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Red Alert Atlas of Knowledge
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Last update 4/16/00
Table of Contents
Written by: RaceCar2003
(RaceCar2003@aol.com)
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I. Copyright and Distribution Information
II. Version Information
III. Allies
A. Story
B. Units
1. Infantry
2. Vehicles
3. Aircraft
4. Naval vessels
5. Other...
C. Structures
1. Production
2. Defense
3. Other buildings
4. Walls
5. Building Tree
D. Strategies
1. Offensive
2. Defensive
IV. Soviet
A. Story
B. Units
1. Infantry
2. Vehicles
3. Aircraft
4. Naval vessels
5. Other...
C. Structures
1. Production
2. Defense
3. Other buildings
4. Walls
5. Building Tree
D. Strategies
1. Offensive
2. Defensive
V. Cheats and Tips
VI. FAQ
VII. Thank yous
VIII. Email
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I. Copyright and Distribution Information
1. Make only one per person please
2. Copy must be complete and give proper credit to creator
3. (Suggested) Economy mode in b/w
C. Copyright
1. Copyright 2000 Red Alert Atlas of Knowledge
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II. Version Information
A. Version 0.1 - Tried to make my own guide with my own website,
failed miserably.
B. Version 0.2 - Found out about how to submit to GameFAQs.com.
Worked on the guide with unit descriptions, my personal ratings of them,
and costs.
**Took story, unit armor, weapon, and range from instruction manual
**Ratings are not official just my opinion on a scale of 1-10
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III. Allies
A. Story - To resist Soviet aggression against any first and second
world powers. Uphold ideals defined in World Association of Nations
charter
B. Allied Units
1. Infantry
a. Rifle Infantry - Has an M-16, this unit is best used against
other infantry units, and light vehicles (when in groups). *Do not use
against CPU Harvesters, or else they will squish you or send out there
entire force at you which can be a good thing*
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: M-16 Rifle
4) Rating: 6
5) Cost: 100
6) My Strategy:
Put in groups of four of five to attack enemy infantry or light
vehicles as a base defense (The ones that CAN'T run over you!). Make
sure that when attacking that you select all of the units at once, and
attack one enemy unit until you or it is destroyed.
X = Enemy Light vehicle X x
x = Enemy Infantry x x x x
Z = Your Minigunner x
Z Z
Z
Z Z
+------------------------+
| Base |
**Do not use againsted ANY tracked vehicles, whatsoever.
These versitile units can also be used when attacking as "suicide"
units. Used in ones or twos to force soviet V2s to waste there ammo on
them, to clear the way for an assault.
Z = Your Minigunner
| Enemy Base |
+-------------------+
^
|
ZZ
When facing large attacks set a few about 15 spaces out in front of
your base, as they will attack anything that comes within range. If
your opponant has targeted his troops to attack the center of your base,
then they will run right by, allowing you to weaken the enemy's units
(great for anti-V2 defenses).
Z = Your Minigunner
--+ Z
B | Z Z
a | ore
/ \ / \ / \ +**---+ field
/ \ / \ / \ ^
| | /|\
+-------------------------+ |
| |
+-------------------+
Use against computer raids of infantry, very effective!
2. Vehicles
a. AT (Anti-Tank) Mine Layer - This unit has Anti-Tanks mines,
they are powerful, but yes, there is a catch; it takes forever to lay
them, so only do it if you can spare the time. The Mine Layer carries
only 5 mines, and can be reloaded at the Service Depot.
1) Range: N/A (Click deploy cursor to lay a mine)
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: AT Mines
4) Rating: 5 (because of time consumption)
5) Cost: 800
6) My Strategy: Lay them in an ore field (Pic 1)(Note: Can not
destroy when in ore fields), in front of your base (Pic 2), or in front
of an opponant's base (Pic 3).
X = Anti-Tank Mine
Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3
+--------------------+ +--------------------+ +--------------------+
|Ore field X -- X X X| | X X X X X X X X X X| || Opponant's Base ||
|X X X X X--- --- X | |X X X X X X X X X X | |+------++ ++------+|
| X X X--- ---| | | | X X X++ ++ X X X |
|X X--- | | | | X X X X X X X X |
|--- | | ++ ++ | | X X X X X X X |
| Regular | |+-----++ ++------+| | X X X X X X |
| Terrain | || Your Base || | X X X X X |
+--------------------+ +--------------------+ +--------------------+
**Don't worry about your own guys running over your mines, because they
are smart enough to avoid them. However your own missles, guns, etc...
can destroy them so make sure you keep them out of range of all units,
especially cruisers, V2s and Artillary (Like you would have any!).
b. Ore Truck - Your cash truck (delivers 700 per load of Ore, and
1400 per load of Gems). Send them to closest ore patches, give escort.
Protect at all costs. If destroyed, this seriously cripples your war
machine. Has the ability to heal up to half-life.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Heavy
3) Weapon: None (effective at squishing infantry, watch out!)
4) Rating: 8
5) Cost: 1400
6) My Strategy:
c. Ranger - Useless, except for at beginning to scout. (Use APCs
to take out infantry, because of heavy armor. Good for p-o-ing your
opponent, by attacking their Harvestors (hehe).
1) Range: Short (about 4 spaces)
2) Armor: Very Light
3) Weapon: M-60 Machine Gun
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 600
6) My Strategy:
d. Light Tank - With Little gun and low armor this unit is a
waste of money unless used in LARGE groups (20-30). Good for in depth
scouting of enemy bases at the beginning of a game. What it lacks in
firepower, it makes up for in speed and rapid fire.
1) Range: Medium
2) Armor: Medium (pretty crappy)
3) Weapon: 75mm Cannon
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 700
6) My Strategy:
e. APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) - Transports five infantry
units, including dogs (assuming you have them!) across land. Being the
lightest tracked vehicle it is ideal for mashing infantry. Has a
machine gun, to help against infantry threats.
1) Range: Short (about 4 spaces)
2) Armor: Heavy (very nice!)
3) Weapon: M-60 Machine Gun
4) Rating: 8
5) Cost: 800
6) My Strategy:
f. Artillery - Don't buy these, computer does because they are
stupid. If you do use as base defense behind wall.
1) Range: Long
2) Armor: Very Light
3) Weapon: 155mm Cannon (nice!)
4) Rating: 3
5) Cost: 600
6) My Strategy:
g. Medium Tank - This is the only Allied tank that is worth
talking about, but barely, yeah, it is 150$ less than the heavy tank,
but has less firepower. Having one 105mm cannon it takes two of these
"tanks" to destroy one soviet heavy tank, and up to four to one mammoth
tank. Well anyway, since your allies, and you have to buy tanks, buy
these, and a _LOT_, "remember strength in numbers".
1) Range: Medium
2) Armor: Heavy
3) Weapon: 105mm Cannon
4) Rating: 6.5
5) Cost: 800
6) My Strategy:
h. Mobile Gap Generator - The mobile version of the Gap
Generator. Much smaller range, use to conceal sneak attacks. Don't
bother with these against the CPU.
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: Shroud Generator
4) Rating: 0 against CPU, 7 against human
5) Cost: 600
6) My Strategy:
i. MCV (Mobile Construction Vehicle) - A new base all in one,
what you start with. To deploy click on the unit's deploy cursor. Be
sure to keep these well protected, as are a favorite target of the enemy
(human enemy), especially the MIG. Very expensive, another reason to
keep safe. The MCV is useful to have around if the original
Construction Yard (a favorite target of the enemy) is destroyed or
captured. The more of them you have the faster construction will
proceed.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: None
4) Rating: 6
5) Cost: 2500
6) My Strategy:
j. MRJ (Mobile Radar Jammer) - If near the enemy's radar dome
(within 15 spaces), this unit will effectively shut down the enemy's
radar. Good to put near an enemy base, before attacking.
1) Range: Very Long (15 cells)
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: White-noise generator
4) Rating: 0 against CPU, 6 against human
5) Cost: 600
6) My Strategy:
3. Aircraft
a. Apache Longbow - The Allied attack that is useless.
Impossible to kill infantry, and hard to hit moving targets. Longbows
will get slaughtered if they encounter a lot of AA defenses, so only
attack unguarded objects, and keep AWAY from rocket dudes. Can attack
other helicopters in the air??
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: Heavy (yeah, right)
3) Weapon: Hellfire missiles
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 1200
6) My Strategy:
4. Naval Vessels
a. Transport - Carries up to 5 land units across the water at
once, must unload and reload on shoreline. Most vulnerable when
loading/unloading.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: None
4) Rating: 7
5) Cost: 700
6) My Strategy:
b. Gunboat - Fast ship good for scouting for subs, I would rather
use a transport, don't bother buying them, they suck.
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: 2-inch deck gun and depth-charge launcher
4) Rating: 3
5) Cost: 500
6) My Strategy:
c. Destroyer - Effective against land, sea and air threats. Good
at killing subs, use this to protect Cruisers.
1) Range: Medium
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: Stinger missiles and dual depth-charge launcher
4) Rating: 8
5) Cost: 1000
6) My Strategy:
d. Cruiser - Just buy a bunch, but keep away from your own base,
and protect with destroyers, and then let the winds of death come.
1) Range: Extreme
2) Armor: Heavy
3) Weapon: 8-inch Artillery cannons
4) Rating: 9.99 (can't attack air or subs, leave that up to
destroyers, but who cares!?)
5) Cost: 2000
6) My Strategy:
C. Allied Structures
1. Production
a. Construction Yard - Once the MCV deploys, it turns into the
Construction Yard: this structure constructs all other structures in
your base. Protect at _all_ costs!!
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Allows construction of all other base structures
3) How many per base: 2 at least
4) Cost: 2500 (MCV)
5) My Strategy:
b. Power Plant - Output is 100 power. Only build one of these at
the beginning of battle, then construct Advanced Power Plants. Total
output is determined by it's health, so keep them at full health to
receive maximum power output.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides power for base structures
3) How many pb: 1 to start with only at one base
4) Cost: 300
5) My Strategy:
c. Advanced Power Plant - Output is 200 power. Use these as your
main source of power. Use them to power power-hungry structures like
the Allied Technology Center, and the Soviet Tesla Coil. Beware as the
fool who groups his power, shall lose them all in one big bang (Nukes),
be not this fool.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides power for base structures
3) How many pb: as many as needed plus 5+ (Especially with
soviet)
4) Cost: 500
5) My Strategy:
d. Ore Refinery - Processes and stores Ore that is delivered via
Ore Trucks. Very important structures to protect (especially against
air units).
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Smelts, stores, holds, and converts ore into
spendable credits.
3) How many pb: 3-7
4) Cost: 2000
5) My Strategy:
e. Ore Silo - Don't buy these.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Holds smelted ore
3) How many pb: 0 (due to bug in game they are not needed!)
4) Cost: 150
5) My Strategy:
f. Tent Barracks - All Allied infantry are produced here. Don't
bother investing a lot of resources into protecting these, as how they
build quickly, and are cheap.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Trains Infantry units
3) How many pb: 2 at original base, and 1 every other base
4) Cost: 300
5) My Strategy:
g. War Factory - Builds all vehicles. Protect dearly. Costs a
bunch so don't let them get destroyed. Building multiple War Factories
decreases the amount of time required to create a vehicle.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Construct vehicles
3) How many pb: 2 (one in front of each base, one in the back
of each base)
4) Cost: 2000
5) My Strategy:
h. Naval Yard - builds and repairs all Allied naval vessels.
Building multiple Naval Yards decreases the amount of time required to
create a naval vessel.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Constructs and repairs naval vessels
3) How many pb: 2 at original base, and 1 every other base
4) Cost: 650
5) My Strategy:
i. Helipad - Builds the Apache Longbow and reloads it.
Recommended one pad for each helicopter. Each new helipad comes with an
Apache. Note: when the primary helipad is occupied additional
helicopters will be flown in from any direction (not necessarily from a
safe direction).
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Constructs and reloads helicopters
3) How many pb: in packs of 4, 6, 8, or 10
4) Cost: 1500
5) My Strategy:
2. Defense
a. Pillbox - Is pretty good at mowing through infantry, but has
pathetic armor. Don't use, well not recommended.
1) Armor: Medium
2) Purpose: Anti-Infantry defense
3) How many pb: 0
4) Cost: 400
5) My Strategy:
b. Camouflaged Pillbox - Identically equipped as the Pillbox and
better armor, is excellent at ripping holes through soviet uniforms.
This structure is the recommended choice of anti-infantry defense for
the allies, and great for internal base defenses. Very effective
against paratroopers. The best, but sometimes neglected feature of the
Camouflaged Pillbox is the fact that it IS camouflaged! it has the
ability to blend in with the surrounding terrain.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Anti-Infantry defense
3) How many pb: 2-4 per entrance, and up to 15 scattered
throughout each base
4) Cost: 600
5) My Strategy:
c. Turret - A Turret-mounted 105mm cannon. Very effective at
killing tanks, one-on-one it can almost take out a mammoth tank! Also,
in groups the Turret is effective against infantry threats too (but not
mass raids, use Camo Pillboxes with Turrets for those). This unit is a
effective anti-tank defense, because it is heavily armored, and has a
pretty good range.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Anti-tank defense
3) How many pb: 4-6 per entrance, and up to 10 scattered
around, and in each base
4) Cost: 600
5) My Strategy:
d. AA (Anti-Aircraft) Gun - Great firepower, but it's range is
not good. Don't try to send aircraft over these (when they're powered,
spys can reveal that info to you) or else they may not come back. Very
deadly when at close quarters.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Anti-aircraft defense
3) How many pb: 1 for every 3 buildings (not including wall)
4) Cost: ???
5) My Strategy:
3. Other buildings
a. Radar Dome - The Radar Dome gives you an overhead view of the
battlefield when fully powered, and the access to new and more powerful
units.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides radar
3) How many pb: 1 (Sell once you get Tech Center, and replace
w/ power)
4) Cost: 1000
5) My Strategy:
b. Technology Center - In addition to it's function is to provide
more advanced units on the Allied side, the Allied Technology Center
gives the Allies use of one of the most powerful units... well weapons
in the game, the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS). Allows production
of the units Gap Generator, CRUISER, and Tanyas (yeah!). Don't forget,
you do not have to launch the GPS Satellite, it will launch itself; so
don't waste your time by watching for the icon to say "ready".
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: GPS Satellite launch and construction of high-tech
structures
3) How many per base: 2 at original base, 1 at every other base
4) Cost: ???
5) My Strategy:
**Takes 8 minutes for GPS to launch
c. Gap Generator - Excellent structure for multiplayer games,
pointless for single player. With its ability to hide itself from
radar, and on screen view, the Gap Generator is a very useful unit, when
trying to conceal your actions from your enemies. The Gap Generator
allows the Allies to hide their base from enemy sight. Even after an
enemy scout comes, his explored terrain will be re shrouded quickly by
the gap generator if he explores under that area. Requires power to
function.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Creates shroud
3) How many pb: enough to cover base, and a little outside of
it only in multiplayer, in single do not bother to build any, the
computer can see under your base anyway.
4) Cost: 500
5) My Strategy:
d. Chronosphere - The Chronosphere has the ability to
"cronoshift", or teleport any unit to any explored area on the map.
There is what some might consider a drawback, the shift is not
permanant, the shifted unit comes back to it's origin location when the
Cronoshift bar is halfway done. Since this is a new technology, certain
side effects have been shown, that is if the Chronosphere is used
excessively...
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides chronoshift
3) How many pb: 1 total, 2 if your paranoid about capture or
destruction
4) Cost: 2800
5) My Strategy:
**Takes 7 minutes to charge
e. Service Depot - repairs any damaged vehicle that you move onto
it. The Mine Layers can be re-loaded by setting them onto the pad.
This is efficient, because repairing a vehicle is much faster than
building one, and costs a fraction of the original price. This
structure is also required to have the ability to build MCVs. This is a
worthy investment.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Repairs and reloads vehicles
3) How many pb: 1 or 2 (up to three at forward outpost)
4) Cost: 1200
5) My Strategy:
f. Missile Silo - Provides nuke, nuf said. (Use Nuke on infantry
and buildings, not defense buildings)
1) Armor: Medium
2) Purpose: Mechanism used to launch Nuclear Missile
3) How many pb: 1 total, 2 if your paranoid about destruction
4) Cost: 2500
5) My Strategy:
**Takes ?? minutes for the nuke to charge
g. Fake Structures - The Allies have four fake structures that
they can build in order to trick their opponents the are the fake
Construction Yard, War Factory, Radar Dome, and Naval Yard. These only
have a small percentage of the hit-points of a normal structure, but can
be used to attempt to trick the enemy into attacking them, saving you
valuable time (Suprisingly this works against the computer!).
1) Armor: None
2) Purpose: Deceives the enemy
3) How many pb: As many as you want
4) Cost: 50
5) My Strategy:
4. Walls
a. Sandbag Barrier - is good for nothing, don't bother with
these, buy concrete
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Stops any untracked unit
3) How many pb: 0
4) Cost: 25
5) My Strategy:
b. Concrete Barrier - Much more effective than the Sandbag
Barrier, Concrete Walls are not crushable and block all units (except
airborne), and many projectiles.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Stops any unit except air
3) How many pb: Enough to surround base, also suggested
surround Construction Yards
4) Cost: 100
5) My Strategy:
5. Building Tree
Construction Yard*............CY
Power Plant...................PP
Concrete Wall.................CW
Sandbags......................SB
Barracks......................BB
Advanced Power Plant..........AP
Naval Yard*...................NY
Ore Refinery..................OR
Pillbox.......................PB
Camo Pillbox..................CP
Turret........................TU
Silo..........................SI
War Factory*..................WF
Radar Dome*...................RD
Service Depot.................SD
Technology Center.............TC
Helipad.......................HP
AA Gun........................AA
Gap Generator.................GG
Chronosphere..................CH
Nuke Silo.....................NS
*Fake Structures may be built once original structure is built
CY*
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+---+---+
| | |
CW SB PP --+---+---+
| | | |
BB AP NY* OR
| |
+---+---+ +---+-----+
| | | | | |
PB CP TT SI WF* RD*
| |
+---+ +---+---+
| | | | |
SD TC-TC HP AA
|
+---+---+
| | |
GG CH NS
D. Strategies
1. Offensive
a. Not completed
2. Defenses
a. Not completed
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IV. Soviet
A. Story - It came to Stalin in a series of dreams. The birthright
of the Soviet empire is nothing less than conquering and dominating the
entire globe. And the birthright of Josef Stalin is nothing less than
conquering the spirit and dominating the actions of every Soviet
citizen.
B. Soviet Units
1. Infantry
a. Attack Dog - The Attack dog is the only unit in the game that
has the ability to detect spies. They are also very effective at
stopping infantry raids. To protect from spies put in guard mode spread
out all over your base.
1) Range: Very Short (sometimes will jump up/down a cliff when
attacking!)
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: Teeth
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 200
6) My Strategy:
b. Rifle Infantry - Has an AK-47, this unit is best used against
other infantry units, and light vehicles (when in groups). *Do not use
against CPU Harvesters, or else they will squish you or send out there
entire force at you which can be a good thing*
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: AK-47 Rifle
4) Rating: 6
5) Cost: 100
6) My Strategy:
c. Grenadier - The Grenadier is an effective unit, because of
it's range and it's splash radius (The amount of damage it does when not
a direct hit). Although many gamers recommend these units in packs, I
do not, because if one dies they all we be hurt or killed when that one
blows up (Same with Flamers). But, I find that these units can and will
be effective when placed in random places around the base, solo or in
packs of two. Very effective at taking out rocket men though.
1) Range: Medium
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: Grenade
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 160
6) My Strategy:
d. Flame Infantry - Excellent anti-infantry defense (especially
against engineers), that is mobile. However, don't group these guys
together with other infantry, they will fry' em up! If I decide to use
these guys (I usually don't because they are relatively expensive), I
set them outside of my base on guard mode, oh... and they take care of
rocket infantry pretty well.
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: Flame-Thrower
4) Rating: 4
5) Cost: 300
6) My Strategy:
e. Engineer - Repairs any of your damaged buildings instantly,
captures enemy buildings (When it is in RED), injures enemy buildings.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: None (can be used as a weapon against buildings)
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 500
6) My Strategy:
f. Tanya - Has two .45s, Tanya is the ultimate infantry killing
machine. Don't let her near vehicles, especially APCs, Jeeps,
Artillery, and V2s. Has C-4 to blow up buildings (Nice!). Tanya can't
be put in guard mode (this sucks), you must manually target all enemies
that you wish attacked (or let them shoot at her first).
1) Range: Upper Medium
2) Armor: None (teamed up w/Medics can make her last longer)
3) Weapon: Dual Colt .45s and C-4 explosives
4) Rating: 7 overall, 10 against infantry
5) Cost: 1200
6) My Strategy:
2. Vehicles
a. Ore Truck - Your cash truck (delivers 700 per load of Ore, and
1400 per load of Gems). Send them to closest ore patches, give escort.
Protect at all costs. If destroyed, this seriously cripples your war
machine. Has the ability to heal up to half-life.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Heavy
3) Weapon: None (effective at squishing infantry, watch out!)
4) Rating: 8
5) Cost: 1400
6) My Strategy:
b. Heavy Tank - Very useful for Soviets. Use as main attack
force against allied bases. This unit's good armor, firepower, and
quick building time (with multiple War Factories).
1) Range: Medium
2) Armor: Heavy
3) Weapon: Twin 105mm cannons
4) Rating: 7
5) Cost: 950
6) My Strategy:
d. AP (Anti-Personel) Mine Layer - This unit is used only as an
anti-infantry defense. If tanks run over these it destroys the mine,
and doesn't hurt the tank, so don't put these out in the open.
1) Range: N/A (Click deploy cursor to lay a mine)
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: AP Mines
4) Rating: 2
5) Cost: 800
6) My Strategy:
e. V2 Rocket Launcher - Very, very effective! Used for long
range assaults or base defense. Keep guarded with tanks, for they have
weak armor, and take a long time to reload.
1) Range: Long
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: V2 Rocket
4) Rating: 7
5) Cost: 700
6) My Strategy:
f. Mammoth Tank - The games biggest tank. Very effective in
mixed groups. Is very effective at taking out infantry (and air units!
yes!) with mammoth tusk missiles, and can destroy almost any tank with
just 4 shots. On top of that, it takes up to 4 allied small tanks to
take out one Mammoth Tank! Need support from heavy tanks on base attacks
though. Also, it can repair itself to half health for free, if given
time.
1) Range: Medium, Medium
2) Armor: Very Heavy
3) Weapon: Twin 120mm cannons, Mammoth tusk missiles
4) Rating: 9
5) Cost: 1700
6) My Strategy:
g. MCV (Mobile Construction Vehicle) - A new base all in one,
what you start with. To deploy click on the unit's deploy cursor. Be
sure to keep these well protected, as are a favorite target of the enemy
(human enemy), especially the MIG. Very expensive, another reason to
keep safe. The MCV is useful to have around if the original
Construction Yard (a favorite target of the enemy) is destroyed or
captured. The more of them you have the faster construction will
proceed.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: None
4) Rating: 6
5) Cost: 2500
6) My Strategy:
3. Aircraft
a. Yak - Only useful against large masses of infantry, and only
if they do not include rocket infantry (these take the Yaks down like a
hot knife through butter. I would not use these, ever.
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: Twin machine-guns
4) Rating: 3
5) Cost: 800
6) My Strategy:
b. Badger Bomber - This is what delivers the paratroopers and
parabombs to the battle field. Very light armor. Do not even attempt
to send anywhere near anything that can fire at the plane, especially AA
guns, they will rip them apart in a second or two.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Very Light
3) Weapon: Parabombs or Paratroopers (Rifle infantry)
4) Rating: 3
5) Cost: Free
6) My Strategy: Just keep them away from anti-aircraft weapons!
c. Paratroopers - Dropped from a Badger Bomber, this group of
five Rifle infantry, can be placed _anywhere_ on the map. Useful for
exploring unknown regions. If dropped in back of a base that is
unguarded, this squad has the ability to take out a powerplant, as long
as no teslas, flame towers, V2s, or Artllery are around.
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: AK-47 Rifle
4) Rating: 6
5) Cost: Free
6) My Strategy:
**Recharges every ? minutes
d. Parabombs - These suck! Only use on large concentrations of
buildings, since you only know that they will drop within a 5 cell
radius of your original destination. If dropping them in the heart of a
base, wait... DON'T! The plane won't make it! I hardly ever use these
except to blow up enemy ore patches.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: N/A
3) Weapon: High-explosive bombs (and inaccurate!!)
4) Rating: 2
5) Cost: Free
6) My Strategy:
**Recharges every ?? minutes
e. Spy Plane - Used to reveal any area on the map (and about 9
spaces radius around it), just by left-clicking over the shroud, great
for scouting the enemy's base (especially under Gap Generators).
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Very Heavy
3) Weapon: Camera
4) Rating: 9
5) Cost: Free
6) My Strategy:
**Recharges every 3 minutes
f. MIG - Used heavily by the Soviets for air raids. Because of
it's fast speed, heavy payload, and accurate missiles the MIG is the
backbone of the Soviet airforce. Best used on buildings. Six of these
units will blow up almost any unit in the game. Do not use on moving
targets. Great for Construction Yard strikes. And it reloaded very
quickly.
1) Range: Medium
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: Heat-seeking missiles
4) Rating: 7
5) Cost: 1200
6) My Strategy:
g. Hind - Heavily armored, good in large groups to attack
infantry, and harvestors wandering away from base, nothing else.
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: Heavy
3) Weapon: Vulcan chain gun
4) Rating: 4
5) Cost: 1200
6) My Strategy:
h. Transport Helicopter - A.K.A Chinook, is able to transport any
five infantry (including puppy dogs) to any part of the known map. Be
warned: Do not operate anywhere near ANY anti-aircraft units or
structures. Great for getting engineers and Tanyas deep into an enemy
base.
1) Range: N/A (Click deploy cursor to unload when on ground)
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: None
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 1200
6) My Strategy:
4. Naval vessels
a. Transport - Carries up to 5 land units across the water at
once, must unload and reload on shoreline. Most vulnerable when
loading/unloading.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: None
4) Rating: 7
5) Cost: 700
6) My Strategy:
b. Submarine - the Soviets only sea-based defense against allied
ships. Used primarily to take out cruisers. Westwood made a big
mistake by not letting these guys have offensive capabilities, oops!
Since these guys have no offensive capabilities, they are pointless in
skirmish mode against the computer.
1) Range: Long
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: Torpedo
4) Rating: 8 for defense, 0 for offense
5) Cost: 950
6) My Strategy:
5. Other units
a. None
C. Soviet Structures
1. Production
a. Construction Yard - Once the MCV deploys, it turns into the
Construction Yard: this structure constructs all other structures in
your base. Protect at _all_ costs!!
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Allows construction of all other base structures
3) How many per base: 2 at least
4) Cost: 2500 (MCV)
5) My Strategy:
b. Power Plant - Output is 100 power. Only build one of these at
the beginning of battle, then construct Advanced Power Plants. Total
output is determined by it's health, so keep them at full health to
receive maximum power output.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides power for base structures
3) How many pb: 1 to start with only at one base
4) Cost: 300
5) My Strategy:
c. Advanced Power Plant - Output is 200 power. Use these as your
main source of power. Use them to power power-hungry structures like
the Allied Technology Center, and the Soviet Tesla Coil. Beware as the
fool who groups his power, shall lose them all in one big bang (Nukes),
be not this fool.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides power for base structures
3) How many pb: as many as needed plus 5+ (Especially with
soviet)
4) Cost: 500
5) My Strategy:
d. Ore Refinery - Processes and stores Ore that is delivered via
Ore Trucks. Very important structures to protect (especially against
air units).
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Smelts, stores, holds, and converts ore into
spendable credits.
3) How many pb: 3-7
4) Cost: 2000
5) My Strategy:
e. Ore Silo - Don't buy these.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Holds smelted ore
3) How many pb: 0 (due to bug in game they are not needed!)
4) Cost: 150
5) My Strategy:
f. Barracks - All Soviet infantry are produced here. Don't
bother investing a lot of resources into protecting these, as how they
build quickly, and are cheap.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Trains Infantry units
3) How many pb: 2 at original base, and 1 every other base
4) Cost: 300
5) My Strategy:
g. Kennel - Trains attack dogs. Don't waste resources protecting
them, they are cheap and expendable.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Trains attack dogs
3) How many pb: 1 total against cpu, 1 at every base against
allied human opponents
4) Cost: 200
5) My Strategy:
h. War Factory - Builds all vehicles. Protect dearly. Costs a
bunch so don't let them get destroyed. Building multiple War Factories
decreases the amount of time required to create a vehicle.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Construct vehicles
3) How many pb: 2 (one in front of each base, one in the back
of each base)
4) Cost: 2000
5) My Strategy:
i. Sub Pen - Produces all Soviet Submarines and transports.
Lightly armored, protect from cruisers and aircraft (as they are a
favorite target of these units). Also can repair any damaged (friendly)
ship that docks to it (though it costs money, repairing takes little
time (you can also repair more than one ship at one time!). As with any
other producing building, the more Sub Pens you make, the faster
Submarines will be produced.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Constructs and repairs friendly naval vessels
3) How many pb: 1 or 2
4) Cost: 650
5) My Strategy:
h. Airfield - You can build MIGs and Yaks (yuk!) here, on later
tech levels, paratroopers and parabombers are provided here. Note: You
can only buld one plane per airfield. Having heavy armor and high hit
points allows the airfield to withstand a serious amount of punishment
before being destroyed. If the airfield is destroyed before a plane
lands, the plane will crash soon thereafter.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Produces stores and reloads planes
3) How many pb: 6-8
4) Cost: 600
5) My Strategy:
i. Helipad - Builds the Hiind helicopter and reloads it.
Recommended one pad for each helicopter. Each new helipad comes with a
Hind. Note: when the primary helipad is occupied additional helicopters
will be flown in from any direction (not necessarily from a safe
direction).
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Constructs and reloads helicopters
3) How many pb: in packs of 4, 6, 8, or 10
4) Cost: 1500
5) My Strategy:
2. Defense
a. Flame Tower - Excellant anti-infantry defense, however do not,
repeat, do not put these near your barracks or infantry. Very effective
at torching pesky little engineers, and paratroopers. Great support
defense for Tesla Coils.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose:
3) How many pb: as many as needed (NONE near infantry), put two
near each Construction Yard
4) Cost: 600
5) My Strategy:
b. Tesla Coil - Very, very, very effective against anything in
groups with Flame Towers. Can destroy a light tank in just one hit.
Can shoot either three weak bolts of lightning, or a more powerful one
bolt of lightning. If protected by Concrete Wall and supported by V2s
and SAM sites, the Tesla Coil is practically invincible.* There is only
one drawback for this unit, that it takes up 3/4 of an advanced power
plant to run! That's only 4 tesla coils for every 3 advanced power
plants (that's 4 teslas for every 800 power!). Watch out for cruisers
taking out these or the power supply.
Knew there was a catch right? here it is.
*Is invincible unless powered down, due to the large amounts of power
they require
1) Armor: Medium
2) Purpose: Kill everything (except aircraft, crap!)
3) How many pb: As many as needed plus more!!
4) Cost: 1500
5) My Strategy:
c. SAM (Surface-to-Air Missile) Site - The only building type
soviet defense. Kind of pathetic compared to the Allies' AA Gun (See AA
Gun), except for it's increased range and ability to operate under low
power situations. The SAM site is effective against helicopters, badger
bombers, and yaks; it will hit MIGS, but chances are that the MIGs will
be able to deliver their payloads first (use rocket infantry to take the
MIGs out).
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Anti-aircraft defense
3) How many pb: 1 for every 2 buildings
4) Cost: 750
5) My Strategy:
3. Other buildings
a. Service Depot - repairs any damaged vehicle that you move onto
it. The Mine Layers can be re-loaded by setting them onto the pad.
This is efficient, because repairing a vehicle is much faster than
building one, and costs a fraction of the original price. This
structure is also required to have the ability to build MCVs. This is a
worthy investment.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Repairs and reloads vehicles
3) How many pb: 1 or 2 (up to three at forward outpost)
4) Cost: 1200
5) My Strategy:
b. Radar Dome - The Radar Dome gives you an overhead view of the
battlefield when fully powered, and the access to new and more powerful
units.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides radar
3) How many pb: 1
4) Cost: 1000
5) My Strategy:
c. Technology Center - Gives the Soviets the abilty to build such
advanced units as the Mammoth Tank, Tanyas (In multiplayer mode), and
Flamers. Sell after buying (to save space, money, and most importantly
power).
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Constructs high-tech structures
3) How many pb: 1 at original base, then sell it
4) Cost: 1500
5) My Strategy:
d. Iron Curtain - Gives temporary invulnerability to the
controller's choice of buildings or units (used especially mammoth nukes
(See Soviet: Strategies: Offensive: Mammoth Nukes) and Construction
Yards).
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides temporary invulnerability defense
3) How many pb: 1 or 2 total
4) Cost: 2800
5) My Strategy:
c. Missile Silo - Provides nuke, nuf said. (Use Nuke on infantry
and buildings, not defense buildings)
1) Armor: Medium
2) Purpose: Mechanism used to launch Nuclear Missile
3) How many pb: 1 total, 2 if your paranoid about destruction
4) Cost: 2500
5) My Strategy:
**Takes ?? minutes for the nuke to charge
4. Walls
a. Barbed-Wire Barrier - This is barely more effective than
Sanbags, but still don't waste your money on them.
1) Armor:
2) Purpose: Passive Defense
3) How Many pb: 0
4) Cost: 25
5) My Strategy:
b. Concrete Barrier - Much more effective than the Sandbag
Barrier, Concrete Walls are not crushable and block all units (except
airborne), and many projectiles.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Stops any unit except air
3) How many pb: Enough to surround base, also suggested
surround Construction Yards
4) Cost: 100
5) My Strategy:
5. Building Tree
Construction Yard.............CY
Power Plant...................PP
Concrete Wall.................CW
Barbed Wire...................BW
Barracks......................BB
Advanced Power Plant..........AP
Sub Pen.......................SP
Ore Refinery..................OR
Flame Tower...................FT
Tesla Coil....................TC
SAM Site......................SS
Silo..........................SI
War Factory...................WF
Radar Dome....................RD
Service Depot.................SD
Technology Center.............TC
Helipad.......................HP
Kennel........................KE
Airfield......................AF
Iron Curtain..................IC
Nuke Silo.....................NS
CY
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CW BW PP --+---+---+
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BB AP SP OR
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+---+ +---+-------+
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FT KE SI WF TC-RD-SS
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+---+ +---+---+
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SD TC-TC AF HP
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IC NS
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Last update 4/16/00
Table of Contents
Written by: RaceCar2003
(RaceCar2003@aol.com)
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I. Copyright and Distribution Information
II. Version Information
III. Allies
A. Story
B. Units
1. Infantry
2. Vehicles
3. Aircraft
4. Naval vessels
5. Other...
C. Structures
1. Production
2. Defense
3. Other buildings
4. Walls
5. Building Tree
D. Strategies
1. Offensive
2. Defensive
IV. Soviet
A. Story
B. Units
1. Infantry
2. Vehicles
3. Aircraft
4. Naval vessels
5. Other...
C. Structures
1. Production
2. Defense
3. Other buildings
4. Walls
5. Building Tree
D. Strategies
1. Offensive
2. Defensive
V. Cheats and Tips
VI. FAQ
VII. Thank yous
VIII. Email
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*****MAJOR CREDIT DUE TO WESTWOOD, THANKS A _TON_*****
(http://www.westwood.com/)
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I. Copyright and Distribution Information
1. Make only one per person please
2. Copy must be complete and give proper credit to creator
3. (Suggested) Economy mode in b/w
C. Copyright
1. Copyright 2000 Red Alert Atlas of Knowledge
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II. Version Information
A. Version 0.1 - Tried to make my own guide with my own website,
failed miserably.
B. Version 0.2 - Found out about how to submit to GameFAQs.com.
Worked on the guide with unit descriptions, my personal ratings of them,
and costs.
**Took story, unit armor, weapon, and range from instruction manual
**Ratings are not official just my opinion on a scale of 1-10
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III. Allies
A. Story - To resist Soviet aggression against any first and second
world powers. Uphold ideals defined in World Association of Nations
charter
B. Allied Units
1. Infantry
a. Rifle Infantry - Has an M-16, this unit is best used against
other infantry units, and light vehicles (when in groups). *Do not use
against CPU Harvesters, or else they will squish you or send out there
entire force at you which can be a good thing*
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: M-16 Rifle
4) Rating: 6
5) Cost: 100
6) My Strategy:
Put in groups of four of five to attack enemy infantry or light
vehicles as a base defense (The ones that CAN'T run over you!). Make
sure that when attacking that you select all of the units at once, and
attack one enemy unit until you or it is destroyed.
X = Enemy Light vehicle X x
x = Enemy Infantry x x x x
Z = Your Minigunner x
Z Z
Z
Z Z
+------------------------+
| Base |
**Do not use againsted ANY tracked vehicles, whatsoever.
These versitile units can also be used when attacking as "suicide"
units. Used in ones or twos to force soviet V2s to waste there ammo on
them, to clear the way for an assault.
Z = Your Minigunner
| Enemy Base |
+-------------------+
^
|
ZZ
When facing large attacks set a few about 15 spaces out in front of
your base, as they will attack anything that comes within range. If
your opponant has targeted his troops to attack the center of your base,
then they will run right by, allowing you to weaken the enemy's units
(great for anti-V2 defenses).
Z = Your Minigunner
--+ Z
B | Z Z
a | ore
/ \ / \ / \ +**---+ field
/ \ / \ / \ ^
| | /|\
+-------------------------+ |
| |
+-------------------+
Use against computer raids of infantry, very effective!
2. Vehicles
a. AT (Anti-Tank) Mine Layer - This unit has Anti-Tanks mines,
they are powerful, but yes, there is a catch; it takes forever to lay
them, so only do it if you can spare the time. The Mine Layer carries
only 5 mines, and can be reloaded at the Service Depot.
1) Range: N/A (Click deploy cursor to lay a mine)
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: AT Mines
4) Rating: 5 (because of time consumption)
5) Cost: 800
6) My Strategy: Lay them in an ore field (Pic 1)(Note: Can not
destroy when in ore fields), in front of your base (Pic 2), or in front
of an opponant's base (Pic 3).
X = Anti-Tank Mine
Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3
+--------------------+ +--------------------+ +--------------------+
|Ore field X -- X X X| | X X X X X X X X X X| || Opponant's Base ||
|X X X X X--- --- X | |X X X X X X X X X X | |+------++ ++------+|
| X X X--- ---| | | | X X X++ ++ X X X |
|X X--- | | | | X X X X X X X X |
|--- | | ++ ++ | | X X X X X X X |
| Regular | |+-----++ ++------+| | X X X X X X |
| Terrain | || Your Base || | X X X X X |
+--------------------+ +--------------------+ +--------------------+
**Don't worry about your own guys running over your mines, because they
are smart enough to avoid them. However your own missles, guns, etc...
can destroy them so make sure you keep them out of range of all units,
especially cruisers, V2s and Artillary (Like you would have any!).
b. Ore Truck - Your cash truck (delivers 700 per load of Ore, and
1400 per load of Gems). Send them to closest ore patches, give escort.
Protect at all costs. If destroyed, this seriously cripples your war
machine. Has the ability to heal up to half-life.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Heavy
3) Weapon: None (effective at squishing infantry, watch out!)
4) Rating: 8
5) Cost: 1400
6) My Strategy:
c. Ranger - Useless, except for at beginning to scout. (Use APCs
to take out infantry, because of heavy armor. Good for p-o-ing your
opponent, by attacking their Harvestors (hehe).
1) Range: Short (about 4 spaces)
2) Armor: Very Light
3) Weapon: M-60 Machine Gun
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 600
6) My Strategy:
d. Light Tank - With Little gun and low armor this unit is a
waste of money unless used in LARGE groups (20-30). Good for in depth
scouting of enemy bases at the beginning of a game. What it lacks in
firepower, it makes up for in speed and rapid fire.
1) Range: Medium
2) Armor: Medium (pretty crappy)
3) Weapon: 75mm Cannon
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 700
6) My Strategy:
e. APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) - Transports five infantry
units, including dogs (assuming you have them!) across land. Being the
lightest tracked vehicle it is ideal for mashing infantry. Has a
machine gun, to help against infantry threats.
1) Range: Short (about 4 spaces)
2) Armor: Heavy (very nice!)
3) Weapon: M-60 Machine Gun
4) Rating: 8
5) Cost: 800
6) My Strategy:
f. Artillery - Don't buy these, computer does because they are
stupid. If you do use as base defense behind wall.
1) Range: Long
2) Armor: Very Light
3) Weapon: 155mm Cannon (nice!)
4) Rating: 3
5) Cost: 600
6) My Strategy:
g. Medium Tank - This is the only Allied tank that is worth
talking about, but barely, yeah, it is 150$ less than the heavy tank,
but has less firepower. Having one 105mm cannon it takes two of these
"tanks" to destroy one soviet heavy tank, and up to four to one mammoth
tank. Well anyway, since your allies, and you have to buy tanks, buy
these, and a _LOT_, "remember strength in numbers".
1) Range: Medium
2) Armor: Heavy
3) Weapon: 105mm Cannon
4) Rating: 6.5
5) Cost: 800
6) My Strategy:
h. Mobile Gap Generator - The mobile version of the Gap
Generator. Much smaller range, use to conceal sneak attacks. Don't
bother with these against the CPU.
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: Shroud Generator
4) Rating: 0 against CPU, 7 against human
5) Cost: 600
6) My Strategy:
i. MCV (Mobile Construction Vehicle) - A new base all in one,
what you start with. To deploy click on the unit's deploy cursor. Be
sure to keep these well protected, as are a favorite target of the enemy
(human enemy), especially the MIG. Very expensive, another reason to
keep safe. The MCV is useful to have around if the original
Construction Yard (a favorite target of the enemy) is destroyed or
captured. The more of them you have the faster construction will
proceed.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: None
4) Rating: 6
5) Cost: 2500
6) My Strategy:
j. MRJ (Mobile Radar Jammer) - If near the enemy's radar dome
(within 15 spaces), this unit will effectively shut down the enemy's
radar. Good to put near an enemy base, before attacking.
1) Range: Very Long (15 cells)
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: White-noise generator
4) Rating: 0 against CPU, 6 against human
5) Cost: 600
6) My Strategy:
3. Aircraft
a. Apache Longbow - The Allied attack that is useless.
Impossible to kill infantry, and hard to hit moving targets. Longbows
will get slaughtered if they encounter a lot of AA defenses, so only
attack unguarded objects, and keep AWAY from rocket dudes. Can attack
other helicopters in the air??
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: Heavy (yeah, right)
3) Weapon: Hellfire missiles
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 1200
6) My Strategy:
4. Naval Vessels
a. Transport - Carries up to 5 land units across the water at
once, must unload and reload on shoreline. Most vulnerable when
loading/unloading.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: None
4) Rating: 7
5) Cost: 700
6) My Strategy:
b. Gunboat - Fast ship good for scouting for subs, I would rather
use a transport, don't bother buying them, they suck.
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: 2-inch deck gun and depth-charge launcher
4) Rating: 3
5) Cost: 500
6) My Strategy:
c. Destroyer - Effective against land, sea and air threats. Good
at killing subs, use this to protect Cruisers.
1) Range: Medium
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: Stinger missiles and dual depth-charge launcher
4) Rating: 8
5) Cost: 1000
6) My Strategy:
d. Cruiser - Just buy a bunch, but keep away from your own base,
and protect with destroyers, and then let the winds of death come.
1) Range: Extreme
2) Armor: Heavy
3) Weapon: 8-inch Artillery cannons
4) Rating: 9.99 (can't attack air or subs, leave that up to
destroyers, but who cares!?)
5) Cost: 2000
6) My Strategy:
C. Allied Structures
1. Production
a. Construction Yard - Once the MCV deploys, it turns into the
Construction Yard: this structure constructs all other structures in
your base. Protect at _all_ costs!!
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Allows construction of all other base structures
3) How many per base: 2 at least
4) Cost: 2500 (MCV)
5) My Strategy:
b. Power Plant - Output is 100 power. Only build one of these at
the beginning of battle, then construct Advanced Power Plants. Total
output is determined by it's health, so keep them at full health to
receive maximum power output.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides power for base structures
3) How many pb: 1 to start with only at one base
4) Cost: 300
5) My Strategy:
c. Advanced Power Plant - Output is 200 power. Use these as your
main source of power. Use them to power power-hungry structures like
the Allied Technology Center, and the Soviet Tesla Coil. Beware as the
fool who groups his power, shall lose them all in one big bang (Nukes),
be not this fool.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides power for base structures
3) How many pb: as many as needed plus 5+ (Especially with
soviet)
4) Cost: 500
5) My Strategy:
d. Ore Refinery - Processes and stores Ore that is delivered via
Ore Trucks. Very important structures to protect (especially against
air units).
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Smelts, stores, holds, and converts ore into
spendable credits.
3) How many pb: 3-7
4) Cost: 2000
5) My Strategy:
e. Ore Silo - Don't buy these.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Holds smelted ore
3) How many pb: 0 (due to bug in game they are not needed!)
4) Cost: 150
5) My Strategy:
f. Tent Barracks - All Allied infantry are produced here. Don't
bother investing a lot of resources into protecting these, as how they
build quickly, and are cheap.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Trains Infantry units
3) How many pb: 2 at original base, and 1 every other base
4) Cost: 300
5) My Strategy:
g. War Factory - Builds all vehicles. Protect dearly. Costs a
bunch so don't let them get destroyed. Building multiple War Factories
decreases the amount of time required to create a vehicle.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Construct vehicles
3) How many pb: 2 (one in front of each base, one in the back
of each base)
4) Cost: 2000
5) My Strategy:
h. Naval Yard - builds and repairs all Allied naval vessels.
Building multiple Naval Yards decreases the amount of time required to
create a naval vessel.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Constructs and repairs naval vessels
3) How many pb: 2 at original base, and 1 every other base
4) Cost: 650
5) My Strategy:
i. Helipad - Builds the Apache Longbow and reloads it.
Recommended one pad for each helicopter. Each new helipad comes with an
Apache. Note: when the primary helipad is occupied additional
helicopters will be flown in from any direction (not necessarily from a
safe direction).
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Constructs and reloads helicopters
3) How many pb: in packs of 4, 6, 8, or 10
4) Cost: 1500
5) My Strategy:
2. Defense
a. Pillbox - Is pretty good at mowing through infantry, but has
pathetic armor. Don't use, well not recommended.
1) Armor: Medium
2) Purpose: Anti-Infantry defense
3) How many pb: 0
4) Cost: 400
5) My Strategy:
b. Camouflaged Pillbox - Identically equipped as the Pillbox and
better armor, is excellent at ripping holes through soviet uniforms.
This structure is the recommended choice of anti-infantry defense for
the allies, and great for internal base defenses. Very effective
against paratroopers. The best, but sometimes neglected feature of the
Camouflaged Pillbox is the fact that it IS camouflaged! it has the
ability to blend in with the surrounding terrain.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Anti-Infantry defense
3) How many pb: 2-4 per entrance, and up to 15 scattered
throughout each base
4) Cost: 600
5) My Strategy:
c. Turret - A Turret-mounted 105mm cannon. Very effective at
killing tanks, one-on-one it can almost take out a mammoth tank! Also,
in groups the Turret is effective against infantry threats too (but not
mass raids, use Camo Pillboxes with Turrets for those). This unit is a
effective anti-tank defense, because it is heavily armored, and has a
pretty good range.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Anti-tank defense
3) How many pb: 4-6 per entrance, and up to 10 scattered
around, and in each base
4) Cost: 600
5) My Strategy:
d. AA (Anti-Aircraft) Gun - Great firepower, but it's range is
not good. Don't try to send aircraft over these (when they're powered,
spys can reveal that info to you) or else they may not come back. Very
deadly when at close quarters.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Anti-aircraft defense
3) How many pb: 1 for every 3 buildings (not including wall)
4) Cost: ???
5) My Strategy:
3. Other buildings
a. Radar Dome - The Radar Dome gives you an overhead view of the
battlefield when fully powered, and the access to new and more powerful
units.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides radar
3) How many pb: 1 (Sell once you get Tech Center, and replace
w/ power)
4) Cost: 1000
5) My Strategy:
b. Technology Center - In addition to it's function is to provide
more advanced units on the Allied side, the Allied Technology Center
gives the Allies use of one of the most powerful units... well weapons
in the game, the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS). Allows production
of the units Gap Generator, CRUISER, and Tanyas (yeah!). Don't forget,
you do not have to launch the GPS Satellite, it will launch itself; so
don't waste your time by watching for the icon to say "ready".
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: GPS Satellite launch and construction of high-tech
structures
3) How many per base: 2 at original base, 1 at every other base
4) Cost: ???
5) My Strategy:
**Takes 8 minutes for GPS to launch
c. Gap Generator - Excellent structure for multiplayer games,
pointless for single player. With its ability to hide itself from
radar, and on screen view, the Gap Generator is a very useful unit, when
trying to conceal your actions from your enemies. The Gap Generator
allows the Allies to hide their base from enemy sight. Even after an
enemy scout comes, his explored terrain will be re shrouded quickly by
the gap generator if he explores under that area. Requires power to
function.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Creates shroud
3) How many pb: enough to cover base, and a little outside of
it only in multiplayer, in single do not bother to build any, the
computer can see under your base anyway.
4) Cost: 500
5) My Strategy:
d. Chronosphere - The Chronosphere has the ability to
"cronoshift", or teleport any unit to any explored area on the map.
There is what some might consider a drawback, the shift is not
permanant, the shifted unit comes back to it's origin location when the
Cronoshift bar is halfway done. Since this is a new technology, certain
side effects have been shown, that is if the Chronosphere is used
excessively...
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides chronoshift
3) How many pb: 1 total, 2 if your paranoid about capture or
destruction
4) Cost: 2800
5) My Strategy:
**Takes 7 minutes to charge
e. Service Depot - repairs any damaged vehicle that you move onto
it. The Mine Layers can be re-loaded by setting them onto the pad.
This is efficient, because repairing a vehicle is much faster than
building one, and costs a fraction of the original price. This
structure is also required to have the ability to build MCVs. This is a
worthy investment.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Repairs and reloads vehicles
3) How many pb: 1 or 2 (up to three at forward outpost)
4) Cost: 1200
5) My Strategy:
f. Missile Silo - Provides nuke, nuf said. (Use Nuke on infantry
and buildings, not defense buildings)
1) Armor: Medium
2) Purpose: Mechanism used to launch Nuclear Missile
3) How many pb: 1 total, 2 if your paranoid about destruction
4) Cost: 2500
5) My Strategy:
**Takes ?? minutes for the nuke to charge
g. Fake Structures - The Allies have four fake structures that
they can build in order to trick their opponents the are the fake
Construction Yard, War Factory, Radar Dome, and Naval Yard. These only
have a small percentage of the hit-points of a normal structure, but can
be used to attempt to trick the enemy into attacking them, saving you
valuable time (Suprisingly this works against the computer!).
1) Armor: None
2) Purpose: Deceives the enemy
3) How many pb: As many as you want
4) Cost: 50
5) My Strategy:
4. Walls
a. Sandbag Barrier - is good for nothing, don't bother with
these, buy concrete
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Stops any untracked unit
3) How many pb: 0
4) Cost: 25
5) My Strategy:
b. Concrete Barrier - Much more effective than the Sandbag
Barrier, Concrete Walls are not crushable and block all units (except
airborne), and many projectiles.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Stops any unit except air
3) How many pb: Enough to surround base, also suggested
surround Construction Yards
4) Cost: 100
5) My Strategy:
5. Building Tree
Construction Yard*............CY
Power Plant...................PP
Concrete Wall.................CW
Sandbags......................SB
Barracks......................BB
Advanced Power Plant..........AP
Naval Yard*...................NY
Ore Refinery..................OR
Pillbox.......................PB
Camo Pillbox..................CP
Turret........................TU
Silo..........................SI
War Factory*..................WF
Radar Dome*...................RD
Service Depot.................SD
Technology Center.............TC
Helipad.......................HP
AA Gun........................AA
Gap Generator.................GG
Chronosphere..................CH
Nuke Silo.....................NS
*Fake Structures may be built once original structure is built
CY*
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D. Strategies
1. Offensive
a. Not completed
2. Defenses
a. Not completed
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IV. Soviet
A. Story - It came to Stalin in a series of dreams. The birthright
of the Soviet empire is nothing less than conquering and dominating the
entire globe. And the birthright of Josef Stalin is nothing less than
conquering the spirit and dominating the actions of every Soviet
citizen.
B. Soviet Units
1. Infantry
a. Attack Dog - The Attack dog is the only unit in the game that
has the ability to detect spies. They are also very effective at
stopping infantry raids. To protect from spies put in guard mode spread
out all over your base.
1) Range: Very Short (sometimes will jump up/down a cliff when
attacking!)
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: Teeth
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 200
6) My Strategy:
b. Rifle Infantry - Has an AK-47, this unit is best used against
other infantry units, and light vehicles (when in groups). *Do not use
against CPU Harvesters, or else they will squish you or send out there
entire force at you which can be a good thing*
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: AK-47 Rifle
4) Rating: 6
5) Cost: 100
6) My Strategy:
c. Grenadier - The Grenadier is an effective unit, because of
it's range and it's splash radius (The amount of damage it does when not
a direct hit). Although many gamers recommend these units in packs, I
do not, because if one dies they all we be hurt or killed when that one
blows up (Same with Flamers). But, I find that these units can and will
be effective when placed in random places around the base, solo or in
packs of two. Very effective at taking out rocket men though.
1) Range: Medium
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: Grenade
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 160
6) My Strategy:
d. Flame Infantry - Excellent anti-infantry defense (especially
against engineers), that is mobile. However, don't group these guys
together with other infantry, they will fry' em up! If I decide to use
these guys (I usually don't because they are relatively expensive), I
set them outside of my base on guard mode, oh... and they take care of
rocket infantry pretty well.
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: Flame-Thrower
4) Rating: 4
5) Cost: 300
6) My Strategy:
e. Engineer - Repairs any of your damaged buildings instantly,
captures enemy buildings (When it is in RED), injures enemy buildings.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: None (can be used as a weapon against buildings)
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 500
6) My Strategy:
f. Tanya - Has two .45s, Tanya is the ultimate infantry killing
machine. Don't let her near vehicles, especially APCs, Jeeps,
Artillery, and V2s. Has C-4 to blow up buildings (Nice!). Tanya can't
be put in guard mode (this sucks), you must manually target all enemies
that you wish attacked (or let them shoot at her first).
1) Range: Upper Medium
2) Armor: None (teamed up w/Medics can make her last longer)
3) Weapon: Dual Colt .45s and C-4 explosives
4) Rating: 7 overall, 10 against infantry
5) Cost: 1200
6) My Strategy:
2. Vehicles
a. Ore Truck - Your cash truck (delivers 700 per load of Ore, and
1400 per load of Gems). Send them to closest ore patches, give escort.
Protect at all costs. If destroyed, this seriously cripples your war
machine. Has the ability to heal up to half-life.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Heavy
3) Weapon: None (effective at squishing infantry, watch out!)
4) Rating: 8
5) Cost: 1400
6) My Strategy:
b. Heavy Tank - Very useful for Soviets. Use as main attack
force against allied bases. This unit's good armor, firepower, and
quick building time (with multiple War Factories).
1) Range: Medium
2) Armor: Heavy
3) Weapon: Twin 105mm cannons
4) Rating: 7
5) Cost: 950
6) My Strategy:
d. AP (Anti-Personel) Mine Layer - This unit is used only as an
anti-infantry defense. If tanks run over these it destroys the mine,
and doesn't hurt the tank, so don't put these out in the open.
1) Range: N/A (Click deploy cursor to lay a mine)
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: AP Mines
4) Rating: 2
5) Cost: 800
6) My Strategy:
e. V2 Rocket Launcher - Very, very effective! Used for long
range assaults or base defense. Keep guarded with tanks, for they have
weak armor, and take a long time to reload.
1) Range: Long
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: V2 Rocket
4) Rating: 7
5) Cost: 700
6) My Strategy:
f. Mammoth Tank - The games biggest tank. Very effective in
mixed groups. Is very effective at taking out infantry (and air units!
yes!) with mammoth tusk missiles, and can destroy almost any tank with
just 4 shots. On top of that, it takes up to 4 allied small tanks to
take out one Mammoth Tank! Need support from heavy tanks on base attacks
though. Also, it can repair itself to half health for free, if given
time.
1) Range: Medium, Medium
2) Armor: Very Heavy
3) Weapon: Twin 120mm cannons, Mammoth tusk missiles
4) Rating: 9
5) Cost: 1700
6) My Strategy:
g. MCV (Mobile Construction Vehicle) - A new base all in one,
what you start with. To deploy click on the unit's deploy cursor. Be
sure to keep these well protected, as are a favorite target of the enemy
(human enemy), especially the MIG. Very expensive, another reason to
keep safe. The MCV is useful to have around if the original
Construction Yard (a favorite target of the enemy) is destroyed or
captured. The more of them you have the faster construction will
proceed.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: None
4) Rating: 6
5) Cost: 2500
6) My Strategy:
3. Aircraft
a. Yak - Only useful against large masses of infantry, and only
if they do not include rocket infantry (these take the Yaks down like a
hot knife through butter. I would not use these, ever.
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: Twin machine-guns
4) Rating: 3
5) Cost: 800
6) My Strategy:
b. Badger Bomber - This is what delivers the paratroopers and
parabombs to the battle field. Very light armor. Do not even attempt
to send anywhere near anything that can fire at the plane, especially AA
guns, they will rip them apart in a second or two.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Very Light
3) Weapon: Parabombs or Paratroopers (Rifle infantry)
4) Rating: 3
5) Cost: Free
6) My Strategy: Just keep them away from anti-aircraft weapons!
c. Paratroopers - Dropped from a Badger Bomber, this group of
five Rifle infantry, can be placed _anywhere_ on the map. Useful for
exploring unknown regions. If dropped in back of a base that is
unguarded, this squad has the ability to take out a powerplant, as long
as no teslas, flame towers, V2s, or Artllery are around.
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: None
3) Weapon: AK-47 Rifle
4) Rating: 6
5) Cost: Free
6) My Strategy:
**Recharges every ? minutes
d. Parabombs - These suck! Only use on large concentrations of
buildings, since you only know that they will drop within a 5 cell
radius of your original destination. If dropping them in the heart of a
base, wait... DON'T! The plane won't make it! I hardly ever use these
except to blow up enemy ore patches.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: N/A
3) Weapon: High-explosive bombs (and inaccurate!!)
4) Rating: 2
5) Cost: Free
6) My Strategy:
**Recharges every ?? minutes
e. Spy Plane - Used to reveal any area on the map (and about 9
spaces radius around it), just by left-clicking over the shroud, great
for scouting the enemy's base (especially under Gap Generators).
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Very Heavy
3) Weapon: Camera
4) Rating: 9
5) Cost: Free
6) My Strategy:
**Recharges every 3 minutes
f. MIG - Used heavily by the Soviets for air raids. Because of
it's fast speed, heavy payload, and accurate missiles the MIG is the
backbone of the Soviet airforce. Best used on buildings. Six of these
units will blow up almost any unit in the game. Do not use on moving
targets. Great for Construction Yard strikes. And it reloaded very
quickly.
1) Range: Medium
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: Heat-seeking missiles
4) Rating: 7
5) Cost: 1200
6) My Strategy:
g. Hind - Heavily armored, good in large groups to attack
infantry, and harvestors wandering away from base, nothing else.
1) Range: Short
2) Armor: Heavy
3) Weapon: Vulcan chain gun
4) Rating: 4
5) Cost: 1200
6) My Strategy:
h. Transport Helicopter - A.K.A Chinook, is able to transport any
five infantry (including puppy dogs) to any part of the known map. Be
warned: Do not operate anywhere near ANY anti-aircraft units or
structures. Great for getting engineers and Tanyas deep into an enemy
base.
1) Range: N/A (Click deploy cursor to unload when on ground)
2) Armor: Light
3) Weapon: None
4) Rating: 5
5) Cost: 1200
6) My Strategy:
4. Naval vessels
a. Transport - Carries up to 5 land units across the water at
once, must unload and reload on shoreline. Most vulnerable when
loading/unloading.
1) Range: N/A
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: None
4) Rating: 7
5) Cost: 700
6) My Strategy:
b. Submarine - the Soviets only sea-based defense against allied
ships. Used primarily to take out cruisers. Westwood made a big
mistake by not letting these guys have offensive capabilities, oops!
Since these guys have no offensive capabilities, they are pointless in
skirmish mode against the computer.
1) Range: Long
2) Armor: Medium
3) Weapon: Torpedo
4) Rating: 8 for defense, 0 for offense
5) Cost: 950
6) My Strategy:
5. Other units
a. None
C. Soviet Structures
1. Production
a. Construction Yard - Once the MCV deploys, it turns into the
Construction Yard: this structure constructs all other structures in
your base. Protect at _all_ costs!!
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Allows construction of all other base structures
3) How many per base: 2 at least
4) Cost: 2500 (MCV)
5) My Strategy:
b. Power Plant - Output is 100 power. Only build one of these at
the beginning of battle, then construct Advanced Power Plants. Total
output is determined by it's health, so keep them at full health to
receive maximum power output.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides power for base structures
3) How many pb: 1 to start with only at one base
4) Cost: 300
5) My Strategy:
c. Advanced Power Plant - Output is 200 power. Use these as your
main source of power. Use them to power power-hungry structures like
the Allied Technology Center, and the Soviet Tesla Coil. Beware as the
fool who groups his power, shall lose them all in one big bang (Nukes),
be not this fool.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides power for base structures
3) How many pb: as many as needed plus 5+ (Especially with
soviet)
4) Cost: 500
5) My Strategy:
d. Ore Refinery - Processes and stores Ore that is delivered via
Ore Trucks. Very important structures to protect (especially against
air units).
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Smelts, stores, holds, and converts ore into
spendable credits.
3) How many pb: 3-7
4) Cost: 2000
5) My Strategy:
e. Ore Silo - Don't buy these.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Holds smelted ore
3) How many pb: 0 (due to bug in game they are not needed!)
4) Cost: 150
5) My Strategy:
f. Barracks - All Soviet infantry are produced here. Don't
bother investing a lot of resources into protecting these, as how they
build quickly, and are cheap.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Trains Infantry units
3) How many pb: 2 at original base, and 1 every other base
4) Cost: 300
5) My Strategy:
g. Kennel - Trains attack dogs. Don't waste resources protecting
them, they are cheap and expendable.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Trains attack dogs
3) How many pb: 1 total against cpu, 1 at every base against
allied human opponents
4) Cost: 200
5) My Strategy:
h. War Factory - Builds all vehicles. Protect dearly. Costs a
bunch so don't let them get destroyed. Building multiple War Factories
decreases the amount of time required to create a vehicle.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Construct vehicles
3) How many pb: 2 (one in front of each base, one in the back
of each base)
4) Cost: 2000
5) My Strategy:
i. Sub Pen - Produces all Soviet Submarines and transports.
Lightly armored, protect from cruisers and aircraft (as they are a
favorite target of these units). Also can repair any damaged (friendly)
ship that docks to it (though it costs money, repairing takes little
time (you can also repair more than one ship at one time!). As with any
other producing building, the more Sub Pens you make, the faster
Submarines will be produced.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Constructs and repairs friendly naval vessels
3) How many pb: 1 or 2
4) Cost: 650
5) My Strategy:
h. Airfield - You can build MIGs and Yaks (yuk!) here, on later
tech levels, paratroopers and parabombers are provided here. Note: You
can only buld one plane per airfield. Having heavy armor and high hit
points allows the airfield to withstand a serious amount of punishment
before being destroyed. If the airfield is destroyed before a plane
lands, the plane will crash soon thereafter.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Produces stores and reloads planes
3) How many pb: 6-8
4) Cost: 600
5) My Strategy:
i. Helipad - Builds the Hiind helicopter and reloads it.
Recommended one pad for each helicopter. Each new helipad comes with a
Hind. Note: when the primary helipad is occupied additional helicopters
will be flown in from any direction (not necessarily from a safe
direction).
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Constructs and reloads helicopters
3) How many pb: in packs of 4, 6, 8, or 10
4) Cost: 1500
5) My Strategy:
2. Defense
a. Flame Tower - Excellant anti-infantry defense, however do not,
repeat, do not put these near your barracks or infantry. Very effective
at torching pesky little engineers, and paratroopers. Great support
defense for Tesla Coils.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose:
3) How many pb: as many as needed (NONE near infantry), put two
near each Construction Yard
4) Cost: 600
5) My Strategy:
b. Tesla Coil - Very, very, very effective against anything in
groups with Flame Towers. Can destroy a light tank in just one hit.
Can shoot either three weak bolts of lightning, or a more powerful one
bolt of lightning. If protected by Concrete Wall and supported by V2s
and SAM sites, the Tesla Coil is practically invincible.* There is only
one drawback for this unit, that it takes up 3/4 of an advanced power
plant to run! That's only 4 tesla coils for every 3 advanced power
plants (that's 4 teslas for every 800 power!). Watch out for cruisers
taking out these or the power supply.
Knew there was a catch right? here it is.
*Is invincible unless powered down, due to the large amounts of power
they require
1) Armor: Medium
2) Purpose: Kill everything (except aircraft, crap!)
3) How many pb: As many as needed plus more!!
4) Cost: 1500
5) My Strategy:
c. SAM (Surface-to-Air Missile) Site - The only building type
soviet defense. Kind of pathetic compared to the Allies' AA Gun (See AA
Gun), except for it's increased range and ability to operate under low
power situations. The SAM site is effective against helicopters, badger
bombers, and yaks; it will hit MIGS, but chances are that the MIGs will
be able to deliver their payloads first (use rocket infantry to take the
MIGs out).
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Anti-aircraft defense
3) How many pb: 1 for every 2 buildings
4) Cost: 750
5) My Strategy:
3. Other buildings
a. Service Depot - repairs any damaged vehicle that you move onto
it. The Mine Layers can be re-loaded by setting them onto the pad.
This is efficient, because repairing a vehicle is much faster than
building one, and costs a fraction of the original price. This
structure is also required to have the ability to build MCVs. This is a
worthy investment.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Repairs and reloads vehicles
3) How many pb: 1 or 2 (up to three at forward outpost)
4) Cost: 1200
5) My Strategy:
b. Radar Dome - The Radar Dome gives you an overhead view of the
battlefield when fully powered, and the access to new and more powerful
units.
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides radar
3) How many pb: 1
4) Cost: 1000
5) My Strategy:
c. Technology Center - Gives the Soviets the abilty to build such
advanced units as the Mammoth Tank, Tanyas (In multiplayer mode), and
Flamers. Sell after buying (to save space, money, and most importantly
power).
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Constructs high-tech structures
3) How many pb: 1 at original base, then sell it
4) Cost: 1500
5) My Strategy:
d. Iron Curtain - Gives temporary invulnerability to the
controller's choice of buildings or units (used especially mammoth nukes
(See Soviet: Strategies: Offensive: Mammoth Nukes) and Construction
Yards).
1) Armor: Light
2) Purpose: Provides temporary invulnerability defense
3) How many pb: 1 or 2 total
4) Cost: 2800
5) My Strategy:
c. Missile Silo - Provides nuke, nuf said. (Use Nuke on infantry
and buildings, not defense buildings)
1) Armor: Medium
2) Purpose: Mechanism used to launch Nuclear Missile
3) How many pb: 1 total, 2 if your paranoid about destruction
4) Cost: 2500
5) My Strategy:
**Takes ?? minutes for the nuke to charge
4. Walls
a. Barbed-Wire Barrier - This is barely more effective than
Sanbags, but still don't waste your money on them.
1) Armor:
2) Purpose: Passive Defense
3) How Many pb: 0
4) Cost: 25
5) My Strategy:
b. Concrete Barrier - Much more effective than the Sandbag
Barrier, Concrete Walls are not crushable and block all units (except
airborne), and many projectiles.
1) Armor: Heavy
2) Purpose: Stops any unit except air
3) How many pb: Enough to surround base, also suggested
surround Construction Yards
4) Cost: 100
5) My Strategy:
5. Building Tree
Construction Yard.............CY
Power Plant...................PP
Concrete Wall.................CW
Barbed Wire...................BW
Barracks......................BB
Advanced Power Plant..........AP
Sub Pen.......................SP
Ore Refinery..................OR
Flame Tower...................FT
Tesla Coil....................TC
SAM Site......................SS
Silo..........................SI
War Factory...................WF
Radar Dome....................RD
Service Depot.................SD
Technology Center.............TC
Helipad.......................HP
Kennel........................KE
Airfield......................AF
Iron Curtain..................IC
Nuke Silo.....................NS
CY
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