I wish that this was someday attempted.

I suspect that one day, when Moore's law is over and we're no longer getting the generational performance gains, this will be attempted.

So we got flashy strategies where everything is scripted, where missions are corridor-like and, at the end, we'll get missions with dogs? Eh... We already had Red Alert with dogs.

Have you tried Myth series? It's more like "tactical" game, but it may provide you droids challenge you looking for.

We live in the world where it's much easier to do simplest mathematic, adding health, damage, and ability usage frequency, forcing players to calculate better damage per second per cost and looking for best counters. It also could be interesting task for that interaural ganglion, but that's more from "excel simulator", I agree.

Good luck finding those. Guess the main source of games where we see that will be games without any building, where we could operate only with units we have at hands. Yet even there we could have those "mathematical" things.

I meant 1&2. Every EA touches is... hmm... worse than touched by tiberium. IIRC first RA had either mission, or mini-campaign about cyber-soldier and his dog, no? Eat that, Riley!

Specifically for what, lack of building, or smart AI?

If person thinks that original Avernum or Eador looks fine, and he owns a lot of old games on GoG, how much he cares for graphic?