Besides Starcraft 2 what's the best Base-building tactical RTS game?

[JB1528]

The question is in the title Besides Starcraft 1 or 2 what do you think are the best Base-building tactical RTS game. My favorites stick with Total Annihilation, AoE 2, and Supreme Commander 1.

The reason why I said except for Starcraft 1 or 2 is because EVERYBODY would say Starcraft 2 and I wanted to see some variety in your answers.

 

[Medimorpho]

LEGO Rock Raiders

All you do is collect resources and build stuff. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO boring, but soooooooooooooo addicting

 

[dududf]

Starcraft 2: Heart of the swarm

hur hur.

 

[Blindrooster]

The old Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. Hands Down.

 

[Laxman9292]

Age of Empires would have to be my absolute favorite

 

[spectrenihlus]

red alert 2 anyone?

 

[A-D.]

Total Annihilation. Because Supreme Commander sucks compared to the original. So there.

 

[Ruiner87]

I'm quite fond of Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2. It is an excellent game, and even to this day I still enjoy playing it from time to time. Also, I have to admit that I thoroughly enjoyed Halo Wars, despite the insane streamlining that the game went through (I enjoyed it enough to get to the Top 200 in 3v3 at one point ).

 

[Spud of Doom]

Age of Empires 2
Command and Conquer Generals
Rise of Nations

Those are my top 3. If you include all RTS games, Company of Heroes 100% deserves to be up there, but doesn't really have base-building in it.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War for me.

I've had so many hours playing that game with friends and had some really great monets online.

Plus it's Warhammer 40,000, that means over the top violence, units, weapons and one liners that you just can't get out of your head.

 

[Legion IV]

Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War for me.

I've had so many hours playing that game with friends and had some really great monets online.

Plus it's Warhammer 40,000, that means over the top violence, units, weapons and one liners that you just can't get out of your head.

The game balance is ludicrously broken beyond all belief though. Fun single player game though.

 

[Worgen]

age of mythology is the best, dow and coh next then the red alert series and C&C series followed by the rest

 

[ChupathingyX]

Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War for me.

I've had so many hours playing that game with friends and had some really great monets online.

Plus it's Warhammer 40,000, that means over the top violence, units, weapons and one liners that you just can't get out of your head.

The game balance is ludicrously broken beyond all belief though. Fun single player game though.

When you're playing with friends none of that matters, it's all about having fun.

And I've had a lot of fun playing Dawn of War, more so than any other RTS I've ever played.

Plus like I said...it's the W40K universe!

 

[Valiance]

The old Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. Hands Down.

Easily the greatest AoE2 mod that I ever spent money on.

But yeah...
Since you already talked about Age of Empires, Supreme Commander and Starcraft, I'll go with things not yet listed as of 11:30pm EST.

If you decide to play anything in this thread, let it be Sins of a Solar Empire. It's the greatest mix of 4X and RTS gameplay I've ever seen, even better than Sword of the Stars (another great one). If you like Master of Orion, give it a shot.

Command and Conquer series is really good, especially Red Alert. Classic and still fantastic.
Company of Heroes is also a great series. Probably the only RTS that made me feel for my troops.
The Earth 2150 games were very interesting, they had sort of a dual-layer map with underground tunnels and stuff.
Original War is more of a RTT but there's base-building in that.

Warcraft III, Homeworld, and Dark Reign II come to mind as fantastic "standard" RTS games...

D&D: Dragonshard is pretty cool too, Battle for Middle Earth is very good (Especially BFME2).

There's a lot I'm not mentioning, but suffice to say I love RTS games and I still think TA was lightyears ahead of most games in the UI department, and Supreme Commander's "Tactical Zoom" really makes it hard to play any RTS without it. I liked how R.U.S.E. did it too.

Anyway, I cannot name a best. It's impossible to name a "Best" when there's so many base-building RTS games out, and they're ALL SO DAMN GOOD.

 

[Jark212]

Command and Conquer: Generals and Generals: Zero Hour are easily my favorite RTS games...

And Dawn of War: Dark Crusade is crazy awesome too...

 

[A-D.]

Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War for me.

I've had so many hours playing that game with friends and had some really great monets online.

Plus it's Warhammer 40,000, that means over the top violence, units, weapons and one liners that you just can't get out of your head.

The game balance is ludicrously broken beyond all belief though. Fun single player game though.

Just like the Table Top. Seriously, the balance there is broken too on several Occasions, though it generally depends on who you are playing against. And what your own "Race" is at the time. You get more "god damn thats way overpowered" about half the time. Well at least i did when i still played that.

But yes, all of the DoW Games seem to have a certain Problem that one Faction for some Reason always overpowers the others. In Dark Crusade for example the Necrons were overpowered. In Soulstorm it was the Sisters of Battle i think.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Empire Earth and Warlords Battlecry were pretty fun.

 

[Fenreil]

What, no love for Company of Heroes? *shakes head*

I would have said Dawn of War 2, but that game took out base building...