PC RTS recomendations

[juss]

I've played the classics of Warcraft, Starcraft and AOE.

What I loved most was the old mod scene of WC3, such as RPG like scenarios and custom TD games, etc. but having recently logged on, the community there is dying and there aren't anywhere near enough players, it takes ages to get a good mod scenario game going.

Any good recomendations of RTS games? Any that still have active playing communities and in particular active and good quality mod games?

Looking at steam games in particular in the RTS, Strategy / Tactical genre

 

[Nostradumbass]

It's old now but Battle Realms was great

 

[TheDinosaur]

check out They Are Billions. I havent put a lot of time into it but seems pretty fun.

Also if you liked them keep an eye out for C&C/Red alert deals on origin (yuck, i know..) as they have previously sold the whole library super cheap.

 

[Smeg Head]

Sins of a Solar Empire was one from 5 years back, something like that, I had fun with. No idea on the mod part.

Its TBS but the Civ series always has a mods, can get the older ones cheap and they still have active communites and a ton of super polished mods.

 

[Long Live HFC]

ironically, it's the "modability" of warcraft 3 that has murdered RTS as a genre. DOTA2 and LoL + the rest have really altered the real-time landscape. i would guess that the best modding scene in RTS today would be starcraft 2. i can't think of too many other titles that are popular enough to have vibrant MP modding scenes. funnily enough, there's a whole bunch of DOTA2 mods.

 

[2006_Eagles]

Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds was just an AOE re-skin but it was really good