...give the fielded troops limited supplies which need a vehicle/worker/thing to resupply them. Then add a road network. Then add combat engineering. Then take away perfect information. Then make the map larger, to make positioning more important. Add basic terrain features like forests, rivers, and open areas. Go from having one base, to dozens of scattered resource nodes. Etcetera.

Realism is not the point.

An RTS game is supposed to be like playing Sim City against someone else playing Sim City

Soulsbornes are shitty action games that overcompensate for their lack of depth by deliberately wasting the player’s time. They reframe this tedium as “difficulty,” and if you point out how obnoxious this is, a legion of (P)reddit-tier NPCs will descend upon you with their regurgitated slogans of tolerate tedium “git gud” or just use a guide like I did “you just want your hand held, casual.”