What happened to the original Halo Wars?

I know it’s really old but I can’t find an answer anywhere. When Ensemble released the demo trailer for Halo Wars in 2007 (ithink) the game looked and functioned different from the released game. (Base building wise at least) Did they ever give an official reason for changing the gameplay like that? I personally would’ve loved a C&C style Halo Wars

In Ensemble’s dev blog, they explained why they did away with it. It was originally on HaloWars.com which has been dead for many years now, but fortunately the posts were archived on remember-ensemblestudios.com. Here’s the link to the post: Halo Wars Dev Blogs (page 2) | Remember Ensemble Studios

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> In Ensemble’s dev blog, they explained why they did away with it. It was originally on HaloWars.com which has been dead for many years now, but fortunately the posts were archived on remember-ensemblestudios.com. Here’s the link to the post: Halo Wars Dev Blogs (page 2) | Remember Ensemble Studios

Wow thank you! That answered my question perfectly