"This document Copyright 2001 Harry Mason"
“Written exclusively by Harry Mason.”
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COMMAND & CONQUER RED ALERT
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COUTERSTRIKE
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ANT MISSIONS
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Version 1.0 – 31 July 2001
Original Document
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CONTENTS
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01. How to access them
02. Missions guide
03. How to Build a Queen Ant
04. Legal Stuff
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1. How to access the ant missions.
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At the main menu hold down the left shift key and left click on the small circle in the
top right corner of the screen. Choose a suitable difficulty level and your ready to
play.
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2. The Missions
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MISSION 1 – Defend your base for 30 mins
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30 minutes is not really that long, the game timer moves very fast. Firstly move your
units to the north-east. After a short time you will find your base. It is wrecked. Repair
the 2 pillboxes, Ore Refinery, War factory and the northern power plant. The rest of the
buildings can be sold.
After selling your buildings you will have some men spare who can scout to the south
and find some ore. Get your Ore Truck working. Constantly build Rangers for the rest of
the level.
There are 4 areas to defend.
1 – The South, the ridge doesn’t cut off the ore, defend it.
2 – The East, you have a pillbox but you need more.
3 – The North, you also have a pillbox here but you need more.
4 – The West. This should be your strongest point as they will eventually need to go out
and conquer more ore fields.
Beware of the North-East corner as the ants sometimes breakthrough the trees. You will
hear them doing this so defend it only if you need to.
To make more money you can also sell some wall. The parts to sell are
1 – Everywhere that is doubled up (corners)
2 – As much of the south wall as you can (some strangely won’t sell)
3 – Any parts also protected by a ridge.
Beware of the North-East corner as the ants sometimes break through the trees.
Take 1 Ranger to the south and blow up the barrels. If the oil pump does not explode,
force fire on it (Ctrl + Left click). Inside is a money crate ($2000).
Continue building Rangers.
When the Ore in the south runs out take about 70% of you Western defence to the west.
There is some ore here but it is open at the top and the bottom. Scout all the Ore area
and kill anything you find (shouldn’t be anything). Also beware of ants attacking your
base via your weakened entrance. Place your scouting units at the top of the ore.
If you have been constantly building Rangers you should have 3 good defences and be
rebuilding the other. Move all your Western defence to the junction on the little road.
This will attract the attention of any ants that would otherwise attack your base or ore
truck. They still attack your Ore truck sometimes so you still need to keep an eye on him.
Make him team 1 (click on him, Hold Ctrl and press 1). Press 1 the Home key to centre on
him quickly and get him out of danger.
If/When you run out of ore again, go over the mud bridge to a massive ore field. Leave
your units on the road a little way up from the bridge. Use a ranger to explode the
barrels and get another crate from the oil pump. Build more Rangers to defend this ore but
do not move any of your defences. You should now keep a supply of money going in and
Rangers coming out.
Now you just need to hold out until the end and constantly build Rangers to toughen up
your defences. With a few seconds left on the clock move you ore truck into the ore field
and leave him there till the end of the level. The next level will now give you another
ore truck in the ore refinery for free.
Good Luck
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MISSION 2 – Save some civilians
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Move your 2 tanks and your MCV to your base. Build you MCV and get your ore trucks
working. Start building Medium tanks. The south defence is no longer needed as a ridge has
appeared (you may have units trapped on it – bug, also applies to reappearing walls).
When you have 5 tanks take them out of you East exit. Go south until you see a river.
Before you reach the river go east and follow the river. You will see a mud bridge – cross
it. Over the bridge will be a barrel that will need force firing on. It will blow up all
the others. There is an ants nest in the middle and around the outside are money crates
and a couple of trucks. Kill the trucks and collect the money. Take your tanks to the mud
bridge and leave them to defend it.
When you have built 10 tanks that are spare for attack, take them out of you North exit
and directly north. You will see a river eventually. The river forms a circle that can
only be crossed by 3 bridges. Destroy the bridges to trap the ants on the island.
The first bridge is found if you carry on north. Kill ants that attack and force fire on
bridge when not being attacked. Then head south and follow river to reveal 2 more bridges
to destroy. The second bridge is usually the toughest. Build more tanks if you need to.
Better to take loads at once than a steady stream of them. A good tactic for destroying a
bridge is to stand at one end and shoots ants on the bridge, this kills ants and destroys
the bridge.
Getting to the third bridge will also reveal a civilian town. Destroy the bridge and leave
your tanks there to fire at the ants. Box 3 or 4 civilians and guide them round to your
transport in the North-West corner. Stay away from the water as fire-breathing ants will
kill them.
Once in the transport take them across and empty them out. Go back across and put one of
your units in. Empty your unit out and scout the little island to find a heal-all crate.
Return to the mainland.
Go back to where you left your tanks shooting ants and move them South. After the mud
bridge you will reach a ridge. Follow the ridge around and you will find the other
civilian town. Again box a few of the civilians and guide them to the transport and take
them across to the other side. Mission Accomplished.
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MISSION 3 – Gas the Ant Nests
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Wait a few seconds until you are attacked by 2 ants. One from the North, the other from
the South. Move your MCV into space and build it. Build a power plant followed by an ore
refinery. By this point you will have some re-enforcements. Empty the APC’s and send one
of them to pick up one of the newly arrived scientists.
Guide a few units to the West to reveal an ants nest right next to you. Take a scientist
(the one inside the APC) to the nest and empty it. The scientist will gas the nest. Put
him back in the APC and make it team 1 (ctrl + 1). Now build a War Factory and constantly
build tanks.
When 10 tanks have been built take them North to find some ore. Lots of ants will attack
here. Defend yourself while slowly heading North. When you reach a ridge follow it round
to find another nest. Defend yourself from ants while bringing team 1 to gas the nest.
Leave your tanks here to draw the ants towards you, they will die from the gas. Don’t stay
too close to the nest though as the ants can go a little way before dying.
Once you have built 10 more tanks take and join your remaining tanks near the gas nest.
Head North then go right when you have passed the ridge to find some buildings. Destroy
the church to reveal a money crate. From here go to the top right corner the go left until
you see a nest. Defend from ants while team 1 arrives to gas the nest. Again use the gas
from the nest as defence while you build up more tanks.
Build 10 tanks and send the South-West across the southern most mud bridge. Straight ahead
is a ridge with a gap. Go through the gap and kill loads of ants. When all the ants are
dead bring in another scientist to gas the nest. Build 5 more tanks to help defend this
area and 5 more to join your northern army.
Take your northern army left until you find an abandoned soviet base. Destroy the base (no
reason to capture it) and kill all the ants. The nest is in the far corner, use team 1 to
gas it.
Now take all your remaining units south to join your southern army. Just north of this is
a block of water. Go north and to the right of this water and another nest will be seen.
Kill the ants and bring in the nearby scientist to gas the nest. Now take your remaining
units back to the block of water.
Head left until you reach the edge of the screen, then go north until you find an ant
nest. Use a scientist to gas it and it’s mission accomplished.
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MISSION 4 – Kill the Queen
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Do nothing until the green troops are dead. Then sort out your soldiers into 2 groups, 1
group for flamethrowers and a medic the other group for everything else. Take the latter
group across the screen killing ants as you go. To kill ants stand still and let your
troops fire at them.
Destroy all the barrels you see from a safe distance and also blow up all the larvae (the
white stuff). The first tunnel leading down is a dead end, the second has 2 crates in it.
Use Volcov to collect the unit upgrades then carry on until you reach the third tunnel. Go
down and use the console which is protected by an ant.
This turns on the power so the shroud will stop reforming. Head north to a large open
area. To the right is another console which you can use to build a tesla coil in the
centre of the open area. The tesla coil will help you.
Head to the top left corner of the open area and go straight up killing ants along the
way. Near the top you will see a crate. Leave it and take your next left. When you see the
white area you will be attacked from both sides by lots of ants. Make a dash for the
control panel to start the ant killing gas and save your troops.
When the ants are dead, go left to the next white area. Run to the top and along the top
until you can shoot the barrels. Shooting these sets off the gas to kill the ants. On your
way to this area you will have been re-enforced.
Go to where you found the crate that you didn’t take to find the new units. Use your
mammoth tank to collect the crate then take all your new units to meet up with the group.
Also bring the units you left at the start to this white area as well.
Separate your units into 2 groups, one for flamethrowers, everything else in the other
group. Take the flamethrowers one at a time down the tunnel in the bottom right corner of
this area. You will lose most of your flamethrowers here but they’re useless anyway. Using
one at a time stops one from blowing up and killing all the others.
Make your way down until you reach a tunnel on your left . This leads to an area with some
ants. Kill the ants then carry on down the tunnel. When you have a good view and have
killed all the ants take all your units and go left to face the queen ant.
The queen ant is a tesla coil really, so just throw everything at her and hope she shoots
your tank and not your men. When she is defeated go to the right until you reach some
crates. The remaining ants are on the other side of the crates. Follow the wall all the
way around to take them out. When you kill all these ants go around the level and shoot
any larvae and its MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Watch the rather short and unrewarding video before being taken back to the main menu
apparently having earned nothing. Read on before getting too depressed.
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3. HOW TO BUILD A QUEEN ANT
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Follow these simple steps:
1 – Get to ant mission 4 and kill the queen ant.
2 – Save your game at this point
3 – Exit and reload the mission
4 – Load a previous counterstrike mission where you can build structures (e.g. ant mission
3)
5 – After building an Ore Refinery a blank box will appear in the structures list. Hold
the cursor over it to see that it is the queen ant and that they cost very little.
Note – The blank box sometimes messes up and is made of 2 halves of a different picture.
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4. LEGAL STUFF
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If you want to use this guide for anything other than your own personal use then you will
need permission from me. Contact me if you want to use this guide on your website. I will
probably agree to let you use it. If you want to use this guide to make a profit, whatever
the language it is in, then contact me and I will decide if I will let you use this.
I spent a lot of time writing this guide so I don’t want anyone ripping me off. Don’t try
and change some of it and call it yours either cause I will recognize my own writing style
a mile away.
The only sites allowed to use my guide or any part of it are:
Gamefaqs.com
Neoseekers.com
Psxcodez.com
If you see this guide anywhere not mentioned then please tell me so that I can sue them
and live a life of luxury.
To E-mail me my address is:
HarryMason@Game-saga.com
Written exclusively by ‘Harry Mason’
"This document is Copyright 2001 Harry Mason"