First tip on TA..... I hope this works.........

Well for all you bloggers that don't know TA (or total Annihilation) was released by Cavedog industries in 1997. It quickly became the most popular game of the year and the year after that and that. It won more than 57 awards including beating world of warcraft for best game of the year award in 2004. For you non-mathematicals out there, thats seven years after it was released. Impressed? Well, another thing is that Cavedog released two expansion packs as well as the original TA and then TA's 3.1 modification. These are titled: The Core contingency and Battle Tactics, you can;t blame cavedog for the lame Battle tactics name though, because Cavedog was bought by infrogames before battle tactic's release. If you get into Ta by reading this blog you may think it's familiar from somwhere... Know why? 'cause Ta's lead designer also designed Supreme Commander and the Sup. com. II. Now for the campaign story....... The basic idea (I'll wright more on this later) Is that somewhere in the far future of our galaxy An empire named the CORE will arise. This is a good Empire, until (duh, duh, duh, duuuhhhhh) It figures out how to transfer somones mind into a Robot, Technically making them immortal. It requires this process for all it's citizens as a Health requirement. Thankfully, The good old ARM rebellion shows up, a group that wants to preserve the "traditional" way of life and prevent the CORE from patterning any more Innocents. Anyway the war drags on for four thousand years (and you guys thought vietnam was bad) until a new commander emerges on one side (you choose) and that commander just so happens to be....... YOU!!!!! You fight for your chosen side through a 25 mission campaign (both campaigns are the same length) until you reach the enemies capitol planet that you spend the last 5 missions of the campaign fighting for. Now the Arm's Capitol (i think this is right) is Empyyrean. The Core's (this is hard to remember) is ........ CORE PRIME a completely metal planet!!! This means that if you run out of metal on this planet TA just isn't your thing. Empyyrean is a very green and lush world though. There are many other planets such as rougpelt, thalasian, Hydros, barathum, Luush, and many more!!! You can find TA on ebay if you are new or if you are a veteran TA player, stay posted for tips and tricks.