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David Tym wrote:
> 
> Is there any point in WC3 where you actually *need* to use the Leech Missile?
> I know you can use it on enemy ships, but there doesn't seem to be any
> other purpose beside that. 
No; you should be able to get throught the whole game fine without ever even
loading a Leech onto your ship. They're pretty nice, though (especially when
they actually work- mine tend not to).

> --
> ---
> TTYl; Dave, bd...@torfree.net - Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
> - In the year 2000 man will be able to travel 10 times the speed of light,
>   once NASA develops a machine to slow light way down.  (Conan & Andy)

Evan

In article <DLroEG.B1...@torfree.net>, bd...@torfree.net 
says...
>
>Is there any point in WC3 where you actually *need* to use the 
Leech Missile?
>I know you can use it on enemy ships, but there doesn't seem to 
be any 
>other purpose beside that.
>
>-- 
>---
>TTYl; Dave, bd...@torfree.net - Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  
>- In the year 2000 man will be able to travel 10 times the 
speed of light, 
>  once NASA develops a machine to slow light way down.  (Conan 
& Andy)

-

This has nothing to do with what you wrote but. Conan O'Brain 
rocks. The year 2000 is the best skit he has.

    Now if he can only come up with some new skits [other than 
the moving mouths, if they mated, Willy the upsidedown man, 
Tamari the ostradge, Antonio the guy who stuffs the wrong side 
of his pants, crazy articles ("You can't make stuff like this 
up people!") ect, ect.]

I'm a BIG Conan fan ;)

~Jake
tha...@usa1.com

By the way: I don't know why they put that missle in, the Friend 
or Foe is one that I never use either....

JakeSchneider wrote:

>In article <DLroEG.B1...@torfree.net>, bd...@torfree.net 
>says...
>>
>>Is there any point in WC3 where you actually *need* to use the 
>Leech Missile?
>>I know you can use it on enemy ships, but there doesn't seem to 
>be any 
>>other purpose beside that.
>>
>>-- 
>>---
>>TTYl; Dave, bd...@torfree.net - Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  
>>- In the year 2000 man will be able to travel 10 times the 
>speed of light, 
>>  once NASA develops a machine to slow light way down.  (Conan 
>& Andy)

>-

>This has nothing to do with what you wrote but. Conan O'Brain 
>rocks. The year 2000 is the best skit he has.

>    Now if he can only come up with some new skits [other than 
>the moving mouths, if they mated, Willy the upsidedown man, 
>Tamari the ostradge, Antonio the guy who stuffs the wrong side 
>of his pants, crazy articles ("You can't make stuff like this 
>up people!") ect, ect.]

>I'm a BIG Conan fan ;)

>~Jake
>tha...@usa1.com

>By the way: I don't know why they put that missle in, the Friend 
>or Foe is one that I never use either....

First of all, I also like Conan's show, but I have no idea what that
has to do with WC (love that ostrich!)

Second, if you're not using the FF, you're missing a lot.  It's
guidance system requires no lock(you don't even have to target
anyone), so it's great against strakha, if you're in a hurry.  It's
also very useful if you're playing on nightmare against a swarm of
Ekapshis.  Just release a few FFs, they will seek out any enemies on
your tail.

As for the Leech, it worked great in Armada, but I think Origin
thought it worked too well.  They weakened it for WC3, only too much
for it to be useful.

On Fri, 26 Jan 1996 02:32:40 GMT, bd...@torfree.net (David Tym) wrote:

>Is there any point in WC3 where you actually *need* to use the Leech Missile?
>I know you can use it on enemy ships, but there doesn't seem to be any 
>other purpose beside that.
>
No.  But they can come in quite handy against Thrakath and Hobbes, for
instance, in the last mission.  Just remember it takes a few seconds
after a Leech hits for it to work.  As far as I can tell, if they hit,
they eventually work: which is the same as saying one shot, one kill,
an _excellent_ weapon to use against a powerful foe.  Your target
floats inert in space, apparently forever, easy to mop up w/guns.

Leeches are nice to use in a Longbow, since a disabled target is
easier to chase down.  Leeches work against Asteroid Fighters too, and
they stop dropping those damned mines!



--
Craig Lambert
Predestination: its not just dogma, its the law.
Or will be, someday.

On Fri, 02 Feb 1996 22:50:22 -0500, Rick Huntington
<ri...@wam.umd.edu> wrote:

>Craig Lambert wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 26 Jan 1996 02:32:40 GMT, bd...@torfree.net (David Tym) wrote:
>> 
>> >Is there any point in WC3 where you actually *need* to use the Leech Missile?
>> >I know you can use it on enemy ships, but there doesn't seem to be any
>> >other purpose beside that.
>> >
>> No.  But they can come in quite handy against Thrakath and Hobbes, for
>> instance, in the last mission.  Just remember it takes a few seconds
>> after a Leech hits for it to work.  As far as I can tell, if they hit,
>> they eventually work: which is the same as saying one shot, one kill,
>> an _excellent_ weapon to use against a powerful foe.  Your target
>> floats inert in space, apparently forever, easy to mop up w/guns.
>> 
>> Leeches are nice to use in a Longbow, since a disabled target is
>> easier to chase down.  Leeches work against Asteroid Fighters too, and
>> they stop dropping those damned mines!
>>
>.Leeche missiles are indeed VERY useful especially when there are a lot 
>of targets.  If you can get a few ou of this way it is a good thing.  I 
>dunno about using them against thrakath and hobbes though. I always 
>found it much easier to stay cloaked and sneak up behing hoobes, lock my 
>missiles, uncloak and KA----BOOOOOOM, then thrakath is cake.  that 
>bloodfang may be fast, but is fall apart REAL easy.

Yes, but its fun to pick either Thrakath or Hobbes to _cripple_ -
floating helpless in space, while you go deal with the other.  Sneak
up, lock on, decloak and stick two Leeches up his tail.  You can't get
sloppy, cause you can't completely clear the nav point of what are
they, Pakthans? (though you could disable THEM if you want, w/leeches)
but you can circle back and savour toasting a helpless Thrakath (I
would only do this to Thrakath, your mileage may vary). "BioWar this,
fuzznuts!" 


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