Marty, Marty, Marty.... [Add a few more here please

Either insanity has finally got to you - or you were insane already

Personally I would focus on an extreme, but deadly, leafletting campaign.



As a freelancer one encounters some strange stuff - in the the end, however, you always remain the strangest thing you are ware of.

hmmmm.....while this plan of yours does sound like fun......it would hardly be the way of "conquest".

It seems you are not a student of Sun Tzu, who instructs that the supplies of the enemy are worth ten times your own supplies. It would be silly to destroy all their crops as the first stroke. And we fight not for ourselves nor for our own amusement .........but for Rome!!!

there was a dream that was rome!

a silly dream with soldiers in tiny skirts of leather!!! and everyone speaks in monotone epic poems !

strength and honor!

Good?....Bad?......I'm the guy with the gun.

easy way, just rain neutron bombs all over the place, and then march in when the dust has cleared

Gaining air superiority is the first port of call for any general worth his salt. Once you control the skies, you can kill enemy production and cut supply lines. Then start rolling in the tanks with infantry support. Make sure to keep your army well supplied with food, fuel, weapons, ammunition, appropriate clothing, spare parts, mechanics, engineers and reinforcements. Providing your army is well trained and you have good battle tacticians, everything else should fall into place nicely.

Edited by - Mustang on 1/7/2004 2:46:54 AM

abso-fr*ggin-lutley! any mechanised RTS i play I don't even bother seriously attacking until i establish at least partial air superiority. once you've got control of the air the battles pretty much over, it's just a matter of time.

why go to such lengths all you need is control of thier media ie bombard them with mind numbing television and you will destroy thier will to live
hmm maybe the aussies are planning to take over the uk (sorry to any fans of neighbours, home and away etc etc )
ps to any aussies do you want rolf harris back ;please
mind you we can counter strike we have such beauts as el dorado and crossroads archived for such an eventuality

they can take neighbours and home and away as far as i care

yay! Eldorado and Crossroads, bad acting and wobbly sets all around!

@ taw yea you get the idea mental warfare 1 season of those and any country would be so mentally numbed that an invasion would be a formality

You could always bomb the air facilities, hospitals and fire stations first - that way they can't retaliate, heal their sick or put out the fires very easily. Also, it would be helpful to know which country you intend to conquer, this will severley effect the tactics required in order to succeed.



As a freelancer one encounters some strange stuff - in the the end, however, you always remain the strangest thing you are ware of.

You may as well have a holocast while your at it.



BlazeME: Flameus Muchus n00bus

I think my plan was more of a joke (but it could work... assuming nobody noticed the terrorists and heaps of garbage). I thought of it at a birthday party around 3 AM... having consumed at least a quart of sugary drinks.
But... air superiority is good... you'll need it to drop the bomb (thus torching the place).
An idea that was unrealistic, but worked in AOE2, was build 30 elite janissaries and ten bombard cannons, and have them stand in front of the enemy on 'stand ground'. I think they usually lose about forty guys before they reach me (including cavalry).
Another idea would be to steal weapons and food from the enemy while they sleep, and go to a third-world country to recruit an army, promising them the lush fertile lands of my target, and steal more food before the campaign to recruit more soldiers. Then you can have an insanely large army, sneak in at night, and form a special unit. A firetruck, with gasoline instead of water, and a four year old with a match. Hose down the capital city with the truck, and tell the kid he can have lots and lots of candy if he lights the match and touches it to a puddle in the street while it is still lit, and then run like a consipated wiener dog.

"Hello? Operator? Id like to call Happy Dale Sanitarium. Sanitarium, sanitarium, sanitarium. Yeah, like a broken record..."

1: "Here... Ive found my biography. This is a picture of us... heres me, and theres you."
2: "My how ive changed"
1: "Thats because this picture hasnt been taken yet..."

if I was going to take over a country and I didn't want to bomb it back into the stone age, i'd do it like this...

send in native-speaking spies to see what p*ssed the people off intheir daily lives, and to note who's likely to resist, whos likely to co-operate
send in agents provocateurs to make things worse (see above)
finance trade unions etc to create industrial unrest
create tension and hostility between the target state and its allies by faking international incidents and blaming it on the target country
create dissension in the targets govt by bribing, blackmailing & otherwise corrupting govt officials, military and politicians
assassinate strong leaders who might otherwise rally resistance.
create economic strife by undermining the targets economy
spread terror by selective use of stuff like plague to create panic in the population, its easily treatable by antibiotics but the fear is more effective than the cause!
generally make things so bad that they have to declare a state of emergency and can't get help from their allies because they've fallen out with them (thx to me)
use one of the quisling politicos to invite my forces in to take control
jam all their radio and tv frequencies
launch selective sneak attacks by stealth/special forces on their radar, comms, telephones and command centres, liquidate remaining leadership figures who aren't already under my control
launch air and missile strikes upon airfields, arms depots, storage facilities etc
make a rapid airborne/armoured dash for their main cities and set up a puppet govt which orders native military to stand down. some will, some won't, doesn't matter. they'll all be disarmed or killed in the process
destroy any resistance ruthlessly and immediately, reinforce all special and advance units with regular troops followed by security squads to eliminate actual &potential resitors
propaganda units to tell subject population how lucky they are to have my troops as their liberators.

aren't I a b*st*rd?

kill all the women so the men become p00phs and thus unable to put up any resistance