Right there with you! Though I definitely spent a lot of time not understanding how to do it 🤣

@@SavantApathy haha ohh yeah it seemed wayyyy harder back then 😂

Hey! Thanks very much for your comment - much appreciated! Good question, it's not one that I've actually played before but I had planned to carry on with the C&C games. Based on your recommendation, perhaps I'll prioritise that!

Thanks - I had head that but I haven't checked it myself in the remastered version. Perhaps I'll check and confirm!

Work smarter, not harder! 🧠

@@SavantApathy Aye. Your logic is undeniable. 🖖

"I don't want to build any bloody silos!!"

@@SavantApathy You must construct additional Cylons... err, I mean silons! Wait, what? 😛

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 😀

Haha well that's the first story of Savant Apathy to grace the internet. I hope this is the first of many in Volume 1!

Oooh, you've peaked my interest - I shall take a look!

@@SavantApathy Well? What did the Priest say? 😛

I didn't notice that before - flame soldiers are great but jeez, so much can go wrong!

Ahh that makes a lot of sense, thanks for the info. In complete honesty, having not played for so many years, I'd forgotten what they were for 🤣

@@SavantApathy Absolutely nothin'! [cue Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan singing 'War'] 😛

@@MisterMarin "War, huh, yeah!"

@@SavantApathy Attaboy. 😀

No flies on you Admiral!

@@SavantApathy What about bees? Wasps? Bumblebees? Grasshoppers? 😉

@@MisterMarin pretty much all small flying insects 👍👍

@@SavantApathy And insects accessories? 😁

Yeah I watched someone do this completely casualty free, it was impressive but certainly not my style of play 😆

@@SavantApathy I did it too. I like setting such extra challenges to myself and going beyond the call of duty whenever possible. 🙂

Mostly because it's less efficient. A power plant is 300 credits for 100 power and an advanced power plant is 700 credits for 200 power. Aside from the building time benefit and that it looks a little cooler, it doesn't really help. This is something that is better is Red Alert where the advanced power plant costs less than 2 normal ones :)

Haha good spot! I just don't think I thought about it to be honest - didn't seem to hinder me, but you're probably right!

Not having the airstrip definitely make it easier for me, then taking the construction yard pretty much sorted it out

@@SavantApathy We have different playing styles. You destroy everything. I preserve and capture everything I can, then redesign the enemy base to my liking to appease my inner architect. 🙂

Interesting to know! Not sure building lots of sandbag walls makes for an interesting video but I may give it a try!

@@SavantApathy It's boring and tedious, but you can cheese almost the whole game with sandbags. 😉

Dinosaurs in the first Command & Conquer, giant ants in the first Red Alert. 🙂

That's right! Those Ants were a true pain in ass!

@@SavantApathy Especially the red ones that fire... well, fire. 🔥

The fire used to drive me round the bend!! Lets see how I react on video xD

It's a really interesting one with the impact it has on the next missions, depending on which Nod building you take out. I assume you get the airstrike if you take out all the SAMs? 🤔

@@SavantApathy No airstrike or any other kind of reinforcements to help you out. Commando and his chopper buddy are all you get. 🙂 Airfield is the intended target for this mission. If you destroy it, the game skips mission 7 and goes straight to mission 8. If you destroy anything else (sans the Turrets and SAM Sites), mission is considered accomplished, but incomplete, so Carter tells you you need to go back and finish the job, but this time you get an MCV so you can build your own base. Fun fact: If you destroy NOD Construction Yard with the Commando, the game takes that into consideration and NOD base doesn't have it in mission 7. If you destroy anything else (again, Turrets and SAM Sites don't count), NOD simply rebuilds it for the next mission. Groovy. 😀

@@MisterMarin Blasphemy, I want my airstrikes! 😆 Yes agreed, you go direct to mission 8 if you hit the airstrip correctly. What's interesting, on the remastered version, is if you play mission 7 after correctly destroying the airstrip then that building is missing and nod don't rebuild it (at least not in any meaningful timeframe). 👍

@@SavantApathy I haven't started playing Remastered yet, so I don't know all the details, but in the original version of the game, you can't go to mission 7 if you destroy the Airstrip. The game automatically proceeds to mission 8. 🙂 The idea here is that NOD intends to use the Airstrip to fly in a Harvester so they can start harvesting Tiberium. If you explore the NOD base with the Commando, you'll see Tiberium Refinery, but no Harvester anywhere, so the GDI reckons if you destroy the Airstrip, NOD won't be able to fly in a Harvester and the whole base will be impotent (hee hee 😁) once they run out of credits. If you destroy anything else other than the Airfield, NOD manages to fly a Harvester in, rebuilds what you destroyed and starts pumping out large amounts of infantry and vehicles, making mission 7 quite challenging, despite GDI having Medium Tanks at their disposal. 🙂

You mean the silos? Yes they're by far the cheapest buildings to spread out the base!

Literally reminds me of when I first played C&C back in the day. I completely missed that I needed the heli to move the troops and would wall myself in and build loads of advanced towers... then run out of credits and end up rushing the Nod base and loosing all the troops to those Obelisks!!

Glad to hear, I appreciate it - plenty more coming up! :)

They got their glow up! Apparently there was some glitch back in the day where once you had played this mission with the "Laser Orcas", all other missions, you played after had them too until you had turned the game off and restarted. It would have been fun to go back through the campaign with those OP units!

I know what you mean - it's so distinctive, it couldn't possibly be anything else!! I always preferred the commando voice in Tiberium Dawn but not so iconic!

Haha I like to live life on the edge apparently!

Hahah that's a nice option! It's been so long since I played Red Alert, I completely forgot some of the missions start exactly as you'd left them but I hadn't considered that you could take the War Factory with you!