Dawn of the Tiberium Age (DTA) is a stand-alone mod that combines Tiberian Dawn (C&C 95) and Red Alert. While classic mode gets as close to the original game-play and balance as possible, Enhanced mode provides improved game balance and a lot of fun new stuff. DTA features many customization options for Skirmish and multiplayer (where you can play as GDI, Nod, Allies and Soviet on over 200 maps), challenging original singleplayer missions, as well as co-op missions. Since this is a stand-alone mod, you don't require anything but the mod itself to be able to play: the original game is not required.
A battle going on during an Ion Storm on Tiber.
A feature that wasn't mentioned yet is that the "Stormy Weather" option will make the storm start right at the start of the match and persist throughout the whole match.
And in case anyone hadn't noticed yet, DTA 1.15 was released an hour ago.
Lovely feature & downloading the new version now.
This seemed like a good idea to me at first, and I excitedly jumped into a game with a storm raging. However, this quickly became very, very annoying after about half an hour. Constantly losing infantry, vehicles and buildings to lightning strikes, and endlessly being alerted to damage was just too irritating to complete the match. The main attraction of this option to me, other than the cool atmosphere of battling during a storm, was the chance to play a game where air units are unavailable, as during skirmish I absolutely hate how the AI can pinpoint your harvesters from the other side of the map and send waves of jets. Unfortunately aircraft can now be deployed even during the storm, which has sadly removed this option for me.
Would it not be better to have aircraft during storms as its own option?
I'd consider adding an option for disabling aircraft, but it'd ruin the balance between the factions (especially GDI would suffer) and there's currently also just no space to add another game option.