I usually persist through games never giving up for good, but I think Total Annihilation may be an exception.
I played through the main campaigns, Core Contingency expansion, and most of Battle Tactics expansion... but the BT mission "Islands of Grace" irritated me too much, and I must say I don't see the point to retry it yet another time, especially if the rest of the Battle Tactics missions are more of the same irritation. Too much unit-per-unit micromanagement, reloading save games as the enemy gets a few lucky shots that destroy most of my fleet, etc.
Try as I might, I always had only few units left of my great fleet when I finally reached the southern island I was supposed to invade. This has something to do also with how I always disliked those long range supercannons in Total Annihilation, which added a partial luck element to the game.
Now I am playing KKND 2, and I am much happier with it, even with its bugs.
Post edited January 03, 2015 by timppu