- Play the Galactic War
- Destroy a faction (kill the faction commander)
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Game crashes
Personal Notes
So this is my second post in quite some time. I feel that I probably should post more often. As I am still playing games and still finding lots of bugs in said games. I'll try to be more diligent at posting these, more for myself to try and keep some of my skills sharp. If you could call it that...
So Planetary Annihilation is what Supreme Commander was suppose to be for Total Annihilation. Supreme Command was touted as the next TA game, but when I played that, none of the "epicness" was there. The reason I loved TA wasn't how nice the units looked or how big the units got. It was the tactics (or my lack of) of the game. It meant that even if you had only tier-1 units, you could take out tier-3 units if you had enough, and in TA it wasn't only about the type of units. It was also about the quantity.
My favorite memory of TA was playing 1v1 against a friend who section half the map to themselves. I didn't realise this until I started scouting, but by then I had 10 teir-1 K-bot factories pumping out 1 unit every 1-2 secs with the resources to back this up. I first found his mine field. Lost by first platoon of 50 bots. Meh went and got the next batch and moved out. Found a wall supported by plasma cannons. Ok attack the wall. Lost that batch. Fine .. next batch move close to the wall and self-destruct. Ok hole made, lost batch. Next! This is also another reason why I would be a terrible general. I eventually over-ran him with numbers. He tried to counter with Teir-3 bots but they take at least 20-30secs to make, by then I already had 200 bots ready to roll out. Just overwhelmed with numbers.
Supreme Commander wasn't a numbers game. It wasn't event a strategy game. It was experimental units. The first person to get one, won. That's it. If you got yours built in time to counter theirs then it was the person that kept theirs. Teir 1-3 bot/tanks/planes did nothing to experimental units. The only saving grace was that experimental units needed huge amount of resources to make and time. But with enough construction buts this could be as low as 5 mins. It was just silly.
Planetary Annihilation goes back to the TA roots. There are only 3 Tiers and the Tiers are quite balanced. 1xT1 KBot cant take out a 1xT2 KBot in a 1v1, but if you had 5xT1 KBot then its a fair fight.. ish ...
Planetary Annihilation is a great game. With the game mechanic that you are fighting on a planet vs other Bots on other planets. You can build up your forces here to ensure you have control of your planet, but the other guy is over there taunting you. You need a way to get over there too. Or (my favorite) you could just throw an asteroid or small moon at them.
https://www.professorcatpardus.com/2017/04/project-destiny-faction-pins-future-war.html?showComment=1562228864951#c6662768106350337240
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