after two or three days trail and erroring the reg entrys..i have managed to get something workable going..

even tho strangely only four pods landed at the start of the campaign (no idea quite what controls that as yet)

these four pods have allready out built my forces and are proceeding to kick my butt right the way back to London..i mean they are absolutely awesome..(in the spirit of the book)

i have set the reg usng these entrys

agression 9.9
ai build 9.9
frontline attract1 12.0
frontline attract2 12.0
outnumber force 0.5 (try 0.000001 for real wave after wave of relentless attacks)

then increase the
heatray focus beam modifiers
and reduce the impact armour entrys

research rate 105

this will quicky give the marsian hugely improved armour ratings if and when the AI researchs the "ability"



one unit of scouts can then very nealy wipe out any base or units that don't prepare to the utmost degree AND constantly re-inforce as if the first attack fails before you can repair another attack begins untill the Base is lost or the AI turns it's attention else where..

it plays a little more like survival horror..which is appropiate
i dont know if the AI is beatable like this but that's the whole point! not knowing if you can win is the nub of the games tension..and really brings the storyline home..

to quote another story/film..

"we're going to need a bigger boat"




apart from that ive set the time of day

entry in game to 1 just to see what that might be refering to..