I play AoE these days because it has - relatively speaking - more real units. I do wish there was an AoE or C&C type game that used just realistic troops and vehicles and such. Seems like we have the computing power these days for a much larger-scale area of battle where you could command troops and vehicles over a small city sized map. Still RTS with fog of war and such… Maybe better simulated behaviours for the troops. But command your groups of military to go take out targets or attack positions and take terrain and such...

Seems like it'd be awesome, but nobody has done it.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

There's Company of Heroes with realistic units and "order based" real-time combat, alas, it is not very large scale.

Closest I remember to your description is another very old game: Sid Meier's Gettysburg. But that was limited by the possibilities of its time.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Company of Heroes

Worth checking out, though, thank you1 <3