OpenRA

Divisions

Players have been assigned to divisions according to their current rating on the RAGL ladder (shown before their name). We have five weeks to play the matches, and every match can be played up to one week early or late within this period (so Week 1 and Week 5 matches have less ...

i would like to play this if possible. do i need make a discord?


It would certainly be easier to arrange matches via Discord. If you don't create an account then we can let you know via the forum who you're meant to be playing, but it could be very difficult to arrange a suitable time with ...

dark wrote: Sat Jun 20, 2026 9:38 am i would like to play this if possible. do i need make a discord?

It would certainly be easier to arrange matches via Discord. If you don't create an account then we can let you know via the forum who you're meant to be playing, but it could be very difficult to arrange a suitable time with them.

Red Alert Experimental League Season 2

Format

RAEL S02 is coming, starting on Monday the 29th of June and running for five weeks until Sunday the 2nd of August. We will split players into divisions by RAGL ladder ranking , aiming for one or two matches per player per week.

We will run a round ...

Season Wrap-up and Prizes

We finished off the season with a discussion on milkman's stream about how everyone did this season along with a special guest! The stream was full of spoilers if you've not finished watching games from this season yet, but it was a fun night. The stream also included ...

A few stats about the length of games this season. This season featured the shortest longest game of any season, Radical vs Upps, at exactly 34 minutes. The average game length was down very slightly, but not as low as Seasons 9 to 11.

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Here are the players sorted by game ...

In the last post we saw that the overall rifle-rocket ratio hasn't changed significantly, but this season did see a decrease in builds using 1:1 and a corresponding increase in builds with roughly six or more rifles to rockets. In the next graph we can see that this increase in high rifle count ...

Earlier we touched on the impact of queue limits on static defences, but I also wanted to quickly cover infantry. We can see that there was a significant drop in the average number of rifles and rockets queued this season, with rifles dropping from 200 last season to 160 this season, and rockets ...

There are various ways of grouping build orders and I've never found something I'm completely happy with. This shows five extensions of double ref - delayed SD, standard SD timing, everything else with standard WF timing, ref sell and all other double ref (predominantly this is when playing triple ...

One of the most controversial balance changes pre-season was the introduction of queue limits. The general consensus post-season seems to be that they were high enough to avoid being painful during the game (especially when compared with the limits used in the Red Alert Experimental League). In my ...

Tech building usage has remained fairly constant over the past few seasons. There was a dip in radar tech and above when compared with last season, but it was still within the same ballpark we've seen since Season 12.

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The next graph shows the win rate of tech buildings ...

Looking at the individual subfactions and again restricting to the Any vs Any matches then we get roughly 25-50 matches per subfaction. In this graph we'd expect Russia and Ukraine to have been played similar numbers of games, and the Allied factions a little bit lower (since the game chooses the ...

Season 17 saw a similar number of players as recent seasons, and this resulted in a similar number of matches being played.

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Looking at the raw performance of Allies and Soviets shows one of the worst balanced seasons ever - 56.4% of games being won by Allies. This is just ...

The statistics from Season 16 are available here: https://forum.openra.net/viewtopic.php?f=85&t=21953

Faction Win Rates


Faction Win Rate From Any From Random A/S Picked Win Rate
England 41/ 77 53% 34/ 55 62% 0/ 1 0% 7/ 21 33%
France 43/ 64 67% 31/ 44 70% 1/ 4 25% 11/ 16 69%
Germany 39/ 77 51 ...

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Rulebook Registrations Map Making Contest Schedule Weekly Highlights Standings

Standings and Statistics

Here are the final tables from Season 17 with head-to-head results and strikes taken into account. Upps' victory ...