Supreme Commander Forged Alliance

[korppis]

Had to buy it, and it's just as awesome as I remembered. It's very challencing in co-op against AI's too.

I actually managed to capture a fatboy with one T3 engineer in last game! That poor bastard tried to flank into my city submerged, but got stuck to wreckage just before being able to surface. It couldn't shoot or be shot at while still underwater, so I sent one engineer and it spent good 15 minutes to capture it, but it worked! 

[Nightmare798]

Hey ho, time for a bump. Apparently Supreme Commander Forged Alliance is on sale until 10 March. It goes for 2,5 euros now which is nothing for such an amazing game. I played 85 matches now and still enjoying the hell out of it. Corsair and Phoenix also play it.

Here is another good match cast by Gyle, give it a glance if you like RTS games.

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Here is a really amazing game, but it is one and a half hour long.

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I would love to play this again, but my laptop fucked up, and now I have to work my ass off to buy another pc....

[Teeth]

Time for a bump to do my part in promoting the most underappreciated piece of brilliant game design of our generation. Still absolutely loving this game, played 160 games so far. It's cheap, 10 euros and regularly on sale for like 2,50, either price is a complete steal. If you like RTS games you just need to try this. It's not about clicking 400 times a minute, I probably barely pass a CPM of 60, it's a thinking game. Chess with giant robots. If anyone wants someone to play with or if you need some basic tips and tricks search for Teeth on Steam.

Here is a good cast of a high level game, check it out.

[Rico]

Time for a bump, I am playing this too and got to recommend it.

Forged Alliance is a space RTS (=real time strategy, meaning it's not turn-based) which has a higher focus on decision making and is less about APM (=actions per minute, the speed at which you give commands) than most other RTS games out there. Imagine Starcraft, but spend most of the time thinking instead of micromanaging your units. The game has a unique mechanic called reclaim, which allows you to recycle fossils, trees and wreckage of destroyed units and structures to boost your economy. You can recover 80% of the mass invested into a unit from its wreckage, which means losing a fight close to the enemy base is punished hard, for the enemy will use the dead units he lost and the dead units you lost to reassemble a huge army to throw back at you. Make careful decisions and exploit the mistakes of your opponents.

Some of you might know the concept from Total Annihilation, the spiritual predecessor of Forged Alliance.

Where to get it:

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Buy the base game, best wait for a steam sale http://store.steampowered.com/app/9420/
Download the player-made lobby http://www.faforever.com/downloads/#.VvA7hOJoBfA

Find out which faction you belong to:

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http://kalavinka.co.uk/supremecommander/
You can play all four factions, but it's highly recommended to stick to one at the beginning for learning the game.

Get started:

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http://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1999&hilit=ubilaz
Using this guide instead of playing Gap of Rohan, Seton's and Thermo works best. The currently popular maps reward a very noobish way of gameplay that won't get you very far on maps other than these three. Do yourself a favor and learn the real game instead of carving your niche that teaches you the wrong things which you will have to painfully unlearn later if you want to get better. You can still play GoR, Seton's and Thermo once you understood the normal gameplay.

Message me on FAF (user: Heaven) if you want a tutorial for multiplayer gameplay

Proceed at your own risk:

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Watch my fails on YouTube casts:

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Are you sure you want to see this?

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Edit: Sorry for redundancy, I made the post before using the search function, and then found this thread :oops: