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I know plenty of people who would disagree with you!

The victory condition is not consistent across all the missions. That said the general rule is to destroy all power plants, primary eco, unit production, and command centers. Supply drops/black markets/internet centers don't count. Base defenses don't count. GLA holes don't count (but once they spawn consites, those count!) There are some exceptions: 1. Leang requires you to kill all dozers as well. But you can ignore her power plants and supply centers. Consites don't count for Leang either. 2. Laser has 12 reactors that don't count, likely due to a design oversight (if you dig into the game files, they are mapped to a separate AI faction which is probably not checked by the victory logic)

Glad it helped! The big problem with this mission for most people is coming up with a plan to expand. 2 paladins and 2 dragons can be quite tough without the correct counters for them.

Yeah its a pretty old video, I don't bother with that obnoxious subscribe thing anymore. And yeah there's prob a stinger trooper in that building for some reason.

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Good question! Firstly I don't really wanna risk losing auroras to stupid stuff like the gatling tank wave (I can roughly feel when it's coming, but I don't really know the exact timing and I've been caught out by it before). Secondly I find reaching 5-star not as important. It only gives me enough to take down a war factory and an airfield (the spectre gunship usually fails, I need to figure out an easier target for it...) so I think it's okay to have that later. That said there ARE a bunch of tanks that sit outside her base. Those would be easy kills. I'll have to experiment and give it a try, for all I know it could make a difference. Thanks for the suggestion!

Frenzy tricks the AI into locking the laser power there, allowing my helixes to bypass the lasers.

@@SketchTVGaming tried this myself and it works! It's a tight window and saved right before I sent the helix in to experiment most of the time 3 helixes went down but eventually I was able to micro then basically how you did and pulled it off. I saved the game before taking out the command center and I kept playing and built my base then left to let him build his base again to have another fight. What's interesting is that there are drones at each entrance that are indestructible.

Yeah and technically it's the drones' vision that trigger the laser turrets to activate. The drones behave weirdly tho, being indestructible is cool but can lead to weird behavior like drawing aggro from your anti-air units if you have detection while crossing the defense line.

@@SketchTVGaming yeah, that is true. I thought it was weird that they didn't make these drones untargetable if they were going to make them invulnerable

Play and beat all the other Generals using infantry general in this case.

There is a huge exploit which I call BKR skip (a Discord user going by 'BKR' showed it to me). You can permanently kill the power to the laser general's turrets by throwing down two construction sites at a certain section of the laser wall. There's a moment during the mission where I "randomly" put down two consites and cancel them. That's how I trigger this exploit.

@@SketchTVGaming WOW

I sell them for money and because I aim to finish the mission before they are ready to fire.

Yeah no particle cannons; it takes too long to get them firing! Bombers are usually more bang for buck, don't require power or have a 4-minute charge time. Slow build time is mitigated by just building more airfields ($1k per airfield isn't too bad really). If you tried to spam particle cannons, you'd have to spend more money on dozers (and power too!), which really tips the scale (minor but important details in the grand scheme of things). And more importantly, since this is a speedrun, ideally I should only have to fire a particle cannon once. Not very reusable I reckon.

I speedrun all 9 Generals btw. But generally SW doesn't have any easy way through her defences in hard diff. In Easy diff there's a strat to drop Black Lotus and cap enough stuff to low power the base. But it's very hard to pull it off in hard and requires a lot of luck (or save scumming!)

Bro beat me to it. Played this game for years and never once did it occur to me to just Chinook rush tank like that.

That strat was mind-blowing to me too when I discovered it. Hope this inspired you!

Don't need it anymore once I fire it off. I can sell it off for money for half a bomber, so why not? Plus I can reduce my power drain, so maybe I could sell off a reactor too... hmm...

@@SketchTVGaming Haha, green eco. :))

Which tunnel? The sneak attack or the normal tunnel network? Because the sneak attack is given to you for free if you play the Alexander mission as GLA (devs probably didn't want to force GLA players to basically reserve one point for sneak attack every round). The tunnel is available after getting the barracks and I always get it because that's 2 RPGs without the need for training time, and I keep that tunnel around for... reasons that are a bit more complicated to explain.

I think they just die by default.

I think they just die by default.

@@SketchTVGaming Yes it's programmed. But I find that stupid. ^^