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Re: Interceptor

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From: Jori F Airamo
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 00:00
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Cawts <Ca...@Cawts.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Anyone got any tips

Concerning how to arm and attack?

Arm with Avalanche and Stingray(?) or two Avalanches for larger UFOs.
Don't even try to attack Battleship (very large, max speed of 5000) with
those weapons. Maybe a few Fusion Missiles would do it (never tested).

Intercept with two or more Interceptors at the time. When one Int
encloses an UFO, click upper left corner of the Intercept window and the
window turns into a small icon. Now you can just wait 
until another Int encloses
the same UFO. Now you can click the small icon and you get two
Interception windows at the same UFO. Now attack with Standard Attack
(or was it Normal?). If you have both pods armed with the same weapon, you
have to click Aggressive Attack just before the last missile is
launched. Otherwise the missile always misses, because your Interceptor
will back off right after launching the last missile of any weapon! A
bad bug.

A Laser Cannon is good for the two smallest UFOs, but Plasma Cannon is
even better. Medium UFOs are easy to drop.

Good luck!
-- 
     < "And then we wonder how machines >
     <  can steal each others' dreams"  >   Jori
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From: Jori F Airamo <jai...@cc.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: Interceptor
Date: 1998/08/06
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