\\\\\\\\\\\\\\-----COMMAND & CONQUER--------\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Red Alert 2 FAQ/STRATEGY GUIDE. ____The whole world must fall to the Soviets, and nothing will stop the rage that we unleash... Version Information ------------------- V1.1. I added some stuff from Scott Batass (aparently, he's a veteran player). I've also finished up the advanced strategies for the Allied Forces and the Soviets. Please mail any strategies/hints/sugestions/junk you have to me at bloodfreak@hotmail.com (can't say it enough). I will also make a walkthrough for the game with a lot of different strategies from a lot of people (at least I hope there are people out there who want to cooperate). This way I want to make sure that everyone finds the strategy to his liking. Version 1.2. ----------- Well, I added the first big part of my Allied Walkthrough, and added a complete Allied Walkthrough from Scott Batass (it's real good, a must read if I can say so myself). I'll add the finishing parts of mine in the next weekend, in school we have some last minute tests before the exams. Also, I am waiting for anybody else who wants to see his mission walkthroughs in this FAQ. Just send them over to bloodfreak@hotmail.com, and you'll earn an honorable place withing this document, and you'll earn credits of course (ahem). I hope to sttart the Soviet Walkthrough in the next update, and finish it before my exams; I hate to leave something unfinished for long. After the walkthroughs, I will get back to the main point of this FAQ, strategies. I have some stuff to add, but I really am running out of time, but when the vacations kick in, you may certainly expect a lot of updates to thsi FAQ. See ya next time. Version 1.3. ------------ So, looks like we see eachother again for another update to thsi FAQ. I said I'd wait for the walkthrough to be finished completely before moving on with other sections, bt I just oculdn't resist the temptation to start writing other things as well, which lead to a BAD test result in school, but I don't mind anyway. Okay, so I finished the Allied Walkthrough, and I'm getting through the Soviet one, I will try my best to finish it in the next update. Version 1.4. ----------- So, exams are finally done, and as you may notice, I've become even worse in English since the exams, even though it was my last. Now, aditions include: - Continuing of the walkthrough for the Soviets. - Added a guide from Red Alert 2 Den (and yes I got permission!) - Read the FAQ to take out some severe errors. It's certainly not error-free, but it is a little better now. So, since it's Christmas, it means I'll have 2 weeks vacation, so I'll be working a little further, but you have to know that Red Alert 2 is not the only game that I play. I'm also deeply in love with Diablo II (I've developed a bizarre manner of playing, but it helps heaps. I'm not going to write a guide for it, but it is still a good game, good enough to play it. Now don't worry, you'll still get your updates, and my quest continues to finish up the Soviet walkthrough. There's also a Naval War section coming up. I'll come up with more unique multiplayer mode strategies, aswell as updating the existing ones. So, as you can see, I'm still not finished with things. And as the time doesn't stand still, I'll come up with new things, I've still got to add some stuff that I forgot/overlooked, aswell as (here comes the interesting part) add all the strategies I received by mail, which will happen next update. See you all in a short while! PS: Since it is vacation, I'm going to buy a new game, maybe two. I'm not sure which one, but it will probably be an action game. I'm considering the spy- shooter No One Lives Forever, but I need someone that has played the Technology Demo, because for some reason, the game ran so damn bad, and the colors were so fluffy, I couldn't get far! I want to know if everybody had this, aswell as knowing if this is better in the full version (of course it is, but better be safe than sorry). On the other hand, Project IGI looks good, but it seems to be less atractive in my point of view, I just like the Austin Powers-style game that NOLF is, it'snot all funny (some scenes have that old- school jokes in them), but it is just cool when someone compliments you by saying "You're new here aren't you? If you weren't, I'd certainly remember!" His wife was a little upset but still. There are a lot of conversations, and riding on a motorbike or snowmobile sounds kind of cool. Three months ago, I'd say that my buy would be Renegade, but since it is delayed again, I'll have to wait some more. I'll certainly buy it though. So, anyone willing to give me some info and talk about with me, please mail me at bloodfreak@hotmail.com. But this is a Red Alert 2 FAQ right? So, let's get to work now. Version 1.5. ----------- Just a small update, with a great potential, just to make the crowd happy! Happy now? It's quite demolirising to know that I seem to be the only guy here updating his Red Alert 2 FAQ. No competition, no fun, not anything, no amusement reading other stuff that you haven't read before, it's getting borring... Booooorrrrrrriiiing. Maybe I can do a new section: Red Alert 2 GameFAQs message board log. That would be cool, but I don't think CjayC would quite aprove with that, and I can certainly understand that...... some nerdy idiot comes rippin' off your board stuff! So, what's new??? Well, basically nothing helpful, which means that I'm going to write down, and add the walkthrough for the Soviets to the next version, unless something crosses my mind that I think is more important. I've added the special units who you can only obtain by infiltrating Battle Labs (I'm really sorry that I forgot to add these), and I also added the DeeZire mod section, which will detail everything about DeeZire. The first things are already there, all nits for the allied, and partially for the Soviets. I think DeeZireis the most well-known RA2 mod, and probably still the most professional. I'm not saying that other mods suck, some are real cool, but I think this thing has something extra. Now, I won't write a walkthrough for the Ant missions until I get it myself, I don't know when that will be, because I've been having some trouble staying away from the GameFAQs message boards. I haven't surfed a lot other than that. So, don't kill me if it doesn't come soon, I also have to get up the courage to download the darn thing, it's so big... Anyways, I bought NOLF, so I don't need to know that NOLF is a great game and stuff, I found that out the minute I started playing. And IGI is just plain crap IMHO, just get your hands on Delta Force, Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear or SWAT 3: Elite Edition, and you'll have far better games than Project IGI, jsut a hint. your e-mails are still welcome, and I'll do my best to reply stuff. You know what, I'll do it this way. All the questions relating the game that I get now, will be answered in a specific section of the FAQ (something like Frequently Asked Questions, although it isn't asked Frequently to me), so I'm sure that everyone gets my reply. Of course, I won't reply messages (in the FAQ that is) that are already answered in this doc. some people seem to just ask something that is clearly writen here. Please, try to avoid such things, and make sure you are reading the latest version which can always be found at http://www.gamefaqs.com, thank you! Something else now, someone asked me to chat with him sometime and everybody else that would like to, you can always find me on the GameFAQs message board in the weekend, or go get mIRC. I usually stick around to #newbies right now, it is the "Lamers channel", so now since I come up ther I'm a lamer? Well, I just come up there because people ask you silly questions, that's it (what stupid reason is that). My local time here, is one hour past GMT, so if that can help you... Local time, I'm mostly up ther at 10:00 AM Saturday or Sunday, but until I get cable, I can't garantee you'll see me there. When I do have cable however, it will be soemthing like this: coming home from school, doing homework and then go online, smash in the channel and buzz around! I hope they hit their deadline this time, or I'll slit their throats! Version 1.6. ------------ So, this is a little weird. I think I had a nerve breakdown or something. i made a version just written full of crap that may or may not be happening, and I don't even bother posting it! Well, I still think the update was too small, so I will be sending this one to CJayC. Okay, I hope that was clear. anyways, I did what I said about the Soviet walkthrough, it's done. I've writen up the first part of the strategies for DeeZire, and I've finished the Soviet unit description of course. The day this FAQ reaches GameFAQs, that will probably be Friday, I will start making all my e-mails in text and ready to put in. I'm really sorry for the REAAAAL long wait, but I'm only a FAQ author, and that doesn't mean I'm superior or something. Everybody can write a FAQ, I'm the living example of that. Firday is a very busy day, I'm going to a friend who has cable, and a few nerds over at the message boards will have it!!! They'll f*ckin' have it! Die bithces, bastards, pets, this puppy is lucky I didn't blast his ass yet! Okay, now htat ain't quite original (fans will know that, sorry, jsut found it real cool). Oh yeah, and there's one thing I wanted to say to someone fro Holland who mailed me, but I'm certain if I replied him. anywy, here's the answer: I can't help you with any savegames. Not because I don't have them, but firstly, they probably won't work on your computer, and secondly, I don't know if the version of the game has anything to do with it, but I think it does, and since you do't have the all-around savegame, that means that you're below version 1.002. Bad lcuk, but you can always try to find some on the Internet, I know there are some out there. Okay, that said, I hope you enjoy this version. Version 1.8 ---------- HAHAHAHAHA! Now I got you didn't I? I knew you guys thought I was dead, hell I thought so myself. WTF have I been doing here? I was going to put all stuff in text, next day I discover this game err what's it called again? Operation Flashpoint ya. So I write a Demo FAQ fr that, and now whagt? It's september 2001, it won't be too long before it's exactly one year since this FAQ was posted... and I'm far from finished it seems. Nothing really new from me though, it's all from a bud of mine, well bud ... yeah bud! He's called William DeLaschmit or somethi', his name is correctly shown in the walkthrough though. :) Anyways, he sent me a Soviet walkthrough, and it's all in here! CHECK IT OUTTTTTT! ATTENTION TO ALL PEOPLE STILL READING AND STILL WONDERING ABOUT CONTRIBUTIONS: I'd like to shed some tears with you, not only because so many people died and so many others were left without friends and family, but also because I'm such a lazy asshole. Well in fact I'm not, beecause believe it or not, but I've got another reason t hide behind. Since June 18th 200A, my internet access was suddenly, shall we say, ZERO. I formatted my hard disk, not knowing that some idiot who put some stupid modem into my PC, made it a real weird modem! So there I am, getting so much e-mails, losing so many, not even knowing what's in them, then finding out the site I worked for is out, then finding out I'm without a job, then finding out that some stupid IRC server gets a new bot, so no longer Operator, then find out that some idiot named Armourdave decides to be hero and declare holy war on me, then find out ... I need some destraction. I dived back into Red Alert 2. hell I didn't even have this FAQ anymore, I had to go over to GameFAQs.com to get it! [TABLE OF CONTENTS] \------------------\ 1) Introduction 2) What is Red Alert 2 - Game Features 3) Allied Units/structures/specials 4) Soviet Units/Structures/specials 5) Tactical information on units/structures/specials 6) Main defensive tips for Allies 7) Main offensive tips for Allies 8) Main defensive tips for Soviets 9) Main offensive tips for Soviets. 10) Advanced strategies 10.1) Allies 10.2) Soviets 11) Mission Walkthroughs 11.1. My Walkthroughs 11.2. Reader Walkthroughs 11.2.1. Scott Batass' walkthroughs 11.2.2 Will's Allied Walkthrough 11.2.3 Will's walkthrough for Soviet Union. 11.3. Miscelanious walkthroughs 12) Special Muoltiplayer modes. 12.1. Unholy Alliance strategies. 12.2. Red Alert 2 DeeZire strategies. 13) Contact Information 14) Credits \----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ 1) Intorduction. \---------------\ Hi guys, here's a strategy guide for the awesome game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. For the moment you can find all the things you need to know about Red Alert 2, and how to strategically make your enemies angry, paranoid, distracted and the like. Never forget: Your best defense is offense, but don't compromise your defensive strength because you want to attack. Try to take your time and hope the enemy isn't too quick about it either. If he is, make an efficient attack force, and strike back (just to scare him or to damage him in the early stages of the game). You can use strategies in this guide in the campaigns, but certain missions only give you certain units to build, and strategies listed here mostly use all types of units, so in the first mission, you won't be able to do a lot with these missions. I'm sure there is/there'll be a good guide for this, in the mean time, I'm working on one of my own. You may be sure that there'll be a Primagames Unofficial strategy guide, or one of those superb Game Guides of IGN! I hope you like this FAQ, if not, tell me what's wrong. Also, if anybody wants to contribute to this FAQ, you are more than welcome! Just mail your additions to: bloodfreak@hotmail.com, and use Red Alert 2 FAQ as you subject, thank you. I'm trying to make this guide as big and as precise as possible (well that Walkthrough should help a bit). Okay, so without further addo, let's start. -------------------------------------- 2) What is Red Alert 2 - Game features. \-------------------------------------\ Alright, here's the section where the newbies will find some info about this game, and of course my personal review. Also I'll go a little deeper into the game features of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. First we need to look back a bit, to the very well-known Red Alert, the original. It begins when Einstein and an assistant make a time machine to teleport back in time, and prevent WWII from happening. They suceed in killing Hitler, but instead of WWII, there is an even bigger threat about to overrun the world: The Soviet Empire commanded by Stalin. Their tanks roll into the nearby countries and take them over without problem. Allied powers know that they have to act against this threat. There's only one problem, they lack the firepower to pose a big threat to the Soviets. The Allies rely on long-range assaults and quick air strikes, while the Soviets try to demolish the Allies with brute force, even with atomic weapons. After a long strugle, the Allies manage to kill Stalin and end the war. They choose a dictator, Romanov, to control and rebuild the Soviet remains. However, Romanov builds up the Soviet army and makes it stronger than ever. He plans on striking directly in the United States. Using his Cloning Vats he makes new soldiers faster than ever. They quickly overrun the surprised Allies, and they have to rely on newly developed technology to defend themselves... And that's where the game starts. Are you up to it? So what are some cool features of Red Alert 2 you ask? Well, first off, the camera is zoomed in much closer than in Tiberian Sun, which means cooler gameplay, and better graphics. On a sidenote, I was impressed with the minimum system requirements for a Command & Conquer RTS.... Anyways, you'll fight in real-life locations now, no more "Where the hell am I?????"-quistions. You'll be able to fight in New York, Paris, Texas, Chicago, Washington, somewhere in Germany I believe (I'm not that far yet...), and Siberia. Sounds pretty cool. Add to that, there's cars, a lot more buildings, and better gameplay rules if you ask me. I'll get to that a little later. The sound has gotten a lot of improvement, you'll now hear "sounds of the enviroment", which means birds, tanks, infantry marching, cows making that anoying noise and so on. Multiplayer has gotten some improvement as well. First you've got "Unholy Alliance", which gives you both an Allied and a Soviet MCV. VERY NICE. Here you have to be kind of strategic, since where for example the Allied lacks heavy armor, the Soviets make up for that nicely. So you'll have to work with deceptions and direct assaults while your enemies are occupied elsewhere. I'll cover this in the appropriate sections. Further more there are modes like naval war (you're left on a small island and you're enemy is on an other island", Land Rush (you start in a completely revealed map) and Meatgrinder (you can mainly use infantry and tanks). And IGNPC gives it a 9.3, so what are you waiting for (they won't lie about it...). -------------------------------------- 3. The Allied Forces \------------------\ Units ----- Infantry -------- GI Soldier ---------- Description: A well-trained infantryman with a powerful machinegun. He's more than a match for the Russian Conscript. He can deploy his machinegun and hold is ground, or you could place him in a building (yeah!!! Why not the McBurger Kong in the first missions?). When you "garrison" your GI, he will stay in the building and fire at anything that passes. This adds to the already massive strategic planning you need to do. This is especially handy as your infantrymen can take potshots at the marauding enemy forces, weakening them before they reach your base. And they aren't too expensive as well. What I'm trying to say is: DO NOT OVERLOOK THESE GUYS! Weapon: .50 Caliber Machinegun Attack Dog ---------- Description: These are the infantry killing machines. One attack and even Tanya will be toast. They are pretty fast compared to most infantry and they can sniff out spies for you (assuming your enemy is Allied or you are playing Unholy Alliance). Always keep some in your base. They'll kill the Engineers that try to sneak in and capture some buildings. I've had it happen once and it isn't pretty (lucky enough for me he took only my Power Plant, I was able to kill his 4 companions). Rocketeer --------- Description: You can call these guys the Jump Jet infantry of Tiberian Sun, they're only a lot cooler if you ask me. I only found them useful in one department: to weaken approaching attack forces. Soviets mostly send heavy tank assaults to make you shiver. Just send a dozen Rocketeers to them, and half of them will be destroyed when they reach your base. Their weapons aren't impressive if you ask me, they're just good help. Weapon: Light Machinegun Chrono Legionnaire ----------------- Description: This one can be a real pain in the butt. What he does is wipe the enemy units you target from the map. The only problems are that he ain't strong and that he doesn't fire fast. So, keep these guys safe and victory might just be much easier... Weapon: Chrono Rifle (or something like that) Engineer -------- Description: This goon returns to the party, with some nasty upgrades. He hasn't gained the speed yet hehe, but he can do a butt load of things. First, he can take over an enemy building and turn it to your side. Secondly, he can repair your own structures. Just send him inside and he'll repair it for you. Thirdly, he can repair a destroyed bridge. You'll have to send him into the bridge control station. Once that is done, it will be safe to move along your units. Also, he can capture Tech buildings (airports, Oil Derricks, Outposts, hospitals, etc.), to help you in your efforts. This can prove very useful in the heat of battle. By supplying you with a steady flow of cash, paratroopers, free healing, repair etc. you could easily turn the tides on the enemy and kill him off. You can also capture normal houses and other civilian buildings. Lastly, he can defuse bombs. He has a Defuse kit with him to defuse any explosive threats that you might encounter. This makes him the ideal weapon against Crazy Ivan's terrorism. The only drawback is that you will lose your engineers in most of these cases (except for the bomb defusing that is). Weapon: Defuse kit Tanya ----- Description: Your ideal special agent, Tanya will perform her duties quite nicely. She has a woopin' amount of firepower with her, and she can handle infantry attacks very well. Just don't use her against armored units, she'll probably die. Structures however, are very popular targets for Tanya. She just plants a C4 charge and destroys it in one blow. VERY EFFECTIVE. If you are lucky, the AI won't have much of defenses, and when the time comes that he threatens to destroy/harm you, just send Tanya in and clean out the super weapons. I've actually done it several times and it performs nicely! Weapon: Dual Colt45 pistols and C4 charges Spy --- Description: This one is vital to your strategy. In Red Alert, your spy could do a handful of things, but in my opinion it is much harder to discover a spy in RA2 than it was in the original. Still the best defense would be to place your dogs in Guard mode. A spy can do much more this time. Here's a rundown. 1) Get him into a refinery and he will steal some cash for you! 2) Get him into the Power Plant and he will shut off the power for 1 minute (VERY useful) 3) Get him into your enemy Radar Tower/Air Force Command HQ and he will reset the shroud. 4) Get him into the Barracks/War Factory and he will make your units Veteran. 5) Get him into the Battle Lab and he will offer you a new unit to build. 6) Get him into a super weapon, and he will reset the countdwon (VERY, VERY useful!) Just don't come to close to enemy Guard Dogs, as they will sniff out your spies pretty quickly. Psychic units, such as Yuri can also detect spies, aswell as the Psychic Sensor. Vehicles -------- Chrono Miner ------------ Description: Without this, you'll die. That is the simplest description that I can give you. For old-school Command & Conquer players, you can call it the Harvester, but with extra teleportation ability. It has to drive to the Ore fields but it can teleport back to your base. This spares a lot of time, and you don't have to build that many to have a steady flow of cash! It doesn't have any weapons like its Soviet counterpart. It can crush infantry of course. Grizzly Battle Tank ------------------ Description: This is the main armor unit of the Allies. It has heavy armor, good strength and good firepower, however the Soviets Heavy Tank is better in every aspect but speed. It will certainly be the bulk of your forces in the whole game. In my opinion, it goes pretty fast for a tank. The nice thing is, because of its cheapness, you can send wave after wave of them to assault the enemy base. While you're first wave is attacking, you start building another wave. It should be almost or even completely finished when your tanks are destroyed. You must make sure that you have a constant flow of cash though. Capture an Oil Derrick, or build a bunch of extra Ore Miners to give fast money. Weapon: 105mm Cannon Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) ------------------------------ Description: Just your plain old APC. But this time, there are some special forms of the IFV. First of all, it can only carry one infantry unit. It's like a nice sports car for your men hehehe. You can produce regular IFV that you pump full of infantry. These have some weapons (including the infantry's weapons of course), but you can also produce a Repair IFV, which functions a little like the MRV in TS. You send it to a unit and your IFV will repair it. It has its uses, but personally, I'd go with the Chopper. Just for those who can't figger it out, you have to put an Engineer in the IFV to make it a REpair IFV. Also, I've received some very nice tips from Scott Batass about what you can do with an IFV (I usually only use them to transport infantry to the destination, unload and then use them as support fire). He has the following combinations: - IFV +Tesla Trooper (if you can manage it) =Tesla Tank (acording to him, it has better range, but I didn't really feel like that, anyaways..) - IFV + Crazy Ivan/SEAL (campaign only!) =Demolition Truck (YEAH BABY!!!!!) - IFV + Yuri =IFV taht fires a Psychic wave (not all that useful) - IFV + Desolator =fires radiation weapon (good anti-infntry weapon, otherwise its just crap!!) - IFV + Flak Trooper =Well, I'd like to call it the Goalkeeper. It fires flak very quicly, and it gives the feeling of having a real anti-aircraft weapon that is used on Carriers (yeah! Where's the Goalkeeper on the Carrier for the Allies!) - IFV + Chrono Legionaire =Chrono IFV. They fire the Chrono Rifles and indeed fire a little faster then the normal Legionaires. - IFV + Attack Dog =These kill spies you know, looks like those dogs have good noses hehehe. Major thanks to Scott for this one! Weapon: Missiles +infantry fire Prism Tank ---------- Description: You could describe it as "a Prism Tower on wheels". It isn't very strong, but it is very destructive. They are best used as heavy defense, or as supporting unit in the assault on the enemy base. They pack quite a punch, but heavy units can still destroy it. Weapon: Mobile Prism Cannon Mirage Tank ----------- Description This one is pretty interesting, I like to refer to it as the Shape shifting Tank. It can mask itself in things like a tree for example. This is the best ambush-unit in the game in my opinion. Just have a group of them mask themselves, let the enemies strike force go by and do some backstabbin'! It's gun is quite powerful, but I didn't find its offensive capabilities very good. They can be used as a last line of defense if you want. Still, they're very good against infantry and can destroy light vehicles in a few shots (good against those V3s!). If ou can mass some together, it will be safe to attack heavier tanks and even apocalypse tanks, which will give you some quick elite tanks. They're also ideal against Terror Drones, they can take them down in one shot, so be sure touse them. Weapon: Mirage Gun MCV (Mobile Construction Vehicle) --------------------------------- Description: This slow but strong unit is something you wouldn't want to lose in the beginning of a match. It probably won't happen but it is still a very painful thing... thrust me on this one. It is wise to build a second MCV and even a third, just in case the enemy turns nasty. The best thing is to make multiple, individual bases. I had an interesting strategy for TS. I haven't had a lot of time to test it here, but I think it will work out just fine. I'll cover it in the appropriate section. Weapon: NOTHING!!! Air Units --------- Harrier ------- Description: Ahhh, one of my favorite units in the game. They are pretty fast, they are very destructive and the Flak Cannons sometimes have a hard time shooting at 'em. They are the Harriers. To ensure your success you'll have to build a ton of them. A full squadron of 12 would be advisable, you never know what kind of resistance you run into. There Air-to-ground missiles are very powerful, bringing a structure down in about 2 hits. Be sure to break your squadron in groups of about 4, and let them attack individual targets. This works most of the time, for me at least. Follow up your air strike with a large taskforce and your enemy will be powerless. Weapon: Maverick Air-to-Ground missiles Night Hawk Transport Helicopter ------------------------------- Description: My favorite transport. I usually attack approaching vehicles with them, as they have unlimited bullets, and in packs they can pack quite a punch (man I'm getting sick of that "pack"). They can hold up to 5 infantry units and deliver them anywhere you want (if he can land anywhere near it that is). This is handy if you want to give your enemy a "Tanya Rush". Just load her into the Chopper together with some GIs or Engineers, deliver her just outside the most undefended part of your enemy's base, and blow up/capture some stuff! Be advised however, as there seems to be something wrong with the game. Once I attacked an enemy group of Conscripts and suddenly they began to fire at me. It is logical that people with machineguns can fire at helicopters, it just never happened to me in a Command & Conquer game yet. Weapon: Blackhawk Chaingun F/A-18 Hornet ------------- Descriptions: You won't actually be able to control them, but they will be your best friends on the battlefield. You'll have to build an Aircraft Carrier (assuming there is water on the map you're currently on), and give it a target to attack. The Carrier will launch its Hornets, and they will move to the target at a nice speed, and demolish it. It is best if you have multiple carriers, because the hornets have to return and rearm before you can launch them again. You can target their Construction Yard and Service Depot at the same time (probably destroying them), making your enemy mad. He will not be able to build another MCV (if he didn't do that already). Weapon: Some kind of Rocket Pots. Naval Units ----------- Amphibious Transport -------------------- Description: A must-have if you are stuck, having to sail over ships to attack your enemy. They're not incredibly fast like in the original Red Alert, but they can deliver wave after wave of tanks, that if co-coordinated well, will eventually destroy your enemy. This combined with support fire from your warships, will without a doubt destroy your foe(s). Not that they're not useful over land. They're just as useful. It's just not remarkable, I just overlooked them the first few times I could build them! Dolphin -------- Description: I overlooked these at first, but they're ideal when fighting over water. They can destroy Giant Squids and subs easily, but are also ideal for freeing ships of the grip of the Squids. They have a weird sonic device that you could resemble a bit with the Disruptor from TS. Weapon: Sonic Pulse Destroyer --------- Description: This is your basic warship. Or not eh. It has a heavy cannon and to combat those annoying typhoons, the Destroyer is equipped with anti-submarine warfare helicopters. These do the job of killing the subs quite well if you ask me. It is a good vessel to assault defensive structures as well as infantry. I found it less effective against tanks and heavily armored units. Weapon: 155mm cannon +ASW helicopters Aegis Cruiser ------------- Description: This one can be very effective. It fires SAMs in a rapid rate, it has good strength compared to the Destroyer, too bad it has no other weapons. I found it both handy in destroying marauding Hercules planes, bringing those paratroopers, as well as destroying those tough Airships. This is a must have to protect yourself from long-range Soviet missiles. You can destroy both V3 rockets and the missiles of Dreadnoughts. Weapon: Surface-to-Air missiles Aircraft Carrier ---------------- Description If there is one thing I build after my Shipyard is deployed, it is this baby. It is strong, and it has some impressive friends on its decks. Look at the description of the F/A-18 Hornet to find out what I mean. You can attack both ships and ground units/structures with it, no air units (that's where the cruisers come in). This is the command vessel for your fleet. The main thing you will want to do is to destroy any flaks in sight with your Destroyers, while the Hornets destroy any heavy defenses with their deadly weapons. The Cruisers meanwhile, defend the Carrier from any assaults from both V3s and Dreadnoughts, not forgetting the airships of course. Structures ---------- Construction Yard ----------------- Description This is the main building of your base. Be unfortunate enough that an enemy destroys both your Construction Yard AND your Service Depot, and you're screwed. This building allows you to construct the buildings that you'll need. When destroyed you lose the ability to build any more defenses, go further up the Tech Tree and reduces your chances of winning the game. Defend it at all cost. Also, be sure to make a second or even a third Mobile Construction Yard so that you are sure that you are playing on the safe side. Take my advice boys and girls, you'll need it. Ore Refinery ------------ Description: This is where all the ore is stored and where the Ore Miner docks to deliver the harvested ore. This is the second most important structure in the game, the first being the Construction Yard. Do not leave it undefended, it is expensive to rebuild, and if you are unfortunate to not have enough funds for it, you might end up having to sell off important buildings. Power Plant ----------- Description: You cannot survive without a few Power Plants. They supply your whole base with power and most importantly, they power your defensive structures as well. The superb strategy is to first destroy the enemy's Power Plants and then destroy him, taking advantage of the absence of his heavy defenses. Using a spy to shut of the base power, while a special unit (like Tanya) moves through the base and destroys anything of importance, is crucial. If you just built a structure which needed a lot of power and you lost main power until you can build another power plant, there may be occasions where just then, the enemy decides to attack. This is very painful, as your Ore Miners could just be busy while your enemies are pouring into your base. The best strategy to do (the fastest btw) is to sell off the power-sucking building. Base power will be immediately restored and your heavy defenses will rip apart the unsuspecting enemy, hahahahahahaha! Barracks -------- Description: This is very simple: BUILD and ENJOY. This building is used for the creation of infantry and is also required to build the War Factory. It is pretty cheap for a building eh. War Factory ----------- Description: This, in my opinion at least, the third most important building in the game. It is used to build the heavily armored units, not the advanced ones. Things like tanks and heavy transports are built here. Air Force Command HQ -------------------- Description: This is a multi-role building. Firstly, it is a radar. It gives you a main view on the map. However there is a second function. This building is used to build the Harriers, and is needed to build the cruisers. Service Depot ------------- Description This is very important to build fast and to maintain. "Why?!" you ask? Well, it is very useful to repair your units, and the most important thing is this: in the event that your Construction Yard is destroyed, you will be in deep shit. However, if you have a service depot, you will be able to build a new MCV. Let this be your first priority once your main structures are up. Battle Lab ---------- Description: This building allows you to build the advanced structures/units and gives you access to the super weapons... NICE, I hear you screaming, hahaha. Gap Generator -------------- Description: You can take this as your average Stealth Generator, but that's incorrect. They hide any structure and unit in its radius in a big shroud. Units and structures that fire at enemy units will "decloak" so that they can open fire. Keep your power above nominal, or everything will shut down (NOT NICE!!). It can be pretty handy in the earlier stages (remaining hidden from your enemies), but don't really use it when your enemy has already scouted out your base, a good super weapon strike will still be imminent. Ore Purifier ------------- Description: Not all the ore you mine is usable to convert into cash. But now there is a solution to this problem: the Ore Purifier. They allow you to get all the resources you harvest into cash, this gives a huge bonus. The Allies already mine faster than the Soviets, now they even get more credits than them. Great, you gonna need it. Spy Satellite Uplink ------------------- Description: This little bastard allows you to unveil the whole map which is pretty useful if you ask me. Just be sure you have enough power, or the whole thing will shut down... And at that moment, an enemy invasion force arrives. You laugh at them, typing in the chat window "YOU WILL NEVER GET BY MY 15 PRISM TOWERS!!!", when you suddenly discover that they aren't working at all! Be warned! Chronosphere ------------ Description: The chronosphere has returned once more, and he's better than ever. First off, this structure sucks out power, so be warned. Secondly, it is actually kind of tricky to use IMO. When charged up to full, it allows you to teleport a certain unit/group to a location of your choosing HOWEVER, they will only stay there for a few minutes, so good planning is crucial! This can be handy to send swift attacks, or to reinforce your main taskforce with some extra supplies. You can't send infantry into an enemy base, but if you put them in an IFV, there shouldn't be any problems. Weather Machine --------------- Description: One of my favorite super weapons ever in the world of RTS. This Weather Machine creates a lightning storm, which approaches the targeted area. It is very deadly to enemy structures and infantry. This is of course the superb moment to bring in your heavy forces (NO! Not while the storm is busting them up!!!), or even chronoshifting an IFV with Tanya inside, hoping most of their defenses are destroyed/their power is down. Pillbox ------- Description: This is my favorite defensive structure in the game, especially the sound is very cool! What this is? Well, it is a bunker with a machinegun inside, firing at any incoming forces. While it is pretty strong, it is the weakest of the Allied defensive structures, and it is also the weakest of them all. You will always find them in my defense though... They are real infantry shredders, they aren't really effective against vehicles. Patriot Missile System ---------------------- Description: This is another of my faves, it's just so damn powerful... against the right stuff. It fires the famous Patriot surface-to-air missiles (for those who know them), they will knock every V3 and Dreadnoughts missile out of the air. You know that the Kirov Airships are very heavy. Just place enough systems and they will destroy them. Don't even dear to attack these systems with Harriers or Hornets, they will be knocked out of the sky before they even reach their base... units aren't really balanced to fight themselves you know... Prism Tower ----------- Description: These are the armor shredders for the Allies. They fire some weird type of laser. They are stronger than Pillboxes, but they aren't as strong as Patriots. They are essential to your defenses, never leave any base without them. Fortress Wall ------------- Description: These are the standard Concrete Walls. They are needed for your defensive needs. They'll keep out those pesky Terror Drones, as well as prevent any direct engineer attacks. Special Allied Multiplayer forces --------------------------------- Americans: Paratroopers ----------------------- Description: All of you Americans get free paratroopers. This is pretty cool, as GIs are a pain in the butt!!! They can take out tanks themselves, and you better get Flaks up fast, so that you can take out the Hercules planes down before they can drop off the troops. However, if you are one of the Allies, you can easily take 'em down with a few Patriots! Beware though, these planes are slow, but they can take some punishment (this is especially for the Soviets). Keep dogs within your base, so that your doggies can kill the infantry before they can do some damage. Weapon: .50 Heavy Machinegun (probably a Browning type) British: Sniper ---------------- Description: I haven't been able to test these yet, but my guess is that they are a little like the Sniper in TS. I will post a good description once I find the time to test them out. Weapon: Arctic Warfare Pistol France: Grand Cannon -------------------- Description: These guys rock man!!! They can destroy marauding Soviet tanks like I eat candy (not that I'm fat or something). They are a little expensive, but it is worth the money. Weapon: Heavy Cannon Germany: Tank Destroyer ----------------------- Description: Okay, now this one is real good in my opinion. Well, it is good if you use it to its potential, which means letting it shell tanks in the field, but it sucks severely against infantry and structures, don't really try it, or you'll end up without Tank destroyer against one lone Conscript (in the worst scenario, but it can actually happen!). However, if you expect a rush, build a lot of these babies, and wait until their tanks come rolling in, and let your SABOTs fly! These guys can fry Rhino Heavy Tanks before they figure out what's goin' on! So, it's good to keep a few of them around in an open match, just to destroy incoming tanks faster. If the enemy heavily relies on tank defense, bring a bunch of these too, just to give your other units some air. This shows how balanced an attack force of a good player needs to be, if you're going up against an enemy, don't do it with only one type of unit, or you'll basically rule against one type of unit/structure or you'll suck against the rest. Of course, there are some exceptions like the Apocalypse Tank, which is a real multi-role unit, but the Allies are pretty much stuck in that department right? So, build them if you fear an enemy rush, but leave them out if the enemy uses other stuff. Weapon: SABOT Canon Korea: Black Eagle ------------------- Description: These are the Superharriers, but I do notlike them that much. They go a little slower tha the original, have stronger missiles though and can sustain more damage. Just be sure that you have several of these, as one will still do minor damage. They are good for the "Air Strike without warning" strategy (see further below in section 7). Weapon: Maverick air-to-ground-missiles Special Trainable Infantry! --------------------------- Woops! Forgot to add these, but now I'm going to anyway! Chrono Commando --------------- Special Requirement: Get a spy into an Allied Battle Lab, and make one imediately! Description: This is one of the best infantry units in the game, if not the best of all! It's basically a SEAL with with a mobile Chrono device. It's still an unbeatable infantry killer, and it still blows up buildings like hell! But this time, you can just find a weak part of the base with your Spy Satelite, train one of these if you can actually acquire them (Free For All helps a lot in this area!) chrono in the Commando, and destroy everything in sight! And the cool thing is, if you are a good timer, you can actually avoid Tesla Coils. Just run up to them, and if they are about to shoot, chrono away for a slight moment, it will shoot and miss, and will have to charge again, or it will not shoot at all, but will have to recharge for some reason. Blow the Coil, and and any other coils int he area, and then blow up stuff at your leasure, just watch out for the tanks, or flak tracks thtat try to crush you. Also, don't get killed by dogs, that's just plain annoying! The best thing to do when you're playing against humans, and you want to destroy something of importance, destroy Tech Buildings. most people don't really invest in heavy defense for tech buildings, which is totally understandable, unless you have a lot of time, and in most cases, the enemy won't just sit back and relax while you build up as much as you like! I personally, don't really invest in such a thing too, because you never really can afford to lose too much time, it can cost you a lot, except if your heavy defense is placed on the way to your base, than it might be interesting to look into. Anyways, the first defensive measure to do with this unit, is just to destroy enemy Airport(s), because Paratroopers can be a pain sometimes, if they get through of course. Oil Derricks are very important to blow up too, to slow down the enemy cashflow, expecially Soviet opponents will hate you for such a thing. So, overall, this unit is worth the effort to get your Spy into the Lab, so I should get it, as it is probably the best infantry in the game. Weapon: Chrono MP5 (whatever!) and C4 charges Psi Commando ------------ Special Requirement: Get a spy into a Soviet Battle Lab! Description: Now, this is not as good as the Chrono Commando, but it might be interesting to get these guys. They are basically Yuri with the mind-control ability, but they also have C4 charges, so seems to be some use for them... but I don't know what. Well, I do know what they are good for, I think the Yuri clone is quite cool, you can just get yourself an enemy unit. It all depends who you're playing against (as always). If you're facing a Soviet player at that time, try to snatch an Apocalypse Tank, and let it do some damage, targetting power and defenses first. If you have a hole, and you feel like taking a risk, send in your tank, followed by your commando. Target buildings with the Commando, and target marauding units with your Apocalypse Tank, and when the tank dies, quicly get another one. It's all quite tricky though, so watch your step. If you are playing against Allied and Soviet players simeltaneously, it's helpful to take a Prism Tank, get it out of enemy fire, repair any damage that was done to it, and take out Tesla Coils of the soveit base with it. Once it gets destroyed by units, take something powerful, that's quite cheap don't you think??? Weapon: Mind Control, C4 charges -------------------------------------- 4) Soviet units/structures/specials. \----------------------------------\ Infantry -------- Conscript --------- Description: These soldiers are weaker and less trained than the GI, but they are cheaper. They cannot deploy themselves and I miss that here (you can bet I'm not a fan of the Soviets!). They are oh so easy to kill with dogs and their guns aren't as spectacular as well! So, why would you buy these nerds??? Well, you can still garrison buildings with them, so it is still good to use them for defensive purposes. If you need some support to kill infantry, use the Attack Dogs, they are much better (they kill much faster as well hehehe). Weapon: M1 Carbine assault rifle (you wouldn't say it if you see those wimpy weapons) Attack Dog ---------- Description: These are the infantry killing machines. One attack and even Tanya will be toast. They are pretty fast compared to most infantry and they can sniff out spies for you (assuming your enemy is Allied or you are playing Unholy Alliance). Always keep some in your base. They'll kill the Engineers that try to sneak in and capture some buildings. I've had it happen once and it isn't pretty (lucky enough for me he took only my Power Plant, I was able to kill his 4 companions). Engineer -------- Description: This goon returns to the party, with some nasty upgrades. He hasn't gained the speed yet hehe, but he can do a buttload of things. First, he can take over an enemy building and turn it to your side. Secondly, he can repair your own structures. Just send him inside and he'll repair it for you. Thirdly, he can repair a destroyed bridge. You'll have to send him into the bridge control station. Once that is done, it will be safe to move along your units. Also, he can capture Tec buildings (airports, Oil Derricks, Outposts, hospitals, etc.), to help you in your efforts. This can prove very useful in the heat of battle. By supplying you with a steady flow of cash, paratroopers, free healing, repair etc. you could easily turn the tides on the enemy and kill him off. You can also capture normal houses and other civilian buildings. Lastly, he can defuse bombs. He has a Defuse kit with him to defuse any t explosive threats that you might encounter. This makes him the ideal weapon against Crazy Ivan's terrorism. The only drawback is that you will lose your engineers in most of these cases (except for the bomb defusing that is). Weapon: Defuse kit Tesla Trooper ------------- Description: If you want tank zappers, than these are your men. They use electricity to zap enemy units however, you can use them to power Tesla Reactors to give them that extra boost (never done this though...). It isn't that useful against infantry, as these units tend to miss smaller targets. I do not use these troops often, actually I do not use a lot of Soviet infantry, Flak Troopers sometimes to protect my forces from those Rocketeers and harriers. Weapon: Electric bolt Flak Trooper ------------ Description: Okay, these are actually useful. They can fire at both Ground, sea and air units. They are essential to your offensive capabilities, unless you want to stick with the Flak Track. They are vulnerable to other infantry, so please give them some Attack Dog cover (if you would use the Flak Track, those Grizzlies would blow them to smithereens). Weapon: Flak gun (both ground, sea and air units can be attacked) Crazy Ivan ---------- Description: I like this guy because of his fancy speech! "I've lost the bomb, do you have it?" The first time I heard that I was laughing until my parents came asking what was wrong. No, seriously. This guy, if used right, will make the life of the enemy very hard. You'll have to protect him well, but I assure you it is worth it. It is tricky, because you will have to keep someone kill the engineers who try to defuse the bomb, but if you can achieve this goal as well, the units/structure you bombed will be toast. Weapon: Dynamite Yuri ---- Description: Yuri is one of the most impressive units I have seen in Westwood games that I've played (that excludes the Dune series). He can mind control any unit your finger can click at. From grizzly Battle Tanks to bite happy alligators! This allows you to do the cow Rush (see appropriate section). But that is not all. He can do a Psychic Wave that kills all infantry that are near him. An all-around interesting unit to have AND to use of course. Weapon: Psychic Wave Vehicles -------- Rhino Heavy Tank ---------------- Description: NOW we're talking! Make a mass of these, and crush the opposition. It has a heavy cannon, I'm a little disappointed that the 2 barreled tanks haven't returned. Those were really cool! Take a look at the original Red Alert if you want details on this baby. Anyways, this tank isn't bad or something, they are just....... a little less cool. They are very effective against Tesla Coils, especially if they are in packs. They aren't very effective against Prism Towers however, Prism Towers are effective against THEM. The point of being Soviet is to start up your base immediately and build as many as you can, as fast as you can. Then, rush the enemy and hope they are overwhelmed (if you did it quick enough that won't be a problem really). Weapon: 120mm Cannon Apocalypse Assault Tank ----------------------- Description: Have fear of the Apocalypse. Twice the strength of the Rhino, heavy armor and impressive firepower, this is what a Mammoth Tank is all about, baby. Not only can it fire at ground targets with its dual heavy canons, it can also fire missiles at aircraft. Scared yet? No? Well, just imagine what a dozen of these tanks could do to your base... They'll completely destroy it, unless you can retaliate appropriately. This is why my theory on the Allied forces is the following: The best defense, is a good defense of course! And that's more than true if you take a close look at the Apocalypse tank. Throw everything you have at it, assault it from the sea if you can, aircraft carriers help a lot here, as their hornets might be able to get through its missile defense, and will give it a nice beating. Weapon: Dual 120mm Heavy Cannons and SAM missiles Flak Track ---------- Description: Nothing special, only meant for scouting means, nothing more. It has some flak guns on it that can target both air and ground units, still nothing special, as it has spiffy armor and is incredibly weak. Weapon: flak guns V3 Rocket Launcher ------------------ Description: I already hear you guys saying "And what don't you like about this, you foolish nerd, well to give you an answer: it is much to difficult to get it working right. The only way you could do it a bit easier is by outgunning the patriots, and still, the Allies will come and screw your V3s up. Soviets are much more prone to V3s (spiffy air defense, anyone???). What you'll want to do is bring them in if you're absolutely sure that the coast is clear, and that brings me to my next problem: Aegis Cruisers. They are a pain if you ant to V3 something. They have a lot of rockets onboard, and they will shoot your rockets out of the sky before they are even launched... well not quite so but still. Weapon: V3 rockets Terror Drone ------------ Description: Do you really want to know what this is? Well, build one and test it out on your Ore Miner (the worst unit you could ever test it on). You will conclude that some way or another, your miner was completely destroyed, eaten you could say. That's exactly what the terror drone does: EAT, EAT and EAT. Nothing else. The AI tends to send some of these pests to your base, hoping they will make it through your defenses. Even with all your defensive structures and garrisoned infantry, they sometimes slip through and eat your miner. VERY PAINFUL. AVOID THIS AT ALL COST. BUILD WALLS, INCREASE YOUR DEFNSES OR SOMETHING ELSE. WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT LET THEM EAT YOUR MINER. I was very surprised btw, when a group of Terror Drones approached my base. I sent out my infantry to destroy them. With a smile on my face I watched as the two groups approached each other. However, something very disturbing happened. When my infantry opened fire, the enemy drones came in and killed them all!!! I managed to kill a bunch of them, but all my GIs were killed! I never heard this happening to anyone before... Weapon: errrrrrrr, some kind of teeth I guess, or claws... MCV (Mobile Construction Vehicle) --------------------------------- Description: This slow but strong unit is something you wouldn't want to lose in the beginning of a match. It probably won't happen but it is still a very painful thing... thrust me on this one. It is wise to build a second MCV and even a third, just in case the enemy turns nasty. The best thing is to make multiple, individual bases. I had an interesting strategy for TS. I haven't had a lot of time to test it here, but I think it will work out just fine. I'll cover it in the appropriate section. Weapon: NOTHING!!! Air Units --------- Kirov Airship ------------- Description: This is the one and only Soviet air unit. It is impossibly slow, but oh man this is powerful. It drops bombs at its targets, which will explode after a few bombs. It is not too hard to defend against if you know how, however, you'll have to keep shooting at it and still stay alive somehow, as this bastard repairs itself when it is damaged. A few Aegis Cruisers work fine, but be sure to have a nice amount of Patriots around when they do get to your base. Once, I played against an AI opponent (I was Russia, he was Cuba) and he somehow managed to destroy my construction yard. I was really mad and began massive production of tanks. Suddenly however, Lt. Zofia kicked in saying the enemy had a Nuclear Silo. I quickly had an airship, which I already built earlier, get there. I only had one minute remaining before the nuke was shot. The thing was able to fly there in time (lucky enough for me) and I was able to destroy his whole base with my lonely Kirov. Oh yes, he had about 5 Flaks but they couldn't stop me from destroying building after building, eventually killing the unit producing structures and the power plants eh Tesla Reactors of course. The only stupid thing was that I was playing on a map which was meant for 8 players, so I had to scout all over the place to find those last garrisoned infantrymen. Just to say: defenses aren't really made to stop their own units (mostly). Weapon: Bombs Naval Units ----------- Amphibious Transport -------------------- Description: A must-have if you are stuck, having to sail over ships to attack your enemy. They're not incredibly fast like in the original Red Alert, but they can deliver wave after wave of tanks, that if co-coordinated well, will eventually destroy your enemy. This combined with support fire from your warships, will, without a doubt, destroy your foe(s). Not that they're not useful over land. They're just as useful. It's just not remarkable, I just overlooked them the first few time I could build them! Giant Squid ----------- Description: These are really annoying. They grab the target ship with their tentacles and play with it until it blows. The only way to remove these pests are Dolphins, with their sonic waves, the squids will have to release the ship. they are submerged so it is possible to target it, but not very easy. Use these wisely as you can rip apart the enemy fleet before it reaches your bases (if you're fast and there are no dolphins around). Weapon: Tentacles Typhoon Attack Sub ------------------ Description: These are very stealthy units, the only problem is that they aren't very useful against a well co-coordinated fleet. Not that good in defense in other words, but very good assault ships. Just destroy their heavy vessels (carriers and cruisers) while your other dreadnoughts and Sea Scorpions take care of the destroyers (be sure to assist them with your subs though, it is very hard for a destroyer to fight submarines and normal ships at the same moment. If you come in masses they will be destroyed immediately because their helicopters aren't fast enough). Then, bring in your transports full of lead and watch as their base falls before your armor. Weapon: Torpedoes Dreadnought ----------- Description: The heavy attack ships of the Soviet navy. They have devastating missiles that, when clear of air defenses, will destroy enemy units very quickly. So, is that all? Well, they are strong to say it this way. If you want the strongest and most deadly Soviet vessel in the navy, this is for you. If you'd rather stick with the swift and deadly sea scorpions + the subs, go on ahead. Weapon: Long-range missiles Sea Scorpion ------------- Description: These annoying little ships are your naval air defenses. They're a rather poor excuse for an equivalent for the cruiser, but they are handy in destracting destroyers, not killing them though. They are also handy to keep those Hornets at bay, aswell as Harriers and helis. Weapon: Flak guns Structures ----------- Construction Yard ------------------ Description This is the main building of your base. Be unfortunate enough that an enemy destroys both your Construction Yard AND your Service Depot, and you're screwed. This building allows you to construct the buildings that you'll need. When destroyed you lose the ability to build any more defenses, go further up the Tech Tree and reduces your chances of winning the game. Defend it at all cost. Also, be sure to make a second or even a third Mobile Construction Yard so that you are sure that you are playing on the safe side. Take my advice boys and girls, you'll need it. Ore Refinery ------------ Description: This is where all the ore is stored and where the Ore Miner docks to deliver the harvested ore. This is the second most important structure in the game, the first being the Construction Yard. Do not leave it undefended, it is expensive to rebuild, and if you are unfortunate to not have enough funds for it, you might end up having to sell off important buildings. Tesla Reactor -------------- Description: This is the Soviet version of the Power Plant. The only difference is that this version gives less power than the Allied one. However, you can use Tesla Troopers to power these Reeactors up, so that you will have some extra power to your base. Think of them as Power Turbines in TS, only difference is that they're living people, who are powering the plant (always knew these Soviets were crazy!). You are better off with a Nuclear Reactor, but they are good reserves for when a super weapon strikes. Nuclear Reactor ---------------- Description: This is what I like about the Soviets. This power plant gives you about ten times as much power as a regular power plant (Allied version). They aren't that expensive, but you save a LOT of money for it. Just imagine you had to build more than 12 Tesla Reactors, that would be expensive. The only trick is that when you are relying on this plant only, a super weapon strike on it will make your whole power drop to zero. This is why you should keep your Tesla Reactors. On a sidenote, you must take full advantage of the enemy's mistake of selling his old reactors and replacing it with the Nuclear one. Strike with a super weapon and imediately bring in your strike force. You won't have to fight those pesky little tesla coils. Barracks --------- Description: This will be your first unit-producing structure. It can and will only produce infantry units, but, acompanied by a Construction Yard, will also build the defensive structures for you. It is cheaper than the other high-priority buildings and you will call upon it more than once. War Factory ----------- Description: You must be dying to get your hands on this one. Oh no, don't try to hide it. The veterans of the original already know why they should build this imediately (certainly when fighting the Allies) and newbies will find out soon enough, I just need to have the guts to describe this one. Well, it is a building... a building which will build all the armored units for you. It will build the oh so famous Soviet tanks, as well as others. Also, you need this building to create all the armored units. So even when you have a Service Depot but your enemies destroy your construction yard and your War Factory, you will be toast. This is the second most important building you should guard, people tend to overlook the Service Depot, so don't be too scared. Radar Tower ------------ Description: This gives the Soviet commanders among us, a better view of the map. It is basically the Air Force Command HQ of the Allies, but it doesn't allow you to build aircraft, for the simple reason that the Soviets do not have that much of aircraft. I hoped there would be a Hind Transport in the game, but they must've deleted it from their schedule, or IGN was lying about it... NOOOOO! IGN never lies! Enough stupid talk. That mainly all there is to say of the Radar Tower, for the veteran RA1 players, this is just a Radar Dome. Battle Lab ----------- Description: This allows the soviets to build their advanced units and defenses, as well as their super weapons. Oh no, now they can build those nuke silos!!!!! It isn't really that important to defend. It is however important to have the necessary power before you deploy it, you wouldn't want to come into contact with a Allied taskforce, right when those superb Tesla Coils are offline!!! Cloning Vats ------------- Description: This building is evil........ very evil. It allows the Soviets to re- replicate or "clone" in other words, infantry. This is not all however. What you'll want to do as a Soviet commander, is to build a Yuri unit, mind-control an infantryman, send it over to the cloning vats and you just have your new GI infantry or whatever you cloned. This is superbly good. This way you can replace those pesky Conscripts with the superb GIs. Hey what about replicating Tanya??? Oh yes, you heard me right. Get Tanya in your forces... two of 'em. Iron Curtain ------------- Description: This is the good thing that you'll want to have. It allows you to make a unit (with armor, no infantry) invincible for a short period of time. This can be used as a defensive structure, for example: Your Construction Yard is absorbing shell after shell of tank fire. Make the Construction Yard invulnerable while you make repairs, and bring in a tank force to get those Rhinos out of the way. Or you could use it for offensive uses, for example: Your Kirov is getting close to the Patriots of the Allies and it will be destroyed unless you do something about it. Activate the Iron Curtain on it and you will have some spare moments to bomb those patriots and the Construction Yard to bits, followed by the War Factory and you're safe. Of course, the enemy AI never seems to use this to its full potential, and your buddies will do everything to destroy your own and with Tanya, it could be destroyed before you even noticed something. Nuclear Silo ------------- Description: NOW we're talking. This nuke is expensive, but it works. If you manage to pay everything and protect it well, everything will be fine for you. Launch it at your enemy base and watch in enjoyment as buildings are reduced to ruble and infantrymen are crushed by the shockwave that the nuke produces (quite a cool effect if you ask me hehehe, cool sound too hehehehehehehe). Westwood said they wannit to avoid violence, well every would-be terrorist who wants to ever bomb the US with a nuke will enjoy himself here... Sentry Gun ----------- Description: These are good anti-infantry defenses, they are a little like the Pillboxes but only the Pillboxes are much cooler (IMO). These are robotic machineguns that fire at anything that comes in range. Tanks should be able to handle these but it is still probable that a Sentry Gun will destroy a Grizzly Battle Tank. They are good because they don't require any power, and if you place a lot of them, they'll be able to hold the enemy's advance until you can put the power back online/place some Tesla Coils. Flak Cannon ------------ Description: These are the Soviets air defense. They aren't really accurate but they are pretty powerful. Harriers and Rocketeers are easily shot down by them, as well as the Hornets, further than that, they haven't got that much importance. I'm not saying that they aren't important! Place these around your important structures and the Harriers of the enemy should be repelled. If only they were a little more accurate... Tesla Coil ----------- Description: Okay, let the electricity flow!!! These guys can destroy most tanks in one hit and are also effective against infantry. The only problem is that they take a while to charge, and sometimes they tend to miss their target for some odd reason. This gives your tanks time to destroy them (they aren't that strong). Reinforce them with Sentry Guns and you can also use Fortress Walls to make their lifespan a little longer. Special Multiplayer Forces -------------------------- Russia: Tesla Tank ------------------ Description: The Tesla Tank returns again with some new sh*t in it. It's basically a Tesla coil on wheels, only this thing is especially useful against buildings, they'll rip 'em appart! I don't use these guys too often myself, but they have some interesting power to exploit. Weapon: Electric Zappin' Cuba: Terrorist ---------------- Description: Now this is exciting. Finally, we can play with the famous Cuban Terrorists in a Command & Conquer game! Sneak these guys into the enemy base, and let them blow stuff up. Be VERY wary of the attack dogs, as they aren't really strong compared to other infatnry. Keep them safe and they'll do the job just nicely alright? Weapon: C4 Bombs, Disguisable Iraq: Desolator Infantry ------------------------- Description: These are rather annoying. They are very effective against infantry, in fact, they can take out whole squads of them without them even dying by any oposition infantry. They use some kind of radiation, but they are imune to it themselves. They are useless against units with armor though. Weapon: What name could you give to this one? The rules say "Eruption Beam". But what the hell is that? Libya: Demolition Truck ------------------------ Description: Sorry, haven't been able to test thhese yet. Feel free to send your own opinion/strategy on anything you see btw. See the contact info for info. Special Obtainable Infantry Same story here, forgot to add, but hrere they are! Chrono Ivan ----------- Special Requirement: Get a Spy (if you can get your hands on it!) into an Allied Battle Lab Description: Okay, now I think these suck. Well, they don't really suck, I just wrote the wrong words. Crazy Ivan isn't that useful because you can't control when the bombs explode (except if you have DeeZire) and they are difficult to defend, the only good thing is to stick your bombs on other friendly units, for the rest, it's all plain luck or crap. The Chrono Feature adds some good things, but the only good use I found for these guys, is to chrono in to a few tanks and place bombs on them, making sure there are no Engineers right nearby. So, you can wreak havoc on light attack forces, but once you get close to infantry, your guy is toast, and that means getting to dogs is even more deadly. Of course, you can chrono around which should mean that you can avoid these units, but it's quite annoying. So, get these if you are quick and handy with these units anyway, but if you hate them, think they are too slow, or just think the dynamite sucks, don't waste your effort s to get one of these. Weapon: Dynamite Yuri Prime ---------- special Requirement: Infiltrate a spy into a Soviet Battle Lab. Description: This is basically Yuri, with a little advantage, he can mind control a unit from much furhter, it doubles the range if I'm correct. That means, that if you're combating a Soviet enemy, you can get units from them, and with luck they won't directly notice it! Anyways, the nicest thing to do with these guys, is to get War Miners or Chrono Miners are even better! If you get a Chrono Miner, get it out of the enemy ore fileds back to your base. You can do this with regular Yuris too, but it's much handier with this range. Even if they have a guarding force, you can take it away without the enemy being able to do something about it! That's quite cool don't you think, yeeeeaaah! That's cooooooool! So, if you can get your hands on these, get one, and start wreaking havoc all over the place. Oh yeah, if you get a War Miner, a cool thing is to go into the enemy base, trying to destroy something, just make sure there are no Yuris around, just to be sure, or you could keep a tap on your War Miner, and target the Yuri first before anything else! Weapon: Super Mind-control And we're true with introducing the units and structures, onto the strategies!! -------------------------------------- 5. Tactical Information On Units/Structures/Specials (MAJOR THANKS TO THE GOOD AND HELPFUL NADIA VORKOVSKY (Damnit, am I writing that right?) \------------------------------------\ A. ALLIED UNITS *********************************************************************** +++++Infantry+++++ GI Cost: 200 Weapon: M60 heavy machine gun (deployed) and Parabellum pistol (undeployed) Strength: 125 Armor: None Sight: 5 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, firepower and rate of fire. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks Tech Level: 1 Engineer Cost: 500 Weapon: Bomb defusing kit Strength: 75 Armor: None Sight: 4 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: None -------Elite abiliti-es: None Prerequisite: Barracks Tech Level: 1 Rocketeer Cost: 600 Weapon: 20mm mini machine-gun Strength: 125 Armor: None Sight: 8 Speed: 9 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks and Air Force Command Headquarters Tech Level: 3 Spy Cost: 1000 Weapon: Make-up kit (disguise) Strength: 100 Armor: Flak Sight: 9 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: None Elite abilities: None Prerequisite: Tech Level: 5 Tanya Cost: 1000 Weapon: Double pistols and C4 charges Strength: 125 Armor: Flak Sight: 8 Speed: 5 Veteran abilities: stronger, ability to scatter, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks and Battle Lab Tech Level: 9 SEAL Cost: 1000 Weapon: MP5 machine gun and C4 charges Strength: 125 Armor: Flak Sight: 8 Speed: 5 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, ability to scatter, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, faster, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks and Battle Lab Tech Level: 1 Attack dog Cost: 200 Weapon: Teeth Strength: 100 Armor: None Sight: 9 Speed: 8 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, ability to scatter, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks Tech Level: 2 Chrono Legionnaire Cost: 1500 Weapon: Neutron rifle Strength: 125 Armor: None Sight: 8 Speed: instantaneous teleportation Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Tech Level: 10 Chrono Commando Cost: 2000 Weapon: Chrono MP5 machine gun Strength: 100 Armor: None Sight: 8 Speed: 5 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: infiltrate the Spy into an Allied Battle Lab Tech Level: 9 Psi-Commando Cost: 1000 Weapon: Mind Control and C4 charges Strength: 100 Armor: None Sight: 8 Speed: 5 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: infiltrate the Spy into a Soviet Battle Lab Tech Level: 9 +++++Vehicles+++++ Grizzly Battle Tank Cost: 700 Weapon: 105mm cannon Strength: 300 Armor: Heavy Sight: 8 Speed: 7 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory Tech Level: 2 Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) Cost: 600 Weapon: Hover Missiles Strength: 200 Armor: Light Sight: 8 Speed: 10 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory Tech Level: 3 Mirage Tank Cost: 1000 Weapon: Mirage gun Strength: 200 Armor: Light Sight: 9 Speed: 7 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory and Battle Lab Tech Level: 9 Prism Tank Cost: 1200 Weapon: Comet laser beam Strength: 150 Armor: Light Sight: 8 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory and Battle Lab Tech Level: 8 MCV (Mobile Construction Vehicle) Cost: 3000 Weapon: None Strength: 1000 Armor: Heavy Sight: 6 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: None Elite abilities: None Prerequisite: War Factory and Service Depot Tech Level: 10 Chrono Miner Cost: 1400 Weapon: None Strength: 1000 Armor: Medium Sight: 4 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: None Elite abilities: None Prerequisite: War Factory and Ore Refinery Tech Level: 1 Harrier Cost: 1200 Weapon: Maverick air-to-ground missiles Strength: 150 Armor: Light Sight: 8 Speed: 14 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Air Force Command Headquarters Tech Level: 3 Night Hawk Transport Cost: 1000 Weapon: Black Hawk Cannon Strength: 175 Armor: Light Sight: 7 Speed: 14 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory Tech Level: 7 Amphibious Transport Cost: 900 Weapon: None Strength: 300 Armor: Light Sight: 6 Speed: 6 Veteran abilities: None Elite abilities: None Prerequisite: Naval Yard Tech Level: 4 Destroyer Cost: 1000 Weapon: 155mm cannon and ASW helicopters Strength: 600 Armor: Heavy Sight: 7 Speed: 6 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Naval Yard Tech Level: 4 Aegis Cruiser Cost: 1200 Weapon: Medusa ground-to-air missiles Strength: 800 Armor: Light Sight: 8 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Naval Yard and Air Force Command Headquarters Tech Level: 7 Aircraft Carrier Cost: 2000 and 2500 (for Americans in multiplayer) Weapon: Hornet jet planes Strength: 800 and 1500 (for Americans in multiplayer) Armor: Heavy Sight: 7 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Naval Yard and Battle Lab Tech Level: 7 Dolphin Cost: 500 Weapon: Sonar amplification device Strength: 200 Armor: Light Sight: 4 Speed: 8 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Naval Yard and Battle Lab Tech Level: 5 *********************************************************************** B. ALLIED STRUCTURES *********************************************************************** Construction Yard Cost: 3000 Strength: 1000 Armor: Concrete Sight: 8 Power: 0 Prerequisite: None. Tech Level: 1 Power Plant Cost: 800 Strength: 750 Armor: Wood Sight: 4 Power: 200 Prerequisite: Construction Yard. Tech Level: 1 Ore Refinery Cost: 2000 Strength: 1000 Armor: Wood Sight: 6 Power: -50 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Power Plant. Tech Level: 1 Barracks Cost: 500 Strength: 500 Armor: Steel Sight: 5 Power: -10 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Power Plant. Tech Level: 2 War Factory Cost: 2000 Strength: 1000 Armor: Wood Sight: 4 Power: -25 Prerequisite: Construction Yard, Power Plant and Ore Refinery. Tech Level: 2 Naval Shipyard Cost: 1000 Strength: 1500 Armor: Concrete Sight: 10 Power: -25 Prerequisite: Construction Yard, Power Plant and Ore Refinery. Tech Level: 4 Air Force Command Headquarters Cost: 1000 Strength: 600 Armor: Steel Sight: 5 Power: -50 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Ore Refinery. Tech Level: 3 Service Depot Cost: 800 Strength: 1200 Armor: Wood Sight: 5 Power: -25 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and War Factory. Tech Level: 6 Battle Lab Cost: 2000 Strength: 500 Armor: Wood Sight: 6 Power: -100 Prerequisite: Construction Yard, War Factory and Air Force Command Headquarters. Tech Level: 8 Ore Purifier Cost: 2500 Strength: 900 Armor: Wood Sight: 5 Power: -200 Prerequisite: Construction Yard, Ore Refinery and Battle Lab. Tech Level: 10 Spy Satellite Uplink Cost: 1500 Strength: 1000 Armor: Wood Sight: 5 Power: -100 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Battle Lab. Tech Level: 9 Fortress walls Cost: 100 Strength: 300 and 450 (for France in multiplayer) Armor: Concrete Sight: 1 Power: None Prerequisite: Barracks. Tech Level: 1 Pill-box Cost: 500 Strength: 400 Armor: Steel Sight: 7 Power: 0 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Barracks. Tech Level: 1 Prism Tower Cost: 1500 Strength: 600 Armor: Steel Sight: 8 Power: -75 Prerequisite: Construction Yard, Power Plant and Air Force Command Headquarters. Tech Level: 6 Patriot Missile System Cost: 1000 Strength: 900 Armor: Steel Sight: 10 Power: -50 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Barracks. Tech Level: 4 Gap Generator Cost: 1000 Strength: 600 Armor: Wood Sight: 5 Power: -100 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Battle Lab. Tech Level: 7 Weather Control Device Cost: 5000 Strength: 1000 Armor: Concrete Sight: 5 Power: -200 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Battle Lab. Tech Level: 10 Chronosphere Cost: 2500 Strength: 750 Armor: Concrete Sight: 5 Power: -200 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Battle Lab. Tech Level: 10 *********************************************************************** C. SOVIET UNITS *********************************************************************** +++++Infantry+++++ Conscript Cost: 100 Weapon: M1Carbine rifle Strength: 125 Armor: Flak Sight: 5 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks Tech Level: 1 Engineer Cost: 500 Weapon: Bomb defusing kit Strength: 75 Armor: None Sight: 4 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: None Elite abilities: None Prerequisite: Barracks Tech Level: 1 Attack Dog Cost: 200 Weapon: Teeth Strength: 100 Armor: None Sight: 9 Speed: 8 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, ability to scatter, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks Tech Level: 2 Tesla Trooper Cost: 500 Weapon: Electric bolt Strength: 130 Armor: Plate Sight: 6 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks Tech Level: 5 Crazy Ivan Cost: 600 Weapon: Dynamites Strength: 125 Armor: None Sight: 6 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks and Radar Tower Tech Level: 5 Flak Trooper Cost: 300 Weapon: Flak gun Strength: 100 Armor: None Sight: 5 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks and Radar Tower Tech Level: 1 Yuri Cost: 1200 Weapon: Mind control and psionic wave Strength: 100 Armor: None Sight: 12 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks and Battle Lab Tech Level: 10 Chrono Ivan Cost: 1000 Weapon: Dynamites Strength: 100 Armor: None Sight: 8 Speed: 6 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: infiltrate an Allied Spy into their Battle Lab Tech Level: 9 Yuri Prime Cost: 2000 Weapon: Super mind control and psionic wave Strength: 200 Armor: Flak Sight: 8 Speed: 6 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: infiltrate an Allied Spy into a Soviet Battle Lab Tech Level: 9 +++++Vehicles+++++ Rhino Heavy Tank Cost: 900 Weapon: 120mm cannon Strength: 400 Armor: Heavy Sight: 8 Speed: 6 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory Tech Level: 2 Apocalypse Assault Tank Cost: 1750 Weapon: 120mm cannon and Mammoth ground-to-air missiles Strength: 800 Armor: Heavy Sight: 6 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory and Battle Lab Tech Level: 7 Flak Track Cost: 500 Weapon: Flak track gun and flak anti-aircraft gun Strength: 180 Armor: Heavy Sight: 8 Speed: 8 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory Tech Level: 3 V3 Rocket Launcher Cost: 800 Weapon: V3 rockets Strength: 150 Armor: Light Sight: 7 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory and Radar Tower Tech Level: 3 Terror Drone Cost: 500 Weapon: Drone jump Strength: 100 Armor: Light Sight: 4 Speed: 10 Veteran abilities: None Elite abilities: None Prerequisite: War Factory Tech Level: 4 MCV (Mobile Construction Vehicle) Cost: 3000 Weapon: None Strength: 1000 Armor: Heavy Sight: 7 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: None Elite abilities: None Prerequisite: War Factory and Service Depot Tech Level: 10 War-Miner Cost: 1400 Weapon: 20mm machine gun Strength: 1000 Armor: Medium Sight: 4 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory and Ore Refinery Tech Level: 1 Kirov Airship Cost: 2000 Weapon: Blimp bombs Strength: 2000 Armor: Light Sight: 8 Speed: 5 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory and Battle Lab Tech Level: 10 Amphibious Transport Cost: 900 Weapon: None Strength: 300 Armor: Light Sight: 6 Speed: 6 Veteran abilities: None Elite abilities: None Prerequisite: Naval Yard Tech Level: 4 Typhoon Attack Sub Cost: 1000 Weapon: Torpedo Strength: 600 Armor: Heavy Sight: 4 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Naval Yard Tech Level: 2 Dreadnought Cost: 2000 and 2500 (for Russians in multiplayer) Weapon: Dred rockets Strength: 800 and 1500 (for Russians in multiplayer) Armor: Heavy Sight: 7 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Naval Yard and Battle Lab Tech Level: 6 Sea Scorpion Cost: 600 Weapon: Flak weapon, flak track gun and hover missiles Strength: 400 Armor: Heavy Sight: 8 Speed: 8 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Naval Yard and Radar Tower Tech Level: 6 Giant Squid Cost: 1000 Weapon: Tentacles Strength: 200 Armor: Light Sight: 5 Speed: 8 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Naval Yard and Battle Lab Tech Level: 9 *********************************************************************** D. Soviet structures *********************************************************************** Construction Yard Cost: 3000 Strength: 1000 Armor: Concrete Sight: 8 Power: 0 Prerequisite: None. Tech Level: 1 Tesla Reactor Cost: 600 Strength: 750 Armor: Wood Sight: 4 Power: 150 Prerequisite: Construction Yard. Tech Level: 1 Ore Refinery Cost: 2000 Strength: 1000 Armor: Wood Sight: 6 Power: -50 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Tesla Reactor. Tech Level: 1 Barracks Cost: 500 Strength: 500 Armor: Steel Sight: 6 Power: -10 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Tesla Reactor. Tech Level: 2 War Factory Cost: 2000 Strength: 1000 Armor: Wood Sight: 4 Power: -25 Prerequisite: Construction Yard, Power Plant and Ore Refinery. Tech Level: 2 Naval Shipyard Cost: 1000 Strength: 1500 Armor: Concrete Sight: 10 Power: -20 Prerequisite: Construction Yard, Ore Refinery and Tesla Reactor. Tech Level: 2 Radar Tower Cost: 1000 Strength: 1000 Armor: Wood Sight: 10 Power: -50 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Ore Refinery. Tech Level: 3 Service Depot Cost: 800 Strength: 1200 Armor: Wood Sight: 5 Power: -20 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and War Factory. Tech Level: 6 Battle Lab Cost: 2000 Strength: 500 Armor: Wood Sight: 6 Power: -100 Prerequisite: Construction Yard, War Factory and Radar Tower. Tech Level: 7 Nuclear Reactor Cost: 1000 Strength: 1000 Armor: Concrete Sight: 5 Power: 2000 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Battle Lab. Tech Level: 9 Cloning Vats Cost: 2500 Strength: 1000 Armor: Wood Sight: 5 Power: -200 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Battle Lab. Tech Level: 9 Fortress Walls Cost: 100 Strength: 300 Armor: Concrete Sight: 1 Power: None Prerequisite: Barracks. Tech Level: 1 Sentry Gun Cost: 500 Strength: 400 Armor: Steel Sight: 7 Power: 0 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Barracks. Tech Level: 1 Tesla Coil Cost: 1500 Strength: 600 Armor: Steel Sight: 8 Power: -75 Prerequisite: Construction Yard, Tesla Reactor and Radar Tower. Tech Level: 5 Flak Cannon Cost: 1000 Strength: 900 Armor: Steel Sight: 5 Power: -50 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Barracks. Tech Level: 4 Psychic Sensor Cost: 1000 Strength: 750 Armor: Wood Sight: 10 Power: -50 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Battle Lab. Tech Level: 10 Nuclear Missile Silo Cost: 5000 Strength: 1000 Armor: Concrete Sight: 4 Power: -200 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Battle Lab. Tech Level: 10 Iron Curtain Cost: 2500 Strength: 750 Armor: Concrete Sight: 4 Power: -200 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Battle Lab. Tech Level: 10 *********************************************************************** E. Special Multiplayer Forces *********************************************************************** America = Paratroopers Cost: None Weapon: M60 heavy machine gun (deployed) and Parabellum pistol (undeployed) Strength: 125 Armor: None Sight: 5 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, firepower and rate of fire. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. France = Grand Cannon Cost: 2000 Weapon: None Strength: 900 Armor: Steel Sight: 10 Power: -100 Prerequisite: Construction Yard and Air Force Command Headquarters. Tech Level: 7 Germany = Tank Destroyer Cost: 900 Weapon: SABOT shells Strength: 400 Armor: Heavy Sight: 8 Speed: 5 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory and Radar Tower Tech Level: 2 Britain = Sniper Cost: 600 Weapon: Sniper rifle Strength: 125 Armor: None Sight: 8 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks and Air Force Command Headquarters Tech Level: 1 Republic of Korea = Black Eagle Cost: 1200 Weapon: Maverick2 air-to-ground missiles Strength: 200 Armor: Light Sight: 8 Speed: 14 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Air Force Command Headquarters Tech Level: 3 Russia = Tesla Tank Cost: 1200 Weapon: Electric bolt Strength: 300 Armor: Heavy Sight: 8 Speed: 6 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: War Factory and Radar Tower Tech Level: 10 Cuba = Terrorist Cost: 200 Weapon: Make-up kit (disguise) and C4 charges Strength: 50 Armor: Flak Sight: 9 Speed: 6 Veteran abilities: None Elite abilities: None Prerequisite: Tech Level: 5 Libya = Demolition Truck Cost: 1500 Weapon: Mini Nuclear bomb Strength: 150 Armor: Light Sight: 5 Speed: 6 Veteran abilities: None Elite abilities: None Prerequisite: War Factory and Radar Tower Tech Level: 10 Iraq = Desolator Cost: 600 Weapon: Radiation (beam and eruption) weapon Strength: 150 Armor: Plate Sight: 6 Speed: 4 Veteran abilities: stronger, faster, increased sight, rate of fire and firepower. Elite abilities: self heal, stronger, increased firepower and rate of fire. Prerequisite: Barracks and Radar Tower Tech Level: 8 -------------------------------------- 6. Main Defensive Strategies for Allies \--------------------------------------\ Alright people, let me say one thing first: Defense is KEY if you are playing the Allied Forces. No matter what you do, defend, defend and defend some more until you have the strength to retaliate. Otherwise, don't do a thing but building defensive structures/units. And if you do not know wy (for some odd reason I guess), try it without significant defenses. If you have good anti-ground but not a good anti-air defense, the Soviets will cripple you with their airships. If the opposite happens, they'll send a few of their Apocalypse tanks, accompanied by Rhinos, to your base and completely destroy it. And do you want to lose the match you're playing? NO OF COURSE NOT. Well, read on, I've tried to put together the best of things I could think of. Of course if you have better strategies e-mail them to bloodfreak@hotmail.com with the subject "Red Alert 2 FAQ" and you will be placed in the credits section and your strategy will be placed in the appropriate section. Alright, let's get started shall we? Are you lucky today??? ---------------------- If you are lucky enough to play on a map with water, then it is time for some celebration. Allied forces have the best naval ships you could hope for. This first section will focus on the good luck you have. Alright, first thing you'll want is to deploy your base close to the water, so that you have access to it. Now, blow up every single bridge you see to force the enemy to find alternate routes to your base. If there aren't any (which is possible but unlikely, or your enemy is to lousy to look for one) you'll have to get up good defenses close to the shore. As soon as you have built a shipyard, begin building destroyers and Aegis Cruisers, they are your first line of defense. Your destroyers will hold off all ships while the cruisers will destroy those missiles of the dreadnoughts. Okay, now build Prism Towers and a lot of them. On a side note, playing against the Soviets has one rule: SCATTER YOUR STRUCTURES. In the event that the Soviets launch a nuke, it is best that you have no 2 buildings at the same spot. This ensures your lifespan. Defensive structures will be difficult to spread, but do every effort you see thick to do so. Now, begin building patriot missile systems. In the event that there are units that manage to destroy the cruisers, you will have some defense against missiles. The best defense against super weapons is the offensive, but I think you already knew that, but you'll want it as cheap as possible. So, build Tanya and maybe a spy as well. Sneak her in and in case you brought a spy along clear the immediate area of dogs. Beware however, that normal people spot spies faster than computer opponents. The AI has to sniff out the spies, while humans can normally just know it when they try to select that unit but it won't happen! So SNEAK, don't just walk in and say your prayers, the enemy will find out about it. Or you could just run like hell and hope you'll make it (which sometimes works if the enemy realizes it too late). But on to the defensive again. If you read my structure descriptions, you'll know that I love the Pillboxes, but I am sorry to say that they aren't as good against infantry as the Prism Tower. I know it sounds weird but that's the way it is. Also, you should garrison structures all over the map, in case the enemy is going to do a sneak attack on your base, via a route that you didn't know, but we know much more than he thinks we know. In fact, his few Engineers escorted by those tesla troopers will be toast. Garrisoned infantry rock and that's NO LIE. They can take out whole platoons of armored units. Just keep the structures you garisone repaired and you'll be fine. Man! You're Out Of Luck!! -------------------------- That's right! There's a high probability that your stuck on land, and that's a real bad thing. The AI Soviets will kick your butt unless you find a way to stop them in their advance. First off, build some GIs and let them garrison any structures that are on the route to your base. Also, set up a lot of prism towers and build lots of prism tanks. Than, and only than, start building Grizzlies, they'll be your last line of defense against the Soviets tanks. If all else fails, bring these in. Also, you'll want to set up a few patriots, because you won't have the support from the cruisers this time around. I can guarantee you: you'll miss 'em. Another problem is the Terror Drones. These pests will harass you until you fall for it. The enemy just loves to send a whole group of these to your base and let them target the Miner. Do everything in your power to stop them. The best thing is to wall off your base. This will keep them out of your base. Also, keep your miners in your base until the terror drones are cleared. Destroy them at any cost, target them with harriers or how about a Night Hawk (it goes pretty slow but it works superbly). I use a very unusual defense strategy (at least I think it is unusual). I build my base and make sure it is fairly large. Than I wall off my base, but not with walls. I wall it off with Prism Towers. This gives a good protection from all sides. And began this wall is an other surrounding wall of patriots. It is impressively expensive, but if you can pull it off, you'll thank it. The only way the enemy will get through is by nuking the place, but w e will not allow this. We will strike swiftly, sending wave after wave of Prism Tanks until their Nuke silo is destroyed. Or you could send a scout to see how well- defended it is. If the site is pretty prone to attack, send in a full squad of Harriers and destroy the silo. It worked for me several times. Or, you could do the Tanya rush, but this isn't very useful against human opponents. AI opponents tend to leave certain parts of their base relatively undefended, or they place Flaks on one side, while the less important side is defended with Sentry guns and Tesla Coils. Still if you are new to the game, you should let your enemy nuke you once to see the cool effect of it... no scratch that! Unforseen problems! -------------------- Sometimes, terrible things happen. Just imagine the consequences of missfiring your Lightning Storm. What should you do to recover from such mistakes. Well, you can almost be sure that the enemy will notice your problem and attack with everything he has, strategically very well planned of course. Now that is the thing we don't want. Lightning Storms are more lethal to structures than to armored units, so you should have most of your armor columns still alive. Throw them all at the marauding enemy and if it isn't enough, hope that the most of your Prism Towers survived and pull back to them. The remaining armor of your enemy should be weakened or even completely destroyed. If this for some odd reason doesn't work, bring in the infantry (if you still have a lot of them). Deployed GIs are very effective at demolishing tanks, just make sure that the tanks don't run over them. Also, try to slow the advance by conveniently placing walls, they'll probably go and destroy them, giving you some extra time to build up some tanks. And if all else fails, bring in your aircraft. If you have a good total of Harriers left, there's a good chance that you will take out the remenants. That's all I can give you for advice, good luck! Above all, avoid these accidents at all cost, you don't want them, especially not if you're playing the Allied Forces. Not all Soviet Commanders are rushers... ----------------------------------------- That's right, not all about the Soviets is rushing with tanks; That's why it is imperative to your defensive strategy to keep Attack Dogs in your camp, especially when fighting multiple enemies (I'll go deeper into this later). You'll want to do this because the Soviets sometimes send some sneak- engineers to keep you occupied. And there's nothing more annoying then an engineer attack. Imagine that suddenly your power shuts down. You can't understand why and then you remark that a few of your power plants have changed to the enemy's color. And that is not all, before you can even react, all your structures are under fire by Apocalypse tanks. I think you get the picture? This is something you must absolutely NOT allow to happen. Therefore, we will place about 4 to 6 dogs in our base. They will also sniff out the spies that want to annoy you. Another nice sneak attack of the Soviets is their subs. They are very stealthy and if you do not defend against them, they will annoy you until you die by it. They can bombard your structures with their torpedoes and will probably destroy them unless you come up with something good. You should have a lot of destroyers around, escorted by Dolphins who will take care of the Squids for them. If you happen to face an Allied enemy (which I hope you don't, the match is so much more fun when you face the opposite faction), you'll have to try to have the most ships. This is your only chance of really dominating the match. This is, of course, assuming you are fighting on land. Otherwise, you'll have to be king on the ground and in the air. Build as many Prism Tanks and Harriers as you can to make sure that you can attack your enemy without too much fear. Tech Buildings --------------- Another good thing to do if you're put on the defense, is to capture tech buildings, especially the Airport an Oil Derricks. The Airport will give you additional reinforcements when you need some, and the Oil Derricks sup my good cash for capturing them. And keep giving cash of course. Now that you have the Tech Buildings, give them some defense as well, because the enemy will want to capture these as well, especially the Oil Derricks? You can also make him angry by parachuting wave after wave of GIs into his base. But this will tempt him to find and destroy/capture your airport. The Hospital is a good Tech Building if it is close to your base, otherwise, I wouldn't recommend taking it. Don't forget to keep your Tech Buildings repaired. In the next section, I'll go a little deeper into this. In the Middle of a Fight ------------------------ If you are playing a match with multiple opponents and no allies, there may be some problems here. It could happen that you have one opponent on each side of the map, and you're right in the middle of it. This will increase the enemy's interest in you, you could be a good stop for repairs and such. Or another terrible thing could happen, the two guys are fighting right by or in your base. If this happen, choose a side, I'd say the side which is losing the current battle and overpower the other. Once that is done, 2 things could happen: 1) The guy you helped will form an alliance with you (would be nice of course) 2) The guy you helped turns on you and tries to destroy you. This shouldn't be a problem, because they had lesser forces than the other (hint, hint!), so you should be able to contain them. If the option is enabled, you could repack your MCV and go elsewhere, setting up a new base and keeping the old one as a good unit producing base. Try to defend the old base for as long as possible. Conclusion ----------- As long as you can keep the enemy armor out of your base, you can wear off any sneak attacks and you can deal with the super weapons of the enemy, you'll do fine. On a sidenote of super weapons, the best way to avoid a severe loss is to repack your MCV when the Super weapon is launched. For example: DarkNUrt (your enemy) attacks FullBurst41 (you) with a nuke. FullBurst41 waits until the nuke is launched (when the fancy alarm starts) and repacks his MCV and places it at a safe distance. He takes as many units with him as he can. NOTE: If you want the MCV to get out of there a little faster, quicly load him into a Transport and get the hell out of there. The Amphibious Transport goes quite a bit faster than the MCV itself. Another thing to do is to make your Miners go into the Transport just a minute before the nuke is ready. This will make it easier to escape. Once the nuke takes off, get in your MCV and you'll be sure to save all/most of your Miners. The missile impacts on your base where your Construction Yard used to be. This limits the chance of a severe loss and he will be in for a surprise. Hopefully, he won't take your War Factory or Refinery with him. I say that most people target the Construction Yard, but some have other means of attack, be warned. To help with this, build an extra War Factory and Refinery and place them far from the original ones. That's it for this section. If you have a good strategy or a note to these above, feel free to mail me at bloodfreak@hotmail.com place "Red Alert 2 FAQ" as subject and I will place your strategy where it belongs and your name and possibly your e-mail address in the credits section. I hope I helped you with somethin'. -------------------------------------- 7. Main Offensive Strategies For Allies \-------------------------------------\ We will be using sneak attacks to scare are enemy a little. What you'll want to try is to force the enemy into defending parts that are not of vital importance to your offense. We will do this with Tanya's and spies. Tanya +a spy or two is really vital. If you can keep the dogs busy with Tanya, he'll have to somehow kill the Spy with force firing. The key here is to keep the spy moving. NEVER let him stand still. If you are a little lucky, he'll make it through without a scratch. Now shut of the power and bring in Tanya. Ignore the tanks and concentrate on the structures. If you have multiple Tanya's, it's even easier. Let one Tanya kill off all infantry threats, while another few Tanya's destroy buildings. The only problem will be the tanks. Not their cannons but their ability to crush you. Try to avoid it. The primary buildings you should target are the Construction yard, War Factory and Refinery(s). Once you have taken care of these key structures, try to destroy as many reactors as you can. If there is only one Nuclear Reactor, it is a breeze. Destroy that one, let your Tanya's kill off the rest of the infantry, destroy the Barracks and get them out of there. If you can pull this one off, the enemy will be very confused and crippled. Bring in all your Prism Tanks and destroy the pest. If you encounter Yuri, kill him FAST. If he manages to mind-control your Tanya, you're toast, or not. Try to kill the mind-controlled version as fast as you can but target Yuri first. He will go down in a single shot. The AI isn't really smart... ----------------------------- There is a nice trick that sometimes leads to a big AI smackdown. In most maps, there is a bridge somewhere. It happens often when you are on one side of the bridge while the enemy is at the other, meaning this is the only/one of the routes to your base for ground units. Well, we will destroy this bridge. Here comes the interesting part. The AI doesn'tseem to notice this happening and if he doesn't, he won't build a Naval Yard to make ships to defend his base. This makes him very vulnerable. Make a shipyard yourself and start mass production of ships. Go and attack the enemy. He might notice that you have chosen another method of attack, but he is far too late to prevent us from destroying him completely. In the few skirmish matches I've played with a bridge-to-the-enemy situation, it always worked for me. Keep in mind though that you may not leave your base undefended now, the enemy will send small attacks from another route if he can find one. They include sending over a tank or two to harass you. If you don't have any good defenses/tanks, you might even loose an important structure to the enemy. This still is a good and easy way to defeat the AI. Still note that this may not work too often. Lightning Storm Created! Yiiiihahahahahaaaaa!! ---------------------------------------------- Westwood has been balancing Super Weapons, but they overlooked this one a bit. And this gives us a little advantage over the Soviets. Just target the place you want to see totally wiped out, and you will get your wish. Too bad this storm isn't too good against armored units (good against infantry though). He will probably be seriously crippled. Now, send in the cavalry, and destroy the armor (if you're up to it). If he is so smart to set up a Construction Yard and a War Factory right beside eachother, he'll be toast. Build up/send your army to destroy the enemy's units. Now everybody says "Thank you Wetwood Studios, we all love you!". Good boys/girls, now all sing in enjoyment! Firezone Confirmed!!! ---------------------- If you are going with a straight armor assault, take the Prism Tanks. They can take out Tesla Coils from miles away and are nice tank killers. Just be sure to build lots of them, they aren't very strong compared to the Heavy Tanks of the Soviets and certainly not the Apocalypse Tank. If you can destroy some things with the Tanya Rush first, you'll be very happy when you see the Victory message flash across your screen. FEAR the Soviet army! ---------------------- Do not tend to send wave after wave of Grizzly Battle Tanks if the enemy has an impressive amount of tanks himself, your tanks will be demolished. It would be better to back them up with Prism Tanks to help out. Split them up in two groups, if the enemy goes for the Prism Tanks, do a full assault with all your Grizzlies and they'll be forced to attack your tanks. Now bring in the Prisms and destroy their key structures to make life easier. If your tank army is big enough (I'm talking about 50-80 tanks here), you'll be able to destroy the enemies. The best thing to do is to let all your tanks target one unit at a time. If you have that many tanks, it will be instant death for the unit. Each unit you destroy is one cannon shell less that your tanks have to deal with. If there is an Apocalypse around (which is very probable), give it everything you've got, including the Prism Tanks, it won't be able to handle that much. Ff you succeed in all this, you may call yourself a good platoon leader. Don't let the Construction Boys stop! -------------------------------------- This is KEY to your survival, especially when fighting multiple enemies. When you send a big taskforce to attack an enemy, the other one could be in for an assault on you himself. If this doesn't happen, it is imperative that you still do it because you'll have backup forces in case that your first wave couldn't push through. If the battle takes long enough, you'll have built up another massive taskforce to finish them off. Naval Warfare ------------ It is time for some real fighting. If you can destroy an enemy from the waters, you'll have a good advantage. What we will do is very simple. - First, build a lotof destroyers and force an opening in the enemy base. Support them with Carriers and Cruisers. The Cruisers will destroy any missiles that are launched from the Dreadnoughts, while the Destroyers kill them off. It is imparitive that you build some Dolphins. Not only do they have fancy sounds, they can also remove those annoying Squids, otherwise your Destroyers will be killed off like flies by spiders. The dolphins will also help to kill the nurdy Typhoons. We will crush them under the iron fist of FullBurst41 rule. - While you have sent all your ships to attack, build a lot of Amphibious Transports, tanks, IFVs, GIs and Engineers. Build as many as you can. Now, place a few Engineers in one of those IFVs so that it becomes a Repair IFV. These will be handy for you. Stock up the rest of the IFVs with GIs. We will deliver them in the enemy base. To speed up destruction later, we will train a few Tanyas for quick building destruction. This will be vital, we want to destroy the enemy quickly. - Once you have the opening, bring in all your transports and unload them on the shore of your enemy. Protect them from any submarines and other enemy ships and give the enemy everything you've got. Once you have cleared all the ships, let them help with the units and destroy the base defenses that you can reach. If your initial assault dies off, let your carriers destroy any targets of oportunity. Once you have cleared out their base, bring all remaining forces home and rally there. if you were only facing one enemy, take a light vehicle, like an IFV, an stock it up with infantry. Let them scout out whole the map, and give them an Amphibious transport if needed. It is likely that there are some troops garisoned in some houses (this only aplies to AI oponents, humans will probably surender directly instead of sending all their last resources just to watch them die). Air Strike without Warning -------------------------- Always give random air strikes. This is crucial to keep your enemy on his toes. What he might think, is that you will send planes untill he falls for it. For this he will place massive amounts of Flak Cannons, troopers and Tracks around his base. But while you are doing this, build a massive amount of Prism Tanks and a few Tanyas. What we will do is simple. - We will continue to strike with Harriers and still try to take things with it. What you could try is to lure the enemy fire away with some Rocketeers, then quickly strike their key structures. The Rocketeers should target the Flak Tracks. They will probably replace every Flak they lose. Now when you have massed all your Prism Tanks (build about 50), send them and your Tanyas to the enemy base. Let your Tanya-squad take out any Flak Troopers while the Prism Tanks take out the Tracks. Once you managed to destroy these, target the Tesla Coils that are present from afar (Note: Targeting from afar is crucial. You don't want to lose any units to the Tesla Coils!!!). Once the defenses are out of the way, let Tanya move in while the Prisms take care of any Rhinos in the area. Let Tanya destroy the key structures that are left. Your enemy will be forced to flee (if he has a second base, otherwise he's toast). Try to perform these strategies as good as possible. If you don't destroy the enemy, you will seriously cripple them and remember, first build up your defense, then your offensive power. ------------------------------------- 8. Main Defensive Strategies for the Soviets \------------------------------------------\ Now this gets exciting. It's not easy to organize a good defense for the Soviets. Close off all the entrances to your base ---------------------------------------- There'll be multiple holes in your base entarnces. You should build as many defensive structures by eachother, and leave some space for units to move out. BUT we will do something else. The open spaces will be filled with Apocalypse Tanks. This way, you'll keep those spies away from you. They will also greatly assist in the defense against tanks. If you see Prism Tanks aproach your base, intercept them before they can wreak havoc among your defenses. Lightning Storm Created!!! (certain death) ------------------------------------------- It seems that Westwood has been overpowering the Lightning Storm a little. They tend to take out your whole base! So what can we do against it? One thing would be to build a second base and keep that one hidden for as long as possible (or scatter your buildings of course). Make the ilusion that everything you have is in there while you're building lots and lots of Rhino Tanks at the other base. Once the Lightning Storm hits, send in all your tanks while you're preparing a nuke. You should've made a lot of tanks already so they should give the enemy a really hard time. If the storm does not wipe out your original base, see what defenses you have left, bt I would recommend to evacuate it, sell off the Refinery so that the Ore Miners you had there will start working for your newer Refinery(s). Once all the units have arrived at your base, the enemy will probably send something to find any remaining "straglers". Your nuke should be finished by now. Launch it at the enemy base and they will know the deal. If your original tank assault took out the enemy base, that's good for you. Now sell off all the buildings of your crippled base and use the cash for your reinforcement tanks. The enemy is probably angry now and will start to think of a good assault. NOTE: LAUNCH THE NUKE AT THE WEATHER MACHINE OR YOUR NEXT BASE WILL BE LOST ASWELL). He will scout the whole map out until he finds you, giving us some spare time. Once you have some tanks, you should be thinking about that second nuke strike right? I'd say, target the scouting group (if they haven't found you yet) or their base again. If you're going for their base, hope that he has massed his power plants together and target that place. With a little luck, the power will go off. Send in all the tanks you have (produced and evacuated) and fight your way through the Pillboxes. Destroy their advanced defenses so that he won't be able to use them when the power gets back up. Get a Yuri along to help in the attack. Turn enemy units against themselves you know. Once you have this done, you should be able to desroy the enemy base. Tesla Setup ------------ Something you should know is that the Tesla Coils work best when you put them in a triangle. This will allow the Tesla Coils to protect themselves from enemy attack, something pretty important for Tesla Coils if you ask me. Place these triangles all around your base, making sure you have a few Nuclear REactors sticking around to power everything (DO NOT BUILD ONLY Nuclear REACTORS, YOU WILL REGRET IT!! BUILD A GOOD AMOUNT OF TESLA REACTORS TOO, SO THAT WHEN THE POWER OF THE NULCEAR REACTORS FALLS, YOU STILL HAVE ENOUGH POWER TO DEFEND YOURSELF. DON'T FOLLOW THIS ADVICE, AND BE DOOMED). Do not rely on your coils alone, use tanks to intercept/weaken enemy units en route to your base. Or, if it is a real big force, send your airships to kill off most of the enemies. Intercept, intercept, intercept!!! ---------------------------------- Once you have the option, build a Kirov Airship or two (one will usually do, just to be sure...). Once you see the enemy armor aproaches your base, go and bomb them. They will not survive for long. The nice thing is that the Allies don't have a lot of anti-air units. They can use IFVs, but they are easily crushed by your bombs. I found this strategy to work pretty well. Just don't send any tanks with it, it will be destroyed by the bombs of your Airships. Now you tell me "So what if my enemy uses this tactic against me, I can't do a thing? What kind of idiot are you!". Well, it is indeed a close call. My advice is to build as many IFVs as possible and bring them along. Or use Chrono Legionaires as your attacking units, they will be able to outrun the Kirovs easily. See the advanced Strategies Section for the Allies for more details on the Legionaire Rush. Using Sentry Guns wisely ------------------------- Sentry guns may not sound very impresive but it can be handy. I prefer to build about 6 to 10 at each side of the base. This will be more effective than placing only one or two for your base. If you have placed them all, they'll buy you some valuable time to build some extra Tesla Coils or something else. They'll keep out limited amounts of forces for you, especially infantry. Another good tip I can give you, is to place Sentry Guns around your important buildings. The main reason for this is because the Chrono Legionaires can warp past them and if there is some space between the perimiter of your base and the key structures, they'll easily wipe out your structures. This works very well against the AI (the Legionaire Rush I mean especially on Easy Difficulty. LOL!). This Sentry Gun defense can also help against Tanya attacks, as they will find holes in your base defenses easily and slip through. -------------------------------------- 9. Main Offensive Straategies for the Soviets \--------------------------------------------\ Josh would like to play!! -------------------------- Description: If you have acces to monkeys on the map, use Yuri to gather as many as possible and stick a few bombs on 'em. Now, hury to the enemy base and let them fry the enemy. Hope you get there in time eh. Let the monkeys go to the construction yard and let it blow! Send some dogs to kill off any Engineers that might be around. The AI isn't really smart... ----------------------------- There is a nice trick that sometimes leads to a big AI smackdown. In most maps, there is a bridge somewhere. It happens often when you are on one side of the bridge while the enemy is at theother, meaning this is the only/one of the routes to your base for ground units. Well, we will destroy this bridge. Here comes the interesting part. The AI doesn'tseem to notice this happening and if he doesn't, he won't build a Naval Yard to make ships to defend his base. This makes him very vulnerable. Make a shipyard yourself and start mass production of ships. Go and attack the enemy. He might notice that you have chosen another method of attack, but he is far too late to prevent us from destroying him completely. In the few skirmish matches I've played with a bridge-to-the-enemy situation, it always worked for me. Keep in mind though that you may not leave your base undefended now, the enemy will send small attacks from another route if he can find one. They include sending over a tank or two to harass you. If you don't have any good defenses/tanks, you might even loose an important structure to the enemy. This still is a good and easy way to defeat the AI. Still note that this may not work too often. Frosty is angry! ----------------- Description: You can do the same thing with a Polar Bear, Frosty! Just be careful not to come too close... He'll be found on the arctic maps and is nice to have around. Try the same strategy or try to look as friendly as possible and scout out the complete enemy base. If you happen to find yourself in a fight, test them out on the infantry (Frosty seems to be very hungry today you know!). You could also do the famous "Cow Rush", but I think nobody falls for this anymore. There has been so much publicity for it months before the game was released, and everybody who was planning to buy the game knows what this is or can guess. The Standard But Effective Rush -------------------------------- Build about two dozens of Apocalypse Tanks and build some aditional (no sorry, a LOT of aditional) Rhinos to assist with th Apocalypse. I'd say building about forty or something around that number. Now build some dogs and let them come in behind the tanks. On a side note, try to render this rush with the Unreal Tournament engine, and I can assure you that you will have a very SLOW framerate. Yes, even you GeForce users. Okay now, rally your forces and move to the enemy base. Let the Rhinos wait for the Apocalypses. We're planning on a mass attack. Your 64 tanks will slowly advance to the enemy base. This looks cooler IMO. NOTE: You could say (these guys go too slow, I want some transmorts". This is correct, but you'll have to build about 13 Transports and that gives you some extra cost to attend to. Once your force reaches the enemy base, the Prism Towers will start zappin'! Fire with all tanks at the same target, meaning instant death to the enemy you target. Try to hold off any Air Attackers with your Assault Tanks. Demolish defensive structure after defensive structure. You'll eventually clear out everything. Let your Rhinos assault the Grizzlies. They'll be pretty much toast with all this. Once you've taken care of all the Prism Tanks aswell, begin targetting key structures. Destroy the Construction Yard, War Factory and Barracks. Also, the enemy will do a desperate move by letting lose group after group of GIs. Well, you didn't forget to bring all those dogs did you? If you did, you may be in for a little fight. However, I presume you brought them along and we will now kill off leagons of infantry. After the biting spectacle, bring in your tanks and destroy the Battle Lab, any defenisve structures that may still be here, destroy any super weapons and destroy the refinery(s). The Miners will just sit there, waiting to be shot by your tanks. Relieve them of their painful thoughts and destroy any and all remaining units/structures of the enemy. If you didn't win yet, gather your tanks and move. You should've only lost a few tanks (if you brought the dogs of course). The Kirov Rush!! ---------------- This will work just fine. Build a whole squadron of Airhsips (that means 12 for those who aren't at home at those terms) and let them move to the enemy base. I agree when you complain "But they go so slow!", but you'll have to put up with that. What you're about to witness is very spectacular and very irritating for the enemy. When you arrive the Patriots will start firing. Target them first. Once they are out of the way, fire at any IFVs that may be firing at you. Now that this is out of the way, target their War Factory tne their Barracks and Battle Lab. The enemy might think you're overlooking his Construction Yard but that ain't through. We are NOT. We're just sparing it for last. Target it and fire. Now shut off the power by targeting all the Power Plants and destroying them. The enemy might be smart enough to flee now. If he isn't, so much the better. Destroy any unit that leaves behind, then bring in your Rhinos and attack any Grizzlies that are fleeing the Kirovs. This is another very hard strategy to defend against, but it is possible. Hey did you ever try to bump your helicopter into that thing? I never tried it, but it just apeared in my strategic thinking. I'll test it out, probably won't work. -------------------------------------- 10. Advanced Strategies 10.1: Allies \-----------\ The Legionaire Rush -------------------- This may sound a little odd but it is effective as hell! Build a dozen or so Chrono Legionaires. I know it is expensive but you'll get there eventually. Once you have the Legionaires, scout out his complete base by continiously teleporting out of the range of enemy weapons. We'll search a relatively undefended area. If you can find one, the enemy will probably send tanks or infantry to attack you. Let them com to you and teleport away when they're going to attack you. Don't go too far and the enemy might be stupid enough to send them after you. Wait until they come back to you. Now go back and destroy any structures you can mange in the time you have. With 12 legionaires, you should be able to destroy some. If there are Power Plants here, errase them from time and try to power down the base. Move into the heavily defended area (probably where the important buildings are). Target at your discretion and fire at will (consentrate your fire on one building at once, don't use one legionaire to attack alone). The tanks will have a harder time shooting at you. If it gets hot for one legionaire, teleport him out of there. These guys are very handy to avoid the enemy Kirov Airships. So the Kirov can destroy everything, but he isn't fast enough for your Chrono Legionaires. Another advantage of the Chrono Legionaire is that you can scare the enemy, giving the feeling you're at two places at once. You can split up your Legionaires and strike at two different points. The enemy will have a little fear, especially humans tend to get mad and smash on the computer screen "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON! THAT GUY IS CHEATING DAMNIT. HELLO, WEBMASTER, I WANT FULLBURST41 BANNED FOR HIS LIFE. HE SENT FIFTY LEGIONAIRES AT ME. THAT ISNT REALISTIC." "Stop screaming, it's hurting my ears. He's NOT cheating, you're the one who is too slow to react to it!" Don't stick with your original base too much --------------------------------------------- This was the key strategy I used to overcome the enemy in Tiberian Sun, and the way I have tested it, it works pretty good in this game aswell. What is this? Well, we will just make multiple bases to make our life easier. >From the beginning of the match, start building your base. Get up your barracks and start placing defenses; Follow this up with the War Factory and build about 5 extra ore miners. You should be getting a good flow of cash this way. Get up your power plants a little and begin building Air Force Command so that you have a radar. Build a Battle Lab so that we can build the advanced defenses. Start placing Prism Towers and some Patriots aswell. Build a Harrier and search for a few Oil Derricks that might be around. If you can find some, build a couple of engineers, a helicopter, and get them in there. Capture the Oil Derricks so that we'll have even more cash. Also, search for some crates, if you're a little lucky, you'll find a few money crates to keep up the good cash flow. Once you are ready with all your defenses, build a Service Depot. Once you're ready with that, start building a dozen or so Prism Tanks, so that you can withstand an attack for some time. Build some extra Grizzlies if you want, but it isn't really vital to your existence. Build an MCV and find a good place to place your new base. Begin building a Gap Generator while you're getting your MCV there. Once the Gap Generator is ready, deploy the MCV and the Gap Generator right beside it. Build some Power Plants right there. Build up a Barracks here, aswell as a Refinery and a War Factory. This base will be independent, but for the moment, there'll be no unit-production here, except for the extra ore miners of course. Once you have a War Factory, begin building about 5 extra miners so that you'll have an income for this base independently. Now, at your original base, start building lots of GIs and get them into buildings so that they will defend your the route that they're stationed near. Build some Attack Dogs for quick Infantry-killing. Once you have those defensive units ready, it is time to place some defenses by the second base. To minimize power requirements, I'd stick with the Pillboxes for the moment; Once you have a total of 8 Pillboxes standing there, start building up some tanks in your original base. If the enemy waited this long to attack you, he's eithrer preparing a massive attack, or he's lazy. Let's say that he is preparing a massive attack on your base. Make about 50 Grizzlies to be certain. Now, build some more power plants at the second base, build up your Chronosphere and Weather Control Device at your second base. Once you have these, it is time to see what the enemy is doing. If you are American, or you got your hands on an Airport, get some paratroopers in there to scout out the plae. If not, build a spy and sneak him into the enemy base. Once you have some info on the enemy, you can infiltrate a structure (War Factory or Battle Lab are recommended) and you'll have a little advantage over the enemy. Alternatively, you could build a Spy Satelite Upling to get info on the eemy. Presuming you took the War Factory, build another platton of tanks (consisting of about 30 to 50 tanks). You should be ready for the enemy now. There is a slight problem still. If the enemy gets to you with his Kirovs, we cannot let him destroy your entire base. To combat this, we'll be forced to find him after he has left their base. If you were lucky enough to be stationed far from your enemy, you'll have some spare time to get your people there. Build Rocketeers 'till your base is full of 'em. Rush the Kirov with all your Rocketeers, and he'll die pretty quickly. Once you've taken out the Kirocs, it gets easier. If the enemy managed to reach your base and your Rocketeers can't hold them off, get all your tanks, infantry and any other unit you still have out of there, to the second base. You should be able to save most of them, as your tanks go faster than the Kirov. I hope you have some IFVs around there so that you can get the infantry out quickly. Otherwise, use the Helicopter. If your Patriots somehow get rid of the Zeplins, lucky you. This is where I have to look at two situations: 1) You were able to stop the Kirovs. We're back at our base with a nice total of tanks in here. Build a Tanya, find a little hole in the enemy's defenses and sneak inside. Destroy as much as you can, killing off all infantry. Be warned of any Yuris around there, as they're pretty deadly... Once your Tanya is crushed/killed/whatever, build up some Chrono Legionaires. Get them inside aswell and start wiping out buildings (or at least try). Once you've lost all your Legionaires, launch a Weather Storm in there. Once the storm has stopped, bring in your complete tank force and demolish/cripple your enemy. If this wasn't enough (although very unlikely), you must build aditional tanks while you're attacking with the first wave. Once you've lost your first wave, do a desperate move in destroying them all. If this fails aswell, launch a Weather Storm at him. With a little luck, the enemy will not have known about your second base while you were using it as a support for your original one! 2) The Kirovs were able to destroy you, bring all the tanks you have to your second base, and sell off any remaining building so that you have some extra money. The miners you had should start working for your second base. Put your Battle Lab down in your second base (there isn't a lot of choice right). Build a Spy Satelite Uplink and aditioonal power plants if needed. Now, start making a Service Depot. I wouldn't order you to build another MCV, but if you want to, go on ahead and continue the little game, or you could show your real face to the enemy now and go to kill him. We'll show our face. First, uild up more advanced defenses, build a lot of Patriots for the next time the Kirovs would find you. Try to keep your cloak good. The Gap Geerator should be able to mask you enough. Go and garison some GIs in buildings throughout the map. The enemy might think this is a move to slow the game, as you might be searching for valuable crates. Once that's done, you should already have a Weather Storm ready for an hour or so. Launch it at the enemy, and he'll no the deal baby! This makes the enemy panic, he doesn't know what's hitting him! He'll sit there asking himself how he could've missed those super weapons. He'll send out his scouts, and if he passes a garisoned building, the scout passing will probably be destroyed (best for scouting are the Flak Tracks, so that isn't a problem). Chronoshift an IFV with Tnyas in his base and start woopin' his ass! Blow things up 'till every Tanya and the IFV are dead. Build up Harriers, a lot of them.Launch them to deliver air strikes at the enemy. Take potshots at them, and try to scare the hell out of 'em. He'll know for sure there's another base somewhere. Build up as many tanks as you can manage. I'd try to reach a group of 100 tanks, but you don't have to build that many. Once you have a big group, smash it at the enmy, who will be increasing his efforts to find you. Before he knows our exact loacation to fire a Nuke at us, we'll give it to him. Destroy them all. Before the tanks attack, you might aswell strike with your weather again, then with the harriers and finaly with the tanks (this will help saving tanks hehehe). If the enemy uses this strategy against you, you are Allied so you can bring up your Satelite, or you can quickly scout out things with your Harriers or Rocketeers. The more complex Base Strategy... ---------------------------------- This may sound crazy (and it is...) but it is a lot of fun to do. I will not promise you will win a match with it, it's just a lot of fun you know. NOTE: Make sure you meet the folowing requirements to make sure the strategy can work to its full potential: - Play on a map suited for 8 players so you have a lot of space to build. - Do this match with only oneof your friends, again to conserve space - Hope that you're kind of far from the enemy - Try to make sure that your enemy is Soviet not Allied (I just keep repeating the same thing man!) Start by setting up your base. Build a Refinery, Power Plant, Barracks, some GIs, a Pillbox or two, War Factory, 4-7 Chrono Miners, a bunch of Grizzlies, Air Force Command HQ, 4 Harriers, Battle Lab, some Prism Towers, some Patriots, aditional Power Plants, Service Depot and a new MCV. Move the MCV to a position further from your base (preferably away from the enemy hehe). Deploy it and start building a lot of Power Plants. Once you have about 20 that's good. We'll place them in the new construction area. Scatter them around as much as possible. Build a Barracks here too and set up some Pillboxes in this base, aswell as training your GIs here for a moment. Build about 30 GIs here and deploy them. Build some dogs here too. Once all this is donee, switch back to the original Barracks. Make sure you have about 50 GIs here, all deployed. Once you have it done, it's time to place a Refinery at the newer base. We should have a good defense now, but if iyou feel unconfortable, feel free to place some extra Prism Towers or Patriots. Oh, and if you're interested, we'll call the new base the "Power Grid". You should see where I'm aiming with this strategy now, right? Once the new REfinery is in place at your second base, build some extra miners at your original base to make the Cash Flow even bigger. I'd say buildig about 5 extra miners isn't bad. Once you have a lot of cash in your grasp, start to worry about the enemy for a minute. If the enemy already showed his face, I'd say we find him, and show we are here aswell. Send something to gain some recon info. Once that is done, replace your lost unit(s) and start worying about your bases again. If the enemy didn't attack you yet, I think it is time to build a Gap Generator. We'll have enough power for now so don't worry. If you would need any more Power Plants, build them at the Power Grid, to keep things right. Once the Gap Generator is up, we can be sure the enemy will have a hard time to find us. If the enemy spotted you or not, we are going to have to defend ourselves against their Super Weapons. To do this, we will do sneak attacks. First, build some Attack Dogs. STation them by your important structures to keep out any spies (if you're playing against Allied Enemy of course). Build a Tanya unit and four Spies. Build a Helicopter and place them all in it. The enemy won't detect your helicopter so don't be woried. Bring in your Spies and infiltrate the following: War Factory, Barracks, Battle Lab and Power Plants. Teh Power will be down and your Tanya will be able to blow up the Tesla Coils in her way. Destroy any and all super weapons that you can detect. When she dies, build up another 30 GIs and anotehr 30 when that is finished. You should have about 100 GIs at your original base. You can march them to the enmey base, or you could make a Rally Point and bring all your GIs there with the Helicopter (it will take some time of course). Find the most undefended place of their base and strike their. move your GIs into position and deploy them. Detroy any defensive structures you see. OMve on destroying tanks with all that machine gun fire. Deploy your people around their Constrruction Yard and demolish it completely. Since we want to play with the enemy, we'll move out all our troops back to the base. I like to fight my way through the other side of the base, instead of turning them around. One more thing, if you're playing against Iraq, don't even bother using this strategy alright? If you happen to play against IRaq, do the same thing but then with tanks. Destroy the weakest defended part of the base, and demolish their Construction Yard. Now that the enemy felt the power of our forces, replace any GIs/Tanks that you lost in the initial assault. It is time for the next step in our base building scenario. Build a new MCV and place it somewhere far from your base. This will ba the Air Base. Put down the truck and start building a Refinery there. Build a Barracks. This place must be guarded well, so we'll place a lot of Prism Towers here. let your Harriers take off from the original base and move them to your newer stronghold, wait there a minute. Sell off the original Air Force Command HQ, and build a new one here. Land your Harriers in there and build about 5 more HQs here. Once that is done, stock them up with Harriers (oooh, expensive baby!). Now that we have two squadrons of Harriers, we'll have a good air base. To make things look cooler, build another 5 Miners at your original base. Alright, now that you have so many miners at your disposal, we can slowly begin to destroy the enemy, or not yet... Launch a harrier and let it fly around to find some tech buildings that we can capture. If you can locate an Oil Derrick or two, that's great. an AIrport is not bad aswell. Build as many engineers as there are TEch Buildings and capture them. Good work Commander, time for some extra bases. First, build some new Power Plants (about 5) at your POwer Grid. If you left the enemy's Service Depot and War Factory standing, then it is very likely that he will have built up his base again. I recomend to leave that standing, to keep the match a little fair aliright? Build a new MCV and deploy it somewhere. Dump a REfinery next to it and a Barracks aswell. Build about 30 GIs here and dump some Pillboxes and Prism Towers in the base. Build a Battle Lab here, sell off the old one. This makes your original base the main Tank-producing facility. Now that we have the Battle Lab at our other base, build some Prism Tanks there. This base will be our "Advanced Production Facility" (fancy name hehehe). Now, place Patriots in all your bases, in case the enemy begins to send its Kirovs. If your radars detect one, get all the anti-air units you have to its location and smash it, hiping to bring it down. Now comes an optional part. If you can locate a river of some sort (probably with a bridge), bring your tanks there and smash down the bridge. Build a new MCV, once it is ready, begin building a Prism Tower. Once you have set your MCV, dump the Prism Tower by it, to give some first-aid cover if needed. Imediately begin building more Prism Towers and Patriot Missile Sytems to help out with the Dreadnoughts. It is good to build a Tanya and send her this way, so that she can help destroying enemy vessels. Build a REfinery and Barracks as usual, train some GIs (the regular 30) and build a Naval Yard. Start cranking out Destroyers and Dolphins. Once you have about 4 Dolphins and over the ten Destroyers, build a few Cruisers to destroy the missiles of Dreasnoughts and help take down any Kirovs there may be. Of course, ifthe enemy isn't using Naval capabilities, this will be a little stupid to use, ut it adds ot the overall feel of the strategy. Back to the building stuff. Crank out some Carriers and some extra Destroyers. Now, move your ships a little closer to where you think the enemy is and see if you can strike with the Hornets from here. If this is possible, hold here for a moment. Keep tabs on the enemy to see if he begins to make his Naval Yard, it is vital that we know. Now it is time to give us that bt of advantage in harvesting. Build an Ore Purifier in every base you have. And while you're at it, why not build another five Chrono Miners??? Good! I knew you would agree. I won't even calculate how much ore you get with all those miners (man, you'll have to switch ore fields quite a lot hehehehehe!). Now comes a pretty important base for us: the Intel Base. Make your MCV and start building a new REfinery while you're busy. Whe the MCV is ready, deploy it somewhere and place the Refinery right beside it. Make a Barracks, some Prism Towers and make about 50 GIs and bring some tanks that you built here aswell. Once that is done, build a Spy Satelite Uplink. Now, you'll have a much better look at the enemy. Good, now that we have intel on the enemy, there is only one remaining thing we have to take care of. Build the last MCV and build a REfinery. Place the MCV and the Refinery. Place 2 Ore Purifiers, one for each base. Build a Barracks and build as many GIs and Prism Towers as you can manage. Build a Chronosphere and a Weather Control Device. Build some Chrono Legionaires and bring all of them together at the enemy's base. Warp them intto a relatively unprotected part of the base and take out some buildings, just to keep the enemy scared. Once all the super weapons are ready, build as many tanks as you can in the ten minutes the super weapon is charging. Gather all the GIs out of all your bases and let everybody rally en route to the enemy base. Hit the enemy with a Lightning Storm then try to attack enemy targets with your vessels you have in there. if the enemy's structures/units are in range, launch your Hornets to make short work of them. Once you've picked off all targets of oportunity, bring in all the tanks and GIs you rallied (man! That'll be a lot!) and rush the enemy. Target defenses first, let the GIs deploy and concentrate at any tanks there are. Let the tanks worry about the structures and let the dogs take on the infantry of the enemy. Once you have destroyed everything, scout out the rest of the map to find any remaining stragglers. Once that is done, you will be victorious. The advantage of this strategy is that you can send reinforcements from other bases if another part of your infrastructure is under attack. I hope this is a good strategy for you. It works for me most of the time, especially against humans, because they actually get confused of situation, while the cold-blooded computer is so cold to play against... -------------------------------------- 10.2) Soviets \------------\ Well, there is only one good strategy that I use often with the Sovets (with taking the "good" word in its relative form ehum). Build up your base as usual. Find a good place (preferably close to the water) to build a Naval Shipyard. Once that is done, start mass production of Dreadnoughts, Submarines and Sea Scorpions. Once that is done, move your massive armada of ships to the other side, trying to get a shot at the enemy's base. Try to find his base within range of the missiles of a Dreadnought. Another thing you can do, is to build a Dreadnought as early as possible, even if it means delaying a Refinery. Once you have one, send him over to bombard the enemy base. If you were fast enough (and the enemy was slow enough hehehe), he won't have a Patriot Missile Launcher (or bad placed/not enough of them). If you can spot a Patriot that is lonely, destrooy it first. Then target at your discretion. Try to keep them out of the range of enemy defenses (pillboxes in this stage of the game). If you can succeed in this, then you will probably be able to smash the enemy to pieces. The wisest thing to do when you find yourself in such a situation, is to undeploy(repack) your MCV and move away of the field, while selling off all your buildings and taking your units with you. Another thing you could do, is to quicly build a Barracks, a Tesla Reactor and the War Factory. Build a bunch of Terror Drones and move them to the enemy base. If you are fast enough, the enemy won't have a lot of a response against it. You can wipe out both Infantry and vehicles with them, so use that to your advantage. All this only works if you have luck. It is sometimes a little dangerous to use such a strategy. Long live the Soviet Union. ---------------------------- Well all the above is a little crappy, so let's see if I can't give you a good "build-a-base-and-destroy-the-enemy" strategy. Build up your base (I'd keep away from the water as your Soviet and I find the Soviet Navy a little weaker then the Allied navy, it's jsut that feeling that my vessels can't do a thing right!). Start up infantry production fast. This is kind of important, because the Allies have a good advantage in infantry, while your men can easily take down their tanks (well GIs can do the same, but the conscripts seem harder to hit which would be logical in keeping the balance higher). I know the number 200 is quite impressive, but it is certainly possible. I'd say this: build your War Factory first and build as many War Miners as you can. Harvesting goes very slow with the Soviets, so it is imparitive to find Oil Derricks to give you a steady flow of cash. Let's say you find and capture a few. We now have 200 Conscripts ready for action. Once that is done, build some Attack Dogs (about 5 or 10) to help kill off those GIs, sniff out Spies and assist in killing any Tanyas. Once that is done, try to build even more War Miners, oh yes, we want a lot of cash to work with. Build your Radar Tower to give you a little overview. It is very much possible (especially for the Online players) that there are multiple enemies. The enemy will probably roll in some tanks to bugg you. Group your men together (yikes!) and target one tank at a time. They'll probably die instantly. Destroy tank after tank and you'll be fine. I have to warn you however: it is okay to keep your soldiers close, but scatter them once the tanks roll in, we don't want to make this look like Carmagedon or GTA right?. Once you have your soldiers standing by, build up defenses first. Build lots of Tesla Coils and Flak Cannons. We'll place the sentry guns around our buildings for protection. Use some walls to protect your defenses for awhile. Once you have a good number of Telsa Coils and all the passages to your base are walled off and defended, begin production of tanks. Build lots of Rhinos. Once you have about 50 or so, start building some extra Flak Tracks/Flak Troopers to help with any attacks the enemy might send. Build some Tesla Troopers to keeep your defenses running if base power falls down to 0. Now that our base is safe for a little while, build a bunch of Apocalypse Assault Tanks and a few Kirovs. Let them move to the enemy base. Let the Apocalypse tanks try to destroy the patriots and any other unit that is threatning your Kirovs. If you can do this, then you will have a good chance of destroying the oponent you're attacking. If you are playing a skirmish game against one computer oponent, then the game is over now! However, if you're playing online and you are probably facing multiple enemies, there is still some work to be done. The second thing you have to worry about is super weapons. We must absolutely prevent any Lightning Storms from killing us off. Nukes aren't nice to have incomming, but lightning storms are still worse. Build a few Yuris and send them over to the enemy. Mind control a bunch of units and run them back to your base. Use this tactic to get as many units as you can. What we are looking for is an IFV. If you can snag one, build a Crazy Ivan, put him in and get him to the enemy. Give him some extra support. Now we have a nice demolition truck at our command. Get the IFV (errr demo truck) into the enemy base and keep it a little covered. Once you have it inside, ward off any incoming infantry/tanks so that you are safe. Bring the truck to the structure you certainly want to wipe out, be it super weapon or construction yard. You could always try to destroy more with your forces that you brought along, but it is very much possible that the enemy has too much defenses for this. A cheaper way to completing the "destroy the super weapon" goal is the following: - Take an IFV (by capturing a Allied Structure or by mind controlling one) and bring it to your base. - Build an Iron Curtain. Once it is charged, send your IFV to the enemy. When it begins to take fire, make it unvulnerable. Double-time it to the enemy's super weapon/construction yard and DETONATE!!! (just run into it hehe). We now have to start mass production of Apocalypse Assault Tanks. Once you have a good number (40 is good enough!), get a Yuri unit in there (or Yuri Prime is even better) and steal some units. Try to snag as many IFVs as you can, or some big boomers from the enemy. If you can get about 10 IFVs that's good. Put Tesla Troopers in them and have some very nice Tesla Tanks. Let them be grouped on unit 2. All your Apocalypse Tanks should be grouped on 1. Once you have that, see how many Rhinos you've got and build some extra. Build as many as you see thick and group them at 3. Now, build about 5-10 V3 Rocket Launchers and group them at 4. Move your Rhino tanks first. Let the Apocalypse follow but keep some distance. Keep the Tesla Tanks right behind the Apocalypse tanks. Your V3s should stand by a little moment. Once your Rhinos have reached an enemy base, let them attack it with everything they've got. If you built a lot of them, you might crush them all in there. If the enemy is able to retaliate your Rhinos succesfully, bring in the Apocalypse, followed right by the Tesla Tanks. Let the Apocalypses mop up as much as they can handle. Move your V3s to the place of chaos and let them fire on the enemy buildings, assisted by the Tesla Tanks. If this somehow fails, regroup everything that is still remaining and head home. Send over any Kirovs you may have and destroy the enemy base completely (well that should've been a hard hitter for the enemy!). You should've built a Nuke Silo by now. Nuke anything that is moving in the area of the base you just attacked. Now, focus your attention to the possible other enemies, and try to keep yourself out of the fighting for awhile. If they are already in a big conflict, then that's FANTASTIC. We can build up forces without problem. If the remaining enemies are allies with eachother, that's something else. Considerthem to be allies. You'll have to bring up more defenses quicly, while building LOTS and LOTS of Kirov Airships. if you can manage it, try to build about 20. It is expensive, but it will work, I garantee you. Once you have those Kirovs fly them over to the enemy's bases and destroy them. If someone survives, smash some tanks at them and try to destroy them by doing that. Another thing would be to build even more conscripts after your big group of 200. March them to the enemy and destroy them completely. I garantee you 250 conscripts will kick the enemy's ass quite nicely. Hope I helped! ------------------------------------- 11) Mission Walkthroughs \----------------------\ 11.1. My Walkthroughs --------------------- 11.1.1: Allied Walkthroughs ------------------ Mission 1: Loone Guardian. ---------- Briefing: It would apear that the Soviets have invaded America. They are rushing through our cities like mad idiots. We must stand our ground, even in thsi disorder. You'll start by getting New York out of the iron grip of the Soviets. They haven't taken the city yet, but they will if we don't act fast. Buildings are already in ruins, ships are aproaching and threatning to destroy us all, and you are going to stop them... That's right, YOU. With the help of Agent Tanya of course. She's an expert in her class, don't leave her for the stupid jobs Commander. Main Objective: Get to Fort Bradley and regain control of the city. Also, you should keep Tanya alive at all cost! Walkthrough: This is kind of simple. You'll see several Dreadnoughts firing missiles at the statue of liberty. Aparently, the Patriot Missile Systems aren't quite enough to hold the missiles form hitting their target, so you better work fast. Let Tanya take a swim and attack some C4 to the ships. Once you were able to sink them all, make her understand that you have to get on the Manhatan Island. Once she made it on, assist the GIs with those lame Conscripts. They'll make it anyway, but you'll see Tanya's pistol skills, and it's worth it, belive me! Tahter your GIs and hold ground for a moment. there'll be a second wave of Conscripts soon. Once you've taken care of them, move further on the road, you'll see a lot of things burning hehehehehe. You'll soon encounter a few more GIs that are just sitting there shooting at Conscripts. I'm sorry to say this, but it is a long time since I played it, and I'm a little busy (whihc means i do not know exactly where the next thing is). You'll have to search around in the city. You should find 3 Grizzly Battle Tanks to give you a little extra firepower. Move Tanya past the MCBurgerKong and the Gas Station. You can take the GIs with you if you want, but it isn't necesary! The Fort is able to defend itself, but the AI who is controlling it, seems too dumb to build new units or more defenses. Just send Tanya inside and you'll gain control of the base. Directly after you get control, move your Grizzlies to the fort and begin to build a lot of GIs (say 30 or so) and send them to the enemy base, sending the Grizzlies with them. Let the Grizzlies take care of the Sentry Gun defense and let your GIs pour into the base. Let them kill all the V3s that are inside and destroy the Soviet Structures by blowing up Barrels and finishing off the buildings when needed. Once you've wiped out the base, it's Mission Acomplished for you my friend! Mission 2: Eagle Dawn. ---------- Briefing: General Vladimir is moving fast, very fast. He has sent a group of tanks to secure our air base in Colorado. This one is to vital importance to us. You must get back the Air Force Academy before the Soviets can make this position unpenetratable. Tanya will also be at your service in this mission (EYES ONLY COMMANDER, TAKE NOTE OF THAT.). Main Objective: Recapture the Air Force Academy and destroy all the Soviet Forces in the area, before they gain too much ground here. Walkthrough: Get Tanya up and about and elt her kick some butt will ya! You'll see a few conscripts around here. I sugest taking them out now, you know why right? Once that is done, you can take an Armor Crate here somewhere. Once you've found it, you can find another one under the house next to it? You'll soon get a message from Luitenant EVA, saying that a group of Rocketeers has arrived to assist you. Get them and assign them to a number on your keyboard. Move Tanya further and you'll see the Air Force Academy on the map. Clean out everything that you may or may not encounter. You'll reach a fork in the road. When you find it, move Tanya into the captured base and kill off the Conscript here. You'll see some Flak Cannons sitting here. This is what is preventing you from destroying the Sentry Gun defense with your Rocketeers. I'd say only one thing: "Chuck some on it!"! Once you've blown up the Flak Cannons, move in the Rocketeers and destroy the sentry guns. Once you've acomplished that, you'll get some Engineers dropped off. Get them to capture the buildings of yours. Once you have captured the Air Force Academy, the aircraft will take off, and give you some recon on a base to the east. It isn't that easy this time, so don't jst send 10 GIs in there hehe. First, build some extra chrono miners (three will do) and foritify your base. To make it easier, we'll send in Harriers first. Let them destroy key structures, on easy the Flak Cannons shouldn't do too much to the planes (they'll probably miss!). Once you have destroyed some structures, you'll get some GIs from somewhere. Deploy them and destroy anything in sight. Let any planes you have ready destroy Sentry Guns so that the GIs will have a better chance of surviving. Once you have this base destroyed, your mission will be over. If the wave of GIs doesn't destroy the base, send in some Grizzly Battle Tanks to finish the job. Once that is done, it's mission acomplished for you! Mission 3: Hail to the Chief. ------------------------------ Briefing: Back to the heart of America. Something terrible has happened, the Soviets are using their feared but until now unknown technology. This technology is known as a Psychic Beacon. What it does is send out signals to the brain to American soldiers and citezens, telling them to join the Soviets, and since we have no protection against it, we'll have to remove them one by one. There is a slight problem. They have placed a Psychic Beacon within Washington DC. They have "mind-controlled" the President, and even General Carville himself, so Luitenant EVA will have to give you the briefing. It apears there are stilll some forces in the area that are unefected, you will rendezvous with them and destroy the Psychic Beacon. Do not allow our citizens to be forced to be slaughtered! Main Objective: Build a base, find the Psychic Beacon and destroy it. Walkthrough: There are a lot of structures that you can repair, but I acomplished the mission without repairing a single one of them, so I don't conisder it needed. Start by building up your base. Once you have GIs ready to build, build about 30. You'll see a bridge to "The Other Side", where the enemy is staying. Let the GIs garison themselves in the buildings around here, especially in that one by the bridge. The Soviets will ocasionally send a lot of Conscripts and inocents to attack you. It's pretty fun to see those Civilians get slaughtered (at least in my opinion!). Get a War Factory up and running. Get some money if you really want, by repairing structures. Most of them holds a crate with money, so that could help if you want. Build extra miners 'till they begin to annoy you by their numbers. Suffice to say that you should at least build 4 of them. Once they are ready, start building Grizzly Battle Tanks fast. You'll get ocasional reinforcements. They'll consist of IFVs (about 4 or 5 if I remember correctly). Build an Air Force Command HQ, especially for those of you who want to repair things. Now, build 4 Harriers and give the enemy a first strike. They'll be located across from the bridge, by the soccer field. This is only a small base, so this won't be too much of a problem. Destroy everything with your aircraft, while you keep up your tank profuction. Once you have an amazing number of tanks, roll them across the bridge and move to the Washington Monument. You'll spot a Soviet stronghold. Roll your tanks in and destroy the defenses. Keep everything away. Now, build some engineers and capture this base. Try to keep the War Factory living so that you can capture it. And Scott Batass has given me the oportunity to do a good fight here. Capture the War Factory, Barracks and REfienry if you can. Place Pillboxes all over the place! Make about 10 Tesla Tanks by using the IFV and putting a Tesla Trooper in it! once you have that, build a second Air Force Command HQ. Build Harriers to fill it up, and start striking the base at the Natural Museum. Try to take out as much as you can. Build a lot of Rhino Heavy Tanks at the captured base, it will help you in the final assault. Build a few V3s if you want quick destruction. Now assemble all forces at your captured base and rush the enemy for the final assault. You should be able to destroy everything quite quickly. The enemy won't have a lot of an answer to your Tesla Tanks hehehehehehehe (Thanks Scott, you made it even easier!). There's only one more thing that needs to be handled, the Psychic Beacon. You'll find it in the North East corner if I'm correct (it's somewhere near anyways). Target it and fry like hell!!!!! That was a pretty easy one right? I think it is time to celebrate, you've jsut played out 1/4 of the Allied Campaign, no big deal, as you ain't seen nothin' yet!!!! Mission 4: Last Chance. ------------------------ Briefing: It is worse than we thought. The Soviets are far from finished, and we have to handle them the hard way. Even as our war effort continues, there is something very important that MUST BE DONE AT ALL COST. If we cannot achieve the goal I'm about to give you, we will all turn into slaves of the Soviets. Your destination is the city of Chicago. The city is heavily fortified, so you'll have to do an amphibious landing. you'll have to locate a device called "Psychic Amplifier". The Soviets are preparing themselves to use it. Our scientists have calculated that this device, when activated, will mind control whole of North America. If this happens, we are doomed to lose the war. Make sure you can find and destroy it. It is imparitive that we bring a halt to this psychic attack of the Soviets. Main Objective: Find the Psychic Amplifier and destroy it before it gets online and takes control of the US. Walkthrough: Alright. You'll have a bunch of destroyers, a few transports, and some Rocketeers in the opening stage of the mission. First thing you'll want to do is to destroy the cannos on the shore, without them, we can safely land our troops in Chicago! Let your Destroyers clear a path by destroying anything that you may encounter. Destroy all the Soviet units and defensive/production structures right here. There's a high chance of SubMarines here, so protect your transports from them, or it's BYE BYE to your shore landing! Once you've cleared out the place, move your transports in. Unload them all. In one of them, there'll be an MCV. Deploy it and you'll receive a transmission from Luitenant EVA, who gives you some tidbits of info on the Psychic Amplifier. Once the talking is over, you'll notice a timer, pay close attention to it, if you're running out of time, rush the amplifier with everything you have and try to destroy it (target it with everything and ignore Soviet Forces, so that you can give it a buttload of damage in one bam). DO NOT LET THE TIMER EXPIRE, OR YOU'VE JUST BEEN VERY STUPID. Reinforcements will arrive. There'll be a few transports with tanks and GIs onboard. Deploy them all and let them join your forces. Begin setting up your base now. If you left alive the soviet Construction Yard, capture it now. Since I didn't do it myself, it probably made it harder because of the better tanks they have. Well, it's just a stupid detail, so if you just destroyed it, I can understand it. It's so much fun to blow up a Soviet Construction Yard!!!! Build up your Refinery, Power Plants, Barracks. Build about 20 GIs and then start working on the War Factory. Build a bunch of extra miners to increase money. Once you have a lot of miners, start building Grizzly Battle Tanks, or Rhinos if you did capture the Soviets things. Start pumping out a lot of them! When you have a good group, mass everything together that you have. Build some more GIs (20 again I'd sugest), and move north. You'll see a bridge, but you'll need to repar it. Train an Engineer at your Barracks and send him over to the Bridge Repair Hut. Fix the thing and move along. You'll come to see an island, where the Psychic Amplifier on it. Let your tanks fire on it, while all the GIs you have massed will ward off any Soviet armor/infantry that might interupt. Since the GIs are good against both of them, this will be kind of easy for you! Once the Psychic Amplifier is destroyed, the mission is over, and you get to see a very confusing ending scene. Premier Romanov is sitting there, making himself angry (man, he should watch his heart!), and he will target Chicago and say something like: "Behold the Powerrr of Motherrrrr Rrrrrussia!". BAAMMMMMMMMMMMM! Nuke has hit Chicago and it isn't pretty to look at! Mission 5: Dark Night. ----------------------- Briefing: It apears the Soviets are overpowering us. We must get help from anyone who would want to. We can NOT LET THE Soviets take control of the US. If we do, the Europeans will not be able to stand for themselves. We're trying to convince the Europeans to join forces with us and help take care of the Soviets. There is a slight problem however, the Soviets have 2 Nuclear Silos on the border between Germany and Poland. The Europeans are afraid that the Soviets will launch the missiles once they have formed an alliance with us. That's why we will remove this threat, and ensure a good alliance with the European countries. To acomplish the task quickly, we'll deploy Tanya and a handful of spies for you to use. You must locate the 2 Nuclear Silos in a Battle Lab, and take care of them. Beware that the enemy will have good guard against your attack, so use the spies well. Main Objectives: Find and destroy the 2 Nuclear Missile Silos that are threatning Europe. Walkthrough: Disguise your spies and take care of the Conscripts on the road with Tnaya (she's a hotshot isn't she!). The plan is simple: We'll destroy all forces that may prevent our spies from reaching their destination, and we'll clear out the path, so that we don't have to fight too much when you need precious timing. Send Tanya to the northeast. Shoot everything you see, especially all the guard dogs. They must be killed. Not only do they threaten the spies, but they also threaten Tanya, so you must ABSOLUTELY kill them, before they get a chance to attack Tanya, otherwise it's game over for you! You'll eventually come to a fork. You'll eventually come to the entrance to the Soviet base where we must locate the bastard nukes! Fire at anything in sight (be it oil barrel or soldier) and stay out of the range of the tesla coils, but destroy any that have barrels next to them. It is safer to find an alternate route however. Go to the farm nearby and free those cows (you can use them, but I personally didn't). You'll see a barrel standing by a wall. Shoot the barrel, and TADAAAA! A hole! You can pick off soldiers through here easily, so do it. Take a Spy or two here. Let the first one enter the Tesla Reactor and the power will be shut. Destroy all the Tesla Coils in here. Now send in your Spy and let him infiltrate the Battle lab. Your map should get expanded and you will get the location of the two Nuclear Silos that you are searching for remember? Before you do ANYTHING ELSE, find some barrels in the base and shoot them, to make another opening in the wall. Go and follow the path to the path further. You'll see a crashed ariplane. It apears something terrible has happened. You'll see a group of GIs and Engineers. Get them out of there, and they'll tell you that they were on that plane but were shot down by Soviet air defenses (hmmmm, I don't remember any flak in the area, oh well). They claim there are more survivors around here somewhere (and they are right, I just don't use them, because they aren't necesary at all). Bring them along to the base you've "defused", and send the Engineers to capture both the Barracks and the War Factory. Train aditional Engineers to capture the rest of the base. Once you have everything there was to grab, and start building more War Miners, because harvesting goes a lot slower with the Soviets. Once you have a good total of harvesters, start building Rhino Heavy Tanks. Get a permanent production started. The first wave will consist of 15 tanks, while we are building more to replace thme. Once you have them, send Tanya with them to destroy any and all infnatry that might be around here. If you want, you can use the cows to see exactly where there are tesla coils and all that stuff. Roll your first wave of tanks to the first nuke silo, and attack. You shouldn't have too much of a problme, target the Tesla Reactors first, and destroy them as quicly as you can. Once they ar offline, destroy the Tesla Coils, or you could destract the Tesla Coils, while Tanya blows the Reactors. Once you have cleared out the base of its defenders, destroy the wall around the nuke silo and destroy it. Now, wait for your second wave of tanks to be ready, and send them to rendezvous with your original tank group. Once you have them ready, move your butt. Attack the second nuke base. If you are taking Tanya along, be sure to watch out for Guard Dogs, because they are very common and annoying here. Apply the same tactic as usual, and destroy the second nuke silo. Looks like you have persuaded Europe to help, now let's crush the Soviets!!! Mission 6: Liberty. -------------------- Briefing: We're back in Washington DC for an important mission that was given to you by good ol' General Carville: "TAKE MY OFFICE BACK". We are pushing away the Soviets of our soil, and we must continue to rally and destroy their forces as fast as we can, because we mustn't give them a chance to regroup and strike hard again. The main idea is to attack the Soviets and take back the Pentagon, aswell as destroying all Soviet bases in Washington. It isn't an easy task now, but I'm sure you can do it. Also, we've made contact with the mad Doctor Einstein. He has given us the plans for the new Prism Towers. We belive they will be most useful in your strugle. Use them by all means, because we want the Soviets killed and that means, we want you defended from any harm they will intend. Einstein is working on several projects at this moment, so more of his work is expected soon enough. Get over there commander, and settle the score once and for all. Walkthrough: Deploy the transports at the Pentagon. It's under attack already, but the Prism Towers will do the job quite nicely. Establish a base. The first thing we'll want to do is to make a superb and unpenetratable defensive infrastructure. To do this, we will want to build more Prism Towers, wall off our base, and garison troops in the buildings by the Pentagon (VERY IMPORTANT). Also, we will back our soldiers in the buildings up with some tanks. Set up your base. Build a Refinery, Power Plant, Barracks, War Factory, Battle Lab, and then we're up and running for some time. Build Prism Towers, and place them by the ones that were already there. This will be vital to your survival, as the Soviets will attack frequently with tanks. Once the attack has been countered, repair all damaged defenses. Build an Air Force Command HQ. Build 4 Harriers, and then start working on lots of Chrono Miners. We'll need the resources hard, so make sure you have at least 8 miners running your refinery all the time. Build about 10 tanks to back up the garisoned TIs. At some point, the message will come that the Soviets have released their Terror Drones. Try to destroy them before they can attack themselves to anything, and build a Service Depot to remove any drones that are attached to your units. Also, don't just attack it with a few infantries, as they will kill your men without any doubt. Also, build lots of Fortress walls at key places, so that the enemy will have trouble using his terror drones. Now that we have good defensive power, it is time we began doing something about that Soviet annoyance in the city. Build more Air Force Command HQ and fill them up with Harriers, until you have a squadron (which means you'll need 3 HQs and 12 Harriers). Also, there's an easy way of making your life less frustrating. The first strike your planes do, should be on the bridge that leads to the first Soviet Base (which isn't too big). Let your planes reload and strike again if the first attack didn't take it out completely. Once the bridge is destroyed, and your planes are rearmed and ready, let them strike the small base. Flak will be moderate, so you can easily take them down. Target key structures and keep on striking 'till they have no more structures to speak of. let all your planes reload, and move on to the next base. Do as much damage as you can, and then build about 40 GIs. You still have those transports right? Gather all the GIs you have and build IFVs so that they all are seated in one. Put them in transports and move the hovercraft to the other side of the broken bridge. Move your soldiers forward and kill anything that is remaining of the enemy base (a bunch of tanks if I can guess right). Maybe the second base still has defenses if so, build about 20 tanks and transport them all over to the battlezone. Let them take care of the defenses you see. Now, it's time to mop up the whole thing. Build even more tanks. Build about 15 and transport thme over. Let them demolish any enemyies you encounter on the map (there's probably still a base out there, so take care of it quicly). Once you have destroyed every base on this map, Washington will be yours. It is quite thrilling. I found this mission very easy, because once you have the defenses up, it's all just building up a force of your own and destroying them! Mission 7: Deep Sea. (what a pointless mission name!) --------------------- Briefing: We are winning the battle for the United States! We have fortified our positions and are moving the Soviets away very quicly. In no time, the Soviets will be evacuating and will be returning to their homes in Russia hehe. However, there is a situation that requires your attention. We have detected a large Soviet fleet heading to Pearl Harbor. This is their desperate attempt to increase morale of their troops, to get another victory. But we will not allow this. Prepare your own navy and strike back. It is likely that the Soviets will deploy a base when they arrive. Destroy them all. Remove them from American soil once and for all. Once we have driven them from this place, we'll be able to strike them when we please. Beware that the Soviet fleet is not to be underestimated. Our reports say that they took lots of Submarines with them, so be on the lookout. Also, try to protect the base on the island. It is probable that the Soviets will destroy that to make a landing and build a base of their own. Main Objective: Locate the Soviet fleet, destroy it and the base that they deploy. Walkthrough: There's no time to lose here, believe me! Start building Destroyers like you've never done before. Crank out as many as you can manage before the Soviets arrive with those stupid Sea Scorpions and submarines (oh DAMN, I don't like the Soviets). Once they arrive, attack them with everything you have. Move all your destroyers and carriers to the place of attack and wait there and you will be attacked. Let the Destroyers worry about the Submarines first. Let the Carriers try to destroy the dreadnoughts, the only problem is Sea Scropions. Leave the Cruisers at your base, as the Dreadnoughts have the annoying stupidity of targeting your structures. The Cruisers will make short work oftheir missiles, so that isn't a problem. Once you have destroyed every ship here, you may start to breave normally again... at least for now. Get your cash flowing by building a lot of Chrono Miners, and maybe a second Refinery if you want. Soviet paratroopers will be coming in pretty often. See those houses close to your base? Well, we'll just train GIs (LOTS AND LOTS OF THEM!) and garison them in those houses, don't you think that's a good idea? Once that is done, train an Engineer and transport him to the norht, where you'll find a Tech Airport. Capture it now. Train some attack Dogs and send them over there to defend against any infantry that might try to take over. (the enemy often tries to just capture it with Engineers if you leave no defenses) You could also place some Prism Towers and Pillboxes at the Airport if you want! Start building more defenses at your own base now. Place lots of Prism Towers and Patriot Missile Systems at your base, with a few Pillboxes to help shred the infantry faster. Once you have defenses up and running, see that you have good power, so that a minor attack on your power plants won't just shut down the whole thing. Now, start building a Service Depot. I'll tell you why: The enemy AI has the annoying plan to often transport attack into your base. They may include Engineers, but most annoyingly, Terror Drones(!). We MUST NOT allow the enemy to harass us with his stupid drones. Make sure they get destroyed before they even reach a vehicle, or the vehicle can reach a Service Depot quicly. If you want, you could build a second base at the airport, I did once, just to make it feel cooler (HAHAHA, the Soviets can't win hahaha!). All paratroopers should just come to your base. We won't need them in an attack on the enemy base right? They're just costless infantry. Now, it's time to build up a strike force to give the enemy a hard time. First off, see how many destroyers you have. A few were probably sunk by the Soviets, I'd sugest building another 10 or so. Once that is done, start building a lot of Aircraft Carriers. Also, there's one thing that you must remember: KEEP THE CRUISERS CLOSE TO YOUR BASE, BECAUSE THE SOVIETS LIKE TO SEND A FEW V3S TO ANNOY YOU. AS LONG AS YOUR CRUISERS ARE THERE, THERE'LL BE NO PROBLEM. Build up Grizzly Battle Tanks and a lot of them please. Once you have a fleet of impressive numbers, group each ship type together. Keep them at your base for the moment, but they'll play a large role in our attack in a few moments. If the enemy manages to get a Nuclear Silo up and running right now, hit him hard. First target the Silo, then target at your discression. Destroy all targets of oportunity. There'll probably be a few subs, and a bunch of Sea Scorpions around. Let the Destroyers concentrate on the ships, while your Carrier Battle Group launches wave after wave of Hornets. There may be flak, but they can't hold off all of them, belive me freely. Once you've destroyed everything you could possibly destroy from this position, quicly build a few transports and get everything you have ready at the moment over there. The main idea is to certainly destroy all the Tesla Coils that the enemy has placed. These are very unwelcome targets. Also, try to destroy the Sentry Guns from the sea. Destroy all unit-producing structures +Construction Yard (from sea or land) and you'll get the "Mission Acomplished" message in no time! Good work commander, I'd say you deserve a little rest right... RIGHT? Mission 8: Free Gateway. ------------------------- Briefing: Well, looks like your rest is already over hehe. We are really hurting the Soviets bad, and they are retreating on all fronts. Our intel believes we'll be able to drive the Soviets from America in a few days. So now you ask: "Why the hell did you have to bother me?!". Well, you may have heard that our primary suply-line at Misouri is in Saint-Louis. We have received reports from Agent Tanya and the other forces in the area. It apears the Iraqis have made their attempt to give us a blow in the face. Therefore, they have invaded Saint-Louis, and they are readying a Psychic Beacon. They are wanting to cripple our suplylines, and regain control. Agent Tanya is assembling a strike force and we will have to destroy the Psychic Beacon quicly, it's about to come online. Also, once this is done, drive off all the Soviet forces from the city. We mst give the Soviets an answer to their feeble attempts to win this war, by treachery and unfair warfare. This will turn on them, you'll see soon enough. Main Objective: Find, and destroy the Psychic beacon at the small soviet base, then drive them off of the map! Walkthrough: Okay commander, we have Tanya and a bunch of GIs and engineers, ready at your service. Our objective will be to find the small fortification where the Psychic Beacon is, and destroy it as fast as possible. You have about 20 minutes before the Beacon will activate, and there is absolutely no time to lose! MOVE MOVE MOVE!!! Alright, assemble your strike team right away, move to the highway and follow it until you reach the Soviet base. First thing you'll want to do is attack the base from different angles. Let the GIs and the engineers go through the back, while Tanya sees what she can do. The main plan is to find and destroy all the Tesla Reactors, so that it is safe to destroy the Psychic Beacon without getting fried by the Tesla Coils. Find and destroy all the Reactors, kill any troops that you may find, and destroy all the Tesla Coils afterwards. You'll notice the Psychic Beacon, ready and waiting to be demolished. Move Tanya in and watch in joy as the whole thing blows! That's the first and easiest part of this mission. The reinforcements will arrive with an MCV and some stuff. You should also get control of a bunch of civilians, who apparently got an M1 Carbine assault rifle from the Soviets. Wander how that happened hehehe. they're good cannon fodder IMO. Watch out for the Desolators (the Iraqis brought them along hehehe), because they will send your infantry to hell in an instan. It easy for them to butcher your soldiers, they can't do anything good against tanks though (phew!!). There'll be a few of them in the soviet base already. They'll start harassing you, so dispose of them quickly. Oh yeah, after you destroy the Psychic beacon, there will be a crate of money there. It always helps to have some extra cash. Also, watch your miners carefully, because something very odd happened when I played the mission. Harvesting was pretty smooth, as the fields are pretty close to your base. Everything went fine, until the miners didn't show up anymore. No "Ore Miner Under Attack" notice, nothing! They just disapeared to nowhere. I don't know how this was caused, I can only warn you to keep your eyes open! Okay. Start up your base now. Build refinery, power plants, barracks, a War Factory. now, start producing lots of Chrono Miners. You'll also notice that a few new tanks have come to play: the famous Prism Tanks. They are very well. They can take care of buildings from a long distance (handy against Tesla Coils) and they aren't too weak aswell. Grizzlies are stronger, but the Prisms have much better firepower. You'll receive reinforcement of four of these tanks, use thm wisely. Once your cash flow is nice, start building a Battle Lab. Once that is up, build a bunch of Prism Towers for defensive means. Once that is done, there is something I need to confess: I used a rather ilogical strategy to complete the mission. I didn't cheat, but I just did it a little different then you should do it. What I did, is build about 15 Grizzly Battle Tanks, roll them to the enemy base, and while they were busy fighting, I built the second group of 15. I let my first group attack, but I couldn't do too much, because of the Tesla coils. My second group made a big hole. Then, I sent everything else I had, together with a good number of trained GIs. This was the way I killed the enemy off. However, there is a much better way, by using a big group of Prism Tanks. they won't suffer the Tesla Coil problem, and they are suprisingly good against infantry aswell, just like the Prism Tower. I have to say Einstein is a good guy, he builds good units anyway. Let's hope there will be more of these goodies. Mission 9: Sun Temple. ----------------------- Briefing: The Soviets are desperate of keeping foot on american soil, but that is easier said then done. Their forces are desperately trying to regain control of cities, failing without glory. They still have a hold on Mexico, where they are counting their last hours. It won't be too long before we retake this place. There is only one thing we must absolutely prevent. The Soviets have captured some Prism Technology, and are researching it at that base. We believe they may already have a few prototypes of defenses, but we are not sure of that. Most of our forces are comited elsewhere at the moment, therefore the general has granted you a SEAL team, they will perform their duties smoothly. Your mission is to find and capture or destroy any prototype versions of our Prism Towers, and destroy the complete base itself. Once that is done, we can totally remove the Soviets from America. This mission is vital to our succes Commander, don't let us down now. Main Objective: Find and destroy/capture any versions of our Prism Towers and destroy the research base. Walkthrough: Alright, we're working with a real SEAL team now. I must say that although I do not like most limited forces missions, I liked this one very much, especially because of the SEALs. they have cool guns, some kind of Hekler & Koch MP5 Sub-Machinegun, which rocks against infantry. Tanks also have a hard time shooting them (in my experience, it took a few Rhinos at least 4 minutes to kill one SEAL, while he was mopping up the whole base, only the Refinery remained, hehehehehe!). Just don't let them be squished, or your SEAL is goodbye! Okay, like you could expect, these guys can swim, so there will be water in this mission (DUH!!). Let your SEALs swim up to the main land. You'll come to a handful of Conscripts and Attack Dogs. "WHO'S YOUR DADDY! Drrrrr, drrrrrr, drrrr! "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH. Ahem, okay. Suffice to say that those troops are dead meat! You'll see that you just liberated a village. You'll have a few Grizzlies and GIs, while a helicopter brings in five Engineers. Stick one Engineer in the copter and fly to the west side of the map. Search around until you find the airport. If you are unfortunate to find some soldiers in the area, mow them down with the copter, or bring a SEAL along. Be warned though: if you attack them with the copter, be careful of staying at a good height. The Conscripts have an annoying ability to fire on your chopper when it flies low (nice feature added by Westwood). Once you have taken over the Airport, send some SEALs to defend it for the time being. We're not expecting any attacks, jsut to be sure the Airport stays with us. Leave the rest of the SEALs in the village, together with all your forces in the village. Now the mission gets really simple, just wait until you have massed a lot of GIs by the Airport, group them together with the tanks and SEALs, and move everything to the enemy base. Let the SEALs take care of defensive building, aswell as unit producting structures, while the GIs and tanks concentrate on any enemy units. If you can, let one SEAL concentrate on the infantry units. Destroy the whole base, and if you get another paradrop, bring them into the base to help out. If you want, you can capture the producing structures and refinery to serve as your own. Destroy every tanks and structure, together with all the infantry, and you're done for this mission. There is another way to complete this mission though. Here it is: Do the same with your SEALs. Let them liberate the village. Load the five SEALs in the chopper and bring them close to the base. Do the same with the Engineers. Let the SEALs lead the way and take care of any infantry that might pose a threat to the engineers. Then, capture the prototype Prism Towers, together with a Tesla Reactor. The Prism Towers look like pyramids if you don't know, and there are two of them; Capture a Tesla Reactor for each pyramid, and let the SEALs take care of all the infantry. Once you have these Prism Towers, lure the tanks with you to the Prism Towers, and watch them getting toasted. Also, you can let the last Engineer take over the Construction Yard if you want, build a Barracks, train aditional Engineers and capture the rest of the base. Destroy anything that is still here and you should also complete the mission with ease. The second is a more risky way, but it is worth it, just to watch those Prism Towers destroy those big bad tanks, it's just iresistable!!! Mission 10: Mirage. -------------------- Briefing: Congratulations are in order commander. You have driven the Soviets out of the United States for good now. They still have a hold on Cuba, hwere they have a strong position. The Russians have pulled back in Europe, and are beginning to strike there. Since their attempt of replicating our Prism technology, they have began searching other ways to get their hands on it. We thought hey would do anything to find Einstein's laboratory, and we were absoloutely right. They have invaded Germany, pouring deep into the Black Forest, where they hope to get control of Einstein's laboratory. Teh Germans have contacted us, confirming that they are not strong enough to face the Soviets alone. They have requested our help, in repelling teh Soviets initial assault, aswell as removing them from German soil. Watch out for new Soivet technology, we suspect that they have developed new tanks, as people refered to as the Apocalypse tank. We do not know the full power of this tank commander, but hope that you're not the first to find out. Main Objective: Ward off, and thereafter remove all Soviets from the Black Forest, nd protect Einstein's laboratory at all cost! Walkthrough: As you could see in the intro movie, General Carville gets wasted by a Crazy Ivan standing in front of his dor. Think he's dead? Well, you'll find out soon enough. AUF WIEDERSEHN! I know this is bad German, just trying. Okay, you'll get an animation where Einstein shows his new invention: the Mirage Tank. I think they are best against infantry, and if you can group a lot of them togehter, the vehicles you target will go down smoothly! Especially the V3s are a joy to target with the Mirage Tanks. We start a little outnumbered. We have a small fortification near Einstein's lab, you get an extra MCV, and you will notice a German Base, which will come under attack shortly, and will be demolished without problem. Place your MCV at Einstein's lab, start making some extra Prism Towers imediately! Now, build GIs fast. Build about 20-30 if you have the time. The Patriots should be able to hold most of the missiles off while you take care of the rest. Now start building Grizzly Battle Tanks. The Soviets should've destroyed the German base already, so they're coming in. In the front, there'll be about 10 or so Rhino Heavy Tanks, followed by a mass of Conscripts (and I mean it, there are seemingly endless guys in there, well not that many, see for yourself). Your Prism Towers should take care of the Rhino Heavy Tanks smoothly. The infantry, however, should be handled in the following method. While the Rhinos are being slaughtered without mercy, build about 4 to 6 Attack Dogs. Hold them here, and when the infantry starts to engage, let them lose. you'll be through with them pretty quicly. There may be a Flak Trooper/Flak Track or two acompanying the battle. Once that wave is done, you'll notice the V3s shooting rockets at you, your Patriots doing everything in their power to stop them. Take care of these pests by using your Grizzlies for now. Good, now that this is done, start production of a LOT of Chrono Miners. Once money flow is steady, start building aditional defenses if you need them, but I can say you that the worst is over. In fact, the Soviets didn't even bother attacking me after the third time anymore, odd. Seems like Einstein has trouble keeping his hands off of controls and stuff, let's hope he doesn't make an internal error occur! LOL! Build a Battle Lab as soon as possible, and start working on a Spy Satelite Uplink and an Ore Purifier. While this is happening, you'll get word from Einstein, saying where the next attack is coming from. It's a really feeble one, a bunch of tanks. Your Prism Towers will make Fish and Chips of them, hehehehehe! (NOTE: I am NOT from England or any British country if anybody wonders ahem.) Once that is done, you should be finished with your things. You will need aditional power, so keep an eye out for that too. (I can tell you that the power problem will not exist anymore, once we are through with our first attack, curious yet?) Start building about 5 to 8 Mirage tanks, and group them together, we'll need them in a moment or two. While you are waiting for the second Soviet wave, let's start building up our forces. Train 4 SEALs, an Engineer (if you were so unlucky to lose the one you got at the beginning) and mass production of both Grizzly and Prism Tanks. Once the third and last serious attack comes, send your Mirage Tanks to investigate. There are a bunch of V3 Rocket Launchers in there. We don't need them to fire on our base, so target them one by one with all your tanks, and demolish. They should go down in one strike. Now that this is settled, build a Night Hawk chopper. Once it is ready, take a look at your Spy Satelite. You'll notice that there are three bases on thsi map. We want to do something with one of the smaller bases. You'll notice that defenses are rather weak. You'll also notice a Nuclear Reactor sitting there, acompanied by a complete base. This is what I do. Alright Commander, time for your first covert mission in this area. Delta Force (SEALs) is ready to go. Our Engineer must be protected from any harm, compris? Okay, load all 4 SEALs and the Engineer in the chopper. We can't just land in the middle of the base, because there are a bunch of Flak Cannons sitting there. You'll have to land at the perimiter. Once your troops are landed, let the SEALs take care of the few Tesla Coil(s) that there are here, while your Engineer gets in to take over the Nuclear Reactor. While your people are underway, it is best to start construction of a Prism Tower. Once that is done, wait until your Engineer has finished the job, and smack it down right next to it. It should start firing at any Tesla coils that remained. (if you want to spare SEALs, try to sneak the Engineer in alone, if you're a little lucky, the Tesla Coil will fire too late.) Start Building more Prism towers and place them all by the Nuclear Reactor. All buildings in sight will be destroyed without problem. Since the Tesla Coils don't have power, they'll be stuck there. The AI will start training Conscripts like a mad man. Let your SEALs take care of them (they are even better then Tanya if you ask me) and let them take care of the Barracks, Construction Yard and the rest. Also, the miners will start to fire on the Prism Towers/Nuclear Reactor, but your Prism Towers will cut them to pieces. One base destroyed, two more to go, YIIIIIHAAAAA! Now, it's just mop up work. Build about 10 prism Tanks and move them to the other bases. The Tesla Coils will fall instantly, I even destroyed one, while he was charging up to fire, looked cool! You might want to bring the Mirage Tanks with you, just to handle the War Miners better. Also, if you have a couple of elite Prism Tanks, you will rock the hell out of the enemy! Once you have destroyed every and all bases on this map, the mission is over. Now, do you dere to tell that this mission was hard? If you do, then the next mission will beat the crap out of you, because that one can be a little tricky! Oh, and I will just spoil this one for you, General Carville didn't survive the Crazy Ivan attack, looks like the cool guy died. It's just better to hear it from me than from that EVA thingie ahem. Mission 11: Fallout. --------------------- Briefing: Alright Commander, General Carville may have died, but we are not stopping this war, no matter how you may feel, I think you will agree that we have to move on and make the Soviets pay for all the harm they have caused so far. Mister Einstein has just contacted us with some interesting news. We have waited long for the Chronosphere to become operational, and now that moment is finaly here. We have to place this machine in the Florida Keys. What this does, is to transport vehicles in the blink of an eye, to another location. So, now that we have found the perfect spot, build the Chronosphere as soon as you can. However, there is a small big problem. The island we are placing you on, is very close to Soviet controlled Cuba. We MUST protect our Chronosphere device from any harm the Soviets may pose. You must eliminate the Nuclear silos, otherwise we will never be able to use this teleportation device without fear. Get on it commander, I know you can do it! Main Objective: Build your Chronosphere and destroy the Nuclear threat posed by the Soviets. Walkthrough: Now, as I said, this isn't a cookie, especially if you do it my way, it is really exciing though. Alright. The mission will start and you'll get a message from Luitenant Eva, telling you about the Giant Squids and the remedy, the Dolphins. Use your Dolphins to kill the Giant Squid attacking the vessel. Okay, this area is about to get VERY hot. Start building some Destroyers fast! also, start building LOTS of Grizzly Battle Tanks, and extra Chrono Miners. Sell off the lonely refinery you yhave on the small island, where the Soviets will land their troops. Once the Soviets attack, use everything you've got to destroy ships they send to attack you. Now, destroy the bridge, and KEEP IT DESTROYED AT ALL COST!!!!!! We don't want to get our hands on those Apocalypse Tanks right now. You'll get message from Romanov, threatning you with his Nuclear missiles. A twenty minute countdown will start. Now, the usual strategy everybody uses, is to build a Chronosphere and shift in Prism Tanks to destroy the Silos or the reactors themselves. But we will do something drastically else! Don't waste your money on the Chronosphere. Build Dolphins and Destroyers +some cruisers as well. See if your Chrono Miners are checking out, they tend to have a little problem, when they just don't shift back because they are attacked by a lonely Rhino Heavy Tank. Send some Grizzlies to destroy it anyway. Now, build more and more Chrono Miners 'till they stick out of your butt. Do you know the cool thing? The AI tends to target your dolphins if there are too many in the water! Or they will target another naval vessel, but NOT your base, and even if they do, it's usually a minor assault. Now, I'll already warn you, there is a point in the mission, where the AI sends seemingly endless flows of planes to attack you, and they all hold Engineers. Train some SEALs and send your Cruisers to the part they are assaulting. They should be shot down each time, and even if they drop, the SEALs will take care of them, and with those Engineers, you'll have Elite SEALs in no time! Now, make sure you have at least 3 Air Force Command HQ and build 12 Harriers. Build a Spy satelite Uplink, and you'll see a relatively light defended Nuclear Reactor. Send your planes to destroy it, you should only lose a few. Once that reactor is out of the way, start building 10 Choppers. Once they are ready, train 10 SEALs and 40 GIs. Load everything in them. Once they are all stocked up, start building a LOT of tanks. Once you have about 40 or so, build 8 transports. Build even numbers of Grizzlies and Prisms, leave any Mirage Tanks you built at your base to help deal with any paratroopers you may encounter. Now, start transporting the Infantry over. Land them, deploy the GIs and take care of any tanks that are here, they should also distract the Tesla Coils, while your SEALs blow them up, aswell as a second reactor. While this is busy, start moving your Transports in, escorted by all your destroyers and Dolphins, bring in some Carriers to help take care of any forces in range. Destroy the Naval Yard as fast as you can. There'll be a lot of Squids in the water so keep your Hover Craft clear, using your Dolphins to systematically kill them. Once this is done, land your tanks, and start assaulting the Nuclear Silo base. Destroy all three of them, using your Prism Tanks. You'll get a message from Premier Romanov, he's about to fire his missiles at you, but then he realizes that something's wrong, the silos seem to be disabled, he has no more controls for them, he can't acitvate his missiles! An emotional scene to say the least, HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE! He tries to convince you that "YOU WILL BE CRUSHED!!!!!!!". Ignore him, don't let it get to you, please don't. If you do, you'll certainly fail the last, and sometimes IRRITATINGLY hard mission to give a very acurate strategy for. MISSION ACOMPLISHED8!!!! Mission 12: Chrono Storm. -------------------------- Briefing: After General Carville's death, it is up to you to take us to victory commander. The Soviets are doomed to lose this war, and still they won't give up. Einstein has given us the ability to push right into Moscow without any oposition the enemy's might give us. You, Commander, will have a small SEAL team at your disposal. Find a good opening for our Chronosphere to teleport in new reinforcements. Once they arrive, build a base inside Moscow and destroy the Soviets from the inside out. Beware that they have Nuclear warheads locked onto you. Be cautious in your strategy. Leave nothing of the Soviet army standing, and infiltrate the Kremlin. Once Tanya is inside, she'll find and capture Romanov himself, which will end this bloody and vicious war. It didn't look good in the beginning commander, but our citizens will finally be safe. Main Objective: Destroy the Soviet Black Elite Guard around the Kremlin. Capture Premier Romanov. Walkthrough: This is the mission where I actually felt really bound to my orders. I said to myself "Now I'm going to kill the Soviet Union! THIS IS FOR GENERAL CARVILLE!!" It was the first time I really felt that in a game, really! The memorial service helped a lot to the feeling, it really told me, that those bastards killed the guy that I actually liked the most in this game, and that I would pay back a personal det to him. Okay, so this mission isn't exactly that hard, but it could give you people a hard time, so here's the strategy that I used, and I actually won with it! Okay, so just to tell you, you do NOT have to engage the normal Apocalypse tanks, only those with Elite status! That said, let's get on with the killing. An airplane will come in and drop off 3 Navy SEALs. Kill the Soviet Conscripts who will attack you. Blow up the Tesla Reactor to shut down all the Tesla Coils here and there. Chronosphere reinforcement will chronoshift in, with a ton of IFVs and an MCV. Destroy all the offline buildings with the SEALs and the IFVs (shoot the Oil Barrels!). Also, I'd recomend for you angry players to destroy the Soviet flags aswell. I felt a little better when I did that. Now, while your units are busy destroying things, start setting up your base. Build a Power Plant, a Refinery, a Barracks and about 60 GIs. Use a SEAL to shott some Oil barrles to free GIs and a few Engineers. Capture Oil Derricks with them. Train more Engineers to capture the remaining 2 OIl Derricks. Once you have them, fortify the first 30 GIs into the bunkers you have in your base. The rest of them should stay deployed. Build a War Factory and some extra Chrono Miners. Don't worry about Chrono Miners too much, as the Oil Derricks will give you a lot of cash. Build 7 Air Force Command HQs, that's right! SEVEN!!! You'll see some other Oil Derricks too, they aren't far from your current position, so capture them and place 1 or 2 PillBoxes by each. Also, you should find an Airport somewhere. Capture it and place some defenses. Now, build a Battle Lab, Ore Purifier and a Spy Satelite uplink. Also, if the enemy manages to snatch a Nuke off already, brace for impact, if he didn't, build a 2nd War Factory and place it somewhere else. Also, you should make sure that the War Factory isn't around important buildings or something, if this is the case, sell it off and build it somewhere else. The enemy AI should always target a War Factory of yours, and you don't want to slow down unit production. Build about 8 Mirage Tanks, because the first waves of enemy attack are very heavy, and if you don't have enough tanks killing units, you'll die anyway. Also, after the first wave of tanks, the enemy will start sending Terror Drones 'till he gets sick of them. Teh Mirage tanks will take care of them nicely. However, there is one thing that you must be careful of. The enemy usually sends groups of 4 Terror Drones to your base. Now here's the problem. He can make Terror Drones invincible with his Iron Curtain device. This means that they will make your life worse then it should be. I'd say, move your Mirage tanks into trees and build a bunch of Prism Towers, we'll need them later. Once the Iron curtain wears off, detsroy the Drones. Now, build 28 Harriers, so that your Air Force Command HQs are stocked up. Now, target the Nucleear Missile Silo, and blow it to smithereens. Once he's out of the way, get back all Harriers that are still alive. If you somehow screwed up and the silo still lives, rebuiuld your Harriers and stand by a moment. Build a Weather Control device. Once you do this, you'll get word from Eistein explaining what these are. While you are building this thing, look at the map. You'll see certainly two completely undefended Nuclear Reactors. Split up all your Harriers into two groups, and destroy them both. Once this is done, start building more tanks for defensive means. Gather all your Prism Tanks, and get some Mirage Tanks with them. There are 2 small bases not too far from you. Demolish/weaken them severely, so that they won't pose any threat anymore, it will be much easier this way. Once your first Weather Storm is ready, target one of the War Factories that are on this map, and blow it up. I'd say going for the one next to the Kremlin first. Once you destroy them both, you may be sure that there will be no more Terror Drone assaults (for some odd reason, the ore miners of the Soviets take ore, but the enemy doesn't rebuild his structures hehehehe). Now, gather all your fighters and strike the Iron Curtain, he's not using it anymore anyway. Once that is out of the way, you can see what's next. If you couldn't destroy the Nuke Silo somehow, do it now, by launching a Lightning Storm first, and completely destroying it with air planes. If you already did destroy it (which shouldn't have been too difficult), target their Construction Yard. Once thatis destroyed, rebuild any destroyed Harriers, let the rest reload, and go for the two more defended Nuclear Reacotrs. Right about now, the black elite guard should start pushing forward. Build lots of Grizzlies and Mirage Tanks while they are advancing, and destroy them all! (you should've already got some skirmishes with some of them, and they should've been destroyed already). Once all the Black Elite Apocalypse Tanks are out of the way, power down everything by taretiing the other Nuclear Reactors with your Harriers. Once the power is down, move your aircraft in and destroy the Sentry Guns that are standintg there, aswell as the Flak Cannons. Once you destroy them, the Black Elite Guard around the Kremling will be completely destroyed. A bunch of Conscripts will yell out to you, saying they will never surender to you. Now follows a nice scene, where your Prism Tanks demolish buildings pretty fast. Once that scene is over, an IFV will arrive with Tanya on board. She will move into the Kremlin. She shoots up some things, and somehow doesn't find Romanov, until she realizes that Romanov is disguised, hehehehe. Now soldier, it's time to hit the shower and get to the President for your congrats! END OF GAME! 11.1.2: Soviet Walkthrough --------------------------- Mission 1: Red Dawn. --------------------- Briefing: Ahhhh, Comrade General! Welcome! join us while the Americans are still living in peace in Washington DC. If you're still wondering, this is our first target. This invasion was well planned, and will lead us to the victory, which should've been in the hands of Stalin, so many years ago. Yet now, we will prevail. To be fair with you general, Stalin didn't use strategy, he relied on his brute power to take over complete Europe. Europe is not a cause of problem here, it is America who is. The Europeans won't just join in a war they aren't fighting, the Americans will have to bag for their help, and then it will be far too lat! We will have control over most of America, placing Psychic Beacons everywhere in the continent. My advisor Yuri, who is the founder of the Psychic Beacon, will give you these special assignments. Please note comrade, that you're not alone, fighting on American soil. More important then you ever will be, is General Vladimir. We have never known such good strategists. He is all we could hope for. You however, will have to prove yourself and to Yuri. This first assignment will be your first test. Like I mentioned before, you're traveling right into the heart of the Americans, Washington DC. Once arriving, you will imediately push forward into the city, and destroy the Pentagon. We have dreamed many years of destroying this wrath. This will be especially a psychological blow to the US military. Enough talk comrade, destroy the Pentagon, before I set Vladimir to the task! Main Objective: Enter Washington DC and destroy the Pentagon at all cost. Walkthrough: This is the first mission I played in Red Alert 2, and it was amazingly easy, which was a very big surprise to me. You would think that the Pentagon is better guarded then that. Especially in the final stage, when you even get tanks! Those Allies don't even have good defenses to slow you down! Oh well, it's a very fun mission, it's a Soviet mission, which means SHOOT 'EM UP! In the introduction, you'll see several planes drop off paratroopers, while "the lovely Luitenant" gives you some extra rememorization of what you're suposed to do: Destroy The Pentagon! Once the Construction Yard is deployed, start by building a Power Plant. Your soldiers will shoot up women, men and cars. VERY COOL! There's a parking lot in this mission, where you can do a lot of shootin'!!! Build a Refinery and a Barracks. Train about 30 more conscripts (it isn't necesary, but it's oh so fun!). You can train an Engineer already, you'll need him in a next stage of the mission. Move all your Conscripts to the left. After some more sexy women killin', you'll get a message from Luitenant Zofia, informing you that enemy GIs have been detected. Well, you shouldn't lose a single Conscript. Once all those GIs are wasted (there are 2 groups of them, just to remind you), move further to the left, and a little to the north. If you search a little, you'll stumble upon an Allied base; It's a real stupid thing. Just a couple o' GIs and a pillbox or so. And know this. Westwood is so concerned about you, they send even more paratroopers. Hopefully they'll get dropped off before the Patriot shoots them down (how about destroying that thing now?). Now, jsut for fun, buiild another 30 Conscripts at your base, and rendezvous at your other people's location. Oh and, you should've destroyed the base alright! Train another 30 Conscripts, just for fun! Now, bring all your 30 extra soldiers and your engineer to the rest. You should get an annoying message that you have found a destroyed bridge. Don't wait too long to repair it, it's really annoying to hear Zofia repeat her long sentance for about 10 times! Send the Engineer in the Bridge Control Station, and a miracle will happen. The bridge will be repaired! Just move your people across before the bridge changes his mind, LOL! Now, garrison your people in those buildings here, to take out the Pillboxes to destroy them without losing anyone, we wouldn't want that right? Go and attack all the GIs that may be here, and you'll receive a massive reinforcements, which includes some Engineers. Take the Airport and the Allied barracks, and just for fun, train as many GIs as you have Conscripts, I'm not joking. Once that is done, move your LEGION or troops further. If you even manage to get a "mission failed" message, then I'd advise you to quit trying to waste your time with Red Alert 2, why even bother playing games, if you can't beat a simple mission like this one! Okay, now that we are ready, move everybody across the bridge. You'll encounter a group of GIs and some Pillboxes. Destroy them all, and open fire on the Pentagon. And even as we speak, an IMENSE reinforcement arrives. It holds a lot of conscripts and even tanks! And if you somehow kill yourself now, F*CK YOU! After the Pentagon goes down, it's that for this mission, on to the next one, which isn't more difficult than this one, it's actually more fun in my opinion anyway. Mission 2: Hostile Shore. -------------------------- Briefing: Good work in Washington General. I think you may be a good adition to our forces. You are however, no oposition to General vladimir's superiority. But I guess I already told you that. comrade, we have a situation at the Florida Coast. We have detected an Allied fleet in that sector. You must give the Americans the feeling of pain as fast as you can comrade. Do a shore landing in florida, and wipe the americans from this sector. Don't be afraid General, you are not alone on this miission, I'm sending General vladimir and his fleet with you. General Vladimir himself will be in his personal Dreadnought, supervising the operation. You must clear out Constal Defneses so that he can strike to his willing, ohterwise the stupid americans will pick his rockets out of the sky, and that's not a pretty sight when you are so close to winning a war, in fact, America's fait has already been decided, they will be DESTROYED! Main Objective: Do a shore lnding, and destroy all Allied Forces in the area. Walkthrough: Okay comrade, this is an easy one! There'll be some defenders at the shore. Punch your way through them, and a transport should arrive containing your MCV. Once you have this one, place your base and build everything you need. Build Tesla Reactors, Barracks, Refinery, War Factory, LOTS of Rhinos, some Sentry Guns, a Naval Yard, LOTS of submarines. Let your Rhinos fire at any Destroyers that come in range, also I hope you placed your Construction Yard far enough, otherwise you'll get shell after shell of destroyer fire, and that's not a good thing, believe me. You'll get more Conscripts and tanks, aswell as some submarines. Once this happens, gather all your Submarines, and sail them around, you will eventually stumble into a group of Destroyers. If you gathered enough Submarines, you should be able to destroy them easily. Once the Destroyers are finished, start moving your Rhinos out of your base, and into the Allied territory. You will stumble into a small fortification, which is your only objective remaining. There'll be some Pillboxes, some Grizzlies and a group of GIs. Watch out for the GIs, as they may take care of your tanks quite icely if you don't take care. Target the tanks first, then the GIs and lastly the Pillboxes, they won't do a lot to your tanks. Try to draw the ground forces away from their base and out of the range of the Pillboxes, so that you don't have to take that bit more fire. Once this base is destroyed, you should be done with this short and easy mission! Mission 3: Big Apple. ---------------------- Briefing: Today General, you will not receive your orders from Premier Romanov but from me, his advisor Yuri. As you know, our invasion is going as planned, but the powerful tanks is not all we posess. We have the most dangerous technology in the world, called "Psychic Technology". It sends messages to the enemy unit's brain, so that you can take control of them. Some people, like me, are experts in "mind controlling" people. However, we think that you have to find something to dominate whole cities, even continents (while we still not have that technology). Today comrade, you will place a Psychic Beacon in New York City, to show the americans the through meaning of soviet power. There is a slight problem. We will need an American Battle Lab to finish the job, otherwise, otherwise it is impossible. You will infiltrate the already burning city of New York, and you will capture an American Battle Lab. After this, you will build and defend a Psychic Beacon for about 5 minutes, so that the beacon can power up and activate itself, after which you will have complete control of every civilian/soldier in New York City. Get to it comeade, convert the Americans!!! Main Objective: Build and defend a Psychic Beacon at all cost. Walkthrough: You'll receive word from Luitenant Zofia, showing you the location of the American Battle Lab that we want. There's no hurry, so don't rush it before you're truly ready. After this, Yuri will bother you, giving you 4 of his ghay friends, called Psi Corps Troops. There will be ocasional assaults by Allied units, so turn them against their American fellows, so that you can build up forces quicker, it's really handy! You'll notice a few Oil Derricks close to your base, capture them to give yoy extra cash. Build Sentry Guns around the Oil Rigs, so that they will be protected from any harm, especially engineer attacks. Start pass production of conscripts right now, we want a sizable force, and you'll see why when the end of the mission kicks in! Start making Rhino Heavy Tanks as fast as possible as well as extra War Miners ASAP! Once that's done, prepare your complete tank force, making sure there are at least 30 tanks. Train an Engineer and make him follow from a safe distance, while keeping him safe with some conscritps (train them aditionally). You'll come across some garrisoned buildings, full of GIs. Target each building with all your tanks, 'till it blows. Crush the GIs! Move further down the road, and destroy the Pillboxes stationed here. You'll see the base now. Fire your way through the defenders and destroy all the buildings except for the Battle Lab. Bring in the Engineer and capture the battle Lab, which will result in a timer starting. You now will have to dfend your bases from heavy assaults. Place a Barracks next to your Psychic Beacon and train Flak Troopers and Conscripts. I'd also advice you to make Sentry Guns and place them here aswell. A lot of Rocketeers and GIs, assisted by some tanks will attack you. Let the Flak Troopers take care of the Rokceteers whcih will go smoothly. Once that is done, let them help with the troops that give you a hard time. I'd say the infantry, as the Grizzly Battle Tanks should be taken care of by the Rhinos. at your original base, train some more conscripts and more Rhinos to help out, because there are a lot of Grizzlies coming here. Once the timer expires all the troops will turn mad and choose to join you, very nice isn't it? I got to hand it to Yuri, he's a real genious. By the way, the mission is acomplished now hehe. Mission 4: Home Front (man, they have taken that mission title from DS9!!! DAMN YOU WESTWOOD!!!) ------------------------ Briefing: Comrade, the Koreans have made an unexpected move. We knew they would be allying themsleves with the Americans, but attacking us in our own land! This is growing far faster than we thought it would. We have detected a large fleet of Korean ships moving to Wladivostok. It is our belief that they want to destroy the Soviet Union from the inside out. We must not allow this to happen, at all cost, stop them! They will without a doubt try to do a shore landing, we must destroy their base and wipe them off of Russian soil. I would've liked to send General Vladimir to do this task, but since he is Warhero, he needs some rest, and is off duty until further notice. You comrade, will take his job and destroy the Korean forces in the area, good luck. Main Objective: Find and destroy the Korean fleet and base completely. Walkthrough: Okay, quicly build up your base. Once you have built a War Factory, a message should come in from Luitenant Zofia, telling you about the new anti-armor unit, the Terror Drone. These will come in handy later, so train about 6 of them. Build LOTS of tanks right now, followed by a Naval Yard and a lot of submarines too. Scout out the map and build a Radar Tower to get a more clear view of the situation. Once the ten minute counter expires, Amphibious Tranpsorts will start there landing operation, and a lot of forces will start coming your way. Move your tanks forward, pushing back the invaders taking the Terror Drones with your forces. If you can make it through fast enough, you will be able to come right on time for the MCV to land. Send your Terror Drones to attack it, and if you were not too late, they will eat it up, and it's almost over for you. If you were too late, don't worry. Destroy the humble beginnings of the base, and you'll have the same result. Now, let your Subs sail out to see where the rest of the fleet is. Once you have found the destroyers, build a satisfying number of subs and destroy them! Once the Destroyers are finished, it's mission over for you. Here's an alternative way for the people who like to do missions slowly: Set up your base right away. Build defenses as soon as possible. Build Sentry Guns for the GIs that will come, and use Rhino Heavy Tanks to defend your base from the Grizzly assaults. Also, it is very important to have a bunch of Flak Cannons around. The Black Eagles of the Koreans can really annoy you. They mostly target your Power Plants, and if you don't have air defenses, they will actually destroy them! Okay. Build up your base with defenses, right? Now, build about 20 Rhino Heavy tanks to be sure the Grizzlies won't do you any harm. Build about 4 Sentry Guns to the position the enemy attacks, if you are not sure just build a lot of them around your base, they aren't too expensive. Once that is done, the ten minute counter should've expired already, and you'll get a "SAY YOUR PRAYERS" from the Korean Commander. He's a real lame guy, as he is so stupid thinking that we are just sitting there doing nothing! Also, a dozen of Terror Drones wouldn't hurt, they eat through infantry and destroy tanks quite nicely (well, that's where they were designed for). Once you have killed off their first wave of assaultance, the most noticible thing that they'll do, is send Blakc Eagles to attack you. In adition to the Flak Cannons, you can train some Flak Troopers to help out (if necesary of course). Once this is done, start mass production of Rhino Heavy Tanks imediately. Once you have an unbeatable force, move in for the kill. Once that is done, make sure you have a Naval Yard and start cranking out Submarines. Find and destroy the remenants of the Korean Fleet, and that's it for this stupid excuse for a mission (ahem!). Mission 5: City of Lights. -------------------------- Briefing: The Western Europeans have allied themselves and they have gathered their forces at the German-Polish border. It apears they are less cowardous than we thought. However, they made a big mistake in leaving the French capitol of Paris undefended, which we will attack without a doubt. you will start with a small but effective strike team, which will consist of Conscripts. Use good strategy to systematically destroy the Allied defenders. Secure the whole city, and once that is done, start moving your troops to the Pris Eifel Tower. Charge it with Tesla Troopers, and you will have a brand new Tesla Coil at your disposal. Destroy all the forces in Paris, and show the French how we handle our enemies! Main Objective: Destroy all forces in Paris, and charge up the Pris tower with three Tesla Troopers, so that you can help your strike team establish their goals. Walkthrough: You'll start out with a good number of Conscripts. Train about 10 more of them and join forces with your original group. The first threat that you'll encounter are a bunch of deployed GIs. Garrison all your soldiers in the nearby building and waste them. Don't worry, as there are more than enough buildings to place your people in. Note that your base was attacked in the first stage of the mission, but the GIs were wasted by a Tesla Coil (yiihaa!). Nest target is a bunch of GIs, acompanied by a Pillbox. Destroy both (shooting the Oil Barrels will help you, force attack on them to make destrouction even quicker!). If your building gets wasted, change house and continue the attack. (oh man, I miss my tanks!). Another few road blocks that need to be removed, that mostly consist of Pillboxes or GIs, or even some Grizzly Battle Tanks, which you can even destroy without garrisoning anything, just to make your Conscripts promoted! You should be able to secure a passage to an Oil Derrick. Train an Engineer, and capture it. Now you'll have a steady flow of credits. Garrison about 10 Conscripts in buildings by the Oil Derrick, because the AI will destroy it if you don't defend it. Train a LOT of Conscripts, about 20-30. You won't be in credit-need, so that problem si solved anyway. At some point, Crazy Ivan will show up and you'll be able to train those too. Also train about 10-20 Tesla Troopers and leave a few to overpower the Tesla Coil, which will come in handy later. Take the rest of your troops to join at the last target (near the Oil Derrick). You'll come across more Grizzly Battle Tanks and more Road Blocks! Destroy everything and make yourself a way to the Eifel Tower. Destroy all nearby direct foes, and then move in some Tesla Troopers. You'll know if you have not enough, because a cutscene will show a trooper ordering you to gather Tesla Troopers to charge up the tower. Once you have the tower, it will start firing at any nearby GIs/tanks. Once those are destroyed, pull everything back to your little foothold. You'll see a bunch of GIs and about 2 or 3 Grizzly Tanks attack your base, it all depends on how many units you killed. The overpowered Tesla Coil will take care nicely of every unit, but if something actually succeeds in destroying it, kill them with your Tesla Troopers and backup Conscripts. Once you have destroyed all Allied forces in paris, the mission will end! Romanov looks a little ill if you ask me, I'd advise some bedrest hehehehehehehehe. MAN! I really get the creeps of Yuri, I'd really like to put a bullet in his F*CKIN' head! Mission 6: Sub-Devide. ----------------------- Briefing: The Americans are bagging for mercy, as if we don't know they are stupid cowards, who will strike us if we grant them only a little bit of breevingroom. The Allies are desperately trying to sort things together, as their European allies are a little crippled at this moment, after our recent assault on Paris. We can still expect heavy resistance from Korea though, so stay alert. Today, you will have to destroy a fleet, stationed here in Pearl Harbor. We will do a shorelanding and build up our own navy, afterwhich we will destroy the Americans in their own wellknown harbor. Main Objective: Destroy the Allied fleet at Pearl Harbor, and watch out for any Korean interventions. Walkthrough: Saw those Apocalypse Tanks on the bridge in the scene? I only wished that they didn't stop the program! Seeing that helicopter go down with a few SAM hits from the tanks, would be real cool! Well yeah, shame for the violence- limits. Now, on with the mission, which is kind of easy. First off, look at the opening scene, where a bunch of transports come in to deliver the lead onboard. Some Conscript and stuff, together with an MCV. Deploy it and start building Tesla Reactor, Refinery, Barracks, Radar Tower, some Tesla Coils for defense. Since the last few missions, I really realized how good those overpowered Tesla Coils are. Train a bunch of Tesla Troopers. Overpower all the Tesla Coils that you build, aswell as building some extra Tesla Reactors. If you want, you can overpower these Reactors aswell, to make sure that you can place some more Tesla Coils without having to build more of those reactors. Now, build a Naval Yard, followed by a ton of Submarines. I'd say about 10 in the first stages will do. You might aswell build a few Sea Scorpions to quilcy scout out things. Once you have some recon data on the enemy base and fleet, sail around some more. Eventually, you'll get a Dreadnought reinforcements, consisting of two of these behemoths! Build some more Dreadnoughts, we'll use them later. From this mission on, the Allies can build their feared Prism Towers. It is best to stay out of range and bombard with your Dreadnoughts. Although there are one or two Cruisers in the emidiater area, together with some Patriot Missile Systems, one or two, or even more missiles will get through. they will destroy the Prism Towers without problem. Cover your Dreadnoughts with your subs and Scorpions to defend against Carriers and Destroyers. The Korean reinforcements should start to arrive about now, so start attacking them. They consist of some Destroyers and 2 Carriers. Take out the Destroyers first, together with your Dreadnoughts, start bombarding the Carriers. Destroy the whole fleet, and if it somehow doesn't work out, build more subs to finish off the job. This fleet is nothing compared to the complete Allied fleet at their base, so don't just feel good once you destroy the Korean fleet! Also, keep some Scorpions around at all times, because they will destroy all the enemy hornets (or at least most of them), so that your bigger ships together with your subs won't be harmed. Now, build a War Factory, we're going to do this my way! Build about 30 Rhino Heavy Tanks. Build 6 Amphibious Transports. Also, build one more transport, five Flak Tracks, and put them full of infantry. Stock up the Transport with everything that wants to enter it. Now, sail over everything, making sure the Prism Towers are destroyed. Avoid all ships and land your troops on the shore. Destroy all Pillboxes and Patriots, and let your Dreadnoughts help in destruction. Destroy all the units. Iredicate the whole base, take everything that remains back to your home base. Now that we won't have to worry about any shore defenses, start firing your dreadnought missiles at the ships. Build a lot more subs if you want, because we'll need them in a minute or two. Move your subs to all the cruisers and destroy them systematically. Once they are destroyed, let your Dreadnoughts do their magic. Let your Scormions destroy all attacking Hornets, or they'll mess up your Dreadnoughts, and, if they can detect them, your subs. Once you have destroyed all the ships that form the Allied fleet, the mission will be acomplished!!! Also, there is a money crate hidden in the waters, it might com in handy, especially when you're starting pumping out tanks and stuff! Mission 7: Chrono Defense. --------------------------- Briefing: Even as our victory is coming nearer and nearer, Premier Romanov has fallen ill, and has turned over command to his advisor Yuri. Not everybody is so happy about that, but it will have to do for the moment. Yuri's intel has become aware of Einstein's development project on the Chronosphere. It appears that a first Chronosphere is already constructed, before we could harm it. We have localized the Chronosphere's first target, it is in the Russians mountains of Ural. There's a small village nearby. Our main new research project is being completed there, the new Apocalypse Assault Tank. This is the most powerful and unstopable tank in the whole world. We can not allow to lose this research data, which will be vital in making our war effort much easier. Also, Einstein has been working on the new Allied tank, the Prism Tank. You are no doubtly familiar with the Prism Tower, which you have experienced in your last mission. You must not allow these Prism Tanks to destroy our Battle Lab in the area, or we will be doomed (especially if Einstein builds any more of this stuff). You, General, are being sent to the region and you will defend against all teleported attacks from the Allies. Good luck! Main Objective: Defend your Battle Lab at all cost, from all kinds of chronoshifted Allied Attacks. Walkthrough: Start off building Refinery, Radar Tower and a Barracks. First thing to do, is to build some Tesla Coils and overload them. Build more Tesla Reactors if necesary. Once that is done, start training a lot of Conscripts, and build a War Factory. Start mass production of Apocalypse Tanks. You should get message that an Allied Propaganda Truck is spreading capitalist information to the villagers nearby. Now, build two Flak Cannons. The first attack will arrive now, consisting of some IFVs, GIs and Rocketeers. you should take care of the IFVs with your Apocalypse Tanks, aswell as the GIs (they shouldn't form a big threat). The Flak Cannons will take care of the Rocketeers nicely. If they need some help, let the Apocalypse Tanks fire their SAMs at them. They can do both jobs simeltaniously, so that's pretty cool. Roll your tanks a little out of your base, and destroy the truck now, pick up the crate it leaves and return to base. The enemy Sniper they sent should died already, if he didn't, crush him with your tanks (literaly, just to a force- move over the Sniper, for those who don't know!). Keep Attack Dogs at your base at ALL TIMES! The enemy will try to infiltrate them in various buildings, your Radar or Power Plants mostly. Build some more Apocalypse Tanks. The second assault will be a little like the first one, but with no rocketeers if I remember correctly. Also, build aditional Flak units/structures to help in a few moments. The enemy often sends 4 Harriers to attack you. The assaults will start to get harder, they'll start to bring in Grizzlies and Prism Tanks. Watch out for these, as they can level your structures before you know where they are! Send a few Apocalypse Tanks to destroy them, and you'll be fine anyway. Now, you should get a few spare moments! Capture the Oil Derrick nearby, and destroy a little Allied foothold nearby, it's nothing heavy, just let the double-barreled tanks do the job, and you'll be fine. Now, the last assaults will start kicking in. A lot of Spies will start to come, but your dogs should be able to kill them. Once, my dog attacked him too late! He was just infiltrating the building when he performed his attack! Weird, but it happened. Also, more Prism Tanks will start coming, so watch your six there. Now, it is time to finish this. you'll get notified of the last Allied assault by Luitenant Zofia. More IFVs, Prism Tanks and a Sniper will come in. Kill them all, and watch as your Attack Dogs jump in the air of joy!!! WE HAVE WON, WE HAVE WON! Mission 8: Desecration. ------------------------ Briefing: General, I am sorry to report that Comrade General vladimir has turned on us. He has killed Premier romanov and has fleed to a for now unknown place. Oh, wait... We're getting transmission from our intle officiers. General Vladimir is belived to be in Washington DC, we belive he is in the White House, counting his last numbers. You are our only General that we can count on to do the job, go out there General, destroy the whole city if you must, but campture the White House and find General Vladimir. Yuri will take care of the rest. Now that we've lost Premier Romanov is dead, killed by the bastard General Vladimir, the difficult falls on Yuri's shoulders, to lead the soviet Union to its greatest victory in Soviet history, where Pother Russia will take the most of the credit. Oh, wait... receiving transmission from the Iraqi General. They say that their special Desolator troops will be at your disposal in this mission, they will kill all kinds of infantry for you, with their radiation spreading weapons, but our uneffected by the radiation themselves. Use them wisely General, they will be very handy in the heat of battle. One more thing. It is believed that General Vladimir is trying to convince american troops to join him and assault you. He does this by using a Psychic Beacon. Use caution, and destroy it as soon as you can, they wukk turn against Vladimir, but stay alert, as they may attack you aswell! Main Objective: Invade Washington and capture the White House. Walkthrough: Iemdiately start up your base using the normal techniques. You should be pretty familiar with the layout of the city (surely if oyou played the Allied Campaign), so you won't have too much trouble finding certain things. First things first. There'll be two waves of enemy Conscripts, brought in by Vladimir, who seems to be confident that you'll turn against Yuri (well, we don't have much of a choice for that matter, not yet anyway). Use your Desolators to kill them off quicly. Now, first thing you'll want to do is to build a bunch of Flak Cannons. Once you have both a War Factory and a Battle Lab, start mass production of the Apocalypse tanks. Vladimir sends ocasional assaults by V3 Rocket Launchers. The Desolators work very well against them (which surprised me at first, I didn't know they could kill them that quicly). Also, he'll send ocasional assaults by Tesla Troopers and Attack dogs. Again, your Desolators in guard mode will toast them, before they can even get a shot/bite off! Also, a few overloaded Tesla Coils wouldn't hurt, for the time when Vladimir's tanks try to punch through. Once you have about 5 Apocalypse Tanks ready for duty, let them destroy the first monument that you spot, because each time you destroy one, you get a cash bonus from Moscow! Nice huh? The Washington Monument also holds a promotion crate. Take it, and your tanks should go veteran. Now, slowly move forward, pushing through the White House. Also, send a Desolator with them, to quicly kill off Conscripts and such. You'll come across small footholds, protected by Sentry Guns. This is a good spot to get some fast promotion. You should try to get at least 2 Apocalypse Tanks Elite status, as those extra cannon shells really hurt the enemies you'll encounter. Your Desolator will get himself promoted quite quickly, as there are a lot of conscripts to kill, aswell as dogs and Tesla Troopers. You should get across more Sentry Guns. Destroy them systematically, aswell as the few tanks that may be here. Get yourself some extra promotion. Let the unpromoted tanks attack, so that they can gain experience (man, this game is getting a little RPG-ish, no offense, I love Diablo II! It's just weird for a C&C game). Oh and by the way, if defense isn't going really slick, just garrison a bunch of Conscripts in the houses by your base. Also, you might want to brake off course and snatch the few monuments with you, just for the cash and the rest of the crates that they leave behind. Now, we'll make some preparations for when the timeis right. Build a Flak Track and a Soviet Engineer, so that you won't have to wait until the slowpoke gets to the destination. Put the Engineer in the track and move him to a safe place. Also, you may have noticed that the ore fileds are running dry. Once that happens, your War Miner and Vladimir's one will start shooting at eachother, really funny to see! Okay, time to move further. Oh and, if you really want to get your last Veteran Apocalypse Tanks that little more points to become elite, target houses and destroy them. Each Civilian building is worth 5 points of experience. Now, it's time to move on to the dirtier work. MOve your tanks further, acompanied by the Desolator, unless he died underway hehe. Now, you should eventually come to a group of GIs starting to attack your tanks, right? Kill the GIs and destroy the Psychic Beacon, so that Vladimir's threat is finally completely neutralized... or almost neutralized. MOve further, and you'll come across another few Sentry Guns. Do the same, and keep your Desolator away from it. Now, the heavier things will start coming. enemy tanks will come as you come near the White House. It is protected by Tesla Coils, so you should watch your ass. Your Elite Apocalypse Tanks won't have that much trouble with it, it's just making sure you don't lose them. Once all enemy structures are out of the way, destroy that annoying War Miner, always shooting at yours! Once it is dead, claee the imediate area around the White House, and bring in the Flak Track and unload the Engineer. Direct him into the White House and the mission is over!!!!!!!!!! Comrade, don't listen to Yuri's lies! AAAAAAARRRGGHHHH! Oh man, I wish I could choose which path to folow! Mission 9: The Fox and the Hound. ---------------------------------- Briefing: General Vladimir has been taken care of, no worries comrade, you are free of harm. vladimir was almost succesful, with all the support he had gained. but now, we should return to our business, the thing we were suposed to do in the first place, tae care of President Dugan. We have been searching for him a long time, and finally, my sources have pinned him down. You are to imediately move to Texas. The Alamo is a fortified location in this town of the state of Texas, you are to infiltrate and mind-control president Dugan. We will send in heavy infantry assault, but with the new Prism Tower technology, the Allies may have a little advantage. Therefore, I send the best of my Psi-Corps Troopers with you, to make sure everything goes smoothly. I am confident that you will perform your duties splendedly. Main Objective: Get inside the Alamo and mind-control president Dugan of America. Walkthrough: Well, looks like things don't really go as planned. First, you see a lot of infantry getting dropped off in front ot the alamo, the Soviets wil try it this way, but unfortunately, there are not only Prism Towers. There are a bunch of SEALs in there, that will kill the Conscripts so fast they don't even realize it. In this town, the civilians are armed with very light pistols, Dugan should've given them at least an M4A1 or an M16, or at least a good pistol, but this is like the prehistoric version of the Windchester used by the Cowboy idiots! Of course, you can mind-control them, just have some fun, they have cool voicelines too. Let's get down to business. First things first, you imediately notice an IFV. Take it. Now, you may have noticed that frontal assault is lethal, to you that is. So, we'll have to find a sideroute. There is one of course, there's just one thing that can fail your mission: DOGS. If a dog gets to your Psi-Corps Troopers, consider yourself lost. anyways, avoid getting into the Prism Towers range, and ride around the Alamo, until you find a Fortress wall. blow that up, and you just found your little sideroute. Imediately pull your IFV back. Move your Yuris around until you find a Barracks guarded by 2 GIs. Mind-control one, and he will kill the other one (the 2nd GI should've realized too late what was happening, if not mind- control him). Use the Psychic wave on the GI you mind-controlled. Take the 2 Engineers and capture the Barracks and the Battle Lab. Now, train 15 GIs, and take them with your Psi Corpses at all time, just to make sure the dogs or any light resistance that comes to them is killed off. There's one more thing to do before we take on the Alamo. We need to capture the Airport, guarded by a few Pillboxes and a Patriot. Take your IFV, and find the tank and Sniper close to the Airport. Let the Sniper take care of all GIs in the area. Now, before you continue, there's a little something we need to do. You can kill all the dogs right now. Another thing you can do, is kill off all the SEALs, but I usually keep them alive, to play my sick game... anyways, with the forces you have right now, move towards the Pillboxes. Your IFV can take advantageof heights, so it can fire at the Pillox without getting fired at itself. Your IFV should be able to destroy at least one of them, the tank can take it from there. Once that is done, take care of that Patriot. Now, train one Engineer, and make sure he makes it to the Airport. Take it over, and you have free Conscripts throughout the mission. Now, it is time to make our first move. Get rid of the tank you have, we won't be needing him anymore, just let him get blasted by the Prism Towers. Now, you have 2 free Yuris to use. Send them to the sideroute you opened. Once a SEAL is in mind-control range, take him. The other one will see it and will start attacking. If your SEAL takes the other one out quicker, that's great. If his partner(s) kill him earlier, just take SEALs until you have one that is free of enemy attacks. You should have killed off the dogs by now right? Now, use the SEAL you have to destroy all Power Plants you can touch out of the range of towers. All those structures destroyed, you should have powered down the defenses. Now, don't destroy them, unless you black out the Alamo completely. If you do that without destroying all Power Plants, you might end up getting the rest of the online again, and we don't want that. Now, the rest of the mission is just mopping up. If there are any more SEALs, fight some more and mind- control some more. Once all of them are kiled, get rid of those Secret Service men. Once that is done, mind-control the President. Also, there is one thing you must take note of. In the Alamo, there are some more Grizzlies, but nothing too difficult for your GIs. Use your Conscripts you have at the Airport to help out if necesary, but I think that ain't a problem. Also, if all your Yuris are full (they are already mind-controlling a unit) and you want to get the President quicly, just use the Psychic Wave on the SEAL you have and you just have got yourself a free Yuri. This mission can be aproached in a lot of ways, be sure to try your own strategy, I found this a very interesting "Secret mission" although I don't like most of them. Mission 10: Weathered Alliance. ------------------------------- Briefing: Comrade. i'm glad you were succesful in St. Antonio, the Americans are now at our grasp. There are only a few more threazts to take care off. We will start by taking out the most dangerous one imediately. The new techonology I'm taling about, is the Weather Control Device. It is a very complicated device, but very destructive, and when used properly, we might just lose this war, because of their ability to strike everywhere. =this Weather Control Device, can create huge Lightning Storms from nowhere. These storms are very deadly when used in big cities, and that's just what the americans hope to do, strike directly in cities like Moscow. You will swiftly move with a small taskforce to the allied base in the Virgin Islands. Beware, the Allies have a big fleet and are heavily defended. Quicly build a naval base and destroy the Allied presence. There are a few things you should do however. To spare us the time to scout the whole area for the Weather Control Device, you will infiltrate the allied Battle Lab in the area, and you will have obtained the location of this monstrous weapon of mass destruction. Get out there comrade, the Russian people count on you to save their home land. Main Objective: Infiltrate the American Battle Lab and destroy the Weather Control Device. Walkthrough: The good thing about this mission is that you can directly punch down a few Tesla coils, and you'll be happy with those. anyways, find a suitable place for your MCV and deploy it. Build a REfinery and a Tesla Coil while you're busy. Once both are ready, deploy and build 2 Tesla Reactors. Build a Barracks, 3 Flak Cannons, a War Factory, some Rhino Heavy Tanks and a few flak Tracks wouldn't hurt too. Build another 2 Tesla Coils, giving them some more power too of course. Now, you should have some spare time to build units. Train Tesla Troopers to overload the Tesla coils, better more power than no power right? Now, build a Battle Lab, and now start building a lot of Apocalypse Tanks. Build about 15 if you can. Now, the Allies are heavily fortified, so the first thing you'll want to do, is place some shore defenses, in the form of units or structures, it doesn't really matter, now that you have those Apcalypses, you could just place them there for the moment. Build a Service Depot and a Naval Yard. Now, start building a lot of subs and some Sea Scorpions. Once these are built, build about 3 Dreadnoughts. Before I forget, besure you have at least 5 War Miners working and moreif you wish, you never have enough cash, especially as soviets. Once you have some ships, take a Scorpion to your east. Search for a small island with a Tech Building, it's an Outpost. Captuer that one and place a Refinery there too. Now, take a Transport and take 2 War Miners to that island, because you have gems there (more valuable), and it's full of them! You'll now have 3 War Miners at the small island, and 3 War Miners at your original base. You can set up a Barracks at your Outpost and make some Flak Cannons and Conscripts +flak Troopers there, to ward off light allied assaults. In fact, you can take all your War Miners to this island, because there aren't really big amounts of resources. for wat you need to be concerned of, there isn't that much trouble with the allies. They attack sometimes, but not heavy enough to really trouble you (that was my experience anyway). They will basically use GIs and tanks at first, but also naval assault can happen, be sure that you're ready at all cost. The sub/sea scorpion method works more than wonders here! Just watch out for Dolphins, they can be a pain in the arse to some players. If you want, you can start building a nuke silo right now, to take care of the Weather Control Device quicly, or you can do it the hard way. Now we're going to split up: 1. You take the easy way, and it's quite easy once you've destroyed the american defenders at the Battle Lab. First things first, make sure you have a lot of Dreadnoughts and subs +sea scorpion escort; Now, build four Amphibious Transports and put in those Apocalypse Tanks you readied earlier, you'll be able to take about 8 with you. Build a fifth transport and put Flak Tracks with infantry in them, making sure it has at least one engineer in it. Now, start omving your fleet to the enemy island where the Battle Labis located. There'll be quite a nice amount of sips in there. However, almost nothing will be able to stop you, due to your perfect balance of ships. Your Sea Scorpions should just destroy the ASW helicopters when they take off to attack subs. The Aircraft Carriers won't be able to do anything wrong aswell, because their Hornets will be slaughtered like sweet patatoes. Don't bother targetting any cruisers until everything else is destroyed. Once all ships are destroyed, take care of those Naval Yards imediately! Use your Dreadnoughts to make the destruction quick & heavy. NOw, Take our Dreadnoughts, andlet them target one defensive structure at once, so that even those Patriots can't really stop them from destroying the Prism Towers. However, I'd target the Barracks first. We can't allow them to train too many SEALs, the Sea Scorpions can take care of them, but you can also bring a few squids along if you like, it's all your choice. Anyway, once the Barracks and the Prism Towers are destroyed, move in all your Transports, Apocalypse Tanks first. Let them destroy all enemy units and structures except for the Battle Lab. Take your Engineer inside the building, and you'll get the location of the Weather Control Device. Now, the trick is, that since you have built your nuke silo already, the nuke should be ready right now, so just target the Weather Control Device and kill it! Mission Acomplished. (Note: if you can't destroy all the Prism Towers, use V3 rocket Launchers, protect them well please!) 2. You aren't such a coward to use nukes, you want to sacrifice blood? That's the spirit, kcik them where it hurts. you shouldn't leave anything standing. Instead of building a nuke silo, invest in more Apocalypse Tanks and Dreadnoughts and subs. Try to have at least 20 subs with 10 Sea Scorpions as escort, and maybe 8 Dreadnoughts or more, it's all up to you. Just make sure you have enough. Once you are ready, move all your ships to the enemy fleet. Give some building orders right now. Order 10 Amphibious transports and one Flak Track and Engineer or just the Engineer. While building is busy, move your ships to the enemy island where the American Battle Lab is stationed. Keep your Dreadnoughts a little behind he other vessels. Oh yeah, I would take a few Squids along, not for the ships but for the SEALs, Squids love SEALs who dear to swim. Primary target for your Dreadnoughts is the Naval Base here. Destroy the 2 Naval Yards right where they are. Any Cruisers in the area will try to hold off your missiles, but if you have that many missiles, they don't have a big chance of stopping them all. I think the best thing to do, is to target Destroyers first, then Cruisers and just then target the Carriers. With all those Scorpions, the Carriers shouldn't be able to do any damage to your fleet, so take advantage fo that. Once all their Naval power has been destroyed here, start the shore bombardment. Target defenses like Pillboxes and Prism Towers. Take care of any concentrated infantry with your missiles aswell. Once all defenses that pose a threat to ground forces are destroyed, move your transports. Do a shorelanding and start moving your Apocalypse Tanks in. I'd try and capture a Barracks first. If you didn't destroy that already, capture it and make some more Engieners, and grab the War Factory nearby and the Battle Lab. Your Apocalypse Tanks will mainly serve as cover against enemy units, they'll perform that job nicely. Once you've captured everything, place your own War Factory there. Start cranking out Apocalypse Tanks here, aswell as some V3 Rocket Launchers. Build some Tesla Coils to ward off imediate assaults. taht's it for this part of the map. The map should've reshaped to show the location of the Weather Control Device right? Well, since we don't have a nuke silo ready yet, it would be suicide to build one, because of that Weather Storm. Reinforcements should come from your Naval Yard, os start pumping out lotsof subs and Scorpions again, and build at least 7 extra Dreadnoughts. Now, there's an imense Allied Base here, which is another Naval base. It is heavily fortified, and I found it to be qite suicide to try a shore landing with Apocalypse tanks, so we'll just destroy it from the seas. It should be to the northern side of the battlefield. Sail everything to that location and when you arrive, fight off any ships you can see. Once your Scorpions and Subs are fighting the allied navy, tell your Dreadnoughts to start attacking the Naval Yard here. Get rid of that (you shouldn't have any problem with that much Dreadnoughts). Once all the ships are destroyed, Select your Dreadnoughts and tell them to attack Power Plants. Completely shut down the darn thing. Once all the Power Plants you can hit are destroyed, bring in some engineers, and start taking over stuff you can. Order your ships to move further across the edge of the island you were just attacking, and scout until you can get rid of that Weather Control Device. Select all your Dreadnoughts and tell them to all attack the Weather Control Device at once. That many missiles should be difficult to defend against. Once the Weather control Device is destroyed, your mission is complete. Good work Comrade, it is now time to see Yuri in the Kremlin, he has some special plans for you... Mission 11: Red Revolution. (I like the sound of that!) ---------------------------- Briefing: Comrade, another terrible tragedy has happened in our war effort. You were to rendezvous withYuri in the Kremlin, but it would appear that we are all pawns in Yuris little game. You must at al cost stop him from deluding the whole russian population. He has fortified himself in Moscow, with all the soldiers there at his command. Moscow is a lot harder to attack than Washington DC, that was actually destroyed alrready. Yuri has set up powerul defensive positions, including Tesla Coils and his best tanks. If you are to succeed, you will want to use our new developed technology: the Kirov Airship. It has incredible strength and has an imense payload, but that comes at a cost of speed. A small price to pay if well-used... Corade, go to Moscow, rip through its defenses and DESTROY THE KREMLING. Show Yuri the Russian rule about trators, burn him alive in the hell of the Kremlin. Main Objective: Plain and simple: Destroy the Kremling with Yuri in it of course. Walkthrough: Many people find this the most difficult mission of the Soviet campaign, some even claim it is the hardest of the game. If perosnally find it not too hard, there are just a few rules you should take note of: - If you see a relatively lightly defended installation of the enemy, and there are capturable buildings (almost always the case), take it over and place heavy defenses. - DO NOT USE THE NUKE SILO. IT IS FAR TOO EXPENSIVE AND THERE IS HIGH RISK OF BEING KILLED OFF BY THE KIROVS. - Build a Nuclear Reactor, it will make defending your base a lot cheaper. - Take Oil Derricks. there's one a few of them in Moscow, just try to hold them as long as possible. - In the final assault, use Kirov Airships. What concerning the enemy resistance? Well, I think they aren't too tough. There's one very good defensive spot, it's by an Oil Derrick. It has light defenses and some Tesla Reactors to capture. You can either use an Apocalypse Rush, but I'd suggest using your Kirovs, so you get that thing early on and you can start placing defenses right away. Once you have this installation, place a Barracks in there, train some Tesla Troopers and place a lot of Tesla Coils. Send some flak Tracks to take out any V3 Rockets that come your way, and you might consider placing some Flak Cannons too. Once the Tesla Coils are all online, overload them all with your Tesla Troopers. This will make your defensive capability even bigger. Once you have all your main structures up, build the Nuclear Reactor, not the Silo you silly! Once you have a Reactor, you won't really have to worry about power anymore. Once all your territory is heavily defended, build a lot of Airships. Build 10 and start building another ten if your fist attack somehow fails. Just move forward straight through the Kremlin. Be a little patient, the way is long and with Airships you'll do very long before you reach the enemy base. Don't even think about using a tank rush, all that money will be thrown into the sewers beneath Moscow (pfffftttiojosqmfoiezahtu, woops sorry). The Kremlin is an easy target for Kirov Airships, because all structures are. For the people who are so stubern that they want to nuke the Kremlin, well first off it is heavily "armored" because it takes 2 nukes to fully destroy it, and secondly, Yuri sends constant bombardment with his Kirovs. The only thing you could possibly do is place so much Flak that the Kirovs just can't get through. Apocalypse Tanks can ehlp heaps here too, as their missiles are much more effective against Kirovs than Flak is (just like with the Allies). Once the nuke silo is ready to place, make sure everything checks out and all your flak/missiles are in position, then put it down. This is where the Nuclear Reactor is truly needed, because you can't just waste all that money on Tesla Reactors, that would be just crazy. Once the first nuke is ready, FIRE IMEDIATELY! Don't take our time to watch those Zeplins come to you, just bomb the whole thing! Once done, it's another imensily long 10 minutes before the mission is over. Just make sure your Missile Silo survives and you launch the nuke, everything else is put at stake for mother Russia!!!! That's the hard part about this misison, the rest is just plain and easy. so, the main things for this mission are: - Good defensive power (MOST IMPORTANT!) - Money to build Kirovs (from the Derricks mostly) Mission 12: Polar Storm ------------------------ Briefing: The Allies are basically lost. They have lost America to us and the only thing that is still a remarkable threat is the Chronosphere in the Artics. You are to enter the area and destroy the Allied base, and most importantly destroy the last Chronosphere, which can send endless reinforcement around the world. If you fail, the allies can redeploy bases in key strongholds around the world and they may pose a threat to the Soviet Union. Destroy them Comrade, you've shown great effieciency in the filed, and we are sure you can handle this aswell. Oh yes, and don't worry about Yuri, I think The Kremlin destroyed, you won't have anymore trouble from this geek... Main Objective: Destroy the Allied chronosphere in the area. Walkthrough: The thing I really like about the Soviet Camaign is that there are so many naval missions, I only wish the Allies had so many missions, or the Soviets should've received Kusnetsov Aircraft Carriers or somethin', than they could launch SU-27s and such... Anyways, this is another "Attack by Navy" mission, and I LOVE IT! You start with a little the same setup as in mission 10, which means you can build Tesla Coils. Make sure you have a Refinery and mienr working right away, and then start building your base. Once you have your War Factory, build some Rhino Heavy Tanks and some Flak tracks. Also build some Tesla Coils, Conscripts and extra Miners. The allies will make good use of their Chronosphere, they'll send in small attacks, including tanks, Rocketeers an Aircraft Carrier, and most deadly in my opinion, a squad of SEALs. Use a tank to crush them, and make sure you don't have any valuable structures in the area. you may want to replay this mission after your first try, so you know where the Allies attack, this time no randomness. The Tanks will also take good care of Chronoshifted IFVs. Once you get a Battle Lab up, start building some Apocalypse Tanks, and when you have at least 5, you have just assured you have good defense for the time being. Build a Naval Shipyard and start building subs and Sea Scorpions. I only wish there was more resistance from the enemy navy, it's quite flimsy compared to mission 10. You won't need such a big fleet to destroy the resistance. Bring a few Dreadnoughts along to destroy the Naval Yards. That's one threat out of the way, now let's see what we can do about that fortification right here. Build as many Dreadnoughts as your people can manage. I'd say at least 10, and build more for the future assault on the Chronosphere. Once your Dreadnoughts are on their way, start mass- production of Apocalypse Tanks. Don't worry about time here, as long as your base is secure, you can do anything you want. Once you have a good amount of apocalypse Tanks, build Transports to carry them over. Once you can bring over a pack, bring in the Dreadnoughts. Bombard everything in sight. There'll be a lot of Prism Towers here, so make sure you destroy as many as you can hit from the shore. Something that I would recommend for you, is a transport full of V3 Rocket Launchers, and let the transport return to pick up some more. They'll help greatly to destroy the enemy Prism towers without getting in close and personal. I'd bring in a Transport with some Engineers to capture structures right now. W'll need an outpost here so that we can attack the enemy with groundforces from here. Be sure to capture the War Factory, Air Foce command would be nice, and a Barracks too. Start placing heavy defenses here, and sail over all those a^pcalypse Tanks right now, we'll need them in a moment. Now, the enemy will send armored units to attack your outpost (IFVs or something else), but with Apocalypse Tanks you can't lose at all. Start cranking out Apocalypse tanks and place a Refinery there if you feel like it. Now, the most important thing to do in this mission, is to build a Nuke Silo. Build it right away, build it at your main base or outpost, it doesn't really matter, maybe safer in the Main Base. Once ready, don't stop building tanks and GIs if you have acces to them, they are great defense units! Once your nuke is ready, wait to fire until you've confirmed the target. Take your Dreadnoughts and let them go across the island to find the HEAVILY defended Chronosphere. Oh and btw, there's also an Airport here that you can capture, and it gives you Kirov reinforcement, but that all matters what path you take. Anyways, once you've spotted the enemy defenders, see what your Dreadnoughts can do about those Prism towers (probably not all that much). If not, shoot the nuke right away. I'd target the Patriot missiles right now, and try to destroy as many as possible, we'll bombard the Prism towers with our Dreadnoughts. Slowly move your Apocalypse Tanks forward to the enemy settlement. Destroy any oposition you may encounter. Once you reach the defenses, stay out of range for the moment, and see how many Prism Towers are left. If they are still shere in numbers, wait for your Dreandoughts to inflict more damage, and once the nuke is ready fir it at the defenders again (the Chronosphere is too strong to die from it). The point of this tactic is: Once enough or all Prism Towers are destroyed, move in all your tanks and target the Chronosphere with all your units, it will be destroyed in one big blow! that's it. However, there's another way to complete tis mission, and I feel Westwood tries to influence you to do it that way... Hmmmm. Well , basically it goes like this: Do the same as above in the beginning but build 2 Kirov airships aswell. Once those and all your ships are ready, go and attack the enemy fortificationn on the shore. Let your Dreadnoughts destroy the Naval Yards and then target all the Patriot sites that you can hit. We want to make a passage for our Korvs. Destroy everything that looks like a defensive structure, and you should get elite Kirovs pretty fast. Once you've cleared the enemy defenses, bring in tanks and engineers to capture the base. Place a REfinery and build miners here (Chrono Miners???) and build more Kirovs, aswell as a nuke silo. Let your Dreadnoughts take out everything they can and nuke the Patriots! Go to the Airporton the Island and receive some more Kirovs. Once most/all of the Patriots are destroyed move in your Kirovs. Let them destroy all the Prism Towers first, so you get elite Kirovs (for those who weren't already) and then target the Chronosphere. With all those bombs, it won't stand a chance. Voil…! That's it! You've just beaten the Soviet Campaign! Enjoy your well-earned movies. Ene Of Walkthrough. -------------------------------------- 11.2. Readers Walkthroughs --------------------------- 11.2.1. Scott Batass Walkthroughs (anybody else interested in joining the list? I bet you do.) -------------------------------------- Mission #1 Grab Tanya make her unit 1, kill boats. Duh Have Tanya help kill the Conscripts. Then have her stand there and kill the new batch of Conscripts that are being air dropped. Keep the GI's deployed. After the conscripts are dead make the GI's unit 2 and undeploy them move Tanya and the GI's to the left, following the bridge. Then have Tanya move up and to the right. Help the to GI's by killing the conscripts then move her up and to the left. You should find a crate. Grab it. As this is going on, move your GI's from unit 2 to your 2 new GI's. Make them one unit and move them up and to the right till you find a McBuger Kong. As this is happening move Tanya to the right and up till you find another crate. Grab it and move to the McBuger Kong. Have your GI's go into the McBuger Kong, then into the gas station to the right of it. Leave them there and any conscripts that are air dropped there will die. Now have Tanya goto the Fort. As soon as it becomes yours send the attack dogs to where the Soviets drop there troops, just to make sure your chrono harvester will not come under attack. Then build a barracks. When the barracks comes online, train two engineers, then 15 GI's. Have the first engineer fix the bridge. Then move Tanya across and kill any troops in your way. Shoot the barrels, then move toward the warehouse. Leave the sentry guns alone. Use Tanya to clean out a path to the Soviet war factory and the bottom left of the base. Send in your engineer to one of them, take it over. Use your GI's to kill the V3 rocket launches, all that you can. After you take over the war factory, build tanks. Use attest 2 to 3 tank and destroy the guns. When they are gone, kill the last V3, then have Tanya destroy the base. #2 Have Tanya kill the conscripts. DO NOT PICK UP THE CRATE!!!!!! When the rocketeers show up, move them to the far bottom left of the map. There you will find two more. Then move them to the top let of the map. Kill the 3 conscripts and the attack dog. Move Tanya and crew to pick up the crate. It's money. Move the rocketeers to the top right of the map. After Tanya and co pick up the crate, move them to the top right of the map. As they are moving, move the rocketeers down and find an ore patch. Have them kill the ore miners there. Then move them down to find some conscripts and a tank. Kill them. Move Tanya to the ore patch, then down to the lake. Do not run it to the sentry gun. Have her swim across the lake, kill the lone conscript, then move her into the base to destroy the flack guns. After the flack guns are gone, move in the rocketeers to destroy the sentry guns and guard house. Don't let them shoot the base. Move in the rest of your troops, and as the engineers are being paradroped, start taking bake your base. Build a power plant, 4 chrono mines, and 15 rocketeers. After the miners are built, start building tanks. Lots of them. When you have 20-25 tanks, group them into a group and move them move them back to the starting point. Grab the crate. Remember to keep building tanks. :) Then move the tanks the right. You will find a group of three trucks. Destroy them and pick up the crates. Move them to the right again, up till you get to the far side of the Soviet base. You should find a group of barrels next to the wall. Stay there. Move your rocketeers down till you find an ore patch that the Soviets are using to mine. Kill the miners. Back to the tanks. Shoot the barrels. Move in and destroy the MCV, them the power plants. Then move in your rocketeers and kill everything. #3 Build a power plant. Garrison the building next to the bridge. Then move the rest of your GI's to the next bridge and garrison the building next to it. Build a barracks. Train 3 engineers and fix the three buildings that you sent GI's into. Build an ore refinery, then a war factory. Build 5 chrono harvesters. As the harvesters are building, train 20 rocketeers. When they are built, use them to shoot up anything that comes at you. Build an Airforce Command Center. Start building about 25-30 tanks, followed up by 20 IFV's. As the IFV's are building, train 15 GI's and 5 engineers. Use them to fill up your IFV's. Scout out the Soviet base with the rocketeers. See the Soviet barracks. When your ground troops are ready, you need to grab it. All of the other buildings would not hurt too. If you grab the Soviet barracks, train 15 Tesla troops and build 15 IFV's. Fill the IFV's with the TT's. Otherwise build tanks, lots of them. If you can use Soviet tanks do so. Go past Washington Monument to the red Soviet base. Shoot a path though to the Psi Beacon. Kill it. Have fun. :) #4 Let the Rocketeers destroy the cannons. Move the Destroyers into the bay to clean out a spot to land your troops. Be on the look out for subs. Deploy your Mcv, and use your ground troops to kill anything that shoots at you. Try to take over as much of the Soviet stuff as you can. Build as normal, and build attest 4 miners. Now there are two ways two do this. #1 Build lots of tanks, move over the bridge to the right. You will see the target. Kill it. #2 Build Destroyers, go up the river. Kill subs and flack tracks and guns. Find target. Kill. Mission #5 Battle Lab part: Disguise your spies. Move Tanya up and to the left. BABY STEPS! Let her shot anyone that comes in here way. Go as far as the barrels next to the fence with the cows. Save the cows the go to the right. You will find a farm with barrels next to it. Go right down and follow the road. After the Tesla Trooper the road will end. Still go that direction and you will find some GI's. Go up and follow the terrain till you wind up at a Tesla Coil that you can destroy by shooting the barrels. Go into the base watch out for Tesla Coils, and you will end up at another Tesla Coil that you can destroy by shooting the barrels. Make sure to kill all of the attack dogs. You should have killed all of the attack dogs by now, so it is now safe to move your spies into the base. Move one spy into a Tesla Reactor and then have Tanya destroy the 3 tesla coils at the top of the base. Then do the same again, and destroy the one at the bottom of the base. Now before you send your last spy into the Battle Lab, send Tanya to the barracks at the middle right side of the base. You will see barrels. Shoot them and then wall through the opening. Follow the path to the south and you will run into 2 engineers and some GI's. Have one of the engineers take over the barracks, the other take over the war factory. Build 2 more engineers and take over a tesla reactor and an ore refinery. Then build 2 ore harvesters, then 3 more engineers, then start cranking out tanks. LOTS OF THEM! Send spy into battle lab. As Tanya goes through her thing, go down to were you first started to grab your new set of spies. Nuke base #1. After the map resizes, send Tanya up, following the road. Make sure you disguise your spies as the new area has different color men. Kill everyone that gets in your path. After you find the opening and see the Tesla Coils, got to the left following the wall of nuke base #1. You will see some barrels. Shoot them. You can now go into the base. You will see another tesla coil, but this one has barrels. There are also barrels next to the wall around the nuke silo. Shoot both. Go in and destroy the silo. After you know that you have killed all of the attack dogs in nuke base #1, send in the spies. Take down the power and destroy the remaining tesla coils. Send in your engineers and take over one war factory, one barracks, and one ore refinery. Move your tanks up to the base. Nuke base #2 Move your tanks up and to the left. There is a road to follow, so that should help. You should run into 2 tesla coils at the front of the base. Now take Tanya and go in the back way. hehehehe. Follow the river down and to the right, the hug the ridge that the silo is setting on. You should run into a farm. Follow that path up, kill everyone that gets in your way, and you should see a fence on you left. Kill the guards and shoot the barrels and you will get one grizzly tank at sarge and some more GI's. Then take Tanya to the wall and follow it up. Go past the barrels to the opening. Walk in and start shooting. Now take the grizzly and shoot the barrels. Go in and shoot the telsa reactor. Now remember your fleet of Soviet tanks. Move them all in to the base, destroying all of the tesla coils that get in your way. Go and don't stop till you shoot the nuke silo. mission #6 Make sure to move your transports to the back of the Pentagon, and to fix your base defenses as needed. Deploy MCV. Build barrack, then ore plant, then war factory, then repair bay, then Airforce Command Center. If you feel you must, build a battle lab. You are going to want to place GI's around the Pentagon. Look at were the first Soviet attack happened. Place GI's in the hole in the wall they made, and to the upperleft all the way to the water in a line. You are also going to want to place them down right from the hole, along the ore patch. This will stop tanks, infantry, and terror drones. Start small, work your way up. Also, attack dogs and rocketeers work go as well. The dogs help weed out the conscripts and the rocketeers are good for helping to stop tanks and killing V3's. Place the GI's from your landing party in the buildings behind the Pentagon. They will help to stop Soviet forces from getting to you from behind. But it will not work forever. Add a group of at lest 15 GI's to the back, deployed. Place power plant along the far right wall going down till you can put static defenses in the hole that the Soviets made. You are going to need at lest 3 more Patriots, 4 more pill boxes, and 2 more Prism towers. Place as needed. If you can, put a power plant down were you can put pill boxes near the ore patch. This well help to stop terror drones from getting to your harvesters. Have your harvesters mine ore from around the Pentagon first. It's easier to defend them. When you think you have the Pentagon guarded well, train about 20 GI's and 1 engineer. Walk them up the coast, till you find a hospital and a bridge. Have the GI's deploy at the mouth of the bridge, and take the hospital. Build a barrack, war factory, and service depot and place them next to it. Build rocketeers and more GI's to watch the bridge. When that is over, build about 30 tanks and 15 IFV - GI combos. Kick butt. You may also want to build 5 IFV- engineer combos. Attack over any of the bridges, but I find it easier to go to the top one and then attack. Repair monuments for more money as need. If you can, try to grab a Soviet barracks to do the IFV- Tesla Trooper combo, it will make taking out the next base that much easier. Taking out construction yard, war factory, and barracks will sometimes make the Soviet force in question quit. mission #7 Start by building 4 chrono miners, 10 destroyers, and lots of GI. Your going to need them to the left of your barracks at the foot of the hill to stop tanks. At the left again of your barracks along the coast to stop them. In the houses next to your naval yard to stop them. At the ore patch to the upper right of your naval yard. At the lighthouse on the upper part of you island. And at the McBuger Kong. You may need to add 2-3 IFV GI combos to help at the ore patch. After all of that, train 5 rocketeers to help were needed. You are going to need to build destroyers fast to stop the Soviet navy. After that, build at lest 10 destroyers and 6 Aircraft Carriers. Move them to the far lower left of the map, then up to the Soviet base. If you are fast, you can get there before the nuke silo is built. After the first wave of your navy is up and running, build 2 carriers to ever 1 destroyer, and set the rally point to the Soviet base. Take out the nuke silo first with the carriers, having the destroyers attack any ships that attack you. Then go after it's naval yard, power, and construction. Take out any mobile flack you can with the destroyers. Then go after it's barracks, war factory, and second naval yard. If you knock out all of those and most of it's power so that it's flack cannons are off line (look at the tesla coils ), the computer will fold up shop and quit. You win. mission #8 Move Tanya and crew down left till you find the Arc. Garrison it. Move Tanya and the Engineers down left again till you find an ore refinery and a war factory. Send the engineers in. Going into the war factory will give you a time bonus. Build 1 chrono miner, 1 IFV, and 2 tanks. Put Tanya into the IFV. Move the tanks up right till you get to the back of the stadium. Use them to destroy at lest one of the Tesla reactors. Use the IFV to kill any troops that get in your way. Then move it up the side of the stadium till you see the barrels. Shoot them, then move Tanya in to take out the rest of the Tesla reactors. Then after the power is down, destroy the psi thing. Grab crate and then send her back into the IFV. Drive the IFV and the tanks back to the arc, were there will be tanks, GI's, a MCV, and transports. Grab the crate in front of the arc, and deploy your MCV. It's a good idea to sell of the ore refinery and war factory you picked up. One shoot to the barrels next to them and they are gone. Build as normal, your know. Power as needed, refinery at lest two, barracks, war factory two is helpful, Airforce command center, battle lab. You will need Patriots, pill boxes, and Prism towers. Place them were you need them. Rocketeers also help, as you can destroy the V3's, and pick off anything you can with them. I use about 7- 10 of them for this mission. You will need Prism tanks for this level, and about 20 is a good number to attack the soviets. After you have that many, go ahead and attack. Make sure to use there range to your advantage, and the fact that they can shoot over walls. That should be about it. Mission #9 Too me this is one of the most fun of all of the levels. It will teach you how to use the S.E.A.L.s. When you use them, try to think like them. No less then 2 in a group, and cover yourself at all times. Move the 5 seals to the left, so that you can free the local units. Some GI's and 2 grizzly tanks. After you do that, a helicopter will show up with 5 engineers in it. Put them back into it. Take one seal and have him watch the right side of the village, and one of the left, with one watching the back. Move the tanks to the left. Send two seals and the chopter to the upper left of the map. There you will find a tech airport. Take it. Move the GI's to it on deploy them so that no soviet engineers can retake it. The first wave of airborne you get should also be dropped there. As you are waiting for that, put one seal into the choper with the 4 engineers and move it the far upper right, then the lower right of the map. When you have your second wave of airborne, move the helicopter to the coast of the back entrance of the base. Drop off the seal, repack the engineers and send the copter back over the water. Drop the airborne next to the seal. You will use the GI's to take on armored units so that they will not take out your seal. Now move the unit up and around following the cliff. You will be able to sneak the seal into the base around the wall that way. From a safe distance, shoot the barrels to destroy the telsa reactor and the wall. Then move down to destroy the next reactor. Watch out for tanks and flack tracks. If they show up use the GI's to take them out. Now move up the right side of the base till you find more reactors. Take them out. Now you can go on One of two ways. You can destroy the base with seal, or you can take it over. Ether way, use the Blackhawk to take out the sentry guns, The GI's to take out armored units, and the Seal for troops and buildings. When you take over the soviet prism tower or destroy them, you will get 2 Seals and 1 engineer airdrop to you. And do not forget to drop your airborne as soon as you get them. If you take over the base, I recommend starting with the construction yard. It's always been easier for me to start there. Also when the power is out, you can move you other 3 seals and your two grizzly tanks down to help. A small note. I know on earlier levels I left out crates. I never need them. All of the par times for the walkthroughs so far that I have give you for me have been no more then half of the time given. Some of the later missions (10 and 11) were par times at about one forth of the given times. hehehehe Mission 10 Start by building an ore refinery, 15 GI's, 5 grizzly tanks, a prism tower, and move your MCV to Einstein's base. The Soviets will hit you hard, so use your tanks as needed, deploy GI's as needed, and build whatever defenses you can. At lest 2 towers, 3 pill boxes, and 2 Patriots are needed. After you have fought off the soviet forces, start building chrono miners. You'll need about 4 or 5. Deploy the MCV next to his base. You'll want to build your battle lab and ore purifier next to his base. You may also want to ring his base with power plants, so that you can build defenses around his base. You may also want to build an ore refinery, barracks, and war factory at his base. 4 to 6 prism towers at the front, and a ring of patriots will do the job. If you hit the soviet forces that are trying to get to his base hard, the cpu will think twice about attacking back. When you can, build a spy sat uplink and 4 spies. Look for the base that has a conscript just standing there, then disguise your men and move in. Grab money, promotions for the units you build, and the psi commando. Now for thing on the map that will help you. Above his base is a tech outpost, above that is a crate with money. You will need a SEAL to get it. Below your main base is a burning ore refinery. Send in an engineer to fix it and it's yours. It will then spit out a crate. Grab it and it will become a free chrono miner. Now you can destroy the soviets in one of two ways. Way one Build about 3 to 10 IFV engineer combos. Build 20 to 40 mirage tanks. Goto one of the soviet bases on the side, and take everything you can. Have fun rolling over the rest of them with there own units, or any combo of units you might like to do. Crazy Ivan and the IFV makes nuke demo trucks. EVIL! Way two Build a butt load of prism tanks, and kill kill kill. They should only last about 10 minutes. Oh just one more thing. Watch the cinema and take this mission personally. It helps. Mission #11 DO NOT BUILD THE CHRONO SPHERE TILL THE NUKE SILOS COME ONLINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do the following as soon as you can! Build a barracks and place it next to the ore refinery to the north. Pump out 1 SEAL and 15 GI's asap! Build 5 destroyers, and move 2 of your flipper to just below your Airforce command center. Build a war factory. As soon as it's up build 5 grizzly tanks, then 5 chrono miners. When the tanks are up and running, go after the building to the right of your ore refinery at your main base and destroy the building that has soviet conscripts garrisoning it. Then fix it and garrison it your self. You are also going to want to build 3 to 6 mirage tanks and place them around the bridge. Build at lest 2, I do 3, patriots and place them around your Airforce command center. Move some GI's from you base and place them near your ore refinery in your main base. Build GI's at your second barracks, the one to the North, and garrison at lest three buildings. One near the bridge, and two so that paradroped soviets will be killed. Build 2 prism towers and put them at the ore refinery to the North, facing the water. They will stop some of the soviet forces attacking you. Train about 5 or so rocketeers at you main base so you can take on the dreadnoughts when they come. Build 1 SEAL and 2 engineers on the north mini base and send them to the left. You will run into a gem patch. Keep going left and you will find two tech oil rigs. Use the SEAL to kill any gators that come your way. Build a third barracks at the ore refinery to the south, the one on the island. Also build two naval yards to the left of the island ore refinery. Start building at lest 10 destroyers, 6 aircraft carriers, and 5 SEALS. Also build 5 GI's to garrison the lighthouse, 10 for the beach, and 5 for the barracks. Also 1 or 2 SEALS would not hurt. Place 2 partriots, 2 prism towers, and 3 pill boxes down there. Build a spy sat uplink and a service depot. When the depot is up and running, build 1 MCV, 1 mirage tank, and 1 prism tank. Hopefully at this point all you have to do is wait for the map to resizes and for what's his name to go on about how he will destroy you. What a dumass. When the map resizes, start building a chronosphere. Then send your navy to the bottom right of the map. If you have the spy sat uplink, you will see a Nuclear reactor. Use your carriers to take it out, and use the flippers, SEALS, and destroyers to protect them. Start building a large number of destroyers and carries, one for one, and set the rallypoint for off the coast of the soviet base. Now look to the bottom left of the soviet main base. You will see another Nuclear reactor, but this one has barrels next to it. Have your aircraft carriers shoot the barrels. The Nuclear missiles are now off line. :) Have your carriers take out the soviet naval yards (there are two), then go after the war factory, ore refineries, tesla reactors, and barracks. You can chrono shift your MVC in at the far right side, but I normally don't unless the navy is not doing it's job. I will use SEALS to mop up, with the carriers to cover them. It's just to much fun. OK here it goes, the last mission. I'm going to brake this one down into parts. It's just easier for me to do it that way. Starting out. Grab the SEAL in the middle as soon as he lands, and send him after the Tesla reactor. Let the other two do there thing. When the soviet troops are gone, use the SEALS the take out the Tesla coils so you have room to build. Free the troops by shooting the barrels. Send the two engineers in the two of the tech oil rigs, and send the GI's in the one of the bunkers and the bottom right of your new base. Deploy the mcv as soon as you can. Building. I go power, barracks, refinery, factory, Airforce command center, power, battle lab, power, ore processor, depot, power, barracks, refinery, factory, Airforce cc, power, battle lab, depot. Always have two of your main building, and always try to have too much power. It helps after the nuke hits. Spread you buildings out. Remember that you can build off of your tech buildings. Don't forget to build power plants as needed. >From the armory tab I go 2 spy sat uplinks, chrono sphere, then weather control device. I build defenses as needed. Mostly after a nuke attack to fill in the holes made by the blast or to guard tech or captured buildings not inside the main base. >From the barracks, I build 2 engineers to take the oil rigs in the base. I then start training GI's (about 75 of them) to garrison the bunkers at the lower part of the base, and the buildings at the openings to the top of the base. 4 total. I then pump out 7 spies, 4 SEALS, and 10 Rocketeers. >From the war factory. 5 chrono miners. Then about 15 mirage tanks. Then 1 for 1 mirage/prism. Also a MCV somewhere in there. Tech buildings other then the 4 oil rigs. There are tech oil rigs outside of the lower openings to your base. Don't worry about them yet. Take them after you have destroyed or taken the ore refineries near them. Build defenses around them so that they are not retaken or destroyed by the soviets. See below for recommendations. There is a tech airport and two more tech oil rigs to the upper right of your base. The rigs are side by side, the airport has a sentry gun guarding it. Grab them as soon as you can, but one at a time. Airport or oil rigs first. Build your defenses around them fast. I recommend 3 prism towers, 4 pill boxes, and 2 Patriots. Also garrison the buildings around them, just for added affect. There is a tech outpost to the left of your base. Grab it when you are ready, but don't compromise your base doing it. Build defenses as above. In total, there are 8 oil rigs, one outpost, and one airport. Using the spies. Send them in to the ore refinery to the bottom left of your base for money, if there are no attack dogs there. When your first spy sat uplink is up and running, look at the bottom left of the map. If you look really hard you will see that there are NO attack dogs guarding the soviet barrack, factory, Tesla reactors, and battle lab in that area. Send spies into all of the buildings listed, and have a steady supply of them going to the Tesla reactors. If you shut down the power, the CPU cannot use the nuke or Iron Curtain, and there time counters will stop as long as the power is off. It also helps to have to power off to shut down the Tesla coils. duh Taking over soviet buildings. I strongly recommend taking as much of the top left mini base and bottom right mini base as you can. MAKE SURE TO TAKE AND HOLD THE RADAR!!! This, with a soviet barracks, will let you train Crazy Ivan's. IFV + Crazy Ivan's = Nuke trucks. They will help to soften the soviets up. If you can, take the construction yard at the mini base at the bottom left of the map. You can then build everything but a soviet radar. That is why you need to take the radar in the top mini base. Without it, no Crazy Ivan's. Stopping the Nuclear launch clock. After rolling over the mini base at the top right, send forces to the Nuclear reactors to the right side of the map. You will see them if you have a spy sat uplink, or you can just follow the path. Destroy them. I normally use Seals for this job. One seal, one reactor. Or you can just take them over with engineers, just defend them, or they will be retaken from you. Then the Nuclear reactors at the bottom right of the soviet main base can be destroyed by sending seals along the right side if the map, and then down and around the buildings and warehouses. You can walk one right in and take out a reactor. Do this one at a time. For the two reactors at the left of the main base, use the chrono sphere to teleport in 3 prism tanks. Take out the one on the left first. If you do it at a safe distance, you can use them again to take out the other one right next to it. Also you can use chrono legionaries for the job, or as back up. Taking out all 6 Nuclear reactors will stop the nuke and iron curtain clocks, and shut down the Tesla reactors. Using the weather control devise. Use it as you see fit. I normally take out the barracks and war factory to the left of the Kremlin first. Using the choro sphere. After taking out the Nuclear reactors at the left of the main base (see above), I use it to do surgery on the soviets. SEALs in IVFs, Crazy Ivan's in IFV's, prism tanks, Engineers in IFV's, etc. You get the picture. Try to go for the construction yard at the main base, if you can. Breaking out if you main base. Take out the soviet ore refineries at the bottom openings of your base, and destroy any soviet miners you can. Don't worry to much about the tells coils at the landmark. If you feel you need to take them out, use prism tanks. Move to the mini base to your upper right. Take it out or take it over, then go after the Nuclear reactors as above. Move over to the mini base and your bottom right. Take it out as you see fit. Destroy or takeover. Then go after the main base. If you have Yuris or Psi commandos use them to take over what ever you can. As above, Ivans in IFVs will help a lot! The units I normal use are 1 for 1 mirage/prism. Mirage for ground units, the Prism for buildings. Engineers in IFVs don't hurt. Use the Blackhawks to move your engineers that you want to use to take over buildings. If you can get soviet troops, Ivan, Yuris, and tesla troops in IFVs will help you a lot. The Ivans I have already told you about, Yuris will make an IFV that will do there psi wave and kill all troops in there way. Tesla troops in an IFV is always a good idea. Psi commandos and Yuris are good for taking things over. Like the black elite apocalypse tanks. hehe SEALs will stop troops, but so will tesla troops or Yuris in an IFV. Watch your harvester closely. If they are under attack, have them go back to your refinery. They will shift back to them, so that they will be out of harms way. 11.2.2. Will's Allied Walkthrough He's back, and he's better than ever, William the I-don't-know-how-maniest, cough* Anyway here's his Allied walkthrough, with some great tips and strategies for y'all, hell eh explains nicely how to complete mission 1, so do read it, or I'll personally deal with you, okay? Here goes: C&C: RED ALERT 2 STRATEGY GUIDE: ALLIED MISSIONS BY: WILLIAM LAMAR DeLASHMIT ___________________________________________________________ Mission #1: Lone Guardian Location: New York City, New York Briefing: The Soviet Union has invaded America! The Russians have double-crossed us! They have a fleet of Dreadnoughts attacking the Statue of Liberty. Use Tanya to blow them down to Davy Jones' grave. Then have her remake our lost contact with Fort Bradley and clear all soviet forces out of New York. Objective #1: Destroy the Dreadnought fleet. Objective #2: Re-establish lost contact with Fort Bradley. Objective #3: Destroy the soviet supply base (after finishing objective 2). Objective #4: Keep Tanya alive. Walkthrough: Okay, first thing you do is send Tanya into the water and blow up the Dreadnought fleet. Next, send her up next to the Statue of Liberty when the conscripts start parachuting down. Once the conscripts are down Tanya will probably start shooting them already, so don't worry too much about it. Once those pesky conscripts are taken care of, on you're radar screen above your building console you will see part of the black shroud gone and you will see there a V-3 rocket launcher shoot a rocket at the already beat up Statue of Liberty and destroy it. I know, I know, you were supposed to save the statue, but trust me, there isn't a darn thing you can do about it. Then you will get a transmission from Premier Romanov persuading you to surrender. Don't pay any attention to him. Once he's done, send Tanya up that walkway and once you get to the end, go up the road and turn right and you should see two other of your G.I.'s deployed in the middle of the road shooting at some conscripts. Have Tanya help your men. Once the conscripts (I hate those guys don't you?) are taken care of, have Tanya continue on to Fort Bradley by following your map above your building control area. Once she gets there, build a barracks and immediately start training an engineer. Once you have the engineer, send him into one of the repair huts on the bridge at the bottom of the back of your base. Once the bridge is repaired, build about 10+ G.I.'s and send them along with Tanya down the bridge. Stop near the end, and have Tanya shoot the barrels. Next, send the G.I.'s down (leave Tanya where she is for now) and have them destroy the 2 sentry guns. Once this is done, bring Tanya down and have her destroy the remaining soviet structures and men (note: you do not have to destroy the V-3 Launchers to win, although it would be helpful to you). MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #2: Eagle Dawn Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado Briefing: General Vladimir is sending forces close to the U.S. Air Force Academy. Too close. Evict the commie's forces from the area and get back the Air Force Academy chapel. Objective #1: Recapture our Colorado Springs base and the Air Force Academy chapel. Objective #2: Destroy all soviet forces in Colorado Springs. Objective #3: Keep Tanya alive. Walkthrough: Okay, grab Tanya and send her up to the wooden power-up crate across the road. Have her shoot the conscripts who come up the road. Wait until the Rocketeers come. Then, send her up the road aways until she gets near the pond you see on your map. Send her into the pond (she can swim) and have her swim over to the other edge until you see the conscript outside the base. Have her shoot him. Then, send her through the opening the conscript was standing in and order her to blow up the flak cannons only. Then, have her walk around the base, so as to remove the shroud. You'll get a whole load of engineers parachute in. Order them into all the buildings (I'd strongly recommend the chapel and the construction yard first) they can and recapture them. Next, grab the Rocketeers and have them destroy all the sentry guns and the gate and the soviet guard shack. You won't have enough engineers, so grab the 3 you started out with and have them follow the same route as Tanya (except through the water) up to the base and have them recapture any remaining buildings. Before your chrono miner starts collecting ore, send your Rocketeers north-east to the ore field and have them destroy the soviet miners and the tank and conscripts below the field (note: don't follow the miners back to their base if any survive, because the commies' have a healthy amount of flak cannon there). Once all the enemy's (A1) miners have been destroyed you can send out your miner to the ore field. Once you get some cash rolling in, I'd recommend building walls (sometimes you can build more than one bit of wall at a time) where the gaps in the current walls are, but leave the wall gap where the gate and guard shack were open so your miner can get through. Also, you should build a couple of pillboxes, one on each side of the wall gap. While you're at it, it might be wise to build a few more pillboxes outside the other wall where the gap was, and maybe build a few more along the back wall. Of course, train these units when you can, with at least $3,000 still left over of your money. Then, I'd train no less than about 25+ G.I.'s and scatter them around the base and deploy them. Move your current Rocketeers nearer to your base, then train about 6+ more Rocketeers and group them with the rest. Then, select all of the Rocketeers and move them as far to the top of the map as they can go. Move them along the top of the map to the far end of it, and then move them down to A1's base. Order them to destroy the power plants closest to them. Then tell them to destroy A1's (enemy's) construction yard. Then destroy the barracks. Then send them northwest a few yards to the walled off power plants and destroy them. Good. Now A1's flak cannons are off-line. Have the rocketeers kill some of the tanks and conscripts and then the ore refineries and the war factory and the off-line flak cannons. You'll get a whole load of elite (promoted) G.I.'s parachute in (about 20 or so) then use them to destroy any remaining enemy stuff. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #3: Hail to the Chief Location: Washington, D.C. Briefing: The soviet's Psychic Corps led by Yuri have invented a Psychic Beacon, a device which can take over the minds of anything and anyone in a wide radius. They have used it on President Dugan and General Carville. They have deployed it in Washington, D.C. The only way we can save them is by destroying the Beacon. Objective #1: Destroy the Psychic Beacon next to the White House. Walkthrough: Okay, if you do this mission like I tell you to, you should win fairly quickly. Build up your base. Build an ore refinery. Then, build a barracks (if you don't have one already) and train a whole lot of G.I.'s and deploy half of them along the front of your base, and take the other half and garrison them in the two buildings outside the base. Take the G.I.'s you started out with and send them to different sides of your base and deploy them there. Build at least 2 Air Force Command Centers (AFCC's) and build 8 (if you have 2 AFCC's) Harriers. Build the AFCC's next to each other. When you see the gold square appear at the top of the small map, immediately select all of your Harriers and click on the middle of the gold square. Don't click anywhere else while the Harriers are going to where the gold square is. Under the shroud under the gold square is the Psychic Beacon. Once the Harriers get there, order them to attack the beacon. All of them together should destroy it. You will hear your men cheering, then the screen will whip over to the White House and you will see two secret service guys come out and a Night Hawk helicopter land next to the White House and then you will see the president come out and you will get a transmission from him thanking you. Good job today, commander, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #4: Last Chance Location: Chicago, Illinois Briefing: The soviets have taken their psychic technology to the final step, the Psychic Amplifier. Intelligence reports state that this device, when deployed can have the same effect as the Psychic Beacon, only instead of taking over a city, the Amplifier can take over roughly the entire country. We believe that they have set up this device somewhere in Chicago. Force a landing from our Canadian base and set up a base in Chicago and destroy that Amplifier at all costs! Objective #1: Make an amphibious landing in Chicago and establish a base. Objective #2: Destroy the Psychic Amplifier before it comes on-line. Walkthrough: Okay, I think I remember how you do this one. Let your Rocketeers destroy the Grand Cannons at the mouth of the harbor. Wait until you get the 4 reinforcement destroyers and then send them all up to the soviet naval yard and destroy it and any ships that might attack you. Also, clear out anything in your range on land. Once that is done, select all your amphibious transports and send them up to where you cleared out stuff. Click the little four-arrowed button on the advanced command bar at the bottom of your screen to unload all the transports. Select the MCV. Move it into open ground if it isn't already and deploy it there. Send away all your transports. Build your base. By the time you have your construction yard up, you should receive a countdown from Lieutenant Eva until the Amplifier is on-line. You see it will come on-line in about 45 minutes, so there's no time to lose! Start building stuff! Once you get your war factory up, crank out a couple of chrono miners and send them into the ore field. You should see enemy miners in your ore field at some point soon. Send up your Rocketeers (who should still be down where the Grand Cannons used to be) to destroy the A1 (enemy) miners, but don't follow it back to its base if it lives. Build 3 Air Force Command Centers (AFCC's). Build 12 Harriers when you have the money, but don't build all 12 at the same time, just when you have the money. Once all 12 are built, select them all and send them up way north into the black shroud. You can tell if you've found the amplifier because it looks just like the Psychic Beacon, only taller. Once you've found it, immediately attack it. Once it's blown up, you will receive a transmission from General Vladimir, sounding very angry. He will immediately build a Nuclear Missile Silo, and you will see it pop up where the Psychic Amplifier used to be. He will launch the nuke at Chicago, completely destroying it. You will still win, but lose Chicago. We know you did your best, commander. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #5: Dark Night Location: Polish/German border Briefing: Commander, President Dugan and the European Council have been discussing the possibility of an aid package for America, where we would exchange the services of Agent Tanya for men, weapons, tanks and supplies from our European allies, but in order for this to happen, we will have to send in Tanya to the border between Germany and Poland to blow up the Nuclear Missile Silos Premier Romanov has put there. The British will give you some of their spies to aid Tanya in neutralizing this nuclear threat. Objective #1: Get a spy into the soviet battle lab. Objective #2: Destroy the 2 Nuclear Missile Silos. Objective #3: Keep Tanya alive. Walkthrough: All right, once the spies come, put the G.I.'s in the tent. Scroll down the screen until you see the conscripts. Select all your spies and click on a conscript. Now all your spies are disguised as conscripts. Now be careful, the soviets have a few attack dogs at their bases, but they shouldn't be too much of a problem if you do this mission like I tell you to. Select Tanya and send her up north a few yards until she comes across the conscripts and tell her to kill them. Send her west a little bit until she sees a conscript outside a farm. Tell Tanya to shoot the conscript and then order her to shoot the barrels outside the farm to free 3 bovine (cows). The cows will be helpful to you. Send them up into the soviet base (the soviets won't shoot them) and have them walk around the base to remove the shroud. Now, send Tanya up into the bushes nearer the soviet base (but out of range of the Tesla Coils) and have her shoot the patrolling Tesla trooper and attack dogs once they walk near her. Then quickly send a disguised spy past the Tesla Coils and into one of the Tesla reactors near the entrance he came through. Once the power is off, immediately send Tanya over and have her plant a C4 on each Tesla Coil. Send her into the base and have her destroy anything that does or doesn't attack her (note: the soviets have no tanks or armored units on this mission, so it's easier for you), except for the battle lab. Once everything besides the battle lab is destroyed, send another spy up and into the battle lab. Lieutenant Eva will adjust your radar map so you can see where the nuke silos are. Once you see a conscript in a new colored uniform, change your spy to look like him. You'll always want to change the spy's appearance to look like a soldier of each new colored base you come across. Send Tanya and the last spy north to the bridge. Send Tanya into the water on your left hand side of the bridge and have her shoot the barrels and then send her through the gap the barrels made and have her kill anything that attacks her. Then, take the spy and send him into a Tesla reactor (more spies will return to the original drop point, so don't worry about losing any). Have Tanya blow up the Tesla Coils and kill all the soviet infantry. Send her back up to where the Nuclear Missile Silo is and have her move away from the barrels and tell her to shoot them. Now she can go and blow up the silo -- do so! Scratch 1 silo off your list! Have Tanya blow the rest of the base, then have her shoot the barrels to get through the wall. Grab your 3 reinforcement spies and send them up to where Tanya is and then grab your 3 cows and send them up to where the next silo is marked on the radar map and have them walk around that whole base area to remove the shroud. Select Tanya and the spies and send them up near the building near the newly shown base. Wait for Tanya to get to full health (if she isn't already) and then order her over to the west and own and blow up that Tesla Coil (she'll be down to half health, so send her back to the spies darn quick so the other coil doesn't fry her) and let her get back to full health before attacking the other one. Once the 2nd coil is destroyed, send Tanya back up to get to full health and then back down and kill the attack dogs and conscripts up at the entrance. Grab the spies and send them down near the barracks. Send Tanya to blow up the power plants out of Tesla Coil range and then down the bottom entrance and kill off the infantry. Send her down where the barrels outside the fenced off area are and have her shoot the barrels to free the G.I.'s and tank. Send the G.I.'s and tank up to destroy the Tesla Coils and power plants. Then send a spy into a power plant. Send Tanya over to the Nuclear Missile Silo and blow it up. Congratulations, you've saved Europe, commander. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #6: Liberty Location: Washington, D.C. Briefing: Commander, it's high time we take back Washington. Let's not spend too much time up in Canada. If we can take back the capitol, maybe we can turn the tide of this war. Dr. Albert Einstein has given us the ability to build his Prism Tower, a device that shoots deadly laser-like beams of light at a given target. Use them to your advantage. Good luck, commander. Objective #1: Assume command of the allied forces at the Pentagon and defend it at all costs. Objective #2: Destroy all soviet forces in Washington, D.C. Walkthrough: All right, there's already a whole bunch of Prism Towers around the Pentagon, so don't worry too much about defenses. Once the transports come and drop of your MCV, send it over to the wall gap (bottom, west part) and deploy it there. After the power plant, build an ore refinery then a barracks. Put the barracks right next to the Pentagon. The commies (soviets) will attack fairly heavily each time, but the Prism Towers will make short work of any attack. Don't forget to keep repairing damaged Prism Towers. I can't stress that point enough! Build a couple of power plants, a war factory and an Air Force Command Center (AFCC). Build another chrono miner to help get more cash in. Send your miners into the ore fields next to the Pentagon (bottom, east and west). Build a battle lab. Place it next to the Pentagon (north-west side). When you have the money (with at least $4,000 left over), build 4 more AFCC's. And when you have the money again ($4,000 left over still), build 20 Harriers. Build a few Prism Towers around where your base is. Build a few Patriot Missile Systems (because the commies will attack with V-3 Launchers off and on) and spread them out around the Pentagon. Also, you should take some of your G.I.'s and garrison them in different sections of it. Take half of your Harriers and order them to attack the brown guy's construction yard. If any get shot down, hopefully you will be able to replace dead ones. Take 6 others and have them attack the war factory. Take 4 and order them to attack the barracks. If the other 10 are fully recovered, have them attack the rest of the base, and so on. Have some fly up north and west to expose the red guy's base. Send those Harriers back to the AFCC's. Keep on flying sorties (missions executed by fighters) to the red base and destroying it using the method mentioned in fighting the brown guy. Once I was finished, there was just an engineer running around an empty bunker. Send up a single Harrier to finish him off. Good work, commander, we have taken back Washington, D.C. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #7: Deep Sea Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Briefing: Well, the good news is that we have gotten back Washington, the bad news is that General Vladimir is bringing his fleet to Pearl Harbor in an attempt to take Hawaii. He must not succeed! Destroy his fleet, and we won't have to worry about any soviet attacks from the Pacific. Take command of our base near the USS. Arizona memorial and give Vladimir a genuine aloha. Secure Hawaii and good luck, commander. Objective #1: Destroy all soviet forces around Pearl Harbor. Walkthrough: Okay, crank out as many destroyers as you can before the soviet fleet arrives. When the Russians attack, use your Aegis Cruisers to take care of the Dreadnought's missiles. Use your aircraft carriers and destroyers to take care of the ships. While all this is going on, build what you need to get to build Prism Towers. When you have the money, build Prism Towers all around your base. That should take care of what tries to attack you. Build some G.I.'s and garrison them in the houses north of your base. The beginning of this mission is pretty hectic, but after you destroy the part of the fleet that tries to attack you, all they will attack you with is just a few parachuting conscripts off and on. Build an amphibious transport and put an engineer and 6 attack dogs in it and send it up north to the airport. Unload the transport and use the engineer to capture the airport and the attack dogs to defend it. After a while once you get some really good cash coming in (I'd recommend you direct the miners as to what ore fields they go to, but bring them back to safety whenever the Russians attack) start building 18 Grizzly tanks when ever you have the cash (with at least $20,000 left over because all the stuff I'm going to tell you to build is going to cost well over $10,000). Near where your tanks are, drop at least 10 drops worth of G.I.'s while you are building some tanks. Build 8 aircraft carriers, 12 destroyers, and 3 Aegis Cruisers when you have the money. Build as many amphibious transports as you need (when you have the money) and put your G.I.'s and tanks in them (put just tanks in the transports you need for the tanks, do the same with the G.I.'s). Take every single ship you have (except for the transports) and have them follow the route the soviet ships came by, up northwest to the island the soviets have their base on. Kill all ships that attack you and then take out their flak cannons and sentry guns and whatever you can on land. Once you do, select all your transports and send them up to the soviet base. Once they get there, unload them all and destroy everything. Good job, commander, you've successfully defended Hawaii and crippled General Vladimir's fleet. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #8: Free Gateway Location: St. Louis, Missouri Briefing: Commander, the heart of Missouri has become a major supply and military area, and we would be in very bad shape without it. The soviets have used their Psychic Beacon on the citizens of St. Louis to make them their soldiers. Use agent Tanya and her strike team to destroy the Psychic Beacon and make sure St. Louis stays in our control. Good luck. Objective #1: Destroy the Psychic Beacon. Objective #2: Destroy all soviet forces in St. Louis. Objective #3: Keep Tanya alive. Walkthrough: Okay, once you get Tanya and the team of men, select them all and send them up the highway bridge and kill anything they come across on it. Once they get to the part of the highway that goes down by the hospital, send Tanya over and kill the guy outside the walls around the stadium and leave all your other men by the hospital for now. Send her up the northeast part of the road and have her shoot the conscripts and barrels at the top of the walls. Now send her over and blow up the Tesla reactors to the north. Hopefully the Tesla Coils around the Psychic Beacon will be off-line. Send her over and blow up the Beacon and then the 2 Tesla Coils around it. You should see a bunch of amphibious transports come and drop off an MCV, some G.I.'s, a few engineers, and some Prism tanks. Send Tanya down and put her in an empty transport, then send it back to the middle of the river. Wait for Lieutenant Eva to finish telling you about the Prism tanks, then deploy your MCV real near the arch. Build a barracks and train 2 engineers and send them down to the south-western corner of the map and have one capture the ore refinery and have the other one capture the war factory. Build another ore refinery and another war factory next to your main base and build another chrono miner for the southern refinery. Build an AFCC and a battle lab. Build some Prism Towers around each base and garrison a bunch of G.I.'s in the arch. Make your southern base's war factory the primary one by selecting it and clicking the four gold arrows. Once you get some good cash coming in, build 20 Prism tanks and send them around the soviets base destroying everything. Leave nothing left of the soviets. Good job, commander, we've kept St. Louis with us and run the soviets out. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #9: Sun Temple Location: Tulum, Mexico Briefing: Commander, we believe that the soviets are using a ruined ancient Mayan city somewhere in the Yuccatan Peninsula as a base where they are trying to replicate Dr. Einstein's Prism technology. They must not succeed! A Navy SEAL strike team will be at your disposal to destroy the soviet base. Destroy all the soviets before they can make Prism stuff of their own! Good luck, commander. Objective #1: Destroy all soviet forces and all their attempts to replicate our Prism technology. Walkthrough: Okay, send your SEALs up the hill and into the village and kill all the conscripts. Next, move your newly acquired units into one of the fenced areas. Send your G.I.'s into the huts around the fence. Once the first waves of enemy attack are taken care of, send an engineer and a SEAL up northwest to the airport. Have the engineer capture the airport and have the SEAL protect it. Parachute in some G.I.'s next to the tanks. Use the Night Hawk helicopter to shoot the barrels near the wall entrance on the east side of the soviet base and take out the sentry guns there. Parachute in some G.I.'s next to the opened entrance. Take the G.I.'s you paradropped in earlier and send them next to the G.I.'s you just dropped now. Have the SEALs blow up the Tesla reactors closest to them. Have the G.I.'s kill the 2 Rhino tanks. Have the SEALs blow up the off-line Tesla Coils. Then, when you can, parachute in more G.I.'s next to the other ones. Have the SEALs kill everything except the sentry guns on the western base entrance. Once everything is destroyed, send at least 12 G.I.'s and have them kill the sentry guns. Good work, commander, I don't think that the soviets will try that again. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #10: Mirage Location: Black Forest, Germany Briefing: Commander, the soviets are trying to attack Dr. Einstein's Laboratory deep in the Black Forest. Einstein is our most valuable scientist. You must defend his lab at all costs! Also, clear out all the soviets from the area, if you can. Good luck. Objective #1: Protect Dr. Einstein's laboratory at all costs. Objective #2: Destroy all soviet forces in or around the Black Forest. Walkthrough: All right, drive the MCV over next to Einstein's lab, then build a whole lot of Prism Towers and G.I.'s around your main base. Deploy the G.I.'s. Pump out 10 Grizzly tanks and send half of them up to Einstein's lab and the other half to stay at the base. After the first wave of soviets is destroyed, build 1 or 2 other chrono miners to help get cash in because trust me, on this mission you'll need every penny you can get. Build some Patriot Missile Systems in your base. Deploy your MCV next to Einstein's lab and build up another base there. Build some Prism Towers around Einstein's base, at least 2 on the north and south side. You should build a Patriot Missile System behind each pair of Prism Towers, because the soviets will send some V-3 Launchers at you pretty soon. Once you build a battle lab, build a Spy Satellite Up-Link to see the map. Next, build an ore purifier to make your ore worth more. Once you have a war factory up at Einstein's base and a healthy amount of cash (over $60,000), start building 50, that's right, 50 Prism tanks (not all at the same time). Once they are finished, send them over and blow up each soviet base 1 by 1 (the Prism tanks can take out those pesky Tesla Coils at a safe distance). After, have the remaining Prism tanks kill the V-3 Launchers on the hills and wherever else they are. Congratulations, commander, you've saved Professor Einstein and his research. Thus, he can continue to make us cool stuff. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #11: Fallout Location: Florida Keys Briefing: Commander, Einstein has finally found the perfect spot to test his newest weapon, the Chronosphere. Unfortunately, the perfect place is on one of the Florida Keys, only a few kilometers away from soviet-controlled Cuba. The Chronosphere's truly amazing capability to move units from one spot to another instantly could be invaluable to us. Intelligence has reported that Premier Romanov is using Cuba to hold some Nuclear Missile Silos. We fear that he may intend to use these missiles on us. You must make sure that that doesn't happen. Good luck, commander. Objective #1: Build a Chronosphere. Objective #2: Eliminate the soviet nuclear threat on Cuba. Walkthrough: Ignore the squids. Build 2 destroyers. Build what you need (especially a battle lab). Train 2 navy SEALs and send them into the water. Sell your northern-most ore refinery. Build an extra chrono miner. Garrison all your G.I.s' in the hotels next to the ore fields. Build a lot of Prism Towers around your base. Build 3 AFCCs. Once you have the money, build 12 Harriers. Build the Chronosphere when you have the money. Once the Chronosphere is built, Premier Romanov will come on the line and threaten you with his nukes and the launch countdown will start. Chronoshift in some Grizzly tanks next to the nuclear reactor with the barrels next to it. Have the tanks shoot the barrels. Hopefully the reactor will have blown up. Send in your Harriers to take out the other reactor. The nuke silos will hopefully be off-line. Build a bunch of amphibious transports and fill them full of Prism tanks. Send them to Cuba and unload them there and let the fun begin. Send them to destroy just the nuke silos. The Premier will come on the line again, sounding really angry. Congratulations, commander. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #12: Chrono Storm Location: Moscow, U.S.S.R. Briefing: Let's end this war. Avenge General Carville's death. We can now take Moscow. Begin your chrono invasion and secure the Kremlin so Tanya can capture Premier Romanov. This is the big one, commander, don't fail. Good luck. Objective #1: Clear the area so chrono reinforcements can arrive. Objective #2: Eliminate Romanov's elite black guard around the Kremlin. Walkthrough: Send the SEALs to blow up the Tesla reactor. Then have them kill the conscripts and the barrels next to the fence. Once your MCV comes, deploy it in between the 2 fences and send all your G.I.s' into the bunkers and your engineers to capture the oil derricks. Build your base QUICKLY! There is absolutely zero time to lose here! When you can, build a lot of Prism Towers and pillboxes around your base. Build another chrono miner. Build 4 AFCCs and 16 Harriers when you can. Send your Harriers to destroy the Iron Curtain. As soon as you can, build a weather control device. Create a thunderstorm over the nuke silo and send your Harriers to attack it when the storm is done. Build a SpySat Up-Link and an ore purifier. Build the Chronosphere. Once you have built it, build 2 IFVs and train 2 SEALs and put 1 in each IFV. Chronoshift 1 of them next to one of the black nuclear reactors. Get the SEAL out of it and have him C4 the reactor. Do the same with the other SEAL IFV once the Chronosphere is ready again to the other black reactor. Train 6 chrono legionaires. Once another Chronoshift is ready, click it in between 2 of the black Apocalypse tanks and shift them into the widest part of the river. Repeat the process with the other two black tanks. Create a thunderstorm over the black Tesla Coil. Chronoshift the regular Apocalypse into the river. Select your chrono legionaires and send them next to the right side Kremlin wall. Once they have phased back in, order half of them to erase one black sentry gun, and the other half the other one (note: do not destroy the Kremlin). Then group them all together again and have them erase the black flak cannons. Great job, General! You have ended the war and saved the United States. Enjoy the ending! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! 11.2.3. Will's walktthrough This here is the fantastic work of one man that one day sent me a walkthrough while I lay on my sorry as doing nothing at all except for some schoolshit. Here goes. C&C: RED ALERT 2 STRATEGY GUIDE: SOVIET MISSIONS BY: WILLIAM LAMAR DeLASHMIT ___________________________________________________________ Mission #1: Red Dawn Location: Washington, DC Briefing: Comrade, we are beginning our American conquest. We shall crush the pitiful capitalists under the heel of the great Soviet Union. First, we shall strike the American capital of Washington, DC and cripple the U.S. military by destroying its command center, the Pentagon. Objective #1: Invade Washington, DC Objective #2: Destroy the Pentagon at all costs. Walkthrough: Okay, once you get control of your conscripts, send them over to your construction yard and then build a Tesla reactor, barracks, and ore refinery in that order. Train about 6 more conscripts and group them with the others and then send them up the road heading east from the parking lot your base is in. You should come upon 3 GIs deployed in the middle of the road fairly soon. Order your conscripts into the McBurger Kong to garrison it. The conscripts are completely protected from harm while garrisoned inside civilian buildings (heh, heh, heh.) The conscripts will make quick work of the GIs. Take them out of the building. Send them north a little ways 'till you see the outside of the Amerikanskis' (Americans') base. Send them in and shoot up everything. Also, if you start to swell up with soviet pride, destroy the Allied flags too. While you are making the Americans' life worse than it should be, train one engineer from your barracks, and once you have demolished the amerikanskis' base, send him into the bridge repair hut next to the former American base. Presto! The bridge is repaired. Send all your conscripts up the newly repaired bridge and shoot the civilian in the middle. Once you get to the other amerikanski base, split your men into 2 groups and send 1 group into the building on the left side of the base, and the other group into the right-hand building. They will quickly demolish the 2 pillboxes and GIs. Once that is done, send your men out of the buildings and have them destroy the patriot missiles first. Then destroy the GIs. Use your engineers to capture the airport, construction yard, barracks, and power plants. (If you don't have enough engineers, build some from the Allied barracks you just captured by selecting the barracks and then clicking on it when the golden arrows thing appears on it.) Use the engineers to finish capturing the buildings. As you get money coming in, build quite a few GIs and conscripts from the barracks you captured. Send some west to the road bit next to the Allied base you captured. Kill the GI deployed there. Train an engineer and order him into the bridge repair hut. Send your men across and then north to the water and you will see an amphibious transport drop off 4 Rhino tanks. Send the tanks and your men back to your base and group them with the rest of your men, putting the tanks in front of the men and sending them all up the road-bridge on the east side of your base. Kill the pillboxes and GIs and then continue up to the?Pentagon???Once you start to engage the Pentagon defenses, you should get a whole lot of conscripts and tanks come in (I'd say at least 100 in all). Take all the tanks you have, and blow up the Pentagon section by section. Good job today comrade general, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #2: Hostile Shore Location: Florida Coast Briefing: The Americans have brought their navy down to southern Florida along with a few forces in a pitiful attempt to protect their State. Force an amphibious landing, set up a base and run off any Allied forces. Show the capitalist dogs who is boss! Objective #1: Force a landing and establish a base in south Florida. Objective #2: Destroy all Allied forces. Walkthrough: Okay, wait for Vladimir to destroy the pillboxes closest to you. Once you get the tanks, have them finish off the pillboxes. Deploy your MCV. Use your Rhino tanks and conscripts to destroy the 2 allied ore refineries. Build another war miner. Build some walls around your base (but leave a gap so your miners can get out). As soon as you can, crank out a whole lot of tanks. Take all your submarines and have them kill the destroyers. Train a bunch of conscripts. Take the tanks and conscripts and send them southeast to the allied base and destroy it. Good job comrade! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #3: Big Apple Location: New York City, New York Briefing: Comrade General, you are doing all the work in this war, and Premier Romanov is pinning medals on General Vladimir. Just because Vladimir can retreat back to Moscow quicker than you dosen't mean he should get all the credit, right? Yuri has invented a unique little device for us called a Psychic Beacon. With it we can take over the people of America mind, body and if you prefer, soul. Begin your psychic invasion of New York City, General. Romanov can't possibly fail to recognize a victory there. Once you have captured the allied battle lab we can deploy our Psychic Beacon. Make sure that nothing happens to that Beacon once it's deployed! Good luck, comrade. Objective #1: Capture the allied battle lab near the World Trade Center. Objective #2: Defend the Psychic Beacon at all costs. Walkthrough: Deploy your MCV. Lieutenant Zofia will show you the battle lab's location on the radar map. You will get a transmission from Yuri and he will drop off 4 Psychic-Corps Troopers. Build up your base in the parking lot. Once you have built your base, build walls all around it (leave a gap at the front for your miners). Build another war miner. Build a couple of sentry guns at the front of your base and build 4 Rhino tanks as defences. Train 3 engineers and send them down to capture the oil derricks near your base and repair them. Once you have a healthy, steady cash flow, start a mass production of conscripts, flak tracks and Rhino tanks. Once your units number in the hundreds, select them all and blow your way through to the battle lab (completely destroy all the allied structures and units). Use a Psy-Trooper to mind control a school bus. Train an engineer. Send the bus up to your base, put the engineer in it and drive it to the battle lab. Take the engineer out of the bus and have him capture the battle lab. Yuri will drop the Psychic Beacon and a whole lot of Psy-Corps guys and Tesla Troopers. Move all the flack tracks and troopers around the beacon because the Americans will throw a lot of Rocketeers at you. You should still have enough tanks and men to handle the allied attack that will come. Build some more Rhino tanks and leave them at your base because the allies will attack there also. Keep repairing the Psychic Beacon when needed. All you need to do now is wait 1 or 2 minutes for the Beacon to come on-line. When it does, all the left over allied units will now belong to mother Russia, HAH, HAH, HAH, HAH!! Congratulations, comrade General! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #4: Home Front Location: Vladivostok, USSR Briefing: The Republic of Korea has taken sides with the helpless Americans. Not only that, they are attempting to invade our eastern most territories! Make Korea regret that it ever tried to mess with mother Russia. Make sure that Vladivostok stays out of Korean hands. Good luck, comrade. Objective #1: Defend the homeland. Objective #2: Destroy all Korean/allied forces. Walkthrough: Okay, if you have a barracks, build a lot of sentry guns next to each other on the eastern side of your base because that's where the allies are going to attack first. Build some flak cannons around your Tesla reactors because the Koreans like to send a couple of Harriers now and then to attack them. Crank out 6 submarines before the Korean navy attacks you. Build some tanks, Terror Drones, 2 V-3 Launchers and some flak troopers and send them over behind the sentry guns. The Koreans will like to send some Rocketeers at you a few moments before they attack (that's where the flak troopers come in handy). Send the tanks to fill the gaps where you couldn't build sentry guns. Once you get some good cash coming in, start a mass production of conscripts and Rhino tanks. Once you have at least a hundred conscripts and about over 30 tanks, select every tank, conscript, and flak trooper you have and attack the Korean base. Demolish every unit and structure (especially the naval yard). Use your submarines to finish off the rest of the Korean navy. Good job, you have successfully defended the homeland, comrade General. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #5: City of Lights Location: Paris, France Briefing: Comrade, we believe that the European nations are going to help the desperate Americans. Intelligence reports that the French are massing with the Germans along the Polish border! But the headstrong fools have left their home countries open for invasion. Let's show the French how stupid they are by destroying their beautiful Paris. Perhaps you can make use of our demolition's experts known as Crazy Ivans to help you show the French the true meaning of soviet irony. Objective #1: Energize the Paris (Eiffel) Tower with some Tesla Troopers. Objective #2: Defend the Paris Tower from allied attack. Objective #3: Destroy all remaining allied forces. Walkthrough: Okay, figure out what men you can build with the amount of cash you have and build them (don't build engineers or attack dogs). Use your Crazy Ivans to blow up the Notre Dame Cathedral next to your barracks. Have your Crazy Ivans blow up some other buildings too. Send all your men (except the engineers) up the road to the soccer field. Kill the tanks. You will get a flak track as reinforcement. Send your men over to where the road goes down to the water and an amphibious transport will drop off a bunch of Tesla Troopers. Send the transport back into the water. You will get a transmission from a Tesla Trooper telling you to move them closer to the Eiffel Tower. Select all your men up there again and have them kill the patrolling GIs. Have them attack the pillboxes and GIs. Select just your Tesla Troopers. When you get the attack cursor on the tower, click it. All your Tesla troopers will charge up the tower, and you can watch it become a giant TESLA COIL!! It will kick the holy crap out of any nearby enemy units. Use it to mop up any remaining allied units. Good job, comrade General. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #6: Sub Divide Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Briefing: The doomed Americans have brought the remnants of their fleet to Pearl Harbor. We have learned that the Korean fleet still has a few ships left in it and that it may attempt to join up with the Americans there. You must prevent this! Go to there, comrade. Establish your base near Pearl Harbor and destroy the allied fleet! Good luck. Objective #1: Establish a base in the Hawaiian Islands. Objective #2: Destroy the allied navy. Walkthrough: After you build a naval yard, start cranking out a bunch of submarines. A couple of minutes before the Korean navy arrives, some Dreadnoughts and sea scorpions will come as reinforcements. Once you have defeated the ships that attack you, send a Dreadnought out and have it destroy the Prism Towers, but watch out for the Aegis cruisers and Patriot Missiles, because they can take out the Dreadnought's missiles really fast. Once the Prism Towers are cleaned out, select all your submarines and send them up northwest to the allied naval yard. Destroy every ship you come across. Destroy the naval yards. That's really important, because if the allies still have their naval yard, they can build more ships, which we don't really need. Good job, comrade General. You have crippled the American and Korean navies. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #7: Chrono Defense Location: Ural Mountains, USSR Briefing: Comrade General, Dr. Albert Einstein has invented for the allies a Chronosphere, a device capable of moving units from one place to another instantly. We believe that they may use this device to assault our battle lab in the Ural Mountains to steal our plans for the new Apocalypse Atomic Tank. You must defend that battle lab from allied attack! Don't screw this one up, comrade. Good luck. Objective #1: Defend our battle lab at all costs. Walkthrough: All right, there's no time to lose here, so start building sentry guns like you never have before! Build your base. Build the sentry guns at each side of your base. Also, train some attack dogs and put them next to the Tesla reactors and the Radar tower because that's where the allied spies are going to try to infiltrate. As you get the money, build a bunch of flak cannons and Apocalypse tanks and put them out all around your base. When Lieutenant Zofia tells you about the propaganda truck in the nearby village, send some of your conscripts down and garrison them inside the houses the truck drives by. When the truck drives by them, it should be gone in no time. Get your conscripts out and have them get the money crate the truck leaves behind. When you get the whole map revealed, train 4 engineers and have them capture the outpost and 3 oil derricks to the southeast of your base. Once you capture them, build some sentry guns and flak cannons around them. Also, you might want to station an Apocalypse down there too. You want to be careful when the Prism tanks and Harriers come though, because they can take out buildings pretty fast, but the Apocalypse tanks should make quick work of them. The Leiutenant will warn you of the last allied assault, so be ready. I think you can handle them. Good job, comrade! You have protected our battle lab. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #8: Desecration Location: Washington, DC Briefing: Comrade, we bring you sad news. Premier Romanov is dead. He has been murdered by the traitor General Vladimir. We have learned that Vladimir is defecting to the crippled United States. He is using the White House as his hideout. Go to Washington, DC and get Vladimir out of his wretched hole and make him pay for his crimes against mother Russia! Good luck, comrade. Objective #1: Capture or destroy the White House. Walkthrough: Set up your base. Soon you should get a whole lot of one-stripe conscripts parachute into your base. Get a desolator there and the conscripts will be gone in no time. Send your conscripts into the bunker next to the ore field. Send your desolators to the road bridge and deploy them there, because Vladimir likes to send V-3's and Rhino tanks at you from time to time. Send some tanks to the north and destroy the Lincoln Memorial (the soviet government rewards you with a money crate for each monument/memorial that you destroy). As you get the cash, build 6 Apocalypse tanks and have them guard your base. Build 8 more Apocalypses and send them to destroy the small base on the other side of the road bridge. After you have done that, build enough Apocalypses so that you have 12 altogether (not including the 6 guarding your base). Take the 12 and send them to destroy the Washington Monument and enjoy the money crate. Then send them to destroy the Smithsonian Castle. Then send them up and blow your way through to the White House. Order them to immediately destroy the White House. Thank you, General. You have rid mother Russia of her traitor, Vladimir. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #9: The Fox and the Hound Location: San Antonio, Texas Briefing: Comrade General, we have tracked President Dugan down to a dirty little fort called " The Alamo " in central Texas. Use our Psychic Corps Troopers to force him to surrender the United States. Becareful, the President will be heavily guarded. Good luck, comrade. Objective #1: Use mind-control to capture President Dugan. Walkthrough: Put a Psy-Corps Trooper in the IFV another one mind-controlled. You'll get a transmission from President Dugan taunting you that you'll never get him. Don't worry, we'll take care of him soon enough. Drive the psychic guy up to the allied barracks and battle lab. Have him mind-fry the two GIs out in front. Get him out of the IFV and have the IFV drive back to the other psychic guys. Have the Psy-Corps Trooper mind-control one of the engineers and send him into the barracks. Mind-control the other one and send him into the battle lab. If one of the engineers was killed, train another one from the barracks and send him into the battle lab. Build 2 spies and disguise them. Send the IFV into the allied base around the Alamo to get it killed so it's controller will be free. Select all your Psy Troopers and send them to the top of the map. Move them along the top of the map to the other side then down to the light blue allied base. Have one of the Psy-Corps Troopers mind-control the sniper there and have him kill-off the GIs there. Use another Psy-Trooper to mind-control the Grizzly tank and have it destroy the two pillboxes. Move the sniper as far away from the patrolling units at the front of the base as you can, then have him kill them. Move him to the top of the map and along it to the other side (bring the unused psychic guy with him) and move them out of range of the SEALs and Prism Towers. Have the sniper kill the SEALs and attack dogs. Send one of your spies into a power plant. Once the power is off, send in the sniper to kill-off the SEALs and secret service guys around the President. Immediately send the sniper back to your base. Send your other spy into another power plant. Send in your Psychic-Corps Trooper and have him mind-control the President. Good job, comrade General! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #10: Weathered Alliance Location: U.S. Virgin Islands Briefing: Comrade, Professor Einstein has invented for the allies yet another super-weapon, a weather control device. With it, the allies can create thunderstorms over whatever location they wish, completely leveling it. We have learned that they are planing to hide this doomsday machine in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Capture the allied battle lab so we can shut down production of this weather control machine. Good luck, comrade General. Objective #1: Use an engineer to capture the allied battle lab. Objective #2: Destroy the Weather Control Device. Walkthrough: Build your base. Take as much time as you want, because the allies won't attack you, except for a few Rocketeers and destroyers off and on. Build 4 submarines. Once you build a Nuclear Missile silo, launch the nuke at the defenses on the beach when it's ready. You might get a couple of SEALs swim over to try and C4 your base, so build a sentry gun, but don't place it until the SEAL gets on land, then place it in front of him. Do that whenever there's a SEAL assault, or you can use your war miner, if he's close enough. You can sometimes use your submarines on the SEALs when they are still in the water, if you're close enough. Don't launch the nuke at the naval yard, because it will only take it down to half health. Build a Dreadnought and send it to destroy the allied naval yard. When you can, launch the nukes at the 2 Prism Towers near the beach. Build 3 amphibious transports and put 2 Apocalypse tanks in each of them. Send them over to the allied beach and get the Apocalypses out. Send them to destroy the construction yard and whatever else you can, except the battle lab. When you have the money, build 6 transports and put 2 Apocalypses in each. Send them over to the beach and get the tanks out. Use them to destroy whatever you didn't (except the battle lab). Build another transport and put an engineer in it and send it up next to the battle lab. Make sure you have a nuke at the ready. Get the engineer out and have him capture the battle lab. You will see the weather machine's location at the top of the map. Launch your nuke right at the middle of the weather machine and it will be destroyed. Good job, comrade! We have destroyed their plans for a stormy attack on mother Russia. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #11: Red Revolution Location: Moscow, USSR Briefing: Comrade, Yuri has turned against us. He is cowering in the Kremlin, his headquarters. Make him pay for his treason! Go to Moscow and take care of Yuri for good. Good luck, comrade. Objective #1: Destroy the Kremlin. Walkthrough: Build your base. Once you have a barracks up, build lots and lots of sentry guns along the east side of your base in a line, because Yuri will frequently be sending lots of Rhino tanks there to destroy your base. Direct your war miners to where they should get ore then come back, because they will often be shot at and harassed by Terror Drones. Build a Psychic Sensor to show you which buildings of yours any incoming enemy troops have been ordered to attack. It will come in very handy. Build at least 5 flak cannons and 20 flak troopers and put them behind the sentry guns. Build a Nuclear Missile Silo. Once it is built, Yuri will send in 2 Kirov Airships every time to destroy it. The flak stuff you built should be able to handle them. 2 nukes will destroy the Kremlin. Once it is ready, launch the first nuke at the Kremlin. The green fallout should take care of the Psychic Troopers outside it. Once the second nuke is ready, launch it at the Kremlin and it will be destroyed. Good job today, General. You have rid mother Russia of another traitor. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! ___________________________________________________________ Mission #12: Polar Storm Location: Point Hope, Alaska Briefing: Comrade General, Yuri's files show that the last Allied stronghold is located near Point Hope in Alaska. They have a Chronosphere there which they can use to attack us at New York, Prague, and even Moscow as well as any other point on the planet. That shall not be allowed! Destroy the Chronosphere so mother Russia can complete her conquest and rule the world with you as Premier! Good luck, comrade General. Objective #1: Destroy the Chronosphere. Walkthrough: Okay, build your base. Train a bunch of conscripts and a few Crazy Ivans to take on the IFVs that are chronoshifted into your base. After that, the allies won't use their Chronosphere on you for quite a while, but be on the alert. After the IFVs are taken care of, build 4 flak cannons around your Nuclear Missile Silo (if you already have one built). Keep repairing the nuke silo because the allies will frequently be sending a bunch of Rocketeers and Harriers to destroy it. The Rocketeers won't be that much of a problem, but you'll have to watch the Harriers. Don't build the Iron Curtain yet. After you build a naval yard, build 2 submarines. As you keep getting a good amount of cash, start a mass production of Kirov Airships and send them over nearby your naval yard. You should have a minimum of 14 Kirovs when you're finished. Build 3 amphibious transports and 6 Apocalypse tanks as you get the money. Put the Apocalypses in the transports. Keep launching nukes at the allied ships and base defenses. Build another transport and fill it full of engineers, Psy-Corps Troopers, and Crazy Ivans. Build a bunch of sea scorpions and 2 Dreadnoughts. Send the sea scorpions to take out the Patriot Missiles on the side of the island pointing towards you and use the Dreadnoughts as support. Once all the main allied defenses are wiped out, send in your transports with the Apocalypses in them and unload them on the beach. Destroy everything except the war factory and construction yard. Use your engineers to capture them both. Immediately build an allied battle lab and then a Weather Control Device. Place both next to the war factory you captured. Use your Apocalypses to defend your new base. Now build the Iron Curtain and put it there too. The allies will frequently be sending in Prism tanks and IFVs to harass you. Make your captured war factory your primary building and train 16-20 Apocalypses and Prism tanks. Bring your Kirov Airships over near your base. Keep harassing the allied base north of you with weather storms and nukes. Select all your tanks on that island and send them up northeast to the tech airport. You will find 3 captured Kirovs there which will immediately become yours. Use them along with the tanks to smash through the allied base to the west and destroy it. Leave the Kirovs, select all your tanks and send them west where you will find the outside defenses of the Chronosphere. Don't engage the defenses, just blow your way through the walls to the actual thing and destroy it. 3 cheers for you, comrade Premier! The great Soviet Union has taken over the entire world under your leadership. Lenin would have been proud of you. Congratulations, you have just beaten Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. Enjoy the ending! MISSIONS ACCOMPLISHED!!!! 11.3. Miscelanious walkthroughs. -------------------------------- This section is reserved for site walkthroughs that are posted on the web and are (if authorized) put in the FAQ to help the people, because I have to do so many things, and some people have mailed me telling me about their problem with a Soviet mission I haven't walkthroughed yet. So, here is a complete walkthrough for both sides from Red Alert 2 DEN (Thanks to Lion, he's the man!) RADEN Mission Walkthroughs. --------------------------- Allies Mission 1: Operation Lone Guardian, New York The Soviets have made an amphibious landing into New York City. The latest reports indicate Fort Bradley is still operational. Unfortunately your cut off from the fort, and there has been no recent communications. Using Tanya, you must reestablish contact with Fort Bradley. Tanya must also survive the mission. Objectives: Destroy the Soviet Dreadnoughts, make contact with Fort Bradley, keep Tanya alive, destroy the soviet supply base. Here we go: This mission starts with reports of Soviet Dreadnoughts attacking the Statue of Liberty. Your troops in the area can't stop them. But you have Tanya. As soon as you gain control of the mission, have Tanya swim out to the Dreadnoughts and plant bombs on each one of them. That takes care of the threat to the Statue of Liberty. A Soviet transport will drop off a group of Conscripts, but the soldiers surrounding the statue can easily handle the attack. As Tanya approaches the Statue of Liberty, Soviet paratroopers appear and take out the Statue. You won't be able to prevent this. After your soldiers have killed the Soviet paratroopers, take them and Tanya and head to the bridge to your west. When you cross the bridge you'll find a V3 Launcher. Destroy it. As you leave the bridge you find a couple of your GIs under attack. Kill the conscripts attacking them. Now head north to the next bridge. Keep moving north until you run into another group if Soviet paratroopers. Kill as many as you can. Some will flee to the East. Follow them. You'll find some buildings you can garrison you troops in. This will help you kill off the Conscripts. Garrisoned GIs are very strong. Now head to the ore fields. Keep moving Tanya further east and on into Fort Bradley. In the base: As soon as you enter the Fort, start building a barracks. Placed it, then build a dozen GIs. Now move south of the base. Send an Engineer into the bridge repair hut. This will repair the bridge so you can cross it. Now take Tanya and your GIs over the bridge and into the Soviet camp. As you cross the bridge, a large part of the shroud is revealed. You now get a very good look at the Soviet base. It's guarded by a few Conscripts and a Sentry Gun. Shoot any of the barrels that is within your range of fire. This will blow up any enemies close by. Move your GIs into the storage building. Now move Tanya into the base, south of the building you just garrisoned your GIs in. Now have Tanya target all remaining Conscripts in the base. Then have her blow up all the buildings. Watch those Sentry guns. Don't get Tanya near the. Have a group of GIs take them out. After all the Soviet buildings are destroyed your mission ends. Tip: Have Tanya grab the two power-up crates next to the storage building. One will heal her and the other will increase her speed. Tip: Also, Tanya won't take any damage from her own explosions she set off on buildings, but be careful of destroying buildings near fuel barrels, which could trigger other explosions that could hurt or kill her. Have her shoot any barrels first so this danger is gone. Then let the C4 Gal do what she does best! Mission 2: Operation Eagle Dawn, Colorado Springs Soviet tanks have gathered near the Air Force Academy in Colorado, and the Russian military has taken over. You must take back the air base. Tanya is in this mission and will help. Objectives: Recapture the Air force Academy, destroy all Soviet forces, keep Tanya alive. Let's get started: You start off the mission with Tanya, a couple GIs, and three Engineers. You should place your forces in groups. Use CTRL 1-9 to number your groups. Make Tanya #1, GIs #2, and Engineers #3. makes it easier select them. Ok, lets move north of our starting position and take out the first group of Conscripts coming down the road. You'll also see a power-up crate. Have Tanya get the crate. It gives her an armor upgrade. Reinforcements: A group of Rocketeers will be joining you about this time. Move them further north to the crossroads and wait for more Conscripts coming down the road. The Rocketeers will take them out. Then head for the base. Caution must be used near the base. There are Sentry guns guarding the base. But because Flak Cannons are also in the base, you can't use your Rocketeers to destroy the Sentry guns. Here's what you do. Have Tanya enter the base via the water (Tanya swims). Move Tanya in, take out any Conscripts she can see first, then have her destroy the Flak Cannons. Now you can let the Rocketeers take out the Sentry guns safely. After you destroy the Flak Cannons you receive more reinforcements. Six Engineers are dropped into the base. Two of them will automatically take over the Construction Yard and Air Force Chapel building. Use the other four to take over the Power Plant, Barracks, War Factory, and Refinery. Use another Engineer you got in the beginning of the mission to take over the Air Force Command structure. When you do this the Harrier Jets will take off and reveal the location of the Soviet base you need to destroy. Now start building up your forces a bit. You must destroy all the hostile forces in the area to complete this mission. You'll need to build another Chrono Miner to help gather ore, and tanks and GIs. Have your Rocketeers uncover the ore field west of your base and use them to guard this area for a brief period of time. After you've built a small army, take your Rocketeers you had guarding the ore field down the left side of the map. You'll find a couple more Rocketeers waiting for you. Now look for a small group of Soviet Conscripts guarding some trucks south of the Soviet main base. Destroy them with your Rocketeers. The trucks each have a pwoer-up crate! Now take your force you have created. You should have tanks a lots of GIs. Head to the Soviet base. Take out the War Miners mining ore in the fields. Next, move to the back of the Soviet base. Do not attack from the front. The back is much easier. You should also destroy the Flak Cannons so your Rocketeers can be used to take out the Sentry guns. Go ahead and destroy everything. You'll also get a massive drop of GI paratroopers into the base. The mission ends when all Soviet forces are destroyed. Tip: It's much faster to take over the buildings with Engineers that to destroy them. When you are in the Soviet base, have an Engineer take over the barracks and crank out Engineers and have them take over the Soviet structures. Mission 3: Hail to the Chief, Washington, D.C. The Soviets have placed a Psychic Beacon near the White House. With it they have taken over the mind of the President of the United States. You must act fast and destroy the beacon and rescue the President. Objectives: Destroy the Psychic Beacon. Have fun =) Let's go: You start with lots of GIs, one Engineer, and a Construction Yard. Garrison all but one of your GIs into the surrounding buildings. Have your Engineer move into the Jefferson memorial and repair it. When you repair any of the damaged memorials in this mission you get power-up crates filled with money! So throughout the mission keep this in mind. It's a great source of cash. Now build up you base as quickly as possible. Create many GIs and more Engineers to start with. You should use these to garrison all the buildings to the east and south of your base. The Engineers are used to repair these buildings. You can't garrison buildings that are damaged in the red. Since the Soviets drop paratroopers in your area all thru the mission, garrisoning these building now will take care of them. Also, build some Pillboxes and use Grizzly tanks and IFVs to reinforce the area around the buildings. Just want to note that some of the civilians are mind-controlled and may attack you also. Build more GIs and have them scout out the map. Also take some GIs to guard the ore fields where your Chrono Miners will be gathering ore to protect them. You should also build two Air Force Command buildings and fill them with Harrier Jets. You can use them to destroy buildings garrisoned by Soviet troops, and destroying Soviet War Miners. Rocketeers are the best unit to use when scouting the map for the enemy. In the southeast corner of the map is the Smithsonian Museum, and in the north the Lincoln Memorial. If you repair these two buildings you will get money crates. Near the center of the map is the Washington Monument. Same deal here. Repair it and get more money crates. All thru the mission you'll be fighting back Soviet forces and mind-controlled civilians. At some point in the mission you need to take out the smaller Soviet base just over the bridge from your base. This will cut down on the flow of Soviet troops. Use Grizzlies and IFVs for this task. You should also put a few Engineers in IFVs. this will make you repair vehicles that will keep your tanks, etc. repaired. After the smaller Soviet base is destroyed you can start to concentrate on building a large assault force. Now lets get started. Build ten GIs, and move them across the bridge near the center of the map. Garrison them inside one of the tents near the Washington Monument. Remember to have an Engineer repair this Monument to receive more money crates! Now take a second force which should consist of Grizzly tanks and a good number of IFVs. Don't forget to place a few Engineers in the IFVs so you have a couple repair vehicles to repair your damaged tanks. At the same time the IFVs give your Engineers extra protection heading to the front lines! Take this second force to the center of the map and take out all Soviet forces. You should wipe out the forces around the Washington Monument first. Now keep pushing towards the Soviet base. Destroy everything. Use your Engineers to capture buildings, then sell them real quick. Much faster to capture buildings than to destroy them with your units. Either way is ok though. Just destroy everything. Just a little tip here: If you capture the enemy barracks, crank out Engineers from there and use them to take over other enemy buildings. Finally, move towards the Psychic Beacon, take out the Sentry guns guarding the Beacon, then blast through the wall and destroy it. Once the Beacon is destroyed and the mind control is eliminated, the President and two aides leave the White House and get on a rescue helicopter. You have saved the President and your mission is over. Mission 4: Last Chance, Chicago The Soviets have deployed a Psychic Amplifier in Chicago that is much more powerful than the Psychic Beacon in mission 3. Your main mission is to destroy the Psychic Amplifier before it goes online. You will be making an amphibious landing and will have to establish a beachhead and build a base. Objectives: Establish a base, destroy the Psychic Amplifier In the beginning: You start the mission with a group of Destroyers and some transports loaded with troops and an MCV. You also have some Rocketeers (unless your playing hard mode) to use. You need to use these Rocketeers to clear the shoreline before you move in your transports. As you move near the beach, watch out for enemy Typhoon Subs. If you encounter any, have your Destroyers take care of them first. The have the Destroyers shell the shoreline, taking out the Naval Yard and any enemies near shore. Take out the V3 rockets first or they will destroy your ships! Take out the Sentry Guns too. Once this is done you can move your transports on shore and unload. Quickly start constructing your base. Don't full around here because you will be attacked! Build a Barracks right after your build your first Power Plant and build Engineers to capture any remaining Soviet buildings near your position. If you capture the Soviet Service Depot, you can use this to repair your vehicles. Against the clock: You are working on a time clock in this mission. Once you land on shore the time clock starts. Your mission must be complete before the time runs out! So don't mess around. Get your base built, place some Pillboxes in the north and west ends of your base. As soon as you can, start pumping out tanks, IFVs, and GIs. For now place these units around your base for defense, but group them (CTRL 1-9) in case you need them quickly in any certain area. It's always a good idea to place units in groups. That way you only have to select a number on your keyboard instead of using your mouse to select individual units. You will get reinforcements several times throughout the mission. When your reinforcements come in by Transport, unload them and them move the Transport back into the water so they are out of your way. Tip: If you garrison the Sears Tower that is in the north section of the city, the entire map will be revealed to you. Time to move! Ok now, it's time to make our move on the Soviet forces. Get a large force of tanks and IFVs and move them northeast of your base to the bridge that is destroyed. Have an Engineer repair the bridge by going into the bridge repair hut. Now move your tanks and IFVs across the bridge. Move past the Soviet buildings and start destroying everything you can. Take out the Sentry Guns first, then the Tesla Reactors. There is one Soviet garrisoned building in this area that will cause some trouble. Best way to handle this is have your tanks move to the building, and while the garrisoned Soviet Conscripts are firing at your tanks, have a group of GIs garrison the building next to it, then have them fire on the Soviet garrisoned building. It will soon fall. If course, you could just charge at the building, but be prepared to lose a lot of units. Garrisoned troops are very strong. After this are is secured a large group of Rocketeers appear in the northeast. Carefully explore the area around them. Just be cautious of any enemy Flak. This is deadly to the Rocketeers. Do not get them near any Flak weapons. Now move your tanks northwest towards the top of the map. Take out any Soviets on the way. You will soon discover a bridge leading into the Soviet main base. Just park your tanks right on the bridge to fight back the Soviets. Also, take out the Sentry Gun on the small island. The large strange looking building behind the Sentry Gun is the Psychic Amplifier that you need to destroy to complete this mission. To take out the Amplifier, move your GIs into the building just northeast of it and have them fire on it. If you garrison 10 GIs in this building, it only take a couple seconds to destroy the Amplifier. You can also use your Rocketeers to help destroy it too. When the Amplifier is destroyed, your mission will be over. Mission 5: Dark Night, Polish-German Border Objectives: You start this mission with Tanya. You'll also see a NightHawk helicopter drop off three spies for your use in this mission. You will need to get one of these Spies into the Battle Lab located to the northeast of your position. Once the spy infiltrates the Battle Lab, the location of the Missile Silos will be revealed to you. Your main mission is to destroy the Soviet Missile silos. Also, you must keep Tanya alive in this mission or it will fail. To start off this mission, disguise your spies as Soviet Conscripts. To do this select your Spy, then select a Soviet soldier and your Spy look like him to the other Soviets. Just remember though, dogs can't be fooled, and they will kill Spies! Just use Tanya to protect the Spies from the dogs. You will be fine. Move slowly while nearing the Soviet base. Lots of dogs and Conscripts in the area. If you move to fast, a dog will kill Tanya. You must keep Tanya alive. Again, the best way to move is to create two groups. One for Tanya, and the other for the Spies. Keep Tanya in front. Just follow the road. It leads to the Soviet base. Always have Tanya kill the dogs first since they are the fastest and most deadliest. TIP: Always look around the battlefield. On this particular mission you'll find the wreckage of an Allied plane near the first Soviet base. A group of Allied GIs and Engineers will join Tanya if you find these. Also at the very beginning of the mission, if you follow the road down before you head up to the first Soviet base, you will find another group of GIs sitting around a campfire. Move up the road until you are near the Soviet base where the Battle Lab is located. The base is heavily guarded with troops and Tesla Coils. Now you can't go walking in the main entrance, so don't even bother attempting that. Move west of the base and travel along the side of the base. You'll see fuel barrels along side the walls. have Tanya shoot them. This will open up the walls and give you another entrance into the base. Inside the base you'll see another Tesla Coil with fuel barrels beside it. Shoot the barrels to destroy this Tesla Coil. Now have Tanya stand guard and take one of your spies into the Soviet Battle Lab. This will reveal the location of the Missile Silos you need to destroy to complete the mission. Now you need to exit this base. You are blocked by two more Tesla Coils at the back (north section) of the base. Just take another one of your spies into the Tesla Reactor (power plant) just north of the Battle Lab. This will shut down the Tesla Coils for about a minute. Now take Tanya and your third remaining Spy and get out of the base before the power comes back on. If you want to, you can kill the Conscripts and blow up the Tesla Coils on your way out. Something to note here: If you should lose all your Spies before completing your mission, another helicopter will bring in more for you. You never run out of Spies, so don't be concerned with this. Just don't lose Tanya! Now head north up the road and across the bridge when you get to it. Now leave your Spy on the bridge and take Tanya west along side the Soviet outside base wall. You will spot some barrels along the wall. Shoot them to destroy the wall. Also take out the barrels next to the Tesla Coil. Now move into the base slowly and target any of the dogs first since they are the fastest, then target any Conscripts. After this is done, have Tanya blow up the Missile Silo. Now get your last Spy from the bridge, send him into one of the Tesla Reactors to shut down the power, then have Tanya destroy everything in the base. NOTE: A helicopter will drop off three more spies when you use up your last one. You'll have to bring them up from where they land to where Tanya is. Do this first because you will need them. Now head onto the final base and the last Missile Silo. The entrance to this base is guarded by a pair of Tesla Coils. You've got to use one of your Spies here. Get the Spy into a Tesla Reactor so the power will go off-line. Be careful of the dog at the entrance. Time it so the Spy heads thru the entrance when the dog turns to go the other way. Once the spy gets into the Tesla Reactor, move quickly with Tanya and destroy the Tesla Coils at the base entrance. Now have Tanya take out all the dogs and Conscripts near the entrance. Move in your other two Spies. When the power comes back online again, have another Spy go into another Tesla Reactor. Now move Tanya quickly to destroy the other Tesla Coils leading to the last Missile Silo. Once the last Missile Silo is destroyed your mission is over. Mission 6: Liberty, Washington D.C. Objectives: Take command of the Allied forces at the Pentagon, destroy all Soviet forces in Washington, D.C. Time to start fighting back in this mission and reclaim part of America again. You start off the mission with the Pentagon under attack. But it is well defended with Prism Towers and Pillboxes. In the beginning of the mission you'll get reinforcements that arrive by transport. Move them into the Pentagon area as soon as they arrive. Immediately start repairing any damaged defense weapons and buildings. Now unload your transports and get things rolling. First take your GIs to the northeast corner of the base and dig them in. Now deploy your MCV and start building your base. You don't need power plants right away, but you do need a Refinery, Barracks, War Factory, and Air Force Command. Then basically what you need to do is build up adequate defenses for both the front and back of your base. The Soviets will constantly pound you with attacks from both directions. Concentrate on defenses using more Prism Towers, Pillboxes, Tanks, etc. Make sure your defenses are in place before even beginning to think about fighting back and going on the offense. Just want to note: You will also be attacked by Soviet V3 rockets. When they come near your base take out a couple Grizzly Tanks to destroy them, then move your tanks back into your base. Do not leave your tanks outside the base. Soviet Terror Drones are roaming the area and will destroy your tanks! Keep them protected for now behind your Prism Towers. Don't forget to keep your defensive structures repaired while under attack. Cheaper to repair them than to replace them. With your base well defended its time to build an army. You will need lots of cash and lots of tanks, IFVs, GIs, etc. Also, make Harrier Jets for your Air Force Command. A second Air Force Command is a good idea as well. Don't forget to place some Engineers in IFVs that will give you a means to repair your tanks in the field. Much cheaper to repair your units than to make new ones. Now its time to start going on the offense. Make some Rocketeers and use them to scout out the map. Watch out for enemy Flak troopers and Flak Tracks. Look for enemy War Miners and take them out if you can. This will cut off their money supply. Take out any isolated Refineries too, and any Sentry Guns that may be guarding these structures. Send a couple groups of GIs north and garrison the buildings. They will help to take out advancing Soviet troops. You may need to send along Engineers to repair these structures first. Also, capture the Hospital as well. The closest enemy base just across the bridge should be taken out first. This is a different base than the main one you'll be targeting last. Take out the Construction Yard with your Harrier Jets. You should have at least eight of them built by now. Go ahead and take out the entire base. Use Spies and Engineers to infiltrate and take over any soviet buildings in this base. Now repair the Lincoln Memorial and all the civilian buildings in the area. Load them all up with GIs. This section will now be fully secured and you will be able to handle any Soviet troops that try to make their way through here. Tip: Whenever you run across any building garrisoned by enemy troops, use Rocketeers to destroy the building and force the troops out of the building. Now take about a dozen tanks (or more) and five or so IFVs and move them across the northern most bridge into Soviet Territory. Stick close to the top of the map. Look for a Soviet wall. When you find it, blast right through it and move on in. don't even worry about the Tesla Coils or enemy units. Keep moving and look for the Construction Yard and take it out. Ignore anything else. This is your priority. If you lose everything in the process don't worry. The Construction Yard is a fair trade-off. Plus you will prevent any further buildings from being constructed. Now move more units (tanks, IFVs, etc.) up north and take out everything else. If you want to, use some Engineers to capture buildings. If you capture the Soviet Barracks for instance, you can crank out troops from within their base. Just move fast and hit hard and your mission will end in no time. Mission 7: Deep Sea, Pearl Harbor Objective: Destroy all Soviet forces. You start with a fully functional base with this mission. You will still need to build a Service Depot and Battle Lab, but just about everything else is included. But before you build any further structures, you need a few other things. First, you need Prism Towers for base defenses, more Power Plants, ships, and at least two more Chrono Miners. Battle at sea: As soon as the mission starts you will be hit by a massive Soviet fleet by sea. You must deal with them quickly or you will lose much of your base. First, move your Aegis Cruisers in position to deal with the Soviet Dreadnought missiles. Also, have your Aircraft Carriers attack the Soviet Sea Scorpions first so you have air superiority. Then use your Carriers to attack and destroy the Dreadnoughts. Your Destroyers should be able to handle the Typhoon Sub threat. Replenish whatever ships you lose in the initial attack and repair damaged ships at the Naval Yard. Then for now move your ships near the USS Arizona Memorial. On land, the Soviets will drop in paratroopers around your base. Its a good idea to build a couple Patriot Missile Systems. Also, watch out for enemy Engineers who will attempt to take over your structures. Keep a couple Engineers around just in case so you can recapture your building in the event this happens to you. Now start producing GIs and have them garrison the buildings to the north to take care of paratroopers coming through that section to your base. Also take some GIs and garrison some of the building to the east. Soviet paratroopers land there also. The Soviets earlier in the mission have taken over the small Island of Niihau and set up a base there. If you don't stop them they will build a Nuclear Missile Silo and use it on your Naval Depot. You will need to move against this base as soon as you can. First, make 10 GIs and one Engineer and a transport unit. Send them north to the Tech Airport and capture it. Go ahead and garrison the buildings around the airport and build some defenses for this area. Build a Refinery, a Barracks, more Power Plants, and some Prism Towers. Use the Barracks to build more GIs and load up all the surrounding buildings with them. Now get your Navy ready to go. You need Aegis Cruisers, Destroyers, and Aircraft Carriers. Try to build a second Naval Yard at your base you just built in the north at the Tech Airport and make new ships here. You'll need your ships at your main base for protection. Also, take a transport loaded with GIs from your base in the north and head west to the Soviet base. Unload them, move the transport back into open water, and use the GIs to explore the area around the soviet base. One note here: If the Soviets do manage to build a Nuclear Missile, you can take a Spy and infiltrate the Nuke structure. When you do this it resets the timer and will buy you more time. Just watch out for dogs, else they will have you for lunch! Now have your Destroyers pound the shoreline, taking out Flak Cannons and Flak Troopers, then have your Aircraft Carriers target the structures inside the Soviet Base. If they did build a Nuke, target this first! The hit the Construction Yard, and then power plants and refineries. You can also use your paratroopers with this attack. Drop them just south of the Soviet base and have them dig in. Once they take care of troops in that area, move them on into the base and start destroying the buildings, etc. Once you are on your way to destroying the Soviet base, have your Navy head further north and take out all remaining Soviet ships and subs, and then their Naval Yard. Once all the Soviet structures are destroyed the mission ends. Mission 8: Free Gateway, St. Louis Objectives: The Soviets have planted another Psychic Beacon in the the St. Louis area. Your mission is to destroy or capture the Beacon, keep Tanya alive, and then eliminate all Soviet forces. Here we go: Your team starts with Tanya, five GIs, and two Engineers. You have 20 minutes to get to the Beacon and capture or destroy it. Again, as in past missions, but your units in groups so they are easy to command. Put Tanya in group 1, the GIs in group 2, and the Engineers in group 3. Then start moving south. Watch out for dogs in the area. Have Tanya target them first. Also, while your slowly making your way south, keep checking your rear for dogs or Conscripts sneaking up behind you. Just south of your starting position you'll see some buildings. Continue moving southwest of them till you run into the St. Louis Gateway Arch. You can't miss it. It's quite large. Once you reach the Arch, head west until you find the Hospital. Be very careful when going under the bridge near the Hospital. You will run into Soviet troops you can't see. Send your GIs in first and take them out. then bring Tanya and the Engineers. When you reach the Hospital, cross the street to the northwest and have your GIs garrison the building. Keep Tanya and the Engineers away from this building. It will be attacked from several directions by enemy troopers. Stay put until your garrisoned GIs kill all the enemy, then have them target the barrels next to the Soviet Barracks. You can hit the barrels from the building you are garrisoned in. If not, you are in the wrong building! The explosion will take out the Barracks, the Soviet troops, and a large section of the base wall. Now move Tanya and have her destroy the two Tesla Reactors she can safely reach. This will disable the two Tesla Coils guarding the Psychic Beacon. Now have Tanya blow up the Beacon. After this blows up you will receive your reinforcements so you can build your base. Reinforcements will arrive at the Gateway Arch. Start building your base and concentrate on getting defenses up as soon as possible. A few Pillboxes at first and a Patriot Missile site to handle the V3 Rockets that will be coming at you. Also make tanks and IFVs whenever you can and use these as part of your base defenses. Don't rely totally on just defense structures. Also put a few Engineers in IFVs to create Repair Vehicles and keep your damaged tanks repaired. You'll be fighting off attacks from the Soviets for awhile, but just stick with it and keep building up your forces. At one point concentrate on making GIs and start garrisoning whatever buildings you can closer to the Soviet base. That will relieve some pressure on your main base. Your garrisoned GIs can pick off some of the Soviet troops before they get to your base. Also, if possible take out the Soviet War Miners to hurt their production of units. Keep moving GIs into buildings. The more the better. Eventually you will turn the tides of battle. Tip: When building up a force of tanks or whatever units you like to use, build lots of them. Then when you attack, combine your firepower on one target at a time. It only take seconds to destroy a target, then move to the next. Time to crush the enemy: By now you should have an army of Grizzly and Prism tanks and IFVs built. Now take your units and go to the Soviet base. Make a dash for their Construction Yard and destroy it. This will stop any further structures being built. Then take out everything else. Get the War Factory and Barracks so no more units can be produced by the Soviets. Then all that's left is mopping up. If you made any Harrier Jets, you can use these against Soviet Sentry Guns and Tesla Coils. Don't forget to destroy any building you may have left in Busch Stadium where the Psychic Beacon was located. Your mission is over after you destroy all Soviets. Mission 9: Sun Temple, Tulum, Mexico You are now winning the war, but its far from over. A Soviet research station has been located in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. In this facility the Soviets are trying to duplicate American Prism technology. This can't be allowed. Objectives: Your mission is to capture or destroy this facility, then take out all Soviet forces in the area. At the start of the mission, a transport plane drops off five SEALS. Doesn't sound like much, but that's all you need to begin with. Move them northwest up the slope, and then head due west. You will encounter little resistance. And what you do run into are taken care of quite easily. These SEALS are tough! Now move the seals down into the camp, taking care of any enemy troops you encounter. In other words, eliminate them. When you do this a NightHawk helicopter enters at the top of the map and drops off three Engineers. If you want, you can keep the Engineers inside the helicopter till your ready for them. Keeps em safe for now. In the small camp you see two compounds holding GIs and tanks. They are guarded by Soviet Conscripts. Take them out and the tanks and GIs are yours to use. Now put five GIs each in the two huts closest to the compounds. That will take care of troops coming into the camp. Use the tanks to help with defenses too. NOTE: In the top left corner of the screen is a tech airport. You must protect it from Russian engineers or they will use the paradrops against you. Take over this tech airport if you can and use paradrops against the Soviets. If you can't capture it, destroy it. Ok, time to go after the research facility. Take two engineers and three SEALS and put them into the NightHawk Helicopter. Head due east over the water to the side of the map. Now turn south and head for the corner of the map. Now head west till you see land. Set the helicopter at the back edge of the high ground near the enemy ore field. You will probably see War Miners in this area. Use caution here. Remember, the SEALS and Engineers cannot defend themselves against Soviet vehicles. You must sneak in at this point undetected. It's not that hard if you follow these instructions carefully. Here's what you do: Wait until the Soviet War Miners are either unloading at the Ore Refinery or in the south end of the ore field. Now head in the back of the base. Send one of your Engineers into the structure that looks like a modified Prism Tower just inside where you enter the base. Have one of the SEALS blow up the fuel barrels next to the east wall. This takes out a few Soviet structures and vehicles. Now have your second Engineer capture the Tesla Reactor. When you do this, the modified Prism Tower you captured activates and destroys any Soviet units that come near it. This also triggers another air drop and a SEAL comes down right in the middle of the Soviet base. Now take your SEALS and start to blow up the Soviet structures. Get rid of all the Tesla Reactors first. Also, shoot any barrels you see. This helps to destroy other stuff in the base. There is also a second Prism Tower. You can move an Engineer in and capture this or have one of the SEALS destroy it. Up to you. Your SEALS have a long firing range. They can take out Sentry Guns without being shot at. Also want to note here: You can use the tanks that are in your camp to the north to help with the final attack on the Soviet base. The final part of the base you need to destroy is at the front entrance. This is a bit tricky, but not that hard to do. There are two Tesla Coils that are being charged by Tesla Troopers. Best way to handle this is to have your SEALS drop the Tesla Troopers in their tracks. This shuts down the Tesla Coils and allows you to blow them up. Once all units are destroyed the mission ends and the Prism Technology is saved. Mission 10: Mirage, Black Forest, Germany Your in Germany in this mission. You are called to protect Einstein's lab located in the Black Forest. As the mission briefing ends, General Carville is killed by a Soviet Crazy Ivan who was waiting outside the General's office. Your on your own now... Objectives: Protect Einstein's Lab, destroy all Soviet forces. At the start of the mission, Einstein tells you about his new invention, the Mirage Tank. Move these units back to Einstein's base as soon as possible. You should also move your MCV near Einstein's Lab and deploy it there. Now start building a Refinery and another Prism Tower. Place the Prism Tower on the outside of your main base on the left or right. The Refinery should be placed near your Construction Yard. Before you build anything else, you need another Chrono Miner, three Prism Tower on each side of your base, and a few more near the top center of your base. You'll need to build enough power plants to run them too. Just build these items first and don't worry about units for now. You will need these base defenses. You will have three Soviet bases attacking you constantly with little breaks in action. The more Prism Towers you have the better. You can't have too many. Just remember to keep repairing them as they get damaged. You also need to build a group of Rocketeers to defend against any Soviet V3 Rockets that attack your base. You can use them to reveal the terrain surrounding your base as well. Tip: It's also a good idea to build a few Patriot Missile Sites to shoot down Soviet V3 Rockets. Tip: In the South part of the map there is an Ore Refinery you can capture for additional money if you find yourself low on funds during the mission. You should also build a Battle Lab when you get time and money to do so. This will then allow you to build Spies, an Ore Purifier, and the Spy Satellite Uplink. The Ore Purifier will give you more money from the ore your Refining, and the Spy Satellite, once built, will reveal the entire map and let you see what your up against. Now start building Air Force Commands. You'll need three at least. Fill them with Harrier Jets. Now make some Spies and send them to the northwest. Make sure you disguise them first. Now take one of your Spies and have him infiltrate the Nuclear Reactor to shut down the power. Now attack with your Harrier Jets. If they don't destroy it on the first run, do it again. Once destroyed, this takes out the power at the Soviet base for a brief time and gives you a little break from all the attacks on your base. Just to note that the Soviets will build a new Nuclear Reactor to replace the one you destroyed. Best thing to do is take out the Construction Yard after you destroy his power, thus eliminating any further building. And by killing the soviets power, you deactivate the Tesla Coils. Now use tanks, etc. and take the rest of this base. And keep using the Harrier Jets to target Sentry Guns, etc. You can use this same basic strategy on the other bases too to get the job done. Don't forget to use your Spies. Have them infiltrate Soviet Refineries and steal their money! And put them into power plants to shut down the power. When all Soviet forces are destroyed your mission ends. Mission 11: Fallout, Florida Keys Objectives: Build a Chronosphere, neutralize the Soviet Nuclear threat in Cuba. This mission is one of the hardest you'll encounter. You're going to be kept real busy for awhile in the beginning of the mission. You start with a base already built, but you'll need some more things. First build a War Factory and a Patriot Missile. Then build three each of the Aegis Cruiser and the Destroyer. You will also encounter a new Soviet unit in this mission, the Soviet Giant Squid. You can use your Dolphins (yes flipper is here) to get the Giant Squids off your ships. Your Destroyers will then kill the Squid. Once this is taken care of, look back to your base again. Send eight of your GIs south across the bridge and deploy them southwest of the Refinery here. You can also send four GIs east and have them garrison one of the hotels on the beach. Now build two SEALS and a dozen or so GIs. Send the SEALS south to the beach. Also send some GIs north and have then garrison one of the structures on the island in the northwest corner of the map. Near your Air Force Command, place the Patriot you built to the south. Build another one and place it here as well. The soviets will be attacking soon. Your units will be kept busy fighting them off. But the troops you should have garrisoned in the buildings will take care of the attack. The Soviets will also move in near your Naval Yard. Watch out for the Squids. Have your Destroyers target them before firing on the Typhoon Subs. Soon after all that action, a group of Soviet Dreadnoughts is down south and starts pounding your base. Remember the SEALS you should have down there? Now take them out for a swim and destroy the Dreadnoughts! Just get them back on land quickly so they are not devoured by any Squids in the area. Now it's time to start building an army. Crank out Grizzlies and IFVs for awhile. You'll also need a Battle Lab, more power plants, a Spy Satellite Uplink, and a Chronosphere. ATTENTION: When you build and place your Chronosphere, you will be alerted to the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. You now have 19 minutes to shut down the missiles or their power before the missiles launch. One thing is in your favor though, the Chronosphere charges up in half the time it takes the Nuke Missile Silos. Ok...lets create a group of units. You will need a few Prism Tanks, a few Grizzlies, and several IFVs. Put Spies in your IFVs. When your Chrono comes online, Chrono them to the southwest corner of the map, near the first Soviet Nuclear Reactor. Once you arrive, have one of your Spies go into the Reactor. This shuts down the power for a minute, so act fast here. Have your Grizzlies and IFVs destroy the Reactor. Keep your Prism tanks back. Now this is a low blow to the Soviets, but it doesn't completely take out all their power. You must take your Prism Tanks east and have them shoot the fuel barrels behind the walls. This will take out all of the Soviet Tesla Reactors in the area. Now have another Spy run into one of the Nuke Silos. This will reset the timer and buy you some more time. The Soviets will keep building Tesla Reactors to replace those destroyed. Just keep using the Cronosphere to send more units to knock out Soviet power and keep sending along Spies to reset the timer. Use your Navy: The trick to shutting down the Soviets for good is to use your Navy. Start building ships. Destroyers and Aircraft Carriers are the preference here. Once you have your Navy group ready to go, head south and slowly inch your way in. When your within range, have your Carriers take out the Soviet Naval Yard in the west while your Destroyers and Dolphins stand guard. After the naval yard is destroyed, turn your Aircraft Carriers loose on the second Nuclear Reactor here. If you destroy this, the power goes down for good. Your ships can hit the missile silos from the water too. Also use your Harrier Jets to pound away at the Missile Silos. You can also Chrono over Prism Tanks to help in this attack. Just concentrate on destroying the three Missile Silos, nothing more. Once they are destroyed, take out the Construction Yard. Once that is destroyed, the Soviets can no longer replace the Silos. The mission ends. You have won. Mission 12: Chrono Storm, Moscow Here it is...the final mission. Tanya needs to get into the Kremlin to capture Romanov. You are outnumbered. The Soviets are armed with both an Iron Curtain and a Nuclear Missile Silo. And don't forget the Kirov Airships...Good luck! Objectives: Clear the area so Chrono reinforcements can arrive, then eliminate Romanov's Elite Black Guard around the Kremlin. Do not destroy the Kremlin. The mission starts with a trio of SEALS dropping in around a fortified Soviet area. When they land they'll take out all the Conscripts in the surrounding area. Use the SEALs to destroy the Tesla Reactor. This will trigger the arrival of your MCV and a couple IFVs. Deploy the MCV right where its at. Now move your SEALs throughout the area and have them blow up all remaining Tesla Coils. You can get a few infantry units by knocking out the fence in the top left corner. Build base: Now start making your base and build up as fast as you can. Just use whatever base building techniques you've learned in the past eleven missions. You should know what to build by now. One thing you do need to do as far as placement of buildings in your base: Put one Power Plant to the left of your Construction Yard. Then place all the other structures you build to the west and north of this. In other words, keep everything except that first Power Plant away from the Construction Yard. NOTE: You'll understand why you need to build it like that later on in the mission. You'll need four Engineers to take over the four Tech Derricks in the area. Capture these for additional money. You also need to garrison the four bunkers outside your base with GIs. Two in the south and two in the east. These bunkers will give you added defense. Each bunker holds four GIs. Continue building up your base as usual. Don't forget about air and ground defenses. Build more Chrono Miners so you can get money faster. Also crank out a bunch of IFVs. You'll need these to defend against the Soviet Kirov Airships that will be attacking you. Now take an Engineer and 10 GIs and head out the northern end of your base, then head east. When you spot a Sentry Gun, deploy the GIs and have them destroy it. Now have your GIs garrison one of the buildings in the area. Take your Engineer and capture the Tech Airport. By taking over the Airport you will get reinforcements throughout this mission. Now back in your base you will receive more reinforcements of both Grizzly Tanks and Prism Tanks. Leave them in your base so they can help defend it for now. Keep an eye on the east. That is where Soviet Kirovs will be attacking from. Just make sure you have Patriot Missile sites and use your IFVs for protection from them also. while your continuing to build up your base, make sure you build a Battle Lab as soon as possible and then build a Spy Satellite and two Chrono Legionnaires. Keep cranking out GIs and have them garrison all the buildings surrounding your base. This will help to fortify the base. It's also important to garrison any of the buildings you can get at near your base, at the Airport, and also near the Tech Derricks. All these must be protected because the Soviets will be coming in force and with power! Just want to mention that east of the Airport you have captured, there are a few more Tech Derricks you should capture when you get the time. You'll need the extra money. Ok...time to get on with this mission. the only way to stop the Soviet Nuke is to sneak a Spy into the silo. but to do that, you have to get past a PSI-corp Trooper and an attack dog. If your attempt to infiltrate the Nuke silo fails, wait for the countdown to get to about one minute. Now move all your units away from your Construction Yard. Move in with the Chrono Legionnaires you were told to build earlier. Now have one force-fire on the Construction Yard, and the other on the Power Plant. (Now you understand why you were to build your base that strange way?) I hope you followed instructions. Now when the Soviet Nuke hits your base, only your Chrono Legionnaires will be destroyed. Your structures will be ok. Just note here: Timing is important. If your Chrono Legionnaires fire on the buildings too long they will destroy them. If you are unsure about doing this, then just let the Nuke hit. It will take out your Power Plant and damage your Construction Yard. You'll just have to replace the Power Plant and repair the CY. You could also assault the Nuclear Silo by taking a force of eight to ten Grizzly Tanks and four or five Prism Tanks. Take along some GIs too and have them garrison buildings near the Nuke Silo to help defend your tanks. Use the Grizzly Tanks to defend your Prism Tanks while they are firing on the Nuke Silo. Now lets have some more fun! Make a few Spies and send them to the east into the Soviet base. Send them into anything that's there. Concentrate on the Soviet Refinery. Sending a Spy in one of these steals the enemy's money. Do this every few minutes or so. You'll get money every time you do it! Taking out the power: Now make five or six Chrono Legionnaires. Take them to the eastern edge of the map. You'll see a small island with two Nuclear Reactors there. Move the Legionnaires to the island and have them eliminate Reactors. This won't shut down all the Soviet power, but it's a very good start. Now send your Legionnaires to the southeast corner and have them take out the two Nuke Reactors there too. If you come under Soviet fire, just take one of two Legionnaires and kill them while the others continue to eliminate the Reactors. Finally, send them one more time to the southwest corner of the map. Again, destroy the two Nuke Reactors here. Now the Soviet base is without power. Final Assault: Now that all the Soviet power is down, send a bunch of tanks, etc. into the smaller Soviet base to the east first and destroy everything there. Now start to slowly head south with a big assult force of IFVs, Grizzlies, Prism Tanks, GIs, and whatever else you can grab. Put some Engineers in IFVs too. Keeps your tanks repaired. Keep using your Chrono Legionnaires to take out all the structures along the southern edge of the map. Always mass-fire on one target at a time. It's also a good idea to airdrop some GIs where your Legionnaires are at to help protect them. If you encounter any Soviet Apoc Tanks, five Legionnaires can take one out fast. Don't worry about the Orange base to the west. Just keep units around their base and destroy any units coming out of it. Your priority now is to get the Chrono Legionnaires into the Kremlin area. NOTE: DO NOT DESTROY THE KREMLIN! Once your Chrono Legionnaires are in the Kremlin area, start eliminating the green units and structures. This takes time and patience. Start with the Sentry Guns in the back. Then work around carefully, taking out the Apocalypse Tanks, Conscripts, Tesla Coils, and Flak Cannons. When all the green units are gone, Tanya drops in, enters the Kremlin, and captures Romanov. The war is over and America and the free world are saved! Congratulations Commander! YOU ARE VICTORIOUS!! Soviet Mission 1: Red Dawn, Washington D.C. Your campaign and your first mission starts with the objective of destroying the Pentagon. You'll be reinforced with troops throughout this mission. At the beginning of the mission you'll get some paratroopers and an MCV. The MCV will deploy. Go ahead and start building your base right away. Start with a Tesla Reactor, a Barracks, and an Ore Refinery. Also, go ahead and make a couple Engineers. Now take your Engineers and the Conscripts you got with the paradrop and head them north up the road. Not far from your base your Conscripts will encounter a small group of GIs deployed and waiting for you. Garrison your Conscripts nearby in a building. then take out the GIs. Now continue moving north until you find the small Allied base. Go ahead and send your Conscript into the base and take out the GIs there. After that, go ahead and take out everything in the base except for the Barracks. Have one of your Engineers capture the Allied Barracks. You can now make new troops from this location. Just make the Barracks your Primary Buildings by double clicking on it. Next, send one of your Engineers into the repair hut at the bridge to repair the bridge. Now send your troops across the bridge and into the next area of Allied occupation. You'll see two building near the Allies. Go ahead and garrison the buildings. The buildings are within range to take out the Allied Pillboxes and GIs guarding the next Allied Base. Now un-garrison your men from the buildings. You also receive more reinforcements, including some Engineers. Now go into the Allied base. Take over the Airport with an Engineer. This will allow you to get paratroopers for the rest of the mission. Also capture the Construction Yard and Barracks. Destroy everything in the base except what you captured with your Engineers. Now look to your west. You'll see another bridge to repair. Have one of your Engineers enter the repair hut just like you did on the last bridge. Send two Conscripts across the bridge to scout this area. There aren't any enemy troops here, but as you near the western most side of this small island you will get reinforcements of four Rhino Heavy Tanks. Take your tanks and join up with your other troops. Now go ahead and head north towards the Pentagon. Use your Rhino Tanks to break through the walls and destroy the Pillboxes. Go ahead and use your paratroopers and Conscripts. Take out the GIs and Patriot Missiles. have two Engineers capture the two Barracks. Now you'll get lots more reinforcements including eight more tanks. Move up near the Pentagon building and destroy everything around it. Now start blowing up the Pentagon. There are four separate sections of this building that you must destroy. Once the Pentagon is destroyed your mission ends. Soviet Mission 2: Hostile Shore, Florida Coast In this mission you'll be establishing a base on the Florida coast. Once that's done, you'll be moving inland to take out all opposing forces. First looks: This mission begins with a bit of excitement! Vladimir's Dreadnoughts (you have no control of these Dreadnoughts) pound the American defenses along the shoreline, transports move in with troops and tanks to push back the Allies from the beach. Have your troops and tanks destroy the Pillboxes, then move everything up the beach. Hit the barrels between the two Allied Refineries. This destroys both of them. Now another transport moves in and leaves you your MCV. Take the MCV and deploy it near where you blew up the Allied Refineries. Not long after you've started building your base you will be attacked by a large Allied force of tanks. Take the tanks you have and confront them head-on. Continue to build up your base. Don't let this distract you. You'll need some Tesla Reactors, Barracks, Refinery, War Factory, and a Naval yard. Get them all built as quickly as possible. No time to admire the scenery Commander. Build some Conscripts and use them to garrison any of the surrounding buildings you can. This will help greatly with defending your base. Check out the area to the west and also to the south. Garrison all the buildings you see. This is very important. Go ahead and build a second War Miner to help with the flow of cash you'll need for all the Conscripts you're building. You should also take Engineers and capture the two Tech Derricks west of your base. This will give you additional money. Make sure you protect these after you capture them. Just send along a few tanks and Flak Tracks with your Engineers. Tip: All of the white hotels contain money crates. Just destroy them and collect the crates to get the money. At some point in the game Vladimir's Dreadnoughts attack the Allied Navy, but the Dreadnoughts fail and sail away. You are reinforced with some Typhoon Subs. Use these and make a few more subs, then send them after the Allied Destroyers, taking out what you can. Ending this battle: Back on land, keep garrisoning buildings with your Conscripts and work your way closer to the Allied base. Now here a way to quickly bring this battle to an end. Make a large group of tanks and a couple Flak Tracks. Fill one of the Flak Tracks with Engineers. Now move this group along the western edge of the map. Move slowly and cautiously, looking out for enemy troops. When you finally find the Allied base, send in your tanks and Flak Tracks to destroy the Pillboxes and GIs. Keep the Flak Track with your Engineers out of harm way. Now with this area secured, go ahead and capture the Allied Construction Yard. Victory: Capturing the Allied Construction Yard sets off a massive chain of events that quickly brings about your VICTORY in this mission. With Allies sell all their buildings and all the GIs move in to attack you. But since you garrisoned all the buildings with your Conscripts (you did do what your were told, right?) you will have no trouble taking out the attacking GIs. The only thing left to do is take out the remaining Allied Naval Fleet. You'll find them at the south end of the map. Use lots of Typhoon Subs and head south. Take out all the Allied Destroyers and the mission is complete. Congrats Comrade Commander! Mission 3: Big Apple, New York In this mission you start the psychic invasion of America in New York. You will have to clear the area of Allied units and capture an Allied Battle Lab. Objectives: Capture the American Battle Lab, build and defend a Psychic Beacon. You start the mission with practically nothing. You only have a Radar Tower, Tesla Reactor, and a Construction Yard. You should start building a Barracks and Refinery right away, and then a War Factory. You also need to concentrate on building up your base defenses. Make a lot of Conscripts and garrison the buildings to the north and east of your base, near the Tech Derricks. You should also capture the Tech Derricks with your Engineers. There is very little ore around your base, so capturing the Tech Derricks is very important! Reinforce the area around the Derricks with tanks and Flak Tracks. A few Sentry Guns here is in order too. You will also be reinforced with a couple Psi-Corp units. These units can be used to mind-control a single enemy. For example, you could use them to control an Allied Grizzly Tank and have the tank scout the map for you or attack their base with their own unit! Now take a Flak Track and explore the area all around your base. You will see a large bridge. Don't cross it. Just explore the area to the left and right of the bridge. You'll see some buildings near the bridge. Send out groups if 10 Conscripts and garrison all the buildings you find. This will help defend your base from attacking Allied troops. Tip: Most of the buildings are severely damaged and will need to be repaired by your Engineers before the Conscripts can garrison them. Buildings in the red cannot be garrisoned until they are repaired. Now keep pushing north and east towards the enemy. Don't forget to build a few Rhino Tanks and Flak Tracks to protect your base, and keep repairing and garrisoning buildings as you go along. If you run into a building that is garrisoned by Allied troops, make some V3 Rockets and have them take out the building. Three V3s can take out most buildings. Tip: You can find some Tech Outposts along the western side of the map. You can capture these and use them to repair your vehicles. Just make sure you can defend them before capturing them. You should garrison nearby buildings if you plan on capturing the Outposts. They will help greatly in defense. Ending this battle: Time to make the final push towards the enemy. The best approach is from the northwest, near the second of the two Tech Outposts you were told to capture above. Build a second Barracks here and start churning out Engineers and Conscripts. Now repair the buildings on the hill to your north with your Engineers and garrison them with your Conscripts. Then send a couple Conscripts to scout out the area down the east side of the hill that leads to the Allied base. You'll find a few Pillboxes here. Use your V3 Rockets to take them out. Now repair the buildings in front of the Allied base and garrison all of them with Conscripts. Now start moving into the Allied base and destroy everything. Use your V3s to take out Pillboxes and have your Engineers capture whatever you want. Get the Allied Barracks first, then start making Flak Troopers, lots of them! You can also capture the War Factory and make some IFVs. NOTE: Just remember to make your captured structures your Primary buildings so your units will come out of that building. Tip: If you captured the Allied War Factory, you can make IFVs and place Tesla Troopers inside them. This will get you a vehicle that fires the Tesla weapon! Capture or destroy everything basically. DO NOT TOUCH THE ALLIED BATTLE LAB yet! Very Important... Before you capture the Battle Lab, garrison all the buildings inside the Allied base, or what use to be the base =) Now go ahead and capture the Battle Lab. It will change into a Psychic Beacon. You must protect this until it deploys! The Allies will hit you with everything they have. Now you see the reason for garrisoning all the buildings your were told to earlier. I sure hope you listened! Once the Psychic Beacon deploys, you will receive reinforcements of PSI-Troopers via para-drop. Use them to mind control enemy vehicles that get too close to the Psychic Beacon. If you garrisoned all the buildings around the Beacon as you were told to, you should have no trouble handling the Allied attacks. You should also have Flak Troopers and Flak Tracks near the Beacon to shoot at incoming Allied planes dropping Allied paratroopers near the Beacon. Don't worry about any other battles going on. Your main concern is to protect the Psychic Beacon. That's it. You can also repair the Psychic Beacon if it becomes damaged. Use your Engineers. Just keep some near the Beacon. You may need them. Done Deal: Once the Beacon is fully charged up, it deploys and all the enemy troops fall under your control. The mission is over! Mission 4: Home Front, Vladivostok Despite your success in America, there is trouble on the home front. The Koreans have sided with the Americans, and is sending a Navy fleet to Vladivostok. You must destroy this fleet and save Mother Russia! Objectives: Establish a base, defend Mother Russia, destroy all Allied forces. Getting started: You start with a Construction Yard, a Naval yard, and one Typhoon Sub. You need to start building quickly. The Korean fleet will be arriving in 10 minutes! You will see the timer activated. Make additional subs (5) right away. Also build Tesla Reactors, an Ore Refinery (have your War Miner go north to the field of gems there), and get some Flak Cannons up fast. The Koreans will attack you constantly with planes from their Aircraft Carriers. Place the Flak Cannons near important buildings such as your CY and Power. When you get enough funds, build a second War Miner. Your going to need the money. You'll also need a Service Depot to repair your damaged tanks, etc. Once the timer gets down to a few minutes, move your subs east so they will be in position to strike the Allied transports. You should also build tanks and place them in the north to protect your War Miners working in the fields there. The Allies will be attacking that area frequently. You also need to have Flak Tracks and Flak Troopers in the north end of your base for defense. Allied Rocketeers will attack you in this area. Use the Flak defenses to protect your tanks which are protecting your War Miners. Get the picture? Now take a Flak Track and explore the entire map, concentrating mainly on the shoreline. You won't find much in the west and south parts of the map. In the east you will find the Allied base. You should try to uncover at least the edges of this base with your Flak Track. You should also take your Typhoon Subs and head to the Allied base. Take out the Naval Yard and any Allied ships there. Tip: If you can capture an Air Force Command with one of your Engineers, you can use the Harrier Jets to help you complete the mission. You can also use your Engineer to capture any of the buildings in the base. It's much faster than using the tanks to destroy them. Just place them in Flak Tracks for protection and drive em right into the Allied base. Also, don't forget to use your Sea Scorpions to shell enemy infantry along the shore. Final Attack: Time to end this battle. Once you have enough funds, build 10 tanks, a couple Flak Tracks, and some V3 Rockets. Send them along the southern beach. Push your way into the Allied base and hit whatever you can. Keep cranking out units and send them to the Allied base. Keep the pressure on. If Allied resistance gets to heavy for you, pull out your forces and regroup. You don't have to destroy it in one big attack. Just chip away until you weaken them. The most important things to target is the Construction Yard, the Refineries, and the Chrono Miners. If you disrupt their ability to produce units, they will soon fall. Once you destroy the Construction Yard and stop the flow of money to the Allies, this battle should end very fast. Just keep on attacking and victory will be yours. Mission 5: City of Lights, Paris This mission finds you in France. As a demonstration of your power, you'll turn the Paris Tower into a Giant Tesla Coil. The French will do what they can to stop you from doing this. Expect very heavy resistance from the French people. Objectives: Get your Tesla Troopers to the Paris Tower. You won't be able to build a base in this mission. What you start with is a Barracks and a Tesla Coil. You also have several Conscripts, some Engineers, four Tesla Troopers, and two Crazy Ivans. You have no ore to mine either. Unless you can find some additional money, you are limited to the $2,500 you start with. There is however one source of income, but you'll need to do a little work to get it. Where's da money? First, take your Conscripts and head them west. What your going to do is garrison buildings, but not to hold them. What you do is garrison a building, use it to eliminate any Allies in the area, and then move on to the next building. Don't try to confront the enemy troops without garrisoning. You can't afford to lose many of your troops since your funds are limited with this mission. Keep heading west until you find the Tech Derrick. This is your source of money. Have an Engineer capture it, then have Conscripts garrison the buildings around the Tech Derrick to protect it. Also garrison the buildings around your small base for protection. It may take awhile since the money comes in slow. But you'll eventually have the buildings full with Conscripts. Keep making Conscripts throughout the entire mission. You'll need them. Heading north: Once your have the Tech Derrick and your base fully protected with garrisoned Conscripts, take six Conscripts to the north and do the same thing you did with the buildings to the west. Garrison a building, shoot what you can hit, then move on to the next building. This takes time, but it protects your Conscripts. As your working your way up north toward the Paris Tower, leave a few Conscripts in some of the buildings for added defense. The Paris Tower: At the northern end of the map you will see the Paris Tower. It is heavily guarded with Pillboxes and GIs, and also some tanks and IFVs. Get as many Conscripts as you can. The idea is to garrison as many buildings as you can and target all the Allied units from the garrisoned buildings. Don't try to fight them outside the buildings. You won't last long. If the Allies destroy one of the buildings you are garrisoned in, simply go to the next one. Keep doing this and you will soon win this battle. About this time you will be receiving reinforcements by Amphibious transport. You'll get 6 Tesla Troopers. Keep them where they appear and keep cranking out Conscripts when you can. You need to hit the Allies from both sides to take the Paris Tower and to prevent the Allies from taking it after it's yours. So keep garrisoning all the buildings you can. Now move a large force of Conscripts up the road next to the water and assault the Allies west of the Tower. You'll lose a lot of your Conscripts here, but keep reinforcing them with new Conscripts. Eventually you win out and the Paris Tower will be under your control. As soon as you take the Paris Tower the Allies will start to attack it. Hit what you can from the buildings you have garrisoned. The deploy your troops and destroy the remaining Allied GIs and tanks. When the last GI and Allied tanks are destroyed, move in your transport that is carrying the Tesla Troopers, and place them around the Paris Tower. It will then charge-up and destroy all remaining allied units. The mission is over and Paris is yours! Mission 6: Sub-Divide, Pearl Harbor This mission takes place on a huge map. Larger than any of the missions so far. You start with a small force of a few men and a couple ships. This mission centers around your Navy this time, but don't forget about the power of your ground forces either. Objectives: Destroy the Allied Pacific Navy fleet. Getting started: Deploy your MCV and start building up your base a you normally would. by now you should know what needs to be built. Make sure to construct both air and ground defenses for defending your base. You'll be given a countdown for the arrival of the Allied (Korean) navy fleet. You'll need to explore the island your on. Also, build lots of Conscripts and garrison them in every building you can find. This is important you do this. Also build some tanks, Tesla Troopers, and some Tesla Coils. Build some Flak Tracks and send them to the southern edge of the island. Build a Naval yard and make a couple Typhoon Subs to start with. You'll also need a Radar Tower so you can build Sea Scorpions to protect your Typhoon Subs. Go ahead and make some of them now. When your reinforcements arrive from the north, move all your ships to the northwestern edge of your island. The Allied fleet will arrive here shortly. Tip: Sea Scorpions are great at destroying small planes that are launched from Allied Destroyers. Use these to protect your Typhoon Subs. Battle at sea: When the Allied (Korean) Navy Fleet arrives, hit them with your ships as much as you can. Keep cranking out more Subs and Sea Scorpions to replace the ones you'll be losing during this battle on the sea. You do want to concentrate most of your fire power on the Allied Aircraft Carriers. The Allied (Korean) Fleet will soon leave. When they do leave, take your navy to the south and wait in the area just south of your main island. The Korean Fleet will be meeting up with the Americans so they can attack your base in force, moving along your southern shore. You might try placing some V3 Rockets along the southern shore. Remember the Flak Tracks you were told earlier to send to the south? They will come in handy now. It takes some effort to eliminate the Korean ships. But eventually you will. Now lets do something else. Load up an Engineer and 11 Conscripts in a transport and send them all the way to the southwestern corner of the map. Protect the transport with several Sea Scorpions and subs. Now deploy the men on the small piece of land and capture the airfield. This will give you paratroopers for the rest of the mission. Build some Flak Cannons to protect this area. Now move your Conscripts around this area and you will find four crates that contain money. Time to move: It's now time to start moving on the main Allied Island. Drop paratroopers on the eastern section of the main island and send a bunch of Conscripts to the island with your transports. Start garrisoning buildings with your Conscripts. Your also looking for a large group of offices and hotels. Garrison these hotels with all the Conscripts they will hold. Just keep shuttling men with your transports until you have enough to fill up all the buildings and hotels. If you explore around this area, you will discover an Allied Ore Refinery. Send over an Engineer in your transport to capture the Refinery. Once you take the Refinery, build a Tesla Coil and a Barracks near it. Make this Barracks your Primary building (double click on it). Make more Conscripts and keep exploring to the north and west. You'll find a small cove that holds one of two Allied Naval Yards. Build Tesla Reactors and Tesla Coils to reach to the naval yard and destroy it and any ships it produces. Time to clean up: Now take a bunch (10) Typhoon Subs and explore the coast of the large island. You will find a narrow inlet with Prism Towers. The Prism Tower can't hit your Typhoon subs as long as they stay underwater. Go ahead and take your subs through this cove and eliminate all ships and the Naval Yard here. Remember to target Destroyers first since they are the most dangerous for you. Keep sending in more subs as you need them until everything is destroyed. NOTE: Don't worry about the Coast Guard ships patrolling the western part of the seas. They do not have to be destroyed to complete the mission. But you can if you want to =) Once you destroy all the ships in this cove and any new Naval Yards the Allies may build, the mission ends. Mission 7: Chrono Defense, Ural Mountains The Allies are after your Battle Lab in this mission. You must protect it at all costs. The Allies have Chrono technology available to them and can place troops anywhere inside your base. You must be prepared for attacks from anywhere. If you keep your wits about you, you'll be ok. Just don't lose your head =) Good Luck Commander! Objectives: Protect your Battle Lab. Let's get started: Start building up your base as normal. But do it quickly. The Allies will be attacking soon. Make sure to cover your entire base with defenses, including Conscripts, Flak Tracks, and tanks. Also use attack dogs with this mission. The Allies will be using Spies in this mission and the dogs are the only way to spot them. Also, since Spies like to target your Tesla Reactors, post some dogs around them. Don't worry about exploring the map just yet. Concentrate on building up your base and forces. And the more technology you develop the better. Get whatever is available in this mission. You should also build four Apoc Tanks and place them at the openings (choke points) leading to your base. Don't build anymore Apocs than that since they are so expensive. Defend these opening with Flak Cannons and whatever else you have too. Never stop building defenses. Your going to need all you can make. Note: The Allies will be sending in Snipers to take out your men. When you get the chance, explore around your base so you can spot the Snipers. Also, as the mission progresses, the Allied attacks grow larger and more difficult to handle. They also send in Rocketeers. Use your Flak Tracks, etc. to defend against them. Air defense is important in this mission. Here's a good Tip: If you take out the Propaganda Truck the entire map will be revealed to you. You will find the Truck in the town west of your base driving around the outskirts of the town. It contains a power-up crate and Spy Satellite maps of the area. Take the Money: If you continue to explore the map, you'll find an Outpost and three Tech Derricks. Build four Engineers and put them in a Flak Track. Send them to this spot and capture the Outpost and Tech Derricks. Send along 3 Rhino Tanks, 2 Flak Tracks, and an Apocalypse Tank for protection. When you capture the Outpost, you'll be reinforced by a group of Flak Troopers. Now build two Tesla Coils and a Flak Cannon to help defend this area. Now you've got another source of income, plus the Allies will start attacking you here, taking some pressure off your main base and giving you a bit of a break. You can use the captured Outpost to repair your damaged vehicles between battles. Tip: At some point during the mission a group of trucks moves from the north to the small base in the south. Each truck is carrying a crate. If you can get to these trucks and destroy them the crates are yours for the taking. The Allied Prism Tanks are tough to deal with. You don't want them to get within range of your Battle Lab. Massing fire power against them is one way to take them out, but you'll lose a lot of units. The Apocalypse Tank is a good unit to use for this task. Two of them can handle an entire squad of Prism Tanks. Final Allied Attack: On the sixth and final attack by the Allies, they hit you with everything they have and from all sides. First, don't panic. Take care of the Allied Spies and Engineers before you do anything else. Once you have eliminated that threat, concentrate on defending your Battle Lab. Just make sure it has plenty of air defenses around it. It may be a good idea to build a wall around it too. Keep your Battle Lab intact after this final attack. The mission is over. Mission 8: Desecration, Washington D.C. Former Soviet General Vladimir, who has been accused of killing Soviet Premier Romanov by Yuri, is hiding out in the White House in Washington, D.C. Your mission is to capture the White House and dispose of General Vladimir. It's Soviet against Soviet in this mission. Objectives: Capture the White House with an Engineer. In the beginning: This mission starts out a bit hard at first, but you should be ok once you get things rolling. Start out by deploying your MCV immediately. You also get Desolators to start off this mission. The Desolator fires a radiation weapon that is effective on light vehicles and infantry. And when the Desolator deploys he creates a large area of radioactivity that obliterates any infantry unlucky enough to be caught in his radius. You also get some Conscripts and Apocalypse Tanks. As you get started building your base, send one of the Desolators just north of your base, another to the southwest, and the other two to the northeast. Move all your Conscripts to the northeast also, and garrison them in the bunker and tents there. Also, enemy Conscripts under General Vladimir's control drop in at the start of the mission. You can see the shadows of the Paratroopers as the descend. Place a Desolator directly under these shadows and deploy him. He'll kill these enemy Conscripts as soon as they land. This will happen three times. The first is just north of your base, the second to the southwest, and the third, the largest drop of Paratroopers, near the tents. But if you moved your Desolators where you were instructed to in the beginning of this mission, you will have no problems handling this attack. Time to build: With this early attack out of the way, start building up your base quickly. By now you should no what to build without being told. Always build to defend against both air and ground attacks. And build a good mix of units for both offense and defense. In this mission in particular, build a few more War Miners (4), so you can gather lots of money in a short time. Now lets build some Apocalypse Tanks and some V3s and have some fun in this mission! NOTE: Watch your ore field east of your base. When it runs out your War Miners will wander into enemy territory looking for more ore and be destroyed. So when this ore filed runs out, take your War Miners and park them in your base. Now take a group of Conscripts and head north until they find the Lincoln Memorial. Have them destroy this, then pick up the crate that appears. The crate contains $8,000. That will buy you a few more Apocalypse Tanks. When you have your Apoc tanks and V3s built and ready to go, take them to the large ore field in the southeast. Use your Apoc tanks to destroy the enemy War Miners you find there. Explore the enemy base near the ore field. Use your V3s to take out the Tesla Coils and your Apocs for other structures. Leave a couple Apoc Tanks in the ore field and go ahead and start mining the ore here. Then take three Apoc Tanks and a couple V3s and head to the small base west of the ore field. Use the V3's on the Tesla Coils and the Apoc Tanks on everything else. Keep pushing eastward taking out structures along the way. Use your V3s on any dangerous structures like Tesla Coils. The final push: In the southwest you'll find a pair of destroyed bridges. One of these bridges can be repaired however. Use an Engineer, repair the bridge, and send over some Apoc Tanks. You'll find a few enemies here, six trucks, and the Jefferson Memorial. Destroy everything. What you get in return is crates with cash, power-ups, a Tesla Tank, and a War Miner. Not bad, eh? Ok, lets end this thing. Pump out a bunch of Tesla Troopers and Conscripts. Have them follow your Apoc Tanks east towards the White House. Destroy all resistance as you go using your tanks, Tesla Troopers, and Conscripts. Once you get an Engineer inside the White House, the mission ends. Mission 9: The Fox & the Hound, San Antonio, Texas In this mission you will attempt to take control of the President of the United States using PSI-Corp Troopers. This mission takes place around one of the most famous Texas landmarks, the Alamo. Objectives: Destroy Allied forces and capture the President with a PSI-Corp Trooper. At the start: This mission begins with a massive airdrop of Soviet Conscripts around the Alamo. But they are slaughtered by Prism Towers and Navy SEALs guarding the Alamo. But this is only a diversion tactic used so a pair of Yuri units can also be dropped in the area a few blocks away from the Alamo. The Conscripts were sacrificed for the Soviet cause. May they rest in peace. One of the PSI Troopers captures an IFV. Go ahead and move it to your two PSI units and put one of them in it. Now head north to the small Allied base. The PSI Trooper that is walking should mind-control one of the two GIs you run into. The mind-controlled GI will start to shoot at the other one. If your mind-controlled GI gets killed, just use your IFV to kill the other GI. Now mind control one of the Engineers in the base. Take over the Barracks with him. Now take the other Engineer and take over the Battle Lab with that one. This allows you to build Spies, which will be useful to you later in the mission. If you run out of money, you can always sell the Battle Lab for additional cash. At least for now you can produce some units. Go ahead and make a couple Engineers and a large group of GIs (20). You will be using 2 10-man GI teams to accomplish a few goals. Make your move: Start moving your GIs throughout the map, garrisoning buildings and taking out the enemy resistance. Just keep doing this to whittle down the opposing forces in the area. Pay attention to the attack dogs and the GIs walking around the outside of the Alamo. Take them out if you can. next, take the PSI Trooper that is in the IFV and move him to the northwest corner. Here you'll find another small Allied base. In that base is a Sniper, a tank, several GIs, a NightHawk Helicopter, a Power Plant, and a Tech Airport. First you mind control the Sniper and move him outside the base. Approach from the north side of the enemy base. Use your PSI Trooper to eliminate the GIs first. After the GIs are gone, mind-control the Grizzly Tank and destroy the Patriot Missile and the Pillboxes. Next move the tank away and mind-control the Sniper again. Now you can capture the enemy Airport with an Engineer, and you still have the Sniper you can use against the Enemy SEALs back at the Alamo! Now take your PSI Trooper and control the tank. Blast a hole in the wall with it. Move the tank up and destroy as many GIs as you can with the tank. Send in a team of GIs to mop up this area. Just stay behind the walls so the Pillboxes don't get you. Destroy the Power Plant and have an Engineer capture the airfield. By capturing the Tech Airfield, you can now make paratroopers, which you will be dropping around the Alamo. On to the Alamo: The Alamo is very heavily fortified. Each entrance has dogs, SEALs, and Prism Towers. Take some Conscripts and garrison some of the buildings outside the Alamo in case the Allies decide to come outside. Have one of your PSI Troopers move into the area around the Alamo, staying more to the west. Now take the PSI Trooper that has the IFV and blast a hole into the back wall near where the Allied Power Plants are located. If your IFV is destroyed, just mind-control one of the tanks in the area and take out the Power Plants. You must take out two Power Plants so the Prism Towers will be deactivated. You can also drop some Conscript Paratroopers into the compound on the south end of the screen. Have them destroy the six trucks located here and get all the crates that appear. You'll get a pile of cash from these crates. Use them to make more GIs from your captured Barracks. The Navy SEALs are a bit tough to deal with. Fortunately, your PSI Troopers can mind-control them out of their range of fire. So what you do is mind-control the SEALs and turn them on each other to clear out the area. Keep destroying buildings in this area. Take out all the Power Plants first. Once all this is done, It's time to get the President. Move in with one of you PSI Troopers and mind-control the SEAL guarding the President. Use this unit to clean up the remaining Allies and buildings. The move the captured SEAL away to a different location near one of the buildings you have garrisoned. That way when you release him, your garrisoned infantry will take him out. All that's left to do is have the PSI Trooper capture the President and your mission is over. Mission 10: Weathered Alliance, US Virgin Islands In a last desperate attempt to stop the onslaught of the mighty Soviet machine, the Allies have developed new technology that could turn the tides of the war. You must stop this new technology from being use on the Soviet Army. Objectives: Your task in this mission is to capture the American Battle Lab and destroy the Weather Control Device. Let's get started: When your mission starts you find you have very little room to build a base, and just a few units to start with. On the other hand the Allies already have a huge presence in this area with a large Navy. You will have to work fast to get up to speed. A pair of transports arrive at the start of the mission with some Conscripts, an MCV, and a couple of tanks. Move your MCV near the northern edge of the island near the ore field and deploy it. start building your base and get a Naval Yard up as soon as possible. Move one of your starting ships south right away and find the Dreadnought located there. Now you have a good start on your Navy. Keep cranking out ships and Typhoon Subs. You'll also need to make a Battle Lab so you can create Dreadnoughts. On the southern end of the island you have a small base already started for you, which includes a Tesla Reactor and a Radar Tower. Get some Conscripts and Flak ?Troopers there right away, and put up some Flak Cannons for additional protection. Then for now, keep building up your main base and your navy. You need lots of ships and subs. Next, send a ship east from your island and explore the area here. You'll find a small Island covered with Gems and a Tech Outpost. Capture this outpost with an Engineer and build another refinery off the Outpost. You'll need this ore field because you will run out of ore to harvest soon back at your main base area. But this ore field will supply you for the rest of the mission. Time for the hunt: Move your Sea Scorpions and Subs north from this small island. You'll find the Allies Naval Yards there. You need to destroy both of these Naval Yards and the ships they produce. The Typhoon Sub is perfect for this job. Use your Sea Scorpions to protect your subs from Allied Destroyers. Once the naval Yards are destroyed, move in some Dreadnoughts to take care of anything they can reach on the shore. This will take a bit of time, but make sure you take everything out you can reach with your Dreadnoughts. NOTE: While your pounding the Allies with your Dreadnoughts, they are sending in SEALs to blow up your Dreadnoughts. Your Sea Scorpions can handle the SEALs who try to destroy your Dreadnought fleets. Just make sure you have enough of them to properly guard the Dreadnoughts. Allied Rocketeers may also move in against your Dreadnought. Again, the Sea Scorpions can handle them as well. Tip: You won't be able to see every structure you can target with your Dreadnoughts due to the shroud covering the island the Allied base is on. To solve this problem, force fire on the ground you can see near the shroud. Then when enemy Patriot Missiles target your missiles, they appear to you briefly. Just target them before the shroud covers over them. When your done destroying all you can on this section of the island, head over to the western half of the island and do the same thing all over again. You can also send over your Apocalypse Tanks to assist in the destruction. Explore around the entire island. You'll find a large allied base to the west. Leave a couple defenseless structures around the Battle Lab like the Air Force Command. DO NOT DESTROY THE BATTLE LAB! Now move a few Engineers near the area of the Battle Lab. Take over the Battle Lab with an Engineer. Also any of the building you left standing. As soon as you do, the shroud is revealed in the northwest corner of the map, and your instructed to build a Nuclear Missile Silo and use it to destroy the Weather Control Device. At the same time the remaining ships from the American fleet sail in from the western edge of the map and attack your navy. And the Allies send a Weather Storm over your Nuclear Plant. Put a refinery down and start mining on this huge island. Act fast: You can build a Nuclear Silo if you want to, but it costs 5,000 to build, and it takes 10 min. before its ready to fire. By then the Allies will launch another attack from their Weather Control Device. So forget about building a Nuclear Silo. Here's what to do: Use whatever money you have to build ships. Gather up you fleet and send them up the western side of the map. You find that the Allies have a huge base along the edge of the island that covers the northern section of the map. It has many Power Plants with Patriot Missiles, and lots of Prism Towers. Now use your Navy and take out all the Patriot sites first, then the Prism Towers. You need to take out the Prism Tower on both sides of the inlet that leads to the third Allied Naval Base. Destroy the Naval Yard too. Keep moving your Dreadnoughts in towards the shore. You can hit the Weather Control Device from your ships. Your mission ends when the Device is destroyed. Mission 11: Red Revolution, Moscow The plot: In this mission your asked to return to Moscow so Yuri can thank you personally for your recent victories. But you notice there's something sinister about the way Yuri appears. Your suspicions prove correct when your assistant tells you that you've received a video tape. The tape contains film of Romanov telling you that Yuri is controlling his mind, and if he dies, Yuri is to blame. So it now appears that even General Vladimir may have been an innocent victim of Yuri's demented mind. Yuri is waiting for you in the Kremlin. Objectives: Your task is to destroy the Kremlin, with Yuri still in it. You start this mission with a horde of Conscripts, some Kirov Airships, a Construction Yard, and a couple vehicles. Go ahead and build all your normal structures. Concentrate on placing Flak Cannons in the east and northwest while your building up your forces. Start exploring the area with your Conscripts. Head them north and garrison the houses you find there. Do the same east of your base. Capture any Tech structures you find in these areas and protect them. Keep cranking out Conscripts and use them to garrison all the neutral buildings you can get to. You will be attacked from both the east and the north. That's why you were told to garrison buildings in these areas. You should also concentrate on making some Apocalypse Tanks. They can chew up enemy units quickly. You also need Tesla Coils (6), and place them in front of your base. Build a Battle Lab and then build a Nuclear Reactor to power the Coils instead of a bunch of Tesla Reactors. Note: Throughout the mission you will be receiving reinforcements. Trouble: Your biggest concern in this mission is the PSI-Corp Trooper units. The problem is you can't build Yuris (PSIs) of your own in this mission. The best way to defend against them if they get past your troops you have garrisoned in the buildings is Attack Dogs. Make groups of Attack Dogs, and whenever you see these PSI Troopers moving towards your base, send the dogs after them. Get the POWER: The Kremlin is a long way from your starting spot, and the passes leading to the Kremlin are very heavily guarded. Time to pull out all the stops. Make a fortified area in your base. Place lots of Flak Cannons and Apoc Tanks here, and then build a Nuclear Missile silo and place it in your fortified area. Build about a dozen Flak Tracks and more Flak Cannons. Place the Cannons on either side of your base. Make more Apoc Tanks and place them with your Flak Cannons. Once you place the Nuke Silo a PSI-Corp Trooper will pop in and ask you if you are really planning on using a nuclear weapon inside Mother Russia. You are of course, but that's not what the PSI wanted to hear. He retaliates by sending in Kirov Airships from the north and northeast. Now you see why you need all those Flak weapons and Apoc Tanks. Just keep building Flak Tracks and placing them where the Kirovs are coming from. This should take care of them and keep them from destroying your Nuke Silo. Launch the Nuke: When your Nuke is ready to fire, drop that sucker right on top of the Kremlin! It will take out the Kremlin and Yuri in one single massive blow. The traitor Yuri is dead and the Soviet military is yours to control. Congrats Comrade Commander. Mission 12: Polar Storm, Point Hope, Alaska Last mission Commander! You have one more obstacle in your way before you can lay claim to world domination, and that is the American base located in Alaska. The Americans also have the Chronosphere which allows them to transport units anywhere they need to in a flash. You will have to fight hard to earn this victory Comrade. Objective: Destroy the Allied Chronosphere and Victory is yours! Let's get started: Your mission starts with a small base already set up for you with a CY, Radar, Tesla Reactor, and Barracks. Build a Refinery right away and make 5 Flak Troopers. Put these in the middle of your island. Keep building up your base as usual, but don't worry about Tesla Coils or Sentry Guns yet. Don't build a Naval Yard yet. And don't build a second War Miner. One is all you'll need. A few Flak Cannons should be built too. Now create some Rhino Tanks (5). Also build a Battle Lab. As soon as you have the Battle Lab in place, start making a force of Kirov Airships. The Allied Attacks: Now while all this building is going on, you'll start being attacked by waves of Allied Troops. Groups of Rocketeers will appear over the island moving in from the west. Your Flak Troopers and Flak Cannons should be able to handle this attack easily if you have enough built. Your main concern will be when the Allies use their Chronosphere and send groups of vehicles onto the island. There are five different waves of Chrono attacks total. First Attack: The first wave will be all Rocket IFVs. They show up in the ore field to the northeast. Your War Miner and the Rhino Tanks can take care of these. Once this attack is over, send your tanks to the western part of the island and wait. Second Attack: Six Grizzly tanks will be Chrono warped in this area for the Allies second attack. Your Rhino Tanks should be able to get most of them before they phase back in. Now move everything that has a weapon and move them to the south and wait. The third attack is a single transport loaded with SEALs. The best thing to do here is destroy the transport before it unloads the SEALs. If you can't get the transport before it unloads, your tanks will still be able to handle the SEALs. With that out of the way, move everything to the north. The fourth attack comes in from the water. It will be two Aircraft Carriers. The Flak Troopers, Flak Tracks, and the Flak Cannons will handle the Aircraft from the Carrier. You can use Kirov Airships to take out the Aircraft Carriers. Now move your tanks to the southeast corner. The fifth attack, and final Chrono attack is a group of tanks. Your Rhino Heavies should be able to handle this one easily. Build your army: You need 6 Kirovs. Then make a Naval Yard if you haven't already done so and build Sea Scorpions(6), and five each of Typhoon Subs and Dreadnoughts. When your ships are built, send one Kirov up the right edge of the map to the northeast corner. Now move in carefully and find the Tech Airport. At this airport you'll find Kirov Airships. Go ahead and take them with you and move them back to your base. Tip: You can use Sea Scorpions to guard your Kirovs while they are over the sea in case Allied Rocketeers try to attack them. Now take your Sea Scorpions and Subs and move west from the Naval Yard. There are about a dozen Allied ships and two Naval Yards. It's important that you destroy the Allied Navy. You need superiority of the seas to complete your mission. Move along the coast and take out all Navy ships with your Subs. Use your Sea Scorpions to protect your Subs. Once you have destroyed the Allied Navy its time to go after the Allied land positions. Pound the beaches: Use your Dreadnoughts to shell the beach. Take out everything you can see. Make sure you take out the Patriot Missiles first and then the Tesla Reactors. While your working on the Allied base, take your Kirovs to the southwest corner of the map. Keep them away from land. If you fly them over the Patriot Missiles in the area they will be destroyed. Now move your Navy to the southern tip of the island and start taking out all Allied structures here. Start with Prism Towers and Pillboxes that can hit your ships. Some of the shroud will cover the Allied structures. If you force fire with your Dreadnoughts near the shroud, the Patriot Missiles will fire at your Dreadnought missiles. When they do, they are revealed for a few seconds. Have your Dreadnoughts target them when you see them. When most of this area is destroyed, run your Kirovs up through this cove and move them mainly north, but bearing slightly east. Once you see a high concentration of walls, Pillboxes, and Prism Towers, move the Kirovs in on them. Keep your Dreadnoughts targeting any Patriot Missiles the Kirovs may have uncovered. Main Goal: You should have between six and ten Kirovs for this final assault. The more the merrier! Your after the Chronsphere located in the center of all those walls and defensive structures. There are some air defenses around the Chronoshphere, but not enough to take out all your Kirovs. Move in and destroy it. With the Chronosphere destroyed the mission ends, no matter how many units the Allies have left. The world is once again at peace. You are Victorious! Congratulations Comrade General -------------------------------------- 12. Special multiplayer strategies. \-----------------------------\ 12.1. Unholy Alliance Strategies. =========INTRODUCTION========= Okay, this is my favorite mode of play at the moment, because I can't play a lot online with my crappy modem, so I can't play the World Domination thing, and no cooperative mode (well that will change in January, when cable moves into my little village, YEAH BABY YEAH!!). Now you ask: How the hell are you able to play Unholy Alliance then? Well, for those of you who don't know, you can change the regular mode of play in a skirmish game. Here is how it goes: - Go to your Red Alert 2 directory, which should be c:\Westwood\RA2. - Find and open the ra2.ini file. - Get to the section [SKIRMISH] and the first thing you should see is GameMode=1. - To change this mode to Unholy Alliance, for me it was GameMode=4 (I read on a site it was 3, but that didn't work!). Good, now that we have set our skirmish mode, let's get down to play. First, for the people who never heard of Unholy Alliance, it is a standard battle scenario, where every player starts with an Allied and a Soviet MCV (the computer seems to get 3 MCVs, very weird!). This means that you can build everything of both sides, from the Allied Weather Storm, to the Soviet Apocalypse Tanks, it's all in there! Like it yet? Good. Let's get on with the killing!! PS: Just called the cable people, and they told me that I'll have to wait 'till April!!!!!! What the f*ck is this. These f*ckin' people thing I have endless f*cking patience. Well, I f*ckin' don't!!!! =========CHOOSING YOUR SIDE========= Now don't think that because of Unholy Alliance, you also get units of both sides at the beginning of the match. Say that you choose for the Soviets, and the country of Russia, then you will start with both MCVs, and conscripts +some rhinos. That's it. No Grizzlies! What I love about this mode, is that matches can take a long time, and man, I have no LAG!!! duh? Okay, now let's see what is best to do when you have to choose sides. I know it goes against my judgement, but I would choose a Soviet country, just for the main reason that when you start against a lot of computer opponents, they have the annoying habit to rush you at the very start of the game. It's not a that big rush, but you can't counter it in most cases. The Allied tanks lack durability, and if you can distract the tanks long enough, you can recover. Let's get on to the main strategies/tips people! =========STRATEGIES TO BEAT THE AI========= Okay, there's no rooom for slowdown now. Set up your Construction Yard right now. Group all your units together, and watch out for any incoming assault. WARNING: Be sure NOT to provoke one, we don't want to lose the game at the beginning alright! Build an Allied Refinery, and a Soivet Barracks. Start cranking out Sentry Guns like a mad man. Build at least 8 of them. Build an Allied barracks and build pillboxes, let's say about 5 of them. Train GIs like you've never done before! (I hope the ore fields are close hehe) Build an Allied War Factory, for the simple reason that we'll need a lot of Chrono Miners. Okay, we should be able to withstand a small assault right now. The defensive structures will hold them busy, while the tanks and GIs will fry them! Build 2 IFVs and 2 Tesla Troopers and place the troopers in the IFVs. BRAVO! You now have a Tesla Tank viriant. These will help you against any incoming tanks. Start a Soviet War Factory after you built at least 5-10 more miners. Don't mess up on the miner thing, if you run out of cash in the heat of an assault, you'll know what it feels like to stink! Once you have a War Factory, start the production... you know what production. What did you say? NO????? Ever heard of Rhino Heavy Tanks? Well, build at least 15 more tanks. Start building an Air Force Command or a Radar Tower, it's your choice, but right now, I'd go with the Air Force Command HQ. Build yourself 4 Harriers and go ahead and strike a building of the enemy, just to make him mad hehehe. If you were so brave to take the Americans, then you just have survived and done a great thing, cause those Paratroopers can help you a great deal out here. Every drop that you get should go to your own base, just for some cheap GIs. If you can garrison buildings close to your base, then do it. See if your harriers can't find an Oil Derrick or two. If you can find them, take an IFV with some Engineers and go ride them in. Take everything over and place some sentry guns around them. Build an Allied Battle Lab right now. Start by placing Prism Towers around the Oil Derricks. Oh yes, you heard me right, PRISM TOWERS. In this mode, everybody needs them, so it is vital that you don't just give them up to your oponent. Build an Allied Barracks there and train about 20-40 GIs and deploy them (setting up walls here is a good idea too.). Okay, I think it is time to see if there's some water here. I hope you can build there, if not, make sure you can. Once you have a Naval Shipyard of the Soviets, start cranking out Typhoon Subs and sea Scorpions as a defensive purpose. Build a few Dreadnoughts, and start bombarding the enemy base from the water if possible (this will help greatly, so do whatever you can to bombard them). Let the Sea Scorpions take care of any V3 Rockets that the enemy may fire at your ships (it is the wisest thing to do if you have no ships yourself hum). Try to stay out of range of its defenses for now. Back at your base, build an Allied Shipyard and place it now. Build an Aegis Cruiser. Let it move to the place of battle to help the Scorpions (if the enemy is doing the V3 thing). Build a handful of Destroyers and let them stand guard to ward of any enemy submarines that are lurking in the water (or use Dolphins). Build more Destroyers, until you have a sizable fleet. Start pshing forward, firing with your heavy Destroyer cannons, while building a few Carriers at your Naval Yard. Try to punch a hole in the enemy defenses right here. Destroy any Flak Cannons/Patriots that you can touch from here. Bring in the Carriers and fire away! Target key structures. Destroy all of his construction Yards first, then target the Service Depots and War Factory that he may have. Then the Refineries. Once you have weakened him to death, build a Kirov Airship and send it over and destroy anything that remains (have you noticed that it is very easy to make this thing elite? It's almost too easy!!). Once this base is out of comission, I'm sure there are multiple enemies, otherwise we shouldn't have been that hasty in building up our defenses! See if your Oil Derricks are being targeted if so, build more Prism Towers here. Build a Soivet Battle Lab, while your Allied Construction Yard builds an Ore Purifier. Once the Battle Lab is up, build about 5 Apocalypse Tanks to make any tanks that aproach your base scrap metal. If the enemy is attacking the Oil Derricks, roll them there imediately and take care of them right now (repair your Prism Towers often please). If you don't feel safe about the Derricks, place a soivet War Factory here and start cranking out Rhinos and Apocalypse Tanks here. Now it is time to build a heavy defense alright? Build Prism Towers and Tesla Coils as needed. Build a Nuclear Reactor, but place it in a safe place and set up walls around it, aswell as prism towers and tesla coils. Now build about 6 Power Plants to make sure that whatever happens doesn't black out your base. Place some Patriot Missile Systems for any harm that could be done to you. Now it is time to build a Spy Satelite Uplink (unless you were so lucky to get a Map Reveal Crate), and see where the enemy is at its weakest. If he has a weak spot, criple him there. The first thing you should look for are bases without Guard dogs. If you see this, look to the IFV activity. He may have a trick up his sleeve. He can keep his dogs in the IFV, or a Helicopter. This way you won't know if he keeps them away from you. If you can't find any signs of them, send in a bunch of spies (sneak please) and get them into Battle Labs and War Factories first, then steal some money and get them into the Barracks or Radar, just to annoy them!! If you can succeed in this objective, then life will be much easier for you. Increase money flow right now, by building more miners. One thing I must tell you though, is to keep any Soviet Refineries at bay. The Allies can harvest much faster then the Soviets, and those miners tend to get themselves into trouble quicker then Chrono miners (by provocing a fight, while firing on an enemy). Now, it is time to build as many tanks as you can, preferably Apocalypse tanks, because they aren't so helpless as in the previous C&C games. You should get them veteran if you infiltrated your Spy in a soivet war Factory, which is an added bonus of ocurse. Now it is time for a first attack on your enemy. Roll all your tanks to your enemy's base. Keep all your Grizzly Tanks that you have, plus the GIs at your base, but send some attack dogs and Terror Drones with them, for quicker infantry and tank killing. If you can, do an Air Strike before your people move in. Now, we are going to do this strategically. Take the half of your Apocalypse Tanks and assign them to number 1. Do the same with your second half only for number 2. But the rest of your units (which should be the Rhinos +attack dogs and terror drones) on number 3. Once that is done, move. When you arrive at the enemy base. Let your first Apocalypse group all target the same defensive structure (it should go down in one strike of them all!). Remove all defenses that way, let the second group concentrate on power. Shut it off as fast as you can. The others should ward off any enemy units that assault you. If the enemy units brake through your guard, let the Apocalypse Tanks handle them now. Now, target production structures. Destroy them as you encounter them. Try to take the whole base out if you can. Once that is completed, role all your tanks back to your base and celebrate, as you're one step closer to victory. Now it is time to take a look at our present situation. If you have the knowledge of enemy super weapons, do anything to stop them. I'd say, head there with about 6 Demolition trucks (the Ivan +IFV trick hehe), which will be faster and harder to catch. You should at least hit it once, which should mean instant death for that facility, aswell as any infantry that is playing around (I just LOVE the sound that makes!!). Good, you have just removed the biggest threat to use at this point. Build a Lightning Storm and a Nuke Silo. If you remember TS, you know that an Ion Cannon strike and Drop Pods (Firestorm), worked together very well (I always confused the enemy/won the game with it). You could destroy any building to your liking with it! Now, we will do something even worse! Wait until all two Super Weapons are in place, while building an Iron curtain device, and a chrono Sphere. Let these charge aswell. Build some Power Plants again (about 6 again), so that you can compensate for the used power that the super Weapons bring with them. Once your Nuke is ready, fire at will! Target the building you want dead for sure. At the same moment or shortly thereafter, launch your Lightning Storm at the enemy base. Garanteed destruction! Now, build all the Apocalypse tanks you can before your super weapons are ready. Once that is done, use the Iron Curtain on them and Chronoshift them into the enemy base. Destroy anything now, especially enemy structures remaining first. All those tanks will not be able to do anything to you for a few moments. It is vital that you imediately warp them to the most important structure the enemy still has, to garantee that this guy is surendering for sure (and my experience is that human oponents surender much faster than AI, which is very ligical ahem). This is the best trick you can do, it is called the Chrono Curtain. After that display of Superiority, let's move on to the others. You may have noticed that throughout this FAQ, I only handle one enemy at a time. This is because, handling two enemies, always gives them an advantage. Focus your attack on only one, except if you can pay that much for 2 Attack Forces. Now, for the last one. Start making a LOT of Prism Tanks. First, see where the enemy is exactly, and where his important things are. Target Construction Yard first, only then the super weapons he may have. Beware of the nasty trick of a good commander, to use the Iron Curtain on the structures you are attacking at that moment. This gives him vital time to regroup, but you should move on and destroy anything that isn't affected by this cowardous trick (oh well, always use it myself though). Okay, now that you have the reacon, you should be almost ready with your super weapons. Wait for a good number of Prism Tanks to be ready, Chrono Curtain them, to the most important buildings in the area, and mow down! Oh, and if you can manage it, train a Spy first, see if there are any dogs, see if there is any way you could bring him into a Tesla Reactor, and if so, Chrono Curtain your tanks right at THAT moment. This, will prevent the commander from using the Iron Curtain himself, as well as disabling heavy defenses (GREAT!!!). Now, after your Prism Tanks are back/destroyed, use the Lightning Missile (which means using a nuke +lightning storm combo). Now, you should still have some Apocalypse Tanks right? Roll them, together with all Rhino Tanks you have, to the enemy base and destroy anything that remained from your first assaults. Start mass production of Kirov Airships. You heard me right! KIROV AIRSHIPS!! Once that is ready (let's say we need about 15 or something!), bring them to any other enemy that is on the map, and wipe them off. If you want, you can ease the job by powering down the base by using a spy or a Super Weapons assault on his power plants (if he was so dumb to place them in a group hehe). Once that is done, you will have limited Flak/Patriot resistance. The only thing you will have to worry about, are the ground units that can fire on you, especially Rocketeers, as there is nothing, and I mean NOTHING that you can do to stop them. That is primarily why I use Rocketeers, I first thought they weren't too much of a help, because of their lame weapons, and fast dying rate (man what kind of thing is "dying rate" anyway). Well, even if you crash, it will give a nice explosion when it hits something hehehehehehehehehehehe! Try to destroy as much as possible here, now build MILLIONS (oh no just kidding) of Terror Drones, and move! Kill all units in the enemy's base, being it infantry or tanks. Destroy all miners that you can. Our mission here is to stop the enemy's economy. Once that is down, we just have to smash 'em into dust! Just one thing, if the enemy is so smart to use this trick against you, you should know that it is very handy to have a few Service Depots lying around. Let all your units fire on them, trying to destroy as many as you can, think this: They aren't strong but annoying. Annoyances can be removed easier than big threats. This isn't entirely true, it's just that Red Alert 2 also handles a lot about Psychological Warfare. If you can scare your enemy hard enough, he'll start doing stupid things. The same thing applies to you, keep that in mind please! If you can master Psychological Warfare, and you can actually use it on your enemy, then that's good for you. Man, I remember the old days, when I played the original C&C. In this game, you could have a "stealth" crate, which cloaked your unit permanently, it only decloaked when the unit performed a action that corresponded with "fire" or"unload/load". The cool thing was, that you could have a cloaked APC (the C&C version of the IFV). The main thing was, that if you had one, you could train Engineers and deliver them right in front of the building, without the enemy even knowing about it. Unloading your Engineers, which took only a split second, was the only thing that could decloak your APC. But since your Engineers were so close to their targets, it was very unlikely that they wouldn't make it. Once, I captured the enemy's Construction Yard, Refinery +harvester, Barracks, War Factory and Technology Center. The whole point of this thing is the following: Even if you DON'T have a cloaked APC, it always helps to make the enemy belive you have. Use a cloaking sound and type in the chat window "There goes my Stealth APC!!". GARANTEED FEAR!!!! It always works. This just works as an example to what you can do with Psychological Warfare. Cool huh! Countering a huge naval assault isn't easy. Since both sides have satisfying ships, you really have to be good and a little lucky here. First thing you'll want is a few Dolphins, to remove those Giant Squids if they turn mad! Secondly, train a Tanya, this is vital to your success. Now, build up a lot of Destroyers and a few Aegis Cruisers. Don't bother with the Sea Scorpions, build Typhoon Attack Subs instead, they are much better in my opinion. Start cranking out Carriers, because they are the best to take on ships in my opinion. Once you have a good "Carrier Battle Group", start building Dreadnoughts, but keep them behind your main fleet. We will use them to imediately counter the enemy's assault on you. However, don't do this if you see an enemy moving in for the kill, that's far too late. Try to do this as fast as possible, you don't know if the enemy is out there, but you're better prepared if you ask me. Also, even if you can't use them to attack your enemy, and to defend your Naval Yard, you can engage enemy units attacking your main base with them. Try to use Destroyers and Typhoon Subs, because the Carriers and Dreadnoughts tend to take out buildings and units of your own if you're not careful enough. Also, there's something very important to having a Cruiser. If the enemy has acces to Paratroopers, using an Airport or being America, the Cruiser will take out any annoying infantry that the enemies may send at you, and they will take them out pretty fast! 12.2. Red Alert 2 DeeZire strategies. ------------------------------------- =============INTRODUCTION============= I'm pretty sure that almost everybody that goes on the net to play some RA2 has heard about something called Red alert 2 DeeZire. Yeah, now I remember, that mod that is one of the best of all mods. This mod doesn't really make new features or units, it digs them out of the Westwood files, as they were deleted from the schedule. There are a lot of good things to do, and there are a buttload of new maps to play on. You will NEVER get bored of RA2 this way. Here are the main features of the mod: - New units and structures to play with. - Tweaked units and structures, to make playing more balanced and sometimes more realistic. - Multiplayer Debug mode. - About 40 new maps to play on(!). - Some enabled music tracks and single player maps. - A bunch of multiplayer modes enabled in skirmish. - An upgraded command bar which lets you do a lot more than before. - Advanced crate rules, which will not only give you random units from previous C&C games, but also some enabled crates from previous games, like explosion or Napalm. These are the main things you can expect in your battles. I'll go a little further in the units/structures you can build. I'll also note the new paratrooper rules or new super weapons changes and all that crap. We'll see that when we get there. ==========UNITS========== ALLIED FORCES ------------- German Spy ---------- Country needed: Germany Description: This one is pretty cool. It brings back horrible memories of Tiberian Sun... This is mainly a vehicle thief. It can steal anything, even miners. If you are playing against the Soviets, it may be difficult to get away with their War Miners, but if you can, that's a good thing, you have an extra harvester! The cool thing is that you don't have to infiltrate buildings to use this guy, you can move to his front line and snatch some vehicles! The Soviets have a similar operative, so please don't just sit around with your vehicles everywhere. Be sure to have dogs everywhere. Or if you want to encourage himt o send a spy, place your dogs in IFVs, so that they don't know you have them, but your dogs can still detect them. See the tactical info at the end of the section for info on this unit. Stealth Bomber -------------- Country needed: America Description: My ABSOLUTE favorite unit of all time! People who bother reading my FAQ will have noticed that I'm a huge Harrier user, that's because I'm deeply in love with these fast and powerful air planes. The Stealth Bomber is even faster, and even deadlier. It can do two strikes with its advanced Mavericks (actually, they are the elite versions of the Harrier mavericks), and they need a lot of flak to be brought down, that's because of their speed of course. You can defend against them, but it's not just: place a few flak cannons and a few troopers, and watch the planes fall out of the skies like flies when they are... well swatted! The main thing is that if you are American, you can only build the Stealth Bomber, not the Harrier, take note of that. For the rest, it has better strength too. If you are going to attack an enemy, I think the "Air Strike Without Warning" strategy for the Allies has gotten a big brother! This makes it a lethal attack weapon! Weapon: Elite Mavericks Phalanx Tank ------------ Country needed: France Description: This is another cool gizmo to have around. It teleports around like a Chrono Legionaire or Chrono Commando, and it has dual missile launchers. This means that terror drones are no match for it, as it can escape them easily, and destroy them directly after. It is also an anti-air weapon, although I think if you want cheap anti-air, you may be better off with the IFV. I use these units a lot for unexpected assaults to weak portions of the enemy base. Be sure to check them out for yourself. Weapon: Dual missiles. Orca Attack Chopper ------------------- Description: This ones from the old days. YOu need an Air Force Command HQ aswell as a captured Airport. These are choppers with somewhat powerful machinguns. They can destroy buildings in packs, but lonely, they aren't much of a threat to the enemy. Theya re nice to check out, but I don't think these are good enough to save the day. The only good use I've found for them is to destract the flak units while my Stealth Bombers made their runs. Like Cabal used to say in Tiberian Sun: "They are expendable." Weapon: Armor Piercing Chaingun (something like that) Mobile Gap Generator -------------------- Country Needed: Korea Description: I don't use this a lot. Old Red Alert players should know what this is. It hides a bunch of units from enemy sight. If you want a few units to be shrouded to the enemy, so he doesn't know you have that particular unit, but I think it is needless to say it is quite useless for the rest. Mine Layer. ----------- Country Needed: Germany Description: this is one of the units that was promised in the previews, but somehow didn't make it into the game. Fortunately, DeeZire gives them to us. These are self-explenatory, the only problems with them is that you can't reload them at your Service Depot or any other structure. Once the mines are expired, you'll have to build a new Mine Layer to replace the old one. That's pretty stupid don't you think? Anyway, that's about it. A good thing to do is to mine ore patches, mine the whole ore patch, so that the War Miners will be dead for sure. Field Medic. ------------ Description: It was kind of weird, not having a medic in a C&C game, but with DeeZire, that all changes. This medic will heal all kinds of infantry. He has the voice of a civilian male (kind of weird). Be sure to train at least 2, so that they can heal fellow medics. These are essential if you have to kill off paratroopers with GIs, so that you can keep them healed. also, you SHOULD try to send a medic along with Tanyaor a bunch of SEALs, so that you can try and make their lifespan longer. Light Tank. ----------- Country Needed: Great Britain Description: I love this unit! Just build about 10 to 15 of these, move them to the enemy ore field at full speed, and chip away at the War Miners there. The enemy will most likely send help, keep firing at the harvesters and concentrate your shells at one miner at a time. Try to destroy most of them. Once th reinforcements start firing, power up engines and speed back to your base. These tanks are incredibly fast, so hit & run tactics are very effective with these units. They are also good units to transport with the Chronosphere, to make the Hit & Run even sweeter. Just teleport them to a relatively weak part of the base, demolish light defenses, destroy any structures close enough, and break your way back out of the base. This works very well. These are also mentioned in the preview of Red Alert 2 by the way. Weapon: 90mm cannon Nimitz Aircraft Carrier. ------------------------ Country Needed: America Description: This sounds good, now you'll be able to make your own realistic Carrier Battle Group. I may have a good tip for Westwood, and that is to allow you to give ships their unique names, which will make it even cooler, with your Nimitz, your Yorktown, your Kennedy and all that stuff. Anyways, where were we? Oh yes, the Nimitz Aircraft Carrier. I think this ship should've gotten it's own image, but since it's only an upgraded aircraft carrier... Its upgrades are: almost twice as strong, and it gets 4 F/A-18 Hornets instead of 3. They have some extra cost on them, but you get what you pay for. And now, we'll take a look at the Tactical Info, straight from the INI-file. Name=German Spy Category=Soldier Prerequisite=GAPILE,GATECH Crushable=no Strength=100 Primary=Hijack Secondary=MakeupKit CanRetaliate=no CanDisguise=yes PermaDisguise=yes Agent=yes Infiltrate=yes Armor=none TechLevel=5 Sight=9 Speed=4 Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance RequiredHouses=Germans AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no Cost=1000 Soylent=2000 Pip=blue Points=5 VoiceSelect=SSSelect VoiceMove=SSMove VoiceAttack=SSAttackCommand DieSound=SSDie VoiceSpecialAttack=SSAttackCommand Locomotor={4A582744-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} MovementZone=Infantry VeteranAbilities=STRONGER,SIGHT,FASTER EliteAbilities=SELF_HEAL,STRONGER,FASTER,SIGHT ThreatPosed=0 SpecialThreatValue=1 PreventAttackMove=yes GuardRange=6 VehicleThief=yes StupidHunt=yes Name=Stealth Bomber Prerequisite=RADAR,GATECH Primary=MaverickE CanPassiveAquire=no CanRetaliate=no Strength=200 Category=AirPower Armor=light TechLevel=10 Sight=6 RadarInvisible=yes RadarVisible=no Landable=yes MoveToShroud=yes Dock=GAAIRC,AMRADR PipScale=Ammo Speed=16 PitchSpeed=1.3 PitchAngle=0 Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance RequiredHouses=Americans Cost=2000 Points=20 ROT=4 Ammo=2 Crewed=yes ConsideredAircraft=yes AirportBound=yes GuardRange=30 Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 Maxdebris=3 IsSelectableCombatant=yes VoiceSelect=IntruderSelect VoiceMove=IntruderMove VoiceAttack=IntruderAttackCommand VoiceCrashing=IntruderVoiceDie MoveSound=IntruderMoveLoop CrashingSound=IntruderDie ImpactLandSound=GenAircraftCrash Locomotor={4A582746-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} MovementZone=Fly ThreatPosed=30 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys AuxSound1=IntruderTakeOff AuxSound2=IntruderLanding Trainable=no Fighter=yes CrateGoodie=no AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no ImmuneToPsionics=yes PreventAttackMove=yes Name=Chrono Phalanx Tank Image=PHAL Prerequisite=GAWEAP,GADEPT Primary=HoverMissile3 Strength=500 Category=AFV Armor=heavy Turret=no IsTilter=yes Crusher=yes TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true TechLevel=10 Sight=7 Speed=4 Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance RequiredHouses=French Cost=1300 Points=25 ROT=4 PreventAttackMove=yes MoveToShroud=no IsSelectableCombatant=yes AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no ChronoInSound=ChronoLegionTeleport ChronoOutSound=ChronoLegionTeleport Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenAllVehicleSelect VoiceMove=GenAllVehicleMove VoiceAttack=GenAllVehicleAttackCommand DieSound=GenVehicleDie MoveSound=GrizzlyTankMoveStart MaxDebris=2 DebrisTypes=AXLE DebrisMaximums=2 Locomotor={4A582747-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} MovementZone=Infantry ThreatPosed=60 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys VeteranAbilities=SIGHT,FASTER EliteAbilities=SELF_HEAL,EXPLODES Accelerates=false CrateGoodie=no Size=3 Weight=3 Name=Attack Chopper Prerequisite=CAAIRP,RADAR Primary=HarpyClaw Strength=225 Category=AirPower Armor=light TechLevel=10 Sight=2 Landable=yes MoveToShroud=yes Dock=GAAIRC,AMRADR PipScale=Ammo Speed=14 PitchSpeed=.16 Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance Cost=900 Points=20 ROT=5 Ammo=5 Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 Maxdebris=2 VoiceSelect=IntruderSelect VoiceMove=IntruderMove VoiceAttack=IntruderAttackCommand VoiceCrashing=IntruderVoiceDie MoveSound=IntruderMoveLoop CrashingSound=IntruderDie ImpactLandSound=GenAircraftCrash Locomotor={4A582746-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} MovementZone=Fly ThreatPosed=20 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys AuxSound1=IntruderTakeOff AuxSound2=IntruderLanding Fighter=yes AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no ImmuneToPsionics=yes PreventAttackMove=yes CrateGoodie=no AirportBound=yes ConsideredAircraft=yes ThreatPosed=15 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys Trainable=no Name=Mobile Gap Generator Prerequisite=GACNST,GAWEAP,GATECH,RADAR Strength=600 Category=Support Armor=light CrateGoodie=no DeploysInto=GADPSA DeployTime=0.0 AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no TechLevel=10 Turret=no Sight=10 Speed=6 Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance RequiredHouses=Alliance Cost=1000 Points=30 ROT=5 Crewed=yes Crusher=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenAllVehicleSelect VoiceMove=GenAllVehicleMove DieSound=GenVehicleDie MaxDebris=6 Locomotor={4A582741-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} Weight=3.5 MovementZone=Normal ThreatPosed=0 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys SpecialThreatValue=1 TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true ZFudgeColumn=8 ZFudgeTunnel=15 Size=3 Trainable=no Name=Mine Layer Prerequisite=GACNST,GAWEAP,GATECH Strength=500 Category=Support PipScale=Ammo Ammo=5 Armor=heavy CrateGoodie=no Turret=yes TurretSpins=yes DeploysInto=GAMINE AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no TechLevel=10 Sight=6 Speed=3 Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance RequiredHouses=Germans Cost=2000 Points=60 ROT=5 Crewed=yes Crusher=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenAllVehicleSelect VoiceMove=ChronoMinerMove VoiceAttack=GenAllVehicleAttackCommand DieSound=GenVehicleDie MaxDebris=6 Locomotor={4A582741-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} Weight=2.5 MovementZone=Normal ThreatPosed=0 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys SpecialThreatValue=1 TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true ZFudgeColumn=12 ZFudgeTunnel=15 Size=4 Trainable=no DeployTime=0.0 PreventAutoDeploy=yes Name=Mine Layer Image=MLAYR Strength=500 Category=Support PipScale=Ammo Ammo=4 Armor=heavy CrateGoodie=no Turret=yes TurretSpins=yes DeploysInto=GAMINE2 AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no TechLevel=-1 Sight=6 Speed=3 Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance RequiredHouses=Germans Cost=2000 Points=60 ROT=5 Crewed=yes Crusher=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenAllVehicleSelect VoiceMove=ChronoMinerMove VoiceAttack=GenAllVehicleAttackCommand DieSound=GenVehicleDie MaxDebris=6 Locomotor={4A582741-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} Weight=2.5 MovementZone=Normal ThreatPosed=0 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys SpecialThreatValue=1 TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true ZFudgeColumn=12 ZFudgeTunnel=15 Size=4 Trainable=no DeployTime=0.0 PreventAutoDeploy=yes Name=Mine Layer Image=MLAYR Strength=500 Category=Support PipScale=Ammo Ammo=3 Armor=heavy CrateGoodie=no Turret=yes TurretSpins=yes DeploysInto=GAMINE3 AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no TechLevel=-1 Sight=6 Speed=3 Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance RequiredHouses=Germans Cost=2000 Points=60 ROT=5 Crewed=yes Crusher=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenAllVehicleSelect VoiceMove=ChronoMinerMove VoiceAttack=GenAllVehicleAttackCommand DieSound=GenVehicleDie MaxDebris=6 Locomotor={4A582741-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} Weight=2.5 MovementZone=Normal ThreatPosed=0 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys SpecialThreatValue=1 TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true ZFudgeColumn=12 ZFudgeTunnel=15 Size=4 Trainable=no DeployTime=0.0 PreventAutoDeploy=yes Name=Mine Layer Image=MLAYR Strength=500 Category=Support PipScale=Ammo Ammo=2 Armor=heavy CrateGoodie=no Turret=yes TurretSpins=yes DeploysInto=GAMINE4 AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no TechLevel=-1 Sight=6 Speed=3 Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance RequiredHouses=Germans Cost=2000 Points=60 ROT=5 Crewed=yes Crusher=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenAllVehicleSelect VoiceMove=ChronoMinerMove VoiceAttack=GenAllVehicleAttackCommand DieSound=GenVehicleDie MaxDebris=6 Locomotor={4A582741-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} Weight=2.5 MovementZone=Normal ThreatPosed=0 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys SpecialThreatValue=1 TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true ZFudgeColumn=12 ZFudgeTunnel=15 Size=4 Trainable=no DeployTime=0.0 PreventAutoDeploy=yes Name=Mine Layer Image=MLAYR Strength=500 Category=Support PipScale=Ammo Ammo=1 Armor=heavy CrateGoodie=no Turret=yes TurretSpins=yes DeploysInto=GAMINE5 AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no TechLevel=-1 Sight=6 Speed=3 Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance RequiredHouses=Germans Cost=2000 Points=60 ROT=5 Crewed=yes Crusher=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenAllVehicleSelect VoiceMove=ChronoMinerMove VoiceAttack=GenAllVehicleAttackCommand DieSound=GenVehicleDie MaxDebris=6 Locomotor={4A582741-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} Weight=2.5 MovementZone=Normal ThreatPosed=0 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys SpecialThreatValue=1 TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true ZFudgeColumn=12 ZFudgeTunnel=15 Size=4 Trainable=no DeployTime=0.0 PreventAutoDeploy=yes Name=Medic Category=Soldier Primary=Heal Secondary=VirtualScanner Prerequisite=GAPILE CrushSound=InfantrySquish Strength=125 Pip=red Armor=none TechLevel=4 Sight=6 Speed=4 Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance Cost=600 Soylent=600 Points=5 VoiceSelect=CivAllSelect VoiceMove=CivAllMove VoiceAttack=CivAllAttackCommand VoiceFeedback=CivAllFear DieSound=CivAllDie Locomotor={4A582744-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} PhysicalSize=1 MovementZone=Infantry ThreatPosed=0 SpecialThreatValue=1 GuardRange=8 SelfHealing=yes ImmuneToPsionics=no Bombable=yes VeteranAbilities=STRONGER,SIGHT,FASTER EliteAbilities=STRONGER,FASTER,ROF Size=1 AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no IFVMode=1 Name=Light Tank Prerequisite=GAWEAP Primary=90mm Strength=200 Category=AFV Armor=heavy Turret=yes IsTilter=yes TargetLaser=yes TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true TechLevel=4 Sight=7 Speed=9 Crusher=yes Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance RequiredHouses=British AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no Cost=500 Points=25 ROT=5 IsSelectableCombatant=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenAllVehicleSelect VoiceMove=GenAllVehicleMove VoiceAttack=LightTankAttack DieSound=GenVehicleDie Maxdebris=3 Locomotor={4A582741-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} MovementZone=Normal ThreatPosed=40 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys DamageSmokeOffset=100,100,275 Weight=3.5 VeteranAbilities=STRONGER,FIREPOWER,SIGHT,FASTER EliteAbilities=SELF_HEAL,STRONGER,FIREPOWER,ROF Accelerates=false ZFudgeColumn=8 ZFudgeTunnel=13 CrateGoodie=no Size=3 OpportunityFire=yes ElitePrimary=90mm Name=Aircraft Carrier Nimitz Image=CARRIER Prerequisite=GAYARD,GATECH Primary=HornetLauncher CanPassiveAquire=no Spawns=HORNET SpawnsNumber=4 SpawnRegenRate=500 SpawnReloadRate=100 FireAngle=32 ToProtect=yes Category=Support Strength=1500 Naval=yes Armor=heavy TechLevel=7 Sight=7 Speed=4 CrateGoodie=no Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance RequiredHouses=Americans AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no Cost=2500 Turret=no Points=55 ROT=1 Crusher=yes Weight=5 Crewed=no IsSelectableCombatant=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenAllWaterSelect VoiceMove=GenAllWaterMove VoiceAttack=GenAllWaterAttackCommand SinkingSound=GenLargeWaterDie MoveSound=ACCMoveStart Locomotor={2BEA74E1-7CCA-11d3-BE14-00104B62A16C} SpeedType=Float MovementZone=Water ThreatPosed=25 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys VeteranAbilities=STRONGER,FIREPOWER,ROF,SIGHT,FASTER EliteAbilities=SELF_HEAL,STRONGER,FIREPOWER,ROF TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true GuardRange=10 Size=50 SOVIETS ------- Flamer ------ Description: This ain't one of those idiots on the Diablo II boards (weewee to be exact), thinking he is smart, while he actually can't form a normal English sentance! No, this is the old-school flame infantry of the original Command & Conquer if you like. they are deadly against infantry, and even deadlier against infantry when put in an IFV, because SEALs and Tanya can't really harm them. So if you have acces to IFVs, be sure to put a few Flamers in them, just to make sure that the enemy SEALs they drop off, will be imediately killed. They seem to be quite thrilled to fire at Naval units aswell. Weapon: Full-crisp Flamethrower Iron Fist --------- Description: The best unit for the Soviets in this mod in my opinion. Although it has missiles to defend itself from harm, this is not a combat unit, mainly meant for support. This is one of the main good things about playing the Soviets in RA2. Okay, so now you still don't know what this is. Does the name "mobile War Factory" say anything to you? It does to me. While it is easily called a mobile War Factory, there is something that you should know and memorize above all! The Iron Fist is NOT, and I repeat NOT used to produce the vehicles, you can only let them come out of your Iron Fist (sounds weird!). The trick is that in conjunction with the Iron Curtain, you can make your enemy go nuts pretty quicly. The main thing to do, is to use the Curtain on the Iron Fist once it is in range of enemy units bu the base. Don't stay in range of the defensive structures when you deploy. Or, you could wait until the units attack your fist while it is deployed (if the enemy didn't imediately notice you that is) and produce Apocalypse Tanks like a madman. Defend against tanks first, but watch out for Rocketeers or STealth Bombers, and especially them, if you are playing against the US, you'll want to keep your eyes open. Also, since version 4.85 of RA2 DeeZire, you can build off of the Iron Fist, which mainly means that you can place structures next to it. First, build your barracks there. Tehn build some Tesla Coild and have Tesla Troopers overload them, to shoot at whatever is in range.Anyways, you know what it is now, I'll leave the rest for the strategies section! Jellyfish --------- Description: Why don't I like this unit? Dunno, just don't like it. The story behind it is quite cool, I just don't like this unit. Anyways, it is a Jellyfish that moves amphibiously across land, and if you were wondering, yes it is mind- controlled. so, it is amphibious and is controlled by a Tesla Coil (that's why it must be present), and fires Tesla blasts at enemy units or structures. It isn't all that strong, but can still take some damage. Weapon: Tesla Bolt MAD (Quake) Tank ---------------- Country needed: russia Description: Pure destruction has always been one of the Soviets main advantages, and now they sow it again with their newest invention, the Quake Tank. This is e very powerful unit if you can actually employ it in the right places. I's a good unit to set deathtrap, to stop enemy attacks. Well, you'll probably only hurt them a lot, but they'll be a lot weaker once they reach your base. Also, there's the MAD Iron trick. Just send your tank to the enemy base, and just when it's going to come in defensive structure range, Iron Curtain him. Get him to the place you want him to blow, and once the timer runs out, "pull the trigger". Weapon: Suicide Demolition Bomb Missile Sub ----------- Country Needed: Cuba Description: I think this unit suited Iraq better, but if the author of this mod decides otherwise, I won't kill him. These submarines are real badass weapons, but since the latest version, they have been limited in building, because of the huge advantage Soviet players would have, if they could send about 10 Missile subs after the enemy base. Anyways, these subs fire Cluster Missiles, which depart as one missile, but before it hits the ground, it seperates in a lot of small projectiles, that do massive damage to enemy buildings or units. The subs need to reload after each shot, and reloading takes awhile, so time your shots carefully, and watch out for enemy destroyers please. Just send this combo. One missile Sub, escorted by 3 Sea Scorpions and about 5 Typhoon Subs. If the enemy really wants to do damage, he needs to attack the Sea Scorpions, but if he does that, the Subs will take him out. They can't destroy the subs either because their ASW helicopters get shot down by your Scorpions. So, with that said, I think that Cuban players that have access to water, should certainly use these units for base assaults, combined with Super Weapons and ground assault, you'll almost always win (if well coordinated of course). Hind Transport Helicopter ------------------------- Country Needed: Cuba Description: This is another unit mentioned in previews I read, so I'm happy I finally get my hands on these. They are Nighthawk Transports, but can go slightly faster if I see that correct. They can hold 5 soldiers, 'nuff said. They're just your fast infantry transports! Weapon: Chaingun Howitzer -------- Country Needed: Libya Description: This unit isn't that bad, but I still don't think it rocks. It has good power against all types of units and structures, and has an incredible range. Still, it doesn't pack that much of a punch, so you can use these to weaken incoming units, while conviniently moving backwards, keeping your units out of the line of enemy fire. Also, you can use these as Defensive Structure smashers. They can destroy them with ease from long range. Maybe, you could categorize this as a Russian version of the Prism Tank... well not really, it just takes on the role of that unit. So, Libyans do have something to be proud about, with their Demolition Trucks included. You can try using combos of Howitzers and Demotrucks, but it's kinda tricky. Antonov Cargo Plane ------------------- Description: Good unit overall, it takes on the role of the Carryall of the GDI in Tiberian sun. It can pick up a unit, and carry it all the way over the battle field. If you have a lot of cash against an AI oponent, and he's about dead, make 1 Cargo Plane, and put 1 Apocalypse on it. Now, let them all fly in formation to the target, looks kinda cool. Weapon: None. Dreadnought +3 -------------- Country Needed: Russia Description: This is an advanced version of the regular. You can look at it as the Nimitz for the Russians, but this time in Dreadnought form. He gets one extra missile, spawns them quicker, and is far stronger than the original. russians can of course only build these Dreadnoughts, but keep in mind that they are much more expensive than the regulars. Weapon: SS Missiles And now, the tactical bullshit. Name=Howitzer Image=HWTZ Prerequisite=NAWEAP Primary=HowitzerGun Strength=500 Category=AFV Armor=heavy Turret=no IsTilter=yes Crusher=yes TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true TechLevel=8 Sight=8 Speed=5 Owner=Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs RequiredHouses=Africans Cost=750 Points=25 ROT=5 IsSelectableCombatant=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenSovVehicleSelect VoiceMove=GenSovVehicleMove VoiceAttack=GenSovVehicleAttackCommand DieSound=GenVehicleDie AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no MaxDebris=2 Locomotor={4A582741-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} MovementZone=Normal ThreatPosed=15 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys VeteranAbilities=STRONGER,FIREPOWER,SIGHT,FASTER EliteAbilities=SELF_HEAL,STRONGER,FIREPOWER,ROF Accelerates=false CrateGoodie=no Size=3 Name=Dreadnought +3 Image=DRED Prerequisite=NAYARD,NATECH Primary=DredLauncher CanPassiveAquire=no Spawns=DMISL SpawnsNumber=2 SpawnRegenRate=60 SpawnReloadRate=0 NoSpawnAlt=yes FireAngle=32 ToProtect=yes Category=Support Strength=1500 Naval=yes Armor=heavy TechLevel=6 Sight=7 Speed=4 CrateGoodie=no Owner=Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs RequiredHouses=Russians AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no Cost=2500 Turret=no Points=55 Weight=4 ROT=1 Crusher=yes Crewed=no OmniFire=yes IsSelectableCombatant=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenSovWaterSelect VoiceMove=GenSovWaterMove VoiceAttack=GenSovWaterAttackCommand SinkingSound=GenLargeWaterDie MoveSound=DreadnoughtMoveStart Locomotor={2BEA74E1-7CCA-11d3-BE14-00104B62A16C} SpeedType=Float MovementZone=Water ThreatPosed=25 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys VeteranAbilities=STRONGER,FIREPOWER,ROF,SIGHT,FASTER EliteAbilities=SELF_HEAL,STRONGER,FIREPOWER,ROF TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true GuardRange=10 Size=50 Name=Jellyfish NoShadow=yes Category=AFV Prerequisite=NAYARD,TESLA Primary=ElectricBoltJ Strength=500 Armor=light TechLevel=10 Naval=yes Organic=yes SelfHealing=yes Sight=5 GuardRange=5 Speed=3 Owner=Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs Cost=1000 Points=50 ROT=16 AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no Crusher=no Crewed=no IsSelectableCombatant=yes VoiceSelect=TerrorDroneSelect VoiceAttack=TerrorDroneAttackCommand VoiceMove=TerrorDroneMove VoiceFeedback=TerrorDroneSelect DieSound=SquidDie Locomotor={4A582742-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} PhysicalSize=2 SpeedType=Amphibious MovementZone=AmphibiousDestroyer ThreatPosed=20 SpecialThreatValue=1 Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VeteranAbilities=STRONGER,FIREPOWER,ROF,SIGHT,FASTER EliteAbilities=SELF_HEAL,STRONGER,FIREPOWER,ROF ElitePrimary=ElectricBoltJ Size=3 Weight=.5 ImmuneToPsionics=yes CrateGoodie=no Parasiteable=no Trainable=no Explodes=yes ZFudgeColumn=8 ZFudgeTunnel=13 Bombable=yes TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true Name=Iron Fist Prerequisite=NAWEAP,NATECH Strength=1500 Category=Support Primary=Dragon Armor=heavy DeploysInto=NAFIST TechLevel=10 Sight=6 Speed=4 Owner=Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs Cost=4000 Points=60 ROT=5 Crewed=yes Crusher=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenSovVehicleSelect VoiceMove=GenSovVehicleMove VoiceAttack=GenSovVehicleAttackCommand DieSound=GenVehicleDie MoveSound=MCVMoveStart MaxDebris=6 Locomotor={4A582741-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} Weight=3.5 MovementZone=Normal ThreatPosed=0 DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys SpecialThreatValue=1 AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no ZFudgeColumn=12 ZFudgeTunnel=15 CrateGoodie=no Size=6 Trainable=no PreventAutoDeploy=yes Name=MAD Tank Prerequisite=FACTORY,NAWEAP,NATECH Category=AFV Strength=300 Armor=light Turret=yes TechLevel=10 Sight=6 Speed=3 Owner=Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs RequiredHouses=Russians AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no Cost=2300 Points=60 ROT=5 Crusher=yes Turret=yes TurretSpins=yes Crewed=no Explosion=CRIVEXP2 VoiceSelect=GenSovVehicleSelect VoiceMove=GenSovVehicleMove VoiceAttack=GenSovVehicleAttackCommand VoiceSpecialAttack=BaseUnderAttackSiren DieSound=GenVehicleDie MoveSound=DemoTruckMoveStart Locomotor={4A582741-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} Weight=2 MovementZone=Normal ThreatPosed=0 SpecialThreatValue=1 VeteranAbilities=STRONGER,SIGHT,FASTER EliteAbilities=SELF_HEAL,STRONGER,FASTER DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys DebrisTypes=GASTANK DebrisMaximums=12 Size=3 Explodes=yes CrateGoodie=no DeathWeapon=MadBomb CanPassiveAquire=no DeploysInto=MADDUMMY DeployTime=.022 DeploySound=BaseUnderAttackSiren CanRetaliate=no StupidHunt=yes Name=Antonov Prerequisite=NADEPT,NARADR Strength=175 Image=CPLANE Category=AirPower Armor=light TechLevel=9 Sight=2 RadarInvisible=no Carryall=yes Landable=yes MoveToShroud=no Speed=16 PitchSpeed=1.1 ConsideredAircraft=yes Owner=Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs Cost=1250 Points=20 ROT=5 Crewed=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 MaxDebris=4 VoiceSelect=AntonovSelect VoiceMove=AntonovMove VoiceAttack=AntonovSelect VoiceSpecialAttack=AntonovSelect VoiceCrashing=AntonovVoiceDie MoveSound=PDPlaneMoveLoop CrashingSound=PDPlaneDie ImpactLandSound=GenAircraftCrash Locomotor={4A582746-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1} MovementZone=Fly DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys ThreatPosed=0 AuxSound1=IntruderTakeOff AuxSound2=IntruderLanding SpecialThreatValue=1 Trainable=no BuildLimit=1 Name=Hind Transport Prerequisite=FACTORY,NAWEAP Primary=BlackHawkCannon Strength=300 Category=AirPower JumpJet=yes Armor=light TechLevel=7 Sight=7 OmniFire=yes RadarInvisible=yes Landable=yes PipScale=Passengers Passengers=5 Speed=15 PitchSpeed=1.1 JumpjetSpeed=40 JumpjetClimb=50 JumpjetCrash=60 JumpJetAccel=12 JumpJetTurnRate=12 JumpjetHeight=500 JumpjetWobbles=.01 JumpjetDeviation=1 Owner=Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs RequiredHouses=Confederation Cost=1000 Points=15 ROT=10 Crewed=yes ConsideredAircraft=yes Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 Maxdebris=3 VoiceSelect=GenSovVehicleSelect VoiceMove=GenSovVehicleMove VoiceAttack=GenSovVehicleAttackCommand CrashingSound=GenVehicleDie ImpactLandSound=GenAircraftCrash Locomotor={92612C46-F71F-11d1-AC9F-006008055BB5} MovementZone=Fly DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys ThreatPosed=0 SpecialThreatValue=1 VeteranAbilities=STRONGER,FIREPOWER,SIGHT,FASTER EliteAbilities=SELF_HEAL,STRONGER,FIREPOWER,ROF Size=15 SizeLimit=2 HoverAttack=yes AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no Crashable=yes CanPassiveAquire=no SpeedType=Hover MoveSound=BlackOpsMoveLoop EnterTransportSound=EnterTransport LeaveTransportSound=ExitTransport PreventAttackMove=yes TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true Trainable=yes CrateGoodie=no Name=Missile Sub Prerequisite=NAYARD,NATECH Primary=ChemLauncher2 NavalTargeting=6 LandTargeting=0 CanPassiveAquire=no CanRetaliate=no FireAngle=64 PipScale=Ammo DamageReducesReadiness=yes PreventAttackMove=yes Category=AFV Strength=600 Naval=yes Armor=heavy TechLevel=10 Underwater=yes Sight=6 Speed=3 Ammo=1 Reload=768 Owner=Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs RequiredHouses=Confederation AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=no Cost=2500 Turret=no Points=40 ROT=2 Crusher=no Crewed=no Weight=4 Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60 VoiceSelect=GenSovWaterSelect VoiceMove=SubMove VoiceAttack=GenSovWaterAttackCommand VoiceFeedback=SubFear DieSound=GenSmallWaterDie Locomotor={2BEA74E1-7CCA-11d3-BE14-00104B62A16C} SpeedType=Float MovementZone=Water ThreatPosed=40 Cloakable=yes CloakingSpeed=2 DecloakToFire=yes BuildLimit=1 TooBigToFitUnderBridge=true Size=20 Trainable=no ===========STRATEGIES GALORE!=========== Okay, this is a rather interesting section which you should read if you are good at the normal strategies you already use in battle. The DeeZire mod gives a whole new perspective to the strategies you can use. Therefore, I will make several scenarios wherein we will see how good you should defend yourself, how to attack and even when the best tiem may be. Specific tactics with units are also detailed within these scenarios. America: Battle Tactics ----------------------- Main ==== I have one thing to say to you: Stealth Bomber all the way. If you are playing against Russian oponents, you'll have a good time with these fast and furious aircraft. Have 8 of these and you can take out anything without fearing you'd fail, unless the enemy is smart... Be carful with humans, AI oponents suck against these craft, you can take out anything with 4 craft and win a match with it. So, you know that now, you'll have to be smarter against humans though. Scenarios ========= America vs. Russia ------------------ The good ol' cold war scenario... The Russians dohave some good tech (the Soviets have, that's what I mean!). If you see a MAD tank aproach your base, destroy it with airplanes before it eraches your base. Dumb people might even include MAD tanks in a big tank rush for example. Just send 2 Stealth Bombers and blow the MAD tank. It will take out its budies nicely hehehehehehehe. So, the thing here is total battle awareness. If you aren't paying attention, the enemy might take it to you, and a MAD tank exploding in the middle of your base isn't pretty to look at, belive me on this one. I'm giving you a specific scenario here, where you are playing on a map with some Tech Buildings (about 5 Oil Derricks, 2 Airports and possibly an Outpost), water, and a lot of gems and gold. So, a big map overall, with just you and a russian oponent. Let's get started right away. Imeidately deploy your MCV where you see resources or an Oil Derrick standing. Build a Power Plant, a Barracks, begin a Refinery. While the Refinery is busy, train an Engineer if you have an Oil Derrick close by. Train 10 GIs and 2 Attack Dogs. Once the Refinery is ready deploy it and build a Pillbox and a Patriot. Build an extra Power Plant and start a War Factory. Once that is up, build 5 IFVs and 5 tanks. While you are busy building, scout the map with your tanks, just because they go a lot faster than GIs do. Once you have a first line of defense ready, start your Air force Command HQ. Onceit is ready, build some more Chrono Miners and search for extra Oil Derricks and capture them. Build Prism Tower defenses for your base and your Oil Derricks, as one as 2 Patriots for each Oil Derrick. Also build some more Patriots for your original base. Build some extra Power Plants right now. Now, build a Naval Yard and build Destroyers right away for defense. Build some Aegis Cruisers too, to stop any Kirov Airships from harassing your base. Try to remember that to let your Cruiser fire at full speed, you must direct it to attack the enemy yourself, otherwise it will not attack at full speed, to spare missiles for multiple targets (how thoughtful of Westwood). 2 Cruisers will certainly be enough. And before I forget, your paratroopers are charging up right now and that means garanteed fun when they are ready. I have an amazing plan however, and that is to capture an Airport right away. Build a Nighthawk Transport and an Engineer and find your airport. Defend it well, as people tend to take these structures out without thinking. Start a Battle Lab, and once it is ready, build some Mirage Tanks for added defense. Start construction of four Stealth Bombers right now, we'll need them for our plan, but that's not all. We need 2 groups of Stealth Bombers, so you know what to do, build that second Air Force command HQ and 4 extra Stealth Bombers. Now, build a Spy Satelite Uplink, to see exactly what kind of defenses are around the enemy base. We want to know how much flak is in there. The point of our attack is simple, we want to black out the enemy base for a brief period while our paratroopers mess up the enemy defenses. Something cool I discovered was, that even Sentry Guns can't work without power (that sounds quite logical, but since Pillboxes should work, it was quite frightning). They don't use any power, but they need to be powered, maybe a little hard to understand, but suffice to say that these guns can't function without a little bit of power. This is great help to your SEALs and GIs. Anyways, with eight Stealth bombers, you should be able to destroy 4 Tesla Reacters. If they managed to build a Nuclear Reactor by now, target that first and you'll need at least 4 Stealth Bombers for that. If they were so "smart" to make no backup Reactors, they're in for a nasty power failure. See what situation you are in, and as your planes are getting close to their target, begin assigning the 2 Cargo Planes to drop their soldiers right in the middle of their base. Once the poweris out, they'll be desperately doing one of two things: 1) they make a fewnew reactors to bring the power back, 2) they sell off defenses to bring power back. Use your GIs to hold armored units busy, while you spread out your SEALs and deal with infantry and try your best to destroy the Construction Yard and the War FActory. If this strategy is not an option for some reason (no airport, too heavy defenses), strike targets of oportunity, being those units or structures. Watch out for Apocalypse Tanks, as they use missiles instead of flak (which means certain hit). Back at your base, we'll have to see what situation we are in. If the paratrooper tactic worked, they'll be as good as dead. You just need to send a bunch of Prism Tanks, acompanied by about 15 Grizzly Battle Tanks, and 4 Mirage Tanks. If your tactic failed, we'll see what we can do from the waters. Build lots of dolphins, as they are good anti-sub weapons, and SEALs really don't hurt too, good anti-dreadnought/sub weapon. Tanya is a nice help, but since you have SEALs already, Americans don't really need her. Start producing about 5 Aircraft Carriers, but it iwll be quite expensive because you can only build Nimitz class Cariers here, so this is kinda constful. Say about 12.500, OOOOOOH! Once you have these though, the enemy will have a hard time, as they are a lot tougher, and have the benefit of having an extra Hornet to join the fray of death and destruction. that means 20 hornets ready to assault the enemy base. If the enemy shows interest in water and so deployed his base close to it, you'll have to fight through the enemy navy, and destroy anything you can from the waters. Stop V3 Rockets with your Cruisers aswell as Dreadnoughts. Watch out for the Sea Scorpion +Sub combo. To combat this, it is important that you have a lot of Destroyers, because this combo can really hurt. Dolphins will ease your time too, as they can destroy subs too. Send in SEALs to take out everything they can. Destroy the enemy Naval Yard as fast as possible with your Nimitzes. If you can reach their Construction Yard, make it your primary target. If you can't bombard from the seas, prepare for a hard and vicious ground battle. you may not forget that the Russians posses the Tesla Tanks, which are vicious as hell to your structures and units. Also, there is one thing that I want to point out to you people. If at any moment, you notice a MAD Tank in the enemy base, send all your planes to it and blow it up... BAAAAAM! That takes some missiles, but it will blow and damage the hell out of the enemy (that's why I don't really like those units...). Still, the mainstay enemy unit that you are afraid of is the famous Apoclypse Tank. Although Prism Towers can take out these monsters when in numbers, it's always in your favor to garrison the hell out of buildings. If you can garrison every house that's on the way to your base the enemy uses, then they'll be in a heap of trouble, because their units will be stopped in their tracks right away. However, there are maps that are non-urban, and just include some farms and stuff, this time you're a little troubled... My advice is a LOT of Mirage Tanks to group them. Once you see an aoclypse Tank, don't wait for it, target every tank with all your Mirages, which will mean instant death; If you are fonfident you have enough units to take out 2 apocalypse Tanks at once, split them up and group these in 2 slots. This way, you'll increase your effeciency in the filed, and the russians will be sitting ducks with their slow monsters. Another key to succes in these ground battles is Repair IFVs. Place Engineers in IFVs and let them come in behind the units you have grouped. This way, especially the Mirage Tanks will survive in the field, which is very important, belive me. What the attack concerns, we'll need some Prism Tanks and a lot of Mirage and Grizzly Tanks to take care of the enemy tank devisions. More coming in the next version... 13. Contact Info ---------------- The author (FullBurst41) can be contacted by e-mail by mailing to bloodfreak@hotmail.com. If you have any contributions, or just want to have a chat, you can use this e-mail adress. There's only one thing I want to say to the contributors: Be sure that you are reading the latest version before you throw your sh*t at me. thank You. -------------------------------------- 14. Credits ------------ First off, I'd like to thank Nadia Varkovsky to let me "steal" her tactical information on the units and structures. Common! Where's the applause??? varkovsky@hotmail.com Secondly, I give a big thanks to PsyBorg for his strategic expertise. Scott Batass is also thanked for his help on the IFV and his walkthroughs, which you can find in the Readers Walkthroughs section. (scottbatass@aol.com) Lion from the RADEN site, I LOVE YOU! He's the man that has allowed me to post the walkthrough on his site, so he deserves a standing ovasion!!!!!!! And of course all those people who are so nice to give my FAQ a chance THANK YOU ALL!!!! I am proud to present the list you can find this FAQ on (at least may find, if you find it at any other site, give me the URL................... hehehehehehe) - GameFAQs: www.gamefaqs.com (they were the first to ever have it!) - Games Domain: www.gamesdomain.co.uk - Video Game Strategies: vgstrategies.about.com - Game Advice: www.gameadvice.com - MegaGames - the hardcore gaming experience (how fancy!): www.megagames.com - Gamespot: www.gamespot.com (they said they would "promote" my FAQ, oh well.) - DLH: www.dlh.net (German Site) - RADen: www.cncgames.com - The Cheat Empire: home.planetinternet.be/Štwuyts (Belgian site, FOR KING AND COUNTRY!!!!!!!), oh well. - NeoSeeker: www.neoseeker.com. - Cheat Informent: www.cheatinforment.com/index.html. - Actiontrip: www.actiontrip.com. - Command & Conquer Nation: www.cncnation. - www.alert2red.com - Cheat City: www.cheatcity.com - the Spoiler Centre: www.the-spoiler.com There are two more sites that are not in the list yet (or some more, I have to recheck it), but to the webmasters of these sites: You have received my permission to post them, so even if the URL of your site was forgotten, you can just post it. This DOESN'T mean that all the webmasters of all the sites must just post my guides now, CERTAINLY NOT. That's it for now, but I'm still receiving daily e-mail so... Oh yeah and if you have any mission strategies, just type and mail them to bloodfreak@hotmail.com Everybody who would like to contribute to this FAQ can mail me and only me at bloodfreak@hotmail.com with the subject "Red Alert 2 FAQ". All your contributions will be read and if qualified will be put in the right section. This FAQ and all its contents is Copyright 2000-2001, FullBurst41, the tactical info (section 5) is Copyright Nadia Varkovsky. You may not publish my FAQ on your site until you've asked for it, kapish? That's it. It's up to me and you to spice up this FAQ and make it a good piece of junk. FullBurst41