34. The most valuable resource in supreme commander is your time.
Posted by stevemata on May 20, 2009
The most difficult skill to learn is efficient time management.
It’s obvious that micromanaging your army early game is more advantageous than micromanaging your army late game; but it isn’t obvious that micromanaging your army instead of micromanaging your economy is counter productive. Losing an army is more desirable than losing the ability to build another, by micromanaging your attacks you neglect economic growth which includes resource generation and military production.
The best industrial military strategy in supreme commander is to identify a proper unit mix and then “Fire and Forget”.
Build your armies using a relevent unit mix, identify a point of attack or a strategic objective to capture or eliminate, select a route of attack or a pre-attack que location and then send your army on it’s way. Fire and forget; an army is not a resource to defend, it can defend itself and it’s ability to defend itself is comperable to its construction price.
Never forget that an army at worst is only worth it’s construction price and at best worth victory.
