* = is definitely

I think what they're doing with DoWII is a logical extension of the changes to typical RTS gameplay they made in CoH. Obviously now it's even more RPG+RTS=?, but I guess I'm willing to be optimistic and give it a shot. Maybe it will fail, but it sounds fun enough to me.

In CoH base building/management was already reduced to such a level that once you built a few things you didn't have to look at your base much again. CoH allowed you to queue up units from wherever(which isn't unique I know), didn't ask for a lot of extra micromanagement or resource gathering, which leaves the player free to control squads, vehicles, and special abilities. DoW II is, both in appearance and spirit, CoH 2.0.

I guess what I was getting at is: I like what I see and there are enough base building RTSes out there.

The only strategy involved here was positioning units around Gutrencha to fire from all sides and moving them out of the way whenever he aimed his hammer at them.

Hey, to a bunch of WoW players I ran into, that's asking quite a bit. You make it sound like moving out of the way is a trivial task..

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But yes, they do need more maps, especially given in any RTS, some of the developer made maps are going to be bad. I prefer the Warcraft III method of tons of maps to choose from.

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