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Re: Strategy against GLA

#26396
From: Tod
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:18
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USA Rocket inf. using laserlock.
In one game I took out 2 overlord tanks with 1 Rocket inf. guy

<kamsau@mail.com> wrote in message
news:46fbc85a.0308280342.4f44edc8@posting.google.com...
> True that drones help see camoflaged units, but these trucks need
> additional shots to be vanguished and can you make it before the truck
> hit your units? Should Search & Destroy help on the range on these
> trucks?
>
> "Dr.Seuss" <dr.seuss@thecatinthehat99.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:<bigce6$1ac$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>...
> > "Cookie" <cookie@yucom.be> wrote in message
> > news:3F4B6D1C.3070201@yucom.be...
> > > kamsau@mail.com wrote:
> > > > I used to play USA a lot but because of those stupid trucks, I don't
> > > > much more. Would spy drones help med much?
> > > >
> > > > "Tod" <no_spam_me@comcast.net> wrote in message
> >  news:<xcB2b.260341$o%2.119820@sccrnsc02>...
> > > >
> > > >>If playing USA, use lots of spy drones.
> > > >>
> > > >><kamsau@mail.com> wrote in message
> > > >>news:46fbc85a.0308251127.6feadb1d@posting.google.com...
> > > >>
> > > >>>Hi,
> > > >>>
> > > >>>Does anyone have a strategy aganst GLA? They seem to be too
powerfull
> > > >>>with those trucks that can disguise + the small tanks they have.
> > > >>
> > >
> > > Actually playing USA against GLA is the best you can do IMO.
> > > An army of USA Tanks with gun-drone and a few Humvee's full of bazooka
> >  troopers
> > > and with a gun-drone does the trick, you can shoot everything to
kingdom
> >  hell.
> > > Use this army to take-out the Stinger-sites, then you can use your
> >  helicopters
> > > to attack from above... IMO USA is the strongest to play against....
> > > GLA the weakest. (If the AI is playing China, then that is the
weakest)
> > >
> >
> >   I play GLA and only send the one bomb truck out to get USA to do just
> > that, force drone build on tanks. Total annihilation when they meet the
> > rocket buggies and no repair drone :-)  I find a Stinger site to detect
the
> > bomb trucks guarded by a couple of Raptors (or a helicopter)  the best
anti
> > GLA stealth detector.
> >
> >  As China, Lotus & troop crawlers over flown by MIG's in guard mode
(ground
> > guarding) detects stealthed units if well placed on the field, she can
also
> > do the disable vehicle trick to neutralise the bomb truck and you can
then
> > destroy it. Only put 2 MIG's to each crawler as a Napalm Storm (4 MIG's)
may
> > destroy your units too.
> >
> >  Finally, another way to think about it is.... a bomb truck costs 1200
plus
> > 1000 to upgrade to hi explosive and anthrax. 2200 is a lot of cash for
your
> > enemy to spend to take out a 1000 building or defence site. Stagger your
> > defenses well and spread out and the cost to destroy will be more than
your
> > build cost, giving you game advantage. Remember you are playing a game
of
> > financial attrition and this could give you the financial edge.
> >
> >  Doc
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