Faction Calculus: A Blog About Real Time Strategy Games

I hate RTSes where the units are basically bullet sponges and unlimited pop cap. It was good for Warcraft 3 because hero units and also a ve...

  This impression is of the open beta, which has bugs and is not representative of the final product.  Not an RTS by any stretch, Star Dynas...

Asymmetry is more abstract than simply having heroes, so that's one reason why people don't talk about that as much.  So I'll ju...

Rebel, Inc is a mobile real time strategy game loosely based on the endless wars in the Middle East. It is very reminiscent of P...

So what would co-op probably look like? What ideas are there? I like SC2's co-op for the short time I spent in it, I definitely liked th...

In most older RTS games, you can only produce one unit at a time. The first "definitive" RTS game, Dune 2, had infantry as squads,...

(In context of the new studio Frost Giant, a studio composed of former Blizzard developers looking to make the next great RTS) While it is t...