Hi all! This is my first post so here goes nothing...
I love this game! (For about 8years only though because i only got it a bit later than it got out.)
First to help someone who asked hot to skip the intro, at the time on my 386 I used to click esc and press with my right mouse button exactly when the letters started (slightly before the character chosen disappeared if starting a new game) not always worked though.
To people trying to find the aircraft, nostalgicus is abolutely right (actually a gree with most of the tips he (or she?) posted), and I personally only got it after i got allied a particular league member (only say which if you ask for it, don't want to spoil the fun) though for some problem in my game i never finished the game with the aircraft tech, because after i got it, a bug stopped me from finding info on one of the league member's collonies. Though if you build about (and it takes alot of time!!) 2000-3000 tanks you'll be able to finish the league without the aircraft (i did it that way the first time i finished it)
There's a rumour that if you kill the morguls when they have the aircraft you'd get it too, well i did that several times and never got it that way. In fact with the time lost to accomplish that i ended up not getting the pirate ship (not that it's a big loss coz i never used it anyway except to get the Morgul at the bar).
About the twins, i prefer to equip everything with them, even the smallest hunter is usefull, though later on, i wouldn't change my missiles for anything on my cruisers and destroyers. Also, i never saw the need to build more than 2 or 3 space stations (and certainly not at once), because energon and detoxin are really tooo precious to waste around.
For those with trouble at first, instead of building your first base in the Moon Appollo, build your colony in Zeus->Penelope instead, you get the rainium and the texon all at once for the upcoming battles (and with 9droid miners, you'll never need another one for those 2 again) and that way you'll save money for weapons against "the waves" of course you'll need Appollo as well. Jade is just great, don't forget to get it as soon as possible! Keep your colonies on High taxes (and lots of hospitals + 1 of each recreational buildings) some can even go as very high, and still being sympathetic towards you like that.
One last note, (and this is a thing i think it's not very good in the game) focus your atacks on main bases only (unless you need the planets their collonies are in) as a defeat of their control center is the end for that race.
(btw, i once defeated the wave that attacked the Janosians - with 30 hunters fully equipped and the most expert fighter and pilot, but nothing happened it said they were destroyed as well, guesses it was part of the game)
Take care you all
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