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Adolf Hitler In 1946, in trinity in New mexico, The physician Albert Einstein test for the first time: the chronosphere. He goes back in 1924 in the town of Landsbergin Germany to get rid of the futur dictator, Hitler. Einstein use is invention and goes to see him. He shakes his hand and he sends him back in time. When he comes back, he already fear that he has not made a better futur.

Albert Einstein This modification of the past, like Einstein predicted sends the new futur in a darker state than the previous one. Joseph Staline, that has no resistance from the west now, sends a challenge that all the conquerors had before time: to dominate all the world. Now that Europe is divided, their leaders thinks about everything except a war. At the same time, Staline will take this oppertunity to fix this problem

Josef Staline Thus, Staline sends his tanks in the battle and he control all of Europe from Moscow to Berlin that passes through Athena. nothing seems to stop him : he invades countries, he smashes rebellions and destroys all traitors and all the people that could be. From his side, the general Von Esling, commander in chef from the allied forces (the HQ is based in algier), bids everything on special Tanya and her allied forces.

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System Requirements

Processor: Pentium 60
Memory: 8meg (16meg recommanded)
Video: 1meg PCI or local BUS card (ISA not supported) & a color monitor
Sound: audio digital sound from windows 95 supported
Cd-rom: 2x or better
hard drive: 40Meg
(optional): modem 14.4(28.8 recommanded)

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Patch

Here is a patch if you want to play Redalert on Windows XP
Redalert winXP fix

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Windows XP Compatibility

This game has some problems running in Windows XP so just keep reading and you'll be fine.

First, when you want to install the game, right-click on setup.exe on the CD and choose proprety. Next, check the box which says something like "run compatibility mode for windows 95 or 98".

Once thats done, run the setup.exe and install the game. Afterwards, download the patch.

After you downloaded the patch, uncompress the contained files in the Redalert directory and overwrite them if necessary.

If you did this right, you should be able to play Redalert in windows XP, but you won't be able to play LAN games; only single player games.

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Shopping & Stores

Ebay
Ebgames

Except for Ebgames and Ebay, you might try Futureshop or another electronic store. Or maybe in bargin bins or your local computer game store.

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screenshots

The soviets took a poor decision, poor Staline !	The allied are stuck from enemy attack.
There's nothing better than Mig-27 and a couple of mammoth tanks to calme the enemy down.

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Tip's & tricks

Difference between the countries

The difference between those are mininal but there is still is:

British : armor up 10%
Germany : superior fire power 10%
France : faster fire speed 10%
Ukraine : faster units 10%
Russia : construction cost down 10%

To have a great beginning more than your enemies...

Explore the world to know where your enemies are.
Place a unit in the field to know when the enemy will strike
If your allies, use the mine field tank to protect yourself
It is useless to have money without spending it. Spend your money on units, you never have enough. Whats the use of having 10k when you dont use it.
A good tactic is to get all your units to attack a single enemy and move on to the other.
To fight againt mammooth tanks: use a lot of medium tanks or mine field. Or my favorite, use the destroyer boat and blow them away; if your allies of course.

Expert tips...

Here is a good strategy to get tanya in an enemy base. Warning it takes a lot of concentration and quick thinking:

Your chronosphere must be ready
Construct a mobile construction vehicule
Build a barrack
Build a Tanya and before it completes "pause" it.
use the chronosphere on the mobile construction vehicule and transport it near the enemy base and deploy your base.
Place your barrack near the new base and double click on the barrack to put it "primary"
Finish the creation of Tanya. And know, blow everything you can with her...LOL.

It is useless to prepare this tactic if your enemy use tesla coil all over the base. Destroy them with helicopters or destroy the power plants with a nuclear attack.

Hints with network play

Build a naval yard and at least 2 destroyers as fast as you can. If you do, your enemies will have a lot of difficulty to keep up with you. But you must always watch if they are trying to build a naval yard behind your back. If you can do that, they wont last long.

Transport overloaded

To have more than 5 units in a transport, do this. Build 5 APC's and put units in them. Take the 5 APC's and put them in the transport. Thus, you have 25 units...voila !

A good use of the chronosphere in LAN play

Transport a mobile construction vehicule near the enemy base and deploy defences like pillboxes or turrets. Just keep deploying defence structures and keep the pressure on for him as you keep building in is base. Sooner or later, he will die.

To make boats faster

To make cruisers faster, when you click on the transport, select the cruisers to select them. When in the group, the cruisers will go at the same speed as the transport

Sell a unit

To sell a unit, you must have a service depot. Place the unit in the service depot and click on the icon SELL. Know that your icon is in SELL mode, click on the unit and you will have your cash back and your unit will vanish.

To trow a grenade further away

Choose the soviets because they are the only one to possess grenades. The trick is when you see the unit put is arm behind him to trow the grenage, at that precise moment, click on a unit further away from the unit you selected. This will allow you to trow grenades almost a screen away

To stop island invasion

To stop enemies from invading island - in some maps - place mines near the beaches. This will allow you to protect yourself from invasions. Just put other mines where your enemies tried to land.