best RTS so far..
you face a heavy machine gun at the end of the road. you have 2 teams of infantry. you could just blow it up. but you can have one team sit there and take fire and the other to go around the buildings and flank it, you kill all the men but the machinegun is still there. it becomes a pickup, you click, 3 men seperate off you squad and take the MG. vola!
same with tank battles. different units actually are different. a sherman agianst a panzer is fair game. agianst a panther or tiger its useless. an M10 wil kill a panther. just. but to kill a tiger you have to flank, distract and surprise.
the skermish mode is unbelieveably hard, even on easy, hint, be ready for a jeep rush almost instantly as that what they do.
and the explosions.one word. CREAMAGE!!!!!
you just so much satisfaction from dropping a strike onto 3 squads of infantry. BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you will NOT regret it.
until supreme commander comes out.....
*oh, about the rating on the learning curve, its 30 to 60 minutes to learn EVERYTHING even flanking, capturing and the lot, if you want to learn the basics, the about 10 minutes to play the tutorials and you'll get the jist of it.