Ever heard of a game called Sins of a Solar Empire? It's an RTS game in which you build starships, control entire systems, and battle over galaxies. The lowest APM requirement of any game I've ever played thats not Chess. You can literally click 10x per minute and play at the highest level possible.

TacTican

United States26 Posts

November 20 2010 20:25 GMT

#44

Have you tried the Kohan series of RTS games? Kohan II: Kings of War is especially good for this since there's hardly any micro involved in the game; mostly you make your decisions at the administrative level (build cities, procure resources, acquire gold revenue, ordain companies, and send them around), but you're given very limited control over the combat itself.

Surprisingly fun game.

Aberu

United States968 Posts

November 20 2010 20:27 GMT

#45

CnC series is pretty low.

Akzever

Canada94 Posts

November 20 2010 20:37 GMT

#46

Homeworld 2!!!

That game is awesome, low apm, really intense (3d) strategy.

KameZerg

Sweden1769 Posts

November 20 2010 20:44 GMT

#47

StarCraft 2,

Im serious. Ive seen top diamond ladder players with 50 apm

The KY

United Kingdom6252 Posts

November 20 2010 20:53 GMT

#48

On November 21 2010 05:05 TymerA wrote:
Chess online is really nice. Really. A lot of strategy/''build-orders''. Posibilities are endless

I used to play chess and it really is just like Starcraft, minus the apm (Unless you do it clocked).
Bonus: The pro community consists out of gentlemen

I actually considered Kasparov as my ID, just because holy fuck is that a cool name or what?

Always loved chess as a kid, no one to play with though so I never got good =(

Meatloaf

Spain664 Posts

November 20 2010 20:57 GMT

#49

On November 21 2010 04:39 Jakalo wrote:

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I would say anything from Paradox Interactive has lowest APM requirements.

It is very unlike common RTSes though.

Paradox doesnt make RTS that i know , they make turn based strategy , and are all great , Hearts of Iron 2 was just Awesome.

RUSE is a RTS but the pace is so slow and the map is so big that makes APM almost unnecesary , you act like a general sending your troops to positions in a "board" that is the battlefield.

the game is pretty nice , I was in the beta and liked it a lot because is all about the big strategy gameplan that you have , a single unit is worthless if its not well positioned.(i.e. infantry in the forest)

when I have the money ill definetely get it.

this series of videos show it quite OK.

mumming

Faroe Islands256 Posts

November 20 2010 21:05 GMT

#50

Total war is actually a turn based rst

Almeisan

50 Posts

November 20 2010 21:08 GMT

#51

On November 21 2010 04:32 nttea wrote:

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I could see you make an argument for Total war not being an RTS, but there is no way you could convince anyone not dumb as fuck that CoH isn't an RTS....

I was able to reach a consensus on wikipedia. It was listed as an RTS before because that's how the developer marketed the game. Now it's changed.
It was really easy to reach consensus on changing as it is obviously not an RTS genre as it lacks all the genre-defining features.

Wheats

United States68 Posts

November 20 2010 21:09 GMT

#52

Total War has no RTS to it at all, it has real time tactics, but not real time strategy.

NIIINO

Slovakia1320 Posts

November 20 2010 21:16 GMT

#53

RUSE

spaceinvader

Germany7 Posts

November 20 2010 21:20 GMT

#54

If you don't mind 2D layout (i btw like it) you should try Battle for Wesnoth. It's turn based therefore no high apm needed but quite hard.
I played it over a long peroid of time because of always new fan made stuff.

Edit: http://www.wesnoth.org/

seppolevne

Canada1681 Posts

November 20 2010 21:22 GMT

#55

Impossible Creatures!

threehundred

Canada911 Posts

November 20 2010 21:27 GMT

#56

the microsoft close combat series

Fallacy

United States227 Posts

November 20 2010 21:36 GMT

#57

just play protoss

Arhkangel

Argentina769 Posts

November 21 2010 00:28 GMT

#58

Battleforge is what you are looking for. It's an RTS with low APM requirement, although it's a card based game it's still an real-time RTS not turn based. There's even a pretty decent competitive scene and it's free (it takes long to collect all cards if you play free but it's possible).

Also it has gorgeous graphics and a good single player campaign.

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

November 21 2010 00:32 GMT

#59

There is no such thing as a low apm rts because no matter how simple the game is, efficiency can always be raised through micromanagement. For strategy based games, I would look towards turn based strategy instead.