actual RTS

 

1. Supreme Commander Forged Alliance

2. Demigod

3. Empire Total War

4. Red Alert 3

5. Battleforge

 

lgendary RTS

 

1. Star Craft

2. Total Annihilation

3. WarCraft3 TFT

4. C&C Tiberium Conflict

5. C&C Generals

 

oh, I see what you mean

 

I like the sequels of these because they are the ones I have, if anyone wants an online game in either of them im up for it

Ground Control is actually a free game now.

http://www.fileplanet.com/156136/150000/fileinfo/Ground-Control-(Free-Game)

If you're feeling nostalgic. It won't look too pretty now, but it had a great story

For me:

1. Starcraft (Best and most strategic RTS ever made).

2. Supreme Commander Forged Alliance (Wouldn't have died if GPG decided to support it).

3. Demigod (Great game, I have a ton of fun playing it).

4. Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment (The only problem with this franchise is that games take WAY TOO LONG).

5. Company of Heroes (Revolutionary for it's time).

1. Company of Heroes

2. Total Annihilation

3. Sins of a Solar Empire

4. Warcraft III

5. Supreme Commander

 

1. Dawn Of War (with expansions)

2. Demigod

3. Supreme Commander Forged Alliance

4. StarCraft

5. maybe Rise of Legends

1. Age of Empires 2: Conquerors

 

2. Rise of Nations

 

3. Stronghold: Crusader

 

4. Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment

 

5. Age of Mythology: Titans

 

1. Rise of Nations/Thrones & Patriots

I love this game I still play it often, this is what the age of empires games should have been, great depth, excellent meld of turn based meta on the map and real time.  So many features like the unit time with change the different bonuses per country, cards with bonuses, etc...a great game.

 

2. Star Trek Armada II

 

ONe of the few times I like the sequel more than the original, in particular the simplification of the crew/officer reasource, there was just a bit too much complexity in the economy of the first one for my personal tatstes.  One of the only 3D rts out there, an excellent map creation / mod tool allowing for even full mission/senario creation, some of the best unit AI I have ever had the joy of playing with/against, and  a good mix of varied races.

 

3. Dawn of War up to Dark Crusade

 

Brutality, brought gratuitous violence from fps to rts as well as introduced many new features to the rts market, varible cover, moral ( a favorite mechanic), and a fast paced almost twitch style of forced expanison with its innovative reasource system.  Unfortunatly the cameras low ceiling can be frustrating, THQ's support for it (patches, extra content) sux/ non existent, and its sequel took a great start and dumbed it down while slappoing prety graphics on it.

 

4.  Star Wars Empire at War & Forces of Coruption

A veyr fun game to play if a bit exausting with the amount of well managmet involoved; the main thing that drags this lower on the list is the ground portion of the game, maps are very repetive, units not as dynamic as for the space battles.

 

5. Sins of A solar Empire

 

Innovative, massive scale

however it does have some major cons that drag ti down for me and I hope to see improved in the future as I beleivce the engine has a lot of potential: Very long game times for the most part, can be a drag would like to see jsut a straight up fleet combat option added like in EOW where you can skip empire building and just smash some heads if in a less patient mood, NO CAMPAGIN AND SHALLOW STORY LINE, a real bummer for me becuase I like immersion in my games, low production value on intro and avatars, fell kinda tacked on and out of place in a game with 3d models to have 2d avatars slaped on, and last but by no means least, the lack of a true 3d implementation for combat and building.  A good start, and a good company, but the game fell short for me.

 

Honorable mentions

 

Supreme Commander

a good prrof of concept of seemless zoom and various managment tools, but its bugs on relese, lack of difference between factions (there basically all te same with diff paint jobs), and run of the mill storyline ruin what could have been a great succesor to total anhilation.

 

Starcraft

 

Good Campaign, fairly good balance, seriously overhyped though

 

Command and Counquer (entire franchise)

I really enjoy its slick interface and its a good pary game but wish some more depth and strategy would be mixed in

1. Homeworld (Series) A personal favorite for many reason, some gameplay flaws, but an extremly immersive experience.

2. Kohan (Immortal Sovereigns and Ahrimans Gift, Kohan 2 was ruined by fixed settlements) Kohan introduced distance and supply as meaningful concepts in an RTS, unit balance was excellent between the four factions. Really sad alot of people never got to jump online and play a few team games of Kohan.

3. SOASE

4. Take Command (Series) - I must be some kind of civil war nut huh? This game has the potential to be one of the best RTT games ever, lack of multiplayer is a definite drawback. A realtime (second for second) engine that emphasizes roads, distance, supply, terrain, leadership, and unit formation. It becomes an amazing battlefield experience; you really feel like a general.

Watch for Gettysburg from http://www.norbsoftware.com its one of the 2 guys who made the take command games doing it now with full 3D (instead of sprites) and multiplayer.

5. Rise of Nations - a mainstream RTS that introduced some really cool concepts with borders and attrition.

In no particualar order, some of my favorites:

• The original C&C and Red Alert. Great games .
• Red Alert 3 - kinda. It's a bit over the top with the superweapons, though. There are too many things that there is really no defense against. I feel more like it's a rush to nuke everything first than a real strategy game.
  
• Sins of a Solar Empire, although it takes too long to play.
• Age of Empires games in general are of very good quality .
• Homeworld games . Some of the best space RTS games, with outstanding visuals that really give you a huge sense of scale. Although they could've done without the "you carry your old fleet into the next level" stuff, which can sometimes kill you in the next level .
• Starcraft, of course.

needs moar STRONGHOLD CRUSADER!

 

althoughghgghghgh, i do also like...

- demigod

- starwars empire at war

- age of empires 2

- c&c 3

all in no particular order

1. Act of War

2. Dawn of War

3. Homeworld 2

4. Sins of a Solar Empire

5. Company of Heroes

This is an interesting discussion.. thank you for sharing.

 

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That was only Homeworld 2, it liked to punish people for doing well. As far as the homeworld series goes, the original was the best. Carrying your fleet over to the next level was part of the pluses of the Homeworld series, not a minus; it added a continuity to the campaign lacking in other RTSes. The only problem I ever had with it was growing my fleet so big at one point that it couldn't get in formation to jump to the next level...the formation was wider than the level map. The sequels were an exercise in dumbing down the UI to make the game more "accessible"...though Cataclysm did use add subsystems, which was cool.