a few things.....

Are you talking about the "nuclear silo" tactical missle launcher?

Yea I can kinda see why that takes along time to build ,nukes going everywhere isn't too grand (=

There's always a race everyone wants to consider bad , due to one or two things . I think on scale Cybs units aren't as strong , also there shield generators require more mico-managing/ resources and aren't as effective as the other factions.

But it's really only small things which don't make much difference in the long run, I don't consider them underpowered really. Majority of times things are considered weak due to worth of mouth and opinion, when they really aren't.

I decided to have a rematch against the "hard" AI today and got a much better build order and general strategy down. I did so well that the inner part of my base was untouched the entire game. My outer defenses deflected every blow. The better thing about playing skirmish on "hard" mode is that the game type is changed to Supremacy, meaning a commander kill won't end the game.

Some Notes:
All heavy artillery is awesome. The UEF's Mavor and the Cybran's Scathis are both artillery that go beyond that level of awesome.

The Cybran commander is by far the neatest since it can go invisible and shoot a microwave laser at the same time!

There are ways to deal with gunships. It involves lots of AA and shields, but they can be dealt with.

There are even easier ways to deal with bombers. It's best to ensure a safe path before you make a run with them.

And yeah, nukes are incredibly powerful. It takes a long time to build them for a very good reason.

I like putting 5 T3 Engineers on my heavily-used factories (have them assist the factory) to increase production speed. Each T3 engineer adds 50% of the T3 factory alone, so 5 engineers increases production speed by 250%, meaning production time is cut by 72%. Get 3 factories like this, and you're pumping out even T3 Assault Bots at an amazing rate.

Back to my rematch with the AI. I finished the fight by using a grand display of force. I had a fleet consisting of: 4 Galaxy Class Battleships, 8 Siren Class Cruisers, 12 Salem Class Destroyers, and 20 Trident Class Frigates lined up at the shore of the enemy base. On land, I had 60 Loyalist Heavy Assault Bots come in from the other side. And for long-range support, I had three fully-powered Scathis artillery pounding away from the safety of my base.

I don't know why, but only a huge Cybran navy makes me all giddy. There's just so many things flying through the air, and then your destroyers start crawling onto land.

Nuclear warfare is a scarry thing, and the missiles build relativly fast if you've got a few supporting engies and a good econ. In game, I've only ever gotten to nukes against other players two or three times durring the entire beta (once involved a large scale carpetnuking of a defencive line which caught the commander by accident.)

It was glorious.

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You say "Egotistical meglomaniac" as if it's the first time I've been called that.