Rescuing Captured Faction Leaders

[Barinthus]

Last night I decided to read the 'readme.txt' on SMAX cd from the Laptop Collection Pack and it said it's possible to rescue a captured faction leader.

Eh? I went when reading this. I wish I'm at my home computer so I could copy and paste. Perhaps later tonight.

Ok does anybody know anything about this? How is this possible? How does one locate a captured faction leader? How does this benefit me?

[Mr. President]

Locate the headquarters of the faction that conquered the one you want to liberate. You must get a probe team up to the headquarters (that's arguably the hardest part). When you infiltrate the headquarters, there should be an option that says "Rescue Captured Faction Leader" or some such. This is a fairly difficult mission for your probe; hope he's an Elite. If successful, the rescued faction should respawn somewhere on the map (just one base).

The liberated faction will be submissive with respect to you. So the operation can be used to get you a slave faction without having to attack and defeat someone.

[Mongoose]

Rescuing captured faction leaders is a probe action that must be performed at the HQ of the faction that originally eliminated the faction of the leader you wish to rescue.

If successful in the attempt, a captured faction leader of your choice (if more than one are present) restarts...somewhere. The rescued leader's faction becomes a submissive pactmate of yours. Eventually, you will derive the usual benefits from having a submissive pact...commerce, techs, etc. You might have to lend a hand to get that faction to a point that its productive again.

[Blake]

The AI rescues captured leaders too, once early in the game I had conquered some faction with a scout patrol rush, then the dataangel starting probe team wandered over to my HQ and liberated the conquered faction, I was pissed

[Lefty Scaevola]

It only works if the smac-x 2.0 patch has been applied. I do not know in the version with the laptop collection had already ben patched or not. check the version #.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Crimson Sunrise
, the rescued faction should respawn somewhere on the map (just one base).

I recall that they come back with something like 3 colony pods and several units. The respawn on an unoccupied landmass, usually meaning an island.

[Barinthus]

I already got all latest patches but thanks for making sure, Lefty .

I might will try to see if I can pull this off. I can't believe I'm going to see if I can free that Cultist wacko, although...

[Thoth]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
It only works if the smac-x 2.0 patch has been applied. I do not know in the version with the laptop collection had already ben patched or not. check the version #.

I picked up the laptop collection the other day and everthing appears to have the latest patches.

[Frankychan]

holy crap that's awesome! I didn't know you could rescue captured faction leaders!

Man, I've learned something new today about SMAC.

[Petek]

Originally posted by Frankychan

Man, I've learned something new today about SMAC.

Sorry, only works in SMAX, not SMAC.

[Frankychan]

blegh! Junk-a-lunka. Too bad I don't have 'X'.

[The Mad Monk]

Go get the Laptop collection, it's worth it!