Command and Conquer 3 Demo

What is your strategy? I haven't played in a couple days, but I try to get a tech center asap and then those zone troopers or whatever they are that shoot blue beams, they then mix with a couple small tanks to defend my expansion. But that is pretty expensive (4000 for the tech center, 1000 for the men) and there is likely a better way to spend the resources.

I've been building a crane right off the start, first thing. Then a power plant and another refinery, definately need the extra income. Then an armory then command center and war thing. I get the buildings built pretty fast, I crank out 2 regular troops and rocket guys and put them in a building, to slow enemy advance. Then I'm building a CSV or whatever those things are that unpack into something you can build with, and I send him over to more tiberium along with zone troopers and small tanks. Then I get a refinery down asap and start putting in turrets, usually right before I can get turrets in they start sending planes shooting up my harvesters, they don't get shot up enough to die though. By about the 9 minute mark of gametime I'll have 5 refineries.

Beat Medium with no handicap yesterday. Wasn't too bad actually. Next up is Hard with a 50% handicap, and then to work my way down from there, if I can even beat it at 50%.

MrG: Resources
That is my resources, typically it is much worse than that. I'm going to have to disagree with you and your strategy if you can't spend more than 1 harvester can gather.

MrG: Stats
Almost 10,000 resources a minute. And I should have saved the resources graph, because until about the 9:30 mark I was bouncing around 0.

I don't think you can win in 11 minutes on medium (no handicap) without high income rate. Its getting too easy for me now, going to have to go to hard and get schooled.

If I lazy around I get nuked. Multiple times. I prefer not to duke it out with nukes and ion cannons if possible, I think they add an interesting element to the game, but I wish it was a bit more like starcraft nukes where you had to get a guy close to where you wanted to nuke.

It wasn't really a rush, just so happened we both wanted the bottom right pile of tibernium, and I won the fight for it.

Felt it was needing a bump.

I beat the computer on Hard with no handicap. It seemed that handicapping the computer REALLY hurt them on Hard, because they wouldn't expand. They put together a pretty good fight for a while, but then they hit a serious resource wall. So I dropped it down to 0% handicap and just slugged it out with them, they expanded, as did I, and we had a miniwar over my expansion. In the end I won, but I was at 0 resources most of the game, with 5 refineries and 6 harvesters going for about half of the war.

Interesting note. I have yet to win on Hard when in the top right corner. If I choose (or get placed) in the bottom left my winning percentage on Hard is about 60%. Winning percentage top right 0% I'm not sure why...

Also I've changed strategies almost every time I've played on Hard, haven't found one yet that is far better than the others. I tossed about 6 snipers into 6 buildings last game and that seemed to work alright. Those flame throwers NOD sends out are really hard on guys in buildings (insta kill) so I put all my snipers in their own buildings to minimize the chances of a catastrophic loss. I still lost them all at one point.

So to summarize, I am struggling to win on Hard, and I think I may have reached the pinnacle of my skill level until the full game is released and I play against real people.