Give up on console rts being rewarding or even playable.
Yeah, I've heard that, but I don't have even a quarterly decent computer. Hell, mine can't run Minecraft on normal distance rendering without obscene lag.
Play an older game then, there's a shitload of awesome ones like every Command & Conquer, Dune, Age of Empires I, II and III, Warcraft 2 and 3, Starcraft and so on.
Realistically nowadays only one RTS has a decently sized community and that's Starcraft II, mostly everything else was swallowed by it and the other developer's fear of competing with it. Funnily enough it has a shitload of flaws but people overlook them because Starcraft.
Worgen said:
well allot of people bitched about brutal legend having rts elements to it, I would suggest getting that, I loved it and it does rts in really the only way that works pretty well on a console
really tho if you want to play a rts game you need a pc since real rts games dont really work on consoles
I'm finally playing it on the computer and it's not really RTS more like leading your glorious metal army to victory in the field and it has really simple mechanics. Gotta say it works pretty well and is totally completely awesome though.
PS - the best console RTS ever was Universe at War, it actually had cross-play features with the PC crowd, xbox people were generally unfavoured as you can imagine. The game was completely brillant but SEGA's less than stellar everything as a publisher and gfwl's early(it was one of the first games to use it and no one knew it sucked back then.) draconian rules and extortion practices killed it.