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Article note: Oh yeah, I'm old. I've always liked TA, I still play (usually BAR lately, Spring with one of the TA-like packs before that, mostly just against bots) with some regularity. Haven't had a chance to poke at Nanolathe.
TA:K was sadly mediocre, SupCom was pretty good, but there is something about the classic TA formula that just scratches an itch for me.
Nanolathe is the latest example of a fascinating subgenre of real-time strategy game: Chris Taylor's 1997 hit Total Annihation but with something more. Nanolathe offers an open source MIT-licensed 2.5D RTS engine reimplementing the original plus three decades of the quality-of-life tweaks: a perfect access point for anyone who played it way back when but might now be intimidated by Beyond All Reason's sprawling 150-player Götterdämmerungs. — Read the rest
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