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Article #1109Re: Sandbags?
From: Robert Kettridge
Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 00:00
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In article <4lna8q$n...@scanner.worldgate.com>, dele...@worldgate.com writes >In <4lj150$g...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, jst...@aol.com (JStrick) writes: >>Howdy all, >> >>I just started playling C&C and am up to level 5 on the GDI. I was >>mentioning my beginner woes to a fellow coworker and he said, "Are you >>using sandbags?" Nope. >> >>No sandbags. Am I doing anything wrong? > > It's possible that mission doesn't allow you to use them. Never really >needed them myself, but I hear they can be used to block enemy units from >entering your base. If you build them, no enemy unit will get through, since >they don't destroy walls. Also, you can build a line of them into the enemy >base >and make structures off of it. :) Kinda neat, and very sneaky. > > Another way of trapping the enermy is to surround their base with these sandbags so that their harvesters cannot return to their refineries and therefore they do not recieve anymore money, and you can blow up their base over the bags. This also stops troops getting out as they do not blow up the sandbags. -- Robert Kettridge
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