by R0d1n » Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:52 pm
It's all about Total Annihilation and its spiritual sequel; Supreme Commander. Best RTS out there IMHO.
I actually very much look forward to the fleet-command aspects of the game, which is part of why I went in for Admiralty. If anyone else is interested in the CnC side of things, there are some good 3d RTSs that might make for some good prep work. The Homeworld series of course, Sins of a Solar Empire and Imperium Galactica to name a few. I'd say the best for our purposes, however, would be Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. That game is a straight-up space tactics simulator and it's shockingly detailed if you're willing to drill down into the details. It's basically a series of skirmishes between fleets of 4-10 ships at a time. If that's not a good heuristic for the kind of strategy SC will require I don't know what is.
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