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"John" <sgtryker@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:54:27 -0500, "Dan Luke"
> <c172rg@bellSPAMsouth.net> wrote:
>
> >Has anyone beaten this on the "hard" setting?
> >How did you do it?
> >This is the one vs. the Superweapons general. Her air power wipes me
> >out every time before I can get going.
> FFS her air wipes me out on easy mode as well :)
> John ( N Ireland )
>

 Agreed, mega tough level on hard setting. I've just beaten her on the 3rd
attempt, basically it went like this :

- Build 2 more dozers
- Build power station south of command centre once built build supply depot
also south but away from power station
- send 2 dozers up to just below shoreline and build 2 patriots, spread em
apart as she will A10 them immediately, taking one out but leaving one
behind.
- Build barracks below patriots, she sends in commanches, patriot takes them
out
- Upgrade to capture buildings and send one GI over to capture 2 wells on
left
- keep building power stations south and patriots across the shoreline north
(do not cross the little path to the land on right, there's a cannon + those
little cloaked detector units + patriot)
- She will keep attacking your supply depot / barracks and patriots in that
order with Commanches / Particle cannons and Aurora bombers, rebuild them as
this will stop her attacking the oil wells.You will lose loads of dozers as
she targets them as well, you will just have to keep rebuilding as cash
allows.
- Money will start to flow a little faster, build a war factory at far south
of your land but only after you have built 2 patriots one each side of it to
defend (she will Chinook in rocket troops / GI's and the Stealth detector
thing which name I forget at the moment...is it Sentry ? ).
- You will receive General promotions due to the patriots taking out the
Commanches and the Chinookes troops, I dont think my Patriots took out any
of her Aurora's, use them on A10's / Carpet Bomb and Air Fuel. Use
immediately on the patriots and defences on your right surrounding the
particle cannon. Eventually you will have cleared them all away and can
attempt to capture it by Chinooking a GI over to it. Dont bother attacking
her main base with the Generals attacks, they dont get through, too many
patriots spotted on islands along the way, instead attack them on the
islands and take them out one by one.
- Once the particle cannon is either captured or destroyed the harassment
seems to slow a little as she's now down to only 2 particle cannons. There
is an island to the north with supplies on, she will defend it with
Sentries, Avengers and Commanches, basically i sat tight now built a
Strategy Centre and started building drop zones and power stations. I built
an airfield and it became her primary target for the particle cannons,didnt
bother again and she went back to the supply centre and barracks as well as
the odd drop zone.
- Eventually I built 2 particle cannons and wasted the first 2 shots on her
power stations, took out 6 at a time but she rebuilt almost immediately.
When they recharged i fired both at one of her particle cannons destroying
it, she did not rebuild it.
- By now the tide has definitely turned and you can build airfield if you
want, you will have plenty of cash to spend on Avengers to defend against
air attack and the choice is yours on how you want to finish her off. I
decided she needed to be taught a lesson (lol) so 6 particle cannons later
and was game over.

 I dunno why this level was so tough, I played it before as GLA stealth and
don't recall it being so crazy right at the start, I even managed to capture
the north Island and all the supplies before. Maybe she doesnt like the Air
Force bloke.

Hope this helps, enjoy the game !

Doc