K so here is what is happening. My first impressions where semi right semi wrong. The game is like chromehounds and it does have rts, but then it also has a bit of madden in it. What is happening, is that the game is really just an RTS in the style of company of heroes. What that means is that this game will be the first persistent RTS in online. When you play the game online, you have you platoon, and go through battles with an online opponent. You have your small platoon (only 12 squads on the field) and you play with them, and they are yours. The designers want you to feel attached to these guys, so you won’t just go and kill them. They are one time units, which means that once they are dead, they don’t come back, and all their upgrades and experience go with them. You can purchase more guys, and the will come in and replace the ones that you have lost, but here is the cool thing in my opinion, any unit that stays alive, will remember the battles, so you can have two squads near each other and they will talk of old battles, like the one where they lost bravo 2. Finally we come to the madden part of the game. When I said that you could zoom in and then control the units, I was only partially wrong. You zoom in and see the units, like you would see the players on the field in a madden game. But you then control these units from an RTS perspective. And just as a teaser, you can control the units by you voice!
