Beardy_Dan

Never played Jagged Alliance. Pitty, sounds like a good game from what I've heard on here.

Hiring soldiers, buying weapons, this game is getting more and more like X-Com every day! :roll: All they need is customisable bases and intercept aircraft. Of course it's not necesarily a bad thing, just sayins all :wink:

Sorry, I probably didn't make myself clear. :roll: I meant the big square crates that can't be opened/unlocked (they don't have a lid) and never have anything in them as far as I can tell. On another note, do you really get experience from shooting up destructable objects? I thought you only got it by shooting people, the higher level they are the more experience?

Hello everyone. I've played a few missions and have a question about the many crates found in a lot of maps. Is it worth destroying these crates in case there's something usefull inside? I've busted up a few in a couple of missions but never found anything so I don't bother anymore. Am I perhaps missing stuff by doing this?

I'm not particularly experienced with this game, only done half a dozen missions or so. Every time I get a bleeding condition I've been able to fix it with a bandage. In fact I've never used anything except bandages so far.

Here's something to try. When I played allies I didn't just carry the guy to the vehicle, I actually clicked on the vehicle (i.e. cogs cursor) as if I was going ride it while carrying the guy. Perhaps that's what you need to do.

Mines! Now why didn't I think of that :twisted: Thanks for the help guys, you've given me some great ideas that sound both fun and effective. Can't wait to come up with some of my own twisted tactics to share with you guys.

Nah, I was refering to the first Axis mission (not random encounter) where there's an allied base surrounded by rock wall. There's 3 buildings in the compound, one 2 story with a hole blown out the side. You start on the road leading to the front gate (no actual gate, just an opening in the rock wall). I masterfully positioning my assault troops either side of the gate, my scout hidden just inside the compound for forward recon, and my sniper & medic positioned in cover directly in front of the gate to blitz anyone thinking of coming out the front door of the 2 story building. There are some explosions and sporatic gunfire within the 2 story building accompanied by some dialogue saying we have friends already inside. So I've taken out the minor resistance that presents itself and I'm all ready to storm the building when a 7 or 8 man squad marches up behind me along the road. some hastily thrown grenades and several buckloads of lead pumped in their direction was only enough to kill half of them before they all opened fire on my nearby leader :? I played that mission 3 times so far, that was the first. The next 2 times I was less carefull and probably less successful too, but that squad never did turn up again so I was just wondering if it was random or not. I can't wait to give it another go, I think I'll try the same settup and see if I can ambush someone :twisted:

Thanks people, all that advice sounds quite helpfull! I aspecialy like the idea of ambushing, I'll have to give that a go. Unfortunately I've started studies at UNI again so I'll only get to play once a week or so Just one more question: I've restarted missions a couple of times and while the map is the same, the enemy seem to have changed postions, more or less troops, act differently, etc. Is this common? And the enemy reinforcement squad that turned up behind me, does that happen often, just in specific missions, or just a random thing? This game rocks! :lol:

Hello fellow Silent Stormers! I'm a noob to Silent Storm, only played a few small missions so far. Tried to play the first axis mission on the weekend where you have to get into some allied base and find some information, supposedly after killing everyone. There's some guys already in the base creating havoc by the look of it, but they shot at me too! The thing is I got my ass kicked 3 times trying to do the mission in different ways. My team was completely inexperienced but I'm an X-com veteran so I thought I'd do better than this! The question is, you guys/gals have any generic playing tips to help me out whatever the mission? Should I be taking my time (did that the first game, a squad of reiforcements turned up behind me and kicked my ass) or should I rush in while it's in real time (tried that 2nd game, ended in a nasty gunfight at the front gate)? Any tips would be greatly appreciated :roll:

Reading through the readme.txt file and also on the net, it seems most Radeon cards have problems with this game. The only thing I can suggest (being not overly knowlegable in this field) is to review the Graphics Optimisation articles on this site here: http://www.s2hq.com/articles.php?lng=en&pg=129 From what the readme.txt file says it should work fine with the latest drivers :?

I have only just started playing this game today, other than the demo that is. I picked one of each type, not sure if this was the right thing to do. I need to get a feel for who's usefull before I get to harder levels so seems to be a good place to start. I personaly like the sniper so far, she's my main character and likes poping heads :twisted:

I just got my copy today here in Australia. Bought it online from gameswarehouse as someone else suggested. Here's a link: http://gameswarehouse.com.au/longpage.asp?gameid=9059 They posted it same day, very good service! I look forward to installing it tonight and giving it a bearl 8) Oh and hello everyone, this is my first post. I look forward to discusing Silent Storm with you all, as well as maybe a little on X-Com of which I am also a big fan.