u/Raxistaicho

One of my recurring headaches through the GDI campaign in Tib Wars was how clunky Mammoth Tanks feel en masse, you basically have to commit to an attack once it begins because they struggle horrendously to turn around or maneuver, but Avatars feel hella nimble for heavy land units. Honestly, they don't even feel that much weaker than Mammoths, either. Biggest comparable downside is the lack of anti-air, but luckily WE GOT THE ROCKETS.

Militant Squads: Absolute garbage.

Attack Bikes: God damn these things are lethal en masse and respond quickly to situations changing. I shouldn't be surprised though, these things were a massive nuisance in the first half of the GDI campaign.

Nod feels much smoother to play compared to GDI where moving around the map and pathfinding are concerned.

(This isn't the first time I'm playing Tib Wars, but it's been several years).

I've been doing a C&C series playthrough from Tib Dawn to Tib Wars (not sure if I'll do RA3, I played the Soviet campaign years ago and had no real desire to continue afterward) and I got into the habit of building 2 refineries per field and often an extra miner per refinery. I do that on Tib Wars and EVA won't shut up about silos.

During that scene in volume 5 where she has a nightmare about >!Hanatori killing her with a chainsaw!<, she casually drops that having "quality time" with Mai in her bed was part of the dream.

That one of the biggest obstacles to Mai/Satsuki is Satsuki herself?

"Pride of the working class!"

"Equal share for everyone!"

He's so proud to be a blue collar guy :)

I'm kinda surprised at how short and easy the RA2 campaigns are, though granted Red Revolution is probably one of the harder official missions Westwood's ever made in general.

Anyways, on to absolute peak with Yuri's Revenge, and then I think I might try Mental Omega out :)

I see that a lot of folks around here in particular really like him, but aside from late Azure I mostly found him a very frustrating character. His cheesiness, denseness, and the way everyone around him seems to catch the Barriers Virus were always more annoying than endearing to me.

I think that's the only case in the entirety of Red Alert 2 single player where the AI will build a superweapon without the player's provocation. Did Westwood use a skirmish AI for the enemy in that map, or is it a safeguard in case the player camps all the enemy spawns on the main island?

I seem to recall back when I played Tiberian Sun as a kid, they would intercept Nod missile superweapons that fly through them while activated, but they don't seem to work while I'm playing now.

I've been in your head for four volumes now, Renako, I'm gonna press X on that one.

>!The ride with Mai in the limo was adorable, it's always fun seeing Mai immediately shrivel up the minute Renako's the one initiating physical contact.!<

I knew it'd be easier than Tib Dawn and Red Alert, but I underestimated how much easier. I'm gonna man up and play Firestorm, Red Alert 2, and Yuri's Revenge on Hard. For the latter two I have no excuses, since they're the C&C games I'm most familiar with.

The start is absolutely brutal with 4 tick tanks and 2 artillery arriving in staggered numbers while you have to deal with some dev making the bad day they were having everyone else's problem in the form of nearly all the starting Tiberium and even your base being covered by base game busted artillery, but then once you deal with all that and have your economy finally going... nothing. Extremely passive Nod mostly just using infantry, tanks, and bikes, and one of the easiest Nod bases to take in the entire campaign.