this is a possibility....
Wrong way bro. We want LARGER scale, not less.
Yeah, well the RTS genre is painfully underpopulated The last major non-silly release of an RTS was arguably Forged Alliance/C&C4/SupCom 2 (depending on which you're anti-fanboyed vs), and the only real prospects that are upcoming is maybemaybemaybe C&C Generals 2, as well as Planetary Annihilation (ofc). Spring is around but that's a bunch of TA clones and then some lame original works, and... yeah. Lemme do some googling...
The RTS genre is underpopulated because most RTS games are unbalanced.
All RTS games made by Electronic Arse are retardedly unbalanced. The "good guys" are always overpowered and the "bad guys" are just bad.. literally. Perfect examples of this are the
Battle For Middle-Earth games
(Gondor and Rohan) and
C&C Generals (USA).
Sins of a Solar Empire (dunno bout Rebellion) is a bit unbalanced.
I think
Wh40k DoW2 was unbalanced too not sure.
Rome Total War (Roman Legionaries or something like that) was retardedly unbalanced too. If you saw your enemy playing Rome you could as well save time and quit the game.
Heroes of Might and Magic III was unbalanced
(Angels rock, Devils suck {again good guys>bad guys[otherwise I loved this game]}). The best units were
Arch Angels>
Titans>
Black Dragons/Ancient Behemoths.. and everything else compared to these units were bad.
And then what balanced RTS games we have.... um..
Starcraft 1 and 2? LOL. If I remember right
Heroes of Might and Magic IV was quite balanced too. Oh and
Civilizations II was balanced! I still have that game.. in fact I'm looking at the cd case right now. How balanced is the newest Civilization? I tried the demo but I didn't like the fact that it DOESN'T HAVE A WORLD MAP?!?! LOL.. the only world map I could get was a MOD I would have to manually download and install. But maybe I could overcome that if the game itself is good.
AI War is quite balanced too but it's not famous. AI War does have some obviously useless ships that should be simply buffed without any polls (Anti-Starship Arachnid, Infiltrator, Deflector Drone, NYCommando, Grenade Launcher).