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Hello there.

Did we ever get the link to the manual sorted?

[YoStone]

This game is driving me crazy!!!! I keep buying farms fuiling them to the top, I send 6 solar sats in orbit... but I keep getting - in food storage, even from the start... I try controlling this with tax... but that dosn't help me at all... can somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong???

and yes I'm playing against the weakest opponent, but I can't advance if my population keeps decreasing!!!

Originally posted by Guest_Ian_* @ Jun 19 2006, 07:39 PM
Hello there.

Did we ever get the link to the manual sorted?

I too loved this game years ago! Get the manual in PDF at http://www.the-underdogs.info/games/s/supr...s/supremacy.pdf

I played this on my first PC ever and it was addicting. I was thrilled to find the old software and have successfully stomped rorn again.

Tips

Your first purchases should be two energy sats and a farm. Send the sats into orbit, crew the farm, deploy.
Next, purchase another farm and a mine when you have the revenue. Crew and deploy.
Get a third sat up ASAP.
Let your population grow to about 10K, change the tax rate to 40% and let the pop stabilize.
As soon as you have the revenue, buy a planetary format thing and terraform planet1.
Reduce your tax rate to 30% and immediately start building an army. Go for the best armor and weapons, and make sure they are all at 200 units. Your population should just keep up with your army building. When finished, put tax back to 40%.

So far you have a good start. Here's where I exploit the game...

Keep formatting planets. You are only interested in planet3 and planet5 (or whatever first two jungle type planets you end up with - for me it was 3 and 5... yours may be planets 1 and 2). Keep formatting planets just so that when the game causes random disasters, it has a wider selection. On each planet you format, send the money home immediately, crank the tax up to 100% and tax them into extinction. (Kind of like Massachusetts). The only exceptions are planet3 and planet5. Immediately bump them up to 40%.

By the time you are done with planet5, you should have enough money to buy two troops and a troop carrier. Crew the carrier, put the troops on planet3.
Bring the carrier home. Start to build up planet3 by reducing tax. Buy a sat and a farm, crew, and send to planet3. Get a second sat and farm and send it to planet3.
By this time, the enemy will probably have attacked some of your planets. Let them. You want to get two more troops built and get them to planet3 to keep it defended.
When you have planet3 with four troops, three farms and two sats, get the population up to about 25K and lock it in at 40%. Guard at all costs, this will fund the development of planet5.

Send money home, build troops, get farms and sats, repeat for planet 5. Eventually you will get about 25K population on both planet3 and planet5. Save often. If your troop units are wiped out, remember to backfill them. Random disasters occur... if they occur on planet3 or planet5, reload to last save. Yes, it's cheezy, but you want to nail rorn in a few hours, then don't accept setbacks.

Do not worry about expansion. Do not worry about more mines. You might take four more units and wipe out as many nearby enemy planets as possible. Pillage the resources, send the money home, keep some of his ships, delete the rest. You are just hindering his resource flow until you are ready to attack his home base.

At some point in the game, you will be informed that all ships are now nuclear and don't need fuel. See all the grief you saved by playing defensively? Now, if you maintain four units on planet3 and four on planet5, that leaves you 16 full units to attack the enemy base. If you want to drag the game out, you can take 12 units and systematically pillage his planets until your units are dead. (yes, only 12... you want to save 4 units to refresh planet5 because the enemy will attack it nonstop until you hit the enemy base).

When you are done pillaging, or if you decided to skip that, send four fully loaded troop ships to enemy base and attack. You will get wiped, so you may as well send the ships home immediately. I find it takes two more full runs to finish rorn's enemy base off. Just watch the battle, when your units all hit zero, immediately drop your home base tax to 30% and recruit all your units back to 200. Remember to put your tax back to 40%. At some point, you can even ditch the two mines on home base and replace them with farms to get your home population up to about 20K.

Three, maybe four runs at the enemy planet will do it. Guarantee three if you grab another troop carrier and take the troops off planet3 and planet5 on the third run. You will land with about 30K unit strength, and if you've been quick, rorn will still be recovering from your last attacks and should be at about 20K. Remember, after you depleted rorn in the first attack, he doesn't try to attack any more of your planets until he has restocked his armies. If you are efficient at time management, you won't get attacked again after the first time you hit him. It takes about 2.5 million to provision 16 full-strength units each time, so pay attention to the health of planet3 and planet5, send money home frequently.

Hope this helps those who had problems with rorn.

CWB

tips

Originally posted by YoStone @ Aug 20 2006, 04:03 PM
This game is driving me crazy!!!! I keep buying farms fuiling them to the top, I send 6 solar sats in orbit... but I keep getting - in food storage, even from the start... I try controlling this with tax... but that dosn't help me at all... can somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong???

A question about your farming ships:
- do they hava a crew?
- are they on the surface of the planet?
- are they turned ON?
- was there a storm or some other planetary event? Those might turn the ships OFF so they're not producing.

Even with all 6 possible farming ships on a planet and enough solar satelites if the population gets too big (around 40K) you will start running out of food.

Good luck playing.

I remember this game. I had "Overlord" for C64. I was always jealous of the better looking screenshots for Amiga on the back of the box. It was a fun game for the times. One of the last Commodore games we bought probably. I tried playing it again recently and it just seems weird and cumbersome now. I don't know how I ever played some of these games without a mouse.

[broomgrove]

I LOVE THIS GAME!!

Used to play it on my old Atari Falcon - yup I owned one of those beast machines back in the grand old days of 'my Atari is better than your Amiga!'

Never managed to finish it though so it is great that I will get the chance to play it again.

[guesst]

Just wanted to chime in real quickly. I'm not a big fan o fthis game, but my interest in it is the rotating starmap and animated window. Both of these elements were borrowed-without-asking when Fred Ford and Paul Reich III made Star Control 1. Consequently I've just linked the two so that next time I'm hunting for where SC1 got those elements I can find it.

This seems like a good game, I just can not win even one level.

[Sebatianos]

Can't know for sure, but the moving planets are also present in Star Trek Rebell Universe... and the game was released some 2-3 years earlier.

I have completed the first opponent and now my pc is asking me to put supremacy disk 1 into the drive...

Has anyone else had this problem and how do I solve it as I want to kick behind with the secont opponent.

Thanks