This will probably only apply to Brian (although i know he has already gotten this in his PC Gamer issue), but perhaps there are other rts/relic/warhammer 40k fans out there. Anyway, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II comes out February 19 and is a real-time strategy game for the computer. What's interesting about it, is that it isn't going to follow the normal gameplay of other rts's. Instead, you control small squads of Blood Ravens, Tyranids, and Orks and then basically you fight for the same reasons you would in a normal rts: for complete control of the map. The squad based gameplay makes the game a more action rpg (rpg becuase you can obtain wargear drops to equip to your squads) game and it gets rid of the base-building idea, which in my opinion is great, because i personally don't really like it. Anyway, yeah, i dont know, maybe there are others who are interested in pc games and if so, share your opinions of this game here.

how is this different from a normal RTS?

its more like company of heroes (due to the fact its by the same company) because instead of focusing on base-building it focuses mostly on combat by making you control smaller squads of guys