By taking the strategic zoom all the way out to low orbit Supreme Commander severed my connection with what was actually going on on the ground, making battles oddly dispirited, disjointed affairs, and I swiftly lost interest.
It took no pleasure in its wanton desctruction and it made no attempt to inject any warmth into its maps or character into its units. Everything stands out, and most (but not all) units are identifiable at a glance.Ĭompare this to Supreme Commander, where the main word that comes to mind when I try to describe it is sterile. I look back at Total Annihilation, and while there are some nothing units and some dull maps (the metal planet), my enduring memory of the game is one of Peewees, Brawlers and Big Bertha artillery duking it out with Sumo heavy kbots and Rapier gunships over lush, vibrant terrain. Arguably it achieved its aim of grand-scope real-time strategy on a scale not yet seen, but this came at a price it had no character. It had a goal – something to make it stand out from the herd of lowing, braying RTSes it would otherwise have been lumped in with - and it single-mindedly pursued that goal. I didn’t like the original Supreme Commander all that much, but I respected it. An estimated 800,000 communist soldiers were killed, and more than 200,000 North Korean civilians died.My, my, my. nations were killed in the Korean War, and as many as one million South Korean civilians perished. Approximately 150,000 troops from South Korea, the United States, and participating U.N. On July 27, 1953, after two years of negotiation, an armistice was signed, ending the war and reestablishing the 1945 division of Korea that still exists today. Truman feared that an escalation of fighting with China would draw the Soviet Union into the Korean War.īy May 1951, the communists were pushed back to the 38th parallel, and the battle line remained in that vicinity for the remainder of the war. In April 1951, Truman relieved MacArthur of his command after he publicly threatened to bomb China in defiance of Truman’s stated war policy. forces rapidly advanced against the North Koreans, but Chinese communist troops entered the fray in October, throwing the Allies into a hasty retreat.
In the opening months of the war, the U.S.-led U.N.
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