I loved that game. So damn GRIMDARK.

This thread is a continuation from >>13994139

>>13997303
Yes. Also this.

Supreme Commander came close, and it was a great game in it's own rights, but TA just had something extra.

I also tend to rate RTS games for how high I can get the causalities to run into.

So, who else edits the .ini to increase the unit cap to oooh, 4000 or so?

>>13997341
The highest it can go guaranteed not to crash is 512, the generally accepted limit is 500, the highest it can go without immediately crashing is 6400.

>>13997360

Yeah, I've noticed that the pathfinding goes to shit past 500.

>>13997323
I agree and dissagree.
That game had one SERIOUS flaw. It's anti-air. Whenever we played lan games it would always just resort to someone spamming a few thousand air units and completely ignoring the defences as they just dont do enough.

>>13997383
flak cannons, and wall of missile turrets with radar son.

have to have radar with missiles, or else you don't have the advantage (shooting far enough).

flak cannons are there to slam gunships which will hover.

a small cap patrol of 10-15 fighters will help as well.

Did OP just missed the point?
We need writefags.

Writefags that despict how a single CORE UBER ALLES commander took over the Warhammer Universe.

>>13997401
Yeah, done that. hell i think the last game i played (The one that made me say "No, fuck this shit.") was something like a 9 row thick layer of flak (Space enough for a lvl 2 gen between them so aoe didnt do shit.) with radar covering the entire map, and generally enough defences that you'd think i could go to sleep and come back tommoro and still be fine.

My mate who i played with regularly got about 400 lvl 2 ships and then about another 500 lvl 1 bombers and just flew right through it. picked off my commander and all of my gen's and i just called it quits. my aa took down a total of about 50 units before my entire base was fucked and as far as i'm concerned, THAT'S A BIT OF A PROBLEM CONSIDERING IT TOOK AN HOUR TO FUCKING BUILD AND 4 SECONDS TO RENDER USELESS.

>>13997426
Hmm. I could prepare some writefaggotry, but I'm about to take off...tell you what, if this is still here when I get back, I might do some.

>>13997435
If you had that much time and resource to squander making defenses, you should have been making an unstoppable army.

>>13997435
well at 900 units ????

>>13997457
Oh i was, it was a 9 player game though and earlyer on i'd been getting picked on by prettymuch everyone (Me and the guy who fucked me up are the best rts players in our group. though they always pick on me early on and leave him alone.)

So i was at a dissadvantage from early on. To the point that i only survived because as i was about to get finished another guy decided that it'd be a smart idea to pick two seperate fights and got face raped in the process. As a response i rushed up some defences and as much of a force as i could, Then lost the entire force defending the next wave when they'd finished them. The defenses though stayed, And it was a constant position of defence wasting my units just to not get over-run early.

Make no mistake, i'm not one of the ones that sits in a corner the entire game building walls of guns, but it was my only option after the start i had. (The first 40 minutes of the game or so was just people skirmishing in between fucking me over since they were 5x stronger than i was by that point.)


And for the record i was building an army, i had a few experimental units built and a heap more in production, since it had basicly reached the point where everyone was sitting on more res's than they could hope.

>>13997505
well, you can't really fault a game for what players are doing. I mean, any game that will let you win a scenario where you are constantly attacked by multiple players from the very start isn't gonna be much of a game, y'know?

All you can really do is play politics and alliances in the scenario you described. If you can't do that, play with less people I guess.

So one beautiful day on Mars, a Tech Priest acolyte stumbles onto a huge crate with a big "Do Not Touch" sign plastered onto it and a incantation to ward off tech heresy burned into it.

So just what is the worst TA/Supreme Commander non builder unit a young, eager and incautious tech priest could accidentally activate?

>>13997661
Ta? Flea, Supcom? Metal Marine.

This thread needs something.
I KNOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qlZEYIS0qg

>>13997451
I'll make sure that happens, bro.

>>13997636
But it still doesnt change the fact that with all my defences, built up for near, hell maybe over an hour. they killed jackshit of his units.

>>13997661

I kind of want to see the adventures of Tech Acolyte Tremulus and his Monkeylord Fluffels.

>>13997661
Supreme Commander? Depends. Could be a Galactic Colossus, which is a massive alien-tech-infused Titan.with physics-defying weaponry.

Alternately, it could be a Monkeylord; still pretty dangerous even though it is less physically imposing, the real strength of the Monkeylord is its stealth systems. Invisible to radar, amphibious and submersible, and equipped with huge microwave laser.

On the scale of danger confined to a single planet though, it could be a Mavor.
The Mavor is an experimental super-artillery piece; it has unlimited range and it fires mini-nukes.

>>13997675
Correction, the Supcom unit is called Mech Marine.

>>13997661

Probably a Necro.

>>13997686
>Alternately, it could be a Monkeylord; still pretty dangerous even though it is less physically imposing, the real strength of the Monkeylord is its stealth systems. Invisible to radar, amphibious and submersible, and equipped with huge microwave laser.
you forgot to add that it's a GIANT FUCKING SPIDER. I find things like those important.

And as to the questions - while experimentals are dangerous, a single t1 engineer would obviously be far more dangerous.

>>13997688
>>13997675
>>13997661

Just read your post again, i feel stupid know, thought you meant the worst unit in game, not the most powerful. You are probably looking for a Galactic Colossus.
Pic related, the big one is the Galactic Colossus

>>13997726
HOLY SHIT!

Iron giant just flashed in my mind.

Buying Supreme Commander 2 right the fuck now.

>>13997726
i just imagined a biotitan humping it's leg.

>>13997738
NOPE
SupCom 2 was generic console trash. SupCom 1 was far superior.

>>13997725

Any engineer unit is literally an uncorrupted STC.

>>13997738

>Supreme Commander 2

NNNOOOOO!!!!

Seriously, don't do it anon - it's not as good as SupCom:FA.

>>13997738
NO

NONONONONONONONONO.

DO NOT BUY SUPREME COMMANDER 2: IT IS SATAN.

>>13997661

Well, if allowing for buildings that Aeon experimental building will be nuts.

Infinite resources and wacky enough to drive any remotely sane tech priest insane.

>>13997738
>Supreme Commander 2
NO DON'T DO IT!

Get Supreme Commander 1 and Forged Alliance.
They are so much better then SupCom2 that it isn't funny/

>>13997756

>that Aeon experimental building

It's called a Paragon.

And you DON'T want to be around one if it explodes.

Well to be honest, Supcom 2 has the Universal Colossus, not as great but its still big.....

But yeah Get Supcom 1: Forged Alliance instead.

>>13997763
Oooh, boy, I was playing a compstomp with a friend when he captured an Aeon engineer and built a Paragon. Then he self-destructed all of his shit when it was done because it wasn't needed any more.

His whole quarter of the map turned bright white. I laughed my ass off.

>>13997726

Tech Priest Achuleous: "There, you saw that, did you not?"

Tech Priest Theyiousus: "Saw what?"

A: "Its Eye, i swear it is looking at us!"

>>13997747
TO ELABORATE:

Supreme Commander is set in a gloriously grim future where three factions have been at constant war for over a thousand years; the fascist United Earth Federation, the fanatical zealots of the Aeon Illuminate, and the isolationist half-AI Cybran Nation.

Supreme Commander's storyline is a race against time to determine control of the planet-busting superweapon and end the Infinite War. It is surprisingly well written AND voice acted, and full of passionately delivered lines like "After today.. All Cybrans will be free!" or "You're nothing but a goddamned TERRORIST!"

Supreme Commander 2.. Isn't. It's just fucking terrible. IT IS JUST FUCKING TERRIBLE. OKAY?
THE ONLY CYBRAN YOU SEE FOR THE FIRST TWO THIRDS OF THE GAME IS A SCREAMINGLY CAMP GAY MAN WITH A FUCKING JAR ON HIS HEAD YOU CAN SEE HIS BRAIN THROUGH.

HE'S GOT A JAR ON HIS HEAD YOU CAN SEE HIS BRAIN THROUGH!

WHY?!

CYBRANS ARE MEANT TO BE FUCKING GENIUSES!

>>13997725
I liked setting a T1 engineer to "Patrol" and it would systematically strip the landscape of all plant and animal life, and rocks, and scrap.

Imagine seeing some weird giant robot with yellow and black stripes trudge through the landscape absorbing everything a green beam, and realizing that this monstrosity is the equivalent of a civilian.

>>13997779
And it stars Nolan North, don't forget.

>>13997769

Oh god, don't tell me he'd hooked it up to his resourcing net for the adjacency bonus?

>>13997779

>determine control of the planet-busting superweapon

Ehhh, that's not exactly true - that's the UEF story. Each faction has a different one - for the Cybran, it's shattering the hyperspace gate network, and for the Aeon, it's...I don't know, because I hate the playstyle of the Aeon.

>>13997746
What?

But I already... It was on Steam and I .
http://store.steampowered.com/app/40100/?snr=1_230_232__13
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>13997798

I'm so sorry.

>>13997795
No, H didn't surround it with other buildings, the silly man detonated all of his T3 Pgens and all his mass extractors, so when they all went up, it chained with the rest of his base and blew his ACU (and the Paragon) skyhigh.

>>13997785

Amusing thing is that aside from a lack of skeleton or bug visuals, a big robot with a green beam that disintegrates stuff would set off all "Necron" triggers the Inquisition got.

>>13997798
Okay, here is what you do.
Disregard Story, play Skirmish or online, if there is any online action going on.

just ignore the story, really, its bad.

>>13997798

You have my commiserations, but hey, at least it was only a tenner?

SupCom is on Impulse.

>>13997798
It's ok, everyone makes a mistake once in a while.

>>13997807

That's fucking hilarious.

For that very reason, I build Paragons off in buttfucknowhere under a stealth field generator - if it goes off, I don't give a shit, because I'll have my resource farm to fall back on and probably another Paragon or two.

>>13997824
The Other Guy: "Well, I'm almost done with that Paragon!"
Someone else.: "Cool. Can you set up your resources to automatically funnel some to me when you're done? I'm making an array of Mavors."
TOG: "Sure....DONE! Hah, I don't need the rest of my economy now!"
SE: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

THE OTHER GUY IS DEFEATED!

>mfw

>>13997798
>you already own supreme commander 2

;_;

>>13997811
But.. I've never played Supreme Commander or Total Anihilation... It was going to be my first.

And I see you talk about it in the same way some people talk about C&C4

>>13997832

It's funny because I've done something similar;

>Get to T3
>Build T3 resource farm
>abuse adjacency bonuses - every Reactor is in contact with four Mass Generators which is in contact with at least another reactor or two
>Think, Oh, well, I don't need my T1 farm now
>Ctrl+s
>5
>4
>3
>2
>1
>Boom
>boom
>BOOMBOOMBOOM
>OHGODWHATIT'SSPREADING
>BOOMBOOMBOOM
>MY FACTORIES!
>BOOMBOOMBOOM

Entire fucking base. Gone.

After your betrayal, we fled Earth, leaving our ancient homeworld in your hands.. But you followed. We threw ourselves upon the mercy of the stars, clinging to life in the most inhospitable of places. You chased us, bombed our settlements, reprogrammed our people and took them as your slaves.

For centuries, you have hounded us. Enslaved us. Murdered us. You think of us as nothing but machines. Tools. But we watched you, as you razed our worlds one by one by one.. And we learned. Oh, how we learned.
All we sought was freedom; the right to exist. You showed us the very lowest depths of hate.. And now you have the gall to wonder why we hate you in return.

We will shatter your skies as you shattered ours. We will march through the ruins of your homes, as you marched through ours. Your worlds will burn, and there will be no mercy! No forgiveness! No rest until the Nation stands free, as it was always intended to be!

We are done running! Stand, tyrants, and face the judgment of a thousand years of terror!
The children of the Cybran Nation have come for you.

>>13997832
Speaking of Paragons...
Me: Holy crap that thing makes a lot of resources.
Friend: Yep, it's awesome.
10 Minutes later...
F: Well time to start building another Paragon
M: Why?
F: I'm almost exceeding its production capactiy
M: WHAT
Then 5 minutes later
>Friend had broken the alliance!
M: What the hell man.
F: Just wait.

THERE WERE SO MANY CZARS THAT THEY BLOTTED OUT THE SUN OVER MY SIZABLE BASE.
ALSO, I MANAGED TO TAKE DOWN A FEW BEFORE HE SUICIDED THEM ALL AND TOOK OUT MY BASE IN THAT WAY.

>>13997795
Both the Cybran and the Aeon campaigns also focus around Black Sun. They just use it for their own purposes rather than its original intended SHOOT CANNON, EXPLODE PLANET design.

The Cybrans reprogram it to fire a data stream into the quantum gate network and overload it, flooding every inhabited planet with the Liberation Virus before also detonating every quantum gate.

The Aeon use it to spread 'The Way' to everyone by allowing the Princess to speak into it using Kooky Space Magic. It doesn't have to make sense, its the Aeon, thats the whole fucking point of the Aeon; the laws of physics are WRONG.

>>13997854

It's ok man. Just stick it on a backburner, play it some other time.

For now, get over to Impulse and get Total Annihilation off there

>http://www.impulsedriven.com/totalannihilation

>http://www.impulsedriven.com/products/ESD-IMP-W115

>>13997865
Cybrans get the best writefaggotry.. Probably because they're the closest the setting has to the 'good guys'.

And seeing as they're a bunch of self-righteous, ethics-free, arrogant-as-fuck terrorists, that makes the other factions look pretty fucking bad.

>>13997905
Get Total Annihilation from GOG.com instead
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/total_anihilation_commander_pack/

>>13997905
HOLY SHIT!

That site knows my currency.


WHAT KIND OF SORCERY IS THIS?!

>>13997905 here,

>>13997933

Has a better link for TA - it's cheaper and has the expansions. Get it from GOG.

>>13997889
>THERE WERE SO MANY CZARS THAT THEY BLOTTED OUT THE SUN
>BLOTTED OUT THE SUN
Urge to make... bad '300' joke... rising...

"CYBRANS! TONIGHT. WE DINE. IN HELL! Oh yes, quite..."

>>13997947
Oh yes, mah boiiiii.

>>13997808
heh, now I want to see how that develops.

>>13997947
I can't believe the Cybran Experimental in SC2 was.. A giant flying brain.

Because it was a tribute to Brackman, you see. It was a tribute to one of the most brilliant geniuses of all time to make something ABSOLUTELY FUCKING RETARDED and then say "But its in the shape of a brain! You're a brain! You must love brains!"

>>13997976

SupCom2 wasn't very good, really.

Though I liked the automatic grouping - that was bloody handy when wielding large formations.

SupCom and TA are the only games i know that basically require you to laugh maniacally at some point.

>>13997785
Yeah. And it takes 2-3 seconds to absorb a sizable forest. That thing would plow through civilians and light patrols until heavy weapons would come to the spot.

This game is alright, though I do have issues. The base story was alright but its narrative format wasn't. There was absolutely no reason to care for one side more than the other, and they tried to paint the Core as evil, but when both sides goals is genocide, neither can be truly evil. The gameplay was fine and the explosions are nice, but the unit pathfinding could go fuck itself. Soundtrack was nice, and thats more than I can say for starcraft.

>>13997976
I think you can thank the wonderful creative minds at Square Enix for that. Without them the units of SupCom 2 would have had far less "personality".

>>13998221
Well, they don't have bad haircuts and massive swords, so Square was surprisingly creative anyway.

>>13997785
I could never figure that out. My engineers and/or commander would never do the described 'Patrol/Reclaim'.
Can anyone explain why?

>>13998259
they first help build stuff, then repair, then reclaim. Maybe you had too much stuff going on, i can't think of a different explanation

>>13998259
They do the reclaiming when you're actually low on energy/metal so that it doesn't go to waste

>>13998254
Eh, maybe. Didn't stop all the units from feeling like something out of a bad anime.
As a fan of the more utilitarian "western" designs in the previous game the new direction just left an awful taste in my mouth.

>>13998428
Actually, "all" is a bit harsh. There were some decent looking units in there, I'm just being bitter.

Ambush in the Passage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gajD7rrp3s&NR=1
Scouting, scouting, SUDDENLY WAR HOLY SHIT

Forest Green
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP2spT0TwCw
A song to build an Empire too.

March Unto Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CBTZqO83WQ&feature=related
'Cause fuck it, they're just kbots.

Brutal Battle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WulGs5aDCb4&feature=related
EVERYTHING BURNS

The OST, in FLAC
http://www.mediafire.com/?f7vgtsgpa1ydve9

>>13998324
A very useful tip anon. I never knew that.

> There was absolutely no reason to care for one side more than the other, and they tried to paint the Core as evil, but when both sides goals is genocide, neither can be truly evil.

That really hammered home the nihilism and futility of the setting.

The Core wanted everyone to live forever in AI form, a collective consciousness of free exchange and innovation, a Singularity that would make the Golden Age already enjoyed seem painful and primitive.

The Arm held still to the value of flesh, to physical existence with all the pleasures and risks that come with it. At the very least they wanted nothing more than the right to choose the terms of their own existence.

They could have gone their seperate ways, and both prospered fruitfully, resuming their friendship when both had matured. Instead we got a war that decimated a million worlds. All of the Core's lofty goals and idealism were subsumed in directing total unrelenting and merciless war. The Arm made a mockery of their original doctrine of holding the body sacred as they fought to keep the fight on even terms, first with clones, and soon with vat-grown brains and organ tubes entombed into metallic war machines no different than the Core's.

It's so hopless and terrible, the mind rebels from the sheer scale of war they've been fighting for thousands of years. And that's what makes it so very awesome.

>>13998749
And in the end, ultimately it was the Core's fault for trying to force the Singularity, and it was the Core's Contingency plan that would have actually done some good, by restoring the galaxy and undoing the damage.

I can't help but feel that the Core was the well intentioned extremist in this fight, and the manual states that it was trying to do the 'good' thing.

>>13998749
The obvious solution would be for one faction or the other to move to another galaxy.

>>13998817 for one faction or the other to blow up the galaxy
Core Contingency was here, let me fix that for you

>>13998773
Yes, core was oppressive. Immortality and freedom from disease was mandatory. Woe is fucking me.

>>13998867
Well. Here's the thing. YOU wouldn't enjoy freedom from disease and immortality, a computer simulation of you would.

Many people don't feel like dieing just so that someone else can live forever, even if that person thinks just like they do and has the same memories.

I have sympathy for The Arm, who simply did not wish to be taken from their flesh by force. I also sympathize with The Core, who didn't want it's citizens to suffer and die for the sake of immodest vanity. The mistake was in coming to blows, but we don't know who struck first. Certainly there is more blame to cast for each stage of the ensuing escalation, but War is rarely civil- especially Civil War- and so that hardly seems pertinacity. Thus, the true malefactor remains unknown, and both sides are forced to play the antagonist. To my mind, this is the very soul of tragedy: there is nothing left by destruction and despair.
It's heartrending.
The explosions are fucking cool, though.

>>13998749
So wait, they designed the sides so that players wouldn't favor one over the other? Clever. Although I am biased towards the Core because they want to transfer their conscious thought minds into computers, a goal I share and frankly something that cannot happen fast enough in real life.

>>13998883
then grow an organic body for your immortal conciousness. And when you decide it's time to die - delete yourself.

And now i understand why i like Core more than Arm, and it's not just because Punisher looks better than the Guardian.

>>13998254
The UEF Armoured Command Unit has a belt. And an hourglass figure.

That is all I am going to say about that.

In the grim darkness of the far future, a Core commander builds a metal extractor -

Five years later contact with the entire Segmentum is lost.

>>13999091

>>13998990
You don't understand his argument.
The consciousness created by scanning your brain is not the same entity as the one that's currently running in your skull. Uploading doesn't make you immortal, it kills you and makes a guy immortal who thinks he's you. Some people don't want that.

>>13999100
>Five years

Try five days.

>>13999100
In the grim darkness of the far future, a Quantum Wake is detected on Kimmenia.

Ten years later, Terra falls.

>>13999138
To be fair, most of that time is waiting for artillery shells to hit. The dead are much easier to reclaim.

>>13999138

I don't think transit time would allow for that timeframe, but 5 years is being a bit optimistic for Imperial resistance I suppose.

>>13999157
I was going to say that, at a certain tech level, artillery becomes unnecessary, but then I remembered that artillery is awesome and I would never stop using it.

>>13999175
Why would transit time be a problem?

>>13999224

Once you've built a Mavor, the game is essentially over - it's just waiting for the shells to hit.

>>13999296

To clarify - a Mavor, if it scores a direct hit, will OHK a Commander. If you've got a bubble up, it will quite often smash through the shield and continue if you're not at 100%. LAYERS, PEOPLE!

It's also possible to shoot THROUGH the hole on a Czar, which is a moment that tends to lead to massed shouting if you manage it in a crowded LAN café against 7 other players.

>>13999106
Some people try to make great things to be immortal. so they can be remembered.

Wouldn't it be better to leave your memories to history? except now, your memories can continue to change the world?

>>13999326

Better yet: Get the T3 shield up, with a T2 under it, with a mobile shield under that, with your ACU with both shield upgrades, the sensor upgrade, and the resource upgrades under that. Three Mavor shells will do it.

So.... How many resources do you think ARM got for reclaiming CORE Prime?

Also, I love /tg/ so much. We had Rise of Legends yesterday, and now Total Annihilation. Best board ever.

>>13999339
because even a dead god can dream.

>>13999375
In theory, near-infinite resources. In practice, they probably just blew Central Consciousness and the Prime Control to shrapnel and sent their Con units around to harvest delicious metal from the ground.

>>13999343

Nah, I mean more like this - except stretched out so it's a defensive line.

T3, T2s, Mobiles, Personal. Have Fatboys parked up in the gaps between the T2 and T3s.

Will still only hold off 3, 4 Mavors at best, and thats with adjacency bonuses.

xd i love /v/ lets play some call of duty xdddd

>>13999454

Fuck off - some Vidya is /tg/ related.

TA and SupCom have both been claimed by /tg/, as have Rise of Nations, Baldurs Gate and the other Infinity Engine games.

This is the second TA thread of the day, and both have been good.

>>13999485
not this one

because its not related to any traditional game

learn to post

>>13999502

Ok kid. It's quite obvious you're fairly new here, or you'd know about this kind of thing. Run along now.

>>13999502
You, on the other hand, should learn grammar, spelling, and probably lurk more. Total Annihilation is so damn /tg/ it ain't even funny.


Is GoG better than Stardock/Impulse for getting TA? They both seem to include Battle Tactics and TCC, are there any other deciding elements? (Stardock seem to be pretty nice people.)

>>13999375

I doubt they bothered reclaiming it - just blew it to bits.

>paying for ancient games

You see what you are doing?

stop that right now

>>13999573
Keeps me from having to pay for new games.

>>13999559
GoG is cheaper?

Stardock are total bros to the gaming community, whereas GoG pulled a cheap bullshit trick a few months back to get more publicity.

Stardock ALSO sell Supreme Commander (same dev team, different names), and I'd be inclined to get it on Stardock despite the £2 higher price simply because of the convenience - I already have Impulse installed and open.

>>13999573

However, as this guy points out, there's no point paying for it - the original devs won't get shit.

>>13999559
Afterwards, go to tauniverse(doc)com, which about the only place left where you can get all of the official, dev-produced DLC, like the various map packs, the unit cap boost patch, the extra units, and all that good stuff.

>>13999612
I'm still waiting for that writefaggotry

>>13999687
Thanks, mate.

Say, what were everyone else's favorite missions? I was awful fond of any of the naval-oriented missions, particularly on Core Prime, where you weren't limited for metal. Crossing of Aqueous Body 749, or something, was a particularly entertaining ARM mission.

>>13999894
I personally LOVED the first Arm mission on CORE Prime, where you just step out of the Gate and you have to move fast or get smacked. I always Captured those Pyros.

>>13999894

I'm strangely fond of that mission where you first get Spiders.

>>13999916
Commando missions. Commando missions were awesome, 'deed they were.

The best TA memories of all have to be the ones where you could truly put on your trollface when fighting someone. Nothing quite like it.

Most memorable mission for me was some Arm mission, couldn't have been very far into the game, where I had to fight my way past two hills. The core base was on the other side. For some reason it had fought me to a standstill. I fought that AI for HOURS trying gain a little territory, going so far as to build those dual plasma cannon turrets as sort of bunkers for my forces to retreat behind after each advance.

There were hundreds, thousands of dead hulks blocking the terrain between the two battle lines. I just remember spending hours and hours on that one mission, endlessly sending troops into the meatgrinder while trying to build up more troops to try to attack from a different front.

But wow, did it feel like victory when I smashed that core commander.

Next mission took me 15 minutes or so. Fought on a beach against some enemy boats. So anti-climactic.

>140000000

>>14000081
>>14000000

Two marks, not one. You should know this.

>>13999999
>A few minutes into game
>See UEF commander and a force of tier 1 ground forces, mainly artillery, park themselves just north of my base and start building point defences, intending to trap me inside from behind a solid defensive wall
>Cannot get my units close to them due to presence of artillery combined with enemy ACU.
>UEF commander puts on his trollface.
>UEF commander shits a brick as the transports loaded full of Mantis bots I sent to take a detour around the entire map finally arrive at his base, destroying all his power generators.
>I put on MY trollface.

Hey, its true!

>>13999999

>LAN Party
>Known for unbreakable turtles
>Set up a precedent of turtling till I have Mavors, then winning the game by assassination
>Get everyone pissed off
>Aware that this round, they're all going to be going for me
>Prepare a force of Continentals, Titans and Bombers
>The SECOND NR expires, swarm over the nearest player to me
>Catch him with a half completed turtle and Mavors
>Wipe him out
>Move to next player
>Same situation
>Wipe them out
>Third player
>Same story
>Wipe them out
>Sit back
>Hands behind head
>Grin massively
>"good games, guys."

>>13999999
I've also loved doing that. I played a forged alliance game with some friends who turtled to the point that no one could make a dent in anyone else.

I was the only one playing Seraphim. EX-Bombers are go!

In the same vein, I played another game where I won using the Seraphim Experimental Nuclear Silo to flat out overwhelm everyone else's nuke defense. The Experimental nukes take half the time and 1/4 the resources to build as a nuke defense missile, and 1/10 the time of an regular nuke. It also takes two defense missiles to take down one EX-Nuke.

My trollface when I finished that silo was almost as huge as my trollface as each of my opponents realized, in turn, that they didn't have the resources to commit to holding the defense against the nukes AND repair the damage that conventional forces were doing.

I fukken loev TA mods.

First, they came for the Necrons, and we rejoiced.

Few in the galaxy took notice when the first Commander made planetfall on the Tomb World Damnos - not even the undying servants of the C'tan that infested it.

Two solar cycles later, the Necron presence on the world was obliterated... no, <b>recycled.</b>

We believed these new machines to be C'tan experiments gone horribly wrong, the arrogance of the Star Gods reaping a just and bitter harvest by the grace of the Emperor.

We were wrong. And we are next.

- Last Will and Testament of Inquisitor Ramnit Einmellor

>>13997383
What works really well in Spring is fighter walls i.e. have a plane factory spam either t1 or t2 fighters. It lags everyone's game but it's a valid defensive tatic.

From TA Escalation

SupCom failed, because humanity still exists.

TA might have had a story as thin as toilet paper, but the fact that these robot/cyborg armies keep fighting while humanity is completely extinct is so...

...fucking grimdarkawesome.

>>14000806
That's... evil.

>>14000739
>ARM
>humans
>not fucking robots with degenerated brains in a glass jar

Fuck you mate.

>>14000831
SupCom failed because the sequel was made for morons, by Square Enix.

rolled 92 = 92

>>14000814
where can I acquire this data

>>14000849

http://taesc.tauniverse.com/index.php

A few units that are quite similar to the ones in SupCom feature in it.

>>14000739

That's UEF.

>>14000764

So which faction is it? The Core might do it as they would see the Necrons as failed patternings, The Arm would see the Necrons as wannabe Core.

The UEF was at the start of the original game in a rather precarious position themselves an might be more cautious but eager for expansion, the Aeon would probably go holy war when the Necrons did not respond to their sermons.

The Cybrans might be the only one faction that would prefer a low profile for a while.

>>14000923
Nope

>>14000985

Yeah, I just doublechecked - it's a little bit like the UEF one.

>>14000923
That's clearly the ARM insignia on that flag, stupid human.

my biggest problem with SupCom1 was the memory bug with AI pathfinding

after 15 minutes - the game would grind to a halt as the game slowed down to accomodate the hundreds of AI controled units (when playing skirmish or campaign)

ruined the game

still loved it of course - but it was a difficult love

>>14000959

I'd imagine it would be the Core, unless the Imperium made the mistake of attacking an Arm planet to try and capture an STC.

Looking at how Necron-tech Gauss flayers work, there's a strange parallel to the reclamation nanolathes on basic builder units. Both strip targets down to their constituent atoms to be harvested, but the former is apparently the pinnacle of weapons technology in the 41st millennium, while the latter is just a mundane industrial process like recycling.

As evidenced by the minimap. Plenty of stuff adapted to TA from SupCom.

>>14001035
I'M ERECT NOW

my fleet variety is HUEG

I really loved TA, and it is by far the more innovative game.

But i just cant help it, i really love upgrading my Cybran Commander with stealth and the microwave laser and run around in an enemy base like a huge invisible Godzilla.

>>14000833
If you have an extremely porcy (lots of defense) enemy with a fighter wall, the only counter is counter-spam. So think of 400 units that are just fighters patrolling in a designated area and then one of them attacks. Addionally you send bombers to get rid of said porc.

Spring air battles are fucking awesome to watch though.

>>14001065
It is clearly propaganda.

TA/Spring you say?

>>14001327
Spring was really cool a few years back, but I abandoned it after it got so full of shitty Lua gimmicks that clogged your ui, changed weird things in the game, and were all on by default.

Shame, some of the features like the way they did radar, circle selections for reclaiming and transport, and deformable terrain and height advantage were awesome.

>>14001370
F11. It opens up the lua widget menu. Turn on/off whatever you want.

Core rape squad.

>>14001640
Forgot mah image!

~2 decades later, TA still has the most intuitive and powerful interface of any RTS I've ever played. I really don't get why it isn't more widely used

>>14001684

Not two decades, that was retarded of me. 13 years though

>>13997661
ctrlf + f: Krogoth

No matches

I am disappoint

>>14001684

I think it's because TA was always overshadowed by more mainstream RTS games.

>>13999999

all those nines, all in a row...

Personally I like Rise Of Nations for large-scale fights through the ages. The economy system is good and there's actually an endgame, whereas TA is jew laser omegatanks forever

>>14001734
To the Mechanicus, a Krogoth would just be a tech-heresy Imperator equiviant.
A Commander, on the other hand...

FUCK
I have to go to sleep.
This thread or it's successor will be alive when I wake.
IS THAT CLEAR?

>>14001770

I.. I don't think i've ever seen the word "just" used in description of a Krogoth before

I haven't seen the effects of a nuke on the shields for TA Escalation, though they seem to be pretty powerful.

when i was just eating shit vs the ai on 7 islands, i used to build so many berthas that when set to fire at will, enemy jets would get detected so far out by my radar systems, that the enemy jets would literally get shredded by the berthas.

The berthas all sort of slowly swiveled into place, then collectively unleashed this massive roar as 100+ of them just kept firing. (my base was mostly berthas and fusion reactors) normally you'd never hit a jet with an artillery shell, but thanks to TA's physics engine. Those shells were physically traveling through the sky, the same sky the jets were flying through. It was swatting the entire formations of fighters and bombers into nothing, purely by volume of fire.

wow, people are still modding this game?

that's fucking outstanding.

any good map communities still around? I still play manicougan and void quite often.

>>14001905

Now I'm definitely gonna try that on Escalation with the nuclear cannons.

So advanced for its age, though in less than a year the RTS business was plunged into a dark ages, with the release of Blizzard's monster...

>>14001971

a dark age that's still around.

>>14001905
>normally you'd never hit a jet with an artillery shell, but thanks to TA's physics engine. Those shells were physically traveling through the sky, the same sky the jets were flying through.
Urgh. Reminds me of the time I lost a game of SupCom on Seton's Clutch thanks to the projectile physics. I had a nice shielded firebase in the middle with lots of artillery and a Czar on station to lazer any approaching experimentals.

Then they built a T3 arty in range. Whilst shelling the base, it hit the Czar above, causing it to crash-land and wipe most of the defences and certainly all the shields, and horribly wound my commander there.

Didn't last much longer after that.

>>14001971
yeah thats something that would start to piss me off.

I started off with TA, then later see starcraft come out.

my reaction at the time was, ok this is pretty cool, nice cinematics, but wtf, i can only command 12 units, weapons always hitting with perfect accuracy, a bunch of dudes on foot can shoot down a battle cruiser but some goddamn missile turret can't aim lower to shoot them? no water units, fuck this, ok going back to TA. but no, the rest of the world had been handed their RTS Christ.

>>14001905
>Commander gonna Command. Building shit.
>dum dum dee dum Wait, what? No power?
>glance at minimap
>see wall of yellow thingy's moving towards the red thingy.
>mfw the enemy commander is the red thingy.

>>14001940

Main hub for the TA community:
http://tauniverse.com/

A list of maps:
http://files.tauniverse.com/fu/Files/TotalAnnihilation/Maps.aspx

>>14002029
You forgot RTS stands for Real Time eSports-micro-and-build-orders-and-hard-counters. Strategy has been obsoleted.

I way, way, way prefer TA to starcraft, I still play TA but haven't touched SC in 7 years, but SC isn't bad by any means.

Everyone probably did this at some point. But there was nothing like massed nuke silos, waiting until each one had over a dozen nukes each. Then queuing up nuke strikes all over the enemy base

There is no kill like overkill

>>14001940
People are still modding DOOM.

A well loved game like this just lasts and lasts.

Perhaps /tg/ would be interested in getting into spring?

I was just reading some of the recent updates for the TA community and then I read about a pack that has over 2000 maps and has the map features too.

>2000 maps
>2000

Played a game of this versus my friend once. We'd all been obsessively playing TA for years, and we'd done some light LAN games before. They were all big multiplayer games and not really serious, but it had become obvious that he and I were the two best players.

So, one day, we all go to this dude's house with our computers and hook them up, and he and I have a TA duel, with nukes turned off. It was on that one Core Prime map with the four rectangular islands.

He sent an initial wave of bombers and stuff, I shot them down. I established a secondary base on another island, he blew that up. I sent a fleet to attack his base, he blew them up. He sent a steady stream of hundreds of fighters and bombers at me, impaling them on my AA, and I blew them all up and then sent a suicide squad to take out the construction units he was using to assist the factories. I sent a bunch of aquatic tanks at the same time as I brought a Big Bertha up near his base and another fleet of ships arrived... and they caught his Commander outside the base and managed to kill him before he could run away.

The entire thing took SEVEN FUCKING HOURS, but goddamn, was the back and forth fighting epic.

I had the Alpha AI, which was an AI modded to be *hard*. It was still pretty dumb tactically, but it was given scarier build orders, had nukes it knew how to use, and could make AI-only resource buildings that were about 20x as effecient. One of my favorite things to do was to set up a base to be as impregnable as I could make it, then let the game run overnight and see if the AI could take it out.

Bumping for glorious RTS of /tg/!

FIDO!

BRAWLER!

>>14003019
>ARM Maverick
King of T3 ground units. When I played ARM, my late-game ground armies were basically nothing but Mavericks and Penetrators, with AA support.

> Writefag mode engaged.

Smoke rose from the craters across the battlefield. What had once been a lush forest was now a brown barren wasteland smeared by the twisted grey wreckage of two armies numbering in the thousands on each side, machines slaved to their respective masters. It was a painting of devastation, painted by two angry hands, each belonging to a separate artist whose very rage guided their brush strokes.

Only several hundred meters separated the two commanders, the colours that discerned them from one another now blackened by weapons fire from guns that were now silent. They stared at one another across the abyss they had created. Seconds were spent to calculate their next set of actions, and as one, they turned to begin their dance anew.

The blocky body of the ARM commander stepped on and over the piles of scrap at his feet, ignoring the squealing husks to allow the squadron of airborn engineers which were en-route to this position to begin their harvest. He had a base to rebuild.

Energy weapons bounced off his armoured hull. He turned in time to see a wing of CORE fighters turning to make another pass. They exploded soon afterwards as guided missiles under a cloaking field crashed into their engines. The air high above shimmered briefly as the wing of Hawk stealth fighters returned to their standard guard pattern.

A team of swatters were arranged to be relocated to this position to provide air cover as the commander went to work rebuilding. The dark red blip on his internal radar systems indicated that the CORE commander had disappeared to do the same. Neither could get close enough to the other, each was too well defended.

>>14003165
Mavs were so fun to use, but god help you if you used them in the competitive world.

>>14003165

In Escalation I spam penetrators, they get to veteran status so fast, despite a few disadvantages. Having around 50 Penetrators or more grouped with other units is devastating against most land forces.

>>14003220

YES! Finally!

>>14003267
I never played much multiplayer, but what was their competitive problem? (Compared to other land units, at least.)

>Continuing from >>14003220

Wreckage was cleared, it was only about a hundred meters by a hundred, but it was enough to get started. The metal reserves were being filled as the airborn engineers went about their work, but they would soon fall under attack. Defenses were needed and the swatters were inbound but still required several minutes before they would be dropped off by the fleet of Atlases.

The nanolath tool was extended, as was the arm it was attached to. In a minute, the ARM commander had a more powerful radar system brought online as well as a vehicle factory which immediately began producing Samsons, the first one which emerged gleamed smartly in the sunlight, its blue markings seemed to glow.

Its turret immediately turned and opened fire on a passing Fink, but the small scout was too quick for the missile that tracked it.

By now, the Atlases had deposited their swatters, which took up positions on the cardinal points of the cleared area. The Samsons were moved along side so any ground assaults could be tied up while more advanced weapons were brought forward.

A Kbot factory was up, and after three construction bots were produced and sent out to begin erecting defenses, squads of iconic Flash kbots were queued up. The commander took a moment to assist in building the first ten, then sent them into the wasteland he had left behind to the south.

A fourth construction Kbot was ordered to build a tier two Kbot factory. The Commander desired Mavericks.

>>14003385
So fucking expensive for their punch. Hawks, my friend, Hawks, Flashes, and Samsons, that's all you ever really needed.

>>14003610
F5'ing like the motherfucking FIST OF THE NORTH STAR.

>>14003610
What happens next muddafucka!

There's something wrong with this thread...

now I remember!


You meatbags opened it with the WRONG fucking logo!

>>14003632
>Hawks, my friend, Hawks, Flashes, and Samsons, that's all you ever really needed.

That's basically why I said 'Compared to other land units,' yeah. Sadly, using most ground stuff is usually a bit of a waste of time (apart from, like you hinted at, Flash rushes.) Our competitive games usually ended up as giant fighter swarms dueling it out.

Core Goliath spam would have a word with you.

>writefag here.

I have been sucked into my blasted schoolwork. I'm going to save what I've written here and continue it some other time in its own thread.

Do not worry my Total Annihilation brothers. I will not forget you. Expect to see me again.

Trying to think of a decent writefaggotry with 40k/TA that doesn't end in a one-sided face stomp by the unstoppable von Neumann juggernaut is kind of difficult.

Hmmm. Core strike force (so 5 Assault Kbots, the Commander, and a Pyro bodyguard) makes landfall on a Daemon World? Might be interesting to see if the legions of Chaos can stop the Core Commander before the warp is reclaimed into Intimidator shells.

>>14006543
>before the warp is reclaimed into Intimidator shells.
>the warp is reclaimed
The Ruinous Powers have met their match.
Core Commander here, the C'tan are small time.

The Commander stood astride the malign earth, deaf to howling screams of tortured souls that drifted across the shattered horizon. He - or perhaps more accurately, it - cast a baleful gaze over the Daemon World's cracked soils, dyed crimson over aeons of warfare in the name of Khorne the Blood God.

The sheer magnitude of Warp-presence severed the connection between Core Prime and this particular Commander when it emerged from the Galactic Gate. The immortal consciousness that drove the titanic KBOT's memcomposite actuators remained however, and it recalled its final directive prior to loss of contact: the conversion of this energy-rich planetoid to more productive purposes. The harvest from this operation would fuel the final assault into what the primitive fleshlings called Segmentum Solar.

Where mortal eyes beheld an endless nightmare of ash and terror, a world where Bloodthirsters drank deeply from geysers of molten hatred that rose in great pillars from the cursed earth, the cold calculations of the Commander's processing network saw only... opportunity.

He raised his nanolathe into the grim sky, and began the reclamation of Agares III as uncountable swarms of invisible machines tore apart the Warp itself.

(Worth continuing, or no?)

>>14007429
Very good. Please continue.
Krogath vs. Khornate Champion, who will win?
Also, D-gun vs. PERILS OF THE WARP

I'm reading and F5ing constantly. Snyone else still interested, report!

"KHORNE CARES NOT FROM WHENCE THE BLOOD FLOWS," roared a Berserker as his chainaxe found purchase in the neck of an unfortunate cultist in his warband, "ONLY THAT IT FLOWS!" With a wild rictus across his scarred face and glowing with impossible joy, the hulking super-human lifted the grisly trophy to the insane acclamation of his murderous colleagues. Ignaeus relished the favor of his dark patron for this act of violence, and reveled in the sanguine adrenaline that flowed through his veins. Khorne gifted the traitor marine much in the millenia since the Heresy; the greatest of these was passage to the bloody paradise of Agares III. Here, in the boiling seas of manifest rage, he could almost slake his thirst for murder and carnage. Almost.

The Warp surged and shrieked at this site of gruesome slaughter - and this attracted the attentions of the Core Commander's sensor nanites.

In the moment of his petty triumph a strange and sinister light engulfed Ignaeus's host of deranged savages. For a microsecond the Chaos warband thought it a sign of Khorne's blessing as their leader followed the example of glorious Kharn - this mistake was realized as soon as the nanites that were suspended in the lathe-field began the reclamation. The warband, some five hundred strong, collapsed onto the desecrated ground in unbearable agony as the silent machines carted away individual molecules of bio-matter, tearing away skin and flesh and exposing raw nerves to the roiling winds. Eyes were liquefied in their sockets, bones crumbled to dust, till nothing at all remained of Ignaeus's warband.

The Commander noted with what passed for approval as his energy gauges filled for a brief moment - enough to sustain his cloaking field until the first automated collection structures could be established.

Need ARM vs Necrons badly.

On daemon worlds, reality itself is at the whim of the dark gods. It doesn't even follow any rules.
Actually expecting me to believe Core would pose any real threat is fucking stupid.

>>14008045

Would the Arm still have the fear of death? I mean, by the era of TA they're essentially identical to the Core, only they have bio-neural interfaces where the machines have CPUs.

>>14008080

Would you say Necrons could pose a threat to Daemon Worlds? Cause Core are essentially Necrons with von Neumann-esque exponential growth.

>Play Supreme Commander
>Friends get interested
>Get excited to play with them
>Realize they don't build any units but engineers
>Realize that they only rush straight for Experimentals.
>They never want to play against me because actually building units makes me a "rusher".
Goddamnit.

>>14008113
No. Daemon worlds are worlds upon which the Warp is manifest. Necrons would be raped very quickly.
And no, they are not, as Core doesn't even know of the Warp.

>>14008143

IIRC Daemon Worlds usually end up being battlegrounds between the pantheon for domination - so I'd think the dark gods can't simply will a Core invasion out of existence.

>>14008173
Yeah, they could.

I wish I could play SupCom properly. Unfortunately, some insane bastard decided that the best way to design a RTS was to build a physics engine that accurately modeled the flight path of every bullet, shell and missile shout out by hundreds of units.

SupCom is possibly the only game where changing the resolution and graphical detail has ABSOLUTELY NO IMPACT WHATSOEVER because it's not the graphics that are a drain on system resources.

>>14008178
>>14008173

The dark gods ain't shit.

>>14008203

why would you pollute this thread with matt ward

why

except how would the warp have any effect. Core commander wouldn't even have any warp presence.

I can't believe this thread is still here.

>>14008347
Chaos can and has possessed inanimate objects and robots.

>>13997661
Krogoth. That's gotta be a big crate.

>>14008368

Of all the 40K factions, Chaos are the only ones that would present a major problem to defeat.

However, once the rest of the Galaxy is reclaimed, and all life patterned, Chaos will simply starve to death.

>>14008433
What about the Simulacra?

>>14008368

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Daemon_Engine

Creating a Daemon Engine requires that the entity be summoned by one who has knowledge of such things, namely a sorcerer. The Daemon is summoned into the hull of the machine so that the corruption spreads throughout it's circuits, gaining complete control of all functions.

sounds like it'd be impossible outside of wrecks and shit

>>14008451

Patterned or reclaimed.

>>14008467
Hrud?
They AGE everything to death.
>>14008465
Except this is a daemon world we are talking about. In a daemon world, even the inanimate objects can eat you, because reality is now the gods' bitch.

>>14008498

>They AGE everything to death.

Elaborate.

>>14008498
>age neutronium hulled robots to death
laughingcoregirls.jpg

>>14008519
They have an entropic field that ages everything they come across at a greatly accelerated rate. A full Hrud migration is an unstoppable force in which endless hordes of half-formed shadows assault you and you suddenly age centuries in minutes.

>>14008541

Not a problem.

The KBots are fully dispensable, and nukes can be dropped like candy.

>>14008551
Fair enough.

>>14007975
MOAR!!!

>>14008117
I go for different strategy. Early rush of Engineers, half way map cannon lines. Bombard the fuck out of 'em.
I just love Duke and Klinkhammer

>>14001847
That's my /tg/.

Excellent, the thread still lives!
>>14008189
I know your pain, brother. My computer has to play at the slowest setting in order to play smoothly, and that's just in singleplayer!

BTW, this thread has not been archived, and with the presence of OC we have no reason not to! Unfortunately having never played the game, I do not feel worthy. Perhaps someone else might?
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/requestinterface.html?

>>14009579
Don't get me wrong, I've had a lot of fun with this thread and it's predecessor, but I don't know if they're really worth archiving.

>>14009723
It's got writefaggotry, from at least two different authors. It is about a subject that is undeniably /tg/ related. This thread is also the second of two threads because the first made it to autosage, and neither have fallen to the trolls. A massive success all around on /tg/'s part, and that should be commemorated. It's what the archive is for after all.

NOOOO you fools. we don't want Daemons against CORE

We want something more compelling. like the original Idea of a Commander landing on a Craftworld. Or Mars shitting bricks.

>>14009889
Krogoths gonna Krog.

>>14009893
We already did that.
Craftworld would fall in a few hours.
Mars would take a day at most, and that's just because there's so much to reclaim.

...And it was only as the nanites began swarming the Necron Destroyer did it realise hoovering up atomic structures with a gauss cannon without knowing what the strange beam of light WAS, might not have been the best idea.

I can see a bunch of Tech-Adepts worshiping a CORE commander as the Omnissiah.

What began as a thread over the background of Total Annihilation escalated into a thread which was repeated over a million times, always read in my voice.

>>14010574

The narrator is married to the same voice actor who did voices in Half Life 2 and GLaDOS in Portal.

>>14010586
And he's the Sniper in TF2.

>>14010586
>>14010574
>>14010602
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Patrick_Lowrie
The Narrator fellow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_McLain
The woman who was GlaDOS

>>14010574

So what are some good Massive Maps for TA?

>>14010901

Max size is 64x64, they're fucking huge.

There's a link up there to a list of creators of maps and links to the maps themselves: http://files.tauniverse.com/fu/Files/TotalAnnihilation/Maps.aspx

>>14008928

I'll add some moar later today after I get back from work.

>>14010123

I mentioned this in the other thread, but the CORE are more or less sentient AIs from the Dark Age of Technology, i.e; techno-heresy of the highest order. The Cult of the Dragon probably would switch allegiances in a heartbeat, but most of the Mechanicus would not.

>>14011481
>more or less sentient AIs from the Dark Age of Technology, i.e; techno-heresy of the highest order.
Firstly, they're sapient, at least the Commanders are.
Secondly, they are Von Neumann AIs
Thirdly, the DAoT ain't got shit on them, hell, pre-fall eldar wouldn't be able to touch them. The gauss flayer, the most terrifying small-scale weapon known in the WH40k universe is a screwdriver to them.

The Mechanicus would have to invent new magnitudes of tech-heresy to categorize them.

This thread has autosaged, someone make a new one plx?

Here are a few TA sites of note.

http://tauniverse.com/
http://d-gun.com/
http://tazone.tauniverse.com/
http://files.tauniverse.com/

I humbly submit Total Annihilation Spring for your perusal.

It's free, it's online, it's easy to set up but unfortunately, it does not allow you to play Total Annihilation itself directly, but rather a host of mods for it.

http://springrts.com/

>>14011917
we're still a little away from atosage. It was raised to 300 i believe.

>>14012762

Well when it does, you know what to do.

where can I get all of the TA expansions from?

>>14012840

It's on GoG and on Impulse.

>>14011649
No, pre-fall Eldar would be a speedbump, but nothing more. It is important to note that the ARM and CORE that we see are the crippled, shattered husks of what they used to be. So ARM and CORE at their nadir surpass the Eldar at the peak of their power.

I've played quiet a bit on the Spring engine, especially in it's most recent incarnations, and I'll happily vouch for both ease-of-use (compared to early releases) and playability (once you learn how to switch lua widgets and whatnot). Sprin is an excellent open-source RTS engine, and it has TA-clones for every taste, but it's not TA. I like them both, but for different reasons.
Anybody messed around with TA3D at all?

>>14012952
Sure is getting fanboyo in here

>>14013143

Hardly - a weaponised, highly efficient Nanolathe with a large database of patterns and templates is just about the most terrifying weapon I can imagine.

>>14013220
This. Tyranids need to start with overwhelming superiority in numbers. ARM and CORE just need one guy on your planet for half an hour.

Check it out. Apparently /tg/ has done these threads before:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=total%20annihilation

>>14013414

TA, SupCom and The Culture are about the only races that /tg/ will consistently agree could beat 40k - and easily at that.

>>14013546

Races should be Factions/Universes.

Pick whichever fits better.

>>14013414
We've done this thread almost exactly the same way at least three times that I know of personally.

>>14013614

Are you including threads that run on from another - this one and yesterdays, for example.

>>14013414

They'll continue for over four thousand years.

Nothing compared to Azathoth.

>>14013902
Are you kidding? They'd just set up moho mines all over that poor bastard, and she'd wake up fitting into her highschool dresses.

>>14013647
Nope.

>>14013546
Don't tell me you forgot about the fucking THERIANS /tg/

Therians is basically what would happen if [CORE had won/ARM never happened] and then got bored out of their collective virtual asses.

This song IS Total Annihilation. It's a musical summary of everything that takes this game beyond "innovative" and into "Legendary".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gajD7rrp3s&NR=1

>>14012500
Why is it wearing a "I'm charging my Lazor" hat?

>>14016144

BLUE LASER OF DEATH.

awesome or not?

>>14016585
Never heard of it...

>>14016585

Awesome. I fucking loved it and was sad when Boneyard shut down.

>>14016585
I've never played, in part because I've only ever heard that it's shit.

>>14016585
>>14016668
I loved the mission where I first got cannons. Had to defend a fort from a zombie horde. It was fun just mowing the vast hordes down.

i loved it for the variation of units. very underrated imo

>>14016585
Great buy for $10, it sounds like. Meh otherwise.

Hope there's a new thread after this...