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COMMAND & CONQUER PART 4

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Chapter *3*: Important information not in the manual
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     There is important information missing from the manual!

*3-1*: What are the keys?
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G : Guard Area
     This will cause a selected group of units to go into guard mode. In this
mode, units will scan with binoculars for enemy units, and move to attack any
that come within their sighting range.

X : Scatter Units
     This causes a selected group of units to scatter. Useful when infantry
is under attack by tank treads and incendiary missiles

S : Stop Unit
     Causes a unit to stop dead in its tracks. Very useful when one of your
units is braindead and begins to wander nonchalantly into the guns of the
enemy base.

F7-F10 : Map Bookmark System
     Use CTRL+F7-F10 to mark a spot on your map, then use F7-F10 to jump to
that spot at anytime.

<CTRL>-# : Team Creation
     Mark a group of units as a team using either using your mouse button and
shift key or the bounding box. Then use CTRL and a number key (0-9) to
assigned the selected units as a team.

0-9 : Team Selection
     This selects a team as active.

TAB: Open/Close Sidebar
     Opens and closes the sidebar. Use it when you need to see more tactical
map.

H : Home unit
     Selects your construction yard, and centers the tactical map around it.

N : Next unit
     This is almost a useless command. It runs through the internal lists of
units, selects the next one, and centers the tactical view around it.

R : Resign
     I bet you didn't know that all your units carry suicide demolitions. Hit
'R' and find out. In a multiplayer game, your civilians and technicians
actually do a large amount of damage when you resign. Position them by the
enemy before resigning, and maybe you'll take a few of them with you.

<HOME> : Homing
     This will center the tactical view around the currently selected unit or
building.

<ALT>-# : View team
     Centers the tactical view over a predefined team.

Multiplayer Options
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A : Alliance
     Select an enemy unit and press 'A'. From that point on, your troops will
treat that enemy as a friend and not target them.

     This only works one way. The other side is still welcome to blow you to
smithereens, so they must also ally with you to complete the team effort.

     Allying with an enemy is also useful when you want a deep strike
operation into the heart of the enemy base, but don't want your units to slow
down and fight. Such operations might include recon or engineer infiltration.

     Pressing 'A' for a second time will negate the previous ally command.

Cursor Modifiers
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CTRL : Force Attack
     Holding down the CTRL key will turn your movement cursor into the target
crosshair. This lets you target friendly units, trees, and empty squares.

ALT : Force Move
     Holding down the ALT key will turn your movement cursor into a movement
only cursor. Subsequently moved units will move instead of attack. This is
how you get your tanks to squish enemy infantry instead of blowing craters
around them.

CTRL+ALT : Guard Area or Unit
     Holding down CTRL+ALT turns your cursor into a defend cursor. Selected
units will patrol around a building or unit and protect it from attack.

*3-2*: What is that colored bar?
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     The colored bar represents the current power output. The blue marker
represents the current power usage. When you use more power than available,
your base experiences blackouts and brownouts.

     A green bar represents a surplus of power.
     A yellow bar represents a brownout
     A red bar represents a serious blackout.

     Facilities that totally shutdown during power outages are Obelisks of
Light, Advanced Guard Towers, Communication Centers, Advanced Communication
Centers, Temple of Nod.

     During blackouts and brownouts, other buildings serve at a diminished
capacity. It will take longer to produce a unit, and so forth. A brownout
seems to cause production to drop to 50% of normal. A blackout seems to cause
production to drop to 10% of normal.

Mr. P / Powersource
     The power scale is logarithmic, not linear.


*3-3*: What is a blossom tree?
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Scott King ([e-mail])
     They serve as replenishing centers for tiberium. After you harvest all
of the tiberium from around a tree, it will grow back around it.

*3-4*: How do I view the radar in multiplayer?
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Vance Hampton ([e-mail])
     Click on the MAP button.  If you have enough energy you will see the
radar.

*3-5*: How do I suspend or cancel build commands?
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     You can suspend or cancel build commands by clicking with your primary
mouse button on the unit icon that is currently being built. This will turn
the unit icon gray to signify that the building has been put on hold. From
this stage, clicking with your primary button will resume building, and
clicking with your secondary button will cancel the build order.

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-SECTION TWO- TIPS AND TRICKS
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CHAPTER [4]: Cheating the computer
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[4-1]: What are the cheat keys?
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     Easy. There are none. The cheats were removed after beta testing and
development.

[4-2]: Can I Hex edit for more money?
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     You're in luck. I got dozens of people asking me how to hex edit. So,
due to public demand, here is how to totally ruin your game. Wear your peril
sensitive sunglasses now if you do not wish to read this. What? You don't
have a pair of peril sensitive sunglasses? That's your fault for not buying
Infocom's 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' text-adventure game. I bet you
don't have the cool package that is full of microscopic space ships either.

     Close your eyes, count to 20, and start reading again when everyone else
has finished.

     If you have refineries, this cheat may or may not work. Sell them off.

     Make note of the amount of money you have, and save the game. For this
purpose, let us say that you had 2437 credits.

     Exit C&C.

     Convert 2437 into hexadecimal. In this case, the conversion is 985 in
hex.
     Hexadecimal numbers in our case need to be pairs, so, add a filler digit
to pair. 09 85. If you had 4 digits already, then there is no need for a
filler.

     Make a backup of your savegame. The savegame with the most recent file
creation date is the savegame you want to edit.

     Load your savegame into your hex editor.

     Reverse your hexadecimal pairs. 85 09.

     Do a hexadecimal search for this reversed number pair.

     The first instance should appear at hex location 580h.

     Change both numbers to FF FF.

     Lather, rinse, repeat.  You may find anywhere from three to five
references. Change them all.

     If it doesn't work, too bad. Maybe God didn't want you to cheat.

     Okay, the rest of you not interested in this cheat can open your eyes
now. Hello? I said you can open your eyes.

[4-3]: How does the computer cheat?
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Min He ([e-mail])
Eradicator ([e-mail])
     The computer starts out with more funds than you do.
     The computer can place units inside scenery at the start of a mission.
     The computer can rebuild gun turrets when they are destroyed without
needing to have adjacent buildings.
     The computer can build a construction yard without needing a MCV.
     The computer doesn't have to clear out SAM sites to launch an air-
strike.
     The computer may build buildings separated from other computer-owned
buildings. The computer, however, does have the restriction of placing
buildings only where they were originally.
     The computer's Orcas may attack NOD attack choppers in mid-flight.
     The computer can build harvesters immediately as long as funds are
available. (ROGER'S NOTE: cannot verify 100%)
     The computer can run guard towers and turrets without power.
     The computer can use harvesters to attack tanks and other vehicles.

[4-4]: What cheating programs are available?
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See the section on third party programs for a listing.

(4-5): What are some bugs I can exploit?
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[4-5-1]: Tiberium harvesting without silos
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Mike Means ([e-mail])
     I noticed an unusual and cool money cheat for all of you people that
have problems with too much money... It works consistently with the GDI,
haven't tried it with Nod but it should work as it's in the engine not the
action... Anyhow, what the deal is that if you are getting to the top of your
refineries holding space build something that builds fast and is somewhat
expensive (For the GDI this is the Helipad...) Then once you've taken up all
of your money into building it cancel it just before completion.  You get the
credits back and you will notice that if you click on your refinery it will
be nowhere near full like it should be...Because of this trick I almost never
build silos...Also I tend to spend my money...Just call me the guy with 7
Orcas each with their helipad (Well it's faster to build a helipad than an
Orca and 300 is worth the speed and saved time Orca swapping to load them...)

*4-5-2*: Invincible units
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Rumors of invincible units (apart from hacking) have not been confirmed.

[4-5-3]: Preventing the computer from rebuilding
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Richard Stone ([e-mail])
     You can prevent the computer from rebuilding a structure by placing a
unit on the same square.  You can permanently prevent the computer from
rebuilding a structure by sandbagging your way to the structure, destroying
he structure, building a sandbag on the structure's square, and then sell the
sandbag.  You now "own" that square, and the computer can't rebuild from
scratch on it.  Since the computer never attacks sandbags, fences or walls
directly (though it hits them occasionally shooting at you), it's a safe way
to guard your base, or expand it.

[4-5-4]: The Reservoir Dogs strategy
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Mike Means ([e-mail])
     OK, the NOD were attacking my base and something happened.  I think one
of the NOD hit another accidentally (inaccuracy with the small tanks I guess)
All of a sudden the small tank that was hit turns it's turret and first at
the other!! A fire fight ensues and some of the infantry in the area join
in!! Some for each side!!  I was wondering if anyone else had this happen or
if it was just a unit recognition bug...

Douglas McCreary ([e-mail])
     I recently finished NOD, and have seen GDI units do the same thing on
nearly every level I played.  It does seem to happen whenever one unit hits
another accidentally. (In fact, I've had to 'stop' my own units when they got
to doing this occasionally.)  Once I discovered this bug, I started
exploiting it by moving my units to the middle of enemy groups before
attacking.

*4-5-5*: The silo money cheat
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ROGER'S NOTE: This cheat only works with versions of C&C prior to 1.18

     Build a silo, and let it fill up with tiberium. When it is full, build
another silo but do not place it.  Sell the silo that is full of tiberium.
Quickly place the built silo down before the silo sell animation is over. In
return for this, you will get over a thousand credits for the tiberium in the
silo you sold, and have the tiberium you just sold transferred over to the
silo you just created.

*4-5-6*: The ultimate A-10 defense
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see [5-3-8], AIRSTRIKES

*4-5-7*: Money making ala SimC&C
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Oliver Schade ([e-mail])
     If you have defeat the computer except one or two buildings and your are
sure that you will win with your existing troops sell all your buildings and
attack after that the remaining buildings. You will get lots of money and a
'efficiency-rate' of 100% which will results in many points.

ROGER'S NOTE: A variation on this is to leave an enemy building standing, and
go into tiberium farm mode. With good harvester management, it is possible to
rack up a near infinite amount of money without running out of harvestable
tiberium.

*4-5-8*: Place buildings anywhere cheat
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     Build a structure as normal, but instead of placing it down in your
tactical view next to an existing structure, place it down in your radar map.
Anywhere.

Tim Brutton ([e-mail]) wrote:
     I take it all back - it does work, every time. You just have to make
sure that as you move the cursor from the main screen to the map screen, that
it leaves an area of white hashing on the screen - just as it would if you
were about to build in an area. Wow. BIG bug. I guess Westwood will be
releasing a patch for this one fairly soon!

 [4-6]: Are there any hidden game elements?
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[4-6-1]: Chem. Warriors
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Kareem Harper ([e-mail])
     There troops are much like the Flame-thrower infantry, in fact they are
the flame thrower infantry with the following exceptions:

     (1) They wear an insulated outfit that protects them from taking damage
in tiberium fields. (can walk around on the field and wont combust)

     (2) They produce a poison gas, which can wipe out whole legions of
troops

     The only way I have seen to get them so far is to find them in a box
during a two player or network game with the crates on option.  After you
find the box you will be able to produce them like normal soldiers. (ROGER'S
NOTE: Building the temple of Nod should also produce these troop.)

[4-6-2]: Visceroids
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Andrew Griffin ([e-mail])
     It regenerates when in a tiberium field, and unlike a mammoth tank, can
regenerate to full strength from a low red condition. They are pretty slow
and don't have many hit points, but their weapon is the chemical spray.

[4-6-3]: UFO's
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Kareem Harper ([e-mail])
     Yes there are UFO's appearing throughout the game on certain stages, the
reason? "Will be explained in C&C 2" - Westwood Technical Support, Westwood
BBS

*4-6-4* Dinosaurs
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ROGER'S NOTE: Dinosaur graphics are available, but require hacking to
acquire. Andrew Griffin's CCEDIT 1.5 has the necessary tools to enable
dinosaur graphics.

Andrew Griffin ([e-mail])
     There are 4 dinosaur units: the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor,
Stegosaurus and Triceratops. They don't seem to have any graphics apart from
their death scenes, or at least none that are easily available. There seems
to have been a 4th team (after GDI, nod and civilians), called JP (for
Jurassic Park??), in multiplayer mode. You can still move them around, but
can't see them (though they still get attacked). Their bite is great
against infantry, but useless against heavy tank armor.

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CHAPTER [5] Defensive tips
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[5-1]: Sandbag defense
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Dave Smith ([e-mail])
     They are cheap (50 bucks) and the computer has NO IDEA how to get around
them.  It just lines up its forces at the wall, and sits there like a dummy.
I immediately build a wall between me and the other forces (don't block in
the harvester!) and it renders that side powerless.

     If the enemy base is nearby, I immediately wall THEM inside their own
base, and their harvester can't get back in (or out).  I then click on
grenadiers/flame throwers/tanks one BILLION times as I get more money rolling
in.

     After about 30 minutes, I got the US Fragging Marine Corps ready to head
into their base.

*5-2*: Building base defenses
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Rune Fostervoll ([e-mail])
     Always use your advantage on a level. Sun Tze said, first become
invincible, then destroy your opponent's invincibility. Do so. Make a base
that can shrug off any (reasonable) attack, and assure a steady cash flow.
Once this is done, a computer opponent is lost. On most levels, doing this is
the problem, not destroying the opposing base. Against GDI, he can always
attack your base with air strikes, and you will grow to loathe the A-10's,
simply because making a base impervious to air strikes is so difficult it is
inefficient, and so your opponent can always harm you. GDI does not have this
problem, as long as they have enough guard turrets and walls. This is some of
the reason that the common guard turrets cost almost double that of the NOD
gun turrets (I think.), so that making a base impervious to ground assault
would cost too much.

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James Hindman ([e-mail])
     OK lets see, one of my favorite strategies is for base defense. As
anyone who has used NOD knows, turrets suck against men. SO a very useful
strategy is to take either Flame tanks, or flame men and tell them to guard
the turrets. This will prevent grenadiers from getting close and thrashing
your turrets, and the turrets protect the Flame units against tanks and other
large units.

     Of course for any base defense you should build flame infantry, because
they are your best infantry defense. Build turrets, lots of turrets. They are
great against tanks and other large vehicles, don't bother with obelisks
unless you have A LOT of extra power, in case your enemy takes out one of
your power plants, it may still function.


[5-3]: Help! I'm being attacked by enemy...
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[5-3-1]: Nukes
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From [e-mail]'s web page
     Spread your base out through the use of sandbagging, all structures must
touch each other but sandbags count.  You can sell them afterwards if in the
way.

     Have excess power.  Your power plants will go down in a nuclear blast if
near impact almost all the time.  Building is outrageously slow when your
power is low.  If stuck in this situation perhaps sell off some of your
structures.

     Two weapon factories don't hurt.  Unfortunately this thing usually also
bites it in one shot.  Yes it's expensive, but it's slow to build and if your
enemy follows up a nuke with a conventional attack you may want units
churning out.

     If you can, right from the start bottle up all entrances to your
territory. Obviously some scenarios make this more or less difficult.  Avoid
putting your structures in the extreme corners.. if I was shooting a nuke
blind that's where I would go.  Ideally get some concrete walls  and advanced
guard towers going before your enemy has more than scouts to check out your
situation. Stealth tanks and recon bikes aren't going to make keeping your
base hidden easy, but I don't imagine you thought you were signing up for a
picnic.

*5-3-2*: Orcas
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     Build bazooka units. Unlike SAM sites, these are mobile, and can be
deployed anywhere. Scatter them around a bit.  Lay a bunch of them around
your harvester routes.

     If you are Nod, follow your harvesters around with stealth tanks or
recon bikes. If you are GDI, you can use rocket launchers, but they are too
easy to kill, and a smart opponent will target the escorts before attacking
the harvester.

Casper Lund ([e-mail])

     A trick: If the enemy (computer or human) sends Orcas against one of
your (fast) vehicles, and you have bazooka's/adv. guard towers/SAMs
available. Simply drive your vehicle towards one of them and circle it
manually. The Orca will follow, circling around trying to get a shot off
(they fire slowly on fast moving objects), and your SAM/tower/bazooka's will
bash away at it, usually killing it. Actually, if the opponent hasn't put his
Orca under "CTRL-control", you can tie his Orcas up pretty much by simply
driving around the map like crazy with the Orca(s) in pursuit, but this only
works if your "bait" vehicle is pretty fast! :)

[5-3-3]: SSMs
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     These have very few hit points. Three choppers can take this out in one
and a half volleys, as can three stealth tanks.

[5-3-4]: Advanced guard towers
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     Don't send infantry against them. Use armored vehicles instead.

[5-3-5]: Transports loaded with engineers
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     Sandbag your base. Do not leave any openings where a helicopter or APC
can land.  Block entrances to your base.

[5-3-6]: Attack helicopters
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     If you are Nod, use SAM sites against these. Bazookamen die too easily
unless they are deployed in groups of six or more, and are spread out. You
shouldn't use recon bikes as anti-attack chopper escorts. Recon bikes have a
particular weakness to the attack helicopter machine-gun.

     If you are GDI, you can send an Orca or two and destroy the attack
helicopter while it is on the pad. Even if the attack helicopter takes off,
it will still die, because the Orca has air to air capability, and will chase
the attack helicopter and keep pumping rockets up its backside.

*5-3-7*: Recon bike gangs
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Jeff Montondon ([e-mail])
     Hrm, yup, those bikes are tough... I'd suggest using Orcas as a
kill/distraction.  When a human player stops his bikes to attack the Orcas,
run 'em over with the tanks.  When the bikes move in to kill the tanks, shoot
'em with the Orcas.  I'd also suggest some minigunners/grenadiers since the
rockets of the bikes are less effective against infantry.  APCs should also
be fairly successful, since their machine guns are more effective against
light armor than the Med. tank's cannon.  Come to think of it, I'd say use
infantry and APCs... the APCs would have to have cover by the infantry to
keep the bikes off their back, but when the bikes stop to attack one target,
run 'em over with the APC.  As for defending the base, I'd say grenadiers
backed by gun towers, and a few minigunners in back should take care of 'em
pretty quick since the bikes can't run over your infantry to get past them.

Jason West ([e-mail])
     Get a GDI APC, maybe a "pack" of equal cost to his wolf pack.  And just
run those wimpy little bikes over.  Have fun.

Richard Wesson ([e-mail])
     This is an interesting question.  I should think five medium tanks
should be able to take out eight bikes -- that is, if you could get the bikes
to sit still.  The really great thing about bikes is that they're extremely
fast;  I think they are the fastest units besides helicopters.

     The problem with controlling the bikes is that there are a lot of them.
This means that you might be able to deal with his bikes better if you could
meet them in a narrow place -- a canyon for example.  The bikes in the rear
will have trouble getting into range.

     Here's another idea, don't know if it's flaky:  Pack an APC full of
bazookas or grenadiers.  Drive a couple of such APCs up to the current focus
of the bike pack and have them unload.  Bikes have a really hard time with
infantry, as you noted.  I think this approach will at least drive him away,
or perhaps inspire him to spend more money on flame tanks, which you can try
to deal with Orcas or tanks.

     Anyhow, my opinion is that a mass of bikes can't slug it out with a mass
of tanks, $ for $.  The frustrating thing is, that the bikes will just avoid
the tanks.  So you need to get them to stand and  fight.  I think if you
start attacking his harvester, that should do it.  If he has eight or ten
bikes, build six or seven tanks, and try to use them to waylay his harvester.
He HAS to defend his harvester, pretty much; thus his bikes will come to you.
Which avoids the irritating problem of their running away.  Throw a couple of
Orcas into the melee (he can't target them while they're in the air, he can
only stop attacking and let the bikes fire on their own, which he'll be loath
to do while they're being shot at by tanks) and things should go your way
pretty definitely.

     In the meantime, send an APC full of bazookas tagging along with your
harvester.  After you do this a few times, he'll avoid attacking any
harvester that has an APC around it.  So you can save $$ some- times by using
an empty APC.  ("Do you feel lucky?")

     Tell me if it works, I can try to test it too but my usual opponent is
not a very strong player.  This should stir the broth somewhat anyhow.

     My general feeling is that (turrets aside) GDI can control any given
area, Nod is better at getting around.  If GDI can choose the battlefield,
it'll do well.

*5-3-8*: Airstrikes
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Joachim Rijsdam ([e-mail])
     One can draw away enemy a10's with only one minigunner. The AI only
attacks from left to right and from top to bottom when 'paving'; like reading
a page, really. So you just move one minigunner a little to the northwest of
your base, and viola, damage is restricted to 100 credits.

[5-4]: Suppressive fire
=========================

     There is no reason to wait for the enemy to come to you before firing.
Use the CTRL key to force your units into continuous fire mode. This works
well with area effect weapons such as artillery, flame-throwers, rocket
launchers, and grenadiers. This will intimidate a human opponent into
thinking twice before attacking, and will utterly decimate any AI opponent
who will walk blindly into the killing field.

     This is also useful to preserve the integrity of your choke points.
Build a concrete wall one square thick across the river crossing. Build two
turrets in front of this wall. Place a couple artillery units behind the
walls, and concentrate their fire at a point two squares in front of the
turrets. Because of their inaccuracy, you will end up laying a large area of
suppressive fire that will rip to shreds any infantry trying to destroy the
turrets.  Back up with bazookamen as AA support, and nothing but a very
determined attack will breakthrough.