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From: jak9213@helios.TAMU.EDU (John Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: STRATEGIC CONQUEST
Message-ID: <5674@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Date: 7 Jun 90 18:54:09 GMT
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In article <1054300002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cjones@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>I've recently started to play Strategic Conquest.  I can win when playing
>up to level 8 and anything above level 10 blows me away.
>
>I've just recently started building a fighter for my first object in order to
>scout out the surrounding territory to make my army moves more efficient.  My
>first ship build is a destroyer to do the same for overseas scouting.  Then
>I finally start building transports.
>
>In the middle game (if there is such a thing) I start building battleships
>and bombers.
>
>I just quit out of a level 10 scenario that seemed to be pretty well stale-
>mated (why did I quit, frustration and the need to experiment with different
>initial builds).  The bugger had three or four battleships, two carriers and
>lots of destroyers and a few misc subs.  I started infringing on one of his
>islands and he kept using bombers to destroy the city I just overtook.
>Quite frustrating.
>
>So anyway.  What strategies do others use when/if playing SC at higher levels?
>
>Thanks in Advance
>
>Tony -

Well, 

I can play (and usually win) up to level 12. Level 13 is a toss-up.
Anything above that, ...

I build a fighter first. Then, as soon as the fighter is built, I build
armies. With my fighter exploring the area, I can usually quickly
pinpoint the rest of the cities on my island. Usually there is an island
within my fighter's range, so I build 2 transports from my first port
city. I then start using my port cities to build destroyers,
battleships, and subs (in that order, I don't like carriers much). I use
some of my isolated cities to build fighters and bombers. I start all of
these more expensive units fairly early in the game, the computer does,
so I need to fight on an equal footing with it.

Sometimes I think that the game still cheats like it did in earlier
versions. When it thought that you were running on a copy of the game,
it would throw lots of bombers at you. It still seems to sometimes have
an unusually large squadron of bombers, but I can too now, so I guess
that it is not really cheating.

Strategic Conquest is fun, but it is very time consuming. The price we
pay for fun.

-- 
 John Arthur Kane, Systems Analyst, Microcomputer Support and Training
 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843  (409) 845-9999

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