OpenRA

This also pains me. OpenRA is everything I imagined Red Alert was when I was playing it as a kid. I wish it had gained more popularity. this is exactly how i feel about it too, i forget that the original ra had these really dated controls as i played every cnc game one after the other as they were ...

was it your first europe ffa? lol

scouting in the early game mostly, they can provide your early rifles with a vision advantage before anyone has a war factory up, but once there are vehicles around they become a bit obsolete for that.

you could also use them to pick off your opponents engineers if they are sending them unguarded