If nothing else, you're not the only one.
For me it's beating my head against the wall until I either finish something or move on to something else out of sheer frustration.
Gotta say, though. I could've sworn I've seen you mention Commandos. If you're any good at that series, you're doing better than me.

Would never admit to that,I'll just file that for use another time...

I'm good at Commandos because I play it constantly, it's save anywhere, and there are no time limits.

Still counts. You're playing the game by the rules the designers set.
Also, you're reminding me that I need to actually go through that series. Never can decide whether to do that first, Desperadoes or Robin Hood.

Robin Hood. It's faster, easier, better mechanics, and the GOG version Desperadoes is still a little buggy; tends to crash a lot.

Would Robin Hood be a good 'beginners RTS' or is there something better? I don't want a 'casual' game, but at least something I can learn from.

I wouldn't call it an RTS period. An RTS to me (and this is just my take) should involve base building and resources. Warcraft 2 and the 1st Starcraft are the best beginner RTS games IMO, of course we don't have those here.

Aside from that Robin Hood is good because it starts off ridiculously easy and slowly gets harder. Just make sure you QuickSave a lot because you will screw up.

I think Real-Time Tactics is a more accurate term for Robin Hood.

RTS's?

Well, despite what a certain unhinged crimson eyeball might have been screaming about for the last couple weeks, the Dawn of War series is actually a good beginner's RTS. (MOSTLY. WELL, HALF OF IT ANYWAY.)

The first game starts simply with you as the commander of an army, then builds upon it in Winter Assault (pity that one still kinda sucks, but it's an expansion so it's not necessary), and then grows into the variety of Dark Crusade, wherein you get not one but seven different armies to choose from. (definitely the best of the series)

I could mention Soulstorm, but seriously. Rancid, putrescent, festering, pulsating boils so large they stretch the skin until the corrupted white/red core of them is clearly visible, only when you pop the boil, it explodes in a shower of flesh-gnawing spiders that immediately attempt to devour your eyes and genitals simultaneously.

Soulstorm's kinda like that. =)

Divinity Original Sin is a newer game and it was the best optimised game i've ever played. My PC ran it smoothly on ultra even though it's a few years old by now.

I've just started watching a few episodes of that series recently. It is pretty good. :)

And danish crime/drama series. :P

Red Alert 2, Tiberian Sun and Age of Empires 2 are some of the best RTS games, in my opinion.

Your Soulstorm's reveiw is certainly different:-)

Good call! I can't believe I forgot those, and I still play them! :O Man, 39 is way too young for senility!

Of course if Lucas Arts lets us have Galactic Battlegrounds we don't need to have this conversation, we just need to play play play!

Since it was ignored in the "Thread of Random Questions" thread, I'd like to try bringing attention to something that's bugging me ever since yesterday. Has anybody noticed that for some strange reason, Pirates of the Caribbean Online is the top wishlisted game of the week? It even gained 70 votes in a day (see attachment below)! Its wishlist feels like you walked into the Twilight Zone. Why are those people expecting GOG to revive a MMO?

Thanks for all of the answers on RTS's. I own some of those and will give one a try.
Robin Hood actually sounds kinda fun to play. Soulstorm WILL be avoided.
I assume "Real Time Tactics" would be a part of RTS's or do they skip right to the overall strategy part?
As you can tell I never have really deciphered what sets all of them apart from one another. ;)