History VideoGame / SupremeCommander2

* {{Expy}}: The Cybran's Command-class Carrier is a dead ringer for the [[HostileWaters Antaeus Adaptive Cruiser]], albiet without the ludicrously powerful deck guns.

* MoreDakka: UEF has a research option that adds more more cannon barrels to tanks, artillery, cruisers and battleships. They also get a few upgrades that allow most of their buildings to have turrets and anti-air capability, turning ''every structure they have'' into something that can defend itself. They also have ''three'' distinct artillery structures, so expect to deal with quite a lot of bombardment when dealing with them.

* RealityEnsues: Both Maddox and Thalia participate in destabilizing the alliance, the latter more than the former. [[spoiler:They are punished for this. Maddox just gets an honorable discharge, since he broke ranks as soon as the morally-questionable orders came in. Thalia stuck with it for far longer, and is arrested as a result.]]

* RealityEnsues: Political divisions still exist among the newly reunified humans following the events of ''Forged Alliance'', as the scars of a thousand year long ForeverWar aren't going to heal within one generation. One major problem is that a large portion of the Aeon were wiped out after siding with the Seraphim, leaving Illuminate citizens a minority in the Coalition. Compounding matters is the UEF has come to dominate Coalition politics both due to their majority population and because they tend to vote however UEF leaders tell them to, having lived for almost a thousand years under a highly regimented military junta.
** The really ugly side of this shows up during the UEF campaign, as Maddox's wife expresses concerns about attacks against Illuminate citizens, and the moment hostilities break out, anyone of Illuminate descent is immediately rounded up.

* BrainInAJar: Gustav Brackman. Also, humorously, Cybran experimental research building has a detachable giant brain that can be used to fight. Power of mind?

* MoreDakka: UEF has a research option that adds more one more barrel to tanks, artillery, cruisers and battleships. They also get a few upgrades that allow most of their buildings to have turrets and anti-air capability, turning ''every structure they have'' into something that can defend itself. They also have ''three'' distinct artillery structures, so expect to deal with quite a lot of bombardment when dealing with them.

* RealityEnsues: Political divisions still exist among the newly reunified humans following the events of ''Forged Alliance'', as the scars of a thousand year long ForeverWar aren't going to heal overnight. One major problem is that a large portion of the Aeon were wiped out for siding with the Seraphim, leaving Illuminate citizens a minority in the Coalition. Compounding matters is the UEF has come to dominate Coalition politics both due to their majority population and because they all tend to vote however UEF leaders tell them to, having lived for almost a thousand years under a highly regimented military junta.
** The really ugly side of this shows up during the UEF campaign, as Maddox's wife expresses concerns about hate crimes against Illuminate citizens, and the moment hostilities break out, anyone of Illuminate descent is immediately rounded up.

'''''Supreme Commander 2''''' is the 2010 sequel to the RealTimeStrategy game ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander''. The game takes place twenty five years after the events of ''Forged Alliance'', during which time the Seraphim have been destroyed and humanity has come together in a utopian peace. All is thrown into jeopardy, however, when the president of the coalition is murdered by an unknown party, with the leaders of the United Earth Federation, the Cybran Nation and the Order of the Illuminate blaming each other for the president's murder and taking up arms again.

** The campaign objectives are occasionally labelled with titles like [[TheWickerMan Not The Bees!]]

** Experimentals in general are significantly weaker and cheaper compared to the previous games and behave more like an additional unit tier than the game changers they were previously.

* FunWithAcronymns: the cybrans can research a technology that turns their ships into huge {{Spider Tank}}s, called the Land Emergence Galleon System, or [[spoiler: L.E.G.S.]]

* HumongousMecha: The ACU beats all sides. [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two words]]: ''KING''. ''KRYPTOR''. The Illuminate Universal Collosus is right up there with it, but not quite as heavy. Never before have units the size of a fully-grown pine tree seemed so dwarfed in comparison. One could say that the majority of experimental units, in fact, are [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment HUMONGOUS Humongous Mechas]].

** The UEF Fatboy has lost its shield, its anti-aircraft, air-staging, and manufacturing capabilities, its guns are weaker and they fire at half the speed of the hold ones.

* MightyGlacier: The biggest experimentals are slow enough that they usually need to be paired with another experimental in the form of a transport or teleporter to be useful in an assault.

* AwesomeYetPractical:
** The Cybran Megalith 2. It's been nerfed from the original, but it's also one of the cheapest experimentals, allowing you to offset power with numbers. It's got insane weapon range and vision radius, has decent anti-air guns on its back and a couple of them can easily wipe out massed groups of conventional forces, something many experimentals are weak to.

* GreyGoo: An early Cybran mission involves you attempting to ''fight'' this. A base on a planet has gone haywire and is pumping out tons of mechanized engineers who are themselves constructing ludicrous numbers of anti-air and anti-ground turrets. The surplus engineers attack by capturing and converting your units to their side, so stemming the tide of these things can be quite difficult unless you prepare properly with a wall of your own turrets to beat back the Engineers. The ''easiest'', if time-consuming solution to this problem; build a turret wall to stop the Engineer advance, then bypass land entirely and build a wet navy to bombard them from range... though you will still have to keep watch for Engineers slipping by your defensive line and capturing your naval factories.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: At the end of the second campaign, Thalia Kael realize that [[spoiler: Gauge tricked her into a lot of terrorist acts, by attacking a Cybran military convoy on a humanitarian supply run, releasing the Guardians who are more than just the worst criminals of the Illuminate and UEF, and destroying the Illuminate government research facility and in the end, allow Gauge obtain a lot of things. Maddox also unfortunately destroyed the holographic shell guarding the entrance to the Shiva terraformer, which Gauge is able to reach easily as a result.]]

* WeaponOfMassDestruction: Everyone's run-of-the-mill Long Range Artillery/Tactical Missiles and the obvious Nuke. [[spoiler:"Shiva" - an autonomous terraforming device.]]

''Supreme Commander 2'' is notable for having a distinctly less hardcore tone than its predecessors. The story is much more light-hearted than in the previous two games, and contains a great amount of humour. Despite the seeming gravity of the premise, the scale of the story never escalates much, and is mostly a character-driven romp. The game is designed around the idea that the economic crash of 2009 would affect the gaming market--graphics were scaled down to allow the game to work on the Xbox 360, as well as on lower-end PCs, as it was assumed that people would not be able to afford expensive gaming rigs. The maximum map size was reduced and much of the game streamlined and simplified to allow for quicker matches, fitting the controls on a gamepad, a lower entry threshold and to remove focus from the economical micromanagement aspects.

* NonEntityGeneral: Averted. Each campaign's commander has a name, face, voice and family: UEF's Dominic Maddox has an Illuminate wife and son, Illuminate's Thalia Kael has her terminally ill brother, and Cybran's Ivan Brackman is the clone-son of [[BrainInAJar Doctor Brackman]]. Anyone's guess as to what happened to the first clone-son from ''SupremeCommander'', though.

* ReinventingTheWheel: One of the complaints leveled at ''SupremeCommander2'' was that the research tree introduced this to a game that had previously been free of it. Your research must be redone every level.

''Supreme Commander 2'' is the sequel to the RealTimeStrategy game ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander''. The game takes place twenty five years after the events of ''Forged Alliance'', during which time [[spoiler:the Seraphim have been destroyed and]] humanity has lived in peace. Then someone (TV Tropes blames [[WordOfGod Chris Taylor]]), for some reason, decides to murder the president of the coalition. The leaders of the United Earth Federation, the Cybran Nation and the Order of the Illuminate blame each other for the president's murder and begin to take up arms once again. [[spoiler:Add one messed up Cybran and {{Precursor}} terraformer]]. Chaos ensues.

* AirborneAircraftCarrier: UEF experimental Flying Air Factory.

** As does the Cybran Bomb-Bouncer, whose shield only covers itself and a bit after that. Its Megablast, however, is one-button death.
** The ''original'' Cybran Monkeylord from the first game has been brought over and it retains the larger scale of ''everything''. Cost included.

** To put in perspective, same mission:
---> '''Gauge:''' I have done a thousand dreadful things, as willingly as one would kill a fly, but nothing grieves me more, that I can not do ten thousand more. *beat* Toodles.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Mostly averted once you research enough upgrades. Depending on what side you're playing as, you can upgrade your tanks and assault bots with anti-air guns, obviating the need to build AA-only units. The Cybrans can even mount a gun on their otherwise-helpless Engineers. Some units are still overspecialized, however: the UEF has an anti-air fighter jet and a bomber jet, but no fighter-bombers like the other two sides.

* InstantWinCondition: Assassination game mode. Justified as units are robots and the commander usually takes a nice piece of his base with him, unless you have done some research.
** Also justified in that the ACU is technically the only manned unit in your army, from which you are commanding (hence Armored Command Unit) - if you die, everything else has nothing to control it.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Whenever Gauge shows up (especially if it involves nukes) for a Cybran Surprise Attack, you can bet you'll be hearing the discordant, manic music that ''always'' accompanies him, bringing to mind hordes of DemonicSpiders swarming down on some poor bastard.
** ''If'' it involves nukes? '''STRATEGIC LAUNCH DETECTED''' might as well ''be'' Commander Gauge's Leitmotif.
* LighterAndSofter: It's hard to deny that this game takes itself a lot less seriously than the original. The colors are brighter, unit designs lean more towards novelty and the RuleOfCool and there are quite a few laugh-out-loud moments in the campaigns, especially for the Cybran side. There's a limit, however, as it's still [=SupCom=] and the effects of the first game's events are still being felt.

* MightyGlacier: The biggest experimentals move ''so slowly'' that unless you research giant flying transport options for them (or the Space Temple teleporter for the Illuminate) that you're going to have to wait a while for that sucker to get to the enemy base.
* MilitaryMashupMachine: Most Illuminate units by default and Cybran ships once they up upgraded allowing them to operate on land.

* {{Nerf}}: Several units return from the previous game, with significant changes. The game at least has the decency to rename, so it's more like dealing with a knockoff.

** The UEF Fatboy has lost its shield, its anti-aircraft, air-staging, and manufacturing capabilities, and its guns are weaker.

* FauxAffably: Gauge is a monster, but he's so fun to listen to!

* EvillyAffable: Let's face it, Gauge is a monster, but he's so fun to listen to!
** Overlaps with CrazyAwesome, admit it.

* GreyGoo: An early Cybran mission involves you attempting to ''fight'' this. A base on a planet has gone haywire and is pumping out tons of mechanized engineers who are themselves constructing ludicrous numbers of anti-air and anti-ground turrets. The surplus engineers attack by capturing and converting your units to their side, so stemming the tide of these things can be quite difficult unless you prepare properly with a wall of your own turrets to beat back the Engineers.

* NonEntityGeneral: Averted. Each campaign's commander has a name, face, voice and family: UEF's Dominic Maddox has an Illuminate wife and son, Illuminate's Thalia Kael has her terminally ill brother, and Cybran's Ivan Brackman is the clone-son of [[BrainInAJar Doctor Brackman]].

* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The three protagonists of Supreme Commander 2 apparently did go to school together.

** The Aeon are Subversive. Their defense towers get dedicated shields, which no other faction has, their high-end experimentals are hard to kill, and their units are multi-purposed so they don't need a navy. They even get teleporters to bypass defenses. This is countered by their units not being quite as tough.

** ''If'' it involves nukes? '''STRATEGIC LAUNCH DETECTED''' might as well ''be'' Commander Gauge's {{Leitmotif}}.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: At the end of the second campaign, Thalia Kael realize that [[spoiler: Gauge tricked her into a lot of terrorist acts, by attacking a Cybran military convoy on a humanitarian supply run, releasing the Guardians who are more than just the worst criminals of the Illuminate and UEF, and destroying the Illuminate government research facility and in the end, allow Gauge obtain a lot of things.]]

* SuicideAttack: Every Cybran Surface Unit and structure comes equipped with self destruct charges when upgraded, making walking ordinance instead of cannon fodder.

* AirborneAircraftCarrier: UEF experimental Flying Air Factory.
* AwesomeButImpractical:

* AwesomeYetPractical:

* ShoutOut: The Cybran look somewhat [[WarHammer40000 orky]] this time around.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: At the end of the second campaign, Thalia Kael realize that [[spoiler: Gauge made her did a lot of terrorist acts, by attacking a Cybran military convoy on a humanitarian supply run, releasing the Guardians who are more than just the worst criminals of the Illuminate and UEF, and destroying the Illuminate government research facility and in the end, allow Gauge obtain a lot of things.]]

* TechTree: Instead of tech tiers like the previous game, the Tech Tree is used to unlock new units, abilities, and structures through research points. This has the benefit of allowing you to upgrade everything instantly just by purchasing the relevant tech. The downside is that there is a ton of things to purchase and you need a lot of research stations to build up points at a meaningful rate. You gain Tech Points by destroying enemy units, but unless you're killing things constantly, the buildup will not be that fast, which is why you also have to build research stations that slowly generate more research points over time.

''Supreme Commander 2'' is the sequel to the RealTimeStrategy game ''SupremeCommander''. The game takes place twenty five years after the events of ''Forged Alliance'', during which time [[spoiler:the Seraphim have been destroyed and]] humanity has lived in peace. Then someone (TV Tropes blames [[WordOfGod Chris Taylor]]), for some reason, decides to murder the president of the coalition. The leaders of the United Earth Federation, the Cybran Nation and the Order of the Illuminate blame each other for the president's murder and begin to take up arms once again. [[spoiler:Add one messed up Cybran and {{Precursor}} terraformer]]. Chaos ensues.

* ReinventingTheWheel: One of the complaints leveled at SupremeCommander2 was that the research tree introduced this to a game that had previously been free of it. Your research must be redone every level.