Trees and Tanks Do Not Mix Well.
This is a fairly well set up RTS style game. The sprites are all well done, though the enemy units could have done with some diffrentiation to make them distinctive from your own forces. The AI paths fairly well, at least untill it runs into a tree. Tanks and trees do not mix! The one notable problem with the AI is that it paths into columns and then you can get instances where your forces are stuck in a long line when there is an enemy right in front of them and the ones in the back of the line cant get at.
The set up of the tech is fairly easy to grasp and works pretty well. Though perhaps the Radar should not be slaved to the power source so drastically. Have not played the Air side of the game yet but I suspect that the air units seriously need to have a new unit such as a helicopter that performs the same function as a tank insteead of flying out, firing a few shots then flying back to base and having to be reassigned a target.
With the addition of more units and tech this has the potential to be a very good game and I enjoyed playing through the Ground side of the game.
Some tips on play:
A repair truck, especially one that has been researched up to 5 or better, is infinitly cheaper than hacing to rebuild a destroyd unit.
If you can, get and research the MG towers or tanks that have anti-air capacity. Very usefull for swatting down jets.
Focus on one or two types of tanks rather than spreading your research out over several. I focusrd on the Heavy II and the Medium II since in the latter stages the big tanks speed and firepower is needed to take down the gun emplacements.
Allways build a back-up power plant. The enemy can and will try to cripple you by knocking them out.
Once you have about 6-8 tanks ready, make a move on the base and punch through to the inner buildings. Target the machine and air bases, then the power plants. Even a single unit snuck past enemy lines can wreak total havoc on their infrastructure.
Get a radar up and figure out where the enemy airbases are. Then set up MG emplacements or tanks to shoot them down along their flight path.
