Supreme Commander Talk

I just finished playing a ranked 1v1 where my opponent seemed to be trying a mixed air/land strategy. Unfortunately for him, he made more bombers than interceptors, and so all of his air units were toast when I sent in my own interceptors. It’s really easy to gain air superiority at the lower levels of competitive play. Just make an air factory and have it spam interceptors. That’s it. If you want to speed it up a little bit, set an engineer or two to assist it. But that’s really all it takes. Within very little time at all you’ll have lots of interceptors, eager to rip your enemy’s bombers into shreds.

I have a replay available for download that shows how I got and maintained air superiority. Also notice that I had multiple groups of interceptors stationed around the map, ready to quickly engage and take out bombers harassing my advancing columns of troops. Every time I sent more troops, he sent all of his bombers at them, and every time that happened, I sent in my interceptors I had waiting just a kilometer away, annihilating his air units. If he had built an air factor or two and had them solely focused on spamming interceptors he could’ve controlled the skies, but he didn’t. Spamming interceptors is worth it even if you don’t think your opponent is using lots of air power. It is essentially free.

This game went on for a little while because I was busy harassing him with Tech I units in loose formation just to keep him pinned up in his corner. My units were getting slaughtered, but they did their job. Meanwhile, I was upgrading all of my metal extractors to Tech III and had five Tech III land factories pumping out harbingers and their ilk. Finally he disconnected from the game when my massive tight formation of Tech III units (with mobile shields) marched through the center of the map (a vector I had not previously attacked from) and sliced through his defenses and into his base like a plasma torch through wet butter.

Download the replay of this game.

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 10th, 2007 at 11:07 am by Cyde Weys and is filed under Multiplayer, Replays. Keywords: Tags: air superiority, interceptor, land factory, replay, Supreme Commander, Tech III, tech up. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.