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Like ID made the first 3D shooter, Broderbund made the first RTS.
I remember playing this game for hours, not winning much but having lots of fun.

Someone should recreate this game with nicer graphics and nice music. I know lots of people would say that these games already exist, warcraft, age of empires, and so on, but I believe that is not the case.

This game is about simplicity, yet is very hard to master. The simplicity is in that it is just about the tactics, not building cities, not managing money, not I dunno, but just the tactics, preparing your squads for battle and capturing flags.
I also said "hard to master". Although it is possible to create campains where even Sun Tzu himself starts commiting suicide, when you play the game properly, it is just hard. I don't really like the "race for the flags" kind of campaigns, but I like those with forts and villages to be used strategically.

In other words, if you take the game seriously, it will take you seriously too.

Try it, still now in 2010 it is a great game. I wished the source code would be available, mostly to rip the AI out of it, so that I could create a new AAOW clone myself. I would really do it.