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    My all time favourite, Fallout Tactics, although a bit old now and not 100% RTS.

    Try out Grey Goo, more modern RTS, I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Very good.

    Just mentioning some others I also enjoyed throughout the years:
    Dune
    Star Wars: Empire at war
    Star Craft
    Genewars
    S.W.I.N.E
    Age of Methology

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    Quote Originally Posted by beans100 View Post
    Age of Methology
    Is that a Breaking Bad spin-off I missed?

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    Quote Originally Posted by KingKrush View Post
    Is that a Breaking Bad spin-off I missed?
    , mythology.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KingKrush View Post
    Despite this list of critically acclaimed games, my personal favourite is Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. Playing in the Star Wars universe was amazing.
    Did you ever play Star Wars: Empire at War? Made by Petroglyph, a company started by a number of former Westwood employees after EA shut them down.

    Galactic Battlegrounds is nice and all, but it's really just AoE2 with a Star Wars skin. EaW has a decent-looking 3D engine, some nice meta-elements moving your forces between planets, proper space battles, and some great planetside environments complete with weather effects. It's the best Star Wars RTS ever, imho.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Empire_at_War
    Last edited by Sweepslag; 20-02-2017 at 08:52 AM.

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    RTS is one of my all-time favorite genres. I started out with Dune 2, graduated to Command & Conquer and WarCraft 2, and played or owned every Westwood and Blizzard RTS after that.

    Other favourites include the Age of Empires series, of course (AoE 2 is a timeless classic). I loved Empire at War, as I mentioned above.

    Another series I absolutely adore is Battle for Middle Earth. Games based on movies tend to be terrible, but these are actually very solid and brilliant fun to play. If you want to recreate some epic battles from the movies, there's no substitute.

    More recently, I've been playing a bit of Act of Aggression, made by Eugen System, the folks behind the Wargames series. It's OK, but doesn't really scratch the itch I was looking for, which is a modern military RTS in the vein of what Generals 2 would have been. Damn you EA for killing C&C. We will never forget.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FarligOpptreden View Post
    I'm guessing most people will say StarCraft 2, which is undeniably a very good game. I just can't resist the charm and nostalgia of C&C Tiberian Sun. The AI wasn't very clever, but enough of a challenge at higher difficulty levels.
    I played the crap out of Tiberian Sun. The original C&C is still my favourite though; probably my favourite game of all time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sweepslag View Post
    I played the crap out of Tiberian Sun. The original C&C is still my favourite though; probably my favourite game of all time.
    I agree on the original C&C, but Tiberian Sun just holds up much better compared to newer games. I finished both GDI and Nod campaigns of the first game at least 10 times, not to mention the hundreds of skirmishes against the AI and the odd multiplayer game over serial-link when I could be arsed to drag the bulky machine and monitor over to a friend's house.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FarligOpptreden View Post
    I agree on the original C&C, but Tiberian Sun just holds up much better compared to newer games. I finished both GDI and Nod campaigns of the first game at least 10 times, not to mention the hundreds of skirmishes against the AI and the odd multiplayer game over serial-link when I could be arsed to drag the bulky machine and monitor over to a friend's house.
    Ah yes, those monstrous CRT's... Good times

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sweepslag View Post
    Did you ever play Star Wars: Empire at War? Made by Petroglyph, a company started by a number of former Westwood employees after EA shut them down.

    Galactic Battlegrounds is nice and all, but it's really just AoE2 with a Star Wars skin. EaW has a decent-looking 3D engine, some nice meta-elements moving your forces between planets, proper space battles, and some great planetside environments complete with weather effects. It's the best Star Wars RTS ever, imho.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Empire_at_War
    Nope, never played it. Feeling like I should check it out.

    I see the Star Wars Humble Bundle has both the Galactic Battlegrounds Saga and Empire at War: Gold Pack for $14, along with some other games. Maybe that's my best route.

    https://www.humblebundle.com/star-wars-3-bundle

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    Quote Originally Posted by KingKrush View Post
    Nope, never played it. Feeling like I should check it out.

    I see the Star Wars Humble Bundle has both the Galactic Battlegrounds Saga and Empire at War: Gold Pack for $14, along with some other games. Maybe that's my best route.

    https://www.humblebundle.com/star-wars-3-bundle
    Sounds like a good deal, yeah. I picked the EaW Gold Pack up on Steam recently, also very cheaply.

    If you're a Star Wars fan and an RTS player, I'd say Empire at War is a must play.
    Last edited by Sweepslag; 20-02-2017 at 09:56 AM.

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