons an vikings, rivals as japs and turks
>go for galley rush
>encoutner no enemy ships
>surely this must be some kind of ruse
>start circling enemy islands, no harbors found
>attack a few villagers and skirmishers on their islands
>meanwhile best friend lands on island of other rival and build castle and tons of units
>both rivals give up
>they never stood a chance

turned out console player do nothing else than shittalking
they never beat us in any game at the LAN
both became aoe2 fans after that

I wish those times didn't fade away so fast

>>275875770
Upload map/scenario? I can take CPUs on Hard, but that many should be a challenge.

>>275875171
>>275875569
>AoE5
>one of the end game soldiers is a guy that fires nukes
>he can fuck some serious shit up
>also every minute he has a tiny chance of disappearing from the game

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>>275870102

All the time, its one of my favorite games because of it.

>>275875770
>It always surprises me how fast the CPU is on hard once you start sending your army they already have a city and a small force as well.

AI is ultra shit, the only reason they give you any challenge is because they start with cheated amount of resources at higher difficulties.
Just look at the points number at the beggining of a game, they have 5 times as much as you do.

>>275875881
Ah, the E=MC2 trooper.

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>tfw I got my little brother interested strategy games, when he was about 5 years old
>now he mostly plays CIV 5, M&B, AoE II, AoM, Rise of Nations and the Total War series (Rome and Empire)

I'm so proud of him

>>275875861
www filedropper com/fortress6

This is my 6th so far (biggest map)
I can send you the other 5 if you want as well.

>>275875971
Actually, in a recent update to HD, the AI no longer cheats. They still take full advantage of their instant decision making and all that, but no free resources if I recall correctly.

>>275873368
I would say Yuri is no longer OP in it. It's quite good.

>>275876226
Do you have pics of them first?

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>>275875124
Last one. Most "workers" die from fiering squad.

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DO you faggots still think this is a bad game?

After all the fixes I can safely say it is far better than the original.

>>275871842

Post the forest, I always dig crafted maps.

>>275875971
Even when i force them to have the same amount?
I put them for 500 of each for everyone.
And they still outpace me (on hard , on lower difficulty i can go faster or as quick)

>>275876294
Not yet but i will get them

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>>275872938
Not a fan of pretty bases?

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>>275870961
Absolutely
aside from aoe2,
knights and merchants has had many many replays by me.

>>275876267
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxBhEJEMwB8

THOSE FUCKING SKILLS

>>275876368
Too bad that the fixes come 30$ apiece

>>275870704
My Nigger.
Jesus Christ the Nostalgia.

>>275876535
The fixes where free. The extra factions are 20$ for both. What are you talking about?

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>>275876294
here is my 5th one , its the hardest because the map structure has allot of choke-points.
Its really difficult to actually assault them.
www filedropper com/fortress5

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>Best RTS thread
>Not a single mention of the greatest RTS of all time.

guys plz

>>275876624
Damn anon, these are some quality maps.

>>275876613
It's P2W as shit is what he's talking about

>>275876380
Don't have it sadly. Was on my old windows 98.

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>>275876760
Thanks , the map building is actually the most fun.
Most of the times i make such a map then play it 5-10 times with different races , difficulties , objectives.
Then make a new one.

www filedropper com/fortress4

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>>275876624

I never actually get to play the maps I make, it's like I'm doing it for the sake of mapping itself

>>275875112
Lambda Wars.
It's just missing players.

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>>275870229
AHHHHHHH SHIIIIT, MY NIGGGAAAA

We should get together and play, anon.

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>tfw RTS games with fun singleplayer campaigns get hardly made anymore

>>275877079
Yeah mapping is like half the fun.
Its kinda like painting or some shit like that.
Its all about the process of expression and imagination , but you can play with these paintings.

>>275877221
Not him but I feel the exact same way. I love just creating the maps, and try out different details to see what works.

>>275877191

Mah nigga. I loved supcom but sucked hard at it.

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>>275869898

>Remembering all the cool shit in this game
>Remembering all the hours spent playing DR at LANs
>Remembering how bad the sequel was

Nostalgia, overload.

>>275877640

The flying dog in the background is a nice touch

>>275875852
Top-tier story

>>275877079
That is max comfy!

I wish we had more games with infinite resource nodes like TA/Supreme Commander.
It's so much comfier to build bases when you don't run out of resources.
One of my biggest issues with AoE2 town building is that maps are just not designed for megaprojects. You run out of stone around your base before you get some decent walls up.

ctrl + f: Homeworld.
Not found.
Shit thread

/v/ I want to get into Cossacks. Which one do I play? I got the Anthology off GOG because it was on sell for like two fifty which seems like a good price for a game that looks right up my alley and that is often praised by /v/. So where should I start? I played Total War and most (more recent) Paradox Grand Strats, in addition to some non-Paradox GS.

>>275877079

Any more like this?

>>275878185
See
>>275876746

But you're right. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned sooner.

They should remake AoE 2 in the same graphical style but each civilization should have it's own building graphics and each civilization group should have it's own unit graphics.

>>275876746
>>275878185
I like homeworld, but it's not without faults.
Some of the missions in both HW1 and HW2 single player are just awful.
And there is no comfy base building, and this thread kind of took that direction.

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I bought the AoEII and AoM HD editions but I kinda regret it. The unit pathing seems to bug a lot during combat. I can't remember it being this shitty in the originals.

I personally had a shitload of fun with Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour. It's probably my favorite RTS together with AoM.

>>275877719
Isn't it laser-bear from AoM?

>>275877079
That's some beautiful map making there, anon.

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pic related
frozen throne(especially scenarios)
age of mythology

i never could get into age of empires or starcraft though

Guys help me remember the name of a somewhat old RTS, it was in the shogun era as I remember and the main thing was the troop training: you had a basic peasant and 3 types of training building: melee, ranged and gunpowder(?). if you sent one into the melee, you would get a pikeman or something, then you could also send it to ranged, making him a javeliner, so essentially you could make tier 1 warriors by a single training or combining them for more special stuff.

If anyone remember this game, it would be greatly appreciated

>>275878847
Battle Realms

>>275878457
What would make it even better would be making the standard units also be special from each civ, but with same stats, instead of Hun paladins and what-not.

>>275876484
>mfw i had to let the village gather resources for 24hs before i was able to build a decent army
>mfw they starve half way through.

one of my favorites (even working on win8.1)
machines, wired for war
>the only rts i know that lets you play in 1st person.

>>275876746
Undisputed

>>275878923

Thank you!

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PRAISE THE EMPEROR AND STRIKE DOWN HIS FOES

>>275878929
Honestly, they could even make a AoE 4 that revisited the medieval period. I wouldn't say no to an AoE game where each civilization was even more unique, they could add like 1 unique unit and tech per age and bonuses more impactful and creative than "15% boat construction speed".

>>275879301
AFTER A THOUSAND BATTLES, ONE ONLY SEEKS DEATH

Why dont they make proepr singleplayer rts games anymore?

Its either assfagots tier action (COH, DOW), or multiplayer oriented with no good singleplayer (SC).

Is it because singleplayer no longer sells unless it is a massive open/long game like farcry or big rpgs? (Or an established fps franchise obviously)

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>>275879301

EVEN IN DEATH I STILL SERVE

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>>275877996
>>275878338
>>275878787

Thanks, the main reason why I even do it is to get my comfy on

>>275876005
this is the correct answer

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Something for Tiberian Sun & Red Alert 2 players, give these mods a try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLcrPPpIRYc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfhX9N-HPCM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZ6JpJvfXA

I have AoE2 on Steam but I blow at RTS. Can I play without getting my shit stomped?

>>275872036
>Mental Omega
Last time I played it, it was just too fucking hard. Easy became Brutal in the skirmish and the missions are obnoxious. It's like the author only made the game for hardcore people and Speeder even has a "pro" player or something give him advice on the missions. Couldn't enjoy it myself. You're probably gonna say something like "git gud" but it's a problem when you alienate the fanbase who just likes to sit back and build bases. I don't fucking want to die by a rush in like 5 minutes on an offline match.

>>275879986
Sure you can, just play against easy or standard CPU. Don't expect any online players to be gentle though.

>>275879915
Tiberian Sun Retro is my ace for TS mods. Cannis Rules is okay but not updated anymore for RA2.

>>275880048
No, I can't finish some of the missions myself, but they said they'd make the game easier in the next release.

>>275878225
Anybody?

your the best RTS

>>275877558
Everything died too fast in that game. There wasn't a good sense of difference among the units other than damage output.

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>>275870704
This fucking game

>>275870872
city builder rather than RTS

>>275872185
>>Leave the last one walled in without resources (pic related)
Eh, AI always resigns for me if you wreck him hard enough.

>>275880169
>but they said they'd make the game easier in the next release.
I hope so m8. What is the hardest mission from that mod in your opinion?

>Age of Empires Online has ended

does anybody know if there is a way to play it on a private server or something?

It was an alright game that I spent money buying, and dont want to see that go to waste

>>275873325
What sucked about TS gameplay was that in skirmish, attacking bases outside of bomber rush or sub apc with engineers was tedious as fuck. The AI turtles so damn much with like 20+ juggernauts/artillery. And then when you killed them they just turtle up again...

Why does age of empires 2 get straight up unfair on hard or above

>>275880462
This one, I couldn't do it on easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RevNx-1cqrg

>>275879301
NONE CAN STOP THE CRUSADE OF THE RIGHTEOUS

>>275880042
Yes, God Tier game

>>275880748
It's not unfair, it just stops babying you. Watch some Resonance tips and tricks videos and you'll be taking out Hardest without breaking a sweat.

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A lot of the ones in this thread, also Warrior Kings Battles.

>>275880748
It's not unfair you just have to git gud

>>275881317
oh fuck, i spent so many childhood days playing this. It looked amazing due to all the fancy explosions and particles.
What was it called

>>275879857
sorry for being a idiot, but is that a custom faction?

>>275881492
State of War,
my childhood too, even though the game in the grand scheme of things wasn't really that good.

Loved it at the time.

Is the Rise of Nations extended edition worth getting?

>>275870415
My tier list for this series is so:
Caesar 3
Pharaoh
Emperor

Shit

Zeus/Poseidon

>>275881624

Yes, the Slavs from Forgotten Empires

>>275879986

First you have to learn a build order and how to go to the next age correctly.
You will have to learn the following strategies to stomp your first noobs:
>Feudal Rush or Flush (10:00 to 11:30 feudal, main move is mass skirmisher attack)
>Fast Castle (14:30 to 16:30 castle and start pumping out knights)
>Galley Rush (like Flush, only on sea with galleys)
>Black Forest Boom (wall in on a black forest map and go imperial as fast as possible with a strong economy and several towncenters)

And more advanced things to learn:
>HOTKEYS LEARN
>always press "H" then "A" - h is town center, a is produce villager
>never be housed
>always press h then a
>if you have multiple town centers, press h, a, h, a, h, a
>learn micro-management for early game and macro-management for late game (early is assinged everything carefully from dark age to castle, late is macroing 20 stables and 120 villagers while building farm and raiding the enemies villagers)

have fun
my friends refuse to play against me, I'm in coop hell forever thanks to playing this game online for nearly 15 years

>>275874195
Underrated. HD Edition was amazing but you need to play a billion times to get all the cheevos.

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Best

WOLOLOLOLO

>>275874708
>Wooden gate
How?

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>>275869749
>find out a thousand people still play this online
>try to play with someone, community is extremely elitist
>kicked from every single room for having 0 wins/0 losses, even from rooms that literally say "NEWBIES ONLY"
>look up guides, spectate some games, play against the AI until I feel confident in my ability to play the game
>still can't get into a single game
>finally get to play 2v2 black forest
>laggy as all fuck
>teammate quits 10 minutes in
this must be what getting a job is like

>>275883079
Forgotten Empires

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>Game ended on a cliff hanger
Fuck you game

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>>275883079

Forgotten Empires expansion.

>>275883135

Want to have a round on Voobly? I'm generally a newbie player whos only ever played against friends.

>>275883339
This was like six months ago and I've built a new PC since, sorry bro

Which RTS has the best singleplayer campaign?

>>275879301

COR! WOULD YOU LOOK AT THE SIZE OF 'EM!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUW8sBaacQI&feature=youtu.be

>>275883693
homeworld

>>275874837
>>275874837
Its from a guy on devientard, he does AoE commisions

>>275872185
kek

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>>275873775
>>275873949
It happens occasionally. I don't think I've ever seen the ai bother to do it but it works for me.

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My only problem with this game is that the resource gathering takes ages so the early game is rather boring on space maps. The soundtrack and the campaigns are fucking glorious though:

http://youtu.be/aVQFwcn3PVk

>tfw this plays while you're preparing for war, building mechs in your factories and readying your tanks

>>275884346
teching up really does take a longass time, that's a glaring issue I noticed when I replayed recently

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>>275884346
>>275884346
Antone got a working torrent? Its like 80$ now

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>>275884269
This army looked nice standing in a field and could hold off the groups the ai sent out indefinitely, but actually getting them to move out and fight was a bit of a mess.

>>275884269
Yeah well, some basic stuff always helps but we're talking about entire battles with hundreds of people on screen.
I don't even think you're supposed to get that autistic, the game doesn't give the time

>>275884493
oh shit I have a copy

>>275883693
Warcraft 3
Original War
Homeworld
Age of Empires 3
Dawn of War games and expansions
Battle for Middle Earth if you like LOTR

All good.

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Are there any rts/city builder hybrids?

More indepth building with military command? Something like Stronghold 1&2 or partly the old settlers games(could have more military).

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>>275884269
>>275873775
all promo screenshots are like that

>>275883135
That's the main problem if you don't have friends to play with. The best way of playing games is finding a community, for america I believe aok heaven is still a thing and just play with some regular noobs.
And if I say regular noobs, I mean that. Many players still play AoE2 without ever getting good at it, just for fun. Don't get to confident though, they will still fuck everyone up who doesn't know how to castle age before 17:00.

Seriously, once you have a community and a few regulars, this game suddenly gets more fun than anything

>>275883693
Starcraft 2

>>275884642
Yeah, any Anno game. The newest one has nukes too.

>>275884698
>tfw AoEO was actually pretty decent

>>275884642
The Anno games, maybe. It's mostly ship combat, though.

>>275884346
Yeah, I replayed this recently and noticed that too. I don't remember it taking so long all those years ago, but that might be because I was a pussy who didn't like losing so I used cheats to completely dominate every game

>>275884507
>not using gatlings to hold off the ai
It's like you're not being the piece of shit the ai deserves to have as an enemy

>>275884606
The ones with Both are usually 80$, the ones with just the base game or expansion go for over 100$

>>275883693
Command & Conquer.

It has actual real live actors giving you mission briefings.

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>>275884605
Yeah, on higher difficulties the ai doesn't form up groups of 36 musketeers into squares and march them into you, they fucking hire like 5 cossacks to kamikaze into your base at Sanic levels of fast and capture and burn all of your buildings to fuck your economy. If that doesn't work they then send out groups of like 12 pikemen or 8 musketeers accompanied by bowmen until you win.

Pic related is how fights tend to look, even with an officer, which makes things 10x more organized.

>>275884346
I remember huge FFA maps with the ai were sweet in that game. They just bullshitted you with resources though. I remember capturing whole islands to get enough resources to just hold what I had while the ai who had access to half as much could attack me indefinitely and take 5x the casualties.

>>275884632
>No RoN Cold War
Which AoE3 Campaigns are you suggesting? The only ones worth a damn were the Asian Dynasty ones

>>275884761
>>275884762
>anno
already played

there has to be something else

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>>275880042
best game in the list sire

>>275884762
Nah, Anno 1502 is pretty extensive with its landbased combat
~12 different types of units which is huge for anno

>>275884939
Nigga on higher difficulties the AI just sends a never ending wave of grenadiers, dragoons and cannons on cannons with mercenaries trying to capture your mines or to find a weak spot in your defences to burn your shit down

>>275885059
RIP IN PIECES ENSEMBLE STUDIOS

>>275884939
Yeah, I hate how the AI cheats too, it was really lame. I think they ran out of budget on some things, like the AI or the fact that if you rotate buildings they don't have a complete model.

The lack of C&C in this thread disturbs me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzPB_suK3ME

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>>275885146
Higher difficulties are just frustration. The ai's ability to slip through cracks in defenses and capture a shitload of buildings is frightening.

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Not necessarily the best RTS but god damn probably one of the most unique

>>275873304

Oh wow they actually finished it! Cool!

>>275885283
I srsly. hate the bum rushing the AI does.

Fucking sic(k)h-cossacks speeding around my units faster than I'm able to produce new ones to def shit......

And don'T even start with the fucking ukrain op faction....srsly.

>>275885059
this was actually a really good, if simple, RTS

>>275885460
Shitposting aside, it was a nice effort to bring RTS to consoles

>>275885283
Not so much, you can do that too, just put together a hundred riders and bust his balls. Burn his mines, try to break into his city, kill his citizens etc
It gives you time to breath and prepare some proper defenses. Attacking with infantry is suicide, the ai never stops sending his armies against yours from the very moment you step into his territory, i'm still trying to find the proper way to win but if you scum your way through the game with gatling you'll be fine. Don't be a faggot and buy a balloon asap tho

>yfw you could be the emperor is sleeping in around 10 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYs2hWsYxQY

>yfw theres an Island on the last saladin mission that is just big enough for the wonder, and none of the enemy AI has bombard cannons. See the first strat
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Age_of_Empires_II:_The_Age_of_Kings/The_Lion_and_the_Demon

>>275885412
Put 10 mins peace time

Battlezone is an FPS with RTS elements (you control units from a first person perspective).

Any other game that combines 2 genres?

>>275885503
I played red alert and warcraft 2 on playstation.

I dont remember how bad it was

>>275885563
I love the balloon, but it feels like too big of a game changer. The difference between playing with and without the Montgolfier is crazy.

It doesn't seem like something that should be taken out of the game, but having the whole map revealed constantly seems like too much.

>>275879301
A REAL SHAME THEY NEVER MADE A SECOND ONE. PROBABLY FOR THE BEST THOUGH, SINCE ALL OF RELIC'S COMPETENT STAFF LEFT AFTER THE FIRST COH1 EXPANSION.

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>>275869749
>just finished the Alaric campaign

Jesus fuck why does this game has a gorrilion campaigns, I love it.

>>275885658
Spellforce
rts+rpg

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>>275885730
I enjoyed Dawn of War II...For different reasons of course.

>>275885728
>seems like too much
It isn't the ai makes full use of the ability to instachoose its course of action and never fucks up. We are humans, we make mistakes all the time especially here since it's easy enough to lose a hundred dragoons if they step in front of one of your cannons when it's about to shot closer enemies. What do you care? Anyway if you feel guilty about it just put scouts everywhere, units are cheap and you can have as much as you want of them

>>275870541
>Same situation in AoM
>Casually send in one war elephant

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>>275884606
>>275884493

>tfw mom cleaned out all of the "old garbage" after I moved

What's the point of Age of Empires?

RTW shits all over AoE.

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Why aren't there more RTS games with a armageddon timer after firing nukes? It's satisfying as fuck to see the world go down in a hot war in RoN.

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>>275886150

>>275886150
2 completly different games

>>275886107
>not heka gigantes
>or the fire siphon
>or the norse ram

M8 please.

>>275879301
Just got this and the second one.
Holy fuck. I never realised how much I would love the WH40k universe.
>Dat Grimdark.
>Da Boiz.
NECRON STRONK

>>275884642

Nice fakebase! You can tell cos it has a dropship bay and no reception bays on the refineries.

Get ANNO 2070 and download the ARRC mod. Its amazing for cities and tech, plus gigahuge maps.

It really needs a remake with better code. Non circle islands is all I ask!

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>>275886025
I suppose against old RTS ai you have to take every edge you can get.

Dragoons in Cossacks are sweet, I'm never really sure how to use them but I find them cool so I always make a bunch and have them ride down small groups of guys in circles and blast them away.

>>275886343
I loved anno 2070 but its horrifically unoptimised, makes my 770 shit the bed.

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> mfw i'm so old i remember RTS on consoles

dem controls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mECdES52F_Q

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Even after Tales of Valor took a shit on the game, it was still far better than CoH2. The p2w commanders still infuriate me to this game.

>>275886343
>ANNO 2070
no ground units

>>275886353
A way to survive the first minutes is also to build a diplomatic centre and hire 18th dragoons, they are fantastic at the beginning.
Anyway i almost always use them to kill as many people as i can before the real battle starts, they are fast and hard to catch if you know how to move them

>>275886536
*to this day

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>>275886198
>Gattsu?

What are some games that you think do nukes right? I doubt I could name a single one. They're fun in Starcraft but they just feel like a big weapon rather than a true tool of destruction and genocide.

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>>275886647
supreme commander nukes are satisfying

but tiger-gorilla hybrids are even more satisfying!

>>275886405

Setting is great. Graphics are great. Music is great. Sound is great. VA is great. Ideas are great.

Core gameplay and coding: FUCKING UBISOFT YOU WERE SO CLOSE.

How many units is optimal for a rts game?

>>275886647
>What are some games that you think do nukes right?
Supreme commander comes close

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d59k6YG35b8

captcha:
impact

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No one mentioned Haegemonia.
Shameflul!

>>275886647
Well in Rise of Nations they actually have political effects. If you shoot a nuke you get a nuclear embargo on the market so you can't buy resources and the AI will usually declare war on your or break contracts with you. In Empire Earth 2 if you nuke a place it turns into a radioactive zone so anyone who enters get's killed.

>>275886858

Unlimited

>>275886858
As many as your computer can comfortably render

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>>275886536

Awesome game

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>>275886821
DOn'T you mean selling the fences around your tiger-cages...
w-wait,what? Zoo-TYcoon isn't a RTS? B-B-ut why did I kill the customers then.....

>>275886921
I mean types of units.

>>275886836
Its always the fucking programming that does them in.
So many asset-maker; so few good programmers.

>>275886296
They're both RTS games and are both set in ancient antiquity.

RTW has the bonus of having a turn-based world map aswell.

I don't understand why anyone would play AoE over RTW. Maybe if you have a toaster, but beside that, no reason.

>>275886647
Supreme Commander and World in Conflict did it pretty well.

Does anyone want to play C&C Tiberian Sun or something similar with me?

>>275885658
Natural Selection 2 is like that, one player plays an RTS with building and shit, and other 4 players play a solid FPS game.

>>275886892
That was impressive.

>>275886916
>radioactive zone
that sounds interesting

>>275886312
I've been meaning to get into 40k for so long.

>>275887000
You dont build stuff in RTW
You dont manage resources in RTW

Its all done in turn based mode

>>275887000
RTW is not a RTS game because RTW doesn't have basebuilding. Basebuilding and combat in real time is literally the foundation of the RTS genre, which started with dune 2.

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>>275869749
I loved it more than any other game ever

>>275886526
>that AvP RTS game in the PS2
I'm remembering good stuff but I'm sure it's just nostalgia

>>275876517
absolutely fucking amazing, I just watched it in its entirety. He's got a sense of humour, too.

>>275887226
God-tier voice acting, pretty decent game. My only complaint with it was the soul mechanic was far too snowbally.

>>275887260
AvP Extinction?

That game was neat

this thread just makes me sad that all these games are now old as fuck and we've stopped getting good RTS games

>>275881075

Oh shit, I've just remembered that I played this a long time ago. The game was a mess but it had some interesting stuff (mixing Imperial and Renaissance build trees etc)

>>275887169
>That was impressive.
now imagine that you can build multiple missile launchers and they can have multipe missiles.

You can launch a shitload at once.

there is obviously missile defense in the game

>>275887398
Well, the PC lost its prime spot of being the go to plattform for gaems.
Also, michael bay gaems tend to recieve grand appeal from the non-vyda media thus baiting cod-kids into buying them.
MArketing + graphical advances litterally killed the RTS genre

ALSO todays kids aren'T smart enough due to the radiowaves send of by the evil smartphoneoverlords!!!!!!!!!!!!

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what were they thinking?

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>>275887564

>>275887762
EA

Fuck Up Everything

>>275869749
Age of Mythology and CNC:Generals.

CNC:Generals just for predicting Iraq War 2. And obviously GLA.

>>275887398
Blame phone games and f2p. The 'buy once get a full game' model is dead, and RTS's depend on that model. P2W and micro-transactions kill this genre, as Relic/Sega proved with CoH2.

>>275885658
Space Rangers RTS segments are like that

Good luck :^)

>>275882374
nigga pls, Zeus/Poseidon was fucking great

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this was comfy as fuck

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Sins was a fun single player/co-op vs AI RTS though it didn't really work as competitive multiplayer. A shame Ironclad went full retard and thought making a DOTA clone after Sins was a smart use of money.

>>275873409
I remember this having really bad DRM, hard to copy back in the day.

Homeworld
Haegemonia
Sins of a Solar Empire

Which of these should I get into? I have a big boner for space operas.

>>275888213

Very slow but very comfy

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>>275888214
>watching the enemy's Titan jump straight into a nest of three upgraded starbases
>phase jump inhibitors stopping them from escaping
You came to the wrong fucking system.

>>275888371
It had starforce as far as i remember.
Starforce is the worst fucking shit.

>>275886821
This game is really legit. Totally underrated. Lobsterwhale master race here

>>275888425
I like Sins, but /v/ also has a boner for Homeworld, so one of those I guess.

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Does someone remember that (kind of indie) space rts where you could build your own ships?

there were different races - one was a species of bears, another wolfes etc

that game was kind of fun
it was similar to sins of solar empire

>>275888425
Sins has the scope but no story
Homeworld it is

Guys, don't forget Earth 21XX series and Warzone 2100
Love the whole build-your-own-unit gimmick, I just wish they had also some sort of infantry (WZ2100 Cyborgs don't count), the whole thing being vehicle-only was kind of depressing

Also, Warzone 2100 is still supported

>>275888495
>The starbases also self-destruct when at low HP, causing massive damage to all enemy ships still alive.

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>>275888692
>Warzone 2100
madness

>>275877079
I haven't played AoE for a long time. Are those vanilla textures?

Best antiquity RTS: Age of Empires
Best modern RTS: Command & Conquer
Best space RTS: Homeworld

I think we can all agree on this?

>>275888664
The game had amazing production values, a shame EA left gamebreaking bugs and balance alone for so long the community died. It was a genuine example of EA stomping the life out of great potential.

>>275888864
Its forgotten empires

a mod, made expansion

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I was really looking forward to this. Shame it wasn't as goood.

>>275888864

It's the Forgotten Empires mod expansion, the free one - not "Forgotten" which is for AoE2HD.

>>275888992
le ruse troll tricked bait meme

>>275877079
I just want to stroll around the town and forest.

>>275870609
This

>>275873409

>Hussar charge straight into Pikeman.

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A lot of people disliked this because it deviated from the regular C&C formula quite a bit, but I rather liked it. The expansion kind of destroyed balance though.

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Sorry, it's the only one I got really into.

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>>275888992
i know true disappointment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXSyTzgMC9Q