gshan
Headphoneus Supremus
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I originally bought the game many years ago to run on my PI 133 and it was awesome. It ran better on my PII 350, and now I still play it on my PIIII 2.4. I like how scalable TA is. You can have up to 10 teams in any order of multiple alliances, up to 5000 units/buildings each, and huge maps. The more ram and cpu power you got, the more action.
There used to be, and still are thousands of 3rd party units and maps too (gotta love those starwars and mechwarrior units). Always liked it better than games like StarCraft, because the physics are just more realistic. Micro management is great too - sometimes I'll lock on to a jet fighter and manually steer it around with mouse clicks.
Unit management is designed pretty well. You can highlight a ton of units, and you can even queue an infinite amount and combination of attack/build/move/etc. orders. I let a skirmish game run for a few hours on it's own once, and my base was intact and maintained when I got back! =)
At times things can get excessive and strategy flies out the window though - I'll select 100 fighters and bombers and have them run a suicide mission after the enemy commander, or have a Krogoth casually walk through an enemy base and wipe it clean.
robots, wheeled vehicles, planes, and water (naval units are my personal fav) - what more could you want? You can probably buy the game and it's worthwhile expansion "Core Contingency" for very cheap now (no cd key required), and I highly recommend it. Get it now
There used to be, and still are thousands of 3rd party units and maps too (gotta love those starwars and mechwarrior units). Always liked it better than games like StarCraft, because the physics are just more realistic. Micro management is great too - sometimes I'll lock on to a jet fighter and manually steer it around with mouse clicks.
Unit management is designed pretty well. You can highlight a ton of units, and you can even queue an infinite amount and combination of attack/build/move/etc. orders. I let a skirmish game run for a few hours on it's own once, and my base was intact and maintained when I got back! =)
At times things can get excessive and strategy flies out the window though - I'll select 100 fighters and bombers and have them run a suicide mission after the enemy commander, or have a Krogoth casually walk through an enemy base and wipe it clean.
robots, wheeled vehicles, planes, and water (naval units are my personal fav) - what more could you want? You can probably buy the game and it's worthwhile expansion "Core Contingency" for very cheap now (no cd key required), and I highly recommend it. Get it now
