Command And Conquer: Generals (PC)
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Cheat Codes
Quick start
Start the game with the -quickstart command
line parameter to skip the introduction sequences and go directly
to a new, no animation menu.
Honors
Note: This procedure involves editing a game file;
create a backup copy of the file before proceeding. Use a text
editor to edit the "skirmishstats.ini" file in the "command
and conquer generals data" folder. It can be found in "c:\my
documents\" or "c:\documents and settings\administrator\"
in Windows XP. Change the Honors line to "Honors = 999999999999999".
If you do not have the Honors line, enter that line under the
Challenge line.
100% complete
Note: This procedure involves editing a game file;
create a backup copy of the file before proceeding. Use a text
editor to edit the "skirmishstats.ini" file in the "command
and conquer generals data" folder. It can be found in "c:\my
documents\" or "c:\documents and settings\administrator\"
in Windows XP. Replace the current contents of the file with the
following. Note: The "winstreak", "best win streak",
"wins" can be changed as desired.
BestWinStreak = 100 Challenge = 0 Honors = 1000000 LastHouse = America Losses = 0 LoyalGames = 31 Nuke = 1 PPC = 1 SCUD = 1 WinStreak = 100 Wins = 100 maps\alpine assault\alpine assault.map_2 = 1 maps\armored fury\armored fury.map_2 = 2 maps\dark mountain\dark mountain.map_2 = 1 maps\desert fury\desert fury.map_2 = 1 maps\fallen empire\fallen empire.map_2 = 1 maps\final crusade\final crusade.map_2 = 1 maps\fortress avalanche\fortress avalanche.map_2 = 3 maps\golden oasis\golden oasis.map_2 = 1 maps\heartland shield\heartland shield.map_2 = 1 maps\homeland alliance\homeland alliance.map_2 = 3 maps\lone eagle\lone eagle.map_2 = 1 maps\rogue agent\rogue agent.map_2 = 1 maps\sand serpent\sand serpent.map_2 = 1 maps\scorched earth\scorched earth.map_2 = 1 maps\silent river\silent river.map_2 = 1 maps\tournament desert\tournament desert.map_2 = 1 maps\tournament island\tournament island.map_2 = 1 maps\tournament lake\tournament lake.map_2 = 1 maps\tournament tundra\tournament tundra.map_2 = 1 maps\twilight flame\twilight flame.map_2 = 3 maps\wasteland warlords\wasteland warlords.map_2 = 1 maps\whiteout\whiteout.map_2 = 3 maps\winter wolf\winter wolf.map_2 = 1
Note: Enter the following into the file to achieve all medals
and honors and also have gold stars for every official map, instead
of just bronze stars.
BestWinStreak = 66 Challenge = 0 Honors = 178682 LastHouse = America LoyalGames = 1 Nuke = 1 PPC = 1 SCUD = 1 WinStreak = 66 Wins = 66 maps\alpine assault\alpine assault.map_2 = 1 maps\alpine assault\alpine assault.map_3 = 1 maps\alpine assault\alpine assault.map_4 = 1 maps\armored fury\armored fury.map_2 = 1 maps\armored fury\armored fury.map_3 = 1 maps\armored fury\armored fury.map_4 = 1 maps\dark mountain\dark mountain.map_2 = 1 maps\dark mountain\dark mountain.map_3 = 1 maps\dark mountain\dark mountain.map_4 = 1 maps\desert fury\desert fury.map_2 = 1 maps\desert fury\desert fury.map_3 = 1 maps\desert fury\desert fury.map_4 = 1 maps\fallen empire\fallen empire.map_2 = 1 maps\fallen empire\fallen empire.map_3 = 1 maps\fallen empire\fallen empire.map_4 = 1 maps\final crusade\final crusade.map_2 = 1 maps\final crusade\final crusade.map_3 = 1 maps\final crusade\final crusade.map_4 = 1 maps\fortress avalanche\fortress avalanche.map_2 = 1 maps\fortress avalanche\fortress avalanche.map_3 = 1 maps\fortress avalanche\fortress avalanche.map_4 = 1 maps\golden oasis\golden oasis.map_2 = 1 maps\golden oasis\golden oasis.map_3 = 1 maps\golden oasis\golden oasis.map_4 = 1 maps\heartland shield\heartland shield.map_2 = 1 maps\heartland shield\heartland shield.map_3 = 1 maps\heartland shield\heartland shield.map_4 = 1 maps\homeland alliance\homeland alliance.map_2 = 1 maps\homeland alliance\homeland alliance.map_3 = 1 maps\homeland alliance\homeland alliance.map_4 = 1 maps\lone eagle\lone eagle.map_2 = 1 maps\lone eagle\lone eagle.map_3 = 1 maps\lone eagle\lone eagle.map_4 = 1 maps\sand serpent\sand serpent.map_2 = 1 maps\sand serpent\sand serpent.map_3 = 1 maps\sand serpent\sand serpent.map_4 = 1 maps\scorched earth\scorched earth.map_2 = 1 maps\scorched earth\scorched earth.map_3 = 1 maps\scorched earth\scorched earth.map_4 = 1 maps\silent river\silent river.map_2 = 1 maps\silent river\silent river.map_3 = 1 maps\silent river\silent river.map_4 = 1 maps\tournament desert\tournament desert.map_2 = 1 maps\tournament desert\tournament desert.map_3 = 1 maps\tournament desert\tournament desert.map_4 = 1 maps\tournament island\tournament island.map_2 = 1 maps\tournament island\tournament island.map_3 = 1 maps\tournament island\tournament island.map_4 = 1 maps\tournament lake\tournament lake.map_2 = 1 maps\tournament lake\tournament lake.map_3 = 1 maps\tournament lake\tournament lake.map_4 = 1 maps\tournament tundra\tournament tundra.map_2 = 1 maps\tournament tundra\tournament tundra.map_3 = 1 maps\tournament tundra\tournament tundra.map_4 = 1 maps\twilight flame\twilight flame.map_2 = 1 maps\twilight flame\twilight flame.map_3 = 1 maps\twilight flame\twilight flame.map_4 = 1 maps\wasteland warlords\wasteland warlords.map_2 = 1 maps\wasteland warlords\wasteland warlords.map_3 = 1 maps\wasteland warlords\wasteland warlords.map_4 = 1 maps\whiteout\whiteout.map_2 = 1 maps\whiteout\whiteout.map_3 = 1 maps\whiteout\whiteout.map_4 = 1 maps\winter wolf\winter wolf.map_2 = 1 maps\winter wolf\winter wolf.map_3 = 1 maps\winter wolf\winter wolf.map_4 = 1
Unlockables
Skirmish award requirements
- Air Wing Honor: Build over 20 aircraft in a solo or multi-player mode mission.
- Apocalypse Honor: Build each of the Super Weapons.
- Battle Tank Honor: Build over 50 tanks in a solo or multi-player mode mission.
- Blitz Honor: Defeat an enemy in less than 10, 5, or 3 minutes.
- China Campaign Honor: Complete China's campaign mode
- Endurance Honor: Complete all Skirmish maps
- GLA Campaign Honor: Complete GLA's campaign mode
- Streak Honor: Win 3, 10, or 30 matches in a row.
- USA Campaign Honor: Complete USA's campaign mode
Player ranks
Get the following point total to advance to the corresponding rank. Note: They are earned in increments of three points for each victory.
- Corporal: 5
- Sergeant: 10
- Lieutenant: 20
- Captain: 50
- Major: 100
- Colonel: 200
- Brigadier General: 500
- General: 1,000
- Commander in Chief: 2,000
Video
Walkthrough
Hints
Easily selecting units
When you have many units of soldiers or vehicles, first
select all the units. Then, press [Ctrl] and a number (0
to 9) to find the selected unit.
Americans: Prevent enemy from passing
When playing as the Americans, put six Rocket Soldiers
and four Snipers inside a building. They will stop any enemy movement
nearby, even the helicopter combat drop. The Rockets Soldiers
will tear any vehicle and airship, while snipers take out Soldiers.
You can use this to defend your base or specific places.
Americans: Helicopter pilots always eject
If you are playing as the Americans and a ranked (veteran,
elite, or heroic) helicopter gets shot down, you can force the
pilot to eject. Quickly use the green drag-box to attempt to select
the helicopter as it is falling out of the sky. You will not actually
select the crashing aircraft, but the pilot should eject every
time.
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Americans: Tomahawk kills
Have a Tomahawk set on "Guard" on a cliff
and it will kill anything with its guided missiles. It will sometimes
miss fast objects like the GLA Tech, etc.
Americans: Easy final mission
At the start of the game, use your promotions to get
an A-10 airstrike, fuel air bombs, and start building Aurora bombers
after have the Strategy Center. After that, capture the Chinese
base. Build a War Factory and other things. Make about five Overlords,
one with a Propaganda Tower and the rest with Gatling Cannons.
Make another drop of zone. Then, start making Inferno Cannons.
Leave two Overlords at your Chinese base. Then havve the rest
of your forces attack the GLA. Also when you have enough money,
build a Nuclear Missile and two Particle Cannon Uplinks. Use them
on the GLA and victory is yours.
Americans: Attack strategy
First, build a squad of about ten to fifteen Humvees.
Upgrade them all with TOW missiles and Battle Drones, but get
one with a Scout Drone. Then buy 50 to 75 Rocket Soldiers (five
for each Humvee) and load them up in the Humvees. This can be
used to defend your base or attack your enemy's base. If you want
to capture the enemy buildings as well, build about an extra five
Humvees and load them up with Rangers, with Capture Building and
Flashbangs. Flashbangs are used to clear out garrisoned buildings.
Also, upgrade those five Humvees with Scout Drones.
Build two or three air fields. Store half with Raptors and half
with Aurora Bombers. Then, perform airstrikes on buildings and
finish the job with tanks.
Americans: Easy win
Take Col. Burton, and put a remote demo on any civilian tech building. Keep a constant watch on your radar screen in the corner. When an enemy starts to capture it, blow the charge. It works every time.
Americans: Stronger Humvees
When playing as the USA, Humvee can become powerful
easily. This is usually best when starting out. First, build a
Barracks and a War Factory. Next, build five Rocket Soldiers and
a Humvee. Place the five soldiers into the Humvee. Your Humvee
now uses its default attack, plus all five soldiers attack as
well, giving it an excellent advantage over tanks. With four Humvees
you can easily wipe out a small base (like when you are still
starting to build). For extra damage, upgrade to TOW missiles.
Chinese: Bigger nuclear explosion
First, build a Nuclear Missile. Then, upgrade the Mine
Cluster (must gain three star generals first). When the Nuclear
Missile is ready, drop the Mine Custer at the enemy base. After
that, launch the Nuclear Missiles to where you dropped the mine.
Chinese: Defend base
Have some Gattling Tanks and Tank Hunters to defend
the base. Also have a Speaker to heal the troops. The Tank Hunters
will kill all the tanks and the Gattling Tank will kill all the
soldiers and aircraft.
Chinese: Free Red Guards
When the guard finishes building, it will come out
in pairs. When the first one comes out, cancel it. You will get
the money back with the free guard.
Chinese: Easy win
First get a Radar, then quickly get a Dozer to build
a Supply Depot. Quickly build a Factory and start pumping some
APsS (Troop Crawler) and send them to the enemy base. Have at
least two APCs. Then, swam them with your infantry.
No Chinese ground-based invasion is complete without an ECM tank
or two. The best invasion consists of an even number of Overlord
or Emperor Overlord tanks, half of which are upgraded with Propaganda
Towers and half with Gattling Cannons. The ECM tanks, when close
by, will detour more than half of the missiles fired at your tanks (which is useful against annoying, yet powerful Scorpion Rockets).
They can also deactivate nearby vehicles, which is useful when
encountering an Overlord Tank or any other ominous threat.
Use the following trick on the level where you must destroy the
water dam. Once you have gathered enough money(oil derricks at
the upper left of your base), build three extra Bulldozers, four
Nuclear Reactors, then three Gattling Guns (multi tasking) on
the land bridge when the water level drops. Also put two Gattling
Guns below your base just to be safe. Use the extra construction
Bulldozers to stand by and repair the Gattling Guns. Build two
Airfields, with four planes in each to help guard the land bridge.
Use a few planes to scout the entire map. Click the star button
at the bottom right of the screen and click the one where the
soldiers you make automatically start with a "^" sign
above their heads. Build three Barracks. Keep building Red Guards
until you have 70. At the same time while training the red guards,
make at least 30 Tank Hunters. This takes a while because the
oil derricks must supply you with more money if the supplies run
out. Then, build a War Factory. Make Battlemaster Tanks and five
Dragon Tanks. Then, select all the men (both Red Guards and Tank
Hunters) and charge them into the enemy base. Use the tanks to
escort the men in front. Make sure the men do not pass up the
tanks to keep the men from getting run over by enemy vehicles.
The men should provide cover fire for the tanks. With this tactic,
the enemy does not stand a chance.
On the last mission for China, first build a Command Center with
the Cash Hack bonus (Cash Hack 3 works best). Kill every enemy
but the Supply Stash. Kill the Worker and use the bonus to get
money, then destroy it. Build a Gattling Cannon, Propaganda Center,
and War Factory. Go down the hill to where you started. Send eight
Hackers down there and start gaining money. When you have $5,000,
build an airfield and send a jet to explore. If SCUD Storm launches,
send Hackers into a bunker and get all vehicles down the hill.
Never use any bonuses until you destroy the SCUD Storm or it will
launch. Wait until you destroy the palace to capture the Oil Derrick.
This strategy works best with a Chinese opponent, as they have the lowest anti-aircraft capability. In any skirmish match, build airfields as early as possible. Have four MiGs patrol on each approach to the base as well as blocking the approaches with Gatling Cannons. If there are any Oil Rigs, they will make this strategy a lot easier. Build four more MiGs and have them patrol over any nearby Oil Rigs, then have Black Lotus capture them. Leave the rigs protected by MiGs. You now have a stable income with hardly any risk of losing it, which will make this process a lot faster. Build small MiG groups and have them patrol over the enemy base. Against the USA or GLA, both of whom like to spam anti-aircraft weapons, you must watch these groups and replace any aircraft you lose. You can now start attacking in earnest. Build a War Factory and purchase the Black Napalm upgrade. It will be very useful for this MiG-orientated strategy. The MiG description reads "Create a firestorm in large groups". This is the basis of the exploit. Create two groups of between twenty and forty. This will, as mentioned, be far easier and quicker with Oil Rigs on your side; the more the better. You will by this point have enough firepower to easily destroy the entire enemy base in two or three raids, if you use both groups every raid. However, quite a bit of coordination will be required to do this, because you will have to target each building individually. For now, make sure your big MiG squads are grouped with [Ctrl] + <number>, as this will help when you make a big attack. Send your two squads repeatedly to the enemy base with the "attack move" button, as this will get rid of any enemy tanks or infantry remaining in the enemy base. Build a Nuclear Missile. If you have general promotion points, get the Cluster Mines and Artillery Barrage. Drop Cluster Mines, a Nuke and an Artillery Barrage (in that order) on the enemy Command Center, and have your MiGs finish it off if it is still there, then destroy any enemy bulldozers. The can no longer replace any buildings you destroy. Then, get your big MiG groups and destroy everything.
GLA: Two armies for the price of one
Use Jarrem Kell to kill the driver of an USA or China
Construction Dozer. Then, send a soldier or Jarrem inside the
dozer. You will be able to construct all the installations of
that army.
GLA: Quick win
At the start of the match, build an Arms Dealer as
soon as possible. Once established, build a Technical and send
it directly into your enemies base around the side where they
have no defenses. Considering this is done at the start, if you
were quick enough they will not have any defenses at all yet.
Once in the enemy's base, start shooting their supply trucks or
running over their workers that are collecting money. Note: This
will not work if the enemy is the USA; fill the Technical with
Terrorists, go over to their base. and blow up their Supply Depot.
This little and inexpensive attack will cause major problems for
your enemy because it will stop them receiving money for about
one minute, allowing you to get an extra $3,000 dollars or so.
If you are playing online, your enemy is most likely to surrender
after this ordeal.
GLA Vehicle upgrades
The following is a list of the salvage upgrades for
GLA vehicles:
- Scorpion
- Level 1: Bigger gun
- Level 2: Another rocket
- Marauder
- Level 1: Bigger gun
- Level 2: Another gun
- SCUD Launcher
- Both levels: Bigger SCUD
- Technical
- Level 1: Grenade Launcher replaces machine gun
- Level 2: Rocket launcher replaces grenade launcher
- Toxin Tractor
- Both levels: Bigger sprayer
- Battle Bus
- Both Levels: Better armor
- Quad Cannon
- Both levels: Bigger gun
- All other units
- Money or Veterancy
Americans or Chinese: Effective base
First, build two Construction Dozers (one for Power
Plant and one for Barracks). When they are done, build two Supply
Depots and send those two Construction Dozers to the area that
you are defending. When you have enough money and power, build
a Bunker and a Gattling Gun next to it. When done with that, build
moer Gattling Guns and about three or four more Bunkers. Fill
the Bunkers with Rocket Soldiers. When they attack, the Rocket
Soldiers will tear the vehicle apart and the Gattling Gun will
kill the men. When they attack by air, both the Rocket Soldiers
and Gattling Guns will defend your base.
Americans or Chinese Using GLA as secondary force
This trick is more effective when fighting against
hard or brutal enemies. First, fight against a GLA opponent. They
will almost always build a Resource Collection building at other
collection points other than the one nearest to their base. Allow
them to do so. Send a few Paladins accompanied by a duo of Humvees
to eradicate one of these secondary bases. Capture the building,
and immediately build a Worker. Send him back to your base and
you can start your own GLA force.
Easy multi-player mode wins
When you are against the GLA, you can destroy the cars
so that the other player cannot use them as car bombs. The trick
is to crush the cars by passing over them. Have one of your tanks
or bulldozers go next to the car. They will not go around it,
but will instead go over it.
Fine Art Of War map
Build two Tomahawks and put them on the ledges next to the towers on both sides. Nothing can get them and they will rank up quickly.
Homeland Alliance map
At start, build a Bulldozer or Worker. Send both to the center of the city. Build a Supply Center and Barracks. Sell your Command Center and build a new one in the city. It will be easy to guard the city when playing against the CPU. Just send Missile Defenders, Rpg Troopers, or Tank Hunters into the buildings at the edges of the cities (about ten to twenty per side). Stay
within the city and you will be unstoppable. Note: This works best as the Chinese.
Allied artillery
Use the Strategy Center's Bombardment. It will be same
as the Artillery. Note: If you shoot very close to the Strategy
Center, it cannot fire.
Multiple Commanche Rocket Pod attack
When you have upgraded the Commanche's Rocket Pods,
go to the area you wish to attack. Select the Rocket Pod ability.
After you initiated the Rocket Pod attack, quickly switch to the
Commanche's normal attack (machine guns and Hellfires). This is
useful when destroying a battalion of tanks in close formation.
Launch two super weapons for the price of one
This trick only works with the SCUD Storm. Build a
SCUD Storm. Once you can fire it, click it once. Then, attack
a target like you would with a regular unit. You will not hear
any message that the SCUD Storm has been launched. You must wait
for the first nine SCUDS to drop before you can fire it regularly.
Taking out large groups of infantry and tanks/buildings
Make as many Humvees as desired. Create an even number
of them. Upgrade to TOW Missiles. Fill half of the Humvees with
Snipers and the other half with Missile Defenders, RPG Troopers,
or Tank Hunters. If you also want to capture buildings, make another
set of Humvees with Rangers, Red Guards, or Rebels and upgrade
to "Capture Buildings".
Faster Particle Beam Uplink movement
When using the US Particle Beam Uplink superweapon,
keep clicking the area where you want the beam to go. Note: You
must still have the blue Particle Beam crosshairs to do this.
The beam's movement will speed up. This is a very effective tactic
against weak or damaged structures.
Flying man
Destroy one of the GLA's assault trucks (Technicals)
and the rebel in the back will go flying. Note: Sometimes the
rebel can get hit when falling if there area lot of Technicals,
however this is rare.
Watch a shell map
If you just want to watch a shell map, but not on the
main menu, put the file into the maps folder. When you go to the
Skirmish menu, go to "Unofficial Maps". The shell map
should be in the area where missions are, with no player number
next to it.
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