(Spoiler) Last Nod Mission, Kanes Tower

[Myrdin]

Hi!
The last mission in the Nod Campaign, Kanes Tower - is it even solveable on this stupid patch? I've tried it without any guides, then with presumably all guides avaiable on the internet - GDI spawns a Ion Cannon after two minutes and rushes the Scrin to death after about 11. There is absolutely nothing I can do. The KI cheats incredibly strong and the scrin are completely defenseless.

[Blodo]

I just beat that mission, there's a way to do it if you're fast, despite all the free veterancy that GDI is getting. Basically, once mission starts do this as fast as possible:

1. build another refinery, queue up 2 more harvesters
2. build an obelisk and two anti infantry defenses on east side of your base by the tiberium field to stop early GDI rushes (try not to lose any units defending that bit and just keep repairing/rebuilding structures, you may need to pay a little attention to your harvesters mining there to move them out of harms way when GDI pitbulls come)
3. queue up about 4 avatars, 8 stealth tanks, 4 flame tanks and 4 beam cannons, in that order
4. once your first avatar is out immediately send it to the left side bottom of the hill where the juggernauts are and snipe them without walking up the hill, this way you avoid getting rekt by the zone troopers camped out on the hill, the faster you do this, the higher the chance you save the west phase generator from destruction, which means it will take GDI much longer to win since they'll have to go through the entire Scrin base rather than just snipe the generator on the east side. For higher chance of saving west phase gen send a second avatar over to help once he's done.
5. once the juggernauts are dead you should have the force you queued up ready to go (if you made sure to keep your harvesters alive), so move them out to the southeast GDI base along the bottom of the map, you'll probably encounter a few mammoths on the way to either your base or the Scrin base so snipe them with your stealth tanks and avatars. While you're doing this, it's useful to queue up some stealth bombers in your base for later and maybe build a temple of nod so that your nuke can start counting down
6. once you get to the blue tiberium field by the southeast GDI base put your avatars in front of your force and get the beam cannons to snipe the war factory, at the same time move your flame tanks to behind the power plants that block your force from the big GDI infantry ball, then attack the mammoths with your avatars, beam cannons and stealth tanks and send your flame tanks to take down one of the power plants and send them into the middle of the infantry and you should be able to wipe them off the face of the earth with ease (be sure to focus fire any missile infantry, they spawn with full veterancy so are probably more dangerous than the mammoth tanks)
7. when you kill the GDI base, take out production structures first to stop the reinforcements, then the ion cannon and that's half the mission done, you should now have tons of money since the only attacks on your base come from the southeast GDI base, half the attacks on the scrin also come from that base, and the GDI should now have trouble actually destroying the scrin especially if the west phase generator is still intact
8. replenish your forces and start moving up on the GDI base in the northeast, use beam cannons to snipe defences, you'll be able to kill the second ion cannon before it can fire on your base hopefully, if you have stealth bombers and/or your nuke online, use them now on the ion cannon/production structures
9. mission practically over at this point, keep reinforcing losses from your main base, mop up and enjoy

It may take a few attempts to get the timing right, but focusing on the southeast GDI base first does the trick basically. You just need to watch the big ball of infantry that's sitting in the middle, and that's why flame tanks are the best.

[l337g0g0]

I lost 10 times just doing normal ♥♥♥♥, ^^^ did this once and won, was running the map with just Avatar and beam only, winning.

[l337g0g0]

Funny thing is, I was already building the and ref at start with 2 ref trucks, and basing up the east ref.
but going tech to get the obelisk and one Avatar for jugs, this was key.