Ace of Spades......Mercenaries

[atomicbob]

I'm to the mission.

And I am having hell. It is worth the 100 million if you get through.

You start in a tank with a couple buddy tank. Every yard of the road is cluttered with enemy tanks and RPG guys, generously blended with attack choppers. You need to blast the first 3 tanks, as your buddy tanks never kill one, they just spray them with MG. Pick off a few dudes blasting at you too. Ignore the cannons firing in the air. They never do anything but make you think they are targets.

Then when it says choppers are coming, you have to drive up around the corner, blast two tanks, then jump out and hop in an enemy anti aircraft machine sitting there. I have trouble making it work right if there is an enemy jumping in the guhners seat of the vehicle, but I'm not sure if that why or not. If I jump out and kill him I shoot much better.

Take out a chopper or two (if you can). If you suck, then get out and call in an air supeririority attack or two. Costs some bucks, but will clear the air.

Take out a couple more tanks in that part of town, and at least one more APG guy. The M-1 tank has little blast against foot soldiers, so I'm not sure it wouldn't be better to just jump out and kill them.

A couple more tanks flank each side of the road just before you get to the prison. You can get them from long range if you point at the light out in the distance.

By now you have probably had to call in some vehicle health, like two times, and maybe a health pack for your guy. Bring in a vehicle ammo reload before going to the prison gates.

I think, and I'm not sure cuz I only made this run a couple times, but you might be able to get near the gates and call in an artilllery barrage with some smoke. Then run away. Or, you could find a spot behind the rocks and do a couple tank busters and a cluster bomb to wipe out the stuff inside the gate.

Maybe turn around and go get some more heatlh. You, if you are like me, are getting abused from all sides this whole time.

I've gotten through the gates and a little ways up the road, and even started shelling the building the Ace appears to be in. Not sure, since I dies right after that and haven't made it back to that point since.

Wow.

The game is really cool. Great graphics.

:yaya:

[atomicbob]

This mission is way freakin hard and very long. Didn't take long to realize you can't rush up the raod, rather you have to take your time and wipe out every living thing and building as you take the road. Then you can retreat periodically to health up and reload.

I started out with about 2.5 million $$ and nearly ran our on my best effort (which looked to be about 4/5ths the way to target, just to where the road bends back south at the top of the map) so conserve your cash and try not to squander it on monster air strikes early on.

I have decided that the best strategy is to take not only the M1 you start out in, but to commandeer a 2nd (and maybe all three) just before youmake it to the first chopper attack. It's an awesome tank and the best weapon to be riding in. I simply get out of mine and hop in the other one. The first one stays where I left it so then all I have to do is leapfrog the pair up the road. Move up, attack until nothing is left breathing where you are sitting. Jump out, go back and get the other one for the next leg. Another advantage is the enemy generally won't attack your ride once you get out. Sometime a stray soldier will hop in, so be sure and clear the area of groud troops.

Not sure how to win. I haven't done it yet. The action gets very intense the farther you go.

For what it's worth, just getting to where I've been has taken a couple of hours.

:yuck:

[atomicbob]

OMG....I may never finish this ACe of Spades mission. I finally fought my way around killer corner with both my tank intact. Used a couple of bunker busters to wipe out huge resistance. Then came to a bridge.

It blew up!!

I had to go back and steal a jeep. Why a jeep? To jump the gap!! Wow. Made it easy but you go crashing into a roadblock and have to jump out and have a big shootemup. I lived through it, but now had no heavy weaponry. Stole a junky old truck and under discuise made it close to the missile base. Took it out from a distance with another bunker buster.

Alert!! He's launching the missiles. I have to find the place to enter the launch codes and shut them off. Timer going. 5 minutes. WTF??

I made it through the wreckage of the building and through one set of gates. Enemies firing at me the whole time. Kick arse graphics with the missiles coming up from their silos (awesome IMO), but could find no way through the second gate. Dies just before I ran out of time.

Do not pass go, do not collect 100 million dollars.

In fact loser, go back to the start of the 4 hour mission and try again from scratch.

:x

[wihadmin]

This mission sounds like a bitch to complete. This is the last guy right?

[atomicbob]

Yep....last guy. You win $100 million bucks alive, $50 mil dead. Not sure what happens after that, but whatever it I'll be able to afford it.

:yaya: