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Re: Some Questions on X-Com Apoc from a newbie!

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From: Shaun Green Greenish9
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 00:00
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> In the early stages, hoverbikes do make the best attack vehicles, buy up all
> the hoverbikes and Rendor plasma gun you can, and fit your vehicles out with
> SD Sports engines.  Upgrade the missile systems in your Valkyrie and
> hovercars (which I never use) to Prophets and Janitors and upgrade the
> engines to the best you can afford.
>     When a UFO appears, switch to overhead mode.  Pause the game, hold down
> the CTRL key and click on all the vehicles to make a large attack group.
> Swat the UFOs with your bike swarms and they will fall out of the skies like
> litle extraterrestrial flies!
>     Prevent your vehicles from accidentally shooting one another by
> assigning different altitudes to them.  This, along with keeping your
> vehicles on catious attack, will reduce the number of friendly-fire
> incidents.

Um...I don't know if it's just me, but this seems to be the almost-exact same
wording as the XCOM Apoc guide I read in the UK version of PC Gamer...just
curious.

Greenish_9
PS.  If you have no idea who I am, please see my other message!
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