“While Sickles have an unparalleled ability to attack in any direction around them, their turrets cannot swivel vertically far enough to engage enemy aircraft. Speculation that KDB purposely designed this limitation to ensure that both its Sickles and its KDB-2 Bullfrogs get purchased in bulk is patently false.”
The history of Westwood Studios, the developer of C&C, is vital to the RTS genre; without C&C, RTS might be very different today, and without Westwood Studios, RTS might not even exist. It was the company’s commitment to risk-taking and creative freedom that allowed C&C and RTS to bloom.(source: Alex Devkar, 2003, Command and Conquer in the Development of Real-Time Strategy)