A few questions...

Im like a newbie again. I bought the game and didnt bother to play it because it wasnt Supcom1 upgraded. Now that Im back I realize I was wrong about alot and the game is alot of fun.
Question 1. Is it possible to porcupine? I havent been successful at all. Matter a fact stationary defense is pretty lame except maybe for the UEF mid canon.
Question 2. Is it possible to beat the hard AI in skirmish on a large map? I mean besides loading up gun ships and racing in on the commander I found it impossible.
Question 3. Is there a place to download up to date demo's I can watch with the latest version to see how everyone else is keeping it together. Cause I just plain suck.
Thanks for any help.
Mucko|||1. Yes. I'm no expert on SupCom2 strategy, but it definitely is possible on large maps to porcupine.
2. The hard AI is beatable, but know that the hard AI has resource cheats to allow it to outproduce you.
3. gamereplays.org is the home to a large number of useful replays (the demos you seem to speak of).|||Thanx|||Yeah, the AI is beatable, but if you cant outmicro it, which is the easiest way to beat it, you have to rush. If you allow him to build up a big economy + base, he becomes unbeatable in the end. You cant possibly spam as much artillery as the AI does xD|||It's porcing.|||Thanks for the help guys been watching replays. Seems alot of good players play with low level stuff just like in TA until its time unlike myself trying to get the goods to early. I'll have to reevaluate.
I know its porcing now. Im just an old TA player who cant let things go hah.
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Total_Annihilation/Strategies|||Yes, a lot of the good players know that turtling up and teching is usually suicidal unless you are playing FFAs. However, porcing is a very effective FFA/2v2v2v2 strat.|||UEF have a hard time porcing because their sheilds absolutely suck (if a shot that has AoE like an arty shell hits it, it does FULL DAMAGE to all shields within the AoE blast radius, even those not directly hit). Thier only "good" porcing thing is that their LRA is really long range, they have fatboys (which rape everything from a distance) and they got the fortified arty (which really kinda sucks but it does rape in numbers).
If you want to porc, play cybran. Best shields (epsiecally against LRA shots), best LRA (shorter range, but high damage and RoF), structure detonate (counters gunships), bomb bouncers + Adaptors (pretty much counters air except for 50 AC1k's), and magnetrons (2 will forever counter land).
Thier PD sucks though, so they can only porc redonkulously well late game.|||Quote:|||To the OP: Go UEF and enjoy. Although manage your stuff carefully or you'll be owned. Have fun!.