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Saturday 12 January, 2008
The game supreme commander is a Real Time Strategy game, that is, where you control units and buildings from a (typically) third person view and attempt to use your military units and buildings to defeat your enemy, primarily by destroying their buildings or some other objective. In this particular game, everything about it is BIG. Maps up to 81x81km, and armies of potentially thousands of units are not uncommon, as well as single units that could wipe said armies off the map. Other nice additions are how adjacent buildings tend to give each other bonuses, and the inclusion of strategic weapons in the form of various buildings.
Today, I was playing as one of three races in the game, the UEF, or United Earth Federation. For those of whom like playing other space-genre RTSs, you'll probably identify these guys as the "Terran" type. I happened to be playing their last of six story missions, which was an interesting challenge. About 1/4 of the way through the mission, I encountered a problem. I had to take an island that was heavily defended. I set up a heavy cannon (which took a full 45 minutes to build) and had it shell their base until their nuclear missile defenses were down, where upon I proceeded to annihilate their entire base in a giant blaze of toasty death. After my three hour trance, I finally beat the campaign! Now on to the two others, so I can actually understand the storyline.
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