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From: opus@cbnewsc.att.com (robin.g.kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Falcon Counterstrike
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.130642.28763@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 13:06:42 GMT
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In article <37307@ut-emx>, phao172@ut-emx (Randy M. Roberts) writes:
] In article <36@screamer.csee.usf.edu> stelmack@screamer.csee.usf.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack) writes:
] | I loved Operation Counterstrike, but could never get my copy to save the map
] | (both on floppy and on hard-drive). I could also destroy all tanks and all
] | landing craft, do another mission, launch again, and tanks would be charging
] | my airfield again (with no landing craft having made it across the lake).

Did you see landing craft on the second mission as well as tanks?

] I believe that the manual says that Tanks and Landing Craft only stay dead
] for one turn.  There is a list in the manual of how long different things
] stay dead.  If you ask me, I think it makes the game very ungratifying to
] have to continuously take out the same 'ole tanks.

I have never seen tanks or landing craft attack in two consecutive missions if
the landing craft were taken out before they beached.  I think it's bad enough
having to blow up tanks every other mission!  It could be that I always
destroy the truck bridge on the same mission, which isn't hard to do.
I can't remember ever NOT doing this, so maybe that's what you need to
do to cut the flow in half.

] Question:
]    If I blow up both bridges, the trucks, the train, the landing crafts, and
] the tanks, will the enemy stop resurrecting the damn tanks?

I have never been able to completely stop the flow of tanks, even after
blowing up both bridges before the train and trucks were able to cross.
Even blowing up a factory didn't help.  It could be that the pipeline wasn't
empty, and that if I'd waited long enough the flow would eventually stop.
Because I never see the flow stop before the game ends one way or another
(by the fourth mission I've either won or lost), I no longer bother
taking out the train bridge.  I usually dive bomb from fairly low altitudes
and don't like the swarm of SA-7 Grails the enemy sends up at me.

On another topic, has anyone else noticed that if you fire a Maverick, then
switch to a different HUD mode while the missile is still in flight, it
won't hit anything?  I think I can still see it flying, but when it gets
to its target, it doesn't blow up.  Is this a bug or a feature?

						Robin Kim
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