Hardest RTS?

[BrodlRodl]

Warcraft3




big gap





Company of heroes
Starcraft II

[Angel]

warcraft 2. man that game is epic 8-D

[Joca97]

i never played rts games

[Rozak]

Wargame: European Escalation.

Bro, if you don't have Recon, you LOSE.
AMX 30 Horde + A Few Luchs and Apache Longbow tandem, you ALWAYS win.

[Angel]

I remember Cossacks being kinda harsh as well.

[Solisortus]

When playing for the first time without a guide?

Homeworld.

Period end of story. That game is ruthless.

[Hazardpay]

Gotta go with the original Empire Earth on this one. There were so many resources to manage, so many different military units and formations all serving a unique purpose, and the maps were simply massive. In order to play the game well you honestly needed more civilian workers than military units. While everyone could eventually figure the game out and get all the resources going true mastery of the game took forever, I am still not there myself. fun game though.

[Blodir]

Broodwar and Starcraft 2, not because they were hard for a beginner, but simply because there's so ridiculously insane level of play in those games that it's uncomparable to any other game. Even bronze league (1v1) is hardcore to most casual gamers.

[Shvak]

Men of war, only because of the one shot kills lol. very hard to keep your units alive.
Blitzkrieg/suddenstrike for the same reason.
SC (Supreme Commander because of the end game weapons.
The entire range of cossack games.
Company of Heroes and Supreme Commander multi-player were always killers.
New game I would like to add is Morningstar world of battles which is RTS but unfortunately they failed in the execution.

[Rozak]

Men of war, only because of the one shot kills lol. very hard to keep your units alive.
Blitzkrieg/suddenstrike for the same reason.
SC (Supreme Commander because of the end game weapons.
The entire range of cossack games.
Company of Heroes and Supreme Commander multi-player were always killers.
New game I would like to add is Morningstar world of battles which is RTS but unfortunately they failed in the execution.

Men of War was a trashy game, too hard to play for them to make money.
SC2 has a DLC shield generator called the Aegis that is a massive shield that must recharge manually, but what's weird is, despite it's immense ability to tolerate Long Range AND Disruptor artillery it can't block a nuke. :c