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Every bunker he fills with 5 Tank Hunters costs a lot of money and a lot of time
to create. If you're playing with default starting cash (10K), rush him with
some Hum-Vees or crusaders. You can find a way around almost any defense on
almost any map. If you're playing with large amounts of starting money, build
multiple factories and send in tanks - but do it *quickly*.

Otherwise you don't mention using either artillery (tomahawk launchers),
aircraft of your own to shoot down his (Raptors), or cheap hum-vees as AA (put a
couple of missile defenders and give them the TOW upgrade).b You should also try
building some superweapons of your own; the USA Particle Cannon has a shorter
wait time than the other two sides' superweapons and is especially deadly
against unfinished buildings and airfields.

Put some Raptors on CAP (click "guard air" then click a location) to shoot down
his Migs before they can get to your base. And before you send in those tanks,
use some Auroras to soften up his defenses. If you're sending in a lot of tanks,
just tell them to move to a point just past his defenses. If you tell them to
attack the defenses instead, they'll bunch up at maximum range and be
slaughtered. Declare a "Hold The Line" strategy and research the tank armour
upgrade first.


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- Tim G.

"Ching Chong China Man" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm an usa player in Generals (not ZH) and I have trouble beating my friend
> (14 wins no losses online). He uses dodgy tactics which always seems to
> prevail. what he does first up is not build tanks, but he just build tons of
> base defenses, and i mean TONS, and once his defenses are up, he builds TONS
> of migs plus 3 superweapons.
>
> I play USA and to counter his migs i always put my first general point onto
> paladins and save the second. I skip scout drones coz i know he's never
> going to send in his tanks and he's only going to use migs and super and
> nothing else. and USA has terrible AA. I expand as quickly as I can, go for
> oil derricks first.
>
> When he builds a super weapon i usually send 4 aurora bombers but I usually
> lose them all (but hey they served their purpose), but I would be losing
> around 5 grand coz 4 auroras are more expensive than 1 nuke silo. Another
> way i found was to use particle cannon to wipe out his power plants then
> send in aurora bombers, i still lose some but not as much.
>
> Once I couldn't handle his migs and I sent in 4 screen full of
> paladins/missile defender/tomahawks and I still couldn't break through his
> defenses :S
>
> Is there anyway to go around this? I can beat him once he runs out of money
> because he never builds hackers, but any other alternatives?