Strategies

“Strategy, my boy. Strategy must be employed.”
—Dr. Gustaf Brackman

A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, most often "winning". Strategy is differentiated from tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand by its nature of being extensively premeditated, and often practically rehearsed.

General strategies[]

• Build Orders
• Beginner multiplayer strategy
• Turtling
• Controlling the battlefield
• Trading units
• Stealing engineers
• Tactical Targeting
• Keeping Your Opponent in Line
• Sending Engineers into the Battlefield
• How to build an effective army
• You shall not pass strategy

Air warfare[]

• Airborne Assault
• Air Superiority
• Bomber rush strategy
• CAS: Close Air Support
• Logistical Strike
• SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defense) Strike
• Anti-air strategy
• Early Game Mobile Defense System
• CZAR Storm
• Countering Aeon Restorers

Land warfare[]

• Examples of static defense strategies
• Defense in depth
• Fighting dirty
• Blitzkrieg
• The Panzerkeil Formation
• Stealth charge
• Box Formation
• Tactical Network

Naval warfare[]

• Sea Lanes Denial
• Amphibious Assault
• Naval Superiority
• Summary Of Naval Unit Functions
• Attack Submersibles using Attack Ground Command
• Complete Atlantis Submersible attack

Faction-specific strategies[]

• Mixed arms - a strategy for using a mix of UEF units.
• Naval Supremacy - a strategy for using water units to gain control early.
• Cybran Stealth attack strategy - A strategy for Cybran mix units.
• Cybran strategy
• UEF strategy
• Aeon strategy
• Seraphim strategy
• Seraphim rush attack
• How to use the Seraphim Restoration Field upgrades without causing game imbalance
• UEF Davy Crockett strategy - a strategy using the UEF commander tactical nuke

Kill strategies[]

Kill strategies are specific techniques to kill the enemy ACU, other than the obvious strategy of attacking with overwhelming land forces. Using such a strategy to try and kill someone is called sniping

• Bomber strike kill strategy
• Gunship kill strategy
• Air Blitzkrieg kill strategy
• Cybran Teleport Microwave Laser kill strategy
• TML strike of at least 3 TML on standing ACU without TMD
• Mercy Snipe on ACU without air defense

Bad, old or sandbox strategies[]

• T4 Rush
• Power Projection, or "Why the Carrier is Much More Useful than it Seems"
• Ninja kill strategy
• SCU-"Specialized Combat Unit" kill strategy
• Atlantis Game Ender - A strategy for Naval Blitzkrieg.
• Artillery Barrage
• Turtle Virus
• SB-SCUing - an effective but expensive strategy

External sources[]

• An unofficial Forged Alliance guide
• GameReplays has closed their SupCom portal, but you can look at older versions (2009 or earlier) of www.gamereplays.org via the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine.

Note for editors[]

These pages are not cookbooks. Please do not express yourself in terms of "steps", and do not tell the user to "Build 5 ML". Let the user understand the strategy, so that he or she may best apply it. See the talk page for more info.