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

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From: Shaun Green
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:00
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Detonate <deto...@NOSPAMdetonate.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> darn boxes & crates next to the Triton usually hides an alien, the sneaky
> toad!

Every time...

> > confess to reloading saves (never did that before on TFTD) when
disruptor
> > pulses blew five or six of my core aquanoughts away.
>
> Tut, tut...  Take a DPL with you and lay down some blanket air support in

Something I forgot to mention - the d-pulse was one of my own...

> Heh, I think you may be underestimating them Shaun.  You done an artefact
> site mission yet?  I bloody hate those!  Too much arsing around for too
> little return, and the second level is really annoying.

No artefacts missions yet.  I've stopped playing; I couldn't be arsed with
the shipping missions any more.  Boring and repetitive now, IMHO.

> You want to try and keep all three of those lobsters alive; 2xnavigators
and
> a commander, iirc.  You'll need the navigator as a matter of urgency.
This
> sounds all way too easy so far - what difficulty was this on again...?

It seems more and more likely that I did actually select 'easy'.

> > Robert B - woah!  Best psi of the starting lot.  Plenty kills, plenty
> > experience.  Bright future ahead...
>
> Obviously a career minded brown noser.  arf.

Heheh, he gets to buy the beer.

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Shaun Green | http://www.shaungreen.co.uk
WE ARE THE HASBORG.  YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.
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