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Me thinks you need to march out there and buy all the Dawn of War games.

i tried them, but the problem is no squad tactics and the like. it's resource gathering and management.

i don't want to mind for widgets, ooze, crystals or whatever else some underpaid writer gets his peanuts to come up with between Red Bull tweaking and trips to take a piss.

that's what made the original Ground Control so awesome. you got to pick your dropships' unit loadouts, where to drop them, and that was it! then it was the best man's tactics wins. not who rushes the same 5 control points or who fins the biggest field of resource x.

i'm definitely in the minority when it comes to that though, and i'm not the kind of dick to say that RTS games suck if they don't conform to my playing inclinations.

i really wanted to like the Dawn of War games more than i did, though. i was a huge fan of Warhammer 40K, long those games came out. i had a roommate in college who had something like 3,500+ miniatures for the table-top game that he had hand-painted in extreme detail himself.

we had a lot of good times, setting up battlefields and terrain and whatnot and going to town with a sack of dice, a case of mountain dew and no social lives.

Try homeworld...

I'm the same as you, i hate all the annoying management and production in RTS games.. i want decent tactics and strategy.

The only RTS games i'd consider great were GC1, HW, Kohan and Total War series..

(though i seriously wish GC1 had had a save feature... that campaign got pretty annoying towards the end...)