Supreme Commander Talk

Check out this exciting match between Gollum (ranked 4th) and Ftang (ranked 7th). The match is played on Open Palms, which is a small, mass-rich map where the conflict starts almost immediately and never slows down. It’s pretty much the optimal map to watch great players really going at it, which is what [...]

A few days ago I was made aware of an exploit in the wild that was starting to be used in ranked games. I forwarded it to a Gas Powered Games employee, who said that GPG was as of yet unaware of it, and they have since started working on a fix. In [...]

Sorry guys, I was in New York City on a less-than-24 hour trip, so I haven’t been able to update the site in just over a day. And in the short time that I was gone, my oh my, look at all of this new Supreme Commander news! I would be remiss not [...]

The title says it all.  Why is it that literally a dozen or even more tech 1 mobile AA pieces can easily take several minutes to take down a single bomber?  This is not even the worst case; they are literally completely useless against tech 1 interceptors.  While a few tech 1 AA pieces admittedly [...]

I know this is going to sound incredibly obvious, and rightfully so, but it’s still so important that I can’t help but mention it: teamwork is absolutely vital in 2v2 ranked ladder. Unconquerable and Mentel are currently sitting at 47 wins and 0 losses on the 2v2 ranked ladder. It’s not just because [...]

It turns out the multiplayer ranks actually have names; they just aren’t used anywhere in the interface (yet?). I figured this out by working off the theme of one of the images whose link was provided to me. Here we go:
Rookie

A new patch for Supreme Commander has been released. Restart GPGNet and it will be applied automatically. It’s a small patch that just fixes a few bugs. It is not the big patch on the way that will include the official map editor. Here are the release notes:

Corrected known desync most [...]

As someone who tries to play competitively every game, there are some strategies I don’t often get a chance to utilize. In 1v1 ranked games, for example, the name of the game is ultra-rapid expansion and building as many factories as your economy will allow. In these games, the “base” is very loosely [...]

If you thought the five-way free for all at sea was epic, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Unconquerable and crew return to do one better in this ridiculous match (and when I saw ridiculous, I’m talking dozens-of-galactic-colossi-ridiculous). The players were Unconquerable, RapierX, DeadLegion, SonofShagrat, TimmyFred, and Unclean_Beast. Unfortunately, the former three players [...]

Grokmoo literally stole* my idea of writing about the lack of variety of tech 3 land units in his most recent post, but he didn’t cover everything I wanted to say on the subject. Hence this post.
Tech 3 is barren in the land department. Really, really barren. As barren as the current [...]