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===Overview===<br />
Balanced Annihilation is the long-term most popular game based at the Spring engine.<br />
It's based at three basic principles:<br />
* '''Refined [[OTA | Original Total Annihilation]]:''' BA's lineage traces back to fan mods of the original Total Annihilation. It feels similar, and play is ''more balanced'' for diverse multiplayer strategies.<br />
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* '''Stable gameplay:''' Balanced Annihilation has <i>matured</i> through several years of playtesting. New versions don't drastically alter the gameplay. The current BA has an unstable testing fork called: [http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=24016&start=0 Eternal Annihilation].<br />
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* '''Balance:''' Every unit has a role, and no unit has every role. Very few units get truly obsolete as a game progresses. The ideal state is to have no obsolete units at all.<br />
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===History===<br />
Balanced Annihilation mod started as a fork of [[Absolute Annihilation]] 2.23 in the end of 2006. Duo [http://springrts.com/phpbb/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=5958 Beherith] & [http://springrts.com/phpbb/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=7403 Niobium] have recently (April 2011) became the main BA's maintainers. The previous maintainers, who shouldn't be forgotten, were [http://springrts.com/phpbb/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4460 TheFatController] and [http://springrts.com/phpbb/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=326 NOiZE].<br />
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===Gameplay Guides===<br />
Choose which one suits your gaming experience:<br />
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*'''[[Balanced_Annihilation:Starting_With_TA | New in the TA universe]]'''<br />
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*'''[[Balanced_Annihilation:From_OTA_To_TA | With some OTA experience]]'''<br />
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===Legal===<br />
Parts of this mod originate from non-free sources. However, there is an ongoing attempt to find and replace units' models with free ones. <br />
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See the forum discussion as: [http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=22234 BA Reloaded]<br />
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===Links===<br />
Important set of links:<br />
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*'''[http://springfiles.com/spring/games/balanced-annihilation-26 Latest BA download]'''<br />
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*[http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=44 Balanced Annihilation Forum]<br />
* '''#ba''' channel at the IRC<br />
*(todo): latest chicken download<br />
*(todo): latest experimental download<br />
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