Games like Supreme Commander 2 and CnC series

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nick.lidgett

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Hey guys me and my friend like to paly SupCom2 and the CnC franchise together, usually in a private lobby just us against the AI.

However they are getting a bit samey, any suggestions, we don't like turn based and much prefer real time battles.

Cheers

Nick
 
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is the only RTS you need. Supcom 2 was a disaster and c&c has become another ruined franchise. Better to stick with the classics.

supreme Commander Gold can be had for under a £10 these days.
 
HummuH1 said:
Starcraft 2.
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A similar scale to CnC if thats what you're after but you can't exactly pick it up for a bargain price like you can with SupCom: Forged Alliance. The sheer scale of battles on SC:FA (or the 'original' Total Annihilation if you wanna go back that far) are so much more fun for coop vs AI.
 
Seconded.

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance DESTROYS Supreme Commander 2. In every single way.

The original Total Annihilation is still worth playing too IMO.
 
Another shout for Starcraft 2; as a huge fan of C&C, Total Annihilation etc I was pretty blown away by SC2 :) Made me wish I'd played the first Starcraft back in the day as I'd missed out.

If you're not so bothered about base building then Dawn of War II is good too.
 
Another vote for Forged Alliance. Although if you want to try large battles against the AI you may get slow down issues.

A few others you might want to look into

Dawn of War 1 & 2 (I'm not sure No. 1 lets you play against bots)
Company of Heroes 1
Age of empires 2 HD edition
AoE 3 (not sure how well this one works online any more)
Wargame EE or ALB (Not too sure if it will let you play against bots)
 
planetary anniliation maybe?

but Total Anniliation is still a classic

Read Alert 2 is still fun :)

and Forge Allience is were its all at!!! dont wait pick up your copy today wise you can, sale must end soooon
 
Forged Alliance is still damn good today. Definitely my fave RTS of all time, it's ruined most other RTS games for me!
 
badcompany said:
Hardly a disaster I looked it for what it was.
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As a standalone RTS game it has its merits.

As a sequel to Supreme Commander it scales back so hard it just isn't deserving of being associated with SupCom.

Newcomers see it as the former. Veterans of TA and SupCom:FA see the latter.
 
Evilsod said:
As a standalone RTS game it has its merits.

As a sequel to Supreme Commander it scales back so hard it just isn't deserving of being associated with SupCom.

Newcomers see it as the former. Veterans of TA and SupCom:FA see the latter.
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Biggest change imo was the experimentals im sure they took 30 mins to build in sup com 1 but then about 5 mins in sup com 2.
 
theone8181 said:
Biggest change imo was the experimentals im sure they took 30 mins to build in sup com 1 but then about 5 mins in sup com 2.
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Barely a couple minutes. Its hilarious in big coop vs AI games to see who can wipe the enemy out first after the initial defence. Is it gonna be Defrag or Link with there Noah Cannon spam? Bios with his fleet of battleships? Or Evilsod with his army of AC-1000s?

The balance between air and ground based experimental units is just silly. AC-1000s are the most destructive unit in the game because they're airborne, can stack the same spot and have so much hp that air defences simply can't do a damn thing against them on top of the fact they aren't even that hard to build.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys, we are going to look at some of these over the next week or so because we are on a hot streak on Fifa at the moment, just got upto 21st in the Co-op seasons leaderboards!
 
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