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Re: Possible uses for Proximity Bombs

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From: ter... Terry Henning
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 14:52
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In article <vholdD1...@netcom.com>, Vhold <vh...@netcom.com> wrote:
>Terry Henning (ter...@msn.fullfeed.com) wrote:
>: Are proximity bombs good for anything other than when someone is following
>: right on your tail?  I've never been able to succesfully use one.  I tried
>: to place a mine somewhere and found that they have a time limit of about
>: 45 sec to one minute.
>
>: Any ideas for creative uses for them?  I always seem to be maxed out on these
>: things.
>
>I figure they would be useful for those things with the cutters that come 
>straight at you.. you could drop one and back up.. it'd probably plow 
>right throught it.. I havn't tried tho

I tried this last night.  It worked great the first time, but the second time
I tried it, he just stayed on the other side of the bomb.  He wouldn't go 
past it until I got closer to him.

Overall, those bombs seem to work pretty well for those guys.  :)




Terry
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From: ter...@msn.fullfeed.com (Terry Henning)
Newsgroups: alt.games.descent
Subject: Re: Possible uses for Proximity Bombs
Date: 4 Jan 1995 14:52:38 GMT
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