When I first shared this project, I honestly didn’t expect some people to think it was an AI-generated post made just to farm clicks and replies. 😅

I have to admit, that was a little discouraging after spending so much time actually getting this working.

So this time, I uploaded a proper gameplay video to show that the project is real and actually running.

iOS, Android, and macOS — no Windows VM, no remote desktop, no streamed gameplay.

Hopefully this clears things up.

Although now I’m wondering… nobody’s going to tell me the video is AI-generated too, right? 😂

Anyway, I’m happy to answer technical questions about the project, and I’ll keep sharing progress as development continues.

So one of the things i like the most about rts games, is building walls. Yet walls in Red Alert are mostly useless. I wish they were cheaper and more resilient like on AoE2.

Udo Kier german actor who impersonated Yuri on Red Alert 2 died 23rd of November 2025.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/udo-kier-dead-own-private-idaho-andy-warhol-frankenstein-1236590259/

I just finished Red Alert 2 campaign as my first C&C game, obviously there was a lot of learning about how to do basic controls, about units and so on. I thought Yuri's Revenge is a standalone game within the same story, but even the early missions I am struggling just as hard as with the later Red Alert 2 missions...

I finished my first play through of both RA2 and YR on hard difficulty. I think every mission has some relatively achievable way to win if you look up highly specific strategies. But even after looking up guides and walkthroughs through the series, the mission I struggled with the most was RA2 Soviet: Chrono Defense -- the one where you have to defend against chrono teleports for 20 minutes. Even after seeing a pretty simple strategy, execution is still very difficult for me (I must have tried more than 20 times at it before I succeeded). I also struggle a lot with YR Allied: Hollywood and Vain. Conceptually it's easy -- turtle enough to secure a base and you win after you have enough prism tanks. But on so many runs some wave manages to slip through and wreck my economy, even when I thought I everything was set up well enough to auto-defend.

Which ones are the hardest for you?

Going through hard mode for both RA2 and Yuri's Revenge, I found there's some units I never bothered using or don't seem strategically important in any missions? Curious what units other people see as important or redundant.

• I really really tried to like Siege Chopper but they just get shredded in the missions. I only realized by accident that in ground mode they're almost like a mini Grand Canyon. But I still don't think it's super useful?
• Kirov airships -- these are mostly just for fun, right? Not for winning fast.
• V3 rocket launchers -- I also spammed these in normal mode but they're rarely the way to go
• Terrorist -- never used these, which mission would they help with?
• Pretty much all sea units -- I hate managing ships and submersives -- I just lose so many units in skirmishes even when I start with a large fleet. So I avoid relying on them if possible
• After my first play of the game, I realized I had massively underutilized Mirage Tanks and Battle Bunkers. I didn't realize that mirage tanks don't take return fire at all unless they get detected, which has a chance of happening against moderate swarms. But besides that they are somewhat resilient against Mastermind for example. (That said, somehow I still manage to lose a lot of them against groups of 5 enemy units with 2 Yuri Clones.)
• IFVs + Guardians. Guardians are quite expensive, I didn't use them at all in my normal playthrough. I also struggle with setting up and micromanaging IFVs. But eventually I realized IFV + Guardian is arguably the most effective defense against UFOs since they can arrive quickly anywhere.
• Apocalypse & Battle Fortress -- they are so slow to build and travel that I never use them. One time I tried Battle Fortress + sniper, it was terrible, the snipers do almost no damage to structures. It requires like 20 snipers to take down a normal building and then again it still takes several minutes.
• Super weapons -- even combining the weather machine and missile, it's never enough to take down a key structure by itself, so I only build these if I'm printing money but otherwise I can't see how they would ever make enough difference to be used in a fast run.
• Tesla tanks -- are these the best equivalent to prism tanks for the Soviet side?

Just curious what people like to do after they beat the missions on Normal. Did you end up finishing everything on Hard mode? I haven't yet (am a bit scared). Sometimes I replay missions more efficiently or even just toy around because I want revenge against Yuri for all the times he wrecked me with superweapons...

Edit: does online PvP still exist? Worth trying even as a casual?

Few tanks of mi colección, enjoy.

Hello! Seeking kind assistance on where I can find free Red Alert and Yuri's Revenge for my laptop with Win11 as OS?

Thank you very much! OP

"When the hot tub hits 'maximum bubbles' and your dignity clocks out"

I remember hearing about it somewhere but would it be possible to rip the audio and cutscenes from the original and add them to a remaster? I'd love to see a proper campaign for Yuri if they ever remaster the game.

Allies:

• America, GI Paratroop Squad
• Korea, Black Eagle Jets
• France, Grand Cannon
• Germany, Tank Destroyer
• Great Brittan, Snipers

Soviet:

• Russia, Tesla Tanks
• Iraq, Desolator
• Libya, Demolition Trucks
• Cuba, $200 Terrorist Infantry

I'm not sure how to fit Yuri in here or if that should even be considered. It would be cool to see split up sub factions after his capture since they were spread all over the world apparently

Theres a bunch of things I would change, and I am considering a rebalance mod of my own, but to start this discussion for me it's insane that America's specialty is a squad of regular GI squad, the exact same you get from a Tech Airport. My immediate thought would be to change up the squad a bit.

I've been reading/watching and there's a ton of people being able to reverse engineer software from binaries and then re-write them from the source to run on any platform. I know the RA2 source code was (allegedly) lost, so my first thought went to RA2. Maybe we could finally start to see proper native versions on other platforms or a new AI that is less predictable?

Does anyone who understands the topic more know anything or could they explain if it's possible?

Just curious, so what do Russian players think of Red Alert 2?

Sad day for all, as the head of the USSR passes away.

I’m looking for a browser-based version or remake of Red Alert 2 that runs smoothly on macOS. Does anything like this currently exist?

​If not, how feasible would it be to build a browser-based RA2 with AI?

​Would appreciate any recommendations or thoughts!

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