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Re: Hardcore Finish - Anyone Done It Yet?[message #96859] Wed, 21 April 2004 17:43 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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I agree that what you try to do is a very challenging way to play UC and it's much more than just playing Ironman. After all, I would never give up to save a game in a middle of a battle: I had my share of CTD's in UC when in the middle of a battle another enemy patrol just entered that sector, but I am willing to try your approach. But maybe there is a difference between us: I have played many of the sectors in UC more than once, so I now what to expect of. Anyway, one thing I have noticed is that not always the enemies in a sector are in the spots or come from the direction they used to do in previous games/battles.
When I will try to win a game the way you proposed, I will set as a first tactical rule this one: a sector will be cleared of enemies the first time it is entered only if this CAN be achieved without important risks. In sectors other that the ones occupied by the gunrunners, the enemies will not respawn, so killing a few soldiers and policemen and than retreating will weaken that sector's defence. I know it's gonna be a very long game played this way, but it will definitely be more realistic. As for the AIM mercs hired at the start of the game, I would suggest Magic and Shadow, and I would do my IMP with the skills and stats he started with in my current game: Autoweapons and Nightops specialist, Psycho, 85 at health, agility, dexterity and strenght, 35 leadership, 81 wisdom, 74 marksmanship and 0 at explosives, mechanical and medicine. Then I would not go straight to Calisto. In the first evening I will clear A10 Atremo, then journey east, clear A11, stock up with stun grenades, then A12, where there are 3 civilians, just where those crates are, 2 of them armed with MP-5's and the other one with a CAR-15. I will sneak up north with my mercs going right at the western edge of the map, then I will sneak with them, aligned to the northern edge of the map untill I will reach the river and then I will move my mercs 2-3 squares down south, untill they see the civilians. It's time to give them a stun grenades shower, then run to them with your mercs and steal their weapons. Be sure to check the crates to, there are some gas canisters in them and an A.L.I.C.E. backpack. Those civilians are dressed like the gun runners and if they see your mercs first they will become hostile and start to fire. It is essential that this operation to be performed by night and with nightops specialists in your squad.
If you are interested I will post some more tactical insights as how the game can be won in the way you like to play it.

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