Red Alert 2: Allied Mission Tips, Unknown, Unnoticed Stuff

Here is a video with all the Allied missions of Red Alert 2 demonstrating a few stuff that you might not know and a few stuff that you might not have noticed.
I tried not to include every detail and keep only the most unknown stuff to make the video less boring and more interesting.
Hope there was something that you didn't know already!
Other Campaign Videos with Tips:
Red Alert 2 Allied: • Red Alert 2: Allied Mi...
Red Alert 2 Soviet: • Red Alert 2: Soviet Mi...
Yuri's Revenge Allied: • RA2 - Yuri's Revenge: ...
Yuri's Revenge Soviet: • RA2 - Yuri's Revenge: ...
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[@Moshthun]

A video for Red Alert 2, in 2019. Shows that if you make a quality game, it will hold fans forever.

[@aumediwibisana4613]

For some reason I found this game in many ways better than Red Alert 3.

[@Moshthun]

@@aumediwibisana4613 because it was.

[@ThomasCarstein]

Damn right. I just hope that RA2 will be included in the upcoming remaster; that would be an instabuy for me.

[@booombasa]

@@aumediwibisana4613 ¨Most people found Red Alert 2 MUCH better than Red Alert 3. Same with age of Empires 2 and 3 aswell.

[@ztac_dex]

@@aumediwibisana4613 EA killed the game

[@m-w-y7325]

there are a LOT of allied infantries freezing out there...

[@warmotion864]

Don't bark,BITE!!!!

[@Purek666]

And the TV stations are silent about this.

[@warmotion864]

@@Purek666 Yeah.

[@LazyAndFabulous]

You know what's so dark Once the mission end, We *might* left them behind

[@WindiChilliwack]

In Russia you get frozen by cold

[@sherifhesham3733]

Finding these was the single best feeling ever playing this game as a kid

[@givemethen-pass6182]

Me too. I love this game

[@xyhc-cnc]

Sherif Hesham ya totally remember finding out lots of them as a kid. Now this is how you make a game with love

[@AHMAD0SHISHANI]

Using bus was really cool

[@sorrychangedmyusername3594]

Bus too op

[@tuk955]

yea, how did you figure that out? I mean we have bus everywhere then for some reason, this particular bus can garrison people?

[@LyingSecret]

@@tuk955 Pretty sure I remember using a bus in the soviet mission where you capture the battle lab at the twin towers, that and using a Yuri troop to mind control a limo to search the map without getting attacked by the enemy.

[@DeLvoy1988]

Beautiful hack!

[@CaveyMoth]

It's the Magic Schoolbus!

[@snugglepuff7648]

The bus was the total star of this vid LOL

[@ecologista101]

"You can capture the Soviet Silo with an enginner" *YOU W H A T?*

[@imadrifter]

I know right? Those Engineers are more useful n useful every day

[@MoondropSimulacra]

Mission only... skirmishes? No...

[@stevengreen9536]

@@MoondropSimulacra Only if the opposing AI opponent or player. Is not smart enough to build a wall around it. Like everybody else does. Last thing you want mid game is an enemy spy temporarily shutting it down. Or worse an enemy engineer seizing control of it so the opposing player can turn it against you.

[@DusttheRegulus]

@@stevengreen9536 I do not recall default game rules allowing superweapons to be capturable.

[@stevengreen9536]

@@DusttheRegulus I am pretty sure you could .But it has been a long time since i played so i might be wrong.

[@CidSilverWing]

6:26 You missed the fact that there's a lone Sentry Gun you can destroy with the Harriers to completely skip the mission. This must be done before the Soviets set up their base though, as the Sentry Gun acts as a placeholder to prevent the victory condition from being fulfilled.

[@facu40000]

Yeah but that's more like an exploit of the game triggers. I think he was aimed at easter eggs and stuff added by the developers on purpose.

[@tsiripas]

Facundo Gimenez that’s right!

[@irgiindrastaramadhani1735]

Where ?

[@TheLumberjack1987]

@@irgiindrastaramadhani1735 the tiny island south of where the soviet base will be

[@llVIU]

that sounds more like cheating

[@wjzav1971]

Holy shit, 18 years later and I still haven't discovered all the surprises of this game. I had no idea about the Bus or Yuri Prime

[@sterbensuarez7821]

same here didnt know that there was yuri prime no wonder why allied only have a hero unit

[@androsp9105]

5:40 launches nuke at target 500m away.

[@Dembilaja]

*50

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

Intercontinental nuke....

[@estellebright2579]

For Mission 5, I used to play the mission with pretty much Tanya only, but ever since find those two engineers, I start to capture barracks and reactor to build 10 rhinos to crush the mission with tanks. I find that method a bit more fun to play. Credit to all of those tips (or maybe Easter Eggs), especially in Mission 11. I did not know the bus thing exist lol.

[@mjc0961]

How did you build Rhino tanks out of a barracks? 🙃

[@tzCombot]

I always used to capture EVERY SINGLE (capturable) BUILDING in each of the bases, taking extra caution not to destroy any. I was a weird kid.

[@TheLumberjack1987]

@@mjc0961 capture barracks, build more engineers -> profit

[@GaneicMehiro]

Yeah its more fun capturing their buildings and using it against them haha.

[@difficultbastard]

I feel awesome for having discovered quite a chunk of these myself, but holy shit some are a real surprise.

[@tzCombot]

Same, same!

[@johnsven878]

yeah, before this vid I thought I knew all of them :) for example, I've never even thought to CAPTURE mission objectives. or money crate in office building in mission 4. seems quite random tbh.

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@johnsven878 In the original Command and Conquer, NOD mission three or four required you to capture a prison. First time in, I blew it up and had mission lost. Next time, I destroyed everything else, then tried to figure out how I could cap it. So yeah, to me this made sense now.

[@Mr.Pallanza]

9:17 Bus to Apocalypse Tank: *_"Look at me. Look at me. I am the Captain now."_*

[@mussabsaleem7625]

Bus more op than apocalypse tank XD

[@SoldierOfFate]

Who would win: -The pinnacle of Soviet engineering and tank technologies -Some yellow boi

[@mostwanted2390]

Soviet power supr.... Oh

[@KirovReporting]

Last moment with engi was so funny, i lmao'd

[@SKiBOiDawah]

Tip: On allied mission 7 at the start, you can finish the mission easily if you go near your Allied Base,destroying the Sentry Gun nearby will finish the mission without your friend getting any harm Also good tip for speedrunners Use the Rocheteers for fastest result

[@adamantobserver8655]

*Capturing Nuclear silo* Me: "Outstanding beyond science move"

[@legolegs87]

Of course in multiplayer you cannot capture superweapons.

[@TheValentineEnemy]

You cannot even capture them in singleplayer unless the mission makes an exception like this one. Those can even operate without power!

[@vincents5931]

It still amazes me how so many people still play this game in 2019. It really was a classic!

[@EvoSwatch]

On Mission 4 Last Chance, you can save the police cars. On Mission 10 Mirage, you can save the friendly outposts, and deny the enemy from building there. I can only save 2 tho, never 3. Its too hard. Also because you prevent them from building, you dont have to worry about them attacking Einstein.

[@ronadrian6007]

YOU FORGOT TO THANK THE BUS DRIVER

[@TraustiGeir]

Da real MVP!

[@TheValentineEnemy]

Mission 8: If you capture the abandoned buildings to the south (the refinery and wf) you will get extra time to destroy or capture the beacon before Tanya starts singing the Soviet national anthem.

[@IkeFanBoy64]

10:55 Exactly

[@TsukuyomiFX]

This here is my whole childhood! I started playing when I was 6 and I'm still playing now that I'm 22 😊😊

[@SoldierOfFate]

Those controllable cows in the Dark Night mission were by far the best stress reliever when I played this game as a kid, considering I was extremely careful and explored every inch of the map before moving out with the Spies and Tanya.

[@SethTheProphet]

Pro tip for the Fallout mission: Each time your Seals blow up the bridge, an enemy plane with two engineers will be sent to repair it. Use your Waypoint to make your Seals blow it up non-stop (even when it's destroyed) and you can spawn an enormous amount of planes. The Engineers provide excellent experience for your units to gain fast veterancy.

[@estellebright2579]

Or just send a bunch of rocketeers and station them there. Avoid sea scorpion fire and all Soviet units landed at the top will never be able to attack your base. The money you have at the initial two islands are enough to keep playing. After using seal to blow up the bridge.

[@concludedhail40]

In the fourth allied mission "Last Chance", if you garrison the Mcmonkey burger building with several G.I.s you get a handful of Monkeys that you can command and help you against the Soviets. Its one of the funniest secrets I ever found in the game and I'm kinda surprised no one has mentioned it yet.

[@richardjwordsworth]

I genuinely thought I knew everything about this game (and still play it today). First tip: there are six crates on the first mission that I had no idea existed. And up the road: three free Veteran tanks. You know, the President's throwing a victory gala at the White House later and - no that's too weird but still brilliant work. EDIT: SPY COWS?!

[@Meadras]

5:56 On Mission 6, did you know that you can link up to 9 Prism Towers? Any extra tower will not be added to the chain.

[@NolDragon]

When you were a map-exploring maniac back as a kid and thus know about most of these. Feels good man

[@tim92nordlund]

In the 11th allied mission you can use 2 SEALs to set a waypoint to destroy the brides over and over again. If you do this they will paradrop engineers to the middle island between the bridges, if you place another SEAL defending the ramp there a HORDE of planes will paradrop engineers over and over again at an extreme speed. This way is very good to level up units to chronosphere over.

[@athenewdecade5135]

Oh my god After all those years I played this game Nice video, thanks

[@Slagdar]

This! is why I alway's adored replaying RA2's campaigns. little gifts everywhere, you are alway's rewarded for exploring the maps.

[@xeroxcopy8183]

There's some more I can add! For the Allied Mission #2 - If you can actually destroy or capture the North-East soviet base with only Tanya and the Rocketeers, you will be awarded with more units paradropped into the neutralized enemy base For the Allied Mission #4 - If you can destroy the Psychic Amplifier with only your Naval Units and never got to force land your troops into the shore, your Secretary will say something of the lines "Good work commander, they never saw us coming" There's also for the Allied Mission #7 but I cant remember fully, but it's something about the Marsh/swamp in the North Island And I'm sure you know about the Tutorial sections too!

[@tsiripas]

The tutorials were also included in a different video! I remember that line ""Good work commander, they never saw us coming"" but I am not quite from which mission.

[@ljcruz4466]

“Much smarter than its soviet counterpart” 🤣

[@sterbensuarez7821]

might be the best outro

[@RD2rush]

5:41, 10:25 the best one in all the video

[@Niepelnosprytny123]

So, I didn't know about that the tower you could garrison to see the whole map, the crate at the bottom of the map in the mission where you gotta destroy Nuclear Warheads and that you could capture them too! Ohh and the crazy bus trick, nice!

[@OverlordIX]

I'm not sure if this can be done, but you should test the effects of crates (damage boost, armor boost, etc) on units.

[@tsiripas]

OverlordIX I may try

[@dracomet2097]

Damn I played the shit out of this game as a kid and I never noticed so many of these secrets..... I wish EA never bought Westwood...

[@dracomet2097]

I wished command and conquer got the same level of recognition as Starcraft of Warcraft....

[@TheLumberjack1987]

@@dracomet2097 C&C also has the superior soundtrack

[@dracomet2097]

TheLumberjack1987 Frank Klepacki was awesome yes. Also Jim Martin who did the soundtrack for the Sims and SimCities

[@ilijamatejic8113]

The problem is tho. If EA didn't buy out westwood. Then westwood itself would die way earlier. A EA Budget and funding fueled Westwood.

[@RainingMetal]

@@ilijamatejic8113 I think the better answer would be: "I wish Tiberian Twilight was never made as it was." Red Alert 3 was great too, the best EALA developed C&C in my opinion.

[@josephiroth89]

There is a tip I know of for Deep Sea. You can win the mission very easily before the bulk of enemy forces arrive by training a few rocketeers and sending them to destroy a sentry gun next to a garrisoned hut on a small island.

[@smilerbob]

Rediscovering once again the joys of RA2, the game that never grows old In Lone Guardian you missed a few money crates 1) The first damaged building on the right of the road at the start 2) The last building in the road leading to the base at the back left of the block 3) Top left corner of the map is a small group of enemies protecting a crate

[@YamiSuzume]

10:00 Building Teleporting Troops!? Sounds OP

[@izanagi3521]

I don't know if you will see this but when I played the mission, i managed to keep the psychic beacon instead of it being sold. I did this by using fully promoted GI to outrange the coils, then captured the soviet barracks and tesla reactor and trained a engineer to capture the beacon. For some reason it didn't get sold (but it doesn't seen like the beacon does anything)

[@tsiripas]

Nice!

[@A10Thunder56]

I've been replaying RA2 and Yuri's Revenge. Was surprised that I used most of these actually.

[@hoodiepen]

6:21 In Deep Sea, you can win the mission instantly by moving your Aircraft Carriers and Destroyers near the your ally’s base. When the Soviets’ MCV has been deployed, order your Carriers to destroy the Construction Yard and after a few minutes, you win the mission.

[@mjc0961]

Holy crap, that bus is awesome.

[@ZOMBYMARIO]

3:58, we age of empires now!

[@omebyeobakisneyos3925]

On the level mirage you can move a navy seal upto the place where the soviet mcv arrives and blow it up as soon as it deploys to end this mission superfast.

[@thedarkdragon1437]

01:35 You can use the rocket man and tanya to destroy the enemy base before recapturing your own base 08:20: on that mission, if you defend the german outposts from destruction successfully, you've completed the mission

[@terrencesumalde6775]

There's also another one on the mission on Chicago Map (Last Chance). If you garrison the Burger Kong building with GIs then the enemy force destroy it, a group of monkeys will spawn and attack the enemy force responsible for its destruction then they will follow your commands.

[@Verlasian]

Mission 7. There might be no tips but there is a cheese mechanics that allows you to prevent soviet invasion and accomplish the mission earlier: There's a single sentry gun on some of the islands. If you destroy it before Soviet invade you accomplish the mission. It's SE of the cyan ally islands, you should be able to destroy it with few rocketeers.

[@Skalatsosse]

If I remember correctly, in mission 2, there are some heavily damaged civilian buildings to the left side of your base and if you repair them with engineers (or destroy them?) some of them will leave crates behind.

[@sweetballs4742]

9:15 Who will Win? A Soviet Apocalypse Tank Or A freaking Magic School Bus that came out of nowhere?

[@FCK88]

The "Much smarter than his Soviet counterpart"-thing made me LOL xD

[@onlywithbuts1781]

Glad to be one of the people that actually knew this all along, cause we 90's generations love to explore games and back then " Secrets, easter eggs " and all kinds of hidden surprises were daily thing to have in games ^_^ Still big helper for those who do not yet know all these years.

[@dragonking322]

I'm surprised how many of these i knew back in the day. I didn't have internet when i first played this so it's shocking to see how much my skill has been replaced by check the wiki

[@beekarinsaan]

Wow I find the voices superior to the games nowadays. Gameplay as always excellent. Westwood really put their hearts into this game.

[@VirusXAX]

0:59 Is it just me, or is this like the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Buildings... The MC Burgertown and the Street?

[@Kiwijr2579]

There's a tip in mission 7 which you haven't mentioned. It's possible to quickly beat the mission if you move all of your troops towards the light blue Allied base which the Soviets will take out and build their own base on the northwest. As soon as the Soviets show up, you can destroy their MCV, and they will not be a threat at all. I once did that.

[@dracmeister]

Or you can find an island with a sentry gun on it and destroy it. Due to map triggers it thinks you destroyed the soviet base so you instantly win.

[@JohannesDGradenko]

That sounds more like an exploit for speedrunners, rather than an Easter egg.

[@Kiwijr2579]

@@JohannesDGradenko It's a tip, though.

[@Rhino1004]

In mission 2, you can repair or destroy various damaged houses for crates, too.

[@larajamila005]

Man this game DID NOT punish you for finding easier ways to complete missions! In fact, even embraced it! Especially with the one where you can capture the silo

[@kedarunzi9139]

Now if I remember correctly, in the Soviet mission where you infiltrate the battle lab infront of the world trade center you get yuri clones (dunno how they were called in ra2) and you can mind control a bus with them and you will have the same benefits as with the bus in the allied mission and you can even control it!

[@tickoman273]

in RA2 when you mind control civilian units, enemy will not attack, but in YR they attack :(

[@kedarunzi9139]

@@tickoman273 :(

[@adryannthedefender701]

I miss the old days . Thank you for the heads up 👍👏🙂 .

[@minh3264]

I think it's worth mentioning about the heavy GI reinforcements on the second mission.

[@tsiripas]

I only know about the Rocketeers but though it wasn't necessary to include it, when do the GIs arrive?

[@minh3264]

@@tsiripas destroying all the flak cannons in the main soviet base. Seems pretty simple but I saw many people missed this one in their walkthroughs

[@JohannesDGradenko]

10:55-11:07 Eva: "Sir, this is an Engineer. He is much smarter than the Soviet counterpart." *[engineer gets killed by a Sentry Gun]* Stalin/Romanov: "Hold my beer!" Also, the beginning though... SHUT UP, LIEUTENANT EVA!

[@Prozitive]

1:23 Glad you found us sir, we're freezing out here. -Chrono legionnaire

[@cobrazax]

mission 7...kill the lone sentry gun on the islands to insta win before enemy comes

[@Havok0159]

There it is. Got to that mission and seeing no tips for it was shocking.

[@Luckysquirrel1256]

Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge are my favorite games of all time, and I only ever knew about 1/3 of these, awesome video!

[@llVIU]

good editing, and I had no idea about half these tricks despite playing the game 20 years

[@avilde]

Totally agree, this is and have been my most favorite RTS. Wish it was remastered.

[@mwperk02]

another thing to note about the grizzly tanks in mission 1 is that they are hostile to you until they become yours. But usually they turn over to your control before you can get in range.

[@ztac_dex]

It's a pain in the ass discovering these 20 years ago with no walkthru

[@Niepelnosprytny123]

I hope you'll cover the polar bear secret in Yuri's Revenge campaign which I have found and told the community first ^^.

[@tsiripas]

Dzierzan once I start doing YR I will see to it !

[@ClawieArmy]

that was found early in the 2000s, youre late

[@Inucroft]

mission 7: if you destroy a hidden sentry turret just below the friendly base before the soviets land. You win the mission.

[@Auderman]

In dark night mission there's a more interesting thing. On the rock on the right on map there's a few Soviet ore miners

[@boris001000]

I A M T H E B U S

[@logan666999]

I played this game for years and still had couple things to learn from this video :) nice :)

[@milkywayish9315]

I don't know of you guys can relate, but when I used to be a kid I always found these by accident because I didn't know how to play the game (and back then I didn't even speak English lol)

[@sossoya86]

that bus part is brilliant !! now i want to play Ra2 again

[@canonyos]

Regarding mission deep sea one tip immediately at the beginning of the game order all your navy to the south of the island their you will find a small island with a sentry gun destroy it and you win

[@enzoluisasuncion3621]

Lol! That bus! Thanks for the tip!!!

[@andrewcopple7075]

Deep Sea tip: If you send forces over to the island the soviets will take control of early enough, you can even just keep a single pillbox alive and defeat the enemy completely in under a few minutes. I don't always manage to keep some part of the allied forces alive, but the soviets have little luck building a base. Note: this is also possible on the defend Einstein's base mission, for at least 1 if not 2 of the 3 soviet bases.

[@Say_No_To_e-Girls]

How there are so many ways to beat a mission in this game that I'm discovering to this day is mind-blowing. So much more depth than Starcraft.

[@ShadowHunter120]

Should do a video about the crates and how they affect unit stats

[@Indrakusuma_a]

After all these years playing RA2(and YR), still so many things I missed out.

[@STARSVeteran]

I never knew about many of these, really cool. RA2 is such a classic.

[@UzumakiNaruto010]

best war strategy games ever made

[@stylesrj]

In the first Allied mission, if you don't sink the Dreadnaughts, they'll eventually leave and you'll get a Mission Failure... 3:15 I don't get it? What's so significant about that building in particular? 4:10 The cows are friendly towards the Red Soviet base, but one of them is hostile to them and they'll send their dogs to maul those cows when the battlefield expands... 4:50 Soviet anti-aircraft... none of which can be seen anywhere... This is highly sus... Especially considering how capturing the base gives you Soviet Engineers and Huskies... 6:20 In the Pearl Harbour level, there's a Sentry Gun on a tiny island near your allies' base. Destroy that before the Soviets deploy their MCV and you win since the win condition is "Destroy All Soviet Structures" EDIT: And it was addressed in a later comment as an exploit not a neat trick... fair enough :) 8:05 They kept that refinery and crate in for Yuri's Revenge when you're the Soviets. Except I think the Allies put up some defences as well. But capturing the Refinery will spawn a crate with a Chrono Miner in it.

[@exterminatusnow1264]

I wonder about the maximum achievable unit speed included with the speed crate. I'm really curious if its possible to make something ludicrously fast or just so much can be achieved before it hits a limit.

[@daisukeakihito9832]

I've got a gaming rig to run most modern games on top settings, what games do I play? Age of Empires 2/Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2, they sure did something right for those games to hold attention of people for 20 years.

[@Zelinkokitsune]

But Yuri Prime's not in the stock game. It might be tied to the fact we see a bunch of "MISSING CAMEO" items around. Now Psychic Commandos are a different kettle of fish.

[@eiglehawk]

I new most of them, specially cows to expand unexplored view , but never had thought to capture nuke with engineer

[@AceKitties]

"Cummandaaa!" "Undaaacovaa!" >_

[@chrisidoo]

"WHAT'S YER REQUEST?!" *"TOUR UNDER- MANEUVER'S IN PROG- TOUR UND- MANEUVER'S IN PROGRESS!!"*

[@belfastbelchan4039]

Yuri Prime in RA2 is strong as well. Though he lacks movement above water, he makes up with a mind control range equal or slightly lower than the firing range of Grand Cannon😂

[@tickoman273]

it's like double that of grand cannon, completely OP

[@chenrayen]

that was awesome! some i knew some i didn't. on eagle down there are also crates when you destroy the houses on the way to the academy

[@SamGarcia]

I've known most of these except the School Bus one, that is pretty cool.

[@mariorastin6609]

This Will get lost, but my dad played this game from the begining, he taught me, how to play it and more. 2 years ago he dief of cancer. I love all your videos about CAC. I am just realy sad that, i cant show him certain tips now. If we only knew before. Have a nice Day, and respect your parents.

[@mark31125]

Lieutenant Eva: "Commander, good morning." Player: "Shut up!" LOL

[@cptmacmillan1111]

Here's another tip. I believe depending on what version of RA2, you can send a spy to infiltrate your own structures and getting their respective tech. This in essence mean you can get the Chrono commando as early as Mission 6 or 7 while able to train units at Veteran status.

[@KajiTetsushi]

>Chrono Commando Well. In standard gameplay, your Battle Lab needs to be in enemy possession before you can start training this type of soldier, so unless you let enemy engineers in, you can't pull this off. By extension, this rule would most likely apply to these missions, too.

[@cptmacmillan1111]

@@KajiTetsushi kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5PQkKSBbsuJgK8 Around 36:25

[@CjseEncounters]

On the first mission where you find a crate on the parking lot with cars, you can actually build structures like power plants or barracks on the parking spaces by destroying the cars to make room, I don't know why it's a buildable area, and I only accidentally stumbled upon it when I was a kid

[@Aquasition1]

Funny, during Allied Mission 12, I had captured one of the undefended Nuclear Plants, built a barracks next to it, and continuously trained spies to keep the enemy's power down until I could use the Chronosphere 3 times. I... never tried to use the legionnaires.

[@tiberiumresurrection6214]

I am not RA2 fan, but I found this entertaining :) Great content, keep it up!