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Hostile Takeovers and Wild Cards

February 2010·pp. 43–45

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Flame weapons and the Phase-field Generator can kill a bastion’s occupants while leaving its protection available to the attackers. Other stratagems suppress automated fire, freeze a vital objective at the decisive moment or create an extra chance to reach it late in the game. The advice treats capturing, bypassing and disrupting defences as complementary options to destroying every building in sight.

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News: The Angelic Host and More Flights of Fantasy

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Death from the Skies!

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TacticsWD 362 · pp. 41–42

Bombs Away! and Hit ’Em Hard, Hit ’Em Early

The firestorm works best with a target-priority plan rather than scattered hopeful shots, and it can create useful craters when the defender leaves open ground exposed. Ground Observers improve both bombardment and reserve placement, while Scorched Skies combines with pinning effects to disrupt the first turn. Confusion Reigns offers a subtler opportunity by exposing a valuable enemy unit before the barrage and initial assault arrive.

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