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 Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 15:01 Post subject: RTSs with hero units? Or similar to Battle for Middle-Earth? |
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Hi. I'm having problems playing "The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II: The Rise of the Witch-King" with my brother over my Wi-Fi LAN, and since we both (me the most) enjoy this game's structure with its leveling heroes and units, are there any other games with such features and that are playable over a real LAN?
Here's the thread with my LAN problem BTW: The Rise of the Witch-King LAN problems...
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 15:17 Post subject: |
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How about Warcraft 3 + The Frozen Throne?
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 15:18 Post subject: |
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Sins of a Solar Empire has "heroes" ala capital ships that level up.
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 15:30 Post subject: |
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Star Wars Empire at War, as well as the earlier Galactic Battlegrounds. Both are great RTS on their own, which also happen to have full LAN support and Hero units (albeit temporary and you don't level them, iirc) You could also play the HoMM series, such as HoMM3 and HoMM5 (HoMM6 doesn't have LAN) as well as Dawn of War 2.
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 15:33 Post subject: |
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Then there's spellforce 2...
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 15:41 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | Star Wars Empire at War, as well as the earlier Galactic Battlegrounds. Both are great RTS on their own, which also happen to have full LAN support and Hero units (albeit temporary and you don't level them, iirc) You could also play the HoMM series, such as HoMM3 and HoMM5 (HoMM6 doesn't have LAN) as well as Dawn of War 2. |
Star Wars: Empire at War (and the expansion Forces of Corruption) added to the list. As for Galactic Battlegrounds since Age of Empires II, has a lot of compatibility problems and they both share the same engine, I'll assume is has them too.
HoMM = TBS. Not really what I'm looking for.
Dawn of War 2 was the first game that popped in my mind, but if I recall correctly, it does not support LAN play. 
| Prandur wrote: | | Then there's spellforce 2... |
I never went down with SpellForce 2. No real idea why, but it just didn't clicked with me. Either way, it was added to the list (at the bottom  ).
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 15:44 Post subject: |
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Warlords Battlecry series.
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 15:50 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 15:59 Post subject: |
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recent King's Bounty series awesome game. Spellforce 2 is ok, but did not age well.
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nerrd
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 16:06 Post subject: |
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| Boneleech wrote: | | recent King's Bounty series awesome game. Spellforce 2 is ok, but did not age well. |
King's Bounty = TBS.
As for SpellForce 2, a stand-alone expansion was released a few months ago I think, so maybe it received some kind of graphic and technical update?
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 16:08 Post subject: |
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Damn, that actually looks pretty good! Do you know if the Yarr! version updated properly?
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nerrd
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 16:10 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 16:24 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 17:31 Post subject: |
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| inz wrote: | Why play an RTS with hero units when you can play a TBS with hero units:
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C2C is still a WIP mod but very playable already.  |
Another game played to death. And yes, with the Caveman2Cosmos too. Although I do prefer the vanilla over C2C for normal play, I love the expanded timeline. But it feels like it's one of those mods that adds things just for the sake of adding. For example: there are lot's of animals early on, and that fine, but being able to tame them? And on top of that, we can use them to make special buildings? It's just too much, and in my opinion it does not fit right.
I'm sure there are lots of people that loves the mod, but for me, as I already said, I prefer the vanilla or even the Revolutions mod. I guess I like mods that act more as a official expansion than a total-conversion. Oh, well.
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 22:29 Post subject: |
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How about super-units? Those very expensive but very powerful kinda of super? I can think of Command & Conquer 3, and Supreme Commander 1 and 2. Are there more out there?
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 22:37 Post subject: |
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Dawn of War Dark Crusade has upgradeable hero units. I don't know if you can upgrade them in multiplayer though.
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Badrien
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 22:48 Post subject: |
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I havent played it mself but krater markets itself as a rpg with rts mechanics. YOu essentially just play the hero's without the basebuilding. Its currently 50% off on the stem sale
RTX ON
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 23:05 Post subject: |
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| randir14 wrote: | | Dawn of War Dark Crusade has upgradeable hero units. I don't know if you can upgrade them in multiplayer though. |
I will take a look at it, thanks.
| Badrien wrote: | | I havent played it mself but krater markets itself as a rpg with rts mechanics. YOu essentially just play the hero's without the basebuilding. Its currently 50% off on the stem sale |
I tried Krater at launch, and besides running like crap at my end, it just didn't appealed to me and it's really not what I'm looking for - games with a skirmish mode, playable in LAN.
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 23:22 Post subject: |
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dawn of war ?
edit: oups. yeah xD
still worth mentioning again xD
Per aspera ad astra
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W123
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Jul 2012 08:07 Post subject: |
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I loved that game but I couldnt get it to run on Win7.
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