“Strategy, my boy. Strategy must be employed.”
—Dr. Gustaf Brackman

A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, most often "winning". Strategy is differentiated from tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand by its nature of being extensively premeditated, and often practically rehearsed.

General strategies

• Build Orders
• Beginner multiplayer strategy
• Turtling
• Controlling the battlefield
• Trading units
• Stealing engineers
• Tactical Targeting
• Keeping Your Opponent in Line
• Sending Engineers into the Battlefield
• How to build an effective army
• You shall not pass strategy

Air warfare

• Airborne Assault
• Air Superiority
• Bomber rush strategy
• CAS: Close Air Support
• Logistical Strike
• SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defense) Strike
• Anti-air strategy
• Early Game Mobile Defense System
• CZAR Storm
• Countering Aeon Restorers

Land warfare

• Examples of static defense strategies
• Defense in depth
• Fighting dirty
• Blitzkrieg
• The Panzerkeil Formation
• Stealth charge
• Box Formation
• Tactical Network

Naval warfare

• Sea Lanes Denial
• Amphibious Assault
• Naval Superiority
• Summary Of Naval Unit Functions
• Attack Submersibles using Attack Ground Command
• Complete Atlantis Submersible attack

Faction-specific strategies

• Mixed arms - a strategy for using a mix of UEF units.
• Naval Supremacy - a strategy for using water units to gain control early.
• Cybran Stealth attack strategy - A strategy for Cybran mix units.
• Cybran strategy
• UEF strategy
• Aeon strategy
• Seraphim strategy
• Seraphim rush attack
• How to use the Seraphim Restoration Field upgrades without causing game imbalance
• UEF Davy Crockett strategy - a strategy using the UEF commander tactical nuke

Kill strategies

Kill strategies are specific techniques to kill the enemy ACU, other than the obvious strategy of attacking with overwhelming land forces. Using such a strategy to try and kill someone is called sniping

• Bomber strike kill strategy
• Gunship kill strategy
• Air Blitzkrieg kill strategy
• Cybran Teleport Microwave Laser kill strategy
• TML strike of at least 3 TML on standing ACU without TMD
• Mercy Snipe on ACU without air defense

Bad, old or sandbox strategies

• T4 Rush
• Power Projection, or "Why the Carrier is Much More Useful than it Seems"
• Ninja kill strategy
• SCU-"Specialized Combat Unit" kill strategy
• Atlantis Game Ender - A strategy for Naval Blitzkrieg.
• Artillery Barrage
• Turtle Virus
• SB-SCUing - an effective but expensive strategy

External sources

• An unofficial Forged Alliance guide
• GameReplays has closed their SupCom portal, but you can look at older versions (2009 or earlier) of www.gamereplays.org via the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine.

Note for editors

These pages are not cookbooks. Please do not express yourself in terms of "steps", and do not tell the user to "Build 5 ML". Let the user understand the strategy, so that he or she may best apply it. See the talk page for more info.