Which one is the best out of these?

I hate unit spamming rts's and as such have been turned off from the genre since starcraft. I have wanted to get a new rts that has some mods (not most important but helps), good online, and as little base building as possible. I've narrowed my choices down to these.

Warhammer 40,000 Platinum

Warcraft 3 Battlechest

Company Of Heroes

Warcraft being by blizzard I trust their making of games but I am not so sure of THQ as I have never bought a game from them. All 3 of these have great reviews and friends have told me great things about both aside from warcraft 3. I'm eventually gonna get them all but I only have enough $$ to get one now.

THQ is a publisher just to let you know, Warhammer and Company of Heroes were both developed by Relic, which is an excellent RTS developer and is definately on my list of top developers. You'll want Company of Heroes if you want a realistic approach to RTS, Warhammer if you want a more of a sci-fi kind of feel, Warcraft if you like the Blizzard formula (should be easy to figure out if you've played Starcraft before). All of the games you listed have base building involved but it's nothing too excessive. Some other games I recommend to you with little base building would be the Ground Control series which has no base building, World In Conflict which has a similar system to Ground Control, and the Homeworld series, which was also developed by Relic, where all you have to worry about is your capital class ships which make smaller ships.Marfoo

Oh haha, I just assumed it was a company.

Warcraft being by blizzard I trust their making of games but I am not so sure of THQ as I have never bought a game from them.

Whiteblade999

THQ is just the publisher. The developer is Relic, responsible for the seminal Homeworld amongst other awesome games.

My recommendation is that you try demos of all three and decide for yourself. My personal favourite is Dawn of War.

you can't really lose with any of those, Warcraft 3 is the oldest, but still lives up to the others. In WC3, you have small unit sizes, but also have hero units which you need to monitor and use their powers. The other two games are basically similar except DoW is sci-fi and CoH is WW2. I would play in this order:

WC3 (if you don't mind the leveling up heroes with powers thing)

DoW (no resource gathering)

CoH (same as DoW, but better)

I tried the demo for warhammer and coh and I like them both -_-.Whiteblade999

Sorry I meant to quote this post....

Yeah, I agree they're both great games.