When comparing Warlords Battlecry 3 vs OpenRA, the Slant community recommends OpenRA for most people. In the question“What are the best RTS games for PC?” OpenRA is ranked 26th while Warlords Battlecry 3 is ranked 44th. The most important reason people chose OpenRA is:
Classic Command and Conquer with overhauled UI, rebalanced gameplay, replays and observer mode.
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Pros
Pro Race variety
There are 16 races available.
Pro Active community
The modding community keeps striving for fun and balance even in 2017!
Pro Fantasy themed story
Pro Modern improved recreation of the classic game
Classic Command and Conquer with overhauled UI, rebalanced gameplay, replays and observer mode.
Pro Fosters creativity
Features an in-game map editor and is geared towards modding.
Cons
Con Lacks balance
Races are very unbalanced.
Con In a grey zone
(The C&C guys are actually well aware of this project and are fine with it... so this isn't true.)
All CnC assets are still copyrighted by Westwood/EA and not freely available anymore, so per law, it is illegal to share them as mods. Also, Dune was never available as free download, which makes the whole mod illegal as well.