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[The Fifth Horseman]

Anime? :O Where did you get it?[/b]

There was an anime based on the game... all two episodes of it. It can be found on eMule.

[pi-r]

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All copies of Power Dolls 2 that I found were some weird HDI files... I think that's a disk image of some sort, but for the sake of my life could not figure out how to access its contents.
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You need an emulator of PC98. I prefer Anex86.
http://www.blk.mmtr.or.jp/~abetti/anex86/d...ad/download.htm
or look here: http://www.pc98.net/

I've seen pc version long ago on edonkey network.

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SMINE was quite useful in mission where you had to ambush the enemy. My squad was hiding in wood 2, or 3 hex from the road. When the time was right mecha with SMINE jumped in the middle of convoy and took out most of enemy.[/b]

My DoLLs must've been fidgety because when I tried to hide in the forest that close, the enemy Loaders homed right in on us, keeping my girls from being able to take a direct path to the convoy.
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I've made a little mistake. It was 2-3 hex inside the forest. There was probably another 2 hex from the line of tree to the road. Trees works in similar way as smoke granade, but You know it already
I've also used diversion with another doll that took most of enemy fire. SMINE was used to quickly eliminete most of the enemy force. In theory You can take down 6 enemy with one shot.

iseng: interesting strategy problem. I would probably prefer attack from the distance or strike&hide. You haven't wrote what unit have the enemy, but it probably be to much for 4 PL, to make frontal assault.

Have You met others interesting strategy situations in real PD game? Maybe some of them could be added in to the strategy guide...

[laiocfar]

Bombard the convoy and with all the firepower and RUN for your live.

[jati]

Guys, use Smoke grenade!

It will prevent any reaction attack from the enemy, it will make your PLD able to close in safely, put some SMINE slugs or knock it over with CC, then run like hell back to safety.

I recommend CC over SMINE by far when using any PLD/A variants. They can withstand lots of fire, awesome CC ability, and most of the time: good AP (due to the fact that they are not encumbered by any shoulder weapons)

EDIT

almost forgot, i found this site: kogado.jp

they got lots of info on all Power Dolls series (and also the "Blue Flow" sub series, which take place on the same Pwer Dolls universe but with completely different place/persons). It is in Japanese, but can be roughly understandable using any online translation tool like google.

[Avelardo]

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There was an anime based on the game... all two episodes of it. It can be found on eMule.
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I think "episodes" is a bit of an exaggeration, as the first one has Hardy as a line grunt and the second has her in overall command of DoLLS operations.

Gotta say, the opening of the second video is worth watching a couple of times on loop.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Found something nifty:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...%3DIrB%26sa%3DN
A loader model from one of the later parts, built completely from scratch (google-translated, original japanese version at http://homepage2.nifty.com/0G/gallary/xb-10.htm).

PS. I think I've finally found the PC version of PD2. Leeching right now :P

PS2. Guess what game am I using as an example in the upcoming DosBox tutorial?

[jati]

WHAT!? You actually found that???
I myself only got PD2 Dash (standalone expansion of PD2 ), and never managed to get PD2.
Furthermore, I obtained it in... 1996 IIRC. Well over 10 years ago. k:

If you successfully leech it, let us know! (both how to play and how to get)

[The Fifth Horseman]

I've finished downloading it from ED2K right now. Will see if it's the real deal or not.

[Avelardo]

...and?

Also, did you finish the walkthrough?

[The Fifth Horseman]

Of course I didn't do either of these things yet...