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History
Hello, my name is David and i live in Barbados. You can distinguish me on the road by the Silver Turbo FTO which i drive at mach 3. I am a journalist/editor for the Nation newspaper and enjoy writing their Gaming column. I Used to write for Playstation Online & Gamefan but due to my other jobs i was forced to quit because I was pressed for time. I've played professionaly representing United States in a Total Annihilation world tournament and ranked 2nd. Which was gob loads of fun ;) (See E3 section) , you can catch me at the 'Fun hanger'. Their you can also catch the other gaming pro's! AND No, i don't kill people like the picture says. ;)

Information
On this section of the site i would like to introduce.
Quake 3 Strategies
Total Annihilation (The game/Strategies)
Experiences in Electronic Expo (E3)

Total Annihilation
Cavedog's first true Real time strategy (RTS). There are 2 defending teams, The CORE, And the ARM. Core turns humans into machines by (Nanolathing) them into the metal structure while ARM uses humans as pilots in there machines. There are more than 100 units for each side, Including Air, Sea, Ground, Mountainous terrain, Underwater, Hovercraft, Sea Planes E.t.c.
Now im sure you can imagine the MAGNITUDE of strategies that can be concocted with all of these versatile units. The 1st terrain which we will tackle in the strategy guide is land. Because land is the easiest of all the terrains to learn. i will give out 1 strategy per tileset with Core & Arm. You can take this strategy and work on it developing your own uniquely customized one.

Total Annihilation Keys
Some essential keys which 'MUST' be known to get anywhere in this game are:

The Shift Command: When you are building anything try holding down the shift command. You will notice that the 'box' that you are keying in to build has not dissapeared. Now click the box somewhere else, You just programmed your commander to execute that building after he is done the 1st one. In other words.

Example:Say for instance I wanted to make 3 metal patches and a Vehicle plant. Instead of me going about building one at a time, and waiting for it to finish before you can move on to the next one. I would select the metal extractor unit on the menu. Hold the shiftkey down and click the box on your first metal patch,

patches while holding shift down. Now click the Vehicle plant icon on the menu, and place the Vehicle plant wherever you need it. Now the Commander will every unit which you have key'd in. One after the other. This feature works with Any construction vehicle in the game. This feature may also be key'd up to use several commands such as: Attacking, Moving, Scouting.

Definitions:
A: Attack -        This is used to attack any specified unit
M: Movement -Used to move to any location
G: Guard -         Select a unit. And click on another unit/plant with the Guard command,
                           now the unit first selected will guard the other unit by attacking
                           oncomers. If you do this with your construction vehicle. It will help
                           build/repair any plant/unit selected, This way you build way faster. ;)
Dgun: -              Select your Commander and click the D button, now you have the most
                           powerful gun in the game armed. Buss this gun at any unit and watch
                           how it explodes >;) (Will kill virtually anything in 1 shot, requires 375
                           Energy to use. Used to stop those damn flash rushers =]
S: -                     Select any unit and click S, and this will stop the unit dead in its
                           tracks.