Rally question

[Kartoffel]

The real reason I started this thread was to receive an answer on how to effectively rally without sounding like the moron doesn't know how to effectively rally asking the question directly. In all my years of playing I have not figured it out and I have recently started playing scenarios of the difficulty that makes knowing how to rally of sufficient import to be of game losing/winning importance. Rather than providing the boiler plate directive to read the manual is there a possibility of pointing out a cliff notes version that I may partake of? I ask this because I was not able to locate a heading for "rally" under the manual TOC and I would rather not spend and evening reading the entire thing if I could avoid it. So gang, how about helping out an ignorant long time player?

[runequester]

Originally Posted by Kartoffel

The real reason I started this thread was to receive an answer on how to effectively rally without sounding like the moron doesn't know how to effectively rally asking the question directly. In all my years of playing I have not figured it out and I have recently started playing scenarios of the difficulty that makes knowing how to rally of sufficient import to be of game losing/winning importance. Rather than providing the boiler plate directive to read the manual is there a possibility of pointing out a cliff notes version that I may partake of? I ask this because I was not able to locate a heading for "rally" under the manual TOC and I would rather not spend and evening reading the entire thing if I could avoid it. So gang, how about helping out an ignorant long time player?

I'd be happy to try and help but I am a little uncertain of what you are looking for.

Are you wanting to know how rallying works in game mechanics, or how to best use it as a player?

Thanks!

[gila]

Once again,it's all about trail and error.

Play the game,

Then learn the hard way as others have,on which works best.

Should everything in this game,there will be a short cut

[Gurachn]

Originally Posted by runequester

...Are you wanting to know how rallying works in game mechanics, or how to best use it as a player?

Both of these points would be very useful.

I can understand where Kartoffel is coming from. The manual seems to assume that a lot of basic techniques are already well understood by the player which is not always the case.
And not just for noobs either.

Even though I have been playing the series off and on (more off, admittedly) since the first DOS version, I suspect that there are subtleties and techniques that I haven't cottoned on to or have forgotten, or have changed in different versions.

A clear explanation of the mechanics, and some killer ideas of how to use rallying to maximum effectiveness would be most welcome, thanks.