Supreme Commander Talk

Yesterday, CydeWeys and I had the opportunity to participate in a nice 2v2 ranked game on Emerald Crater. The game highlighted both the strengths and current weaknesses of 2v2 ranked play in SupCom.
The first thing we noticed when loading up the game was that the 2v2 matching system does not really work smoothly. [...]

Woo! I barely came through on this one. For those of you not wanting to see a match similar to the last one, I can tell you that this is most certainly shorter but is also of a much higher caliber (skill wise). Though I lacked adaptation I still managed to pull [...]

This is my first article in what may or may not become a series on games I have played.
For those of you who didn’t catch my previous introduction since it was buried in a response to a post by Cyde Weys, I’ve decided that a good way to both contribute to the community and to [...]

CydeWeys and I were recently involved in a nice 4 way free for all on Four Leaf Clover. The other two participants were Fargone and Dl_Smokey. While it was a long match, there was plenty of action throughout.
You will notice at the start that I very quickly fall far, far behind the other [...]

I was watching a friend of mine play a SupCom match the other day and something struck me about his style of play. Although he expanded fairly quickly and had decent economic management skills, one aspect of his play was decisively noobish – his control (or lack thereof) of his armies.
I observed silently for [...]

An invitation to disaster.

I played a 3-way FFA custom game recently (I know, a rarity) and it highlighted perfectly the dangers of fab matrices in online play. Fab matrices are elaborate laid out patterns of power generators and mass fabricators that maximize adjacency bonuses. Of course, they’re also extremely volatile, and a single [...]

One thing I’m realizing as I read the blogs here is that we have a wide variety of different players. Grokmoo and I mainly come from the competitive multiplayer standpoint, but judging from the comments, it seems that a lot of our readers may have a different focus, and we’d like to put up [...]

[Ed. note by Cyde Weys: In this post we depart from our usual fare of showing matches between experts and show more of what an average ranked match is like. There is a lot that can be learned just from watching this replay.]
Download the replay of this match (v3223).
Oh man what a match! [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]