Fantastic start to the RTS genre. You will miss many of the creature comforts that you have in the RTS of today, but this game is just amazing. The music changes when you are under attack, the AI demands that you vary your forces and tactics. It is just amazing.
I first played this as a maybe 13 year old kid on a 233 mhz pc with 16MB of ram. Before I was 14 I had learned what ram was and how to upgrade it. I'm now middle-aged and have had a very fortunate IT career for over 20 years. Truly believe this game was what started my interest in the field and got me on the path.
Aside from the history lesson there, this game is quite simply outstanding and only seems better when you consider what it does with the very small computing power it was working with when it came out.
Great job Cavedog, thanks for getting this kid started down a very good career path by making me need more ram to play those big maps!
I absolutely love this game and am so glad I found it on Gog! There are new maps and units, more than I remember, so this pack is great. Plus I had some weird issue with my old copy (which I've since lost in various moves and computer upgrades) and I could not save a game. But this version from GoG - I can save and load perfectly fine.