How Do I Do ..? In Command and Conquer How do I sell my infantry/vehicles? ========================================= David Hulet (d.hulet@ix.netcom.com) A Westwood bug that turned into a feature for us. You can sell infantry, vehicles and even civilians! Build a sand bag and move the unit as close to the sand bag as you can. Click on the sell button. Move the cursor over to the sand bag. Move the twirling dollar sign as far away from the sand bag (toward the unit) as you can without it loosing its rotating property. while its spinning near the unit click and sell him down the river!!!! This is a great way to make money if you are seriously down and out and about to get your butt kicked. It takes a little practice to figure out, but once you have done it the first time its simple. Frank Wen-heh Lee (lefrankw@umich.edu) If you put the unit in the repair bay (no infantry, of course), click sell, and move the cursor over the unit, a little green $ will appear. You can sell the unit for half-price. Kenneth Chen (lore@vval.com) I find this useful when my units are injured. Usually, I will bring back a vehicle that is almost dead and sell it away to build a new one. It's better to gain some money then none at all. How do I control Orcas in mid-flight? =========================================== Group the Orcas. You can then select the Orcas using the group keys and give them orders, even when they are in flight. Why should I destroy villages? ======================================== reznor@netcom.com Because you can find crates full of money under churches. How do I make a convoy? ================================= Seth Hutchins (seth.hutchins@sunrisebbs.com) When you've got a group of units, and want them to follow one another in a "single-file" style grouping, make use of the CONTROL+ALT key combination like this... 1. Send the leader towards destination. 2. Control+Alt Click on the next unit to follow him 3. Repeat 2 until you have your group This tactic can be altered to get an interesting "circling patrol" effect out of Hummers, Buggies, and Tanks. 1. Select a "lead" unit. 2. Control+Alt Click the next unit. 3. Repeat 2 until you have all but one of the units in your group. 4. Control+Alt Click the LAST unit on the leader. This can annoy your opponent on the modem, and is a decent way to patrol an area. It works well (for me) in closed spaces. This technique can also be used to keep faster units from traveling too quickly. Make all the faster units 'guard' the slowest unit in the group (e.g.- mammoth tank) and wherever you move the unit, the faster units will follow at the same speed. How do I get rid of trees? ==================================== Craig M. Kazial (kazial@acsu.buffalo.edu) You can destroy trees. However it has to be just one lone tree. In other words, you can not destroy a clump of trees. It is not really useful except if you need to place port of a base at a location that the tree is at. Usually grenadiers and rocket launchers are the best to destroy trees. How do I hide under trees? ==================================== Richard Lio (ez022609@boris.ucdavis.edu) Well, you can do it. Select your unit to move past the tree. When your unit is under cover, hit 's' to stop the unit. Your unit will be behind the tree and invisible to other human eyes. :) My friend does that often in multi-player games. How do I stop the computer from rebuilding? ===================================================== Michael Stango (phillymjs@aol.com) Park a vehicle on the spot where an enemy building or turret was, so it can't be rebuilt there. How do I keep my harvesters from gathering all the tiberium? =============================================================== Put a vehicle on a patch of tiberium. The harvester won't be able to get to it. The tiberium patch will then regrow around it. If you have a blossom tree, parking a vehicle is not necessary because tiberium will begin to sprout around the tree. How do I get nukes in the last Nod mission? ===================================================== VT (VirtualTed@westwood.com) To use nukes, building the Temple of Nod is not enough. You'll need to get the crates in missions 6, 8, and 12. You may have to capture or destroy some of the buildings to get at the crates. Jon Osborn (josborn@quapaw.astate.edu) On level 8, the crate is by an Orca pad. On level 12, the crate is underneath the GDI construction yard. Brian Albers (albers@cs.utexas.edu) I didn't get the nukes after installing the 1.18 patch halfway through the game. So I went back and replayed _all_ the missions and made damn sure I had gotten all three crates using that version. No nukes. So I loaded 1.19 and restarted the last mission, as they instructed. Still no nukes. For Chrissakes, Westwood, I hope that in the 1.20 patch you will quit screwing around with event flags that don't work and just GIVE EVERYONE WITH THE TEMPLE NUKES, NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!! Sheesh. How do I squish things? ================================= Some objects and vehicles can be run over by tracked vehicles and dinosaurs. Tracked vehicles are harvesters, tanks, and APCs. Use ALT-click to do a forced move to a location with the object/unit directly in its path of movement. Infantry can be squished easily. Recon bikes can only be crushed if they are hit side on. Sandbags, fences, and walls can not be crushed or driven over by any unit. Stanley Hu (hu@valisys.com) In multiplayer games, it's often risky to try squashing Recon Bikes. There seems to be a bug in C&C that makes it very difficult to do this even with the fast-moving APCs. How do I destroy patches of tiberium? =============================================== The only weapons that can directly target a tiberium field are airstrikes, ion cannons, and nuclear warheads. Normal units can destroy tiberium only if they are armed with inaccurate weapons such as bazooka rockets, missiles, artillery shells, or flamethrowers. To destroy tiberium with these units, force attack on a clear square adjacent to the patch of tiberium you wish to destroy. The inaccuracy of these weapon will mean that a few hits will stray into the tiberium patch you want to destroy. Depending on the maturity of the patch, it may take more than a single hit to destroy. - o -