BEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how are you going to be able to keep control of so many units?
how can you finish games on such giant maps?
what kinda computer do you need to play this game?
well.... the answers are easy, first off, you can zoom out all the way so you can see all your units and you can use hotkeys to select and group them. also you can set patrol and movement paths that can me changed by dragging them around with reselecting everything and starting the whole thing over again... PLUS it has an ETA timer so you know when your group is gonna get there.
second off, if your opponent is turtling, you ca nuse teh map size to manuever around and attack him on all sides... any base will go down if you have hundreds of units attacking on all sides and from the air... also the nukes are freakin HUGE!!! and experimental units escimate literally everything in their path, but they all have a weakness so defend them where they need it.
third off, well... your gonna need a pretty good comp to get this one going... i usually get close to 500 units in my attack group befoer i attack, so once the action gets up this gae starts lagging... but not too bad, plus i can always zoom out to reduce poly count and then use the mini map (YES!!! even the mini map can zoom in and out all the way) to watch the fighting.
a lot of people try dissing this game, but thars because they are rather bad at it or havent played against someone that challenges them. In good fights, the battles arent only in the center or at eachothers bases like in many other RTSs, in AOE, the fighting was primarily in the middle area between the bases and in the bases... same with BFME2 and EE... here in Sup Com, the fighting is for strategic points, like an island you could use as an airstrip or put an artilary on it, or for mass deposites, or an area the gives clear room for building a second or third, or if your like me, fourth base.
battles cant be won by spamming your best unit... you need to use them all.... if you use only T3 siege bots... they'll kill you with gunships or battleships... if you only use airplanes, they'll throw all sorts of AA at you and then use units like the GC to walk over to yuor base and destroy it... balancing air, land and sea is important... also keeping defences and artilary is important.
i could go on forever about how diferent stragities can bring down even the best players if they neglect to defend against a certain force... This game is truely something else
Ever since Total Annihilation, I've always wanted to play an RTS that had that many units... just thousands of units on the map blasting eachother and leaving battlefields littered with wreckage and craters... this is that game!! SUPREME COMMANDER IS THE BEST RTS... BEST GAME EVER MADE!!!!!!!