{"id":109811,"date":"2026-10-12T12:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=ba91a7cbcc55aa7c4075adc280c60f38"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:45:24","slug":"classic-real-time-strategy-game-total-annihilation-is-30-years-old-and-everyone-is-remixing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=109811","title":{"rendered":"Classic real-time strategy game Total Annihilation is 30 years old\u2014and everyone is remixing it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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. \nTA:K was sadly mediocre, SupCom was pretty good, but there is something about the classic TA formula that just scratches an itch for me.<\/div>\"Screenshot:<\/a>

Nanolathe<\/a> <\/em>is the latest example of a fascinating subgenre of real-time strategy game: Chris Taylor's 1997 hit Total Annihation<\/em><\/a> but with something more. Nanolathe<\/em> 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<\/a><\/em> sprawling 150-player Götterdämmerungs<\/a>. — Read the rest <\/a><\/p>\n

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Nanolathe is the latest example of a fascinating subgenre of real-time strategy game: Chris Taylor’s…<\/p>\n

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