Hello.

Hope everyones holiday went well. Bought X3 Reunion and was given Crysis.
Just wondering if people at Toms play RTS. Saw World in Conflict was popular and Earth Assault. They both look like good games. Playing Battle for Middle Earth still, but am looking for another RTS. The 3 most interesting looking games are World in Conflict, Earth Assault, and Company of Heroes. Anybody know if games fill quick when you log on online, or if there is a long wait for players?

I recommend Supreme Commander Forged Alliance. It has very good game play and has many forward thinking game play elements, like using dual monitors if you have them. Just my 2cents. Its what I play.

but playing forged alliance online (and not getting the original SupCom), cant you only pick the seraphim?

yup
although vanilla supcom is dirt cheap now, so if i were you i would get FA to see if you like it and then get vanilla if you do....

Company of Heroes is fantastic. If you get a marathon 4vs4 game on the go it can become very very tactical. There is also no one unit that can stupidly overpower anything else, if you know how to counter things.

SupCom is also very good, thorougly recommend it.

Supcom is an overrated waste of money when there is a much better game, just like it... for free.

There is a game (more of a game engine) called Spring which originated as a 3d recreation of Total Annihilation (predecessor to SupCom).

Spring consists of user created mods/games. 90% of them are based of off TA, while other include WWII, starwars and other rts mods. Spring is open source and is constantly being expanded upon by the people who play it. Not to mention you will often find your self playing along with the original developers.

SupCom
Pros over Spring:
Better graphics than spring...

Spring
Pros over SupCom:
-Hundreds of user-made maps
-Countless usermade games/mods
-Better community
-Controlled by the community, every user can have a big influence on mods and updates, because those making them play the game also.
-Ability to help create the game: Everyone is able to create their own maps and mods (requires time and effort ofcourse). Its always nice seeing things you invested hours into being played by many people in the lobby.

If your interested you can read about/get spring at spring.clan-sy.com

Checking Spring out right now, looks really neat, thanks Envied.

Playing SupCOm FA and Dawn OF war with all expansions.

They provide both ends of the spectrum, supcom is so much stratagy i am still getting the nuances of it, while DOW is an in your face , funny, gory , just overall dirty grudge match type of game.

I'm still playing StarCraft. (It beats Total Annihilation any day of the week) And maybe some Transport Tycoon, if you want to consider that an RTS; will be trying out OpenTTD once I can find a copy of Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

Also, I forgot to note that I have been playing a lot of World in Conflict, since it was in beta actually. Very addicting RTS that is easy to get into.

I'm playing Command & Conquer 3 and Company of Heroes mainly.

I didn't get into world in conflict. I tried it but i just didn't get it. Maybe you need to play the singe player to understand, but in multiplayer i feel way too dependant on team mates for my liking.

Yeah, it's all about teamplay online. Some people enjoy it, others don't *shrug* You can still play as a rogue on your own, but you/your team do a lot better when you all work together.

Thanks for the replys.

Anyone beta testing Sins of a solar Empire? Still cant decide, but World in Conflict or COHeroes are the ones that seem the most interesting.

My main PC didnt like Toms cookies or would have replied sooner.

DUDE! i was just about to post that I was playing Starcraft again. I forgot how much fun it was - halfway through the zerg campaign now.

After reading this thread... I think I'm going to have to go pick up CoH.

The Relic RTSs - Company of Heroes and Dawn of War - are both awesome. I can't believe they are putting out ANOTHER expansion for Dawn of War adding more races. That game just won't stop.

I still do some War of the Ring on Battle for Middle-Earth II from time to time as well as some World in Conflict and SupCom.

Empire Earth III is Not recommended very bad game i thought.... Playing World in Conflict love this game.... Also play alittle C&C Tiberium wars.... Supreme Commander is a good RTS game.... I played Dawn of War all Expansions and liked this game alot played online.... Out of all i find World in Conflict to be the best just because the graphics and interface and Sound was great..... Online is crazy!!!!

What? No one is playing Left Behind: Eternal Forces?

Left Behind???? Is this a joke!!! This game is terrible, first the graphics and the story and then the camera..... I remember i installed this game took a look around it and QUIT/UNINSTALL, gave it to a friend who gave it to another friend...

Ya it was sarcasm (review)

Seems like the only RTS game I'm playing right now is Marriage.

HAHAHAHA ME TOO!!!!!!! Marriage the ultimate in RTS!!!!

P.S. lol at Gumby avatar!!! class...