Comments on: A non-cheating way to achieve no-fog

By: Helliouse

Helliouse — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:53:09 +0000

First off Great Tactic. like it,
Second all is fair in love and war, when a tactic yeilds a clear advantage in war no matter what it is or how it works, use it. If you think your emimies wont you are a fool.
It is a matter of winning/survival, if you want it you will do what it takes to get it.

The only exception is of course a exploit/game flaw(cheating), but GPG takes care of most of them.

Thanks Wuped

By: Zerk

Zerk — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:34:27 +0000

hay i have a problem, supreme commander works good but when i play it theres so much fog i can’t see.

By: Deman

Deman — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:46:34 +0000

Been doing this since beta :/

Guess I am not so far behind in general gameplay as some say I am.

By: Ktachuck

Ktachuck — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:19:43 +0000

The most important thing here is you are always prepared for what the enemy is doing and you aren’t wasting resources for things that they aren’t doing.
They have no Air factory? Why do I need expensive sams?
Of course you can see all their weak spots and exploit them. It’s simple intel power.

By: Wuped

Wuped — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:28:02 +0000

Another advantage of this technique is if they don’t have constant scouts they will not notice your strat bombers/transports on radar.

By: Cattletech

Cattletech — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:12:25 +0000

…by they I mean the interceptors, of course.

By: Cattletech

Cattletech — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:11:17 +0000

Well, I did say it was minor. But hundreds of scouts, on a turtle map like Isis, is definitely possible, especially if you have 8 factories cranking them out.

Oh, and one other minor advantage this technique has is that if your opponent neglects to build refuel pads, they’ll eventually run out of fuel chasing the scouts.

By: theShiznit

theShiznit — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:51:31 +0000

There is nothing wrong with this technique. Scouts are meant for scouting, spam or not. I’ll start using it soon for sure. Off screen flight is not my favorite but i like it when it works hence i’m not mad at all when someone else is using it. Can we get a poll on that maybe?

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:45:58 +0000

Cattletech: Veterancy level 1 (50 kills) grants a 25% DPS increase and veterancy level 3 (250 kills) grants a (non-cumulative) 50% DPS increase. This isn’t really a big deal. The game would have to go on for a long time before you fed hundreds of scouts per SAM missile launcher to your enemy.

By: Cattletech

Cattletech — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:26:37 +0000

Yeah, on Emerald I always set a factory to pump out scouts with waypoints sweeping the entire map. It was funny when someone tried to drop UEF T2 engies behind my base and build alohas - I captured them with my ACU, giving me access to his T3 arty and SCU shields to protect my already cloaked ACU >:D

However, one minor drawback to this method is that by constantly feeding the enemy’s SAMs with scouts, you let them gain veteran bonuses. I can imagine they’d quickly get to vet level 3, which almost doubles DPS - so it could backfire if you’re planning on an Aerial assault/SAB drops.