generals noob questions

[(ha) crazy 0]

i have only played generals once, and i was wondering what really is the best side in certian situations?

 

lets start with a tank ambush when you are on the reciveing end of it

[BWare 0]

i have only played generals once, and i was wondering what really is the best side in certian situations?

 

lets start with a tank ambush when you are on the reciveing end of it

Well, if you're talking Zero Hour, it's the superweapons general, no question. Then you have those EMP Patriots which will stop a line of tanks dead in its tracks. Gotta love that :wink:

 

Of course every side has its advantages though. Depending on how you like to play, you may like any side or general better than the others. When you think of it, faults aside, Generals is a remarkably well balanced game.

[(ha) crazy 0]

i barely even know anything about generals so you beat me there

 

emp patriots? in a convoy?

[Thierry 0]

Generals is a remarkably well balanced game.

 

Balanced????

 

Have you even played online dude?

 

Its either USA Aircraft General with a million stealth comanches rushing your base, or its the infantry general rushing with a million assault crawlers with tank hunters, or its the demo general with 10 SCUDs firing from a tunnel network and going back in or its a million demobikes.

 

Balance you say? I have never met a game so unbalanced as Zero Hour.

[VampireA05 0]

i like the handicapped anyway...

[BWare 0]

Oh come on Thierry! In online games it does get crazy, but I've seen worse. That's part of the fun, anyway. For the amount of variation in sides and units, the game does a good job keeping it balanced.

[VampireA05 0]

balanced or not..it sure pack of punch...

[GeneralZ 0]

most of the time its overlord + listening outpost mass, or quad cannon+battlebus mass. if its US, palading massing or humvee rushing.

 

for specific generals, its demo biking rushing, stealth commanche massing, helix massing, and the occasional raptor rush with airfg. 4 raptors and carpet bombing killing the dozers and power and everything else

 

it is kinda balanced. when each side is massing, its pretty much a fair slugfest that takes forever until one side overwhelms the other and trashes the base.

[Guest MadBadger]

GLA always pwns in the end Its too easy to get over a million quid and then spend it on Quads and War factories

 

Paladin rush gets pwned by making masses of rocket troopers (PF's will make sure that dont happen thou)

 

OL's get pwned by rocket troopers/busses

 

Manches.... Manche spam rarly occurs..... But EMP works great (i took out like 50 manches with 1 EMP bomb )

 

Demo bikes? Hummers (with TOW), Quads and Gats work wonders.

 

Quad cannons? Tanks or hummers (with TOW) work well. (you can get like 4 hummers for every 3 quads)

 

Helix? Quads and Avengers And Gats (rocket troopers as well) MD's with Laser lock = Pwned Helix!!!

 

 

Busses? against China Inferno cannnons and rocket troopers Vs GLA Rocket troopers/Rocket buggies Vs USA MD's

 

 

Listen carefully ima gona break one of my rules and inform you of a super strat!

 

VS GLA tunnles

 

As USA. Stealth Planes with bunker busters will cause ALL units inside a tunnel to evacuate at the tunnel you target! But the units will move back in unless the tunnel is destroyed..... then its easy pickings

 

As China... NEUTRON SHELLS!!!!! get a nuke get the upgrade (on online games PRO rules do alow Nuke Upgades no matter what the n00bs say ) 1 Neutron shell in a tunnel will KILL all inside!

 

I share that with you as i dispise Demo Gen and Scuds >_<

 

(as GLA just use rocket buggies and target the tunnle..... most players try and put there scuds back into the tunnel when attacked and the buggies stream of fire at the tunnel should kill most of the scuds {any GLA scud Vs Demo gens will lose.... Tox Gen Scuds are really crap.... )

 

 

Vs inf.... I ain't gona help... Inf my fave

 

 

 

But no i agree that ZH is unbalanced just depends thou.... sometimes all it takes is being better..... like using gen powers correctly and other units and any army can pwn the other (almost....)

[(ha) crazy 0]

wow badger take a breath man :lol: so with the usa should i surround the tunnel first or second?

[VampireA05 0]

wow badger take a breath man :lol: so with the usa should i surround the tunnel first or second?

 

why dont just destroy it?

[Inferno 22]

wow badger take a breath man :lol: so with the usa should i surround the tunnel first or second?

 

why dont just destroy it?

Too easy.

[Renegangsta 0]

HERES A GOOD IDEA , CHINA=NUKE BOMB THEM=3LAUNCHERS

GLA=SCUD F***'EM UP=3 AGAIN

AND LAST USA=PARTICLE CANNON 5 YES 5 :wink:

[VampireA05 0]

wow badger take a breath man :lol: so with the usa should i surround the tunnel first or second?

 

why dont just destroy it?

Too easy.

 

we make it hard to 'em...

[Guest MadBadger]

HERES A GOOD IDEA , CHINA=NUKE BOMB THEM=3LAUNCHERS

GLA=SCUD F***'EM UP=3 AGAIN

AND LAST USA=PARTICLE CANNON 5 YES 5 :wink:

 

ummm... QUIET YOU!

 

 

As for killing the tunnel....

 

Use the stealth plane on it...... let the bunker buster blow all the tank/scuds etc out the tunnel then kill the tunnel before they can get back in. (good plan 2 groups of 4 Stealth planes..... think 1 group will take it to 1/2 health and eject all troops and second groups should kill the tunnel not 100% thou....) Tunnels take ages to kill with Stealth planes (compaired to other base defences)

 

You could use Tomahawks instead of the second group of Stealth Planes.

 

Stealth planes are just good anyway...... make tanks etc go SKYWARD!!!

 

 

Neutron shells thou.... Pwnage.... Always have 2 -3 Nuke cannons in your base for GLA sneak attacks..... Once the sneak is make neutron it and all troops should die..... Keep neutron shelling it and the GLA can NEVER use there tunnels without you killing the troops inside (gota watch out as they can use it while your cannon is rechargeing and have like a 4-5 sec to send a demo bike into the tunnel in there base eject it in your base and kill the nuke cannon)

 

If GLA make a tunnel near your base and you can have a nuke cannon inside your base attacking the tunnel..... haha you're made! Killing 10 Scuds/busses can't EVER be beaten

[Renegangsta 0]

You cannot silence me!!

[F15pilotX 4]

Hey, at least he didn't go off on a n00b rant...QUIET NOW

[Renegangsta 0]

dont make me start 8)

[Guest Rabbit]

No, please, go ahead. See where it gets you. :roll:

[Renegangsta 0]

ARRR AARR AARR ARRAR AR R R .......im done :cry:

[(ha) crazy 0]

so what nation should i start out as?

[TheBlackOut 7]

so what nation should i start out as?

 

Just play random, you get the feel of all and you can find out your best general.

 

I really don't have one. When I first started out I ruled with USAF, so thats why I made my name [GDI]AirGeneral but I started to suck. Then I got really good at China. So meh.

[(ha) crazy 0]

the generals are?

[WhOIsInTeResTed InMyNaMe? 0]

What!!? you can search them in the CNCNZs Zerohour link........but for me the best generals from the three sides are

 

China´s nuke general

USA´s aircraft general (i dont know its name, but has something to do with aircrafts)

GLA: dont use a general, it´s better to play as GLA its, but the demolitons general its good (playing with GLA can be intrincated, but cool)

[TheBlackOut 7]

You have the game right crazymarine... Just plat skirmish... All the generals are on there. :roll: