History Main / RealTimeStrategy

* '''The Outpost:''' A watchtower which clears the FoV for the unit that controls it. Some can even function as defense points for the team thet controls it.
* '''The Discovery Site:''' Often found in specific gametypes of specific games, these are the positions over which players fight. Controlling the highest amount of these for a certain period of time is the victory condition for these Domination-style gametypes.

* [[UnitsNotToScale Units are rarely depicted to scale]], not even with each other. Buildings are shown about as high as mountains, vehicles tower over the structures that constructed them, and infantry are nearly as large as the vehicle that can carry ten of them. Furthermore, a single unit onscreen rarely represents what it appears as. Rather, the single soldier is supposed to represent anything from a squad to an entire company, a hero unit usually includes their personal honor guard, and even a solitary building is probably symbolic of an entire complex.

* ''VideoGame/TerminatorDarkFate-Defiance''

Debate rages as to what the first originating RTS actually was, the results largely dependent on the age and nationality of the participants, and the definition of RTS (which can overlap with real-time tactics or TurnBasedStrategy). The UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum had [[UrExample early claimaints]] many many moons ago (1984 saw ''VideoGame/{{Stonkers}}'' and 1987 -- ''VideoGame/NetherEarth''); the MSX saw ''Herzog'' in the late 80s -- but only in Japan; and 1989 saw its sequel ''VideoGame/HerzogZwei'' on the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis (Mega Drive) which introduced many of the genre conventions. ''Herzog Zwei'' was the TropeMaker that spawned the genre, being the common ancestor of every modern RTS, as well as the TropeNamer ("RTS" was coined in this [[https://shmuplations.com/thunderforceiii/ 1989 interview]]). It inspired 1992's ''VideoGame/DuneII'' by Creator/WestwoodStudios (later of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' fame), which established the form and the tropes of the RTS which are known to the masses today, making it the TropeCodifier.

* ''Videogame/ShadowTacticsBladesOfTheShogun''

* ''VideoGame/ClydesAdventure''
* ''VideoGame/ClydesRevenge''

* ''VideoGame/MinionQuestTheSearchForBowser'' (not its own game, but a bonus mode in the remake of ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'')
** ''VideoGame/BowserJrsJourney'' (like the above, its a bonus mode in the remake of ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'')

* "VideoGame/NinthCompany"

** ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII'': Focusing on colonisation of the Americas.
** ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIV'': Focused on the middle ages.

*** ''VideoGame/RedAlert3Paradox'' (A GameMod of the above)

* ''VideoGame/FuhrerreichLegacyOfTheGreatWar''

* ''VideoGames/YsStrategy''

** ''VideoGame/FalloutPreWar''

*** ''VideoGame/FalloutPreWar''

** ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope''