Not
as easy as it first seems. About 5-6 min into the game the
computer will throw almost everything its got towards your
base. Being too aggressive trying to take all the map (an
efficient tactic in previous missions) will mean losing
your valuable initial units and lowering even more your
chances.
That's
one way to do it: put the lasers and one builder into the
APC (and Lassar if you're feeling really wild) and send
them to the neighbour island. Once they get there, they'll
destroy or capture the defenses in a sec. If you've destroyed
the defenses, set one up (1 AA, 1 TG) for you ASAP.
At
your base, build an anti-aircraft defense at the west side
of your base then build a robot factory to produce infinite
toughs. Move your remaining ground troops and your mortars
toward the north territory. Sync their arrival so the mortars
are fully efficient to destroy the medium tanks that await
you, with as few losses as possible. Well positioned, your
snipers can also give you some medium tanks for free.
At
your west front, move ahead, the neighbour 2 territories
are easy to take control of early into the mission. Back
at the base, use your captured vehicle factory to build
3 mortars + 1 jeep and set the infinite option. To take
the southeast territories, wait till you get a couple more
mortars and use all them to back up at least three medium
tanks (there's one abandoned near your base). As soon as
you capture that neighbour territory, you'll also get a
heavy gun, so get one AA defense up there.
Now
comes the trick: Get a couple mortars and around 4 pyros
to keep the bridge to the left of your base permanently
destroyed. The computer knows that's the faster and easier
route to defeat you, so keep your ears wide open to the
"bridge repaired" message, and put it down again.
This will earn you some valuable time to get even more mortars
up, and add that to a couple heavy guns, one at the north
and one at the east of your base. The enemy will then choose
the middle-northeast bridge to invade. When the AI forces
get to the east ladder to reach your base, they'll be unforgivingly
crushed due to the large splash area and damage of the mortars
and heavy guns. Just remember to give the mortars some LOS
(use snipers or scout helis) and reinforce the "trap"
by some AA defenses.
After
his main force is destroyed, simply keep advancing towards
his territory and gathering troops, and the victory will
be at your hands.
By
MaDDoX
