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most total annihilation units couldn't shoot past each other, the one who could where large, slow, fragile or otherwise unable t effectively blob due high weapo

most total annihilation units couldn't shoot past each other, the one who could where large, slow, fragile or otherwise unable t effectively blob due high weapon spread or vulnerability to splash damage.

shoo 5y ago
total annihilation aircraft were pretty fun things to blob, although they were fragile and vulnerable to splash damage, particularly to the flak weapons that were added in the expansion. a glorious thing about total annihilation was the ballistics model: ground units without dedicated anti-air weapons could attempt to fire their guns at aircraft -- nearly all the time they'd miss, but occasionally a heavy tank could land a lucky hit and maybe take out a cluster of aircraft. my favourite highly blobbable unit for fooling around in single player was advanced construction aircraft. i guess if you've got enough resource income to support 20+ advanced construction aircraft rush building lines of long-range artillery, you've probably already won.
- ikiris 5y ago
  spring is the equivalent TA continuance compared to this post about openra
- bradleypowers 5y ago
  Gosh, I really miss TA. I never felt like another RTS matched TA for variability, even though I basically only ever played against one friend.
  - wingmanjd 5y ago
    If you're feeling nostalgic, GoG.com has it for sale: https://www.gog.com/game/total_anihilation_commander_pack https://www.gog.com/game/total_anihilation_commander_pack
  - farmerstan 5y ago
    I just bought it on steam a few months ago. $5. On my 10 year old system I had I think there was thousands of individual units running at the same time. I downloaded the mid Escalation with amazing unit, and was playing against 4 AI. At one point there were thousands of units all running at the same time and the battles were epic. I would throw 500 Fidos (my favorite original unit) to the AI and they would slowly get mowed down, but then I would Keep sending them in waves. It’s still so much fun!
  - concordDance 5y ago
    There's a bunch of open source successors (e.g. they started as Total Annihilation clones) made on the springrts engine that you may be interested in. I believe both Zero-K and Beyond All Reason are still being actively maintained.
    - azalemeth 5y ago
      How I wish they'd have better os compatibility!
      - OneTimePetes 5y ago
        Mac OS?
      - happymellon 5y ago
        Beyond All Reason supports Windows and Linux, or are you after a mobile experience?
- lmm 5y ago
  > my favourite highly blobbable unit for fooling around in single player was advanced construction aircraft. i guess if you've got enough resource income to support 20+ advanced construction aircraft rush building lines of long-range artillery, you've probably already won. Hardly. My group had glorious 4v4 games where getting your swarm of 500 advanced construction aircraft to build vulcans and buzzsaws that would maybe get off a few shots before being destroyed by your opponents' counterparts was the name of the game.
farmerstan 5y ago
If you download the Escalation mod, the new units are amazing. The TA community 25 years later is still amazing!
sershe 5y ago
Hmm, when I played TA blobbing was name of the game. The L1 missile vehicles shoot thru each other just fine, and for defense people used to start with infinite lines of missile towers, before adding other stuff. In fact I remember my first internet game (after playing with friends for some time); noone even rushed me, and I had a chance to get to L2, expand as I always did and build a couple dozen Mavericks for my would-be attack. Then 10000 L1 missile vehicles rolled in and blew everything up. EDIT: and one of my most epic games, a 3vs3 on a 3-bridge map with aircraft and navies disabled, actually involved blobbing nukes. The lone player on the "losing" side was able to hold me and the other "winning" survivor off behind batteries of artillery and infinite piles of wreckage for long enough to find our commanders and send enough nukes to overwhelm anti-nuclear.

shoo 5y ago

total annihilation aircraft were pretty fun things to blob, although they were fragile and vulnerable to splash damage, particularly to the flak weapons that were added in the expansion. a glorious thing about total annihilation was the ballistics model: ground units without dedicated anti-air weapons could attempt to fire their guns at aircraft -- nearly all the time they'd miss, but occasionally a heavy tank could land a lucky hit and maybe take out a cluster of aircraft. my favourite highly blobbable unit for fooling around in single player was advanced construction aircraft. i guess if you've got enough resource income to support 20+ advanced construction aircraft rush building lines of long-range artillery, you've probably already won.

ikiris 5y ago
spring is the equivalent TA continuance compared to this post about openra
bradleypowers 5y ago
Gosh, I really miss TA. I never felt like another RTS matched TA for variability, even though I basically only ever played against one friend.
- wingmanjd 5y ago
  If you're feeling nostalgic, GoG.com has it for sale: https://www.gog.com/game/total_anihilation_commander_pack https://www.gog.com/game/total_anihilation_commander_pack
- farmerstan 5y ago
  I just bought it on steam a few months ago. $5. On my 10 year old system I had I think there was thousands of individual units running at the same time. I downloaded the mid Escalation with amazing unit, and was playing against 4 AI. At one point there were thousands of units all running at the same time and the battles were epic. I would throw 500 Fidos (my favorite original unit) to the AI and they would slowly get mowed down, but then I would Keep sending them in waves. It’s still so much fun!
- concordDance 5y ago
  There's a bunch of open source successors (e.g. they started as Total Annihilation clones) made on the springrts engine that you may be interested in. I believe both Zero-K and Beyond All Reason are still being actively maintained.
  - azalemeth 5y ago
    How I wish they'd have better os compatibility!
    - OneTimePetes 5y ago
      Mac OS?
    - happymellon 5y ago
      Beyond All Reason supports Windows and Linux, or are you after a mobile experience?
lmm 5y ago
> my favourite highly blobbable unit for fooling around in single player was advanced construction aircraft. i guess if you've got enough resource income to support 20+ advanced construction aircraft rush building lines of long-range artillery, you've probably already won. Hardly. My group had glorious 4v4 games where getting your swarm of 500 advanced construction aircraft to build vulcans and buzzsaws that would maybe get off a few shots before being destroyed by your opponents' counterparts was the name of the game.

farmerstan 5y ago

If you download the Escalation mod, the new units are amazing. The TA community 25 years later is still amazing!

sershe 5y ago

Hmm, when I played TA blobbing was name of the game. The L1 missile vehicles shoot thru each other just fine, and for defense people used to start with infinite lines of missile towers, before adding other stuff. In fact I remember my first internet game (after playing with friends for some time); noone even rushed me, and I had a chance to get to L2, expand as I always did and build a couple dozen Mavericks for my would-be attack. Then 10000 L1 missile vehicles rolled in and blew everything up. EDIT: and one of my most epic games, a 3vs3 on a 3-bridge map with aircraft and navies disabled, actually involved blobbing nukes. The lone player on the "losing" side was able to hold me and the other "winning" survivor off behind batteries of artillery and infinite piles of wreckage for long enough to find our commanders and send enough nukes to overwhelm anti-nuclear.