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From: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Autoduel, Pool of Radiance
Message-ID: <7368@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 90 13:23:41 GMT
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Reply-To: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
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I only have a couple of little comments to make on this:

In article <12592817777014@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> CHEN-P@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (CHEN P PERRY) writes:
>3:  For this car or any car, you should have a lot of back armour, some 
>side armour, and also some front armour.  Buy only flamethrowers at the
>beginning and mount more than one to your car's rear.  In my opinion 
>flamethrowers are the best weapons in Autoduel, beating even laser.  They
>have a wide spread, is extremely destructive, provides smoke cover, and
>doesn't seem to cause fire any more than other weapons.

This strategy is fairly sound.  However, *I* got the impression that
FTs are more likely to flame the wrecks than other weapons.  However,
they do make excellent weapons, and you can "sweep" with them fairly easily
if your initial aim is off a bit.  As the arena opponents do not try to
run away from you if they are loosing, rear-mounted weapons are good.

For road weapons, you need good front and rear armor, good rear weapons (FTs
again are good) and a front weapon.  For the front, I prefer MG, as you have
the option of turning around and firing back through all that smoke your FTs
caused.  You can also flame backwards at nothing, then back up into your smoke
as protection from lasers, I believe....  (It works on the board game and I
believe FT smoke is protection from lasers in AD.)  Being chased on the
highway happens quite a bit, so rear protection is important.  Don't bother
chasing anyone else down -- just worry about getting around...


-Joe
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