Mission 2 - Behind the lines
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On this level you have two objectives, first, retrieve the droid control program that has your base deactivated. To do that you have to bring a technician, the good news is that he can be kept inside OOM-9's AAT. You are given a cannon (aoe2's Trebuchet) and five Destroyer Droids.
You are supposed to take the left path which has a lot of enemies, but is very possible to do without unit losses. I take right which has a shortcut since there's no enemies besides towers.
After you recover the program your new objective is to destroy Harte Secur's Command Center. You are supposed to use your newly acquired base, build workers, research stuff, etc, because the enemy is heavily defended.
I also take a shortcut... and finish the level with my starting units. After retrieving the program send OOM-9 (and the technician) to your command center to complete the first mission. I send the activated droids to fight, but as you can see later they are not necessary I was just filling time.
Put the elite droids on the other transport and leave them on the entrace to the enemy base. Now we enter a special ops mission, so set the cannon and droids to no-attack stance.
Using the cannon as a decoy, make the transport cross the enemy guarded area (the turrets deal a lot of damage to ships), and then load it in. Send the transport to the back of the enemy base.
When the ship is arriving to its destination, send the droids on a suicide mission to the enemy base, their job is to buy enough time to the cannon.
Now, the ai is stupid, but not THAT stupid, you can't just attack once, retreat and expect all enemy forces to follow you, you have to keep attacking and be "close" to the enemy units, that's why I get deep past the entrance, attack enemy units (calls close units), enemy structures (calls everyone) and try to stay on the location.
Back to the cannon, start the attack when there aren't airships left, if you start before they'll change their courses.
This time I lost a droid early, so with only four droids I got just enough time to destroy the command center.
Lame, was hoping to see it on hard. I've tried about 20 times on hard difficulty and i can't get the program.... on hard there is a hvy assault mech and then 6-8 elite royal crusaders in front of the gate... it's impossible. tried to micro... tried to hide behind trees so they could only attack 1 at a time.. nothing works!
imperator753753 3 months ago
@imperator753753 separate them
gia257 3 months ago