The Best RTS...

[Kenny]

Rickz0r said:
It's also my opinion that games that involve unit spamming and with a minimal use of Micro Management, shouldn't even be called Real Time Strategy games. I'm aiming at games like Battle for Middle Earth (II), Age of series, alot of games from the C&C series, and probably alot more. It's just selecting a group of soldiers, and sending them to a certain spot, and most of the time you can just completely forget about them. You'll just create another group of soldiers and send them in...

The macro RTSes that involve 'spamming', as you call them, require a different way of thinking.  Games where you command small amounts of units in individual engagements are best described as tactics (how you fight individual battles).  The macro RTSes which take the focus off micromanagement, on the other hand, are best described as strategy (how individual battles fit in the greater context of your plan to defeat the enemy).  In fact, the fact that individual units are expendable is more a hallmark of strategy, as the converse suggests a tactical context where the advantage of a single unit is more pivotal to the outcome than having a better overall plan than your opponent (eg dictating the terms and conditions on which you engage the enemy, deciding whether to engage at all).