"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."
-Clarence Day
Links
Here's a huge list of links to other TA sites. Many of these are much better than our little offering and some, shockingly, aren't as good. These sites can be for any number of things from new units, to maps, to help sites like this, to programs for TA, to sites on how to edit and reprogram the game. Happy hunting.
Oh, and a word of warning; Most of these sites will have link sections of their own. So if you go to these sites theres a chance you may keep finding more and more TA sites and you may never stop. There's so much TA stuff on the web it will make you cry. Don't say I didn't warn you when you get stuck in vortex of Total Annihilation web browsing.
Total Annihilation TA's Official site. Yes, it still exists.
TA Top 100 The top 100 TA sites list over at Planet Annihilation. A good place to start, although, as of this writing there's only sixty-something sites on the list. You will notice a lot of the other sites we list here are also on the TA top 100. We just listed them here seperately so you don't have to search through every site on the top 100 to find the real jewels.
Planet Annihilation The Gamespy TA site. They have a site like this for every popular game that ever existed, for example Planet Descent. This is where you can get a lot of files, links and the latest info about what's going on in the TA world or what's left of it (remember this game is old as computer games go). You will also notice that many TA sites are hosted by Planet Annihilation.
Gnugs Home Page The Gnugs rule. They've been around for ages and the tips section they have puts the Moldy Crouton guide to shame. Continue your studies here.
TAMEC Probably the largest archive of TA maps on earth. There's so many maps here you will get lost in a manner of minutes. There's other stuff here too, of course, but it's mainly about the maps.
Yankspankers The Sweedish Yankspankers. Home of the infamous TA Demo Recorder. 'Nuff said.
AI Central Artificial Intelligences for TA. If you can kick the computers ass really easy, and you wish it was harder, this is where you go. There are tons of new AI's to download and they tell you how to install and use them. Not only that, they have all the information and utilities you need to make your own AI's.
Shonner Probably the best TA site done by one man that I know of. Shonner's got everything. Tips, maps, AI's and lots of other stuff.
Estrella/TA Designers Unit and mod design as a high art form. TA Designers is only one of billions of sites with new units and game modifications for TA. It is one of the bigger sites however.
Quantum Design This is what you need to look at if you are planning on using a lot of 3rd party modifications for TA. Quantum Design is home to the TA Mutator program that manages TA modifications so you don't screw up TA by not being able to keep track of all the stuff you've installed.
Mayhem Inc. Another highly skilled TA design group with units maps etc. The link section here really kicks ass. It's as good as the TA Top 100.
TAUS TA Unit Shop. A simply massive archive of TA units. I think this is pretty much the largest collection of units on the web. In English, French or German.
TA Universe The name explains it all. Another massive, general TA site like Planet Annihilation that has everything or links to everything. Also, like Planet Annihilation, they host lots of other TA sites such as Mayhem Inc.
Microsoft Game Zone Probably the best place you can still play Multiplayer TA. Be advised most people on here are angry little nerds who won't help you very much. It also has sysops who play big brother. Despite all this it's still one of the only places to find a lot of TA players.
Phoenix Worx Another place to play TA. This is a work in progress but it has a huge meta-game. Yes, people do play here so it's worth a look.
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