Elenkis

[rp] GMV-Tyranny Regis VI (approaching wormhole to Cyron system) Drumming his fingers impatiently upon the sleek console Elenkis watched from the bridge as the wormhole creeped closer and closer into view. Time always seemed to slow down in the anticpation of battle, perhaps his engines were cursed. Turning his attention back to the tacops display he watched the battle enfolding through the eyes of the probe... Fate seemed to be dealing him a fortunate hand today. It was a routine patrol, one that would normally consist of cleaning up Raiders, mere pest control. Something was different about today, he didn't know what caused him to send the probe ahead on such a routine patrol but he was not about to complain. Now he just had to play the cards. "To think... Galcom lemmings with the nerve to be so far from home?" He spoke to no one in particular and accompanied it with a tsk sound. Something on the tactical display caused him to grit his teeth and tense. Forcing a defiant smirk he hit the comms link. "Ready fighters 1 through to 8 for combat, PTA to 50%, cloak us... Is this as fast as we can go? We don't want to keep our guests waiting!" The stormcarrier entered the wormhole. [/rp]

I would take great pride in defending our empire, so the Patrol group for me!

Well being somewhat of a clueless newbie myself, I didn't realise that there are two tutorial files out there. There's a demo tutorial at: http://www.3000ad.com/demo/bcmdemo.html which covers the scenarios found in both Ep.1 and Ep.2 - I am embarrassed to admit that I didn't even notice this when I downloaded the demo. Then there is the full game tutorial at: http://www.3000ad.com/files/bcmtutorial.html which is what I used to get to grips with the game. So my apologies, it seems you were looking at the correct tutorial and I wasn't. Oh well, you live and you learn [ 10-15-2001: Message edited by: Elenkis ]

quote: I guess it's my fault for taking the tutorial too literally, as the enemy cruiser shows up around 13:15 consistently instead of "around 13:05", which I took literally. The tutorial covers several IA missions from the full game, not the demo missions found in Episode 2 - Just as it talks about features that aren't implemented in the demo (eg: clicking on targets in the tacscan radar to select them). Not a flame or anything, just pointing out that the tutorial is for the full game and covers things not found in the demo (though it is still the best way to learn to play the demo) You were following the tutorial for BCIA0012, the demo scenario is BCIA0015 (according to the VCF). Also note that it says things such as "The Warmonger, being a cruiser, has no fighters, so there is an icon missing." when in the demo scenario you actually have a BCMK2 with 4 fighters

The enemy comes a while after 13:05 - Just keep waiting, it will come. Sounds like you were following the tutorial, in which case I believe that doesn't detail the missions in the Episode 2 Demo. Though of course much of it still applies.