Agree on that count! As much as I would love to say the likes of Warzone 2100 are what people think of when they hear the acronym "RTS", I know it's not the case. I also know that, while I felt the game was a breakthrough, it actually used a bunch of the best ideas from other games and put them together rather than innovating outright. Or so I'm lead to believe, anyway. It still was the first truly 3D RTS I played!

Both Warcraft and Command & Conquer were pretty equal in their influence. I only chose C&C ahead of (my preference) Warcraft because if I talked to people at the time, they knew more about C&C than Warcraft. Sadly. Perhaps it's just the people I knew, though. I can't say the internet was at the level it's at now, and I certainly wasn't active on it at that point.