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I think had Westwood survived and had EA not totally messed up that series of games with Tiberium Sun 4 and then abandoned it, it might have acted as a draw to keep the genre going more so.

I think its in part because the Civilization game series has been going so long and has kept up a strong following. You are right that, amazingly, 4x style strategy games have bloomed. We get the odd solid one like the Battlefleet Gothic games now and then, but even they don't get the medium to long term support to really polish up to top level. Meanwhile there have been a few tries from smaller studios, but they tend to make a small blip and then vanish. Starcraft 2 is the only big name in those waters. What we'd consider the traditional RTS in the from of a Red Alert game has been a format dead in the water for ages. Unlike, say, Knights of Honour where I'd argue auto battling is more viable as an approach though it still suffers the same problems as TW games with auto resolve, but not quite as harshly since the unit rosters and game structure are vastly simpler (and way way way more so than the TW games).

TW games have always been a blend of RTS and TBS, and whilst you can use auto-resolve to play an entirely TBS game, its not really ideal nor the intended way to play the game. The entire combat phase is Real Time Strategy and is arguably more strategic than many 'true RTS games' as you've got to consider formations, facings and more. wrote: Total War games aren't Real Time Strategy games.

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