Welcome to the home of Complete Annihilation

Complete Annihilation is a game for the Spring RTS engine. It has a sizeable and active playerbase, while still being under intense development, with updates every day. To stay up to date, you should get the Spring Downloader to play. CA is based on several other modifications of Total Annihilation content (with the eventual goal of replacing it with original content, one piece at a time), thus it is a fully playable, relatively balanced and complete game.

CA Introduction

Design goals

• many different tactics viable
• bigger emphasis on unit decisions/selections and their micromanagement
• less emphasis on economy micromanagement (mex overdrive replaces moho metal extractors and metal makers)
• all units usefull through all the game (T2 units dont replace T1 units - they work together with them and T2 labs are very cheap)
• better looks
• powerfull LUA GUI enhancements to free your hands and allow players to focus on tactical decisions (air transports automatically ferry units from factories, units can be set to autoretreat when damaged etc.)
• faster and more demanding gameplay (units move faster and unit selection is more important)
• unit differences achieved using game dynamics and not using special hidden damages/armor classes
• CA Introduction

For Players

Download

• Get the Spring engine and multiplayer lobby.
• Use the Spring Downloader to download CA, maps and keep everything up-to-date on Windows, or the Python CA Downloader on Linux.
• Or download a stable release from http://files.caspring.org/snapshots/.

Play

• Start the Spring multiplayer lobby (C:\Program Files\Spring\TASClient.exe by default).
• Download Spring Single Player and RAI (Extract to Spring/AI/bot-libs directory)for solo play.
• Or add chicken bot to play ChickenDefense

Preview

• Look at some Screenshots.
• http://licho.eu/gallery/ca

Support

• Advertising and supporting CA

Discuss

• Visit the Forum.
• Check out what's new.
• Join the #ca channel (type /j #CA) in the lobby.
• Reply to our thread in the official Spring forums.
• Suggest a feature.
• Report a problem.
• Join a Tournament.

Documentation

• Read the Manual.
• Read the Credits.

For Developers

General

• Review all changes since the last stable release.
• Development Log
• Development Version
• Learn how to use the SubversionRepository.
• Developer Pages
• List of current polls
• Developer System Specs. (If you need testing)
• Programs to manage .DDS Files
• List of reported LUA errors http://files.caspring.org/caupdater/spring_errors/
• Open Resources

Design Documents

• Balance Guidelines
• Balance Discussion
• Graphical Design Document
• Weapon Standardization
• Unit Categories
• Air Changes
• Sea Changes
• Resource Ratios
• HoversAndAmphis
• Movetypes
• Ballistics
• Extra Resources
• Economy

Artwork

• Get contributed models.
• Concept Art
• Story
• New Names
• Explosion Images
• Unused and OTA textures

Audio

• Unit Responses
• General Effects
• Story Audio?

Scripting

• Spring Lua API reference.
• Performance notes

Map/Mod Downloader

• Mod statistics
• Number of CaDownloader online
• Map/Mod Downloader Protocol