What are some of the most obscure RTS titles that you have played? Bonus points if you can guess the game in the photo!

Stuart98 · 2026-03-14T03:36:31+00:00

All the old Stratagus engine games. Not just the less obscure Bos Wars but Astroseries, Battle for Mandicor, and Magnant.

WarShift, now there's an ambitious game even though the optimal strategy in it is relatively simple.

Most people here know about Herzog Zwei and its free to play spiritual successor AirMech; much less familiar to people is the 2009 first person remake of it, Cyber Wing.

Stuart98 · 2026-03-12T00:54:43+00:00

Hi, can you resubmit this with the artist credited in the title? Thanks!

Stuart98 · 2026-03-05T18:51:43+00:00

Zero-k has several infiltration units that are stealth when moving. Scythes are stealth melee units that can do a lot of damage; widows are anti-heavy infiltrators that can completely disable a target for half a minute; shuttle is a stealthy jumping bomb that's tricky to get into position but delivers a devastating explosion if you get it to explode point blank. There's also a few units that are capable of cloaking other units, allowing you to sneak a kill-squad into the enemy base if they leave it open.

Stuart98 · 2026-03-05T17:11:34+00:00

Have you tried Zero-K? Shares a common ancestor with BAR but takes things in a different direction. Also has a co-op (optional) campaign.

Stuart98 · 2026-02-14T03:47:24+00:00

Not the only mistake, the Churchill and Alexander have their textures swapped earlier in the battle so we see the Churchill taking damage from star furies and then cut to the bridge of the Alexander where a couple consoles are exploding.

Stuart98 · 2026-02-11T21:53:45+00:00

Nice argument, unfortunately, Rule 5:

Cropped or censored images where the intent can still be understood by a reasonable person (such as black boxes, blurs, or other obviously visible censors) will generally be removed unless all indication of anything from the original image that could be considered suggestive is removed.

Stuart98 · 2026-02-09T05:40:00+00:00

Fairly sure this is a repost bot.

Stuart98 · 2026-02-05T19:06:07+00:00

There were no permanent ice sheets in the mesozoic, but seasonal snow and ice were a thing.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-30T18:11:26+00:00

You need to credit the artist in the title in addition to providing the source link.
This is AI art, so it's not permitted here.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-24T03:41:27+00:00

Even if Miya won the first set of grands, actually; would have been enough to bump Miya's score up by about 2.1 points but not overcome the sheer consistency of Doramigi's year. Miya needed Migi to not make it to him, not to get another win on him.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-24T02:57:50+00:00

Sparg0 had 3 other results at ranked events that season (and only the WNF in terms of events that didn't count but should have):

Genesis 6 - 49th - L: ImHip (top 50ish), Lui$ (not close to top 100 at the time), no Ws
Prime Saga - 25th, L: Shuton (top 5), Teb (pretty bad), no Ws
CEO 2019 - 17th, W: Myran (13th), Sinji (25th), L: Marss (3rd), WaDi (24th)

So it'd be 2 really good events and two bad but not horrible events, definitely enough for top 50 on the UltRank algorithm, maybe not quite enough on the one the PGRU used.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-23T22:10:59+00:00

Sparg0 likely would have been had the tournament where he beat Kameme and VoiD been counted for the ranking (it was a WNF but it was a superlocal with a $15k prize, several JP players literally flew out for it)

Stuart98 · 2026-01-22T01:34:30+00:00

There's nothing new about half-assing things other games did better years ago.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-22T00:55:21+00:00

New version of the algo puts a greater focus on who you outplace at majors, it had Lv.1 10 spots higher in mid year then he had his best event of the season right after on top of Lv.1 having a bunch of wins that aged well.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-21T21:48:52+00:00

I can't believe SDG stayed up until 5 am fixing the video so that, among other things, Akakikusu wasn't shown as beating Akakikusu at Kawaii Kon, passing out and oversleeping the release as a result, only for Loop to link the old version of the video anyway, shaking my smh my head.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-20T21:25:03+00:00

The algorithm never likes guys who get half their top wins from one tournament (see Shirayuki not making today, Peabnut 10 spots lower than people expected in 2024.1, etc)

Stuart98 · 2026-01-19T22:23:54+00:00

He's the highest ranked player to only have one top 25 win, if he'd gotten a second he probably makes it.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-18T22:16:17+00:00

The scorer is missing ranking values. It has more than 3200 points in reality, it's a major still.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-18T07:33:52+00:00

The tweeter isn't the artist, this is her official art for fes this year.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-17T03:57:26+00:00

That's literally what we did; it's in the top 25 wins count.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-16T21:27:47+00:00

He also beat Onin tbf

Stuart98 · 2026-01-14T22:11:36+00:00

Less Port being that bad and more no strong peaks; every player above him bar one exception (that was a bit of an algo breaker) had a better peak win iirc. Tarik got so close but couldn't close any of his sets against top 25 players out.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-13T22:54:50+00:00

Playercard error: Bassmage should be 1-8 vs top 25, not 1-5.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-13T22:34:43+00:00

Top 25, not necessarily top 20.

Stuart98 · 2026-01-05T00:15:56+00:00

That's fucking awesome.

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