“ZOMG the Forged Alliance trailer is out” open thread

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

In case you were living under a rock that was encased in carbonite and buried in a Baghdad marketplace this past week, let me point out that the Supreme Commander stand-alone expansion Forged Alliance trailer was released this week. We still haven’t figured out what all of the units do. For instance, what [...]

Assisting shields

Friday, May 25th, 2007

One new feature added in the recent patch that we haven’t yet mentioned is the ability of engineers to assist shields. Essentially, engineers can now assist shields in a manner similar to how they could already assist factories.
At first glance, this may seem like a poorly balanced feature. After all, what is to [...]

Wallapalooza

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Walls frequently get the shaft from Supreme Commander players. This is a shame, because walls are such useful, under-appreciated units. Let’s take an in-depth look at walls.
First of all, it’s important to note that walls are very, very cheap. Each wall section only costs 2 mass and 10 energy (and counts as [...]