r/mildlyinfuriating • u/gingerninja78 • 2d ago

Played Battleship with my 7 year old son

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He sunk all my ships without me getting 1 hit, so I played on to find where his were.

He hid them in his pocket.

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u/Infamous_Doolio 2d ago

Nah he simply hid his ships in fjords/rivers and hit you with sub-launched anti-ship missiles - he’s a naval prodigy!

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u/AnotherMothMarine 2d ago

Or, they just went on land and chilling

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u/ArbitraryArbitrate 2d ago

This picture reminds me of a video game I used to play a long time ago. Total Annihilation

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u/StormLordEternal 2d ago

Close, it’s the spiritual successor to that game called Supreme Commander

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u/ComfortOnly3982 2d ago

Cybran MONKEYLORD is my GOAT

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u/VonBargenJL 2d ago

I used to rush these Cybrsn T2 Cruisers because their guns outranged everything at that stage of the game. Just sit off the coast and slowly move onto land if it ever stops shooting

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u/Lord_Runestone 2d ago

Fatboy is the Bestboy

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u/ViolinistCurrent8899 2d ago

The Soulripper would like to have a word with you and is rapidly closing the distance.

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u/Quiet-Fishing-1416 2d ago

20-30 ish ASFs ready in my base:

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u/ViolinistCurrent8899 1d ago

I don't think that's enough to shoot down a Soulripper before it would take down the Fatboy.

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u/UEF-ACU 1d ago

Agreed

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u/BoppoTheClown 1d ago

BEYOND ALL REASON?

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u/Plenty_Tax_5892 1d ago

Is it bad that I thought this was Spore

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u/Possibly-Functional 2d ago

As said this is from the spiritual successor Supreme Commander. That said, if you want to play a modern TA spiritual successor I can't recommend beyond all reason enough. It's IMHO the best RTS on the market.

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u/FrozenInABlaze 1d ago

Unexpected bar mention

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u/sendmebirds 2d ago

BAR is soooooooo good. I love it so much.

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u/AnotherMothMarine 2d ago

40vs40, Absolute chaotic.

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u/drksdr 2d ago

Updoot for BAR. Although, if they can get me my land-walking cybran naval cruisers back, that would be appreciated.

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u/Ruwetuin 2d ago

We have flying flagships though in BAR ...if you enable the Extra Units option.

I added that unit myself :)

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u/drksdr 2d ago

me and my mates play with extra units, legion, the whole shebang.

Still want my naval flankers though.

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u/BlueFlob 2d ago

Looks sick

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u/Omgazombie 2d ago edited 2d ago

Tbh I can’t get behind beyond all reason, it strips away almost everything supcom added and feels very barebones, it’s almost as barebones as planetary annihilation

I just want a game that isn’t supcom 2 level of simplistic, I want something that has everything supcom forged alliance had and more but just with better unit pathing but everything just seems to be a watering down of the formula in some way or another

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u/EnderRobo 1d ago

What are some things supcom had that beyond all reason lacks? Ive never played supcom but play bar

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u/rtrs_bastiat 1d ago

Basically all the things that differentiated SupCom from TA. BAR feels like TA 30 years later to me.

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u/Omgazombie 1d ago edited 1d ago

Beyond all reason may have changed since I last played it, but in supcom you can upgrade your commander quite a bit mean it isn’t useless for 90% of the game since it can be built to improve engineering or combat functions and can operate as a frontline unit, there’s far more fleshed out factions in supcom with large factional differences and play styles. There’s also a lot more units in general each with their own use

Last time I played Beyond all reason though it felt like supcom if you were stuck using strictly t1 units

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u/EnderRobo 1d ago

You can enable commander leveling up, so that has been added. But even without it commanders are never useless as they can one shot anything in the game (other than other commanders) so its always good to have them near the front to block a push or snipe that big experimental unit.

Cant argue much about faction differences or how many there are, armada and cortex are pretty similar, however there is a third faction that is pretty different, but like commander leveling must be enabled. There are plenty of units, though some are pretty similar.

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u/Omgazombie 1d ago

Yeah supcom has vastly different units between factions, like you can’t really play cybran like the uef, or the Aeon like the seraphim, etc. you really benefit from playing each faction to their strengths

Commanders don’t one shot anything except for tier 1 units in supcom, but they can get pretty powerful and can even survive little scuffles with experimental (t4) units when they’re upgraded

Each faction has a hefty roster of 3 tech levels per unit type, plus experimentals and each tech level has their own strengths and weaknesses with t1/2 having uses into the late game

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u/UEF-ACU 1d ago

BAR is pretty fun so far, still waiting for Sanctuary

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u/Fragtrap007 1d ago

Or you can play Supcom over Forged Alliance Forever with a great community

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u/Possibly-Functional 1d ago

I do both, as well as C&C. All great games.

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u/PyroConduit 2d ago

Kinda whild that people keep talkin here bout spirtual successors to total anhilation and supreme commander.

Planetary Anhilaton is right there.

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u/Omgazombie 2d ago

Planetary annihilation is very barebones compared to supcom tbh, like it’s fun, but it really isn’t even close to supcom FA in nature at all

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u/devilishycleverchap 1d ago

Because it is hot garbage

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u/Possibly-Functional 1d ago

Out of all TA spiritual successors PA is frankly my least favorite. Still a pretty good game, but it falls behind both supcom and BAR IMHO by a decent margin.

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 2d ago

I wish I was you right now.

There is a new game(Free) that copies the good old Total Annihilation we knew: https://www.beyondallreason.info/

It's SO, so good, and SO, so customizable.

Play it.

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u/Weemonkey16_2 2d ago

God I loved that game, it actually got put on steam if your interested in a nostalgia trip

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u/Weemonkey16_2 2d ago

God I loved that game, it actually got put on steam if your interested in a nostalgia trip

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u/ResidentOfVikingtown 2d ago

Check out the game ’Beyond all Reason’. It’s basically total annihilation but if it was made in the 2020s. Both core and arm are there and a third faction is in development. The AIs good and there’s an active multiplayer scene.

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u/MaintenanceInternal 2d ago

Reminds me of Battle Engine Aquila.

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u/creator_07 1d ago

I thought it was From the Depths

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u/No-Function3409 1d ago

Total annihilation was so fun.

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u/Jaambie 1d ago

I remember playing total annihilation as a kid! It was hard but fun and I didn’t really quite understand it because I was like 10

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u/TheNekophile 2d ago

never expected to see supreme commander on reddit, especially on such a subreddit and it made me happy. i may just start up the game again.

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u/InternetDweller95 2d ago

I still keep SC, SCFA, SC2, and Planetary Annihilation installed. Don't play them often, but sometimes I badly want to spill oil and reap steel

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u/battlemechpilot 2d ago

Cybran was probably my second favorite faction, and their TII battleships were definitely a reason for it lol.

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u/NoSpawnConga 2d ago

But their tier 2 static defence turrets are the worst lol.

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u/battlemechpilot 2d ago

But all their dang stealth! Seraphim were my favorite, though.

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u/ichor159 2d ago

Ah yes, the classic Land Emergence Galleon System (LEGS) upgrade

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u/Omgazombie 2d ago

So wild seeing my beloved game here

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u/LazySilverSquid 1d ago

For a second, I was sure this was From the Depths.

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u/Miserable_Region8470 1d ago

SU-PEAK COMMANDER MENTIONED!!!!

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u/Cyclopentadien 2d ago

La jeune école finally triumphs