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So... yes and no on the early factories. It makes a slight difference depending on the map, but unless you NEED big eco, engies can usually build the base just as well as the commander. On a small map, factory ->4 mexes -> walk com is the usual front rush strat, though the number of trees then dictates whether the engies start reclaiming hard or building energy. Especially in that spot where 4 mantis conquered and held the extractors, the com would have been able to build that spot because it could kill the Mantis.

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The AA gunship is so good at killing asf. If you are fighting multiple people with air by yourself, AA gunships combine with asf can win against 2 asf swarms

this is forged alliance forever GOLD!!!! Thank you so much TheGreenSquier! PLEASE LIKE AN SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL HIS INFO IS SPOT ON!!

Amazing video, thanks!

I did record a video quite a bit ago which I wanted to turn into an airguide. It's not flawless but an example of a nearly perfect air gameplay in a real game. Since I won't contribute to FAF anymore, I'll just leave the link to the non-audio version here if someone wants to take a look or if someone wants to make an airguide out of it. Plan was to simply pause the video smts and go over the gameplan and situations. czcams.com/video/mPtkddDG5Lo/video.html&ab_channel=Sladow

hey man, the start was always my weakest and my friends would just jump out of the gates and so many games I lost just because I couldn't keep up, your vids have helped so much maybe I can start winning more consistently, tysm man!

Wow thank you TheGreenSquier

When sending engis far out to build mexes, whats the least brain taxing method of defending them againt enemy tank+scout (or bomber) harassment? Or is it not worth the effort?

Time for ranting! B) 8:50 I do not suggest to ring any T1 nor T2 radars. Why? - Bc they're at front aka. in a greater danger and they make a much more juicy target for random bombers which you're unlikely to stop if more things are going on. Just keep the PGs in the base 12:50 Not a huuuge fan of the template bc of one reason: Energy storages cost a shit ton of mass (250 mass per storage aka nearly 5 tanks). If you queue up these templates, you're most likely building storages when you do not even need them, so I'd recommend doing a PG only grid and add it manually once you need it. (Will you forget it from time to time? Yes. Do I forget it a lot of times? Yes. This point prob comes down to preference and the ranking we're talking about, it's just my PoV so always take it with a grain of salt) 20:15 Put the scout first, it's useful not only for scouting the base early but if you send it over a side you can spot either engis you can raid or other raid parties coming towards your own engis. I'd also recommend a lower ratio such as 4:1 (or even 3:1 early on if we're talking about larger maps) 22:00 There's an option so you do not have to do this anymore. If engis assist a mex, it automatically upgrades&pauses at the same time, so you can just support every mex you want with engis and it'll do its thing on its own 23:50 Infinite engis except on very small maps with barely reclaim* (e.g. Theta Passage) 28:50 was about to add this as it happened to myself way too often xd Other than that, great stuff! Thanks for putting this together! <3

how on earth did you quickly surround the radar with energy at 8:45?

Its the aeon t1 tank that shoots way further than its visual range. You want to mix in artillery with your tanks as those really benefit from recon and deal huge damage. However for scouting/early raids use the light attack bots or gamble on a bomber. Light attack bots are super fast for hitting extractors or engis. A bomber costs more power and needs a different build order.

how do u have the hotkeys on the building icons?

Are there any patches for the UEF battlecruiser, because the only weapons that work are the torpedos/anti-torpedos; the railguns don't work.

Im stoned playing sc its like being in middle school again except ive got uber eats and no parents

Priceless advices

Your "lost engineer" on the 1st air factory was actually assigned to the Com (6:00) and he hadn't made it there yet when you were blaming an engineer. Right at that moment, (7:00) the Com was working on the PGs next in the queue. LOL. Very good video. I'm about 5 hours in to the game and 20+ hours tutorial videos in, but this as helpful as any. Thanks. Subbed.

Great info as always!

By misclick you send that engineer to support your second land factory ;-).

Thank you! I know your niche is small, but you make really incredible content! It's so hard to find up to date FAF stuff/guides.

There reason or explanation why you want to make power generators 1rst is that 650 starting mass is a lot of mass, while 4000 starting power is not a lot of power and power will run out very quick if you don't make power generators early

I usually built one factory and one mass extractor before sending com, has the meta changed?

Ah man thank you for this haha. My group of friends and I play every week and I've been stressing build orders to them to help them not get flattened out

Was just about to get back in to FAF and wondered if my old build orders were still good, then this pops up, nice.

For me the biggest suprise with seraphim was the nuke-facility. Everyone knows that it requires 2 anti-nukes to get it down and most people know it has a lot bigger aoe than a standard nuke. But here's another one: it costs almost no mass to build nukes once the building is done, making it only energy hungry instead of mass and energy.

I need to start using the T1 Mech Marines more.

Dude are you alive?

so ik eveyone haate supcom2 but it was my jam when i waas younger, i haave recently started on supcom faf aaand i have been losiing hard to my buddy whom is very good aaat rts. These videos are hellping me so much. The tip about not placing to maany point defences is gonna help me an insane aamount. Thank you sir.

I haven’t played FAF yet but I’m the OG SUPCOM all air scouts have the death camera. Gives you intel until it hits the ground.

how is your ui on the bottom?

Hardest thing for me is Sorian AIX, tier 3 battleships by 12 mins while also spamming everything under the sun is annoying. if its just land I can hold and beat it thinking not enough free t1 Engineer on auto mass reclaim to help push economy to beat AIX Income

A lot of this stuff needs to be baked in. It bothers me how much best practice that literally all skilled players are expected to do and know isn't automated. And I think this contributes to why playing vs AI is no fun because AI doesn't do these things and is thus extremely weak for it. It ruins immersion for me when best practice isn't automated because it reminds me this isn't a real living society, these units aren't alive, don't evolve, don't think, etc. On thing PA does better than FA on this front is structure commands and area targeting. At least in this way I can fake some best practice by say making a factory with orders to reclaim the entire planet/map. Then, every fab I make in that plant comes out and tries to hoover up everything, which is what you'd expect from a basic war standing order like "bring me metal." I feel like this game would be a lot more popular if we would just promote the humans to officers, and let them focus on the higher level play rather than APM micro and best practice chores. FA having build templates is the most promising aspect of the game on this front that is basically squandered by the contradictory demand for APM and micro.

Player (Colonel) : Rhiza! Send your Floaty-floaty Naughties-Naughties from the north while I distract the aliens. Take out those A$$washers! Rhiza: .......Huh?? HQ: What the heck Colonel. Did you got nuked or something? HQ out.

Man I love this game

In response to your last question how did I find out about this game. I started playing beyond all reason 3 months ago and decided to check out a few other games in the genre. Im finding Supcom to be extremely confusing since im missing all the QoL features from beyond all reason but the art style of supcom is so dam cool I feel I need to give it a shot.

1- its called a ZETA, not a "ceee" 2 -You kept saying ctrol cee and then sometimes shift ceee... which one is it, ctrl or shift?

Great stuff man, thank you!

Best part of getting into this game late is i have a billion old videos telling me super useful stuff

Didn't know all this ! :o

I would add one other key bit. INTEL. It doesn't matter if it's land scouts, mech marines, or just a tank. Park it on a flank, and give yourself an early warning system set up. Radar's are good, but if you are truly new to the game. You will often power-stall and get blindsided by a force you never saw. Land scouts early on and scattered around are invaluable. If you make it into late game. Don't ignore the usefulness of just quickly building a T1 air factory to just constantly build T1 spy planes to throw into your enemies base. They will still give quite a bit of information even upon their death. And in the late game. Real-time visual data is equally invaluable against lots of stealth.

watching this while waiting in faf lobby makes me wishing to get opti air the first time ever

What's the bouncer??? I just redownload the game other day and played as the Cybrans and I didnt see that unit. 10:32

😒 *Promo SM*

that air role in team games sounds really linear. Thank you for the guide, but it doesn't sound motivating to more or less rush t3 air, spam t3 AAA and then try to get the air superiority, before you really start taking influence in the rest of the game.

love this game wish it was better optimized. so many of the units for each faction look beautiful. although i like total annihilation more in terms of gameplay i like supreme commander for the amazing battles and beautiful units, and the ai is fun in supreme commander as they like to spam tons of t1 units so the battles are super epic, just my computer cant run the game properly oof

nice video very well made and informative. had no idea the uef gunship could transport and that billy part was hilarious

Need a better microphone for Sladow-Noob ☺. Thanks a lot guys fo taking the time to explain everything you did. Good Job !

I watched the Gyle videos and thought: hey! This could be a lot of fun. Learning curve is definitely steep, but with videos like these I'm hoping to hone my skills in no time!