Didn't Chris Taylor make that game? I've never played it personally, but I am looking forward to Supreme Commander.

I'm desperately trying to get TA and its expansions from my brother before SupCom comes out.

I can't imagine trying to defeat 10 Krogoths without very carefully moving my commander for d-gun purposes.

I cant either, mainly because if you take your comm on a d-gun run against 10 Krogoths you will not survive. The death explosion is too powerful. At best, you could hope to take out one.

1 krogoth is the commanders limit, unless you can get him repaired real quick. 4 or 5 annihilators do the trick nicely, but you must have spotter units - lots of spotter units hehehe.

I built my annihilators along the ridge of the raised platform, then i built dragons teeth to close off the north entrance forcing the krogoths to come in from the east.

Didn't Chris Taylor make that game? I've never played it personally, but I am looking forward to Supreme Commander.

I don't know who made it. What is 'supreme commander'?

Heh, I was a BIG TA fan - TA was a real fun game to play, so many units to field! (I usually liked playing it with a unit limit raise of some sort, to like 500 or 1000 units...) For a time I even wrote TA fiction under the alias "Mr. Armageddon." Krogoths were nasty huh? Just walking fortresses of death essentially.

Yes with the power of today's computers you can really go crazy with the unit limits, although the path finding is still pretty crapola! hehehe

Yea krogoths are seriously kick ass. In skirmish mode i usually use them to replace defenders and other base defences. Not much point in using them to attack unless you want to finish the game! Although with the metal maps, usually the AI can beat back a krogoth attack.

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Seems ok, thanks

Well, Chris Taylor was the mind behind Total Annihilation (or at least one of them, another being Clayton Kauzleric). He also later worked on the Dungeon Siege games under the label "Gas Powered Games." Supreme Commander is his attempt at creating, essentially, TA 2.

I wonder if he decided to go with three races because of the fact that so many RTS games have upped the ante with three or more races - Starcraft came with three, as did Warcraft III, and of course the Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War series has come to seven...but it doesn't compare to Gal Civ II's virtually UNLIMITED number of races, going to ten races on one map, each with almost entirely different units. About the only games to come close to that are titles like Empire Earth II, and even then you only get that because all of the sides have the same units with just one or two "unique" units.

But anyway, I'm really looking forward to seeing how Supreme Commander turns out. With any luck - and plenty of it - it may turn out to be the true spiritual successor to TA and a smash hit.

Of course, this DOES get me thinking - did any of the Stardock guys have a fondness for TA? Or were they more of the Civilization and Master of Orion crowd? Maybe even a few RPG and MMO junkies! (More RPG than MMO, I expect, considering the time constraints of the work.) Might give us an insight into what sort of myriad influences worked on the good ol' Gal Civ II team!

Now i'm having trouble with another basted hard mission in TA the core contingency.
'securing the atol'.

This mission, you have a random chance of loosing, depending on weather or not the super huge squad of torpedo planes attack. Once those guys decide to hit your base, it's all over! Even 10 or 15 defender NS wont stop them, there's just tooo many.

If the big squad dousn't attack early on like it sometimes does, i can usually get some defender NS up and surround them with dragons teeth. Good protection against torpedos but i still havn't figured out how to stop the navy from killing them.

Since the torpedo plains nail all my assets i send out to try and defend my base.

Usually i can win this mission on hard if i use torpedo planes as well but that just makes it too easy. I'm just trying to figure out if it can be done without them but it is freakin hard!!!

Hearing all this about TA again makes me want to reinstall and fire it up. Also have TA2:Kingdoms. Fun game just totally different than the original.

Hearing all this about TA again makes me want to reinstall and fire it up. Also have TA2:Kingdoms. Fun game just totally different than the original.

I played TA kingdoms extensively before. Yes it is a good game but somehow it just dousn't inspire me to come back for remaches like TA original does.

I managed to nab a disk of one of my mates, just to say, wow. I can agree with your statement, shame I have to give it back really.

There are plenty of TA fan websites out there, i'm sure they can advise you on where to buy or download a legal copy.