When comparing Warzone 2100 vs Spring: 1944, the Slant community recommends Warzone 2100 for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” Warzone 2100 is ranked 12th while Spring: 1944 is ranked 43rd. The most important reason people chose Warzone 2100 is:
Although it can be confusing to get the tech you want at times, Warzone has a complete tech tree that ranges from vertical take-off and landing crafts to laser guns and missile launching cyborgs, and includes four hundred different techs and upgrades.
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Pros
Pro Big tech tree
Although it can be confusing to get the tech you want at times, Warzone has a complete tech tree that ranges from vertical take-off and landing crafts to laser guns and missile launching cyborgs, and includes four hundred different techs and upgrades.
Pro Custom unit assembling
The game permits you to research vehicle tech under three main forms, weapons, chassis, and locomotion. The player must then assemble their own design, from the tech they have discovered. This permits a wide range of customizability in units.
Pro Big game scale
Although there is a limit to a number of units, Warzone permits pretty massive armies.
Pro Open source
It's free so you can't lose anything if you don't like it and anyone can help in the development by taking the sources of the game.
Pro Simple to learn
Cons
Con Units stay stuck everywhere
It's like there is sticky glue on everything, units just hit things and stay stuck. This creates bottlenecks in armies, and often impedes on army mobility and reliability.
Con Must micromanage, despite the fact commanders should avoid that
On the other hand, they do avoid a lot of micromanagement if the land is easy enough.
Con Playing with icons
The 1944 team seems to have gotten its inspiration, strangely, from SupCom, of all RTS games, as opposed to games like Blitzkrieg or Company of Heroes. Units are so tiny on the maps that most of your time will be spent playing with these units as icons as opposed to enjoying the visual effects and actual models.
Con No downloadable version on the official site
You must create an account, and log in to a game, in order to download it. This can be a huge set back for people who want to play lan, but don't want to log in on each computer to download, or simply don't have internet available at the playing spot.
Luckily there are other sites that host the actual download, where it can be downloaded without login.