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From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Armor Alley query
Message-ID: <3147@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 20:03:13 GMT
References: <3143@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1991Jan29.161711.26087@csn.org>
Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Organization: Iron City, USA
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In article <1991Jan29.161711.26087@csn.org> ullevig@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Ullevig Zachary A) writes:
|In article <3143@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes:
|>On level five, there is a large bunker very close to the player's lines,
|>behind which are two AA guns.  I can't get past these guns.  Any ideas?
|
|I fly past the bunker dodging the AA guns.  I then approach them from behind
|at low level and destroy them with my missiles.  It takes 2 missiles to destroy
|one, so it takes two trips.  You also have to be careful that the computer
|doesn't get a chance to repair them while your convoy approaches.

OK, this is really wierd.  This is the second suggestion I've recieved to do
this.  As this is my usual anti-AA tactic [fly in low and loose 2 missiles] it
was of course the first thing I tried.  If I fire two missiles from the left,
they of course impact on the bunker itself.  If I fly over them, set down on 
the right of the guns, and fire, the missiles will never take out either gun.
They will:
	1. Fail to acquire the guns and hit the bunker.
or
	2. each acquire a separate gun, which destroys neither.  No matter
	   how fast I rearm and return, they are repaired when I get back.

I've discovered a working tactic, however.  If you load up with paratroopers
and drop them right over the guns, they will stand a good chance of destroying 
the guns [or at least one of them].



While I'm jabbering about this game, I'm peeved that the computer can totally
capture my funds, but I can't do the same to its funds.

chaz




-- 
Someone please release me from this trance.
clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu                                       AOL:Crowbone