Supreme Commander Talk

The engineer drop is an excellent, yet unfortunately seldom-used, maneuver that frequently blows games wide open. The maneuver itself is simple: load up some engineers into transport(s) and drop them behind enemy lines. Most of the time they will get through, especially if you fly the transport(s) off the edge of the map. [...]

Tis an open thread like any other, but with a bonus optional topic of discussion: Which custom map archetypes are you looking forward to being ported over into Supreme Commander from previous games? There’s a lot of great stuff from WarCraft III and StarCraft that can be implemented in Supreme Commander as soon as [...]

One unfortunate tendency that I notice amongst novice players is a fever for fancy units. By “fancy” I am referring to, roughly, every unit that costs over 10,000 mass. This includes all of the experimental units as well as tech 3 artillery and nuclear launchers. Yes, it’s true that the big, expensive, [...]

A lot is going on in the mod community, and those crazy helpful GPG employees are posting like mad, so heres a quick rundown of whats going on with those crazy modders and mappers.
O has just confirmed that replays storing chat is planned, though it won’t be in the next patch. For anyone interested in [...]

Thanks to Jotto for pointing me to the Supreme Commander Mod Vault. It’s a free third-party application made by D2K Studios that basically works as a vault for mods in the same way that GPGnet works as a vault for replays. As of this moment the mod vault has 34 different mods in [...]

Lately, a new consensus seems to be emerging that the Cybrans are the best faction to play on close-quarters expansive maps, even better than Aeon. This realization was only made widespread recently after the removal of all water maps from ranked rotation, which finally allowed non-Aeon factions to get a fair shake in ranked [...]

The other day, CydeWeys pointed out to me a rather unusual match that he had seen on Winter Duel. We’ve done reviews of quite a few battles on this map, but none have been like this one, between TheLittleOne (playing Aeon), and Djinn (playing Cybran).
The game opens like pretty much any other, with both [...]

While waiting for the next patch, I’ve come up with a 1v1 custom game idea significantly different from normal gameplay that doesn’t require any of the new custom map code coming in the new patch. Here’s how it works.

Select a small, flat map. Set the options as follows: fog of war: none, unit [...]

This is an open thread; you know what to do. If you can’t think of anything to say on your own, try arguing with the other readers about what you think the correct answer to this poll is:

We don’t yet know when the patch is coming out (and indeed, we probably won’t know until it actually happens), but there are some things we do know. For one, the patch has been undergoing testing for about a week now. Gas Powered Games set up a separate beta/testing server and granted access [...]