Have the devs actually tried doing the Defend Munich mission?

[Vendrette]

What the hell are these enemy choppers? The only AA unit we have is a 2k credit light hovercraft, and everything dies in like four seconds to the enemy wolfpack choppers. I'm on Normal, not even hard. Like, what the hell?

[VorpalAura]

Build shieldmaidens and laser turrets. Don't forget that drones are also AA units which you can garrison (only do it on high ground where fire can't reach or put it behind turrets) or stick in vans. I didn't make too many shieldmaidens because they only do AA, but they do have a repair turrent ability.

[Vodka]

Save before every wave. And move around the AA units. Slowly build up defences with engineer towers + drone operators (dont forget to put an engineer inside) and laser turrets.

[Deathstroke72]

Build a solid defense using lasers and few grenade turrets at each chokepoint. Take your time, and remember that the Tempest keeps growing back around you're base, so you won't run out of funds.

[Neifirst]

It's the mission I learned that the AI sucks at fighting drone operators.

[aeroth]

drones are your friend.

[Barraiya]

Originally posted by fastforward:

Originally posted by Vendrette:

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no they just typed create mission into their mission generation bot, then typed name mission into their mission naming bot, and then typed make into campaign. and now they celebrate drinking pina coladas with your money.
if you ask nicely maybe they will share and tell you how the mission solver bot would solve that mission.

[darkblade]

Originally posted by Vendrette:

What the hell are these enemy choppers? The only AA unit we have is a 2k credit light hovercraft, and everything dies in like four seconds to the enemy wolfpack choppers. I'm on Normal, not even hard. Like, what the hell?

GDF got a skill where no vehicles can be overloaded with thempest use it

[darkblade]

Originally posted by aeroth:

drones are your friend.

Riot van and drones and a engi and you got the perfect unit

[lllaxmatist]

Completed on insane right now. used Barracks with 5 drone + 1 engi/ Buld barrkack on every corner.

And you can wall off the left road and ai will snake near your cliffs to another entrance.
(and your stupid harvesters will not die from mowing out of the base)

So my personal insane strategy for this mission:

1) 2 harvesters at the start fast
2) wall of 3 entrances to your base. I suggest left and down rigth.
3) turtle top entrance:
Barrkacks engineer + 5 grenadiers near front
2x barracks 5drone+1 engi on sides.
4) casually build some shieldmaidens, turrets
5) build some defence at other sides of the base, there is some inf heli drops into your base.
6) build your main army: 6 riot vans with 2 engi + 4 drones.
7) ??????
8) PROFIT!!!!

[Vendrette]

Originally posted by lllaxmatist:

Completed on insane right now. used Barracks with 5 drone + 1 engi/ Buld barrkack on every corner.

And you can wall off the left road and ai will snake near your cliffs to another entrance.
(and your stupid harvesters will not die from mowing out of the base)

So my personal insane strategy for this mission:

1) 2 harvesters at the start fast
2) wall of 3 entrances to your base. I suggest left and down rigth.
3) turtle top entrance:
Barrkacks engineer + 5 grenadiers near front
2x barracks 5drone+1 engi on sides.
4) casually build some shieldmaidens, turrets
5) build some defence at other sides of the base, there is some inf heli drops into your base.
6) build your main army: 6 riot vans with 2 engi + 4 drones.
7) ??????
8) PROFIT!!!!

Thanks B. Assload of turrets, 1 shieldmaiden per set of turrets. Riot Vans with 2 engi and 4 drones eviscerated everything. Ended up with 4 satellite bases once I cleared sectors of the map.

[Tritol]

Get your helo transport, fill it with 9 drones and engi, congrats now you are playing starcraft.

You can use this to absolutely steamroll the entire game on insane.

[Harukage]

Nah.
The master play is to put 2 riot vans full of drone controllers inside each sky crane. And then a pair of engis per heli.
The true cancer.

[puRe]

I've finished the mission once on insane difficulty and it's pure cancer until you get to cheese the enemy with riot vans and drones.
The hard part is getting to that point and it took me countless restarts. After finishing the painfully long mission the achievements bugged out and didn't pop up for me. This is a moment when you are glad that you have yourself under control and don't explode easily.

Mission 1-3 are too easy for insane difficulty and take 15-30 minutes each.
Mission 4 is more than insane and no fun at all and takes up to 120 minutes when doing it the first time.

To answer your question, the developers probably tested the missions themselves but forgot about the balancing pass before release.

[Corvi]

Finished both campaigns on hard and this mission was by far the most difficult one. So don't feel too bad if you struggle ...

[Deathstroke72]

Originally posted by Corvi:

Finished both campaigns on hard and this mission was by far the most difficult one. So don't feel too bad if you struggle ...

Funny how both defense mission where overlay hard.