History YMMV / SupremeCommander

* GoodBadBugs: In the original it was possible to fire a nuclear missile and have it detonate right above your base. The reason? The missile collided with an aircraft. In some cases the aircraft that collided was owned [[EpicFail by the same person]] who launched the nuke! No matter the side you're on either case this doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome and a CrowningMomentOfFunny

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Jeremy Soule is awesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGLphQPp3dc&feature=related Bellum Infinitus]]

*** It's AllThereInTheManual, the Seraphim's first contact with humanity came well before the events of either game, as the humans nuked a peaceful Seraphim colony, making their campaign in ''Forged Alliance'' more of a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* GoodBadBugs:
** In the original it was possible to fire a nuclear missile and have it detonate right above your base. The reason? The missile collided with an aircraft. In some cases the aircraft that collided was owned [[EpicFail by the same person]] who launched the nuke! No matter the side you're on either case this doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome and a CrowningMomentOfFunny

* NightmareFuel:
** The scream that the Seraphim T3 bomber yells as it drops its payload can be quite terrifying

* SoCoolItsAwesome: The Experimentals. The sequel nerfs them somewhat, but they're still awesome.
* ThatOneLevel
** Mission 4, Objective 3 of Forged Alliance. You never get a clue or a hint that your base is going to be attacked from all sides until you complete Objective 2 and see that you're surrounded and attacked by endless waves of T2 and T3 Seraphim Units, forcing you to start all over from the beginning if your base construction was very minimal AND you forgot to make a save beforehand.
*** Apparently, there was ONE clue, [[FreezeFrameBonus but so faint many missed it]]: During the opening briefing, there's a map of your LZ (landing zone) showing Dostya's position, yours and several other Seraphim positions surrounding you for several seconds. All in pretty much the EXACT same placement when Objective 3 happens... apparently the other objectives simply misled us.
*** And contrary to every other level in the campaign where a UEF player can just build a Mavor, sit back, and just tell it where to shoot to end the mission, on this level building a Mavor will work against you as the cost will leave you vulnerable, and it cannot do anything to defend you. (Instead, turtle in behind entire ''fields'' of [[MoreDakka Ravager turrets]], capture a Seraphim engineer, and build as many experiemntal bombers as possible.)

** The expansion pack Forged Alliance allows players to construct experiments without having to wait until the final missions like the original game did. Very few of the missions have any real impetus to achieve objectives, thus many of the missions can if the player wants to, turtle in their base, constructing reams of tier 3 power generators and mass fabricators, until you have enough power and mass to construct game enders at which point you steam roll all of the map objectives in very quick time. The UEF are the best at this tactic, as they can build a couple of the Mavor artillery pieces within about 2 hours, and they will destroy every enemy building on the map in very short time, while still being able to build constant fatboy experimentals that the enemy have no hope of standing up to. It's so incredibly easy that one can even steamroll all the enemey bases in the 5th mission (which is supposed to be a HoldTheLine mission) before recalling.

*** And contrary to every other level in the campaign where a UEF player can just build a Mavor, sit back, and just tell it where to shoot to end the mission, on this level building a Mavor will work against you as the cost will leave you vulnerable, and it cannot do anything to defend you.

** The expansion pack Forged Alliance allows players to construct experiments without having to wait until the final missions like the original game did. Very few of the missions have any real impetus to achieve objectives, thus many of the missions can if the player wants to, turtle in their base, constructing reams of tier 3 power generators and mass fabricators, until you have enough power and mass to construct game enders at which point you steam roll all of the map objectives in very quick time. The UEF are the best at this tactic, as they can build a couple of the Mavor artillery pieces within about 2 hours, and they will destroy every enemy building on the map in very short time, while still being able to build constant fatboy experimentals that the enemy have no hope of standing up to.

*** It's AllThereInTheManual, the Seraphim's first contact with humanity came well before the events of either game, as the humans nuked a peaceful Seraphim colony. This troper would be fairly pissed if it was his colony being nuked.

*** And contrary to every other level in the campaign where a uef player can almost just build a marvor, sit back, and just tell it where to shoot to end the mission, on this level building a marvor will work against you as the cost will leave you vulnerable, and it cannot do anything to defend you.

**** If you read the Infinite War series by dotswarlock and take it as canon (its better than GPG's version), then the Seraphim in the quantum realm (long explination) saw the infinite war, discovered it could spill over to them and destroy them. So they decided to take the iniative and blow us all up first.

** The expansion pack Forged Alliance allows players to construct experiments without having to wait until the final missions like the original game did. Very few of the missions have any real impetus to achieve objectives, thus many of the missions can if the player wants to, turtle in their base, constructing reams of tier 3 power generators and mass fabricators, until you have enough power and mass to construct game enders. The UEF are the best at this tactic, as they can build a couple of the Mavor artillery pieces within about 2 hours, and they will destroy every enemy building on the map in very short time, while still being able to build constant fatboy experimentals that the enemy have no hope of standing up to.

*** This troper has played both, and can attest that if you play the second game before the first, they both seem pretty good, although you will have issues like cursing the lack of unit diversity in 2 that appeared in the first game, or the annoying AI quirks and pathfinding in the first game that the second improved so much.

* {{Scrappy mechanic}}: or rather the lack of unit formations while the group of units are moving, the various units moving at their own speed and terrible pathing can make for some tedious micromanaging in a large scale battle.

* PortingDisaster: Even though the new control scheme worked well enough, the X-box 360 simply couldn't handle the first game and it turned into a stuttering mess with frequent pauses and the occasional crash. The reduced graphics on the sequel are theoretically supposed to help prevent this, but it hasn't been released yet.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The sequel did away with much of the economic complexity, added a research element while greatly reducing unit variety, and has significantly weaker graphics than the original or Forged Alliance.
** Simply put, Supreme Commander 2 is an unfaithful step backwards of the original game and a great disservice to the fans of Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander 1.

*** Yolona Oss: Fires a special Nuke that needs two Anti-Nukes to destroy. The special Nuke takes only one minute to build and is cheaper than a regular nuke.

*** Yolona Oss: Fires a special Nuke that needs two Anti-Nukes to destroy. The special Nuke costs only one minute to build and is cheaper than a regular nuke.

*** Yolona Oss: Fires a Nuke that needs two Anti-Nukes to destroy. The Nukes themselves cost only one minute to build.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: [[StarfishLanguage (Language not recognised)]]

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Forged Alliance had the introduction of an hostile alien race. So you'd expect to play missions where all three human factions try and defeat the alien race by themselves, realizing that they have to work together with their enemies, and working together to defeat it, right? Nope, all of that happens in a ''timeline cutscene''.

* NightmareFuel: [[StarfishLanguage (Language not recognised)]]