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Originally posted by Sharp@Mar 16 2005, 05:50 PM
Ive said this loads of times before, try Home of The Underdog and get UFO:Gold. It doesnt require dosbox and plays fine, just sometimes crashes before a mission so its best to save frequently, (you can usually do 2 missions in a row before it crashes).
I tried the download from here but no save_game folders and it crashed on the equipment screen everytime.
Also dos-box doesnt seem to work on my comp, that or its cuz im too lazy to get the proper version.
Hey Axident.
I found something really cool for stopping battleships with a single firestorm, thats right a single firestorm. Simply just take one firestorm that has two plasma beams and engage the battleship, once your Firestorm gets 3/4 damged tell it to dis-engage. Hopefully if you did enough damage you might force the battleship to crash/land. And when you send a skyranger it is usually intact, but nonetheless very usefull for Base Defense, however i dont think the UFO will land if you fight overseas.
Heh, in one of my games its 2001 and I still havent had to do a singe base defense, not even a missile defence. Although I have had several ships with Alien Retaliation on the HWD screen. Must be me being amazing and killing all UFO's in my Black Forest base.
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Yeah usually I have one or two Firestorms per base and Hyperwave, so a wolf pack of firestorms blow up any battleships before they can get to their targets. But April 1999 is early on and I was nowhere near getting firestorms.. a plasma-beamed interceptor can barely get a shot off before the battleship blows it up.
So you're saying that even if you don't blow up a battleship, the damage 'counts' anyway and the battleship might crash AFTER you disengage?? Without ever firing that last, killing shot at it? I'll try this out when I actually GET firestorms w/ plasma beams. Right now I have a severe cash shortage (I expanded too far too fast) because I had expected to get more UFO activity in May but my radars are hardly picking up any UFO activity... stupid Hyperwave is still being constructed at my bases.
