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Krogoth Encounter - FINALLY
Publié: 18 sept. 2002 23:55
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T. McThorn
Re: Krogoth Encounter - FINALLY
Publié: 18 sept. 2002 23:55
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So how did you do it?



Charles Houck wrote:

> Yes! I finally did it. After two years of trying I finally completed the
> Krogoth Encounter. It took me hours to complete and I had over 4100 Core
> kills by the end but I DID IT!!!!!!!
>
> Chas



Invité
Re: Krogoth Encounter - FINALLY
Publié: 19 sept. 2002 21:31
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Da Wrecka
Re: Krogoth Encounter - FINALLY
Publié: 19 sept. 2002 21:31
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SHONNER <shonner@hotmail.com> scribbled:
> Yes. It is a tuffy.

Unless you cheat. :) Granted cheating generally takes away the satisfaction of having
done it yourself, but I find the sadistic glee from the enemy hurling everything at
your base and still taking a royal pasting offsets that to an acceptable degree.

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john graesser
Re: Krogoth Encounter - FINALLY
Publié: 19 sept. 2002 22:30
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"Da Wrecka" <da_wreckaSPAM@BGONEblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> SHONNER <shonner@hotmail.com> scribbled:
> > Yes. It is a tuffy.
>
> Unless you cheat. :) Granted cheating generally takes away the
satisfaction of having
> done it yourself, but I find the sadistic glee from the enemy hurling
everything at
> your base and still taking a royal pasting offsets that to an acceptable
degree.

So what does work, I have tried moving onto the hill to the left, building
nothing but resource and missle launchers, walling off the corner with
teeth, in several different configurations, even capturing 2-3 Krogoths with
spiders, but I always manage to fall to bomber attacks about the time I get
the base setup. How do you survive the air attacks?

I don't think I even last an hour.
thanks, John.




Charles Houck
Re: Krogoth Encounter - FINALLY
Publié: 24 sept. 2002 18:31
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"T. McThorn" <nospam.starfury_junkmail@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> So how did you do it?

My method may not be the most efficient but it is the only way that worked
for me. The biggest problem (for me) was to survive the initial onslaught of
land and air attacks and then defeat the first two Krogoths and then the
massive air assault that follows the Krogoths and then more Krogoths! I
simply could not get enough defenses built in time and after the first two
Krogoths the following air attack would kill me off or devastate my defense
so badly that the next Krogie would finish me off. I had tried building
barricades (Dragon's Teeth) to block of the Krogoths and other land attacks
(good luck) but without success.

I decided that the only alternative was to move to the elevated area to the
left of where you start the mission. I put all of the military units on
patrol for protection from ground attacks and worked my Commander and
construction units up and to the left. I had the construction units building
anti-air (Defenders) as they went and had the Advanced construction Kbot
helping and had the Commander building Metal Extractors and Solar Collectors
as he went. Of course you have to protect the Commander (else you lose) but
also try to keep the advanced construction Kbot and the construction vehicle
repaired as the get damaged. Try to keep all the construction units, of
course but it is very important to keep these two as you will need advanced
metal extractors (Moho Mines), Fusion reactors, Nuclear missile silos and of
course lots of anti-air. Once you are up on the ledge build lots of anti-air
and try to get a thermal generator going to provide energy (it will probably
get destroyed later). Once you get the Commander and any construction units
you have left on the ledge, close the entrance with dragons teeth. Keep
important things (Moho mines, fusion reactors, etc.) to the far left for
protection. I built an advanced vehicle plant and built the mobile missile
launchers to kill of attacking ground units and Krogies. These things
actually do a good job on the Krogoths (as long as the Krogies can't get to
them). If you manage to survive to this point then you have it made. You
will eventually have to expand beyond the ledge. I build big berthas and
Guardian guns to kill of subsequent Krogies and ground attacks. By now you
should have plenty of anti-air and Hawk planes to handle any air attack.
Send out squads of Hawks to locate the Krogoth gantries and kill them with
Nukes. Then go hunting for the remaining Krogies and kill them with the
Hawks (takes lots of Hawks) or if they are stationary, use a nuke. It is not
necessary to kill off every Core unit, Just the Gantries and the Krogoths.

Sorry for the long post. Hope it helps someone.

Chas




david.cook@pobox.com
Re: Krogoth Encounter - FINALLY
Publié: 24 sept. 2002 19:19
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In article <uokcr6h2tp0s2a@corp.supernews.com>,
john graesser <graesser@tca.net> wrote:
>
>"Da Wrecka" <da_wreckaSPAM@BGONEblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:zCpi9.682$eV7.6189215@news-text.cableinet.net...
>> SHONNER <shonner@hotmail.com> scribbled:
>> > Yes. It is a tuffy.
>>
>> Unless you cheat. :) Granted cheating generally takes away the
>satisfaction of having
>> done it yourself, but I find the sadistic glee from the enemy hurling
>everything at
>> your base and still taking a royal pasting offsets that to an acceptable
>degree.
>
>So what does work, I have tried moving onto the hill to the left, building
>nothing but resource and missle launchers, walling off the corner with
>teeth, in several different configurations, even capturing 2-3 Krogoths with
>spiders, but I always manage to fall to bomber attacks about the time I get
>the base setup. How do you survive the air attacks?
>
>I don't think I even last an hour.

I'm not the original poster, but I eventually beat KE as well.
I sort-of cheated - I put the game on the slowest speed from
just after the start. At the start you actually have quite
a few useful units to start building with, but if you try to
do it at normal speed, you'll often have units sitting around
idle while you give orders to another.

I also did what some people consider cheating - I set up two
rings of Dragon's Teeth around my corner to keep the Krogs
back a little. I had one builder make nothing but missile
towers, in groups of two or four, on the lower and upper
levels. I divided them into 3 groups, and when enemy planes
approached, targeted the nearest group at them - when you can
target exactly (at the slowest speed) the planes don't last
very long or do much damage.

I also built lots of Punishers, and at the beginning, they
managed to kill the first few Krogoths. Every time you kill
a Krogoth, though, you lose one ring of your dragon's teeth
defense, so you have to be quick repairing it.

Even with all of the above going on, at one point both rings
of DTs fell at one end of the base, and a Krogoth trashed
quite a few things before the collective firepower of the
base stopped it. Fortunately, there was a bit of a break
in the attacks then, and I recovered.

Once you've reached a state where you can survive, build up
production capacity, and build Brawlers as fast as you can.
A "flock" of 20-30 Brawlers can take out a Krogoth
comparitively easily - and they can start doing it away from
your base, so you can concentrate it on building more good
stuff. Of course, most of the "flock" dies with the Krogoth ...
Big Berthas are good, too, especially once you have
radar and targeting ....

But really, by the time you can afford to build Berthas, the
game is pretty much won - it was getting to that point that
took me 5 failed attempts before I tried slowing the game
down. (You can slowly put the speed back up once the
initial waves of attacks finish - after that, the Core has
to build Krogoths, rather than using the pre-built ones,
and that slows down the attacks ... )


(oh, and the mopping up of the Core forces can get rather tedious,
since they'll have Intimidators and will build a Buzzsaw if you
leave them alone long enough - I gave up and built nukes, and
it still took an awful lot of them plus waves of air and ground
forces to finally defeat Core ... )


David.

--
(david.cook at pobox.com)
(in Melbourne, Australia)


Rimu Atkinson
Re: Krogoth Encounter - FINALLY
Publié: 8 oct. 2002 04:58
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where do i get this map from? it doesn't seem to be part of the default maps
that come with ta or cc...

thanks

Rimu




Anthony
Re: Krogoth Encounter - FINALLY
Publié: 8 oct. 2002 04:58
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"Rimu Atkinson" <rimu1@paradise.net.nz.nospam.thanks> wrote in message
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> where do i get this map from? it doesn't seem to be part of the default
maps
> that come with ta or cc...
>
> thanks
>
> Rimu
>
>

It is not a map, but a ARM mission (campaign) that comes with CC.

Regards,
Anthony