Empire Earth II (and I guess one as well) - is a similar experience that I have enjoyed for many hours since retiring the Amiga.. not so modern these days sadly. I found one of the cdroms for it not long ago.

If someone would please make Empire Earth III happen, it would be greatly appreciated.

Empire Earth III did happen. But even the studio who made it tried to bury any trace of it. It was huge flop.

So we need an EE 4 then! EE 1 and 2 were really good and I'd prefer to play them over most games I've looked into since.

Wonder what similar / modern current RTS would be close?