Building templates - micromanagement improved

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Building templates are a new facility in Supreme Commander :forged alliance, which helps ease the headache of the player when it comes to building complex structures. The need to pre-plan and correctly position the structures is huge due to several factors like adjacency bonuses, mutual protection, as well as need to keep your base as compact as possible so that it comes under the influence of protective structures like point defenses, AA defenses, shield generators/stealth field generators, tactical/strategic missile defenses etc. However, in an already frantic game play in which you have to control and micromanage around 200 individual units and simultaneously manage and protect your complex economy, you often get very little time to sit and think about how to effectively utilize the available terrain and bring up the best building formations that would give you maximum economical or tactical advantages. Here is where the building templates come into play."


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