Is it possible for the same player to control two different teams?

[robertcandel]

Hello,
I really love RA2 and this awesome community that keeps this free version going. I have a pretty specific question—so specific that I want to share a bit of context first:

I want to use the game to illustrate some texts. For the videos, I’d need to set up scenes where two different armies fight each other, while I control both as a single player to arrange the matchups and timing.

Is there a simple way to do that? I can place two armies in the map selection screen, but I can’t actually fill two slots—I just end up switching between them. Is there any native way to do this, or a workaround?

[abcdefg30]

Hi, you can start OpenRA two times and host a server on the local LAN with one client and join it with the second client. (Works better if you go to the settings and change from Fullscreen to Windowed.)