User Guide

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ADVANCED
Advanced Game Controls
Once you’ve got a good grasp of the basic controls for your units, it’s time to move on to
some of the more advanced controls that are offered in Command & Conquer. If you are
going to pit your skills against other players, learning how to use these controls is a must.
Teams [CTRL+#, #, ALT+#]
As you’ve learned, you can select more than one unit at a time by left clicking on an empty
space and dragging a box to select all of the units that you want to move at once. What
if you want to select that particular team again in the middle of battle? Normally you’d have
to band-box them all over again. This may mean scrolling the screen as well, since most
of the time you are trying to do more than one thing at a time. This is way too slow.
You can “save” all of the selected units into a team. To do this, first select all the units that
you want in your team, then hold down the CTRL key, and hit any one of the number keys
on your keyboard (1-9 or 0). This will make all the selected units part of that team. To instant-
ly select that team, just hit the number key corresponding with that team, and they will all
be selected.
Note that this will not re-center your view on that team, it will just select them so you can
give them orders. If you want to see that group, hold down the ALT key and hit the num-
ber you’ve assigned for that team. This will center the view on that team.
You can add members to an already existing team easily. First, select that team by hitting
the appropriate number key. Then, hold down the SHIFT key and individually click on the
units that you want to add to that team (sorry, you can’t band-box with this method). Once
you’ve got them all highlighted, re-save the team again by holding down CTRL and hitting
the number of the team. That’s it!
Guard Mode [‘G’ key]
Normally, units that you have stationed around will only respond if they’re fired upon, or an
enemy unit gets close enough for them to fire on it. However, they won’t go looking for trou-
ble—they’ll only get involved if someone else starts it.
If you want your units to pick fights with anyone that comes within range, select the units
and hit the ‘G’ key on the keyboard. This will put all the selected units into guard mode. With
this on, your units will be much more aggressive, moving toward any threats that come near
them.
Guard mode will continue to function on those units until you move them, or give them anoth-
er order, such as stop or scatter.
Force Fire [CTRL + Left Click]
Sometimes, you may want to have certain units fire on a building or area even if it isn’t an
enemy target. To get them to do this, you can use the force fire command. Simply select the
units that you want to do this, hold down the CTRL key, and click on the location that you
want the units to attack.
Units on this mode will continue to fire on that area, ignoring all other threats, until you tell
them to stop, or give them a new order to follow.
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