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