When I was 11 my friends and I were looking for a good game to play at a LAN party. One of my friends, James, brought this scratch disk of something called Total Annihilation for us to try out. We played from 7 pm to 4 am, our skirmishes and raids turning into massive pitched battles with hundreds and even thousands of units dying every minute. That night we all fell in love with what we still consider the best RTS to ever come out. 9 years later we still play Total Annihilation, albeit with massive unit packs and a few alterations of our own creation. IF you're looking for a game that even someones dinky laptop can run, and has a lot of life this is your game.