Learning SupCom

This page is inteded to help you learn how to play Forged Alliance. The game has many different aspects and game types so information on the game has been split into various sections for your convenience. For information on the client and not the game, please visit the Main Page

The FAF Guide

This wiki contains one complete guide to playing Forged Alliance, with the FAF client. The guide in this wiki is split into different sections, which are constantly being worked on, and should provide a comprehensive coverage of the game and its various aspects.

Intoduction and Basic Game Mechanics

This is intended for players new to Supreme Commander, but if you are a returning player this could be useful as it provides a sound knowledge base and encourages good habits.

Beginner's Guide to Forged Alliance

Microing units effetively can be a difficult task, but with the right knowledge it can give you a huge advantage.

Unit Micro

In depth 1v1 Guide

This section covers everything you need to know about playing ladder matches and 1v1 games. This part is plsit into 5 guides: a general guide for 1v1, and 4 faction specific guides, designed to be read ofter the general guide.

• General 1v1 Guide

In order to minimse overlap between the faction specific guides, the common information has been gathered into this general purpose guide.

These guides are here to show you specific strategies, and help you play to their strengths:

• Aeon 1v1 Guide
• Cybran 1v1 Guide
• Seraphim 1v1 Guide
• UEF 1v1 Guide

Reference materials and detailed game mechanics

This section is for specific information on units, game mechanics and other facts and numbers which are usefull to know when playing Forged Alliance.

• For an overview of the factions in Supreme Commander visit: Faction Information
• To learn more about the specific economy of Supeme Commander visit: Adjacency Bonus
• For specific Information regarding the Engy mod patch visit: Engy Mod
• To view unit stats, anc compare units with each other, visit: Unit Database
• To see unit stats and calculations visit: FA Stats And Calculations

Tutorial Videos

Basics

Playlist of tutorials created by Colonel Sheppard - link here. As you can notice some of the videos are not mentioned below, that is because they are outdated also here you can find some new ones that aren't in that playlist. What you can find there:

Game Mechanics User Interface Setting up Hotkeys + UI Economy Build Range Templates Reclaim

Overcharge Engineers Transports & Ghetto Gunships Defences Detailed Adjacency (Current Values) Cheat Menu (spawning units)

Unit Presentation ACUs SACUs T1 Land Units T2 Land Units T3 Land Units

Air Units Naval Units T4 Land and Air Experimentals

Advanced Tutorials

Micro Basic Land micro: How to dodge correctly Unit blocking Bomber Micro T3 Air (ASF Micro) General Air Micro Tips & Tricks

Build Orders Bacis Build Orders & PvP Gameplay Basic Build Orders List of Build Orders Build Orders to Specific Positions on Maps Basic economy in teamgames

Specific Units Seleens (Seraphim T1 Scouts) How to counter: Early Air How do deal with T2 Turtles Fire-Beetles

Replay Analysis

It's always the same, you lost a game and you are asking yourself: Why? Why have I lost? You are looking at the replay again and again, but there is no answer ...

FAF offers two options:

• Replay Analysis Thread on forum, where you can post your replays. The Trainer team and all other players who will like to help, will try to have a look on your replay and give you a feedback about your game.
• Gameplay Video Review from speed2. You can submit your replays into this forum thread. Done videos will get posted in same forum thread and on his Youtube channel.

Other Help

While this wiki aims to offer a complete and detailed overview of playing Supreme Commander, updated to the lates information and FAF patches, these other resources may be usefull in offering a different persective on the game, helping you gain a deeper understanding of it.

Zock Lessons

One of the top Supreme Commander players offering lessons. More information here.

Replays

Here is a download to some educational replays which cover various topics, ranging from game basics to information on specific units, and micro.

External Guides

There are a number of guides not on this wiki, here are a few of them. They mainly provide introductive information, and some could be outdated, but they can be usefull nonetheless.

• The SupCom Wiki is a comprehensive resource about Supreme Commander, however it is out of date and does not contain accurate values. [1]

• An Unofficial Forged Alliance Guide

A well layed out guide, this gives a nice introduction into unit and economy efficiency.

• The Strategy of Supreme Commander

• Supreme Commander: A guide for normal people

• To Scale Olympus (Archived)

This provides a good overview of some of the core concepts of playing Supreme Commander, but a couple of things are not entirely accurate.

• Eco Video Tutorial