Supreme Commander Talk

Cross-posted to Supcom-Live.
Following yesterday’s post on advantageous ways to donate all of your units to your ally upon death, it struck me that I haven’t yet blogged about the importance of unit donations in general. These suggestions are most apt for 2v2 and 3v3 ladder games, where you live and die as a team, [...]

Grokmoo and I got back from the beach today. It was a lot of fun, especially sailing in the Delaware Bay and motorboating in the Atlantic Ocean. Oh, and the beach wasn’t too bad either. And I got a hole-in-one on three separate holes at the mini-golf course; the last hole-in-one even [...]

I was playing some 2v2 ranked ladder games with Wuped two days ago and he taught me some excellent strategies that he gave the okay to pass on to all of you. If you don’t recognize the name, Wuped and his partner ktachuck are currently ranked #6 on the 2v2 ladder, so they’re obviously [...]

As almost everyone certainly knows, SCUs are prized in longer lasting SupCom games for their Resource Allocation System Upgrade (RAS). Building this upgrade on as many SCUs as possible is by the far the most effective way to develop a huge late game economy, which is required to build the most powerful units and [...]

The v3255 has changed air balance more than the patch notes would lead you to believe. No, air superiority fighters haven’t been improved (sigh), but now that Soul Rippers can be targeted by gunships, the dynamic of air combat changes a lot (at least in battles that have one or more Cybran players). [...]

The custom map Art of Defense is all the rage these days on GPGnet (sorry Zone Control). It is widely liked for how difficult it is. You can be a really good player and still need multiple tries to figure it out (like I saw when playing with Unconquerable), because it’s quite different [...]

Here’s a little tidbit that many of you probably didn’t know. As has been reported in the official forums, the ACU overcharge weapon does full damage against enemy ACU shielding. This means that you can completely drain an enemy Commander’s shields in a single shot! As you probably do know, the overcharge [...]

Cross-posted to Supreme Commander Live.
With the release of the latest hotfix patch we’ve seen the last change in a sweeping balance adjustment to air combat that has fallen beneath most people’s radar. But before I look at the ramifications of it in depth, let’s look at the balance of the air superiority fighters from [...]

It’s been a little while since we’ve taken an in-depth look at a replay between two top-ranked players, so let’s do another one. This ranked 1v1 match takes place between Sir Loui (“Sir_Loui”), currently ranked #1 on the ladder, and Cauldron (“Cauldr0n”), currently ranked #9, on the map Sentry Point, with both people playing [...]

Good day, I’m Testudaphobia. Along with Grokmoo and CydeWeys, I attended the University of Maryland, and was a roommate of Grokmoo. Do not fear-it is unlikely SupComTalk will be saturated with any more current or former Maryland students. I’m a brand new SupCom player. After taking over a week to select [...]