"The commander is in charge of controlling the res flow of both teams." Bingo. When your comm the ideal node count for the aliens is 1. You want them at one node for most of the game. If aliens cap 2 nodes at the start (giving them 3) and those nodes don't die everything is just going to get harder and harder, aliens can get to a point where they have so many nodes and so much stored up res that you have to kill the alien RTs 2-3 times over just to get them down to 1 node again. For marines your going to want 3+ RT at all times and holding 5 is preferred (3 is the minimum.) As a comm your going to want 1 marine going around capping nodes at all times, but his most imporant job is saving nodes he needs to beable to kill the skulks that are killing your nodes. Look at your minimap every few seconds and you can see what is under attack, if a marine is near the node under attack send him to save it.

This is a pretty good commanding guide and is designed for CAL play but I think it fits TG quite well too. Mainly because we don't do as many 2 hive lock downs as other servers, and when we do the 2 hive lock down it just happens and wasn't really the starting strat. On so many other servers (mainly large player count ones) I hear the comm say "Go to the hives" before he even gets into the chair. The main reason a 2 hive lock down even works is becuase the aliens let it happen and I could write pages about it but ill spare you all =).

The deflection and Guns pages have some good information. Id like more comms to try the Guns strat on the server, not a rush just to shoot the hive but a rush to target "lifeforms first" then kill the hive. If you time it right you should have plenty of time to kill the second hive while its still building. The main reason lifeforms first is very solid is becuase it can take away everything from the alien team in one fell swoop, fades will be pressured to save that second hive and may make a costly mistake. Rushing in with Guns is also faster and less costly than sieging, the speed is the big one becuase once the hive is down marines can go back to saving your own nodes and killing the aliens.