Any reccomendations on real time stratagy games?

[Ghost02]

Hi guys,
I'm looking for a RTS for my dad, he used to play command and conquer red alert back in the day but on skirmish mode where you built up your base, built lots of units and blew the 3 or 4 AI teams up. Do you guys have any recommendations on newer games that could incorporate something like this. He likes tanks and stuff though so nothing to futuristic with robots and such and nothing from the age of Lord of the Rings either.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks.

[Roomys]

My pops LOVES the Age of empires series, he plays it hour after hour lol. Starcraft 2 also has a good Verse AI feature with Terran offering the tanks and marines etc hope this helps.

[Ghost02]

I'll show them to him thanks, know of any more world war type games? I know he didn't like Command and Conquer Tiberium Sun because of not "tanky" enough with to many robots etc.

[HavocXphere]

I enjoyed Supreme Commander and its (stand alone) expansion Sup Com: Forged Alliance. Sup Com 2 wasn't that great imo.

[ave]

Company of heroes- that's full on ww2, and very realistic.
Not exactly an RTS, but has he tried commandos?

Edit* of course there's always red alert 3. Its a little more futuristic, but a lot of fun on skwermish.

[Crzwaco]

Company of heroes is by far the best.
Company of heroes 2 is on its way this year.
Why not let him check out X-com Enemy Unknown Demo as well.

[FriedPet]

+1 Crzwaco and ave!
Company of Heroes will definitely do it for your dad!

[Ike_009]

Pity he doesn't do old school, Rome total war is my best recommendation

+1 to company of heroes

[Ghost02]

Thanks for all the replies guys, will definitely show him all the recommendations.

[Drifter]

War Commander by Kixeye. It's a free to play (sort of) Facebook game. Has a couple of million players. Been playing to for about 8 months now, and cant stop.