Why don't you like Generals? Generals requires a lot of strategic thinking compared to all previous C&C games. The point being is that even a smaller army made a difference if you your opponent had a bigfger army, and depending on what type of units they were, the better smaller army with good untis and what not could pwn someone's big ass army depending on what choice of units you made.
C&C 3 looks pretty promising, I only hope that they include naval units (that can be built) in this one (Of course, there are mods avalible for Zero hour that can give you naval units and such but the units aren't so great or it is very buggy).