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Article #290746Re: PC gamers, know the roots of RTS games: TecnoSoft's HERZOG ZWEI on SEGA GENESIS / MD
From: Luc The Perverse
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 20:27
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 20:27
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"pigdos" <N...@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:8x4ag.76906$H71.63543@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com... > Um, how can you play an RTS without a mouse? Did this supposed RTS involve > controlling multiple units simulatneously? If it didn't then I don't think > it can even qualify as an RTS. > > To tell the truth, there's very little strategy involved in RTS's. It > would seem to me they are more tactical than strategic. At the most you're > controlling maybe a thousand units on maps that are maybe 25 square miles > in size, so the conflicts rarely involve forces larger than battalions. Blizzard identified this and forced you to be more strategic in War III. It is actually kind of annoying. There are so many units I forget what they are all good for. -- LTP :)
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