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I looked around and noticed there weren't a lot of helpful guides out there. User made guides can be vague or inaccurate (or at the very least - not helpful on Hard), public guides such as the one on Gamespot are horribly vague and if you actually need help on a level you probably need something concrete, and I have no idea how Prima's or Brady's are, but those cost money.

 

So, if anyone needs help, has a question about a mission/objective/strategy/etc don't hesitate to ask. I'm on the final act for the NOD campaign, have beaten all of the GDI on hard with all the ribbons, and will (hopefully) complete the NOD campaign by tonight. Several of the NOD campaign levels are... well... a variety of things really. Most of it falls under the category of "bullshit", but that's just my opinion. But, I figured since I've spent hours stressing through them, I might as well help others.

 

O, and if you have questions as to achievements, there are lots of other threads in this forum about the whole Bronze/Silver/Gold debacle.

 

P.S. If you have a question on a mission try and at least tell me the name of the mission. Ex. Croatia, Sarajevo, Outback, etc.

 

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Edit: I've beaten all the missions now, and all of them except for the last NOD one on Hard. I think I'll finish it tommorow.

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Ok I have a question.

 

On the last GDI mission (forget the name but it is the very last one) your supposed to divert the mothership by taking out the NOD cloaking tower things right? If there is nothing else I'd want to know why the mothership still headed straight for my base instead of going after the NOD one like it's supposed to.

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Mission: Bern (Hard)

 

I didn't have a problem completing any other mission on hard (+ ribbon) but this one. Here's what I've been doing so far...:

 

Build a crane -> War Factory -> 2 Harvesters -> Tech Center -> 2nd War Factory -> Research Rail Guns -> Build Mammoths -> Build Airfield + Firehawks.

 

At that point I'm pretty much already getting attacked with Tripods and their Artillery ships. I'm able to defend myself with the few Mammoths I have for a little, but after a while the artillery ships are getting too many and my firehawks keep getting destroyed from their other airplanes. So basically I believe that I don't have enough forces quick enough as they destroy my tanks quicker than I can build them (I've got them in their War-Factory repair range).

 

What would you say I'm doing wrong and what can I improve (is building pitbulls against airplanes more effective?).

 

Thank you ;)

- FuelTank

 

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I've completed the mission on Medium and got the Ribbon there... do I need to get it again on Hard to get it to count for the achievement?

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Mission: Bern (Hard)

 

I didn't have a problem completing any other mission on hard (+ ribbon) but this one. Here's what I've been doing so far...:

 

Build a crane -> War Factory -> 2 Harvesters -> Tech Center -> 2nd War Factory -> Research Rail Guns -> Build Mammoths -> Build Airfield + Firehawks.

 

At that point I'm pretty much already getting attacked with Tripods and their Artillery ships. I'm able to defend myself with the few Mammoths I have for a little, but after a while the artillery ships are getting too many and my firehawks keep getting destroyed from their other airplanes. So basically I believe that I don't have enough forces quick enough as they destroy my tanks quicker than I can build them (I've got them in their War-Factory repair range).

 

What would you say I'm doing wrong and what can I improve (is building pitbulls against airplanes more effective?).

 

Thank you ;)

- FuelTank

 

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I've completed the mission on Medium and got the Ribbon there... do I need to get it again on Hard to get it to count for the achievement?

 

A lot of people have trouble with this mission. There's no real "straight" strategy I can tell you here because it's sporadic. Here's some tips that will hopefully help you against the attackers:

 

1. RIGs are amazing. For one, they have a further repair range than War Factories and if you station mammoth tanks on their very edge, the Scrin Devastators won't be able to hit them very easily while attacking the mammoths.

 

2. Mammoths are arguably the best anti-air units. They're extremely durable, near impossible to kill while being repaired, and fire a volley of anti-air missiles. Their one fault is that Devastators out range them. There are two things you have to do to counter Devastators (and possibly also Tripods) then. One is you have to "lunge" with your mammoths. It's a basic move that has your mammoths attack-move out from the RIG to the airships, and then return once destroyed. The second way to counter the ships is with Firehawks loaded with missile payloads.

 

3. I don't know if you're building a second Refinery (maybe there's two provided?) but for the intensity of the mission (and all really high volume heavy unit missions) you should build a second one by the second tiberium deposit. You will over harvest the tiberium near your base, but by then you should have a firm foothold in the map and be moving to eliminate one of the two bases (I prefer taking out the air base first). When that's done, the center blue tiberium deposit becomes much more open.

 

The ribbon issue is something I'm personally looking into (and will be able to confirm it by tommorow). I have beaten missions on Normal with the Ribbon and then beaten it on Hard without the Ribbon. After beating it on Hard w/o the Ribbon I return to the world map and I see a Gold Medal w/ Ribbon on the area map. I will be beating the final NOD mission on Hard tomorrow (have beaten it on Easy) and will see if I get the achievement.

 

You know I'm begining to think it's impossible to beat this game because of all the bugs in it.

 

Well, I've beaten all missions but one on Hard, so it's certainly possible! As Kane says, "Have faith, my son."

 

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Thank you for the tips, I was able to finish the mission on hard now...

 

I've had all missions completed on hard now and I've done a few missions on easy afterward to get the bonus ribbon. After completing Bern on hard I had all Gold Medals with Ribbons (at least that's what it said on the map) but I didn't get the achievement. That means that we've got to get the ribbon on hard as well.... (now i've to start guessing which ones i've done on easy to get the bonus ribbon as they look the same :()

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Well, I've beaten all missions but one on Hard, so it's certainly possible! As Kane says, "Have faith, my son."

 

I say that because here's what happened the last time I played GDIs last misison. I managed to divert the Scrin mothership toward the NOD base (which was useless because all it took out was a Crane) and the NOD did manage to destroy it in the process so I then went to my base to try and build some units to attack the Temple Of Nod. When I got to my base I found 75% of it destroyed by a Scrin attack force that I had no idea was there and the little announcer voice did not inform me that my base was under attack or anything. All I had left was a badly damaged Crane, a Power Plant, and a Command Post. What units I had at my base did not attack the Scrin even when set on aggresive and being attacked by Scrin units. I had to manually tell them to attack the Scrin and half the time they didn't attack the units I told them to.

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I've heard of that before. It's happened to me, but it hasn't been on missions where I've had a base. It tends to happen to me more on the commando/small attack force missions. I'd really suggest frequently checking up on your base by clicking the right (left?) thumb stick. This'll jump the camera to your construction yard. Other than that I can't really give any help, it's just another reason so save often.

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guys i dont know if this is a newbie question or what, but on the GDI mission in albania i think, where u dont have a base and u have to use engineers to take over stuff and u get a rig and some units plus the engineers. anyways one bonus objjective is kill a venom (?!?) with a firehawk. r venoms the NOD airplanes? if so i only encountered them at the building ur supposed to take over all the way on the left side of the map. anyways do i have to go back and not destroy the air base and then get firehawks with engineers WHILE they r attacking then load the firehawks with air to air missiles? if so i think im screwed cuz it took me SOOO long to get to the end of the mission and even though i saved it was waaaay back. so can anyone confirm my thoughts? thx

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guys i dont know if this is a newbie question or what, but on the GDI mission in albania i think, where u dont have a base and u have to use engineers to take over stuff and u get a rig and some units plus the engineers. anyways one bonus objjective is kill a venom (?!?) with a firehawk. r venoms the NOD airplanes? if so i only encountered them at the building ur supposed to take over all the way on the left side of the map. anyways do i have to go back and not destroy the air base and then get firehawks with engineers WHILE they r attacking then load the firehawks with air to air missiles? if so i think im screwed cuz it took me SOOO long to get to the end of the mission and even though i saved it was waaaay back. so can anyone confirm my thoughts? thx

 

A NOD Venom aircraft are their attack helicopters. These do not have to be docked at an air tower, where as the NOD bombers (Vertigo's) can only be produced in a ratio of 4 to every 1 air tower (like Firehawks).

 

You'll probably kill a slew of Venoms during the course of the mission, perhaps without firehawks. It may look like you're out of luck, but do not fret! There's a NOD Venom helicopter up towards the top of the map, near the secondary objective airfield reinforcement base. It's exact location is about a screen's distance to the east of the reinforcement bay. It won't move from the spot, and will only be destroyed if units are send to it. So, simply destroy it at your leasure.

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I think the mission im stuck on is the first one in Eastern Europe.

 

i have a base with no power and have to defend it and then escort my mcv over there. Whats the best way to defend it? I can last until the timer runs out but then i have to keep defending and go escort. Soo tough.:mad:

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I think the mission im stuck on is the first one in Eastern Europe.

 

i have a base with no power and have to defend it and then escort my mcv over there. Whats the best way to defend it? I can last until the timer runs out but then i have to keep defending and go escort. Soo tough.:mad:

 

I believe you're talking about GDI - Croatia. See: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showpost.php?p=261785&postcount=2

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Ok, I have a question after beating the GDI Campaign on hard. NOD campaign, this time around.

 

NOD/Washington D.C. This is the one where you get flame tanks for the first time. I beat the level and no ribbon because I did no complete the "Use GDI technology against them" This never appeared for me! How do I trigger it? Thanks.

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thanks for quick response, ill give that a shot, Gotta keep busy since no halo 3 beta :(

 

I feel your pain. :o

 

Ok, I have a question after beating the GDI Campaign on hard. NOD campaign, this time around.

 

NOD/Washington D.C. This is the one where you get flame tanks for the first time. I beat the level and no ribbon because I did no complete the "Use GDI technology against them" This never appeared for me! How do I trigger it? Thanks.

 

I don't remember this objective on NOD Washington. I remember that you have to capture the subway hub, but that's about it.

 

I just checked, and the secondary objectives on Washington are to build a Shredder turret, Laser turret, capture the subway, and destroy the tiberium silos.

 

I can't help ya on this one, sorry :(

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@Dew222 and friends

Im stuck on the GDI mission Croatia i think (eastern europe) where u have to hold off the attacks from the nod while sending support to free up the incoming troops.....This mission seams impossible by far all they give you is a damn war factory and barracks, i end up running out of tiberium or either getting taken over by nod......im on easy btw :( Help needed.

 

Edit: nvm....read previous post

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Hey Dew.

 

I'm stuck mate!!!

 

On the level where you have to destroy the Nuke facility. (GDI story)

 

I have taken down the Nuke base and captured the three power plants at the back. It says I still have to

 

"capture/destroy the power plants"

 

All that I have left to destroy is the command centre! I did it before and still missed the objective.

 

Do you maybe have to do it in a certain order? eg.. Take the power plants first maybe?

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Hey Dew.

 

I'm stuck mate!!!

 

On the level where you have to destroy the Nuke facility. (GDI story)

 

I have taken down the Nuke base and captured the three power plants at the back. It says I still have to

 

"capture/destroy the power plants"

 

All that I have left to destroy is the command centre! I did it before and still missed the objective.

 

Do you maybe have to do it in a certain order? eg.. Take the power plants first maybe?

What I did is flew some orcas up the left side of the map and blew up 1 power plant and then returned the orcas. Got the bonus objective ribbon. You don't have to take out all three so long as you get one to stop the timer. Then destroyed the nuke facility in much the same way just with more orcas. Just save before you destroy a power plant in case you don't get it, but you may have done it the wrong way which produced a bug.

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I could use a little assistance with the last NOD mission. I don't mind defending the Scrin, but it would be nice if they'd put up a little resistance of their own. By the time that my primary objective is at 75%, GDI has two railgun upgraded mammoth tanks in the Scrin base.

 

Argh.

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This mission seems insanely difficult but i know it can be done. Can anyone give me some advice as to how to go about this mission. And yes the objective ribbon is essential. Heres what i have been doing to try and beat this mission. I take out one of the GDI sound cannons and then send the 4 stealth tanks to go take out the tiberium crystal. Then i race them back over to the rest of the squadron and take out two of the convoys. And then i send my sabatuer over to take over the research lab. Obviously taking out the gun turret first. But by the time all of this happens the skrin are almost all over me and by the time i get all the convoys or one of them is taken out the carryalls take too long to get to my position. The lowest i have gotten the time to get to was 20 seconds and then my last nuke carrier blew up so please tell im doing something wrong or a way to do it faster. i would really appreciate the help.http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif:confused:

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Sorry for not replying in a timely manner everyone. Been busy wrapping up the school year.

 

OK, thanks I'll try again! I went straight for the Nuke base and then polished off the three power plants after. I blew them up with no problems but didn't get the objective.

 

You need to destroy the power plants before the nuke silo. The achievement is misleading, you need to halt the launch countdown with the silo still standing. My suggestion is to use zone troopers as opposed to Orcas, but either one works I suppose.

 

I could use a little assistance with the last NOD mission. I don't mind defending the Scrin, but it would be nice if they'd put up a little resistance of their own. By the time that my primary objective is at 75%, GDI has two railgun upgraded mammoth tanks in the Scrin base.

 

Argh.

 

The last NOD mission is a bitch to beat. The best way to beat the mission is to change how you think of it. This is how I thought of it:

 

It's a 1 vs 1 mission. The scrin presence only provides you with X amount of minutes until GDI is able to complete their objective. The amount of time ( X ) only decreases the longer the Juggernauts remain.

 

Thinking that you can make your life easier with a few simple things:

 

The limiting factor as to why you can't even hold off the GDI, let alone dominate them, is resources. The Tiberium deposit by your base is very tiny, and if you create a second refinery at the North to try and harvest the larger tiberium field by the Scrin, the distance limits it's usefullness. Therefore, capturing the Scrin Harvesting facility (refinery) will provide a nearby refinery, increasing your incoming resources greatly.

 

Capture the Scrin refinery has a second benefit: it gives you room to build a second war factory closer to the point you have to defend. Units can therefore get where they need to faster.

 

The final thing you could do to make your life easier is to send an Embassy to the Phase towers, deploy it, and start building a few Obelisks + turret hubs. Remember to use the turret drones as fodder to protect the obelisks as they regenerate.

 

Hope that helps, try to keep those things in mind with your own strategy.

 

This mission seems insanely difficult but i know it can be done. Can anyone give me some advice as to how to go about this mission. And yes the objective ribbon is essential. Heres what i have been doing to try and beat this mission. I take out one of the GDI sound cannons and then send the 4 stealth tanks to go take out the tiberium crystal. Then i race them back over to the rest of the squadron and take out two of the convoys. And then i send my sabatuer over to take over the research lab. Obviously taking out the gun turret first. But by the time all of this happens the skrin are almost all over me and by the time i get all the convoys or one of them is taken out the carryalls take too long to get to my position. The lowest i have gotten the time to get to was 20 seconds and then my last nuke carrier blew up so please tell im doing something wrong or a way to do it faster. i would really appreciate the help.http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif:confused:

 

You don't need to take out any sound cannons in the first place. The cannons can't detect stealth and can't shoot down air units. Capture the Research lab with one saboteur, and capture the refinery to the north with the other saboteur. This should give you an other 2000+ resources.

 

I've found the timing of when the Scrin come to be random to a certain degree, but I'm fairly sure it won't happen until at least one of the conveys is destroyed. Don't take out a convey until you're absolutely ready for them.

 

The very second you gain control of your base, start producing stealth tanks, rocket bikes, anything you can to hold off the scrin.

 

The scrin should be your best friends when it comes to destroying the mammoth tanks guarding the third convey. Let them do the dirty work. Hell, you don't even need the third nuke. You just need one to survive by the end.

 

You base may not be the safest place to hide. If things gets too hot at your base, reload an earlier save and try to find an area where Scrin seem to ignore. I've heard of places to the western side of the map where Scrin just don't seem to go.

 

Hope this helps people.

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