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Jagged Alliance

 1. When you are dealing with Mercs, use some diplomacy. If you should
    fire too many unwanted Mercs early in the game, the others may
    respond negatively. Trying to rid of them by having them go into
    dangerous situations may also have unwanted effects since nobody
    wants to work for someone who keeps getting his Mercs killed off.
    Save your Merc-ridding activities for later in the game if possible.

 2. Although accurate shooting Mercs will be necessary to your success
    on Metavira, you'll only be able to afford to hire the worst ones at
    first. But not all the Mercs who work cheaply are that bad. Some of
    the medium priced Mercs get better with experience and are worth more
    than their paychecks. On the first day choose 4 or 5 Mercs to start
    with-its all you need to get started. By the end of the early game
    you want to try to end up with 2 Mercs with decent skills in the
    Medical, Mechanics, Marksmanship, and Explosive skills. Good wisdom
    scores are also preferred as it indicates potential. Additionally,
    agility scores should be rated as important; if your Mercs don't have
    good scores in this area, don't expect good performances in the
    field. Dexterity should not be overlooked, especially with respect to
    doctors performing surgery.  Although there is very little you can do
    about Experience Class at the game's onset, it is the most critical
    stat of your Merc, indicating the total of his abilities, so keep an
    eye on it.

 3. To create a healthy financial situation for yourself, attempt to
    take three sectors every day. The difference between taking two
    sectors a day and three is significant, especially with respect to
    overhead costs (I'll let you do the math). Repeat the first 3 days
    over and over again until you get the hang of it and get a good
    start. Three sectors a day will not always be possible of course.
    Also, take out as many of your enemies as you can and remember to
    retreat back to friendly territory before 7pm. Sometimes spending
    your time picking up all the items in a newly captured sector is a
    waste. Take what you need and move on. Should you need it, you can
    always come back to it. Financially, build yourself a cash flow
    between four to five thousand dollars before making any more large
    purchases--that "healthy" financial situation of yours in the early
    part of the game is, more often than not, an illusion.

 4. Try sealing off the entire eastern side of the island. The
    land-mass narrows just west of those sectors, provide a natural
    choke-point, and they contain enough Fallow trees to generate a
    decent profit.

 5. Careful consideration should be given to where you enter a sector.
    Check out the geography from the sector map. Look for a reasonable
    amount of cover. Try studying sector 38 for example, and see if you
    can come up with a suitable entrance strategy. Also, like any good
    general, you should attempt to choose the site of your engagements
    with the enemy. Should you find your wallet getting thin and you need
    a factory, go into a sector and look for buildings (as opposed to
    huts)-- there's no factory if there is no building.

 6. See the Sector Schedule table in the Extras for a detailed
    itinerary.

 7. Once you've captured a sector, defend it with eight guards. This
    sounds like a lot, but sometimes it's not enough. Also avoid
    continuing on to the following sector until the guards have arrived,
    and transfer the guards right after you capture the sector. Remember,
    if the guards have arrived, and the "enemies nearby" warning goes
    off, they will assist you in your attack.

 8. Most enemy attacks occur in the late afternoon and against your
    most important sectors. If possible, avoid taking guards across
    water, use land routes.

 9. Leave the recovering of the fruits of victory (the prizes) until
    after you've taken a sector, unless of course a certain item is
    needed urgently. Know what you need beforehand and pick up only those
    items and move on. Watch out for water when you have your Mercs go
    out and get items. Also, treasure only shows up on the map in areas
    of the sectors you've already explored. Some items may also be hidden
    behind trees or bushes and cannot be seen from the ground view.

10. Ensure that the mercs' always have enough to drink by supplying
    party members with canteens.

11. At any one time, throughout the game, you'll need anywhere
    between 16 and 24 guards. They should be placed in sectors, not
    diagonally from enemy territory, but adjacent. Once you a secure
    inner core of sectors, the hiring of guards will be less frequent.

12. Moving your Mercs at Maximum Aim enables you to return enemy fire
    and interrupt their movement.

13. The F9 key is not that reliable. You can sometimes get enemies
    that you cannot "see," or miss the ones you can. If you look like you
    have a good angle to shoot, try it.

14. You must get silencers to seize factories and the Lucas Lab, if
    you're to avoid the 2 day no production penalty for the damage done
    by enemy sabotage, not to mention the lost revenue. Although
    unmodified .357 magnums will not accept silencers (modified ones do),
    Colt 45s and 9mm will take silencers. Since you need those somewhat
    rare chunks of steel to modify a gun, save them for your magnum .357s
    and later your M-14s.

15. Although knives may seem trivial, they are at times essential, so
    make sure some of your Mercs have them. Always take them into deep
    water or you may be inviting disaster.

16. Since you don't which of your Mercs can swim and which can't,
    save your game, give your Merc-swimmers knives, and have them go into
    deep water. Then note their various successes and restore the game.
    But watch for Spectra Shields, as they are very heavy and will
    interfere with your investigation. Don't ever let them enter deep
    water with these shields. Test your Mercs with different weight
    loads.

17. At all times avoid going after enemies into the jungle or bush.
    Remember, you try to choose the site of engagement. Use a grenade if
    the situation is urgent, especially if the enemy is bunched.

18. Keep an eye on the thirst blue graphs of various Mercs. One idea
    is to have Fidel and Vinney, who seem to be perpetually thirty, to
    carry canteens for the whole squad.

19. Always use camouflage at the start of a day, before a mission
    begins. You can get the guy with the kit to apply it those in need of
    it when you are getting ready in the morning.

20. It only makes sense to use you explosive expert to disarm and get
    explosives, including grenades, which may be alive. Keep a medic on
    hand in the event something goes awry.

21. In frontline sectors, do not have less than five guards.

22. Stockpile grenaddes as much as possible and only use them when
    you really need to. When getting ready in the morning, have your
    explosives-man combine TNT and plastic explosives with detonators, as
    this will save space in your vest. If you use mustard gas grenades,
    have close by Mercs use their Gas Masks. Tear Gas can make your enemy
    run away and you may have to chase them.

23. Avoid labor strife by paying for all the burials.

24. Try entering buildings only after you have cleared a sector of
    enemies. Look for the required key on the dead. Wall Probes are good
    for checking for an enemy presence inside the building. If nobody is
    there, you need not enter until after you've taken the sector. It's a
    good idea to have the resident Mechanic enter buildings first, given
    their ability to pick locks. Have him open the door to allow your
    Mercs to rush in and take out the enemy defender.

25. Wooden doors can be opened with grenades. For it to work, it must
    be thrown at the door, not in front of it. For this procedure, use
    fragmentation grenades, as the other types won't work. For metal
    doors, use live plastic explosives or TNT, although the former is
    better in this case.

26. Search wall cabinets for useful items, like medi-kits.

27. For the best results, use your explosives expert and your
    Mechanic to merge items. Merging chunks of steel with your .357
    magnum makes the gun silencer-acceptable and gives it some rifle-like
    qualities.

28. Should you find yourself in one of the rare mine-infested
    sectors, have your explosives expert take out the metal detector and
    go up ahead of the rest of the group to clear a path.

29. To deal with the inevitable problem of jammed guns, have a couple
    of your Mercs carry an extra.

30. If a Merc will not follow your orders, in shooting angles and
    movement, for example, take the gun out of their hands, order them to
    move, then return the gun.

31. Training is always a good idea. If the Merc in question has a 70
    and up wisdom score, you can improve attributes by 2 to 3 points.
    Then get them some experience.

32. If you're going to leave Mercs behind to be patients, make sure
    that the medics status is doctor and that she has a Medical Kit in
    her right hand. In the field, have two different Mercs carry Medical
    Kits in case one gets wounded or killed.

33. Do not overspend at the onset until you recapture some land,
    otherwise you'll soon be in debt. Mercs' get paid by the day, so it
    is not necessary to buy the best straight away.

34. Watch out for enemy units that suddenly appear close to your
    squad. This is sometimes a tip off of an imminent grenade attack.
    Kill him as quickly as you can. If this fails grenade him before he
    can do serious damage.

35. Equip all your Mercs with Gas Masks, especially toward the end of
    the game when they will be needed more often.

36. Equip all of your rifles with sniper scopes.

37. Give the guys up front the extended ears to pull in sounds of
    enemies at a distance.

38. As rapidly as possible, give each of your Mercs a Spectra Shield,
    ideally merged with compound 17.

39. When your explosives expert can't open a box, give the crowbar to
    your Mechanic and see if he can pry it open. This means that you will
    need two highly skilled Mechanics; one in the field and one at your
    home base performing repairs. Watch the blue thirst indicator to see
    if that is your problem when using the crowbar isn't working.

40. Sometimes, around day 16, a virus appears that kills Fallow
    Trees. You will need to find the Pomillia Flowers to make the
    antidote to the virus. If you find the flowers before the virus pops
    up, have a Merc take some of them on the mission of the day. Or you
    can just leave some back at the home base.

41. Don't take the warning that you must find the Headstone
    immediately too seriously. It is located in one of the northwest
    areas of Santino's strongholds.

42. In tight money situations, rest your Mercs for a day so that they
    receive only half their normal pay. Make sure you have the necessary
    guards to do this. If you get the message that the "natives are
    restless," raise their pay a dollar at a time to gauge just how
    restless they are.

43. Save your games often. Use Alt-X, save the game, exit to DOS, and
    start your game up again. Don't allow a crash to wipe out a lot of
    work. When you complete a sector, save the game. Before the end of
    the day at 7pm, save the game. If you haven't gotten the message yet,
    save save save. Don't use Smart.drv and some of the annoying save
    problems will disappear. Using a boot disk may or may not eliminate
    some of the other save problems you may encounter.

Have one of your mercs walk a longer distance than his/her action
points will allow, like 80 or so.

Watch the merc's action points as they decrease.
When the merc's action points get below the amount usually needed to
shoot, but not to zero, then right click on their picture to spin it
around and get the three buttons.
Click on the "reserve points" button; it may have to be unchecked
before this cheat is attempted.
Then right click on the picture again to spin it back around.
The merc will continue walking, but he/she will walk all the way to
wherever you told him/her to go, with absolutely no regard for action
points.