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From: opus@cbnewsc.att.com (robin.g.kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Falcon Counterstrike
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.150045.1414@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 25 Sep 90 15:00:45 GMT
References: <36@screamer.csee.usf.edu> <37307@ut-emx> <44@screamer.csee.usf.edu>
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In article <44@screamer.csee.usf.edu>, stelmack@screamer.csee.usf.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack) writes:
> First, no landing craft on the later mission, at least none I could find.

This means that the game is saving your pilot's status correctly.

> 
> This problem really needs to be corrected for a playable version of these
> missions. At least make the resurrection time for tanks greater, or base it on
> the flow of materials. Cut-off tanks getting repaired? I hate having to do
> Rolling Thunder every other mission -- it's easy, so it gets boring and keeps
> me from the fun missions. 

It sounds like after you destroy the tanks (and possibly the landing craft),
you just give up and fly back to base.  To get anywhere in the war, you
have to keep going and take out as many more targets as your ordnance allows.

I personally never actually select Rolling Thunder as the mission I'll
fly.  I pick something else, like Flaming Dart, so I'll get more points.
I take out the tanks and the landing craft (the latter using the cannon),
then blow up the factory.  If I have an extra Maverick, I'll take out the
truck bridge, too.  Only then will I even consider flying back to base.
You might want to take out the train, too, before landing.

On the second mission, you don't have to worry about tanks or landing craft,
so you should be able to take out two or three MAJOR targets, such
as the power station AND the P.O.L. tanks.

If you do multiple things each mission, none of them will be boring.  I
admit it's very tedious to blow up the tanks time and again.  That just
gives you an incentive to finish the game in as few missions as possible!

						Robin Kim
						att!ihlpe!opus