Uhh.. Rev-6 Terminators Mission 4?

[Ken]

I just finished the base defense mission. I'm on the mission where the guy hacks the robots. I've evacuated the civilians and have to capture the 4 points and rendezvous with my squads in the north.

How the absolute ♥♥♥♥ am I supposed to take and hold the 4 capture points when Legion is deploying Terminators that absolutely mow my squads down even in buildings? I've captured 3/4 of the points but then everything on the map converges on me and absolutely wrecks me. Completely.

I have Big Bob, the Sniper squad, an infantry, an ATG and a spec ops team. Seriously, wtf do I do against these and hold the last point when my guys get slaughtered in a nano-second?

[Ken]

Well, I figured it out for anyone curious in the future. I re-loaded an older save, skirted around the capture points picking off units where I could, brought in my entire army, then focused everything on the Terminators once they appeared. I mean, EVERYTHING focused them since they were the largest threat.

Once I won I grabbed the Bradley from the north after Balzano left. You might have better luck if you get it first. I rescued the mechanics sister, but didn't get a chance to talk with him before I was assigned the new objectives.

[Filip STI]

I would recomend to not face them head on but rather try and manuever ,use stealth "V+G" , obstacles and long range. Use line of site and objects that block vission/fire. Wait for legion to fully deploy, sneak around ,spot with snipers in prone possition "V" and shield setting "G" so they dont fire until spotted. You can also disable weapon use directly by clicking ammo type. Againts Revs your best bet is to overwhelm them with fire so that they die asap. Use pause and select fire your units for better priority selection.

Remember after tutorial everything changes to more asymetric style warfare against superior enemy.

[Nelson]

If you blew up Haven, Legion does not have reinforcements on this mission!

You are not on a timer, so move slowly, alert your remaining troops and pick apart Legion piece by piece.

This game rewards being careful and methodical even if you are on a timer.

[RPS 12324]

Actually it is better to not blow up the base, more enemies means more things to kill and more XP for you. I use the Stryker from the mechanic to tank the revs. If you have difficulty with them, let the allied units aggro them and suffer the losses instead, still it is better to not let the allied units get too many kills that you could have had. You can actually snipe them with ATGM and I think the laser sniper Kondo has will 1 shot them.

[Haks]

Originally posted by Ken:

I just finished the base defense mission. I'm on the mission where the guy hacks the robots. I've evacuated the civilians and have to capture the 4 points and rendezvous with my squads in the north.

How the absolute ♥♥♥♥ am I supposed to take and hold the 4 capture points when Legion is deploying Terminators that absolutely mow my squads down even in buildings? I've captured 3/4 of the points but then everything on the map converges on me and absolutely wrecks me. Completely.

I have Big Bob, the Sniper squad, an infantry, an ATG and a spec ops team. Seriously, wtf do I do against these and hold the last point when my guys get slaughtered in a nano-second?

If I understood correctly, the listed units are all you have left from the last mission. If this is the case, you should replay it, as you suffered too many losses.

[Ken]

Originally posted by Nelson:

If you blew up Haven, Legion does not have reinforcements on this mission!

You are not on a timer, so move slowly, alert your remaining troops and pick apart Legion piece by piece.

This game rewards being careful and methodical even if you are on a timer.

I did blow up Haven - they still spawned on this map.

[Nelson]

Originally posted by RPS 12324:

Actually it is better to not blow up the base, more enemies means more things to kill and more XP for you. I use the Stryker from the mechanic to tank the revs. If you have difficulty with them, let the allied units aggro them and suffer the losses instead, still it is better to not let the allied units get too many kills that you could have had. You can actually snipe them with ATGM and I think the laser sniper Kondo has will 1 shot them.

Fair point, I just have a habit of doing all the optional objectives. I ended up fighting without the allies last time too, interesting for sure but economically not wise.

[Ken]

Originally posted by filip.stiga:

I would recomend to not face them head on but rather try and manuever ,use stealth "V+G" , obstacles and long range. Use line of site and objects that block vission/fire. Wait for legion to fully deploy, sneak around ,spot with snipers in prone possition "V" and shield setting "G" so they dont fire until spotted. You can also disable weapon use directly by clicking ammo type. Againts Revs your best bet is to overwhelm them with fire so that they die asap. Use pause and select fire your units for better priority selection.

Remember after tutorial everything changes to more asymetric style warfare against superior enemy.

This ended up being unfeasible since they 'spawn / heli-drop' on you with the red circle indicator. You can see them before they arrive which allowed me to time an EMP grenade / select everyone to focus fire them.

[Ken]

Originally posted by Xaks Flaks:

Originally posted by Ken:

I just finished the base defense mission. I'm on the mission where the guy hacks the robots. I've evacuated the civilians and have to capture the 4 points and rendezvous with my squads in the north.

How the absolute ♥♥♥♥ am I supposed to take and hold the 4 capture points when Legion is deploying Terminators that absolutely mow my squads down even in buildings? I've captured 3/4 of the points but then everything on the map converges on me and absolutely wrecks me. Completely.

I have Big Bob, the Sniper squad, an infantry, an ATG and a spec ops team. Seriously, wtf do I do against these and hold the last point when my guys get slaughtered in a nano-second?

If I understood correctly, the listed units are all you have left from the last mission. If this is the case, you should replay it, as you suffered too many losses.

The units I listed were the ones before bringing in the rest of your army. I ended up beating it by bringing everyone else in (Total: 2 INF squads, 2 Snipers, 1 AT, 2 Spec Ops, 5 Drivers). I lost the Engineers which was a big mistake, but figured it would add spice to the campaign.

[Booba]

I've never not been nice to the Movement on this mission. I like sitting on my thumbs in their base too much, and watching them win the last half of the mission for me.

[Ken]

Originally posted by Booba:

I've never not been nice to the Movement on this mission. I like sitting on my thumbs in their base too much, and watching them win the last half of the mission for me.

I didn't even know you could ally with movement here - that's pretty cool. Everyone ran after the guy with the radio started his plan. How do you end up getting Movement to work with you? Just blitz toward them?

[Booba]

Originally posted by Ken:

Originally posted by Booba:

I've never not been nice to the Movement on this mission. I like sitting on my thumbs in their base too much, and watching them win the last half of the mission for me.

I didn't even know you could ally with movement here - that's pretty cool. Everyone ran after the guy with the radio started his plan. How do you end up getting Movement to work with you? Just blitz toward them?

Help the technical crew against the wolf pack (by the wrecked vehicles south and east of your start position -it's where the gunfire and explosions occur, next to an abandoned big rig and trailer). This guy Mak will give you a favorable introduction to the Movement commander and then he joins your team. Work with the Movement against the Legion outpost. Seeing that you're such a badass, a few gung ho Movement units (survivors of the joint attack on the outpost) will join T-Force after the retreat starts. Some time after Kondo does his thing, your new recruits will ask you to reoccupy the old Movement base so they can send a distress signal. Jessica Kidd then shows up with a whole lot of new friends.

Word of advice: explore. And don't skip the points of interest in the missions. The gray side objectives (marked on your minimap) usually come with some kind of reward: extra recruits or vehicles, GWP, supplies and so on. Try to hit them all before doing the orange main objectives whenever you can. It's like playing an RPG. Talk to people and ask all the questions to get access to the side quests and side quest rewards. Playing altruistically and being nice to people can come with extra challenges but it pretty much always pays for itself.

[Ken]

Originally posted by Booba:

Originally posted by Ken:

I didn't even know you could ally with movement here - that's pretty cool. Everyone ran after the guy with the radio started his plan. How do you end up getting Movement to work with you? Just blitz toward them?

Help the technical crew against the wolf pack (by the wrecked vehicles south and east of your start position -it's where the gunfire and explosions occur, next to an abandoned big rig and trailer). This guy Mak will give you a favorable introduction to the Movement commander and then he joins your team. Work with the Movement against the Legion outpost. Seeing that you're such a badass, a few gung ho Movement units (survivors of the joint attack on the outpost) will join T-Force after the retreat starts. Some time after Kondo does his thing, your new recruits will ask you to reoccupy the old Movement base so they can send a distress signal. Jessica Kidd then shows up with a whole lot of new friends.

Word of advice: explore. And don't skip the points of interest in the missions. The gray side objectives (marked on your minimap) usually come with some kind of reward: extra recruits or vehicles, GWP, supplies and so on. Try to hit them all before doing the orange main objectives whenever you can. It's like playing an RPG. Talk to people and ask all the questions to get access to the side quests and side quest rewards. Playing altruistically and being nice to people can come with extra challenges but it pretty much always pays for itself.

Weirdly enough, I did the first two PoI's on the left side but once I cleared the bottom-right base of legion for the camp elder all the other PoI's dissapeared.

[Booba]

Originally posted by Ken:

Originally posted by Booba:

Help the technical crew against the wolf pack (by the wrecked vehicles south and east of your start position -it's where the gunfire and explosions occur, next to an abandoned big rig and trailer). This guy Mak will give you a favorable introduction to the Movement commander and then he joins your team. Work with the Movement against the Legion outpost. Seeing that you're such a badass, a few gung ho Movement units (survivors of the joint attack on the outpost) will join T-Force after the retreat starts. Some time after Kondo does his thing, your new recruits will ask you to reoccupy the old Movement base so they can send a distress signal. Jessica Kidd then shows up with a whole lot of new friends.

Word of advice: explore. And don't skip the points of interest in the missions. The gray side objectives (marked on your minimap) usually come with some kind of reward: extra recruits or vehicles, GWP, supplies and so on. Try to hit them all before doing the orange main objectives whenever you can. It's like playing an RPG. Talk to people and ask all the questions to get access to the side quests and side quest rewards. Playing altruistically and being nice to people can come with extra challenges but it pretty much always pays for itself.

Weirdly enough, I did the first two PoI's on the left side but once I cleared the bottom-right base of legion for the camp elder all the other PoI's dissapeared.

Yeah, that's an unfortunate aspect of the game. There are a lot of triggers like that which advance the plot and block off side quests.

[Семён Трофимов]

Originally posted by Ken:

Originally posted by Xaks Flaks:

If I understood correctly, the listed units are all you have left from the last mission. If this is the case, you should replay it, as you suffered too many losses.

The units I listed were the ones before bringing in the rest of your army. I ended up beating it by bringing everyone else in (Total: 2 INF squads, 2 Snipers, 1 AT, 2 Spec Ops, 5 Drivers). I lost the Engineers which was a big mistake, but figured it would add spice to the campaign.

The engineering squad is leaving you anyway, such a unit will only be able to appear in the New Tortuga (Hero Squad) or Vega.