It gives the impression that one day we'll get something like this as a blend of Halo 3 and Halo Wars, (or C&C3 and COD4, or whatever) where you command large armies of online gamers shooting it out in a full blown war.
It looks like it could be fun, but I'm still not sold on controlling the units using the gamepad. I feel that they should turn it into a massively multiplayer online FPS instead.
It's still early, but it doesn't seem like they're going with the much darker and moodier art direction as shown in their CG trailer.
wow this looks to good to be at pre-alpha stage. i hope ensemble realizes that designing a traditional pc rts (with controls mapped to 360's pad) won't be enough to create a million seller, we need a rts control revolution dammit!