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[Shackhal]

Isometric/3D Art

Eh, I disagree on this one, a top-down view can work just as fine (and it'll be probably easier to program, at that).

And I agreed with @Sit. An example of this is a game someone made in the Low-Rez Jam hosted on GameJolt. And a good one.
http://gamejolt.com/games/strategy-sim/cmd-kill/26318/

[Suminsky]

Dunno if anyone mentioned it, but I think implementing the ai for an RTS is a humongous task, and a very important one, since stupid enemies or troops will most certainly ruin the gameplay.

 You need the "god/general" ai controlling the enemy, with requires all sorts of analysis of the current game state, and the ai for the troopers, with decent pathfinding and steering behavior. Those things also tend to be computational intensive, requiring performance optimizations.

If you compare with 2d platformers for example, a simple patrolling left to right for an enemy can be satisfying enough.

The other thing is balancing...balancing certainly can be the most time consuming aspect of game design, and RTS suffers a lot from it... Indies dont have access to a bunch of paid play testers like huge companies.