Re: Help with Rescue Raiders the game!

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Donald C. Lee <coach41@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Here's a question for everyone who played Rescue Raiders.  I managed to 
> beat the game WITHOUT ever using any of the cheats.

Same here.  Takes a lot of patience.  I also played through Armor Alley,
though some minor changes they made affected gameplay adversely (IMHO).

> What I did was pick up a full load of troops in my copter, fly over to 
> the enemy homebase and drop them in and TAKE OVER the computer's "base" 
> that was behind the time machine.  With my troops in control, they would 
> shoot any ground troops generated by the computer and hold up the 
> tanks/etc for nice long while.  I used this successfully to beat the game.

High risk, but it works.  I usually just threw a large convoy at them and
then baited the helicopter away when my forces got close.  Not easy to
time -- if you get it wrong, the collateral damage from rocket attacks
has a rather negative impact on your vehicles.

> What was interesting, is that I don't know if this was a cheat or a bug 
> in the game.  Anyone happen to know?

I imagine it's deliberate.  You'll notice that one of the men in the first
set you create moves into the bunker (i.e. you get a group of 4 rather
than a group of 5).  It's deliberately set up as a manned bunker.

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