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ALIENS the Board Game

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This is an adaptation of the ALIENS board game made by Leading Edge Games into Flash.


It is a hard game, but there are only 3 missions. Enjoy the difficulty.


Good luck.


"One express elevator to hell, going down"
-Hudson


TIPS:
Flamer kills don't have acid spray. Use them on aliens up close, but when the alien is on a marine, it's too late for flamers. Use melee (fist icon) to try to throw the alien off.


Pistols are almost useless. These marines should just move or help melee an alien off one of his buddies.


Grenades kill aliens 1 square away from the blast square, but injure marines up to 6 squares away. Plus, there is a chance the grenade will miss the target square by one, so plan carefully if you want to use grenades.


NOTE: It was designed for 1024x786, so I'm sorry if it's hard to make out some details in 800x600.


07/25 2008 - uploaded V1.2
Fixed many bugs.
Added ammo restrictions.
Added the ability to flame the ground.
Added the Apone rule into the Reactor mission.
Improved the Alien AI.
Added a score system (Thanks to DMC for the idea).
Added a brightness control.
Fit the preloader music in.


12/04 - uploaded V1.1
Fixed some bugs.
Added some features to help first time players.
Mission summary now tracks total and individual kills, just for fun.


11/06 - uploaded a new version.
Fixed a sound bug.
Juggled the sound to include music at the menu.
Added an indicator that an alien target has a marine.

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Does the game crash for anyone else? It always happens on the second level. If i manage to get all the marines through the reactor it slows the game down a lot. Then when I manage to still get all of them back to medical, it's always when the hoard of aliens spawn in it crashes. Love the game besides that,

I have a love hate relationship with this game :o it's fun and addicting but darn its tough as nails to win ;w; still awesome game i love :3

First of all I just wanted to express my love for this game. The Reactor can be frustrating but I usually can (with a few attempts) get all of my Marines through. I think it”s vital as to which order you deploy the troops (my deployment has evolved over time) and (within reason) don't linger and keep progressing from right to left. Try not to create a bottleneck by moving some marines around the top and some around the bottom of the railings/shaft. For this reason I like Apones "listen to Gorman" function. Operations is by comparison easy with a full deployment of Marines. It is time consuming. Again, the order of deployment is vital. Keep your Marines grouped tight to fall back to the door. Once here you can fend off the first and second (last) swathe of Alien attacks. You can rack up some points here. The key here is to use your 2 flamethrower guys in conjunction last, both flaming the ground and retreating one square. You can create a bottle neck and make use of your grenade launcher. I found this level frustrating with Aliens dropping in the tunnels. However you can wait out the Alien attacks and use Ripley to safely dispatch all the Aliens just by waiting at the start of the first long tunnel. The Hive I find very frustrating. The more Marines you have the harder it is in a way. Again, avoid bottlenecks. My trick here is to use the lift as a cage. Activate the Queen by launching a lucky grenade and then flame the ground and all 8 of you can let rip on her.I've yet to rescue Burke and Newt and Kill the Queen with all Bonuses activated but I'm close. What I find frustrating is that (if I was playing for points) you're rewarded heavily for carrying out incapacitated troops not for racking up kills. My technique of the "Lift Fire Cage" also sometimes triggers a glitch which the game crashes from (I'm not sure why yet but an Alien will spawn near a shaft, die in acid and then flame-ball) this is frustrating because it takes time and restarts to run "the perfect game" up to this point. Love it though. Many thanks

AWFUL GAME. How can anyone be expected to win without cheating?

If I do not have a Facebook does it mean I cannot play? why?
I am going to miss this game a lot

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