
Variables such as gravity, tides, and wind to disrupt the effectiveness of certain weapon types or to enhance resource production. Highly advanced weaponry, including lasers, energy machine guns (EMGs), starburst missiles, plasma shells, lightning pulses, paralyzers, and nuclear warheads. Single-player skirmish battles and full multiplayer support, allowing players to watch and join battles, and form allied teams to share resources, information, and units. More powerful units and weapons are gradually unlocked throughout the campaigns after specific missions or events. Mission objectives include protecting a vital structure or area, capturing a pivotal enemy unit, or simply eliminating all enemy units. The stories of either the Core or the Arm start with an effort to defend the protagonist's home world and initiate a turning point in the war, followed by a series of battles on numerous planets and moons (using Galactic Gates as a form of faster-than-light transportation), before a final strike on the enemy's homeworld: either on the Arm's bucolic Empyrean or the Core's artificial Jupiter Brain world of Core Prime. Detailed and exciting campaigns that focus on their respective side's leaders, the Commanders.
A final patch (version 3.1c, and included here) added 6 new units, including a resurrection kbot! Battle Tactics added 4 new units, 6 new maps, and 100 new missions. The Core Contingency expansion pack added 75 new units (including the infamous Krogoth), 50 new maps, 25 new missions, and 6 new world types.
More than 150 official units and 25 official missions per side in a single-player campaign. Numerous world types to do battle on, such as grasslands, forests, deserts, archipelagos, open water, lava, metal, ice, crystal, acid, and even moons.
And make sure to claim Ascendant and War Wind while you are there. Total Annihilation: Commander Pack comes with both expansion packs - The Core Contingency and Battle Tactics, and they will be free for a limited time so make sure to grab the game before this offer ends on 7 June at 2 PM BST.