Westwood Doesn't Shut Up

[Shiroko]

Well, Mahdi was asking for it.

So here are the latest happenings in the official board:

The AI does look for your weakspot, so in SWiscool's example, when you reload and fortify that weak spot, it will look for a new one. It will also use different tactics too. So if the 1st time through you got hit with a 'bait' group to pull you out of your base defenses, it may opt to do a 'pincer' attack the next time through. - LINK

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Correct. Whenever a laser weapon shoots a shielded defender, they both blow up! This does have many interesting ramifactions. Namely, any single laser unit can take out any single shield unit 1 for 1. So, it may be worth the sacrifice, or not .. depends on your current strategy.

We were just playing the Editor from IGN.com and Delphi took Ordos. I was about to send in my Sardaukar Elite troops to whoop him, when I realized almost every unit he had in his base was shielded. DOH! Now, if only I had a secondary force of missle tanks handy.. hmmmmmm - LINK

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The subhouse units (You mean buildings Chris?) are basically 'factories' for the subhouse units. This means they have their own production queue, and will not clog your Barracks or Factory production queue. (i.e. you can build subhouse units at the same time as your tanks & infantry & air units).

p.s. The Fremen building is a Camp. - LINK

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You are always allowed to 'force fire' on any target, even the ground, by using CTRL plus left click. This does indeed allow you to contaminate your own troops!

Also, every unit in the game, can do damage to every other unit & building. Obviously, an Ordos Chemical Trooper does very very little damage to a Construction Yard, but it does do a little. This is necessary, otherwise you could end up with a stalemate (i.e. 2 players only have a few units left, but cannot harm each other.. stalemate). - LINK

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Not the Fremen, but all the other listed units can cross the dust basins. They are a pale patch of sand, kinda sunken into the dunes, and they surface kinda moves a bit. I'll try to create a screenshot of one for everyone. - LINK

This ends it for now. As for the "Gobalopper is Gone" party. We have ran into some difficulties (Mahdi drank all the drinks) and therefore we will have to postpone. Sorry.