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Re: Shaun does TFTD! Woooooh! Miscellaneous meanderings...

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From: Big MAd drongo
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 00:00
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Shaun Green wrote in message ...
>>>What with me being off ill from sixth form with shingles,
>><winces>
>>Bad luck my friend.
>Cheers... it's really weird.  Bar one case of the flu last year, I've
not
>been ill or injured (apart from colds and other pathetic stuff) for
years
>'n' years.
Same here strangely, must ne all the radiationfrom our computers killing
the bugs off :o)
Only the appendicitus and a really bad cold since I started secondary
school :o)

>>>having my DUP-armed Barracudas chewed up by large UFOs,
>>Your own silly fault :o)
>Arf, well, I thought they'd be able to outrange the larges, at least.
you've learnt now, thats all that is aimportant :o)

>>>Then came the first TFTD cool thing (tm) - my first terror mission!
>>Island or Port?
>Island.  Had an aquatoid sitting right at the end of one of those curly
>tunnels in the pyramid, annoyingly enough.  Had a suicide bomber walk
>in there to get him.  <g>
They really cheese me off.  I just grenade them till they drop.  Be
careful to pull out first though :o)

>Port is easier, IMHO.
More fun as well IMHO

>>So which do you prefer, cargo or passenger?
>>I think cargo are mor fun, but passenger easier.
>Hmm... I prefer the lower level of the cargo mission.
Good fun that, lots of fun sniping matches and less bleeding rooms to go
through.  Although the lower passenger levels tend to be quicker.

>But for the upper floor... mmm.
>They're both horribly time-consuming.
BARRELS
BOOM
He he he :o)

>>>Me.  Still going, as the Commander.  But not for much longer; he's a
>>>below average psi.  Not a liability yet, but he's not going on the
>>>T'leth mission, I'll tell you that...
>>Dump hiom then, not worth the effort :o)
>Noooo, he's my tentaculat decoy.  <g>
Comes in handy for the last rooms of alien bases/activity sites in the
big room with wall spaces :o)
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Subject: Re: Shaun does TFTD!  Woooooh!  Miscellaneous meanderings...
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