Real-time tactics template
Three units, one patrol, one objective, and no workers mining behind you. Shadow Tactics (Mimimi Games, 2016) and Desperados III (Mimimi Games, 2020) are the plan you draw and then ruin. Company of Heroes 3 (Relic Entertainment, 2023) keeps the timing and drops the classic base. If you can ignore the patrol and still win by spending money, you built an RTS. The AI RTS maker is that other game. The AI strategy game maker is the plan.
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What makes a real-time tactics
Real-time tactics: commanding small squads in real time, without base building.
The games that set the standard are Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (Mimimi Games, 2016), Company of Heroes 3 (Relic Entertainment, 2023) and Desperados III (Mimimi Games, 2020).
What the template starts with
The real-time tactics template starts with three units, one enemy patrol and one objective. That is the smallest version of the loop that defines the genre: plan, position, execute, adapt.
What to change first
Execute the plan, then botch it and recover without a new building. If recovery requires a barracks, the base sneaked back in.
2D or 3D
The real-time tactics template starts in 3D.
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