Author Topic: Any RTS games where you can play as a unit?  (Read 2662 times)

Nuclear Dawn, Natural Selection 2.
However, in such games you rely on the skills of the player who takes the role of the commander.
A very old one and more unknown would be Parkan Iron Strategy, however, you play as the commander yourself as well.


savage and savage 2 and id argue any dota clone

mount&blade
Forgot about this.
This is a good choice, especially if you get the Freelancer mod, or any modpack that incorporates it.

It gives you the option to join up with another lords army, and work your way up the ranks.
You don't have control of what battles he gets into, and you attack with his army (although can decide what exactly you do).

MAG probably feels like that lol
but I doubt anyone still plays it
afaik the servers got shutdown

I know Empires is like that, I'm not quite sure what you're looking for but I remember playing it quite a bit a while ago and had lots of fun. Not sure if it's dead now or not, it's free too if I remember.

Men of War Assault Squad 1 & 2 both let you take direct control of any unit you call in
I was about to say this. Multiplayer is mostly dead tho





original men of war

graphics may be a little dated and controls wonky, but its amazing watching mass chaos in first person

oh hey more replies than I expected

i vaguely remember spring letting you play as a unit, but i havent touched that in like 8 years
tried that out, unfortunately it's a pain in the ass to get set up and it didn't recognize any games I put in it for some reason
running with rifles feels sorta like that, except there's no actual commander (just an ai commander that gives you general directions) and nothing in the way of resources (for a team; there are individual resources) or basebuilding
oh yeah I already have that, but good example
there was also a game called Smite i think that was literally what you wanted, but i think it's so dead you can't even find anything about it on the internet anymore; i only know it exists because i have a physical copy
wasn't that a MOBA? also I can tell you for a fact it's not dead as my friends play it quite often, unless you mean another game
There was a project to remake it on... Unreal engine I believe.
I don't know how it's progressed

Edit: http://renegade-x.com
tried this out and it's pretty fun, not sure if it was exactly what I was looking for but it is fun nonetheless

might look at other ones you guys said later

just took a look at the CD, turns out i was confused; game's actually called Savage

and apparently it's this thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWSPdINFddI


http://www.savagexr.com/ and it has a site wow



edit: turns out the copy i have is for this thing, the predecessor. that's why the servers were dead.
http://www.savagexr.com/savage-the-battle-for-newerth-download.html
« Last Edit: December 01, 2015, 01:13:54 PM by Tudoreleu »

there was also a game called Smite i think that was literally what you wanted, but i think it's so dead you can't even find anything about it on the internet anymore; i only know it exists because i have a physical copy

I was about to say that SMITE is a moba

Until you just posted, finding the actual name.