Several friends I interested in the game went to pre-order it yesterday and ended up buying it at GameStop and are playing right now. I didn't have any complaints about Impulse til now. I wish it would screw up and release games early.
I know this is common news by now, GameStop screwed the pooch, but I'm just dropping my little story.
On another note Supreme Commander is great, the scale of the battles are awesome, and there are a lot of little interface features that are new for me in an RTS but afer using them I wonder why all RTS games are the same. My favorite feature being the minimap. You can zoom all the way down to each unit or zoom all the way out and it looks just like a minimap "should". I know this isn't an amazing feature, but it works so well and is so functinal an useable in game I'm going to find myself wishing every RTS had such a dynamic minimap.
-Ldog out