Rainbow Six 3 - Raven Shield General Planning Advice Document written by PyroFalkon (pyrofalkon@hotmail.com) Latest update: 1 November 2003 Current version: 1.0a +---------------+ |+-------------+| ||LATEST UPDATE|| |+-------------+| +---------------+ v1.0a (1 November 2003) It's been nearly a year, but unfortunately my site is down for the count. Luckily, IGN has decided to host my FAQs too, so it's all good. A new copyright notice is the only change. +-------+ |+-----+| ||INTRO|| |+-----+| +-------+ I love Rainbow Six, and I hate most first-person shooters. Hypocritical? Maybe. But I'm telling you, I would not even considering picking up Rainbow Six if the whole planning thing wasn't in it. Maybe I just like tactical shooters, I don't know. But, with the planning phase of the game in it, the game shoots to somewhere near the top of my favorite games of all time. There aren't too many games where I'd honestly claim to have spent over six hours on the first mission, spending 10 minutes of that simply testing the movement of one waypoint, but here we are. When I was a rookie, back with Rainbow Six 1, I still loved the planning phase, but I had no idea how to go about using it. I knew the CONTROLS, of course, but not the strategy. In one brilliant moment, for example, I sent all four teams of two into one door at once and told them to shoot everything that moved. They opened the door, saw a terrorist, and opened fire. The terrorist survived because my team was too busy shooting each other in the heads. When the blood settled, two guys were left. One ran like hell, and the other was blown away by the terrorist. Not exactly the best way to handle a hostage situation. That would not have happened if I had had any training at all in how to plan for missions. There are plenty of FAQs out there, both online and off, that talk about how to get through every mission. I don't like having my plans handed to me, though, so I looked for a guide that gave general pointers and advice. I didn't find one, so instead of whining about it on a message board, I decided to write one. Let me say up front that if you follow every tactic of mine to the letter, you'll get blown away in every mission. It's not because I'm inaccurate, it's because I'm intentionally vague. The information presented here is only a SHELL. Every mission is different, of course, so some things may work in some situations while others won't. You need to use this document as advice or a training tool only, not as your be-all and end-all advice to getting through the game. You'll understand in a moment, once you get to the meat of the document. This guide will probably not help veterans, at least not as much as it would help rookies. We vets have played through this series, fiddling with waypoints and go-codes until we had to program our cell phones to say "Alpha! Go go go!" whenever we had a phone call just so we would pay attention. We know, through a trial by fire, not to send in eight operatives through the same door. We know not to throw a frag grenade in the same room we're standing in. As a former rookie though (and we're all former rookies, don't forget that), I know that I was ill-prepared for the planning stages of the game. That said, vets may want to have a glance at this document anyway. Maybe you forgot something, or maybe you never tried one strategy simply because it may have slipped your mind. Or, even better, feel free to submit your own general tactic to me. I hardly know EVERYTHING in Rainbow, and there's infinite ways to improve upon my techniques. More information can be found in the contact info section at the bottom. There are no spoilers here. I may cite a mission number as a reference, but I won't give away its name or its details. You won't ruin your gaming experience or the storyline by reading this. All right, onto the strategies! +-----------------+ |+---------------+| ||GENERAL TACTICS|| |+---------------+| +-----------------+ This is the meat of the document. I make no guarantee (in fact, I highly doubt) that every tactic will work in every mission. I try to be as vague as possible to show that it can work in MOST missions, but there are some things that just won't work in some situations. None of the attacking strategies will work in the recon mission, for example. (Who's stupid idea was it to put that mission in the game, anyway?) +------------------------------+ |TACTIC 1: LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP| +------------------------------+ Although John Clark, Kevin Sweeney, and Control know the general situation of a given mission, they don't tell you every little thing to expect. The video you view in the briefing screen is helpful too, marking the tension zones and all that, but it still doesn't give you a clear picture. Why then would want to pick your team BEFORE KNOWING THE EXACT WORKINGS OF THE AREA? After you get done on the briefing screen, don't go to the team select screen. Instead, head to the planning screen and take a look at the area. The big questions you need to ask yourself are: Are there any good sniping points? Are there any wide open areas that provide little to no cover? Are there any cross-fire ambush points between buildings or furniture? Also look to see if there are any rooms where only one door is covered. There are many rooms in many missions where entering from one door will get you killed, but the other door gives you a clear shot of your enemy. There are also missions where one door is covered from a higher point. It's a hell of a lot easier to shoot down than it is up, so you want to avoid entering a room if someone above you has a clear view... but we'll get into the finer points of that in a second. Once you have a good idea of your location, THEN proceed to the team screen. This is a nice segue to my next topic. +---------------------------------------------+ |TACTIC 2: BAD TEAMS HURT WORSE THAN THE ENEMY| +---------------------------------------------+ Basically, you want your team to play the map, not have the map play the team. Sniping points aren't just good for the terrorists, they're fantastic for your men and women. However, if you do find the world's most perfect sniping point, it ain't gonna be of much use to a demo or recon specialist. You viewed the map first (you did, right?), so you know where the open areas and snipers points and such are. If you spotted a great sniping point that you know you can clear, get a two-man team as a sniper team. If there are no such points, then don't waste your time getting a sniper team in order, since it will be of little use. You can only have eight people, remember, and it's better to have eight assault specialists than seven assault and one sniper if you're fighting indoors. If bombs and/or electronic devices are a part of the mission, then assign the appropriate specialists, but don't go nuts. Early in the campaign, you'll encounter your first bomb-defusing mission. You don't need ANY demo specialists (since you can just kill one guy and to defuse all bombs and not even have to worry about it). If you insist on having a demo guy, though (which is good practice anyway), only have him on a one- or two-man team. When you've got four assault guys with assault ratings of over 97, it would be silly to drop one of them in favor of a demo guy who will only have a three-bomb task. Once you know who you're taking, spread them out appropriately. I used to think that more people and teams were always better, but I've since learned that that's not always the case. More people increase the chance that someone will get hit in a firefight, and more teams can just add to confusion when missions go to hell. If you have one team (or, even better, one operative), you have a lot less to worry about. That said, don't go into a map with too weak of a force. If you have the accuracy and ammo to do the lone wolf thing, fine. But under most circumstances, sending in only one dude is suicidal. You have to find the balance between maneuverability and strength, and unfortunately that normally requires you to play and lose a mission several times. +---------------------------------------+ |TACTIC 3: STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES| +---------------------------------------+ From the outset of the game (and by that, I mean mission #1, and NO LATER), you need to set some standards for yourself, and the team select screen is the best place to do it. I put teams on the color based on their role in the mission. That way, I can tell in an instant who's doing what. For example, if I need a sniping team, it's always a two-man team assigned to gold. The two men are a sniper and an assault specialist, and the leader is whoever has the higher leadership skill, even if I'm going to play that team and it won't matter. With that in mind, I can enter the mission as a team other than gold, and if I hear, "Gold, man down!," I know I'm screwed because we've got either a sniper or an assault specialist on his own, and I don't even have to look at the team status in the bottom-right corner of the screen. My red team is the team with Ding Chavez, and is nine times out of the ten the team with the hardest goals to accomplish. Along with that, of course, comes the fact that it normally has the most people. I usually don't play as the red team; I trust that Ding leads the team correctly every time. Usually if it dies, it's because of my planning, not a lack of AI on the part of the computer. My green team is the hybrid team. Sometimes it has a sniper, sometimes a demo expert, sometimes it has four people, sometimes three, whatever the situation calls for. If green team is near red team, chances are that green is in a support role. It's not unheard of for me to give a hostage to green for rescue, but I usually reserve that for red. You may have entirely different ideas on how your colors should be assigned, and that's fine. The point though, is that if you are consistent with the way you assign teams and team colors, you're better organized once the fight commences, and usually the side with better organization is going to come out on top. Speaking of organization, let me bring up my gold team again. Never, and I mean NEVER put a sniper by his lonesome. Even if that sniper is going to sit in one spot for the whole mission, it's better that the other two teams go in with six men between them than leave the sniper's back exposed. If you play as the sniper, you'll see how little of the land you actually get to see when you're looking through that scope. There's no way you can defend yourself from a blind spot, so your allies in that team will help you out. In mission 2, there's one attic where I always send a sniper, and one time I sent him in alone. A terrorist climbed the ladder, but I didn't hear him, and he scared me out of my wits when he plugged me in the head. With an ally, my friend would have blown away the terrorist the moment his shiny bald head peeked from the edge of the ladder, and I would have been fine. +-------------------------------------+ |TACTIC 4: THE RIGHT TOOLS FOR THE JOB| +-------------------------------------+ Just as you wouldn't bring in a sniper if you're fighting indoors, you shouldn't come with nothing but pistols if you're in open areas. Missions can be won or lost simply by what you equip your men and women with prior to engagement. The first thing you need to decide is how much firepower you want to bring to the table. If you're against unarmored enemies, then it's not necessary to bring along assault rifles. Submachine guns with hollow-point rounds are fantastic in the early missions; it doesn't take too many rounds to floor a baddie, even with a weak weapon. If you've got a sniper rifle, you need to consider stability. On mission 2, my favorite sniping spot is in an attic, shooting almost straight down through a window. That makes me run into problems, because I have to stand to get the right angle. As such, I use the PSG-1 because of its stability. If you're going to be on a flatter area, then you can go with something more high-powered. Beyond the weapons themselves, you have to think about the optional parts. In mission 1, and any other mission where stealth is not important, then you generally don't need to suppress your weapons. Although enemies will hear gunshots and come running, I would rather face a couple more enemies with a higher powered firearm than face only a couple with a weaker version. Remember, suppressors absolutely kill the damage and range ratings of a weapon, and that's murder (literally) in open areas. Suppressing assault rifles especially make them all but worthless. In hostage situations, though, just the opposite is true. In Raven Shield, the terrorists sometimes blow away hostages simply because they HEAR you. Some terrorists will even hear you, run away, tell the hostage keepers you've arrived, and then the hostage keepers will do the dirty work. You can't run that risk. Beyond that, though, you need to know what your teams are doing. If you have a specific team that rescues the hostages, you can outfit THEM with suppressors, but let the other two teams go with loud versions. Snipers especially seem hampered with suppressed sniper rifles, and light machine guns can't even HAVE suppressors. You can still use unsuppressed weapons in hostage missions, you just can't use them AROUND the hostages. +--------------------------------------------+ |TACTIC 5: USING MOVEMENT AND ROE EFFECTIVELY| +--------------------------------------------+ There are nine possible combinations that dictate how a team acts and reacts. The three movement rates--blitz, normal, and cautious--can be combined with any of the three rules of engagement--assault, infiltrate, and recon. You need to select the combination based on the teams objective. For the most part, assault/normal is all you'll need. There's not too many missions where you shouldn't fire at any enemy you see, and there's usually little reason to change your movement. However, when the situation calls for it, don't be afraid to change the way the team works. If I'm in a big area with little cover, I use assault/cautious. Cautious tells your people to crouch as they move, making them smaller targets for enemy snipers. If there is a lot of cover, I use assault/blitz so they quickly move from obstacle to obstacle, constantly keeping boxes or planes or whatever between them and the enemy. There are a couple of situations where recon and infiltrate will be necessary, but you probably won't want the computer to control those teams anyway when it happens. To avoid spoiling the plot and missions, I won't go into the details about that. +----------------+ |TACTIC 6: ORDERS| +----------------+ For the most part, your computer-controlled teams will do what they're told. The problem with that is they won't contest mistakes on your part... that's part of the game, though. I breach, bang, flash, gas, and smoke rooms as I need to. However, I always use those as my last option (with the exception of breaching; I'll explain why in a moment). Remember, in order for an operative to use a grenade, s/he has to take the time to: 1) Stop firing, 2) Put away the weapon, 3) Pull out the grenade, 4) Pull the pin, 5) Throw the grenade, 6) Put away the grenade, 7) Pull the weapon back out, and 8) Aim before s/he is able to attack again. That's a LOT of time for an operative to be defenseless. Yeah, I know he's got cover usually, but a terrorist loves aiming at the defenseless guy for obvious reasons. If you're standing face-to-face with a terrorist, and you're dumb enough to drop your weapon in favor of pulling a grenade or something, you might as well paint a big target on your face. That's why, for the most part, it's better to storm a room with your gun out. You may not have the shock value a well-placed flashbang would, but at least you won't have to worry about being picked off by an enemy while you're standing there fumbling with the grenade. Feel free to give the team an order to frag or bang a room or area if you know they're well covered and have the time. However, don't put too much stock into it; remember, they're not smart enough to open doors a crack. Smoking an area is something else, but they won't wait for the smoke to thicken before running to the next waypoint without a little control on your part. I explain that in a moment too. +-----------------------------------+ |TACTIC 7: THERE IS NO "I" IN "TEAM"| +-----------------------------------+ This isn't Metal Gear Solid. You have a team of elite agents, not just one, to perform these missions. Coordinating the whole team is one of the biggest parts of the planning phase, and as I've said before, generally the most organized team gets the win. If there's a room to storm, take note of its potential ambush points. There might be a little homemade barricade of tables and barrels facing one door, but not the other. However, that other door might be covered by a forklift, although the guy behind that has his back to the first door. If one team enters the room from one side, they'll be picked off. But if two teams enter both doors at the same time, both tangos will be kissing the ground before they can utter a profane word. Whether by accident or intentional design (I'm betting on the latter), terrorists don't know who to pick off first if they're presented with two targets that are on opposite sides of the room. They take the time to select one target and aim, and by that time, they're normally dead. Your operatives are the same way, although you should never end up in a situation where that happens. If there is a room with multiple entrances, usually the best way to clear it is to have two or three teams storm it together. That alone eliminates a lot of ambush potential because the enemy won't know who to attack first, and again that split second delay is all you'll need. It also guarantees that no one else will get the jump on your people from the back or from another door while the firefight is going on. In the last section, I mentioned that breaching is the only thing I'll do to a room if I don't have to. The reason is because a breaching charge will not only take down anyone standing too close to the door, it will confuse the heck out of tangos (again, I'm not sure whether that was accidental or intentional design). In mission 1, my favorite part is when we're on the top floor, and I breach a room from each of its three doors. The tangos have no idea who to aim at first, and my guys take out all threats before they can blink. THAT'S efficiency. Generally speaking, if a room does have multiple entrance points, there is no better tactic than to breach all doors and run in, guns blazing. The tangos won't see it coming, and the element of surprise is what separates clean kills from all-out firefights. +-----------------------------------------+ |TACTIC 8: WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE CAN HURT YOU| +-----------------------------------------+ In a game that touts "one-shot, one-kill lethality," you don't have the time to run to a spot, crouch twice, pull out your primary gun, get set, zoom in, turn on the thermal scope, find the target, double-check your aim, and pull the trigger. By that time, you or a teammate (or both) may be taking dirt naps. However, by the same account, the enemies are in the same boat. Even on the hardest difficulty settings, enemies cannot see through walls and other objects. They may have no idea that you're crouched behind the corner, just waiting to see some flesh that you can put a few slabs of lead into. They don't normally have the luxury of getting set if you're on your game, and like the old Texas shoot-outs, whoever gets the first shot off normally wins. I have several tactics I like using to splatter an enemy's brains all over the walls before he knew what hit him. With the induction of the fluid open and close of doors via the mouse wheel, you can be pretty forward without endangering yourself. In mission one, I suspected an enemy was through a door (I didn't have a Heartbeat Sensor equipped, so I wasn't sure). The room was small, but I didn't want to endanger myself by opening the door, so I equipped my frags and opened it a crack. I heard the terrorist say "Hello?" and immediately pulled the pin. I threw it in the room, closed the door, and backed up a step. Two seconds later, that terrorist was shaking Satan's hand. You don't have to frag a room to make an entrance though. Banging a room can be just as effective, especially with the above tactic. Flashbangs don't affect you or your team one iota if the explosion happened in the next room and the adjacent door was closed. Once I opened the door a crack, tossed in a flashbang, slammed the door, then busted in as soon as I heard the explosion. The terrorist had his back to us, aiming at the window that led to a brick wall, and he had no idea what hit him. That's all well and good for close quarters, but what about long-range areas? In the opening paragraph to this section, I cited a situation that you will encounter early on in the campaign. There's two insertion zones in an early mission, one of which has just one path leading from it, and that one path is being watched by an enemy sniper. The default plan that ships with the game has the sniper team bang the area before running there to snipe. That's all well and good, I suppose, but the problem is that flashbangs have to be damn close to the target to work. If you're a mile away, you can stare at the flashbang and not be affected. Instead of distracting the enemy, all you'll do is attract unwanted attention. There's a much better solution. A combination of smoke grenades and the thermal scope of a sniper rifle can do amazing things. Although night-vision goggles can't see through smoke, thermal goggles CAN because the smoke gives off no heat. My solution to that sniper dilemma was to smoke the area, then run in, go prone, and aim my sniper rifle. I zoomed in, turned on the thermal scope, and viola! That enemy sniper was looking at the smoke, but didn't know what to make of it. The next thing he knew, he had a bullet in his eye. Some nearby guards heard the commotion and came to investigate, and I picked them off too because that smoke cloud had not yet gone away. Only try this exact tactic if you're going to control the sniper. Auto-aim does not take into account the thermal scope, only what you can actually see with your naked eyes. So, even if you have everything working perfectly, you'll still need to manually target the enemy. The computer is also not smart enough to use thermal goggles through a smoke screen, although they USUALLY (note that I did NOT say "always") see a terrorist through the disappearing smoke before the terrorist sees them. I've extensively tested whether my computer-controlled sniper did as good of a job as I did in this situation, and I found that only 5 times out of 10 did she manage to kill the enemy sniper with one round, and only 7 of the 10 times did she kill the enemy before he took down one of my men. Considering she could have used the thermal scope like I did, that's hideous. That doesn't mean that the computer is WORTHLESS using this tactic though. That ugly percentage is based on only one specific situation in one specific mission. If you give your CPU-controlled team to smoke an area, then you have them set up to snipe there, they normally do so with little problem. They have no concept of time, though, and they'll smoke an area and run to the spot before the smoke has had a chance to get thick. To fix that, have them throw the smoke grenade from a distance, then tell them to move cautiously to the point at which you want them to snipe. That will usually buy the smoke grenade enough time to fully obscure the team from the prying eyes of the terrorists, at least until the sniper can set himself. Speaking of the thermal scope, though, there's another issue with it that you have to take into account. Windows block heat, no matter how close the target or the sniper is. If the window is close to you, you may want to avoid using the thermal scope long enough to make sure there is no tango in your immediate sights. If you have a chance, blow out the window with a sniper round or pistol round. That might attract attention, but at least you're expecting it, and then you can actually use the thermal scope. Remember, if the smoke grenade is still active, you can blow out a window without compromising your position. The enemy may understand that there's a threat, but he won't have any idea where it's coming from. +--------------------------------------------+ |TACTIC 9: THE WALLS HAVE EYES, NOT JUST EARS| +--------------------------------------------+ Terrorists in Raven Shield are not the mindless enemies that games once showed back in the days of Doom and Duke Nuke 'Em. If they hear or see things happen, they will take action. Keep that in mind when you're planning a mission. In mission 5, there's a room with a hostage, and it overlooks a room with a patrolling tango. In one of my first attempts, I had my team blow that patrolling guy away in full view of the window. The guards upstairs saw him fall, so they calmly turned and blew away the hostage. Mission failed. If your team is near hostages, make sure that not only are they using silenced weapons, they're also in areas away from windows. Try to get angles so you can take down enemies without them being seen by their buddies, but still make sure you CAN take them down. I don't like settling on letting a tango go in favor of killing him in view of another tango, because that one you allowed to get away might set up an ambush or get help. A terrorist's hearing isn't too shabby either. I've seen situations in the game where the enemy is stupid (to paraphrase and testify to PC Gamer, I once had a mission where a terrorist thought it would be a good idea to check out a recent grenade explosion), but for the most part they know what to do when a situation arises. If they hear gunshots, they'll either come and help out their buddies, or they'll run and wait for you to be caught off-guard. As I said in the equipment tactic, suppression is not always necessary. If you EXPECT other enemies to come and assist, then you really won't be in too bad of a situation. Before you pull the trigger, make sure you know all the ways enemies can attack you, and know what your teammates are doing. If you have a three- or four-man team, you won't have to worry about your tail, and possibly not your side. If you're looking at the only way in or out of the room, feel free to light up anyone you see. Even if the enemy gets help, you'll be prepared for it. +--------------------+ |TACTIC 10: COVER ME!| +--------------------+ When things turn violent, your team focuses on their current task. That means if they're storming a room, they'll STORM THE ROOM and to hell with everything else. There have been times were my guys stormed a room and didn't pay attention to the door they entered from until a terrorist snuck in from the back and planted a few slugs in Rainbow's plans. Although your guys normally have one member covering the team's tail, there's no way he can handle an onslaught of enemies. If there's only one door into a room, or if it's not prudent or possible to send in more than one team, that doesn't make the other team worthless. I'll cite mission 5 as an example again. A hostage is being held in a room that has two doors, but according to my plan, I don't want to send anyone through that second door (it would require sending that team into a dangerous open area, something I'm just not comfortable doing). Because my guys are using suppressed weapons around the hostage, though, no one will enter through that door because they won't hear anything. However, a patrolling tango below might hear what's going on, and he'll come up to investigate. In that situation, my hostage rescue team is screwed because they won't be watching the door they entered from. They'll be too busy clearing the room and securing the hostage to watch their six, and that spells trouble. To remedy that, I use a second team to watch the staircase that leads to the door to that room. That way, if a terrorist thinks it will be a good idea to shoot up my main team's back, the cover team will put a quick stop to it. In another mission, I kept finding that as I led the hostages from their pen to the extraction zone, enemies would pour through one particular door and slaughter me to pieces. I pass that door on the way to the pen, but it's closed and I go unnoticed on my way through. Once I start heading back though, everyone knows I'm here, and they know how to stop me. My solution was to get another team to constantly watch that door after I passed it. The next time I went tried it, they did indeed try to cut me off, but they never expected that cover man to take them out. Cover teams are tricky, though. If you implement one, you have to prepare it. If you think that they'll only have to cover one or two tangos, a sniper can do the trick. I find it best though to have my cover teams made of one man who carries a light machine gun. With 100-round magazines, he can last on his own for quite a long time if the enemies bottleneck at a doorway or other such obstacle. Get friendly with the way the snipe order works. If a team gets a snipe order but has no sniper, it chooses its best sniper of the group, sets his weapon to single-shot mode if he can, and he concentrates on his sights at the target. This doesn't have much value with submachine guns, but if you give a snipe order to a guy with a light machine gun, he'll have the stopping power to cover an area for a long time. Giving such an order in a hallway or at a doorway, as I just talked about, is a heck of a combination. Normally I say that snipers should be two-man teams, but if you've got a sniper as a cover man ONLY, then he might be able to get away with being solo. Still, I would prefer giving a solo guy a light machine gun over a sniper rifle any day. An extremely effective strategy is to have two teams breach a room while having a third as a cover. This confuses the enemies in the target room, making them ripe for shooting, but also removes the possibility of the teams getting jumped from behind. I find that I get consistent, good results using cover teams for practically every single room breach. It takes longer, but my mission success rate has gone up. +--------------------------------------+ |TACTIC 11: LEARNING FROM YOUR MISTAKES| +--------------------------------------+ You will lose your first mission. Even if you manage to eliminate every tango in the first level, you will lose at least one team member. You will never have a plan that will ALWAYS work. That's the randomness of the game. The thing to remember is that, until you find a plan that CONSISTENTLY works, you'll be in a learning stage. I never take mission failures as defeat, only as lessons. If my red team keeps getting slaughtered in one building, I'll try to approach it differently. If my gold team can't snipe from their location, even after setting up the smoke grenade, I'll scrap that team and try a different waypoint with an assault team. If my green team can't rescue the hostage because they're taking too long setting up the breach, I'll go in without any explosives. Observer mode is fantastic because you can see exactly where missions go to hell. Once you go back to the planning stage, change the waypoint or RoE or movement or SOMETHING at that point. Don't neglect what works, however; if one team is constantly getting its job done, don't mess with it. Know when problems you encounter are just coincidences. I have a plan on the first stage that will nine times out of ten work without any member of my team taking a bullet. However, sometimes as they enter one particular room, a terrorist who isn't always in an overlooking room will spot them and lob a grenade that they won't have time to react to. If you have some sort of bad situation that you've only seen once in that location, it probably won't happen enough to change the plan. Sometimes you just need to Retry Action once or twice, and the same plan that's failed will work smoothly. What you're looking for is consistency, a plan that will USUALLY succeed with minimal losses. Note that finding that plan may take hours and hours of work. And in the end, that's what I love about Rainbow Six. There aren't too many games where I spend far more time planning than I do actually playing. With enough practice, and enough tweaking to your own strategies, you'll be stopping terrorists and bringing honor and pride to Rainbow in no time. +--------------+ |+------------+| ||CONTRIBUTORS|| |+------------+| +--------------+ If you wish to contribute a tactic of your own, please e-mail me. I'll post it with all due credit. +-----------------+ |+---------------+| ||VERSION HISTORY|| |+---------------+| +-----------------+ v1.0a (1 November 2003) It's been nearly a year, but unfortunately my site is down for the count. Luckily, IGN has decided to host my FAQs too, so it's all good. A new copyright notice is the only change. v1 (23 April 2003) First release, and finished for now, but this guide will never be "done." If you have something to add, feel free to submit! +----------------+ |+--------------+| ||COPYRIGHT INFO|| |+--------------+| +----------------+ This document is copyright 2003 for J. "PyroFalkon" Habib. If you plan to use any of it as part of another FAQ, you need my permission first. However, if you plan to post it on a website or e-mail it to someone or whatnot, you may do so without my permission AS LONG AS IT IS NOT ALTERED IN ANY WAY. I'd like you to drop me an e-mail so I know where you're going to take it, but I will not require you to do so. You may download it or print it at your leisure. The most updated version will always be found at these sites: http://www.gamefaqs.com/ http://faqs.ign.com/ Other sites may have up-to-date versions, but check GameFAQs or IGN first. +--------------+ |+------------+| ||CONTACT INFO|| |+------------+| +--------------+ If any information is incorrect, or you wish to submit something, please e-mail me. My address is found on the bottom of the FAQ. Credit will be given where it's due. I encourage you to send me some strategies of your own. However, they MUST BE GENERAL TACTICS. If they can only relate to a couple missions, then I won't accept it. Understand that just because you send me something, I do have the right to reject it for whatever reason I choose (although if I do reject it, I'll send you a reply telling you why). If you submit something to me, I will credit you by the name you signed in the message body or by the name attached to your e-mail. I will also post your e-mail address unless you specifically tell me not to. If you wish to be e-mailed when this FAQ is updated, send your request to me. If you have a junk mail protector on your e-mail program, make sure you put my e-mail address on the safe list, or my messages may not get through. pyrofalkon@hotmail.com Good luck in Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, and may all your operatives get out of their missions without taking one round.
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