User Guide

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C&C: RED ALERT’S BASIC INTERFACE

The interface for C&C: Red Alert has been designed to allow maximum control of your units

and structures with little effort. If you are familiar with the Windows environment (point &

click, etc.), then you can play C&C: Red Alert with ease. The mouse will move your pointer

around the screen, and depending on what you click on, you can order units, build struc-

tures, attack, repair, and perform a variety of other commands. As a general rule in C&C:

Red Alert, left clicking confirms orders, changes modes, or selects units and structures. Right

clicking pauses and cancels actions, modes and selections.

SCROLLING AROUND

To scroll the main viewing window around the battlefield, move the cursor to the edge of

the screen. The cursor will become a solid white arrow and the view will scroll in the indi-

cated direction. If you’re at the edge of the battlefield, a universal no slash will appear over

the arrow indicating that this is as far as you can go.

SCROLL ARROWS CAN’T SCROLL ARROWS

ORDERING YOUR TROOPS AROUND

To get your units to act, select a unit by left-clicking on them, then move the cursor to the

desired point on the battle field where you want the unit to go. If the cursor is over a poten-

tial target, it will change to one of the targeting cursors (see targeting cursors on next page).

Left-clicking at this point will cause the unit to attack the target. Otherwise, it will move the

unit to that location, unless it is impassable (e.g. a cliff or trees), in which case it will get as

close as it can to the target.

You can select your aircraft while they are in the air by band-box selecting (see group activ-

ities) them while they are in flight. You can then give them new orders, check their health, etc.

To cancel out of move / attack mode (or any mode), right-click and the unit will be dese-

lected. Although no longer selected, the unit will retain its orders, so it will continue to fol-

low its last command. To stop a unit from moving, select it again and redirect it to a new

location or press the ‘S’ key to make it stop.

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GAME

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THE BATTLE FIELD