  Total Annihilation with The Core Contingency & Battle Tactics
 Long ago, the galaxy had known peace.
Paradise was ruled with the hand of science, and the hand was that of
the galactic governing body known as the Core.
Ironically, it was the
Core's ultimate victory, the victory over death itself, that brought about the
downfall of its paradise and started the war that would decimate a million
worlds.
The immortality process, known as
"patterning," involved the electronic duplication of brain matrices, allowing
the transfer of consciousness into durable machines. Effectively it meant
immortality, and the Core decreed the process mandatory for all citizens in
order to ensure their safety.
However, there were many citizens unwilling to toss aside their
bodies so casually, many indeed who regarded patterning as an atrocity. They
fled to the outer edges of the galaxy, forming a resistance movement that became
known as the Arm. War began, though it was never officially declared by either
side.
The Arm developed high-powered combat suits
for its armies, while the Core transferred the minds of its soldiers directly
into similarly deadly machines. The Core duplicated its finest warriors
thousands of times over. The Arm countered with a massive cloning program. The
war raged on for more than 4,000 years, consuming the resources of an entire
galaxy and leaving it a scorched wasteland.
Both sides lay in ruins. Their civilizations
had long since vanished, their once vast military complexes were smashed. Their
armies were reduced to a few scattered remnants that continued to battle on
ravaged worlds. Their hatred fueled by millenia of conflict, they would fight to
the death. For each, the only acceptable outcome was the complete and utter
annihilation of the other.
Features:
* 50 Single Player
Missions * Over 150 different run-time generated 3D units including a full
complement of Land, Air, and Sea units * Extensive multiplayer and internet
support * Download new units, maps, and missions * Unique tracking feature
allows you to follow units into battle * Allied teams can share resources,
units and information * Fully customizable line of sight modes and user
interface
The Core
Contingency New units, new worlds and
all-new strategies!
In Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency, players discover
that the Core lost its 4,000-year battle against the Arm and the galaxy is being
rebuilt.But rumors of a surviving Core Commander, hidden as part of a
contingency plan during the end of the war, are true.Both the Arm and Core are
now racing to retrieve an artifact of new alien technology, the only remaining
element the Core needs to achieve its mission to destroy the Arm and the
galaxy.
Features
75 powerful new battle units, including
minelayers and hovercraft
25 all-new missions, plus a bonus mission for advanced players
50 multiplayer maps designed for battles with up to 10 players
Six new worlds to conquer, including swamp and urban landscapes
Wreak havoc with the giant Krogoth Kbot
The Map & Mission Editor, the same tool used by TA designers, lets you
create your own unique battlefields and scenarios
New downloadable battle units, maps and map sections
Play against computer opponents in multiplayer games
New downloadable battle units, maps and map sections
With Total Annihilation: The Core
Contingency, it's harder for your enemies to hide when you deploy all new
amphibious Kbots, assault hovercraft, mines and more.Now you can protect your
bases by building them underwater and surprising opponents with sea-based
amphibious armies.Ultimately, it's up to you to determine the outcome of the
eternal battle between the Core and the Arm.
75 New Units:
New Kbots with heavy long-range missiles, radar jamming
and the power to stop tanks dead in their tracks.
Maverick Kbot with twin guns capable of knocking out
enemy units with a single shot.
Underwater metal extractors, fusion plant and seaplane
platform.
Fast-moving hovercraft that strike swiftly across
rivers, swamps and oceans.
Amphibious Kbot for land and sea operations.
Mines and mine-layers for enhanced defensive strategies.

Dive right into a new batch of
quick missions for the world's most explosive strategy game! Battle Tactics
features smaller, quicker battles to satisfy that nagging Total Annihilation
fix. Blast through 100 rapid-fire ambushes where the action is fast and furious.
New maps provide a fresh opportunity for ambush. Varying degrees of difficulty
give new Total Annihilation players a chance to learn the ropes while offering
advanced players a new challenge. The units, the maps, the worlds and many of
the elements that made Total Annihilation such a rush are here. Because when you
need to satisfy that Total Annihilation urge, any little fix of heavy artillery
will do.
Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics' smaller,
quicker battles are perfectly suited to satisfying that nagging Total
Annihilation urge without requiring several-hour-long slugfests. Players can
blast through numerous missions that can be accomplished during a lunchbreak or
between classes. In addition, players can vary the degree of difficulty to
provide a new challenge once they have perfected the huge assortment of included
missions on one setting.
TA: Battle Tactics Features
- 100 fast and furious missions as either the Arm or Core.
- Four bonus units -- the Arm Stunner, Core Neutron, Arm
Phalanx and the Core Copperhead.
- New scenarios with multiple paths to victory while still
forcing you to develop a strategy
- Six new multiplayer maps.
- Single-player missions on Acid and Crystal Worlds for
the first time.
- Varying degrees of difficulty to challenge
everybody, from the beginning real-time strategy player to the advanced
pro
- Text boxes give beginnng and advanced
tactics
Because when you need to satisfy that Total Annihilation urge, any
little fix of heavy artillery will do.

System requirements:
Windows 95/98/XP, Pentium 100MHz, 16MB RAM, 4X CD-ROM,
100% Sound Blaster compatible, VGA 256 color or better, mouse.
Brand New 4 CD set in
shrinkwrapped jewel case. Game instructions on
CD
Total Annihilation with The Core Contingency & Battle Tactics
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