Red Alert 2: Allied Mission Tips, Unknown, Unnoticed Stuff 

A video for Red Alert 2, in 2019. Shows that if you make a quality game, it will hold fans forever.

5:40 launches nuke at target 500m away.

9:17 Bus to Apocalypse Tank: *_"Look at me. Look at me. I am the Captain now."_*

Last moment with engi was so funny, i lmao'd

“Much smarter than its soviet counterpart” 🤣

Funny, during Allied Mission 12, I had captured one of the undefended Nuclear Plants, built a barracks next to it, and continuously trained spies to keep the enemy's power down until I could use the Chronosphere 3 times. I... never tried to use the legionnaires.

I hope you do other factions or even do Yuri's Revenge.

Wow, thanks for this!

5:23 Whoa mind blown moment!

There is one more. At the last mission, at the top of the map, on an unreacable cliff, you can see a circle, made from trees. If you teleport a legionare there, or send a nigthhawk, to the center of this tree corner, you can see a code, in message. I dont know what you can do with the code.

Although it's an easy mission to begin with, I don't give the upgrades to Tanya since she's already op. Give them to the tanks instead. Or whatever else you want to beef up.

finally got this game working on windows 11 from a USB drive

In mission 2 there are crates hidden behind some of the damages buildings.

Dont forget the oil fields in the swamp on mission 11.

I have done some of those before

When you bout to finish them missions and tanya or boris gets squashed by a random civilian vehicle :c

Wait the Rockateers were standing on the ground?

there are a LOT of allied infantries freezing out there...

Finding these was the single best feeling ever playing this game as a kid

The bus was the total star of this vid LOL

"You can capture the Soviet Silo with an enginner" *YOU W H A T?*

Using bus was really cool

I feel awesome for having discovered quite a chunk of these myself, but holy shit some are a real surprise.

Bus more op than apocalypse tank XD

6:26 You missed the fact that there's a lone Sentry Gun you can destroy with the Harriers to completely skip the mission. This must be done before the Soviets set up their base though, as the Sentry Gun acts as a placeholder to prevent the victory condition from being fulfilled.

YOU FORGOT TO THANK THE BUS DRIVER

Holy shit, 18 years later and I still haven't discovered all the surprises of this game. I had no idea about the Bus or Yuri Prime

*Capturing Nuclear silo* Me: "Outstanding beyond science move"

For Mission 5, I used to play the mission with pretty much Tanya only, but ever since find those two engineers, I start to capture barracks and reactor to build 10 rhinos to crush the mission with tanks. I find that method a bit more fun to play. Credit to all of those tips (or maybe Easter Eggs), especially in Mission 11. I did not know the bus thing exist lol.

10:55 Exactly

Damn I played the shit out of this game as a kid and I never noticed so many of these secrets..... I wish EA never bought Westwood...

Tip: On allied mission 7 at the start, you can finish the mission easily if you go near your Allied Base,destroying the Sentry Gun nearby will finish the mission without your friend getting any harm Also good tip for speedrunners Use the Rocheteers for fastest result

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Mission 8: If you capture the abandoned buildings to the south (the refinery and wf) you will get extra time to destroy or capture the beacon before Tanya starts singing the Soviet national anthem.

On Mission 4 Last Chance, you can save the police cars. On Mission 10 Mirage, you can save the friendly outposts, and deny the enemy from building there. I can only save 2 tho, never 3. Its too hard. Also because you prevent them from building, you dont have to worry about them attacking Einstein.

Oh my god After all those years I played this game Nice video, thanks

Lovely stuff, I wanted to see how many I didn't know. And indeed I learned 2-3 new ones. ↓↓↓↓↓ Click Read More ↓↓↓↓↓ Tips I never tried: Last Chance: I didn't know the crate building at the corner of map. Dark Night: I always captured production buildings with engineers, never thought of capturing the actual silos cool! Recently learned this on wiki but never actually saw it or tried it. Misuri: I always captured the abandoned base before I destroyed the beacon. Never thought of capturing the beacon. Florida Keys: Bus was something new! Really practical. Everything else I knew XD My tips: Pearn Harbor: Isn't it a tip to send Rockenteers asap to destroy the sentry gun in the small island before soviets establish their base and win the map? Florida Keys: Isn't it a tip to send a SEAL to destroy the bridges continuusly with the waypoint path loop so you can deny enemy ground assault? or just put one near the enemy engineer landing zone.

I'm not sure if this can be done, but you should test the effects of crates (damage boost, armor boost, etc) on units.

5:41, 10:25 the best one in all the video

This here is my whole childhood! I started playing when I was 6 and I'm still playing now that I'm 22 😊😊

5:56 On Mission 6, did you know that you can link up to 9 Prism Towers? Any extra tower will not be added to the chain.

It still amazes me how so many people still play this game in 2019. It really was a classic!

I don't know of you guys can relate, but when I used to be a kid I always found these by accident because I didn't know how to play the game (and back then I didn't even speak English lol)

So, I didn't know about that the tower you could garrison to see the whole map, the crate at the bottom of the map in the mission where you gotta destroy Nuclear Warheads and that you could capture them too! Ohh and the crazy bus trick, nice!

I genuinely thought I knew everything about this game (and still play it today). First tip: there are six crates on the first mission that I had no idea existed. And up the road: three free Veteran tanks. You know, the President's throwing a victory gala at the White House later and - no that's too weird but still brilliant work. EDIT: SPY COWS?!

10:55-11:07 Eva: "Sir, this is an Engineer. He is much smarter than the Soviet counterpart." *[engineer gets killed by a Sentry Gun]* Stalin/Romanov: "Hold my beer!" Also, the beginning though... SHUT UP, LIEUTENANT EVA!

I hope you'll cover the polar bear secret in Yuri's Revenge campaign which I have found and told the community first ^^.

This! is why I alway's adored replaying RA2's campaigns. little gifts everywhere, you are alway's rewarded for exploring the maps.

i subbed How about the soviet campaign?

0:59 Is it just me, or is this like the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Buildings... The MC Burgertown and the Street?

mission 7: if you destroy a hidden sentry turret just below the friendly base before the soviets land. You win the mission.

3:58, we age of empires now!

Holy crap, that bus is awesome.

I am glad 8 years old me could discover most of the secret

mission 7...kill the lone sentry gun on the islands to insta win before enemy comes

10:00 Building Teleporting Troops!? Sounds OP

Wow I find the voices superior to the games nowadays. Gameplay as always excellent. Westwood really put their hearts into this game.

I wonder about the maximum achievable unit speed included with the speed crate. I'm really curious if its possible to make something ludicrously fast or just so much can be achieved before it hits a limit.

I don't know if you will see this but when I played the mission, i managed to keep the psychic beacon instead of it being sold. I did this by using fully promoted GI to outrange the coils, then captured the soviet barracks and tesla reactor and trained a engineer to capture the beacon. For some reason it didn't get sold (but it doesn't seen like the beacon does anything)

10:57 bruh momentum.

In the fourth allied mission "Last Chance", if you garrison the Mcmonkey burger building with several G.I.s you get a handful of Monkeys that you can command and help you against the Soviets. Its one of the funniest secrets I ever found in the game and I'm kinda surprised no one has mentioned it yet.

Yuri Prime in RA2 is strong as well. Though he lacks movement above water, he makes up with a mind control range equal or slightly lower than the firing range of Grand Cannon😂

Lol! That bus! Thanks for the tip!!!

There's some more I can add! For the Allied Mission #2 - If you can actually destroy or capture the North-East soviet base with only Tanya and the Rocketeers, you will be awarded with more units paradropped into the neutralized enemy base For the Allied Mission #4 - If you can destroy the Psychic Amplifier with only your Naval Units and never got to force land your troops into the shore, your Secretary will say something of the lines "Good work commander, they never saw us coming" There's also for the Allied Mission #7 but I cant remember fully, but it's something about the Marsh/swamp in the North Island And I'm sure you know about the Tutorial sections too!

In dark night mission there's a more interesting thing. On the rock on the right on map there's a few Soviet ore miners

There's a tip in mission 7 which you haven't mentioned. It's possible to quickly beat the mission if you move all of your troops towards the light blue Allied base which the Soviets will take out and build their own base on the northwest. As soon as the Soviets show up, you can destroy their MCV, and they will not be a threat at all. I once did that.

On the level mirage you can move a navy seal upto the place where the soviet mcv arrives and blow it up as soon as it deploys to end this mission superfast.

Those spies are imitating cows for their king and country

Pro tip for the Fallout mission: Each time your Seals blow up the bridge, an enemy plane with two engineers will be sent to repair it. Use your Waypoint to make your Seals blow it up non-stop (even when it's destroyed) and you can spawn an enormous amount of planes. The Engineers provide excellent experience for your units to gain fast veterancy.

Those controllable cows in the Dark Night mission were by far the best stress reliever when I played this game as a kid, considering I was extremely careful and explored every inch of the map before moving out with the Spies and Tanya.

DAYUM! Da Buzz Jesuz!! We. Need more. Busses... Just dropping Them On ALL enemy units?! Though. It's gonna be A Loooong Battle... Every. 6-7 min for The chronosphere to be ready... Mr. Prez, we Need help from: S.H.I.E.L.D.. Tell Nick Fury To bring His. Chevvy Tahoe!! Wait. Can we drop busses on even structures too!! ? 😂😂😂

In mission 2, you can repair or destroy various damaged houses for crates, too.

In the 11th allied mission you can use 2 SEALs to set a waypoint to destroy the brides over and over again. If you do this they will paradrop engineers to the middle island between the bridges, if you place another SEAL defending the ramp there a HORDE of planes will paradrop engineers over and over again at an extreme speed. This way is very good to level up units to chronosphere over.

I'm surprised how many of these i knew back in the day. I didn't have internet when i first played this so it's shocking to see how much my skill has been replaced by check the wiki

Welcome to 2019 time traveller

There is a tip I know of for Deep Sea. You can win the mission very easily before the bulk of enemy forces arrive by training a few rocketeers and sending them to destroy a sentry gun next to a garrisoned hut on a small island.

Should do a video about the crates and how they affect unit stats

There's also another one on the mission on Chicago Map (Last Chance). If you garrison the Burger Kong building with GIs then the enemy force destroy it, a group of monkeys will spawn and attack the enemy force responsible for its destruction then they will follow your commands.

Man this game DID NOT punish you for finding easier ways to complete missions! In fact, even embraced it! Especially with the one where you can capture the silo

There was a few I did know a lot I didn't know I play this game everytime I didn't know you can use an engineer on a nuke silo and the psychic beacon and the bus(lol bus just obliterate apocalypse tank)

Mission 7. There might be no tips but there is a cheese mechanics that allows you to prevent soviet invasion and accomplish the mission earlier: There's a single sentry gun on some of the islands. If you destroy it before Soviet invade you accomplish the mission. It's SE of the cyan ally islands, you should be able to destroy it with few rocketeers.

But Yuri Prime's not in the stock game. It might be tied to the fact we see a bunch of "MISSING CAMEO" items around. Now Psychic Commandos are a different kettle of fish.

6:21 In Deep Sea, you can win the mission instantly by moving your Aircraft Carriers and Destroyers near the your ally’s base. When the Soviets’ MCV has been deployed, order your Carriers to destroy the Construction Yard and after a few minutes, you win the mission.

It's a pain in the ass discovering these 20 years ago with no walkthru

I don’t like how the sound designers got lazy in the original game and just put grizzly tank voice for all allied vehicles same with destroyers for naval. Same with the soviets rhino tanks for all soviet vehicles and Dreadnaught voice for all naval :(

I played this game for years and still had couple things to learn from this video :) nice :)

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No trick for the other one??? I don't believe it! Use Rocketeers to immediately destroy the Soviet Construction Yard in the Hawaiian islands! You can also save the game right when it stars, reload it then boom! You have a few seconds of advantage in the game. Just cope with the camera because it scrolls to the new units in the game.

Regarding mission deep sea one tip immediately at the beginning of the game order all your navy to the south of the island their you will find a small island with a sentry gun destroy it and you win

I new most of them, specially cows to expand unexplored view , but never had thought to capture nuke with engineer

I've been replaying RA2 and Yuri's Revenge. Was surprised that I used most of these actually.

Using 3 cows to spy on enemies LOL... I used to do that

In the first Allied mission, if you don't sink the Dreadnaughts, they'll eventually leave and you'll get a Mission Failure... 3:15 I don't get it? What's so significant about that building in particular? 4:10 The cows are friendly towards the Red Soviet base, but one of them is hostile to them and they'll send their dogs to maul those cows when the battlefield expands... 4:50 Soviet anti-aircraft... none of which can be seen anywhere... This is highly sus... Especially considering how capturing the base gives you Soviet Engineers and Huskies... 6:20 In the Pearl Harbour level, there's a Sentry Gun on a tiny island near your allies' base. Destroy that before the Soviets deploy their MCV and you win since the win condition is "Destroy All Soviet Structures" EDIT: And it was addressed in a later comment as an exploit not a neat trick... fair enough :) 8:05 They kept that refinery and crate in for Yuri's Revenge when you're the Soviets. Except I think the Allies put up some defences as well. But capturing the Refinery will spawn a crate with a Chrono Miner in it.

good editing, and I had no idea about half these tricks despite playing the game 20 years

Now if I remember correctly, in the Soviet mission where you infiltrate the battle lab infront of the world trade center you get yuri clones (dunno how they were called in ra2) and you can mind control a bus with them and you will have the same benefits as with the bus in the allied mission and you can even control it!

Mission 10 took so long until I worked out I could just send engineers to rush their mcs.

When you were a map-exploring maniac back as a kid and thus know about most of these. Feels good man

Wow very nice :)) still something to explore, thkssss

If I remember correctly, in mission 2, there are some heavily damaged civilian buildings to the left side of your base and if you repair them with engineers (or destroy them?) some of them will leave crates behind.

The "Much smarter than his Soviet counterpart"-thing made me LOL xD