Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance..

[Ctuchik]

need some help here tbh

royally stuck at the cybran "Operation Meltdown".

i just cannot get a base up and running. the bloody aliens is starting to bomb me almost instantaneous... and the T1 AA guns i can make at the start isnt tracking them fast enough :/

at best i've managed to get a few mass extractors and power generators up and a T1 factory. but by that time the aliens have figured out i'm there and wont leave me alone. spent the better part of 2 hours just rebuilding my factory >.<

anyone have any advice?

 

[Rulke]

Not played in a while but if it's the mission i'm thinking of it can be quite punishing at the start.

I found the Ai would mainly go for my metal extracters so I focused defenses around them - T1 AA and the T1 AA vehicles along with 2-3 T1 point defense to hold it long enough to get on your feet. Once you get to Tier 2 then get power plants and shield gens up asap. Cybrans don't get T3 shield gens but you can upgrade your T2 ones to the same size

Be careful of them dropping units behind you with air transports and watch for enemy construction vehicles capturing your stuff. If you capture them instead you'll get access to their tech trees as well...

and ofc salvage everything you kill (set a construction vehicle on a patrol route around the area and they auto salvage) and dont forget to keep your radar up!

Remember to make sure you're in good shape before completing the objective - when the map expands you get waves of T3 bombers and Exp units thrown at you.

I quite fancy playing SupCom FA again now

 

[Ctuchik]

Remember to make sure you're in good shape before completing the objective - when the map expands you get waves of T3 bombers and Exp units thrown at you.

aye i noticed >.< they piledrived my 9 monkeylords into the ground in about 2 minutes and after that it was pretty much game over :/

had a total of 8 shield gens going and 25:ish t3 AA guns but they just couldn't keep up getting pounded from 6 directions, and having 4 of them stationery engineering thingies didnt help a whole lot either


and with the enemy having 2 experimentals at each of their camp even my T3 bricks didnt have a chance


taking a break from this game now lol. getting boring to have to spend well over 2 hours on each map just waiting for my army to build before i can actually do something.

 

[Ctuchik]

well, made an effort again to clear that mission atleast. ended up with me spending 4 and a half hours just waiting for my army to build <.<

ended up taking a nap while waiting.

they REALLY need to make an option to speed up the time here... this is laughable