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RTS with customizable units

Thread starter paladin.oa
Start date Jun 2, 2014

Hey all, have an itch for an Earth 2150 style game where you can build your own units using base parts. Know of any good ones?

Impossible creatures come to mind.

Man I loved that game when I was a kid.

Well, there's Earth 2160. Three of the four sides there let you build your own units with base parts.

Beyond that, Warzone 2100 is open source now and had plenty of customization. (Also actual counterbattery artillery radar zomg!)

I can't think of too much more though, in all honesty.

Well, you can't really build your own units, but Mech Commander and Mech Commander 2 allowed you to upgrade and modify your battlemechs and you could salvage enemy mechs that weren't too badly destroyed.

There is a game called Thandor where you can build your own units, but ist been years since I played it.

There's Ground Control, where you don't design units from the ground up, but you do have a great deal of customisation. For example, when you deploy a Terradyne (ground vehicle) squadron, you first decide whether that squad should be actually comprised of scout vehicles, light combatants, MBTs or heavies. Then you give them a set of small bonuses and penalties by deciding whether they should be balanced, or geared for speed, offense or armour. Then you pick two pieces of special gear, one offensive and one defensive, from a list.

Well, Sword of the Stars (one and two) allows you to fully customize nearly everything you build, and it had RTS combat. But the strategic game is played on a turn-based system.

-SK

KKND2 had some customizable units, but they were a minority.

After that I second WZ2100, great game, fun game too, specially if you take your time to build up your base into a deathtrap. it has an additional interesting mechanic, you go back to your base after each mission, either away mission or map expansion, so you rarely start from zero...

Well saw what rts to mota and all the other acronyms for this open ended genre so noticed one that was left out...End of Nations, yet been closed with no thoughts if trion is gonna sell it or not.

So all thats left is Beyond Protocol... Which seems as close to what you are looking for

The problem with customizability is that there is a thing called multiplayer, and it needs balance.

And today, everything needs to have multiplayer for some reason.

I demand pictures for these games!

There's a fairly recent one called Meridian. The unit's aren't super-customizable, but there is some.

Adarx

Sufficiently Advanced Moderation

Distant Worlds and Star Ruler are both space RTS' where you design your own ships, if you want to.

Back in the day, War, Inc (I think). It was very corporate syndicatey. You had stocks to buy/sell. Research and Development and then the 'goto RTS map' parts. I think I recall investing heavily in cybered troops. And...missile trucks....

edit: I also recall abusing the hell out of save scumming for stock market. Made millions, which funneled into R&D, etc.

Distant Worlds and Star Ruler are both space RTS' where you design your own ships, if you want to.

Those aren't really RTS, imo. They're more like 4X games.

Adarx

Sufficiently Advanced Moderation

Those aren't really RTS, imo. They're more like 4X games.

I don't believe those to be contradictory propositions. Just like Civ or Gal Civ are TBS 4x games, Star Ruler and Distant Worlds are RTS 4x games.

Rabiddog

If only mankind could be more kind.

Distant Worlds and Star Ruler are both space RTS' where you design your own ships, if you want to.

Don't know about distant worlds but Star Ruler is a steaming pile of crap.

There are a LOT better games out there that are space 4x games that allow unit customization. Stardrive is pretty decent and is very heavily customizable.

Don't know about distant worlds but Star Ruler is a steaming pile of crap.
There are a LOT better games out there that are space 4x games that allow unit customization. Stardrive is pretty decent and is very heavily customizable.

I'd like to see any other game let you build a ship this size:

Impossible creatures come to mind.
Man I loved that game when I was a kid.

Sure brings back memories.

Whale Bears and Whale Wolverines are god tier combinations.

Rabiddog

If only mankind could be more kind.

I'd like to see any other game let you build a ship this size:

Which is immediately ruined by the massively cheating AI (to the point you can own half the galaxy they can own a quarter of the galaxy and yet they are mass producing ships ten times bigger than yours and immune to the FLEETs you have pounding on them for 20 minutes) and the incredibly stupid way in which "diplomacy" works in that game...as in where peace treaties and alliances are measured in seconds OR LESS.

Beyond that, Warzone 2100 is open source now and had plenty of customization. (Also actual counterbattery artillery radar zomg!)

Actually, I find the somewhat-realistic artillery feature to be more interesting than the customisation, which really isn't all it's cracked up to be. (The original devs touted it as having something like 3 million combinations of chassis, propulsion and weaponry, but the total number of useful combinations is probably less than two hundred.)

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