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I've found Forged Alliance (standalone Supreme Commander expansion) to be a worthy successor and it still has an active community in Forged Alliance Forever.

If you've played it, where did you feel it was lacking?

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The main problem is the resource management. In TA there is a continuous transmission of resources so you will build (albeit slowly) even if there is an outage. SC:FA on the other hand works like Red Alert. You buy something (like if you were using money) and then it builds. Additionally the animations are supbar compared to TA. Just try out both games and you will see what I talk about.

Supreme Commander and Forged Alliance both have flow economies. Supreme Commander 2 works as you described, and indeed, is not worthy :)

Forged Alliance is great if you like TA!

Oh sorry! My memory tricked me.

Bit late I know, but PSA: If you own just SupCom, you can register the code on steam and you will get both SupCom and FA.

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