~Earth Siege 

Mission Planners are Enemy Agents

FROM: 30:30/0
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You may have noticed that your mission planners are out to kill you. 
If there is a line of enemy gun turrents to be found anywhere on the 
map, rest assured that your route of march is planned right through 
their middle (apparently your planners are not students of military 
history or tactics). If there is a herd of enemy HERCS to be found, 
you know where your assigned line of march will be.. 

I finally discovered that with many of the missions, you don't HAVE 
to follow these idiotic routes of march. If you have a base to take 
out at the end of your waypoints, stay as far away from the planned 
route as you possibly can, keeping any handy hills between you and 
your offical path. There were several times, when I would get melted 
into a slagheap before I got half way to the ultimate objective 
while following the offical march route, then I would try a route of 
my choosing, only to "surprise" the enemy and pounce on the target 
without having met a single enemy enroute. 

I finally won the original Earthsiege (with it's "brutal" difficulty 
level). 


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