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WRITTEN BY HEAT
First things first, before you read anything remember this.
I AM NOT A SUPER PRO OR PRO OR ANYTHING. DO NOT
MISTAKE ME FOR A SUPER PRO ETC. I AM A WRITER TESTING THIS
GAME AND SEEING WHAT COMPONENTS I CAN HELP NEWBIES WITH ON
IT.
Alright, now that youve read that I can start writing and
you can start reading!
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Version 1.0 ---
Basic stuff. I will try to do my best on this
version.
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Contents ---
1| What is Army Men RTS?
2| How To Play
3| Units
4| Buildings
5| Misc.
6| Walkthrough
7| Multiplayer
8| Cheats / Codes / Secrets
9| Closure
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W H A T I S A R M Y M E N R T S ?
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Army Men RTS is the coolest Army Men game for
PC yet and if you dont have it yet I highly
recommend you buy it. Army Men RTS is more of
a strategical thinking game than a "shoot or be
shot" game like its counterparts, Army Men, Army Men
II, Army Men III, etc.
In Army Men RTS you can build bases out of every
day objects, such as tin cans and use them to build
units and defenses to blow your enemies into orbit.
If you were a fan of titles such as Sarge's Heroes you
can once again join the fray with favorites like Sarge,
Vikki, Hoover, Scorch, and more.
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H O W T O P L A Y
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You really dont need this section if youve
already gone to the fun boot camp the game
offers. If you dont want to spend ages going
over this you can go to the boot camp in Army
Men RTS that has hands on activities and practices
for you to perform, but if you wanna stay here
read on.
Learning how to play is easy. Mastering it is
more of challenge (like I said, im NOT super pro
yet).
Whenever you start you always want to build your
base. First of all, build your hq (headquarters)
with your bulldozer. Your headquarters is the heart
of your base. If you lose your headquarters, your
pretty much dead.
Once your headquarters is built you can build
another Bulldozer and some Dump Trucks, but nevermind
that right now. Get your bulldozer and build
one of those supply facilities which is very
critical to have. It should come with a dump truck
that will find one of two different supplies. These
supplies are electricity and plastic. Electricity
is blue and comes from batteries, lamps, flashlights,
and even playstation 2's! Plastic is a tan color and
comes from water guns, buckets, shovels, and even dead
melted soldiers!
Once you have supplies you should build your barracks.
Your barracks can use plastic to build infantry troops
such as Grunts, Grenaders, and snipers. Although, you
may notice that only three troop types are availible.
Click on your headquarters and you should see one option
that says Upgrade to Super HQ. Your headquarters will now
begin the process of becoming a Super HQ which should take
about 1 or 2 minutes.
Once you have your Super Headquarters you can build all
of the things your bulldozer has to offer! You can build
pillboxes, which are defensive weapons that should
infantry. You can build AA Guns, which are defensive
weapons that shoot helicopters. You can build a Garage,
which from you can build tanks, medics, copters,
minelayers, and little robots called DumDums that blow
stuff up.
After you know all of this stuff it shouldnt be hard to
pick everything up. If your having trouble or dont know
what to do, heres my suggestion. EXPERIMENT. If you dont
know what something does, EXPERIMENT.
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U N I T S
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Here is a listing of all the units in the game besides
Sarge's crew.
Bulldozer
These guys are the constructors of your base. They
build everything in your base, including your head-
quarters. Truly, these guys are the hearts of your
base before you have your headquarters established.
Dump Truck
These guys collect scraps of electricity and plastic
from resources in the map, they must drop them off
at a certain type of facility though.
Grunt
These guys use normal pistols and are probably the weakest
unit in the game, although when you build them in groups
of fourties they can do some major damage. These are good
resistance forces for multiplayer 3 vs 3 games.
Grenader
These guys use grenades to attack. They cost a little
bit more plastic and are strong in groups. Personally, I
think they attack slow but that just may be me.
Minesweeper
These guys dont attack, they sweep. Always bring one or
two along in each squad because you dont want to be killed
before you even see a dump truck.
Radio Operator
These guys order all of your air stuff like paratroop
drops, air bombings, and magnifying glasses.
Machine Gunner
These guys use machine guns. They have to set down before
they attack and that usually takes one or two seconds.
Bazooka Man
These guys use bazookas. They are slow, heavy, and
dangerous enemies.
Mortar Man
Dunno. Not many people use em.
Sniper
These guys are must haves. They use sniper rifles
which can easily kill a grunt in a single shot.
Minelayer
As the name imposes, these guys lay mines. They can
lay three different types. They can lay normal mines,
glue mines, and tacks. On multiplayer you can try
laying some glue mines around your base as a warning
that other players should not continue but retreat.
Medic
These truck dudes come around and heal your troops
that are hurt and weary and stuff. They are must haves
in your squads.
Half-Track
These truck dudes are the only truck dudes that can
shoot down copter dudes.
Tank
These dudes mean business. They cant shoot down copter
dudes though so beware.
Chopper (copter)
These dudes are for hardcore players. These dudes can
avoid snipers, tanks, pillboxes, etc, but they must be
in groups of at least 5 to be of any effectiveness.
Dum Dum
These robot dudes walk up to stuff and blow themselves
up, but in the process damage the enemy with the explosion.
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B U I L D I N G S
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HQ / Super HQ / Super Duper HQ
This is the main control center of your base. If you lose
this, you lose the game.
Barracks / Super Barracks
This is where all of your infantry units are built.
Garage / Super Garage
This is where all of your vehicle units are built.
Resource Depot
This is where dump trucks drop their scrap.
Gaurd Tower
This is a building that defends your base by shooting
heavy fire and stuff.
Pillbox
This is a building that defends your base by using
heavier fire than a gaurd tower, the only downside is
that it cant hit choppers.
AA Gun
This is a good defense for lamers who are only using
copters. AA Guns can shoot down a copter at ease.
Barbed Wire Post
This is something you really dont need unless you are
on multiplayer and have like 15 minutes to build your
base and want to fence out your property.
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M I S C
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This is misc stuff you will see in single player.
Blintz
The evil ex-green colonal himself. He can be
seen in mission 15.
Acid Gun
Blintz's defense weapon in mission 15. They can
shoot down a copter in five shots.
Healer
These heal the Acid Guns and Blintz so you want
to take these out first.
Queen Ant
This is the queen ant that you must free to get
a gold medal on mission 13 or 14.
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W A L K T H R O U G H
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Ah, now for the walkthrough. I will give you hints and
stuff on how to complete each of the 15 missions.
Mission 1 - The Thin Green Line
Objective : Push through the tan defense perimeter.
Medal Objectives : Finish in under 7 minutes, Eliminate
all tan
Alright this is simple. You have Sarge, like 12 grunts,
1200 plastic at your side, and some barracks. This is
very easy. Just use that barracks and build yourself up
a good army of grunts. Once you have your army just go
through the fence and kill everything that moves until you
have finally reached the X.
Mission 2 - Behind the Tan Curtain
Objective : Destroy tan base in Central Yard
Medal Objectives : Destroy all mines, Spend less than 4000
plastic
This is simple as well, just be sure you have some
minesweepers and a good grunt army and you will be able to
break through with ease.
Mission 3 - A Few Green Men
Objective : Locate the Power Source
Medal Objectives : Locate Reinforcements, Finish in Under
8 Minutes
Keep your men alive, find your reinforcements, blow up
the "power source" (which is a garden lamp, lol)
Once you blow up the garden lamp you have to evacuate
to the baseball. Theres like 8 tan grunts waiting for you
there so be sure you have enough men to take them.
Mission 4 - Full Plastic Jacket
Objective : Find A Way Into the House
Medal Objectives : Pick Up All Bonuses, Finish in Under
30 Minutes
Build a base with a good grunt army.. again and move in
and blow em all into orbit.
Mission 5 - It Came From the Basement
Objective : Escape The Basement Up The Stairs
Medal Objectives : No Heroes Lost, Pick Up All Bonuses
This is my favorite mission. You will now fight the ant
army (through most the level) which is mostly consisted
of workers for now. Just make your way up the stairs and
climb up through the piece of wood.
Mission 6 - Courage Under Groceries
Objective : Find and Reinforce the Green Kitchen Base
Medal Objectives : Destroy All Cockroaches, Finish in Under
35 Minutes
The location of the green kitchen base is pretty obvious
since theres what appear to be fences in the middle of
the map.
Whenever you build your base etc, the colonal will call
you and say you need to destroy 3 tan defense things before
they can pick you up. Build a good formation that you
think would be strong enough to take on a lot of defenses
and then start from bottom to top.
Mission 7 - Dishes of Valor
Objective : Destroy the Chemical Weapon Factory
Medal Objectives : Destroy all containers, Finish in
under 35 minutes
Ah, tis the level you get the best stuff in the game.
Test out your choppers and snipers and enjoy the
hilarious starting movie of this level. When you
get to the factory you need to destroy its legs.
(Funny how that everytime you blow something up in
the household the family owning the house doesnt
do anything about it)
Mission 8 - From Here to the Sofa
Objective : Eliminate the Tan and Capture the Playstation
(R) 2 Computer Entertainment System
Medal Objectives : Make a Paratroop Drop, Destroy All Ants
This is by far my favorite level. Your mission here is to
capture the Playstation 2 that the tan are using for
unlimited electrical power. If you want to make a
paratroop drop be sure to go to the right when you advance
instead of up.
At the end of this level whenever you are successful,
Blintz will appear on the television and bomb the PS2,
destroying it. NOTE: Why didnt he just bomb Sarge? LOL
Mission 9 - Fistful of Plastic
Objective : Protect the Villagers as They Escape
Medal Objectives : Save All Villagers, Spend Less Than
10000 Plastic
This is the most annoying mission. Spread your troops
throughout the map and kill every tan you spot. Also
pray your troops arent dumbfounded and wont try getting
into the villager's way.
Mission 10 - Baths of Glory
Objective : Get to the Door at the End of the Counter
Medal Objectives : Finish in Under 8 Minutes, Destroy All
Gaurd Towers
This mission took me a few times to finally get the hang
of it. My only advice is move quick and watch out for
those annoying dum dums because they can take out three
of your men at once!
Mission 11 - One Man Army
Objective : Rescue Sarge From the End of the Bed
Medal Objectives : Destroy All Ants, Spend Less Than
10000 Plastic
Just build a good army with choppers, tanks, snipers,
etc and once your in tan base just destroy everything
you see and save sarge. Not much advice I know, this
mission really doesnt need advice.
Mission 12 - Derailment
Objective : Destroy the rail bridge
Medal Objectives : Destroy all Ants, Destroy All Tan
Buildings
The bridge you gotta blow up, is as you guessed, near the
top of the map. Once you get there just shoot at the
bridge until it finally blows up.
Mission 13 - Village of the Tanned
Objective : Go to the train station and crush the tan
defending it
Medal Objectives : Destroy All Containers, Finish in Under
50 Minutes
You get Vikki in this level. She is strong enough to take
out nearly two half-tracks before dying, and your seriously
going to need her here. Alright theres tan covering the
entire map. They have about two to three bases through
the whole map. Take each base down one at a time. Usually
the first one that attacks your base is the first one you
want to attack because you know they are growing and
moving the fastest. Just advance hence the way they came.
Note: In order to complete this mission you must destroy
EVERY tan troop/unit/building in the level.
Mission 14 - Scorched Turf
Objective : Find a Way into Blintz's Compound
Medal Objectives : Finish in Under 50 Minutes, Free the
Ant Queen
The place to go to free the queen ant is the north east
corner. The place to go to clear the mission is the north
west corner. Be sure to have a good army while progressing
through this mission.
Mission 15 - Heart of Plastic
Objective : Hunt Down and Terminate Blintz
Medal Objectives : Finish in Under 90 Minutes, Finish on
Hard Difficulty
This is SUPER HARD. Getting to Blintz is SUPER HARD.
Destroying Blintz is SUPER DUPER HARD. When, if, you
get to Blintz, note that he is protected by Acid Guns.
Acid Guns are powerful enough to take down a chopper
in three shots from what ive seen. Wheneveverevereverever
the Acid Guns take damage they will be healed by Healers.
To kill Blintz, you have to first take out his guns and
his Healers. Blintz is gaurded by a shield which means he
can take a lot of hits. The easiest way to destroy Blintz
and his healers/guns are air bombings. Thats the way I did
it and it was highly effective. Whenever the mission is
over and the game has finally ended you can return to base
for cake and ice cream ;D
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M U L T I P L A Y E R
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First of all, what is multiplayer? Multiplayer is a way
people like you who have Army Men RTS can play each other
over the internet. How do you play multiplayer? Unless you
dont want to be involved with the community you can play
multiplayer through Army Men RTS's multiplayer button on
the main menu.
How do you play multiplayer without this button? Get
GameSpy Arcade. GameSpy Arcade is free and easy to use!
Just visit www.gamespyarcade.com and go from there!
Multiplayer Admin Stuff Stuffs :
Say you want to set up a team game. How do you do that
you ask? As admin you can change everyones team such as
Bravo, Charlie, and Alpha. Those are all team names. Once
everyone is on the team of their choice you can highlight
their names and click on the blinking circles in the map
to place them on their desired spots.
Multiplayer Stuff Stuffs :
In multiplayer you have access to all weapons etc. Im still
figuring out how to give units etc away (DO NOT E-MAIL ME
TELLING ME HOW TO DO THIS OR I WILL NEVER UPDATE THIS
GUIDE AGAIN. THOSE WHO DO WILL BE BLOCKED SO YOU CAN
NEVER ASK ME ANYMORE QUESTIONS ON MY OTHER FAQS ETC)
Common Multiplayer Stuff Stuffs :
When playing on gamespy and you are an admin, remember you
get to decide the rules of the game. Dont let other players
take over deciding the rules. Only let other players make
suggestions like say they want 15 minutes time to build
their base and they want to time it with their stop watch.
Personally, I have developed a program that counts down
game base building time (DO NOT E-MAIL ME ASKING FOR THIS
OR I WOULD HAVE TO TOTALLY REPROGRAM IT TO SAY SOMETHING
ELSE). Dont just let players barge into your game and start
shouting "CW (clan war) OR ELSE I LEAVE". You dont want
players like that in your game because usually they cause
the most trouble. Just right click their names and click
the kick button, or if your in game selecting the mission,
etc. just click the X button beside their name.
The casual rules of multiplayer games are no rushing, no
dum dums, and no air strikes. Heres what everything means :
No Dum Dums - This is obvious
No Air Strikes - This means no magnifying glasses (i think)
and no air bombings. Paratroopers allowed.
No Rushing - This means no attacking each other whenever
say you have 10 minutes to build your base.
**this _should_ also mean no taking over
the map and leaving the other players just
a small part of it**
Thats it for multiplayer stuff! I hope to see you soon so
you can kill me!
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C H E A T S / C O D E S / S E C R E T S
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In single player type ALT + Backspace and enter the
following codes.
zap me = Get 5000 Electricity
fantastic plastic = Get 5000 Plastic
color me stupid = Places Random Colored Troops Throughout
The Map
Use these at your own risk because if the world finds out
your using them it will reflect your personal image. I
only put these up here to make this FAQ complete.
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C L O S U R E
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SENDING ME YOUR VIRUSES, PLEASE READ THE INFORMATION
BELOW
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Whenever you add me be sure to have a reason and do not
ask dumb questions like "Who are you?", "How old are you?",
"ASL?", etc whenever you do or else you will be blocked,
removed, and put on my e-mail account's block list.
After reading that here is my contact info.
E-Mail Address :
[email protected]
MSN :
[email protected]
AIM : Heat54911
Yahoo : Heat54911
ICQ : Im never on ICQ.
GameSpy ID : Heat767
Zone ID : General_Heat
Dungeon Siege ID : Jadeheat
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This document is copyright(c) 2002. Yeah, that means you
cant steal it. "Yeah, that means you cant steal it" is
also copyright(c) 2002 :), oh and yes, that means you cant
steal it.
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