I cannot seem to kick the bot in skirmish so I am unfamiliar there, and for multiplayer(or even skirmish) how can I set teams if there is even a way?

The newbie guide is currently a list of unit's weaknesses and strong points, it's very useful if you know how to use it, here's an example:

You have 3 assault tanks and 15 buzsaws, each group can take out 2 Minotaurs but what would be the best choice? Look up the buzsaw and assault tank and minotaur, the minotaur is bad against armour but good against light armoured tanks, the buzsaw is a light armoured tank, the assault tank a heavily armoured tank, the assault tank would be in this example the best choice, instead of losing + - 7 buzsaws you can destroy those 2 minotaurs with 3 assault tanks of course they will receive some damage, but at least you haven't lost anything.

HOUSE ORDOS

INFANTRY

Scout.

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GOOD

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1. It's fast.

2. It can see further then most infantry units.

3. It can decloak cloaked units.

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BAD

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1. It has light armour

2. It's easily killed.

3. It has no weapons.

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Multiplayer purpose: scouting the map.

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Equipped weapon is good against: N/A

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Community ratings: N/A

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Scouts are good units to quickly scout the map, if used right they enable you to watch every move your opponent does, giving you time to prepare yourself.

Chemical Trooper.

GOOD

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1. It is good against infantry.

2. It is good against buildings (multiple chemical troopers)

3. It is good against light armoured vehicles.

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BAD

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1. It's bad against medium-heavily armoured tanks.

2. It's bad against turrets.

3. It has light armour.

4. It can't keep up with the ordos tanks; this is bad because the more time you waste with ordos, the more chance your opponent has to win.

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Multiplayer purpose: rushing and guarding your entrances against early scouts.

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Equipped weapon is good against: Infantry, buildings and light armoured tanks.

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Community ratings: 7.1.

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Chemical troopers are good rushing units, they're good against infantry and buildings, not only can the chemical trooper be used for early rushes, it can also be used to protect your base against early scouts.

AA-Trooper.

GOOD

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1. It's good against armour.

2. It can shoot aircrafts.

3. It's an AA-defence that can quickly be set up.

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BAD

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1. It can't keep up with the other ordos tanks; this is bad because ordos HAVE to rush.

2. It has light armour.

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Multiplayer purpose: Fast AA-defence.

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Equipped weapon is good against: Tanks and Airplanes.

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Community ratings: 6.1

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AA-Troopers are made in no time, giving you a fast made quite mobile AA-defence; it can also be taken with you to destroy your enemy's carryalls or tanks.

Ordos Mortar Infantry.

GOOD

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1. It's good against clustered units.

2. It has splash damage.

3. It has a medium to large range.

4. Its armour is the best of the ordos infantry units.

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BAD

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1. It is bad against fast moving objects.

2. It can kill your own units by accident due to its splash damage.

3. They can't keep up with the ordos tanks, this is bad because ordos HAS to rush.

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Multiplayer purpose: It's sometimes used to guard small passages.

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Equipped weapon is good against: Infantry, Light to Medium armoured tanks, large mobs.

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Community ratings: 7.1

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This unit is good against ordos and harkonen, in groups with protection it's hell on legs for harkonen or ordos players, use these units in combination with kobra's/fremen warriors/fremen fedaykin/sardaukar elites/lasertanks and dustscouts and I can guarantee that you'll defeat most players hanging around here.

Engineer.

GOOD

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1. It can take over enemy buildings; this can only be done once.

2. It can remove leeches.

3. It instantly repairs friendly buildings; this can only be done once.

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BAD

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1. It has light armour.

2. It's easily picked on by enemy units.

3. It

i read in the manual that atreides can send elite unites back to their barracks to create othe elite units! but it doesnt work! i tried it several times but i can't sent troops into the barracks!

ca someone please tell me if this works? and if it works, how?

thanks for your answers!

I even started a single player game again on easy to rush to video #10 but so far there are about 7 territories left on the map I haven't taken and that particular video hasn't been triggered. I even had missions that mentioned a crash caryall which are the ones I think that were supposed to trigger that video--I could be wrong though.

Anyway I tried looking at the hex edit thing too but that directory isn't showing up in my registry. Any help apperciated, mainly would like ot know what Atreides video 19 is...I have tried losing multiple times on different missions and appear to have unlocked the two losing videos (The Fremen one and the Emperor Worm one).

Edit: I have it installed and running on Windows 7 and I had to use that alternative installation process where you copy the CD information to the hard drive for the install. I still run/play the game normally with the CD though.

I'm confident it may have been asked before, however I can't search for it on the forums as one of the keywords "IX" is two letters when the minimum required for a vBulletin search keyword is three characters. I'm sure the moderators would understand this as fair justification for a potential repeat topic and that I would not want to prowl through 50+ pages of threads.

In the single player (as Harkonnen and Ordos) At chapter two; the mentat will advise you off alliance possibilities with either the Tilaxeu Or the Ix. Or perhaps find a way to trade with both?

Well I've tried very hard to find a way to form an alliance with both and I can't seem to find any way of doing so.

On my latest game; I am Harkonnen and already hold an alliance with the Tilaxeu. (by defending them from the Freman) I have seen several territory sub missions that would grant me an alliance with the Ix without dragging me into conflict with the Tilaxeu but yet it still says "Tut-tut Commander, now our alliance with the Tilaxeu is doomed"

Is it even possible or is the mentat a lying pink lipped git?

Regards,

Kane

Oh and i have realised that my Challenge note for D2k has disappeared, if anyone can still see it please tell me, and if you can't tell me that aswell.

hope you guys can help. thanks you!

Any strategy suggestions?

This is for online play, I just need some tips and tricks to get me started again. ;)

Who could tell me how stop a group of army including 4 devastator,2 flame tank, 3 missile tank, 2 inkvine and each unit are covering each other as group with only Atreides unit?

(Living world off, just fending off enemy troops)

All downed like flies by apcs, kobras, chaos lightning

seems using atreides is hard mode, eh?  :-

i can't say that i love a specific race but if i have to choose that will be harkonen....but any BO is accepted :P

thx in advance

empath

I play Atreides. Most of the games play online, are usually team games. So this applies to that sort of scenario. Say a 3 vs. 3 game.

(1) Here is something that I am having a LOT of trouble with. For lack of a better term I will call it "situational awareness". I have gotten to the point where I am FAIRLY good at getting my economy up and running and producing a bunch of cheap units without going broke. But how do you guys decide what direction to take your unit production so early in the game and so fast? I mean how do you decide what is your most immediate threat? Like in one game I saw enemy ordos near me, so I start cranking out lots of cheap units, then another member of the opposing team droned me and killed my carryalls. Death soon followed, LOL.  Next game vs same team I tried early air defence, (probably a poor one, making drones) and got ordos rushed before I had ground defense. Immediate death.

(2) Do you guys actually do all this micro-managing that you are talking about when the heat is on? You know, like getting attacked with 30 buzzies? Instead of boxing all the units that are getting rushed and Cntrl+shift attack? Thanks, Vodoo Daddy

:-[ :'( what should i do? my base was full of gas towers already so i don't understand how he could kill it with guild so easily !!

I could destroy enemies on sandy pass with no units lost within minutes, using dust scouts and laser tanks.

I used atreides once... I failed... They are weak and slow. Ordos raped them... infantry kobra-ized

Mino's laserized.

I use speed to win, but atreides are slow. slow is counterproductive, waste of time.

I must beat the foe with no units lost. Anyone have a strategy?

And yes you are right, I am a perfectionist. Drown me :P