Farbor Cheevo Questions

[Jivebot]

I am preparing to tackle Farbor for the first time and have some questions about the acheivments. When it says "finish Farbor Early" does that mean I need to do Farbor before I do some other planet, or does that mean I have to win the mission itself within a time limit? And if so what is that time limit? Also, if I go for the "Lose" acheivment AFTER winning? Like replay the mission? If I do lose my first attempt will the story continue s if I lost?

[Pielord]

Early is before the thing fuels up or whatever. Also you can probably save right before you win and then come back after beating the mission to destroy your units, then fast forward until you lose.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=243981862

[sergeant_derp]

Play the mission for the first time but do nothing, don't even land your command nodes. Then watch what happens. All will be explained to you, and you'll get an achievement.

[75Karsten]

The game on Farbor is a 2-stage game. The first stage comprise the enemy" building a ship from ore. If you manage to destroy that ship (and win) before it takes off to start the second stage (which lasts 20 minutes) then you win early and earn the cheevo (sic). :)

[pmouserosu]

i could not win early how to do that? i tried a few times. ty

[Psojed]

After reading the discussions here about Farbor (prior to playing it) I was excited that there will be some real hard mission. But in reality, it was a cake.

1) Land two CCs on the top left island, build collectors.
2) Build 4 Cannons + 1 Mortar to push back the Creeper and one Beam to defend against the spores.
3) Kill the Creeper spawner.
4) Build Forge, build relays on the small isles to the right + start building Bertha on the power circle + keep building Reactors while Bertha is building.
5) When Bertha finishes, Build one Guppy, one Shield, disarm the Shield.
6) When Bertha is charged at 70 ammo, move the shield to the main island, close to the northern Spore tower near the Enemy ship. Place it on the highest elevation available. Move Cannons and Mortar next to the Shield. Arm the Shield while it's moving.
7) As the building are closing to land, land your Guppy on the edge of the Air Exclusion area (to the left) and fire Bertha on the spot where Shield lands. This will clear all creep, Shield will prevent it from returning and you got yourself a foothold.
8) Quickly build relays on the top-left side, under the protection of your shield - it should be in range of the Relay on the isles. Before your Guppy runs out of cargo, the relays will be ready.
9) Now you just move your Beam next to the Shield, destroy the Spore + 1 of the 4 things building the enemy ship.
10) Place your shield into the power circle and repeat your advance by moving your Cannons ahead and placing new Relays. It's quite easy to kill the other buildings like this.

I killed the enemy ship when it was at about 77% completed.

[Pielord]

Yeah, the campaign levels aren't very hard, they're to introduce you to the game.