#Supreme Commander

[theexitors]

i posted my other keroro shitposts but i dont think i ever posted this one. from january

[beastsovrevelation]

I decided I'll try do draw Michael, so here's the sketch.

I'm... Not used to doing digital art. Please ignore whatever is going on with the chainmail, and on the shield. 😅 She's missing wings for now, also.

The reference picture is from some movie about highschool students that turn into characters from King Arthur legends. It may be called Avalon High. I think I may've actually seen it, long ago.

[mrs-underhill22]

[ambersadventuresinwonderland]

Thank you to my wonderful husband for the first figure that begins my Stargate collection!!! 🖤🛸👽

[grayrazor]

Total Annihilation somehow has the vibes like it should have gotten an early CG animated series.

[shirtandties]

Supreme Commander's assistant

[wouldtheybecomeafearavatar]

Would the Supreme Commander from "The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars" (the book version) become an avatar of the Extinction? His plan to destroy all organic life on Earth so appliances may inherit the world seems like a perfectly plausible birthing ritual for the Extinction, in my opinion.

[this-has-returned]

If you wanna play a realtime strategy game, but dislike StarCraft, here are some fun alternatives that are super underrated. You'll notice a pattern of a reduced focus on micromanagement, which StarCraft (in)famously takes to an extreme. If you're looking for an alternative that has more micromanagement then...idk play League of Legends, I guess?

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance | This is what the community considers the current "standard" game of the series for online play. Supreme Commander focuses on group composition, a balanced economy, and climbing a tech tree. Most matches can last quite a long time, the maps are insane in scale, and you will be managing land, sea, and air. Each faction is pretty similar on the macro level, and the differences appear when it comes to tech and group composition.

Grey Goo | This game has a scale similar to StarCraft, but uses an economy similar to Supreme Commander, where resources are represented by inflow and outflow, instead of explicit cache sizes and instantaneous costs. This is a fairly high-speed game where your energy will be focused on optimizing production, scouting the map, and rearranging your production according to scouting. Every faction has a wildly different approach to every facet of the game, which creates fascinating interactions with mechanics that are otherwise simple.

Achron | Similar to StarCraft in scope and economy, but the micro has been scaled way back. Also, there's time travel. Actual time travel. In a multiplayer environment. If you fuck up, simply go back in time and stop yourself from fucking up. You will spend the majority of your time scouting and reviewing the past, searching for changes made by your time-traveling opponent. Because of this, while some units can perform special abilities on request, they're extremely specific and are just additional tools available for pulling silly stunts, and are not a primary part of gameplay. Like Grey Goo, each faction also has a wildly different approach to economy, and the player can change what faction they chose as part of the time travel mechanic.

[kenro199x]

We've come to marry your earth women.

[anhilliator1]

Game recommendation: Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.

Let me put it like this - it's an RTS game where you're placed in control of a Von Neumann killing machine the size of an office building.

Been playing it since 2010.

It's ridiculously large-scale, with a lot of focus placed on macro-scale.

It's also very much a STRATEGY game - the nature of the game FORCES you to think in the long-term about your every move. It's also surprisingly well-balanced - lower tech levels still have a role even well into the late-game.

Also, logistics and resource management is CRUCIAL. It's tied to buildings, and losing your resource network will STING.

It's a brilliantly-put-together masterpiece of an RTS game.

Need more convincing?

The game has the much-coveted Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam, and even though the official servers ended up shutting down years ago, the fans have kept the game's multiplayer alive with something called Forged Alliance Forever.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Their strategy of change is based on psychological warfare, as Supreme Commander Nikolai Alexander explains:

You cannot get rid of everyone that gets into your way, and even if you could, that wouldn't be smart. No, it's best to beat your enemy without firing a single shot. This means you have to beat him with legal or at least semi-legal means. [. . .] Through demoralisation, subversion and infiltration. This means you need to undermine the morale of your opponent by spreading defeatism. For example, by saying this doesn't make any sense, this doesn't lead anywhere, just leave it. Ideally, in combination with smear, for instance by claiming that you work for the enemy. Then of course denigration, so that everything will be questioned, picked to pieces and decried. You sow discontent, impatience and doubt about the leadership. The word for this assault tactic is 'constructive criticism', a concept of the Frankfurt School. Then you try to pit members against one another, stir up disputes, create coteries, promote traitors and expel loyalists. Install levers to influence everything in your interest, outsource relevant structures, etc. And of course, spying, disinformation, lies, smear – the entire set of approaches. These are the tactics and mechanisms to sabotage and destroy a movement.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[headdunk]

thought they looked like a simcity advisor

[renposter]

Supreme Commander 2 (2010) concept art...

From Kevin Pun's Artstation.

[panzeshanzer]

UEF T2 heavy tank and a recolour of her that looks like soundwave

[grayrazor]

It's an interesting narrative choice how the United Earth Federation are the most "good guy"-coded faction in Supreme Commander--their colors are blue and white and they're the guys most prominently featured in the box art and intro cinematic--but their ending is the most evil.

The other two factions are just like "destroy the stargate network so everybody leaves us alone" and "end the war with a peace treaty (definitely no mind control promise 🤞)" while the UEF's win condition is blowing up everybody else's planets with a really big gun.

[miserable-alien]

Happy New Year, from the sofa