Anyone complete the Croatia mission in C&C 3 yet?

In article <9I2dncuYkcI3aJPbnZ2dnUVZ_hSdnZ2d.DeleteThis@comcast.com>,
not.DeleteThis@given.hyar says...
> This is one tough level. I wonder what the strategy is to play this level?
> I tried first going with all ground troops, then going mostly tanks.... but
> no good. NOD keeps on taking over the GDI base.

This was the first mission I had to replay like 5 times (the first I
had to redo was the Nuke as I went flying East instead of West and run
out of time). Ok, I go for full bonus objectives and THAT was the hard
part.

First, repair all defenses. Then activate one armour defense north and
east, one inf defense south and west. Since air attacks did the worst
surprise defense killings I then activated all AA guns except the se
one.

And then you'll be in a hurry for a while. I preferred APC + missile
squads at first but using riflemen to build bunkers and filling those
bunkers with missilemen to the n and e, riflemen to the s and w was
more effective.
Then get 3 predators n and e and SUFFER. Most of your time will be
spent recirculating these to your war factory for repairs. YAK. The
rest is spent repairing those defenses and building whatever you can
afford (not too much so you cannot repair defenses).

Another harvester is a nice thing to have. Also go for the crates below
your base for additional cash.

Once the MCV appears I went for 4-5 APC laden with missile squads and
took out the offending structure. Time the rescue between attacks and
go straight for the target without messing around.

From here on it's just business as usual (getting the MCV back means
stopping a few times not to get it chewed up in the infantry attacks
happening). All this takes attention so make sure you have a base
defense that works.

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BTW, the next mission is worse . Top tip, if you go for bonus
objectives put those darn engineers into bunkers while they are idle.
That alone took me 3 tries to figure out lol. Once I got an APC to Hero
status things got a lot easier though.

Eskimo

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