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> I decided that I would rework the game concept to eliminate the need for the player to place buildings at all.

This sounds interesting. Can you explain a bit more about this?

Sure. I replaced the building system with a big portal that each team controls. Instead of in-game buildings, I built a menu/UI system that allows the player to control which units would come out of the portal. Units don't take commands from the player (another massive simplification). They only seek out the enemy portal and will engage other units on that path automatically. Destruction of the portal is the win condition.

Unity's navmesh system is doing most of the heavy lifting right now. It's amazing how much functionality you can get out of it before you have to reach for physics and animation.

This reminds me of something mixing the Age of War flash game (which had great music) and TeamFight Tactics (TFT). An RTS without some kind of unit control seems strange, but interesting as it is often the greatest barrier to accessing the game.

Sounds vaguely similar to a late 90’s pc/playstation game I recall playing, although that also had capture points and the ability to build defense structures along the predetermined paths.

Edit - this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Cop:_LAPD

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