Welcome to the home of Complete Annihilation

Complete Annihilation is a game for the  Spring RTS engine. It has a sizable and active playerbase, while still being under intense development, with updates every day. To stay up to date, you should get the Spring Downloader to play (now included in the Spring installer). CA is based on several other modifications of Total Annihilation content (with the eventual goal of replacing it with original content, one piece at a time), thus it is a fully playable, relatively balanced and complete game. It's also possible to play Complete Annihilation as a part of online campaign in  http://planet-wars.eu/

CA Introduction

Design goals

  • A large range of viable tactics.
  • Larger emphasis on unit decisions/selections and their micromanagement.
  • Less emphasis on economy micromanagement (mex overdrive instead of TA's moho metal extractors and metal makers).
  • All units useful throughout the battle (there are no "Tier 2 units" that obsolete "Tier 1 units" - all units are equally cost effective).
  • Better visuals.
  • Powerful GUI enhancements to free your hands and allow you to focus on tactical decisions (air transports automatically ferry units from factories, units can be set to retreat when damaged, etc.)
  • Faster and more demanding gameplay (units move faster and unit selection is more important).
  • Unit differences achieved using game dynamics and not using special hidden damages/armor classes.

For Players

Preview

Documentation

Download

  1. Get the  Spring engine and multiplayer lobby.
  2. Download CA...

Play

  1. Start the Spring multiplayer lobby (C:\Program Files\Spring\TASClient.exe by default). Be sure to update it to the latest version.
  2. To play...
    • Online Multiplayer: Create a lobby account and log on. Join a game, or type /join #CA and ask for help from the community.
    • Single Player: Click on the Single Player button in the lobby client. Add a bot such as  RAI (Extract to Spring/AI/bot-libs directory), or better yet add a chicken bot (included in the game) to play ChickenDefense - specifically designed for CA.

Discuss

Support

For Developers

General

Design Documents

Artwork

Audio

Scripting

Map/Mod Downloader