http://steamcommunity.com/groups/BLTASTotal Annihilation, brought back. (also its free)
Pure Style: Total Annihilation is the perfect name for the game. It was TOTAL. Nothing about this game is half-ass: it's like a videogame apocalypse. You don't just order an attack -- you send in a WAVE of hundreds of units, a wall of steel death that will fill the screen with awesome-looking explosions for minutes on end. You can build a nuclear missile capable of destroying a screen full of units, but it's worthless to build just one: Typically, you send them over in batches of a dozen or more. Obscene? YES. That's Total Annihilation! Every game was non-stop action, carnage, and brutality at a level never seen before or since.
We're going to try to run some TAS games over the next few weeks. Leave a message in here if you're interested in showing up. If you don't know how to play, we'll show you. TA is of the 'easy to learn, hard to master' variety. Once you understand the general patterns and concepts, all that's left is experience.
The game starts with your Commander unit, which is a powerful attack mech which can construct a base and, by extension, an army.
The general opening move is to capitalize on nearby metal spots. Metal is one of the two resources of TA, and the most limited. Metal is only found at metal spots which are scattered around the map. Building an extractor on one of these spots provides a constant supply of metal (which never runs out) into your stores.
Energy, the second resource, comes next. Depending on the map and your position, different energy suppliers may be used. Solars are the most consistent of the energy producers-- constantly making 20 energy with no variance. Solars are large, though, and time consuming to produce. Wind power may be a viable alternative depending on the map's wind speeds. Wind generators are cheaper and faster to produce as well as smaller than solars. However, they generally produce less energy, or produce energy amounts that vary randomly (10-25, for example, though the range depends on the map).
Once you have a supply of metal and energy (though you want to constantly be expanding it), a factory is required to make additional units.
Units are divided into multiple categories and tiers.
Builders from the same category can make factories of their category.
Units of higher tier are stronger and more costly.
Generally, the more agile, fast and unlimited(as far as what terrain it can cross) a unit is, the weaker it is.
Kbots(mechs) can navigate rough terrain but are fairly weak overall. They have many situational purposes (for example, amphibious kbots, or wreckage resurrectors)
Vehicles require much smoother terrain but are generally stronger than kbots.
Ships are usually very strong but are limited to water.
Aircraft can navigate over any terrain and are fast and varied in their uses. Most aircraft are very weak, however only AA can consistently hit them.
Submarines are basically for anti-ship use only.
Hovercraft may cross land and water, and are a viable alternative to kbots/vehicles.
A factory may then produce more builders which can then produce more buildings and more builders and so on.
Below is (out-dated?)information on TAS and TAS downloads.
http://springrts.com/Game listing:
http://springrts.com/wiki/GamesGames you should get
New Mod:
BOTA
Basically OTA
Basically Original Total Annihilation
www.springfiles.com/show_file.php?id=2594Complete Annihlation: (http://trac.caspring.org/)Balanced Annihilation NEW LINK (http://springfiles.com/show_file.php?id=2795)XTA (http://www.springfiles.com/show_file.php?id=922)Getting Started:
1) head to the Spring link up above and download Spring.
2) Download both Games(mods) listed above. Put in Spring/Mods folder or something to that effect.
3) Post here.
4) read this
http://springrts.com/wiki/Balanced_Annihilation#Main_differences_from_Original_Total_Annihilation (scroll down)r
4 Note] Complete Annihilation has 2 types of builds that can be downloaded from their site, Build and 1FactionBuild. I'm not sure of the difference so get both for now.
5 Note] You may also want to pick up Chicken defense, a BA mod that is similar to tower defense.
(http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=15579&sid=f86b1325fe007268fbe23210d413da76)6 Note] Get these maps: Aberdeen
(http://www.springfiles.com/show_file.php?id=1290) and NanoArena
(http://www.springfiles.com/show_file.php?id=466)
ABSOLUTE ANNIHILATION LINK FOUND
Also, download this or I'll brutally mutilate you.
http://www.springfiles.com/show_file.php?id=874
Extract into spring / mods
Then, extract this
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zk6etkezje78on8/otacontent.zip
into Spring / base
