rts

[Jaybe]

Originally posted by munzy
I have set the speed to Slow and have found the game very fun so far. I have liked RTS and TBS games for a long time but have slowly lost the liking for the RTS games as they just became clickfests <- and I am now getting old.

Ditto, though this is my first RTS (I didn't play StarCraft that much).
Battle speed for me is VERY Slow, especially when there are multiple battles going on simultaneously, plus air support to manage....

... splitting my time between Civ3 and RoN ...

 

[Maximus I]

I have been a civ lover since about the third grade. The one thing that I didn't like about it was that it was turn-based. So I played a lot of Age of Empires (also an awesome game). Now I hear about a game that I have heard is like both AoE and Civ!! A dream come true!!!!

 

[stratego]

I just got the game and it's great!!!! I'm amazed at how fast units are produced, and how nice a group of them look on the field. So when the enemy is launching a massive attack that destroyed my troops I still feel like I can defend by producing more troops.
What sucks about the game though is you can't trade technology or steal them (at least I don't think you can or I don't know how). Also the generals ability "decoy" seems too futuristic.

 

[Grey Fox]

Originally posted by stratego
Also the generals ability "decoy" seems too futuristic.

It's not especially futuristic, I can't remember an instance, but there have been armies and battles where one side put up several decoy soldiers to scare the enemy away.

And during the 2nd World War, tanks made of wood were used as decoys.

 

[The Lodian]

Grey-Fox

You have a point there, I've heard of decoys being used extensively during WWII, such as Patton's fake army in Southeastern England. Patton was one of the only generals the Germans truly feared. Tank decoys were also used to an extent by the Iraqi's in the 1st Gulf War.

But before WWII i can't really recall an instance either, excluding the part in Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" Where his character uses straw British soldiers on a far off hill durning a prisoner "exchange" that goes badly for the English but goes very well for Mel's Virginia Militia...