Not really. Grand cannons couldn't do shit against air. And you can't turtle very long if you run out of ore, and Grand Cannons took up alot of power. One UFO or spy or damaged power plant and cannons stop
I mostly play with Korea since i loved using air fighter units, They're pretty effective in my case, then sometimes use mirage tanks to be my backup for anti-air units.
It is my favorite rushing civ. Develop a build order, pack the mcv, unpack it near the enemy base, build a grand canon and watch it annihilate the enemy army and base. (Only work in 1v1 easy ai, iirc)
cnc 1 has obelisks, Ra1 has teslas, ra2 grand canyons, ra3 has multigunner turret spam or soviet crane build with mcv push into teslas, tib wars and kanes wrath have all 3 factions that can bas push, obelisk, sonic emitters and shard launchers for scrin. Only game I cant think of is tiberium sun that doesnt lol
@@adamg5780 there is the old cannisrules mod that made it so grand cannons can gain veterancy and the French could also build Grand Rapiers which was a long range anti air platform
Did you actually play the game when it first came out years and years ago? I spent many sleepless nights and countless days on this game. Multiple top 5 solo finishes and numerous rank 1 clans. It was amazing times!!!!
Yeah, nowhere did he mention why anyone hates France with this game. lol I figure we're supposed to guess it's due to the much later build super cannons. hehe
Everyone gangsta until the Grand Cannon starts creeping toward them. btw, those Gap Generators hogging your power driving me nut, but that would slip out of my mind too during major brown alert mode.
In RA2, you can assign numbers to groups of tanks, and what I found best as an Allied base was to set "1" to a group of Mirages, "2" to a group of Prisms, and "3" to those anti-aircraft vehicles, and then storm and utterly destroy an enemy base, by sending in the Mirages first to fry infantry and blow up vehicles who couldn't see you, then the Prisms to destroy buildings one after the other with their long range, and bring up the anti-aircraft vehicles to protect your vehicles from Rocketeers and Kirovs just in case they fought back from the air! Great times, great game!
I always kept harriers or black eagles on my #1 slot. Whenever I saw a ore truck without anti-air guards, I press 1 and click attack. Might not seem like a huge deal but killing some harvesters is very frustrating for a human enemy and can have good knock-on economic effects that make it easier to win later in the game
@1:10 he teleported the chrono miner out of the war factory to the refinery so it would take less time to get to the ore. That was indeed a pro gamer move.
Played this once upon a time and somebody had french cannons surrounding his base making it a challenge to infiltrate. Dropped some chrono legionnaires into his base one by one and the rest was history. His french cannons ended up blowing his own base to pieces instead. Work smarter not harder
One of my favorite games of all time. I always joined local and regional tournaments when I was in high school, won a few but never really played in nationals and internationals. Most tournaments usually banned France (my fav), US, and Cuba.
There was a time when I attacked a base using 6 flak traks, each containing engineers. It was a 7-minute game for that gamer who forgot to build a wall to his MCV.
I remember there was a Expansion where all Faction has their own Canon Allied has Grand Canon, Soviet has Tesla Canon an Yuri Has Chaos Canon. and also there were only 3 Factions to choose. It was "Yuri's Revenge Eagle Red" but there are a lot of variety of this expansion
There exist many variations of cannon rushes, some really all in others only to for example deny the zergs natural, another variation is a nexus first into forge I think, wich is pretty much macro focused (similar to a Standart 12 pool)
would U.S not have better?? France has a longer history and thus can say more overall wars won but the U.S...just never really loses a draw in 1812 a Draw that was closer to a win in Korea a Lose in nam and Afganistan but then constant victory's during the modern era being so easy and decisive there often not even seen as wars because the U.S insta wins in a few days so not only does the U.S seem to win constantly it does so overwhelmingly without struggle
@@scottgrasser9475 I noticed it's easier for you to list America's defeats and draws, then it is to list their "constant victories". Can I ask, what are these "constant victories" you speak of? The most recent one I can think of was Afghanistan, where 20 years of war, 5.8 trillion dollars spent and all America did cause havoc for the locals for 20 years, then when they tucked their tales and left, they left behind billions of dollars worth of state of the art military equipment for the Taliban, who went straight back into power and now control the country more so than they did before America's "help"! 🤦🏽♂️😂 Has America had any modern victories?...
@@Until_It_Is_Done because the only time U.S loses or draws is when it takes years and years U.S constantly has victory's that barely make the news Libya is a recent one while iraq and afganistan did not go 100 percent to plan we did decimate the terrorist organizations Syria we failed to overthrow the government but still hold land there and have much of the country's oil hundreds of country's we overthrew the leaders of during the cold war sanctions are a weapon of war and we have used them to basically single handedly decided what country's can be world players
I remember this one map a friend and I made for online multiplayer. It had four equal corners, and in the center was a whole slew of AA and AG defenses controlled by a hostile NPC faction, and near each corner was a single innocuous power plant that one could reach without getting slaughtered by the defenses which was owned by the same faction. Each corner also had an unclaimed nuclear power plant right near the small area where you could build. The trick to the map was that you MUST NOT destroy or capture the NPC power plants near the center of the map. Instead, you'd use a certain unit to shut the power plant down temporarily to turn the power off on all of those turrets in the middle of the map so you could run through and attack the enemy during the small time window you'd have. Of course, if you did take/destroy the power plants, then you're screwed, you just have to wait until your enemy attacks you. Well... there was this time when we played against a couple random opponents, and we both chose USA because this was the ultimate turtle map. Few resources, and you had to know what the map was about... both of the opponents were playing soviets. They thought they were awesome with their big huge tanks and they used their Hero (the one that calls Airstrikes) to slowly thin out the middle of the map. While we waited, we covered our side of the map with gap generators so they couldn't see what was going on. When they did finally cross, way later? They found probably a _hundred_ or more deployed GIs that ripped their tanks to shreds in seconds. Airdrop is no joke especially in a map with resource starvation. They both forfeited after their failed offensive, lol.
People who played FFA with me always complain whenever they got twice attack at the same time and they just blah blah their trash complain about the game as I am getting over triple attacked at the same time I aren't say a word because I know it was FFA mode everyone is attacking everyone, can't be sad when u got multiple attack.
Well if i play some FFA and when i get attacked by 2 or 3 at the same time, i would just say "well im dead lol". I've learned a lot not to take the game very serious.
An ever growing op line of prism towers extending into an enemy base like the devil's long and muscular clawed hand reaching out to impale you.... ooooft! I played as France the other day in a 1v1 brutal ai and managed to build 3 grand cannons on the front borderline of their base next to the midland oilfield in May Day (one of my favorite maps). and not only did that secure my place in the only land based choke point but they also didn't even have any naval or air support to bypass or destroy it. So yeah aircraft carriers and chorono legionairs to hit them in the soft spots while they were held back won me the game 😊
Put in an engineer to AVP (i forgot the vehicle name/vehicle that can fixed) and bring it behind 2 prism tanks to enemy land (you don't have to clicked the target, just stay around in curtain area, they know what they have to do). That's the 1 thing you have to do before make a grand canon. And you're victorious quickly.
This game is great, and some of my favorite memories was playing the hell out of this after high school with my best friend. Lol good times. Honestly though, Red Alert 1 was definitely my favorite one. You could set the computer on very hard on skirmish mode, and I absolutely loved the chaos and challenge. I would defend my base with mostly pillboxes while the computer sent out these massive waves, and I always loved the challenge of seeing how long I could survive. Just under half the time I was able to make it, since pillboxes are affordable and are decent against most targets. If done properly, they actually took out tanks fairly well if you created a sort of bottleneck with a few artillery in the back.
Until now I thought it was a war crime to fire on parachutists, but only if they jumped from a falling/destroyed aircraft, contrary to paratroopers with the intent to attack upon landing.
Usually I target the power plants when playing against France. But yeah, the french GC is just overwhelming to attack I miss playing this game Love that I found your stream
I love this game. Just installed it and played after installing... Brings back some wonderful memories with this game... And whats amazing is it ran on a windows 10!!!
I once went up against a France-faction player in an LvR map. They built 3 rows of Grand Cannons, which I couldn't penetrate, with decent air defences. It was going to cost me a lot to attack them. Then I saw that one of my harvesters starting going to their side, and saw that it could tank a lot of shots before dying. So I sent my 6 harvesters to their side, and watched a quarter of their base get destroyed before they raged quit. Never played after that - I knew that was the pinnacle of my RA2 experience
No it really couldn't. France is an extremely map dependent faction, and this map is a very strong for France. France is overpowered when the grand cannons allow you to control neutral areas/resources (IE, the gem field), from positions that by default belong to you. In this map you can build grand cannons from your starting location that allow you to very easily control the center gem field. The fact that this map is very small also means you can easily base walk as well. This simply isn't the case for most non-island maps.
@@maxwilliams9203 agreed - the only way they could have won was if they both attacked at the same time before he set up with a cannon. Most people aren’t good enough to base walk AND keep their army strong, which gives opponents room to outplay France, but since in this case France controls all of the gems he’s impossible to beat 1v1. Even then, his opponents had moments.
This 15 minute game would have taken 3 weeks in 2000. Playing at night-time when we could use the phone line for our 56k Modems and units moving 1 pixel per 10 seconds.
GODDAMMIT, I MISS THIS GAME! I must've played so many hours of this, my favourite C&C game back over 10 years ago, with skirmish mode against as many as 7 AI opponents with superweapons, and won most of the time on Easy! I wish I could play it again, but it's not on Steam.
used to play this game and tiberian sun like non stop as a teen.. i did competitive too online ranked games, was #1 for many months. nothing could stop the spider terror drones on the ore refiners and tank rush's lol.. little suggestion.. if you only have 3 ore miners, but two ore refineries sell one for extra cash in the beggining.. and 3 ore miners is not enough early on like you did, you should have at least 4. if youre going to stack tanks and so forth like you did, build multple war factories, everything builds faster
@@BryanVahey it's made by Westwood aswell it's a awesome game definitely worth checking out. Wish I had a PlayStation 1 to get it again 🤣 very similar to this. 3 factions. The recourse is called spice each whilst the troops the same for each faction they each have 1 that's different from the rest.. I remember the green guys had a missile launcher that turned a enemy tank friendly briefly. Seriously worth checking it out if you love C&C
My favorite part of this is the complaints about “France makes map unplayable” after literally everyone on the map tried (and failed) to beat one player. The Grand Cannons didn’t even factor in 2 of the 4 major attacks because they were naval assaults. 🤣
Yep. Yellow screwed up his first naval assault by just letting Bryan put out dolphins to ruin his Dreads. Then yellow wasted his Rhinos + IC on unimportant structures at the edge of the base instead of going in for something more important. Then orange sent in all his tanks and got absolutely nothing for it. Orange also spent a crapload of money on dolphins that couldn't do anything because nobody else was heavy on naval. Of course they couldn't defend against Grand Cannon base walking after wasting money and units on such bad plays. Maybe Grand Cannons are nasty, but at the same time, playing poorly also makes the map unplayable.
France is easy to defeat, but the hardest ones are Yuri and British bc of snipers on watch duty inside the base and Yuri's too who instantly takes control over your units such as spy's, engineers, chronos etc.
That's a silly-sized map for more than two players damn. I guess it's faster but it benefits some factions more than others. Americans basically have nothing anymore since paratroops main selling point is frontline deployment / flanking, british snipers have nothing to do, iraq has nowhere to deploy desolators for zoning, libyan trucks can't sneak in. Leaves only Korea, France, Germany, Russia and Cuba with viable unique technologies, every other faction is a non-pick (unless you can justify picking america for revealing the map with the paratrooper plane)
I would 100% pay a subscription for a remastered RA2. It boggles my mind why video game companies won't just polish graphics and game mechanics and resell the game. This game and Savage 2 would be a deadly combo if rereleased.
Put up the base and cover. 4 Chrono miners, then 4 battle fortresses with a chronolegionaire and 4 guardian GI's loaded, 10 Prisms and 4 IFV's loaded with engineers on guard... With GB, a sniper on each battle fortress is the best.
Man I remember playing this. Never played multiayer cause of dial up. But I loved the french grand cannon. Best gun in the game. Always have one ready to set up at a moments notice. Set up two pillboxes and an aa turret next to it and it's basically untouchable.
Never played this game before, but i'm surprised that buildings can be erected immediately. Also the resource gathering is kinda unique. Then again, all i'm playing is starcraft 2 and warcraft 3
In my opinion, Germany should have been the country with the grand cannon. Real life Germany loved oversized artillery. The railway guns of WWII for example.
C&C Tiberium sun was fun back in the day when you could just artliriy the shit outta areas of land just so it can't be used to build on. but draw back is it's easy to drill under.
Hello i m the creator of the french grand cannon rush in 2000 Well the debate was between me and darlok45 from -FC- but It was the funniest rush ever created in any game. Still Remember my father looking at his clock for the 2 minutes mark because if ppl quit under 3 minutes Westwood server didn't register games against free wins on ladder. Ifv+ENG random Building Stolen Grand cannon yard down in 3 hits. 🎉🎉 Miss those times
Flying counters the heck out of france btw. 4 harriers takes out their power, no more turret, engage. Soviets are particularly good vs France with the Helicopters that can also become artillery. Same for the Zeplins they can just tank most AA and destroy the tower. Allies have fewer answers but their harriers can do it- at a loss of harriers. 2 pads is still enough though. (Dont forget Chronosphere and weather storm on power production. Its still all connected.) Too few people use harriers. Two pads and two attacks is enough to kill a harvester for free or they spend money to fix/buy new. Use that air power to your advantage.
![Red Alert 2: [YR] - Top 10 Chrono Legionnaire Uses](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uKUNxN8tGqw/mqdefault.jpg)
Glad to see people still playing this game.
hell yeah!
I need download it asap!
Dude where did you download it, my ol' reliable site no longer have it
@@krisnadanuaji1444 im forgot which site i downloaded mine
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France was my favourite faction when I played as a kid. Ultimate turtling deluxe
Not really. Grand cannons couldn't do shit against air. And you can't turtle very long if you run out of ore, and Grand Cannons took up alot of power. One UFO or spy or damaged power plant and cannons stop
@@waynebruce24893 And all are tactics the AI will never utilize properly against human player.
I mostly play with Korea since i loved using air fighter units, They're pretty effective in my case, then sometimes use mirage tanks to be my backup for anti-air units.
It is my favorite rushing civ. Develop a build order, pack the mcv, unpack it near the enemy base, build a grand canon and watch it annihilate the enemy army and base. (Only work in 1v1 easy ai, iirc)
I also loved Yuri and Iraq for demolition tanks.
"Have fun with no oils"
Oh no, no oils. Guess I'll just have to cry into my gems.
"Have fun with no oils"
OH NO!
Anyway.
Diddy with no oils be like
Never gets old seeing people complain about base walking. Imagine complaining about a basic RTS move in a C&C game.
imagine
cnc 1 has obelisks, Ra1 has teslas, ra2 grand canyons, ra3 has multigunner turret spam or soviet crane build with mcv push into teslas, tib wars and kanes wrath have all 3 factions that can bas push, obelisk, sonic emitters and shard launchers for scrin. Only game I cant think of is tiberium sun that doesnt lol
OurAntwan Not the same, the sheer range and firepower of Grand Cannons make them far more Op.
Imagine
@@adamg5780 there is the old cannisrules mod that made it so grand cannons can gain veterancy and the French could also build Grand Rapiers which was a long range anti air platform
My biggest wish is that this game comes in a remaster version
Been hoping for a remaster of Red Alert 2 and Tiberian sun since they polished up Red Alert.
Why the game looks like HD remaster in this video? I never played it but when i look on internet the game looks 100x worse than here.
@@RevarBB its because its higher resolution, normal game mode can't go even go 1080p
A proper one at that. Like Mafia Definitive edition and FF7
Did you actually play the game when it first came out years and years ago? I spent many sleepless nights and countless days on this game. Multiple top 5 solo finishes and numerous rank 1 clans. It was amazing times!!!!
"Oh fuck, I'm France.. I forgot about that." - France May 1940.
Correction: This is why everyone hates BRYAN on command and conquer red alert 2
OOF
Hahaha!
yeah, i think he needs more practice, to learn how to play this game
Yeah, nowhere did he mention why anyone hates France with this game. lol
I figure we're supposed to guess it's due to the much later build super cannons. hehe
Everyone gangsta until the Grand Cannon starts creeping toward them.
btw, those Gap Generators hogging your power driving me nut, but that would slip out of my mind too during major brown alert mode.
by brown do you mean doo doo?
@@BryanVahey Yes. Shit hit the fan mode.
@@FreedomFighterEx A double metaphor as well, since a brownout is an intentional or unintentional drop in voltage in an electrical power supply system
@@OkabimI don't think you know what a metaphor is.
But you know you can destroy grand cannon very easily? Im asking because nobody did that on that video...
In RA2, you can assign numbers to groups of tanks, and what I found best as an Allied base was to set "1" to a group of Mirages, "2" to a group of Prisms, and "3" to those anti-aircraft vehicles, and then storm and utterly destroy an enemy base, by sending in the Mirages first to fry infantry and blow up vehicles who couldn't see you, then the Prisms to destroy buildings one after the other with their long range, and bring up the anti-aircraft vehicles to protect your vehicles from Rocketeers and Kirovs just in case they fought back from the air! Great times, great game!
I always kept harriers or black eagles on my #1 slot. Whenever I saw a ore truck without anti-air guards, I press 1 and click attack. Might not seem like a huge deal but killing some harvesters is very frustrating for a human enemy and can have good knock-on economic effects that make it easier to win later in the game
and, No. 4 for repair truck (SUV + Engineer inside), 5, 6 , 7 for air strike
Most rts still have this feature. Left cntrl+ 1-0
1 is always black eagles for me
Assigning numbers was one of my favourite things to do as well :)
"what happened to all my dolphins" - Bryan, 2020.
"Oh f*ck! I'm France"
This guy had his priorities straight like me when I used to play the game. Best battle structure ever.
@1:10 he teleported the chrono miner out of the war factory to the refinery so it would take less time to get to the ore.
That was indeed a pro gamer move.
Every RA2 veteran know that move 😁😁
I did that one when I was 12.
Played this once upon a time and somebody had french cannons surrounding his base making it a challenge to infiltrate. Dropped some chrono legionnaires into his base one by one and the rest was history. His french cannons ended up blowing his own base to pieces instead. Work smarter not harder
I see what you did there buddy.
"Oh, f***, I'm France. Forgot about that." Every French person at least once in their lives.
nah i am proud af 🗿
One of my favorite games of all time. I always joined local and regional tournaments when I was in high school, won a few but never really played in nationals and internationals. Most tournaments usually banned France (my fav), US, and Cuba.
Why was Murrica banned, are paratroopers so op?
@@I_AM_BAYTOR some people will complain about anything
@@encinoman903 but the actual reason. Like I can get france and yuri being banned.
@@I_AM_BAYTOR i have no clue. It doesn't make sense to me, either.
@@I_AM_BAYTOR No, but they are when they're FREE
You did a pretty good job of holding off literally everyone else.
Been playing for years yet only now learned that jammers can be used for walking.. Shame on me
Gap generators and Yuri psychic towers allow you to build structures off their perimeter
what fucking walking?
There was a time when I attacked a base using 6 flak traks, each containing engineers. It was a 7-minute game for that gamer who forgot to build a wall to his MCV.
I remember there was a Expansion where all Faction has their own Canon Allied has Grand Canon, Soviet has Tesla Canon an Yuri Has Chaos Canon. and also there were only 3 Factions to choose. It was "Yuri's Revenge Eagle Red" but there are a lot of variety of this expansion
Dudeeee this game was a rollercoaster I thought you were gonna lose like 3 times that’s insane can’t get over that
The moment I read France I already knew he meant grand cannon.
imagine SC2 players watching this and seeing a cannon rush at 9 min which continues all the way till the end of the game :D
well to be fair in SC2 all cannon rushes tend to last till the end of the game, ether the cheeser wins or quits once it fails :p
There exist many variations of cannon rushes, some really all in others only to for example deny the zergs natural, another variation is a nexus first into forge I think, wich is pretty much macro focused (similar to a Standart 12 pool)
"Players see my limp, that's my base walk.
No need to argue, I let the base talk."
I love this game. And grand cannons.
France has the best military record in human History so it somehow makes sense.
would U.S not have better??
France has a longer history and thus can say more overall wars won
but the U.S...just never really loses
a draw in 1812
a Draw that was closer to a win in Korea
a Lose in nam and Afganistan
but then constant victory's during the modern era
being so easy and decisive there often not even seen as wars because the U.S insta wins in a few days
so not only does the U.S seem to win constantly it does so overwhelmingly without struggle
@@scottgrasser9475 I noticed it's easier for you to list America's defeats and draws, then it is to list their "constant victories".
Can I ask, what are these "constant victories" you speak of?
The most recent one I can think of was Afghanistan, where 20 years of war, 5.8 trillion dollars spent and all America did cause havoc for the locals for 20 years, then when they tucked their tales and left, they left behind billions of dollars worth of state of the art military equipment for the Taliban, who went straight back into power and now control the country more so than they did before America's "help"! 🤦🏽♂️😂
Has America had any modern victories?...
@@Until_It_Is_Done because the only time U.S loses or draws is when it takes years and years
U.S constantly has victory's that barely make the news
Libya is a recent one
while iraq and afganistan did not go 100 percent to plan we did decimate the terrorist organizations
Syria we failed to overthrow the government but still hold land there and have much of the country's oil
hundreds of country's we overthrew the leaders of during the cold war
sanctions are a weapon of war and we have used them to basically single handedly decided what country's can be world players
Umm no France has the best record of hosting invasions! Britain 🇬🇧 would have the best military record in history lol
they got conquered by the nazis tho
Oh man, I can't believe you did a sneaky radar jam with a large Frenchman!
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Those tanks were so smug under the radar jam and grand cannon I could hear the french hon hon from them...
Was screaming at you to sell your gaps for power for ages >.
same... i feel you bro xD
A lot of us in the twitch chat at the time were screaming the same thing!
You’re not my dad
@@BryanVahey true that, we are your viewers, so we are even more important to listen at >:3
jk ^^
@@BryanVahey is just trying my best to support you kiddo! I'll never take your real fathers place I know that!
I remember this one map a friend and I made for online multiplayer. It had four equal corners, and in the center was a whole slew of AA and AG defenses controlled by a hostile NPC faction, and near each corner was a single innocuous power plant that one could reach without getting slaughtered by the defenses which was owned by the same faction. Each corner also had an unclaimed nuclear power plant right near the small area where you could build. The trick to the map was that you MUST NOT destroy or capture the NPC power plants near the center of the map. Instead, you'd use a certain unit to shut the power plant down temporarily to turn the power off on all of those turrets in the middle of the map so you could run through and attack the enemy during the small time window you'd have. Of course, if you did take/destroy the power plants, then you're screwed, you just have to wait until your enemy attacks you. Well... there was this time when we played against a couple random opponents, and we both chose USA because this was the ultimate turtle map. Few resources, and you had to know what the map was about... both of the opponents were playing soviets. They thought they were awesome with their big huge tanks and they used their Hero (the one that calls Airstrikes) to slowly thin out the middle of the map. While we waited, we covered our side of the map with gap generators so they couldn't see what was going on. When they did finally cross, way later? They found probably a _hundred_ or more deployed GIs that ripped their tanks to shreds in seconds. Airdrop is no joke especially in a map with resource starvation. They both forfeited after their failed offensive, lol.
People who played FFA with me always complain whenever they got twice attack at the same time and they just blah blah their trash complain about the game as I am getting over triple attacked at the same time I aren't say a word because I know it was FFA mode everyone is attacking everyone, can't be sad when u got multiple attack.
Well if i play some FFA and when i get attacked by 2 or 3 at the same time, i would just say "well im dead lol". I've learned a lot not to take the game very serious.
i miss this game... i always do a crawling prism tower from my base to the enemy hahaha
classic strat for sure
Haha shiny tower goes BRRRRRRR
An ever growing op line of prism towers extending into an enemy base like the devil's long and muscular clawed hand reaching out to impale you.... ooooft! I played as France the other day in a 1v1 brutal ai and managed to build 3 grand cannons on the front borderline of their base next to the midland oilfield in May Day (one of my favorite maps). and not only did that secure my place in the only land based choke point but they also didn't even have any naval or air support to bypass or destroy it. So yeah aircraft carriers and chorono legionairs to hit them in the soft spots while they were held back won me the game 😊
Put in an engineer to AVP (i forgot the vehicle name/vehicle that can fixed) and bring it behind 2 prism tanks to enemy land (you don't have to clicked the target, just stay around in curtain area, they know what they have to do). That's the 1 thing you have to do before make a grand canon. And you're victorious quickly.
Correction/Little Help:The vehicle itself is called IFV.
Didn’t realize people were still playing this game. Loved Libya ‘it’ll be a smoking crater.’ Lol
This game is great, and some of my favorite memories was playing the hell out of this after high school with my best friend. Lol good times. Honestly though, Red Alert 1 was definitely my favorite one. You could set the computer on very hard on skirmish mode, and I absolutely loved the chaos and challenge. I would defend my base with mostly pillboxes while the computer sent out these massive waves, and I always loved the challenge of seeing how long I could survive. Just under half the time I was able to make it, since pillboxes are affordable and are decent against most targets. If done properly, they actually took out tanks fairly well if you created a sort of bottleneck with a few artillery in the back.
This was the best C&C! I remember always either being Korea for their Jets or Britain for the Snipers.
Yellow attacks you and blames you for fighting back...
lol
Until now I thought it was a war crime to fire on parachutists, but only if they jumped from a falling/destroyed aircraft, contrary to paratroopers with the intent to attack upon landing.
It is illegal. Which is why we aim at the aircraft. It's not our fault if the drop troops choose to bodyblock shit.
@@Khazandar you are defs allowed to shoot paratroopers.
Usually I target the power plants when playing against France. But yeah, the french GC is just overwhelming to attack
I miss playing this game
Love that I found your stream
14:44 GGs all around, what a great matchup!
Marching with grand cannons. Is always fun
I love this game. Just installed it and played after installing... Brings back some wonderful memories with this game... And whats amazing is it ran on a windows 10!!!
Oh wow this game is a lot more fast paced than I remember
slow PC lets you play better tho :)
Cause players tend to put the game in faster mode. When i play online i put it on fast or below that.
You can change the game speed from options or when you first start the game (in online)
I once went up against a France-faction player in an LvR map. They built 3 rows of Grand Cannons, which I couldn't penetrate, with decent air defences. It was going to cost me a lot to attack them.
Then I saw that one of my harvesters starting going to their side, and saw that it could tank a lot of shots before dying. So I sent my 6 harvesters to their side, and watched a quarter of their base get destroyed before they raged quit. Never played after that - I knew that was the pinnacle of my RA2 experience
"Map is unplayable if France" same could be said about any non island map, what an excuse.
No it really couldn't. France is an extremely map dependent faction, and this map is a very strong for France. France is overpowered when the grand cannons allow you to control neutral areas/resources (IE, the gem field), from positions that by default belong to you. In this map you can build grand cannons from your starting location that allow you to very easily control the center gem field. The fact that this map is very small also means you can easily base walk as well. This simply isn't the case for most non-island maps.
@@maxwilliams9203 agreed - the only way they could have won was if they both attacked at the same time before he set up with a cannon. Most people aren’t good enough to base walk AND keep their army strong, which gives opponents room to outplay France, but since in this case France controls all of the gems he’s impossible to beat 1v1. Even then, his opponents had moments.
Nah, if the map is big enough france isnt op
@@MartyEffinShaw what about an enemy yuri? op vs op must be balanced, right? XDD
attack economy, spy into power before committing to attack or something idk
Is Bryan Vahey making a "This is why everyone hates X on Command & Conquer Red Alert 2" series?
Sure hope so.
OHHHHHHHHH MAI GOT
Ah, the France Grand 'Get off my fking lawn' Cannon...
hahaha i died laughing
This game, generals, wow reign of chaos, and diablo 2 expansion. Still like those games
France: why do they hate my people??
Also france: 1:56
"If Napoleon would have stayed an artillery lieutenant, he would still be on the throne" Henry Monier ^^
"So am I bryan". Dude legit iron curtained you. He can duck right off
This 15 minute game would have taken 3 weeks in 2000. Playing at night-time when we could use the phone line for our 56k Modems and units moving 1 pixel per 10 seconds.
Lmao I know right? Good times LOL
GODDAMMIT, I MISS THIS GAME! I must've played so many hours of this, my favourite C&C game back over 10 years ago, with skirmish mode against as many as 7 AI opponents with superweapons, and won most of the time on Easy! I wish I could play it again, but it's not on Steam.
Sir the game is on EA origins
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Everybody hates "Insufficient Funds"
This game needs to remastered for modern PCs.
I love this game!
The best RA2 games are the ones that everyone starts with a 30min NAP. That was so much fun
big oof. getting backdoored by the guy who DC's right after
used to play this game and tiberian sun like non stop as a teen.. i did competitive too online ranked games, was #1 for many months. nothing could stop the spider terror drones on the ore refiners and tank rush's lol.. little suggestion.. if you only have 3 ore miners, but two ore refineries sell one for extra cash in the beggining.. and 3 ore miners is not enough early on like you did, you should have at least 4. if youre going to stack tanks and so forth like you did, build multple war factories, everything builds faster
Old base games like this remind me of dune 2000 god I miss that game 😭
I don't think I ever played dune 2000! I always just saw the advertisement on the back of my RA2 CD case haha
@@BryanVahey it's made by Westwood aswell it's a awesome game definitely worth checking out. Wish I had a PlayStation 1 to get it again 🤣 very similar to this. 3 factions. The recourse is called spice each whilst the troops the same for each faction they each have 1 that's different from the rest.. I remember the green guys had a missile launcher that turned a enemy tank friendly briefly. Seriously worth checking it out if you love C&C
0:00 - 0:31 , 2:05 - 3:13 , 3:26 - 3:41 = I'm just air drumming while watching
My favorite part of this is the complaints about “France makes map unplayable” after literally everyone on the map tried (and failed) to beat one player. The Grand Cannons didn’t even factor in 2 of the 4 major attacks because they were naval assaults. 🤣
Yep. Yellow screwed up his first naval assault by just letting Bryan put out dolphins to ruin his Dreads. Then yellow wasted his Rhinos + IC on unimportant structures at the edge of the base instead of going in for something more important. Then orange sent in all his tanks and got absolutely nothing for it. Orange also spent a crapload of money on dolphins that couldn't do anything because nobody else was heavy on naval. Of course they couldn't defend against Grand Cannon base walking after wasting money and units on such bad plays.
Maybe Grand Cannons are nasty, but at the same time, playing poorly also makes the map unplayable.
@@mjc0961 if someone had Korea, those GCs would have been worth nothing.
My old fav game when i was 6
Imagine you are dominating and encroaching your French neighbor and they suddenly build a giant cannon
More than a decade ago i was way too anxious for this game
Now, i still am
France is easy to defeat, but the hardest ones are Yuri and British bc of snipers on watch duty inside the base and Yuri's too who instantly takes control over your units such as spy's, engineers, chronos etc.
this new elijiah wood movie is really experimental
I remember playing that game, trying to open map using 1 person walking. And, i meet lots enemy in front
That's a silly-sized map for more than two players damn. I guess it's faster but it benefits some factions more than others. Americans basically have nothing anymore since paratroops main selling point is frontline deployment / flanking, british snipers have nothing to do, iraq has nowhere to deploy desolators for zoning, libyan trucks can't sneak in. Leaves only Korea, France, Germany, Russia and Cuba with viable unique technologies, every other faction is a non-pick (unless you can justify picking america for revealing the map with the paratrooper plane)
This is my Cannon. It goes honhonhonhonhon.
The Leo pic next to Le Grande Canon sucked me right in with laughs. This makes me want to play this game so damned bad.
Have to subscribe because this was/is one of my favourite childhood PC games. Glad I was recommended this video too :)
I would 100% pay a subscription for a remastered RA2. It boggles my mind why video game companies won't just polish graphics and game mechanics and resell the game. This game and Savage 2 would be a deadly combo if rereleased.
I'll never forget that time my cousin literally invaded my base with Grand Cannons. Those things are way OP lol.
But they're slow af and eat power like a mofo, thats the price. That and the few thousand each one costs to make
the only thing i really liked about red alert 2 was yuri's faction, too fun.
Impressive with the Grand Cannons! These OP videos are a subtle flex :)
fun fact: you can use radar jammer to increse the range where you can put buildings towards your enemy.
Yep!
I wish there was a mod that allowed me to have the entire allied arsenal and the entire Soviet arsenal and not have to choose by country.
We can all agree whoever pulls yuri in random select is like picking up a draw 4 in Uno
Anyone who pulls Yuri is my target #1 that shit must not be allowed to stay or else, expect to lose.
@@Quadrolithium Same here, screw psychic dominators and genetic mutators, id rather have an enemy nuke than that shit lol
Put up the base and cover. 4 Chrono miners, then 4 battle fortresses with a chronolegionaire and 4 guardian GI's loaded, 10 Prisms and 4 IFV's loaded with engineers on guard... With GB, a sniper on each battle fortress is the best.
Man I remember playing this. Never played multiayer cause of dial up. But I loved the french grand cannon. Best gun in the game. Always have one ready to set up at a moments notice. Set up two pillboxes and an aa turret next to it and it's basically untouchable.
Never played this game before, but i'm surprised that buildings can be erected immediately. Also the resource gathering is kinda unique. Then again, all i'm playing is starcraft 2 and warcraft 3
The building "building phase" is the cooldown before you build them. Also the base can be moved and you can buy another base
You tap them .
They will go on a cool-down.
Then you wait and put them down
Wow that music gave me some kind of euphoric nostalgia
I haven't watched but I'm sure it's because of the grand cannon.
Repair IFV(s) posted near the refinery is a nice way to keep chronominers in running shape and to prevent loss.
hmmmmm that's so crazy it just might work
How is this man's genius not yet replicated
My secret here is mirage tank once you build its over. You can def all side.
Used to play against brutal ai and spamming walls of prism towers with grand cannons directly behind and watch apocs try to breach it
Lol. I used to do this with my friends before, they hated me for doing this move whenever i chose France.
Nice! What platform do you use to play vs others online?
My defense strat was: grand cannons, IFVs and Guardian GIsfor anti air (and tank) purposes and dogs for infantry. Somehow worked
"look at these fucking miners. Mmmmm Yummy" I was playing rimworld when i heard this and couldnt contain my laughter
loved this game, used to be able to fight against 7 max difficulty enemies
I keep clicking on the screen XD As if I am playing...lmao.
RED2 and Yuri's revenge was amazing .
Loved the video.
this old game still make my heart race
"This is why everyone hates FRANCE..."
"Yeah..."
"... on Command & Conquer Red Alert 2."
"Whats Command & Conquer Red Alert 2?"
In my opinion, Germany should have been the country with the grand cannon. Real life Germany loved oversized artillery. The railway guns of WWII for example.
C&C Tiberium sun was fun back in the day when you could just artliriy the shit outta areas of land just so it can't be used to build on.
but draw back is it's easy to drill under.
Hello i m the creator of the french grand cannon rush in 2000
Well the debate was between me and darlok45 from -FC- but It was the funniest rush ever created in any game.
Still Remember my father looking at his clock for the 2 minutes mark because if ppl quit under 3 minutes Westwood server didn't register games against free wins on ladder.
Ifv+ENG random Building Stolen Grand cannon yard down in 3 hits. 🎉🎉
Miss those times
"oh fuck i am france"
Last words from france 1940
Soviet miners soak the shots like they’re peanuts. He saw my turtle game and I had a guy totally style on me with them one time.
Bullying Dutch people on Urban Rush with grand cannons was great
I played France in RA2 YR a while ago. And It got lagged. Didn't had that kind of experience in other fractions.
Glad to see people still hate on France
Flying counters the heck out of france btw. 4 harriers takes out their power, no more turret, engage.
Soviets are particularly good vs France with the Helicopters that can also become artillery. Same for the Zeplins they can just tank most AA and destroy the tower.
Allies have fewer answers but their harriers can do it- at a loss of harriers. 2 pads is still enough though. (Dont forget Chronosphere and weather storm on power production. Its still all connected.)
Too few people use harriers. Two pads and two attacks is enough to kill a harvester for free or they spend money to fix/buy new.
Use that air power to your advantage.