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From: hounsell@nmerh4.BNR.CA (Rob Hounsell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Armour-Geddon
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Date: 14 May 91 16:27:24 GMT
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In article <102@taloa.unice.fr>, beust@taloa.unice.fr (Cedric Beust) writes:
|>   Well, although I was very impressed at first sight, I must agree
|> with you: Armor Geddon is quite hard to play. Like you, I haven't been
|> able to complete my first mission yet. I think I located the building but
|> how the hell can I retrieve that god*** detonator??? And with which
|> vehicle? Light tanks run out of fuel, choppers can't even reach it and
|> fighters go much faster to see anything around.

  I agree! It has nice graphics, but even in training mode I still haven't
finished the first mission. HOWEVER, I can help you regarding the first bomb
part. It seems to be located inside a large structure shaped like a tuning fork
stuck in the ground. What I did was to send a hovercraft out on a suicide
mission (they're all suicide missions...) with a stack of missles and shot 3 or
4 at the structure. It will eventually blow up, leaving the detonator (I
think. At least it left something that looked like a detonator...) but it
disappeared when I brought a heavy tank in to retrieve it. I would have liked
to use the teleport pod I dropped near the site to transport my hovercraft, but
have you ever tried to manuever a hovercraft directly underneath one???

  I wish it was a tad easier! The droptanks of fuel don't last very long at
all! I flew over to the "shooting range" to the west of the base mentioned in
the book, but although the targets there didn't shoot back, everything else
did! Not much use at all.

  Has anyone managed to successfully land a bomber or fighter???

Rob
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