/------------------------------------\ | Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics | | Demo FAQ For the PC | | By BrakZero Version 1.0 | \------------------------------------/ ======= CONTACT ======= E-Mail: BrakZero717@aol.com - Nice comments are happily accepted. - Flame mails will be deleted immediatly, so don't waste your time. - I won't answer anything that's in the guide. - E-mail which corrects some mistakes in the guide are gladly accepted. AIM: BrakZero717 - Flaming me through AIM will only put you on my ignore list. - Everything in the e-mail section. ======================================================================= Boo. Welcome to my tiny little guide that I made in one day. I'm very surprised that you found it. After all, not many people heard of Total Annihilation, let alone the expansion pack. This FAQ guides you through the Battle Tactics demo. And in case you didn't just get the hint, Battle Tactics is the name of the expansion pack. ======================================================================= ----------------- Table of Contents ----------------- Battle Strategy - Zipper Attack - Raid on Vetes - Can Rush ----------------- +- Battle Strategies -+ In the Briefing section, I only describe the first part of the briefing from the game. There is more, but it's just suggestions and battle tactics. I am not including these because I'll supply them myself. -------------------------- Mission #1 - Zipper Attack -------------------------- Briefing... "The Harrison Hotspot is a geothermally active region on Empyrrean. The Core have not been challenged in the area until now, and have a large weakly defended base. Take a force of Zippers in for a lightning strike to take out their supplies. Destroy all Geothermal Power Plants and both Fusion Power Plants at any cost." How to Win... This is probably the toughest of the three missions. 62 Zippers is a lot, but they have light guns and light armor. Your Peewees are going to be destroyed right away because they're standing right next to Light Laser Towers, so don't even bother with them... they're not even that useful, anyway. Anyway, pause the game with your PAUSE key (not F2) and press enter. Type "+shootall", and this will have your Zippers automatically shoot buildings. Race your Zippers past the Light Laser Towers and scan the map. Make sure you take out any Geothermal Power Plants that you see. DO NOT TRY TO FIGHT ALL THE GOLIATHS AND REAPERS. Your chances of completing the mission is very, very low if you do so. When you run into them, just run past them and get away. Zippers are very fast and those tanks are very slow, so you shouldn't have too much of a problem getting away. When you finally take out all the Geothermal plants and the two Fusion plants, you've won. -------------------------- Mission #2 - Raid on Vetes -------------------------- Briefing... "The Core has built a base on the Vetes and is now building up concentric defenses. Take your fast attack mobile force and destroy the Core base. Attack everything but be sure you kill all their Advanced Kbot Labs and Fusion Power Plants." How to Win... This mission is a joke. Just gather up every single unit and sweep up the map. It'll be a breeze, although it might take a while to find every single unit. You'll even find an Advanced Construction Kbot on the north western side of the map trying to build an Intimidator. :P --------------------- Mission #3 - Can Rush --------------------- Briefing... "Emergency! A powerful force of Core Cans has been found by your scouts. Prevent them from destroying your Fusion Power Plant. How to Win... This one could be a little tough, but you shouldn't have TOO much of a problem with it. Use your three Construction Kbots wisely. Since you have a Fusion Reactor, energy shouldn't be a problem. Pop up as many Defenders, Sentinels, and Guardians as possible. You should have some time because your first attacks are by Pyros, who are destroyed with your starting units. Make sure you tighten your defenses most right around the Fusion Plant, because that is the Can's main target. Don't give up just because they're starting to get close. -\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\- Yep, that's all. Hey, it's just a demo. If I had the full expansion pack, maybe then I would write one for all 100 missions. Oh well. ======================================================================= This document is copyright (C) 2001 by BrakZero (Alex Biedacha)