American Conquest

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i think this game stands out as an important mile stone for rts games it has gunpowder units from the 1600 and 1700 hundreds. It's cool because it gives you the ability to form platoons and squads of varying amounts of units  staring off with 15 and going up to 196 infantry units and 160 for cavalry. Also notable is the need for peasant's to train into troops so if you loose all you peasants say goodbye to more troops because they're need to train into you soldier's.
And also to form troop groups you'll need a Officer of the era say 18c officer and standard bearer and for moral to stay high  you'll need a drummer all thing that can go wrong with infantry will they will rout if all the comrades are dying and they will not fight if their moral gets to low so you should build lot of peasants and a lot of fortress's to train you force then build as many cannons as you can b/c your opponent will probably garrison all of his buildings so you will basically get slaughtered use you cannons to bombard you enemies to death then send all you troops for that killing blow to break the enemies resolve to fight.