Sandstorm: What-If Mission MALTA ?

[Furor Teutonicus]

Senseless Mission....you need to klick as long as you are finally destroyed.

Delete this funkiller or make something useful.


Fortunatly I found this : #whiteflag

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Do you mean the mission is unwinnable (I don't have Sandstorm yet)?

[steelman3250]

I won this mission 1st try. Best to conserve your paras early while consolidating the airfields, which your para's can land on 2nd turn. After that air/more reinforcements come to help take the island complete.

[cool]

Thanks for the tip, steelman3250!

[bmorgan077]

won on 1st try also, (well, 2nd, after a 2 turn false start). sent 2 para to each airfield, stay on AF and town until air suport and land troops come.
Bug or not? I took the inland city in the West with para and was able to deploy all my Itialian land troops there.

[Furor Teutonicus]

I did exaclty what you told me to do.....There is no further support. I can't deploy anything nor had I ever more than the 6 para from start.

[King Crimson]

I struggled with this mission as well, it's very difficult to keep your paratroopers in supply if you spread them out over 3 airfields at the start. To win, I concentrated all my initial paratroopers at the bottom right of the map and took that airfield there and some of the towns, which allowed me to hold onto the resource needed and gradually build up my forces and break out of the area.

[bmorgan077]

Holding each field gives you a few air command points. use 2 or 3 bmb or f/bmbrs to destroy 2 costal guns to allow the ground troops to come. Add the 2 new paras (if you get them) to the westeren AF and try to take that westeren city. Don't know it it's right , but, if you take that city you can deploy troops there. from there push North.

ps. keep your para on the AF and the supply city next to the AF until help comes.

[jwwsr1946]

Concentrate your paras early on one field & spread slowly..... no problem

[SsQGandalf]

Originally posted by anonym:

I did exaclty what you told me to do.....There is no further support. I can't deploy anything nor had I ever more than the 6 para from start.

You need to capture and hold the air fields for a few turns, maybe three. Then you get a message that you can deploy more units which you can access from your "Forces" tab.

[asp808]

I’m not sure what difficulty you’re playing at but I managed to take all three airfields from the start and win the map with a few trial and error restarts. I’ve only recently started playing, but it’s definitely workable.

[Gynsu2000]

Hi,
I've just completed this mission yesterday (difficulty 4/5) and didn't find it too complicated.
All you need to do is to secure the airfield on the first turn (2 paras per fields) and once you have some planes start expanding slowly. With the 2 "bonus" paras I focused on destroying the north battery and bunker (gives ressource points) an also destroying the south one.
Once done you can bring your main force and advance toward the objectives. The naval part was rather easy, all I had to do was to send a couple of fighters in support on during the second wave to provide air cover and a stuka to finish of the weaken ships.

Here is the replay: http://dl.free.fr/bA4NGDswR

Good luck!