Campaign on hard - how?

[Nevasith]

I'm struggling with the second mission on hard - the enemy is sendin waves after waves not letting me build up pretty much anything. If I try to build behind my ally base, there's not enough resources to tech up fast enough. If I build in front of it, everything I build gets blown apart by this pesky artillery units that fire a volley before I can blow them up with my limited resources.

I can also already see that my ally is pretty much done for...

[nobl3fire89]

I would recommend building a factory, and using your ACU as a guard until you can start producing some tanks/artillery/bots of your own. It's not really that difficult, it just requires a lot of attention and management.

[Jack_Jack]

UEF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07F8UgE15ws&list=PL8njGw0L9GCO-Q8_q391v0nv4YL6MM8hS&index=2


or



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N2YErc5IIE&index=3&list=PLEeGvkRUFOBKM4_j-44kZbeMre7MF1Eg8

[Nevasith]

I play as Cybran. There's no way to get a factory and resources for it at the moment

Originally posted by Jack_Jack:

UEF:
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I play as Cybran, but the trick should hold. Wondering a bit about weather I should go with land or air to deploy T1 gunships instead of light tanks (those T2 shielded tanks are chewing through light ground forces like crazy)

I think I got this now, thanks Jack!
The trick was to build BEHIND my 'ally', let the enemy destroy her buildings and reclaim them instead of trying to go for deposits. Also, Those light gunships are heaven sent - literally - There was a point where my defences were about to break, but with the help from gunships I've managed to thin out the invading enemies sufficiently to handle them at the doorstep. Finally, getting two small bunkers (shield + 2 point defs + 1 flak) gave me enough breathing room to gather bigger forces and push forward

[Nick der Schwitzer McGurk]

reclaim reclaim reclaim. Its always helpfull and sadly often overlooked.

[Sabaithal]

There are some ways to create an infinite defense. Shielding for one. Get some good defense units/turrets, then put a shielded unit or structure near them. You may need to use 2 of them. If all goes well, it should defend you adequately without the need for constant repairs.

[Nevasith]

I think I have it now. I usually use shields and what not but in that case I didn't have enough time to get throught with it - I had to create constant stream of units as a meat shield while I built stuff and with large force push back to the bottle neck to the north

[AngryCats]

I'll have to check out the video myself. I've trying on hard but it's stupid hard.

How do you survive get shields? I've tried what you did above but it never works for long enough before those infernal t2 land units swamp me. If the aircraft don't get me first.

I've reclaimed everything I could and produced what units I could and grabbed a couple of mass extractors but nothing truly works

[Nevasith]

Originally posted by AngryCats:

I'll have to check out the video myself. I've trying on hard but it's stupid hard.

How do you survive get shields? I've tried what you did above but it never works for long enough before those infernal t2 land units swamp me. If the aircraft don't get me first.

I've reclaimed everything I could and produced what units I could and grabbed a couple of mass extractors but nothing truly works

check the video - what tipped the scales for me was
1. build BEHIND the ally - use them as a meatshield
2. order first factory to spam engineers - first engineer should build an endless line of generators at the very back.
3. build a line of t1 ground factories and spam assault bots (or medium tanks - put those on loop)
3.a get a radar
4. factory #6 set to produce AA tanks on loop.
5. never ending supply of engineers from factory #1 put them on patrol and let them reclaim wrecks - including attacking enemies. Also send them to rebuild extractors north whenever you have the chance.
6. Remember generators from step 2? Now your ACU can spam D-gun freely aim at the middle most heavy tank when they arrive

[Derek]

I just beat it with Cybran. I did an agressive build tier 3 ground strat along side of the light gunships to haras the enemy while using the aon as a shield. Also reclaiming isn't an option. I wouldn't build a radar, at least for me my ally did all the necassary scouting for me.