Total Annihilation Retrospective 

Bought this back in the day and later on GOG, still play it a couple of times a year. Timeless classic, that I feel I always discover something new on due to the license the game gives the player. Even improvising unit weapons for things they aren't strictly made for. Like in sea heavy missions, I'd lure enemy land units to enter the shallow water, and demolish them with torpedoes & depth charges before I sent in my land units to mop up. Also awesome attention to detail that made it feel ahead of it's time, like units able to still attack enemies they can't see, but are detected in radar.

Completed units can be told to go somewhere specific by clicking the move button while the builder is selected. This was useful when I had multiple builders making artillery bots and immediately sending them to reinforce different defence points.

This looks amazing for the mid 1990s. At that time I was playing on my Sega Mega Drive and didn't even know anyone that owned a PC. I might have to pick this up and give it a go.

Great video! The community generated content has brought TA into the RTS present. ProTA, a modded version, is compatible with the campaign, and adds a bit of challenge to it. All of this is available at TA universe.

Supreme Commander was an amazing spiritual successor, with a still active community. Sadly nothing since has had quite the same magic.

Loved the vid!

To set a waypoint from the factory, select the factory, press the ‘move’ button and select your waypoint.

This was an awesome game. I do enjoy RTS games but I've always been terrible at them 😂 I used to enjoy playing on all-metal worlds so I could build a perfectly laid-out fortress with all the right defensive weapons at just the right places and then shell the enemy from across the map with the Arm's "Big Bertha" cannon. It was pretty easy to create mods for, I made many new units to support my terrible playstyle, and got into 3d modelling to create (bad) models for my new stuff. And the soundtrack was incredible!

Yes, as said in the community post I've biked for a trip of a total of 2 hours to get it, and I think it was 25 euros then. I had to get it after I played it on my neighbors computer 😇 Indeed. Maybe we have the same feeling, the simplicity of management. Also have the same about the issues of pathfinding, I think I just clicked multiple times until it went the right way. I also like the soundtrack a lot and listened to it just from the CD, and will do that this week again, but then just through RU-vid. My objective was mostly getting to have a Big Bertha which has a range like half of the map or something almost the whole map and shooting the enemy base right from home. And for air I think I made a big flock of Hawk's. I should play it again after I'm done with replaying Serious Sam's. 😃 Soundtrack: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ljDyp__ejco.html

If you like Total Annihilation then Supreme commander and Beyond All Reason are great as it’s spiritual successors.

When I bought it on Steam and ran it in 1080p and it worked fine I was so confused... A +25 year old game that you can play "out of the box" lol

Noice!