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I had a funny situation in the skirmish in which I did this. At some point in the middle of the game (it was a free-for-all with brutal AIs), I lost my Soviet Construction Yard to a Tanya that had been airlifted into my base (I don't really put up air defences unless someone will end up building Kirovs). almost as a bit of revenge, I took the offending player's MCV and built an allied addition to my base until I captured another Soviet MCV. I then did a What-the-Hell case of capturing the oil derricks in the center of the map (Bering Straits) and built a nice compact assembly of at least 10 war factories, 2 Grand Cannons, and countless SAM sites and pillboxes for added measure.I then took an hour ferrying apocalypse tanks from this outlet to the outer islands before launching the final assault. The entire skirmish took a little over three hours.
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Death unto the heretics!
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No, not the motherland..... FOR THE EMPEROR!!
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Indeed, ave Imperator!
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Nice. Although like 5 Airships could do the same.
Love the Command and Conquer games
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Kirovs are rather useless to me - slow, relatively easy to shoot down from a safe distance, and dropping bombs is not always effective enough. I prefer heavy units that can move fast and hard once they get rolling.
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Normally I would agree with you, however in my short internet multiplayer experience with Red Alert I found that almost no-one built any anti-air units so bombing them to death with a horde of Kirovs was something I got away with, allot.
Failing that a mass conscript charge (which I did rarely) or Rhinos backed with Apocalypses usually worked
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True. I typically prefer playing against Brutal AIs, of which the soviet players will construct three Kirovs and send them in - ten anti-air emplacements (Patriot Missile, Flak Cannon, Gatling Cannon) do the trick very nicely.
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Indeed they do.
Out of interest, do you use infantry at all?
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Sometimes, depending on my mood that day. I have rushed Yuri Brutes by using the genetic mutator on my slaves (a tactic that is quite useful if you have a shortage and the slave miners are under attack).
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I dont really play Yuri any more. And I can't because my Yuri's Revenge disk got corrupted
The first time I ever played Red Alert (on the PSone at a friend) I made a huge conscript rush that crashed the PlayStation.
Nothing looks as stupid as 1000+ conscripts charging a base. And most of them dieing before they got there
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Hmm... My version of the game (PC) works when any game that's made by EA is thrown in the disc drive. Then again, the disc files are stored on my hard drive.
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Yeah I have the PC version as well, but my stupid Anti-virus program stuffed up the main file by moving part of it to the virus-valt.
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It sucks
Still have RA2 so its not a total loss
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True. RA2 is by far the best RTS game in the Red Alert series, even without the expansion of Yuri's Revenge.
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It's a bit (considerably) bigger than what I've used so far, but... less organized. I tend to spam infantry rather than tanks, due to this great feature/exploit involving a structure called the Cloning Vat. xD
Rushing endless waves of terrorists is scary.
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I know what the cloning vats is. Unfortunately, YR has the Soviets with something called the Industrial Plant (25% off of all vehicles) - the Cloning Vats went with Yuri and his own faction.
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been there done that
and i have to say it was fun destroying like 7 factions with one giant wave of apocalyps tanks
thats the way to go
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Indeed! All of the games that I found enjoyable have always been those that ended with a nice bang - Have you ever had the mind-numbing task of hunting down a pesky submarine fleet after you've destroyed their base?
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YES!!!!!
it sucked alot
that would always piss me off
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Mind you, I never had a major problem since I prefer island maps anyways.
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i dont have the problem much ither i usualy have all land maps because i like making giant bases that fill most of the map
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Play against hard AIs?
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eh i mix it up a bunch
bassicly whatever im in the mood for
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All brutals on Free-For-All is my type.
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I have yet to do an infantry battalion though. I think I'll have a lot of fun with that when I come around to making it.
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Play original RA2, use the cloning vats to build as many conscripts as possible, and CHAAAAAAAARGE! I've done that; very fun.
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Get a screenshot of it though?
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I did not, regrettably. Mostly because my computer couldn't do that, and still cannot
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Ever tried the Print Screen button on the keyboard?
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No I didn't... Thanks for telling me!
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All of those your massive rush pictures remind me of documentaries about ants and such...
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Good ol' army ants from the Amazon eh?
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I would rather say they are bullet ants (strange but true, search on Wikipedia).
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xD ultimate ownage ^___^ And considering how many of those are vet/heroic... O_o
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Well if you read the description, the reason why most of the tanks are veteran or elite is because I had "procured" an allied MCV from another AI. Spies can do the trick very well, I do have to say.
Besides, all good things go out with a bang (Mythbusters style!)
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Uuuuh well FYI I did read the description, I was just commenting that even a normal group of apocalypse tanks that size would cause pwnage, let alone a group of veterans/elites that do an insane amount of damage >_<
And xD In that case, you should try the same with demo trucks 8D
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Sorry - someone's already done that on Youtube. A motivational of that would be difficult as hell since the prism tower could take out all of them without the intention of doing that, and I personally don't like the demo trucks to begin with because of how tempermental they are. I think I will settle with a massive rapid-deployment assault force from Nighthawk transports. That'll be a lot of fun.
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Oooh I see, well yeah actually your explanation does make sense lol 
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More like D Day by Nighthawk - I think I'll play one of the Allied Missions and pull that off.
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Ahh sweet! xD good luck!
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Aye, I need to do it on the original RA2. In Yuri's Revenge it cannot be done under any circumstance whatsoever.
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Oh right, why is that?
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Tank bunkers and gatling cannons for Yuri, battle bunkers and tesla coils for the Soviets, and the Grand Cannon and prism towers for the Allies. On top of that, air defense chews up the Nighthawks in droves!
I wanted the appearance that it was literally like D-Day so the AI was on hard difficulty too.
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