I have garnered some general tips to help either side with KKND.

Enemy units (either side) will attempt to detsroy your units first, if they are in their path, and not your buildings. You can use this to your advantage. If you are being repeatedly attacked by waves of "freaks" or "symetrics", build a couple guard towers, and place your units in-between and around them. Train a few mechaincs as well, to repair the guard towers. Be sure to NOT spread your units too thin. A front of 5 units is about the best way to maximize firepower. If possible, create a line of 5 machine-gun units(vehicles) for your first-line, and a line of "tanks/scorpions/elephants" behind them as artillery.

Overall, my personal review is pretty good - very tough though. From about level 7 and on the difficulty level is very high. Can't wait to see some tips from other gamers.

My tips so far:

1) There is a 'key' to most maps - in other words there is usually one weak spot in the enemy defense, go after it fast!

2) Always look around for bunkers with secret weapons - note the enemy will go after them too, so again get out there quickly.

3) Some missions (eg. convoy) are much easier if you group units well and assign them to hotkeys.

If nothing works restart building 2 power centers and unlimited SWATs or riflemen. Then send them plus an additional Roadkill truck and anything that mangles infantry cause if you encounter grenadiers you're toast for a suicidal raid against their oil rig.

Don't leave your truck trying to perforate the enemy just run over them.

The Evolved have kind of crappy vehicles compared to the Survivors. Of them all only a couple are worth the bother in producing in any number. Here's a breakdown from someone who's actually played with them not just programmed them.

Wolf Rider - the premier choice for scouting. Fast and agile but it is pointless in combat. Good for raid ing a rear area and getting the units guarding the enemy base to chase it for a distraction.

The Gun Bike - Good for chasing down the odd infantry especially that annoying sniper but not for much else.

Monster Truck - this is the premier raider infantry killer. Fairly fast and a fairly good weapon this is the unit you use to block the way to your more valuable units. Also useful in groups to raid the oil rigs.

Scorpion - your basic standard vehicle. Medium in every regard. If you can't afford better this is it. Preferably you would use guard towers for base defense.

War Mastodon - Best used in large numbers to make up for the low fire rate. You want to use them in large numbers to kill in one shot. I suggest double line of 4-8 units.

Giant Beetle - The BEST all around unit that Evolved has. Good range and large spread. This is the best anti-infantry weapon in ANYONE's arsenal. Always mix a few of these with the guard towers to provide close-in protection against infantry.

1) Upgrade your two main buildings like mad as soon as you start. The faster you upgrade the quicked you can get the uppper hand.

2) Build your best units as quickly as possibly and group them into platoons and make a apth of attack.

3) Make sure you got airstrike as soon as possible!

4) dont airstrike buildings they are too strong, airstrike big groups of your opponents units instead this can give you the upper hand before an attack as an airstrike will wipe most of them out.

5) Keep the pressure on your opponant all throught the game i.e attack often and frequently, this can confuse them and use up thier resources quicker..

For both Introductory Mission, the only thing you have to do is to clear the stage, i.e. destroy all enemies you see. Then you will see the very cool "Mission Complete" Box!!

Take 15 troops and stand them in between the cracks of abndon buildings that are in a row, Next place heavy artillery neer tham(spread out but not to spread out!) then take a small force and attack the enemy and run away,.. he will thinks he can easily beat you and when you leed him back too the ambush take more tanks and seal off where he came in and BAM! you have him encircled!

In many levels the towers are protecting oil supplies so if you can slow down the computers money supply attacks will be less frequent.

The most important thing about towers is that they can be taken out quickly and efficiently (with minimal damage to your own unit) my using flame ATV's. A group of 6 to any where with towers will often be able to take out 3 or 4 of the best enemy towers. Flamers or pyro's also work very effectively but get killed quicker. If you do use men don't have them grouped together as they will all get killed instead of one at a time.

construction yard

power plants (remember build lots of these because you could run out)

other less important things (e.g.: radar)

oil factories

buildings which build creatures and men

repair places

defence systems

1. Build at least two power plants this will keep the money roling in fast.

2. Build men and trucks put the men before the trucks or scorpions etc... When the AI attacks it ALWAYS hits the first thing it finds. While it is hitting your little men with all it has your big guns are pounding the $#$# out of it. By the time its over you will have lost 5 men and the A.I. all their big guns.

3. Keep the supply of expendeable men going.

4. Once you build power plants and a nice attack force scout out where the enemy's oil rig is. The next time they attack send a attack against their oil rig. and take it out, dont give them time to build new one if you can attack base and target power plants NO MONEY NO ENEMY IT WILL WORK ALL THE TIME.

5. Always save the game before you attack or when you have a big force.

- Build as many Shotgunners/SWAT's as you can!

If you max tech is 5;

- Build as many Snipers/Crazy Harrys as you can!

KKND is one of the few games I have played were troops are actually more than just cannon fodder.

Flamers do massive damage to buildings and vehicles. Sneak 4-5 of these guys into the back of the enemy's base and you can hurt him bad.

Snipers are the best unit in the game. They only cost 200 and in a group they destroy just about anything (keep them away from bombardier beetles).

If you play evolved then crazy harrys are the way to go. Like snipers, in a group they rock! (keep them away from barrage craft).

Riflemen, shotgunners and swat are all good in groups (mainly in earlier missions) and should not be over-looked in favour of vehicles.

The AI in this game is great and if an attacking party sees a large, concentrated army it will attempt to outsmart you in it's approach or it will U-turn back to its base. Breaking the front line into two parts seem to help since you leave an opening in the middle as the front door. Keep some fast guys (bikes/wolves) in the middle a little ways back to fill the hole when the enemy arrives.

Flanking attacks will always prove helpful. I keep a couple Monster Trucks or ATVs just outside the battleground. When the enemy arrives I have these guys swing in and crush all the infantry. Nothing beats having some Sappers/Grenaders come in from the rear.

Concerning defense. Building heavy towers is the best, although costly, way to defend your position. For a large front, put up a maximum of 3 towers. So if you have 2 fronts, you will have used 6 towers and have 2 left to put by that oil patch you thought you'd never use. Also, if the opportunity to take an oil patch near a bridge comes up, you should do this as soon as possible. (Defending a bridge is easy, attacking is hard) Make about 5 repair guys for each tower to make sure that you don't have to blow all of your money (again). The other key to defense is infantry, which are cheap and heal themselves. Put these guys all around (not in front of) your towers and watch your enemy disappear.

Build your Outpost / Clan Hall as soon as possible in a clear area with plenty of room for other buildings. Oil / power production is critical, so build 3 pairs quickly. Cluster your Machine Shop / Blacksmith and other buildings nearby so they can be more easily defended. Now, build 1 or 2 Research Labs / Alchemy Halls and use them to upgrade your buildings. Remember to do research on the same building several times to bring it up to the maximum tech level. Once you have become "smarter", build a few defensive towers around your camp, especially next to your oil rigs and power stations. If money is low, don't waste it on the high-end towers, the mid-level ones can do a great job. Remember to repair your towers at regular intervals.

While all that is going on, scout out the enemy camp with your Dirt Bike / Dire Wolf. Try to stay hidden and not engage the enemy at this time. Once the camp is found, circuit the area for weaknesses and then return home avoiding the enemy.

Use your own judgement on building infantry and vehicles / animals. Experience will teach you the most effective combinations for defending the camp and sending raiding parties. Enemy power production is critical, so you might want to target these areas first. Don't forget the talents of your Saboteur / Vandal. Sometimes sneaking them into a raiding party will destroy a building more quickly than by using firepower alone.

The only way to stop your towers from being destroyed is to give the enemy another target. Vehicles, Animals, and infantry work but it can get costly replacing them. The Outpost (Clan Hall) is the best tool for doing this because it has the most life out of all the buildings. What you do is build a second outpost in the area that the enemy attacks most at. Then you build your towers around the outpost in such a way that there in range of the enemies that will attack the outpost but that the outpost is still the first thing your enemies will see and therefore attack.

2. When you are trying to attack guardtowers, be sure to put the heaviest armor vehicles you got in front line that'll make them attack that unit, so the other units can freely attack.

3. If you got a lot of Resources, be sure to create at least 2 teams and spread, when you find your enemy base, be sure to attack the enemy from front and behind, that'll confuse the enemy.

Got a lot of resources? Well if ya do try to make a group of 2 or more heavy vehicles and saboteurs. Try to find another way to get in the enemy base and attack from both sides, try to force the strong armored fellows to the front line while trying to sneak saboteurs inside their buildings (especially power stations).

Guardtowers: they suck, don't they? Well, here's a tip, force one of your heaviest armored vehicle to attack the guard tower, then when the guard tower attacks the unit, quickly order the rest of the gang to blast the tower. This will make your casualities less, save money, save lives, save time.

Sometimes (not always) many infantrymen do more damage more than a few vehicles.

If ya play a lot, sometimes, you'll find that when ya put your power station near your oil rig, the oil tanks will get stuck. To prevent this, try to build your power station far from the oil rig, and build many oil tanks.

First of all, forget everything you learned in C&C/RA/War2 etc, because this game is different:
1.Got yourself a nice defense, and want to stop producing for now? Well forget it! You defense is never tough enough, build MORE!
2. Infantry doesnt suck
3. Insanely offensive manuovers can be the solution. Stuck? Try going right after the enemies best oil supply!

First of, start the mission and explore the map, find the good spots, then RESTART the mission, so you wont waste time looking for good oil spots.
Forget about vehicles, infantry is the easiest way to go.
If you can research Sniper then DO it! - dont spend any resources on anything but this and the essentials, then put the Sniper on unlimited production, if you cant build them fast enough, simpky use SWAT's & Flamers as a buffer to take the damage. A line of snipers can take out ANYTHING!

Good formation:(Group them seperately)

.......................Enemy................................
..........//............../\.....................\\.........
..Mix Snipers/SWATS.....Flamers.........mix of Snipers/SWATS
........................Swats...............................
........................Snipers.............................

When you feel that the enemy is being easily repelled, build 50% extra snipers, and start going after the autocannon tank if you can, or else the Anaconda. This put me easily through the final levels in KKND.

Should you find yourself stuck in the earlier missions, try to rely heavily upon SWATs and Flamers, and use Flame ATVs("Go anywhere, kill anything":) to run over enemy infantry.

Flamethrowers can do LOTS of damage, but dont use them with bad accuracy/area damage stuff like bazookas/lots of tanks/baragecraft, or youll soon have no flamers left!

Oh also have a variety of vehicles and men, don't use a group of units that are the same. Having a group of anaconda tanks isn't the best option of taking out the enemy, have also flame tanks and machine gun tanks.

Thanks a lot For reading this.
Andrew West

1) The "Undefended base" trick:
The opponent will rush into a base that looks "undefended", and finds himself swarmed with units that are completely unexpected, while a main force comes out of hiding near the base to cut off any escape. WARNING: This tactic may be hazardous to your buildings.

2) "Waylayed and Wasted"
Your opponent sees a small group of your units near some terrain, and rushes in to attack. As he passses your hidden units, they spring in from behind, thus cutting off escape possibilities while your force overwhelms the opponent.

3) "The Gauntlet"
In games where the bases have a fair amount of terrain between you and your opponent, several small ambush sites can be set-up to pick off straggling units ina main force attack. Your opponent will focus on getting the faster units to the battle first, leaving smaller, slower units (like infantry) to lag behind, usually just expecting them to catch up "sometime". Especially effective if you can hide a monster truck or some other fast infantry squashing unit unseen.

1.) There is nothing quite as satisfying as crushing enemy personel with your large units. Frequently, the computer will send a squadron of five to ten infantry (along with vehicles) to attack you. If you've got at least one large unit -- anything Scorpion-sized or larger for the Evolved, or ATV-szied or larger for the Survivors, it is frequently worth it to send one such unit right through the enemy's units, simply to roll over 'em and Krush them. One very important note here is that both Tankers and Oil Rigs (before deploying them) can be used to squash infantry -- they aren't quite defenseless. I've saved my base at least twice with this technique.

2.) Why spend your own precious resources to build Oil Rigs when you can simply send your Tankers to the enemy rigs and STEAL their oil? Of course, it's a good idea to destroy all other nearby enemy units, but once they're out of the way, your Tankers can pull up to enemy Oil Derricks and fill up on their oil! (Obviously, both the Evolved and Survivors staff their Oil Rigs with color-blind personel.)

If you are on a level of 1 to 4 then all you have to do is build SWAT (if survivors) or Shotgunners (if evolved).

If you are on level 5 then build as many Snipers(survivors) or Crazy Harrys(evolved).

You might want to build some vehicles as well to put them in front of the guys to avoid getting them run over!

Then build important buildings (you decide what building is most important to you). I find that it is best to buy the blacksmith or beast enclosure or machine shop. The more money you are getting the more expensive unit you should put on unlimited training (I usually put berserker or shot gunner swat or assault riflemen) and then guard your base with good towers. Don't forget to keep up the mekaniks and technicians.

This strategy is a bigger sucsess when you can get grapeshooters or a missile battery. Once I had a spot guarded by five men - those enemys got wasted when they came then. After you have got enough to defend your base against common attacks you build up a massive force in a spot that the enemy does not reach very ofton then move in and KRUSH KILL AND DESTROY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The number uno thing...get LOTS of RUs coming in ... when u can, make lots of tankers - in the vs. missions, I usualy have 10 at a minimum.

For the survivors, get one(1) rocket tank...run it towards the enemy and then, when they start to attack, run away...run all over, just keep them just behind you so u can hit them but they can't hit you...very useful for taking out quite a few guys...esp. in multi player

For those annoying bombs...just make a bunch of troops-snipers, swat whatever-as long as they fire fast bullets...and no more boom boom from the planes...

In C&C, when the computer (as GDI) would send an airstrike, the game would read the game map top to botton, left to right, and it would send an airstrike at the furthest north unit. So, to avoid airstrikes, I build a minigunner or something small, and sent it as north as it could without it beign gunned down by a GDI patrol. When the airstrike came, it would target that unit and that unit alone. It was a good deterrent, better than the SAM Silos.

Be sure you have more oil sites than they do and wait for them to run out of oil. Sit back and watch your missle towers etc. destroy them slowly. I used this strategy in "Occupational Force" and had many anaconda's lined up on the side of the east plateau. I was able to take out most troops before they even got a shot off.

How well does this work? Well, the evolved army I was fighting was so huge that my Pentium 75 w/ 24megs of ram was reduced to a crawl with trouble playing the music also. The whole time that I was defending against their raids I had two outposts: one on continuous swat production, and the other on continuous flamer production. I let this go on until I got an "no more troops available" message or something - in other words I had maxed the games number of troops allowed. I ran a small strike on one of their oil wells which of course pissed them off. They retalliated against my most heavily defended area and then I made my move. One huge blob of swats moved into their turf, taking out the grapeshot cannons, while flamers helped them. A stream of about 10 anacondas swerved in behind the attacking force of enemy hundreds (as I noticed the computer had maxed its number of forces allowed also). Killing Crushing and Destroying all the way from here on... you get the idea.

Oh, taking out grapeshot cannons can be a tough job. Make sure you send something with some bigger HP's in first against one, while then taking a bunch of swats or flamers in to give the real firepower. NEVER attack a range weapon with flamers as gas squirting from a nozzle doesn't shoot that far. Also never place flamers or any troops in a route in which the enemy is driving through to get to something else.. Nothing makes me choke up like seeing a team of veteran troops getting rolled over.

Not the most honorable thing to do, but I often just say the heck with a new mission and scout the terrain with the dirt bikes. Don't worry about a base until this time. Take this time to get to know your terrain and the enemies' strength. It sucks when you are struggling for an hour and find out that there is a second oil patch in that last unexplored spot of black fog in that obscure corner.

I'm beginning to babble, so my last piece of advice when being attacked and overcome is to start building say, a machine gun turret WHILE they are attacking, right smack in front of them. This seems to draw their fire while you save your hide.

Well, actually, the Evolved have some pretty neat vehicles:

1. Missile Crab
2. Giant Beetle

While the Missile Crab has some serious maneuvering problems it can still cause great amounts of damage on an area, destroying armor and those bothersome Snipers alike! The Giant Beetle (also good damage) is best used after you pin down the enemy since they have LOUSY accuracy.

But as you may know, you can't run around only with vehicles in this game. Also, since shotgunners are really useless, the sure way to go is Flamers. I know I mentioned elsewhere not to use area damage weapons with flamers, but in this case we are talking little mutated freaks meant to be sacrificed.

The way I usually attack is:

..........<Flamers> *..........<Flamers> *..........
.......................<Enemy>......................

<1-2 Monster Trucks>..../ \.....<1-2 Monster Trucks>
(to run over inf.)................(to run over inf.)
+ <CH><1/3 of Beetles>........+ <CH><1/3 of Beetles>
..............<Crabs><1/3 of Beetles>...............

* it can be hard to get these into position, but if you go in a wide circle and ONLY have flamers the AI tends to ignore them, counting the main force as more dangerous.

Crazy Harrys:
Keep a few of these grouped on either side to pick off snipers (they can't do this themselves due to ther short range).

Giant Beetles:
These need to stand still while firing so bring them in JUST after the crabs stop and let the CHs "seep" through onto the battlefield.

Can't build all these goodies yet? Try starting out your base defense with just flamers!!

Oil stealing:
Like someone else already pointed out it is possible to steal oil from enemy rigs. But doing this for a while makes the AI VERY VERY aggressive and sometimes causes an all-out attack (we are talking 99% of the enemy forces attacking). If the rig is on the usual AI attack path you should make your stand by the rig, otherwise collect a lot of flamers by the rig and then start stealing oil. The AI will launch everything against your base and the flamers can assault the AI base.

Advanced stages - Anaconda tanks and snipers are very good for defense, sometimes better than guard towers, especially the snipers which come cheap. Again place the tanks in front of the snipers for their protection. Flametrowers and their ATV counterparts are very effective when attacking buildings and structures but has moderate effect for defense.

The Evolvers reign supreme for 3 simple reasons.

1) Generally, the Evolvers larger units are cheaper than the Survivor equivalent. For almost the same price an Evolvers player can have 2 mastadons when a Survivors player has 1 autocannon.

2) The Evolvers units have a better appearance. Crabs, mastadons and Crazy Harrys just look sooooo cool!!

3) The Evolvers nuclear warhead is 500 bucks cheaper than the Survivers one. Nuclear bombs would have to be the most devastating weapon in the game!

2. When you are ready for your final attack, send in a few weak/fast units into their camp, get their attention and then run. Often the AI will try to press its advantage and will chase your little units into whatever ambush you've set up. This spreads out their forces and gets them away from their defense towers.

Well, you're at a multiplayer game, see... You know your PC opponent is better than you in more ways than one... he has more units than you, he has more credits than you, he is stronger than you. Well, you have to know that there aren't any stronger or weaker: there's revenge, though.

Find a good place to put an Oil Rig and a Power Plant. Place them close, so that you'll get more in less time. When you have enough build a second Power Plant... Now, the good part...

Build a Machine Shop and build a dirt bike - it will help you, trust me!!! And explore EVERYTHING!!! Do not leave ANY black hole in yer map!!! Found yer partner's base, yet? YES?? GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!! Do not fight!! Travel around a little... see what yer partner has that you don't and prepare yourself fer speedin' construction!!! First, build an upgrade - you'll need it!! Next, train many SWATs - as many as you like. If there are at least 10 rush them to your base entrance.

Next, upgrade EVERYTHING you have as many times as you can. Quickly, though or your dead, man!!! Make as many upgraded vehicles as you possibly can and let them take the SWATs' spot, but mantain the SWATs at the entrance. Now build all the buildings possible and upgrade them (you should have 2 upgrades or more... maybe one fer each building)!!!

Hurry, hurry, hurry!!! When you are being attacked it's just too late!! Now stay at your place building as many vehicles as you can. When you're being attacked let the defense stay and rush up to the enemy base and Krush, Kill 'n' Destroy EVERYTHING!! Come back to your base and destroy the rest...

The whole strategy is to build about 15-20 snipers and head for the opponents' army. Attack the closest truck/creature and shoot at it for about 1 sec. then run outside their shot range. Repeat this until your enemy's army is demolished.

Note: DO NOT attack the missile crab OR war bug (ya know, the one that squirts green acid at ya) - they kill snipers VERY fast. Also, watch out for fast moving cars, they'll squash you.

1)When attacking the enemies Oil Rigs, try to find another way in. The computer will not notice if you sneak around and attack them from an unprotected side, just don't shoot that tanker!

2)When you are the Survivors, and are under attack, use your tanks to aim at thier creatures, and crunch infantry!

3)Don't waste three or four tankers on one rig, use one or two not to tie up the rig. And if you are under attack, you will only loose half the money, and can get the money back.

While your troops are fighting his troops just build a machine shop (Humans) or a blacksmith and beast enclosure (freaks) and pump out inexpensive and strong troops. Then send them over to destroy what is left of the enemy.

Ok, here ya go.... this is *THE KEY* to winning any of the higher levels. Don't go and tell everybody, it's a big secret, SSSHHHH!!!

My trade secret is to use whatever stuff you have upon entering the mission to defend, while, not wasting any time building stuff to defend, you quickly put up a research thingie and get snipers. Okay, phase 1 complete.

Ready for phase two? Ya sure? It's kinda difficult: BUILD LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF SNIPERS!!!!!!!!!! Dont stop!!! Amass a giant army of snipers!!!! They can easily take on anything the Evolved will throw at you. This is usually only good on friends once or twice...but it works wonders on the AI, because (no offense programmer people) well.. the AI just isn't bright enough to build an army of crazy Harry's, but unless your friend is a total retard, he'll find out how to counter this after a couple perfect defeats by you. Have Fun!!

If you know exactly where the enemy is then you can attack straight there. Use your groups to do as much damage as you can to the enemy forces taking out as many of the others men and vehicles as possible. If you still have men left over from this onslaught attack an oil refinery or power plant or if you're really daring attack the main building facility If you keep a steady stream of these groups focused on the enemy base you will win pretty easily.

Barrage crafts are much better than autocannon tanks. Their reload time is longer, but they do more damage. Compared in groups, the difference is even greater. The same is true with the bombarder beetle opposed to the missile crab. Ever read the quick scrolling text at the side of the mission briefing? Ever notice any tips stuck in there at times? Have you looked closely? The computer always attacks with a scout, then a combination of infantry, medium vechicles, and strong vechicles. Always run the infantry down first, ignore the scout. The medium vechiles and the scout will have the first shots, but you want the flamethrowers, grenaders, and whatever else dead and fast! By then, the stronger vechicles will move in, and the winner is more determined from there.

o    o     o     o     o     o      o     o

   o    o     o     o     o     o     o     o

o     o     o     o     o     o     o     o     

doing that or something similar will allow attacking forces enough room to move through, and will cover a larger area with the same number of troops. You can even fill in some of the spaces with infantry if you want, but at all costs, avoid this....

o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

      defence\\\\\\\\\\\defence\\\\\\\\\\\\defence



Put at least 3 or 4 defences!

Now for attacking:



   flamer         Dire wolf               Missile Crab        Dire wolf



 flamer          Giant beetle     War mastodon         Giant beetle

flamer           Crazy harrys        crazy harrys           crazy harrys



                      War mastodon               War mastodon

               When taking out guard towers, there are keys to taking them out.











            Survivers'                    Evolved



     Guard Tower                        Machinegun Nest

     Best against: Infantary            Best Agaisnt: Infantary

     Weak Against: Vehicles             Weak Against: Vehicles





     Missle Battery                     Grapeshot Cannon

     Best Against: Slow moving          Best Against: Groups of

      things                                infantary

     Weak Against: Fast moving          Weak Against: Barrage Craft

      things





     Cannon Tower                       Rotary Cannon

     Best Against: Anything             Best Against: Anything

     Weak Against: Veteran Crazy        Weak Against: Barrage Craft

      Harries