Supreme Commander

I present to you, my thought by thought outline of this match.


First thought as I enter the game:

"Moonshadow-, I have never heard of this guy before. He must suck."

Second thought of the game:

"He's raiding me pretty well, I guess he only has good early game strats. I still bet he sucks."

Third thought of the game:

"I see he's building a transport and loading it with T1 bots. This must be how he wins all his games. My transport is half done, so I don't want to cancel it to make interceptors. I better make a bit of mobile AA. They'll probably make short work of the transport before it does much damage, because he sucks and doesn't know how to use them properly."

Fourth thought of the game:

"Fuck, that gunship is wrecking me. How have I not killed that fucking thing yet?"

Fifth thought of the game:

"I hope I get T2 up soon. Then I'll finally be able to steam roll this guy. It's taking me far too long to beat a guy who's probably ranked in the 300's."

Sixth thought of the game:

"How the FUCK did his comm get away with 500 FUCKING HP?"

Seventh thought of the game:

"Ahhh, this will be an easy win. I'll just load up my transport with bots and finish him off.... WHAT THE FUCK? WHERE IS HIS COMM?? HOW DID HE RUN AWAY SO FUCKING FAST?? MY GUNSHIP IS DEAD??? FUCK!!!"

Eighth thought of the game:

"How the fuck does he have so many fucking T3 bots all over the fucking map. Jesus Christ, this guy is good for a noob. Why the fuck am I having trouble here? I can't fucking believe that I'm going to lose to a guy in the 300's. This will hurt my rating."

Ninth thought of the game:

"God dam, I've got him in the corner, but his score is REALLY starting to take off. How am I going to stop his army that's probably about to come at me pretty soon?"

Tenth thought of the game:

"Hey, he doesn't have any TMD...... "

I havent watched this replay yet but i must correct myself. A few weeks ago i was telling people to not build gunships against cybran because of their t1 aa. However, in retrospective i was pretty wrong because while skyslammers are certainly amazing against moving targets, their low dps really hurts them against high-hitpoints targets like t1 gunships. It will take quite some time until your slammers deal 90 damage, while aeon and uef pendants will only take half the time to down them.
To sum it up, t1 gunships are actually better gainst cybran than against aeon and uef in my opinion

Random note: Do you find it okay that one tech 2-1 shield and 2 t1 engineers are able to block 4 T3 mobile arties ? Now if that is not imba, i dont know what is.

Shields are imba :-(

it could also be that cybran arty is worthless against shields...
there is no way in hell that 4 cybran artys can break a t2-1 shields, assisted or not.

I remember i stated exact the same thing but was flamed to hell only a few weeks ago. The summary went like "cybran arty is okay because its not meant against shields".

laughable.

hey, i agreed with you that cybran T3 arty is garbage...

even a scout will bring down an unassisted shield.... given enough time. Shields only heal themself after they dint got attacked for a period of time.
This was fine IMHO, shield assisting is a nice feature, but it needs to be toned down, like take atleast 4 times the energy thats needed now. It should be just for buying you time to get further shields/defenses up - not last forever.

Heh, I also played against Moonshadow, and was also shocked to learn that he wasn't a noob.

Fortunately, I was Aeon on Finn's...

I ended up playing against him 3 more times that night. I beat him rather easily on Open Palms, then he smoked me on Arctic (I suck on that map), and then he barely beat me on Winter Duel (I tried for force a draw, he lived with about 1k HP). He uses T1 gunships very early, and I honestly think that's one of the main reasons he's ranked so high. On WD, he took out 4 of my mex with a gunship before I could get AA out. Next time I play him, I'm might go air factory second and pump out 3 or 4 interceptors to take out his gunship.

He's a good player, but judging by his play on Open Palms, he isn't nearly as strong when his gunship doesn't do much damage. On Open Palms, one gunship won't do nearly as much damage on a map like Theta or WD.