Cybran Campaign

Again, this walkthrough is based on the Normal difficulty setting. If you're playing it on Hard, some encounters may be different.

Mission One: Operation Liberation

The usual starting point here: building mass extractors and power generators. The initial mission here is much like the mission that starts the UEF campaign, so you shouldn’t have too many problems.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...

After going through the motions with your bombers, use a couple of engineers to capture the hydrocarbon plant and the rest of the facilities near the radar before grabbing the radar itself. The extra energy supplied should last you quite a while. While the units are being captured, build a few more bombers.

When the radar is on your side, it will reveal some mass units off to the northwest. Build around ten interceptors and use them to take out the enemy interceptors above the mass points, then bomb the mass extractors back to the stone age and build your own. (You can also just capture them, but this will take much longer to do.)

When you destroy the extractors, the map will expand to the east, revealing a lot more area to cover.

Defeat UEF Patrols

The UEF controls the ground to the east of you, so you’ll want to head that way and take them out. Before you do so, though, task an engineer or two to build mass extractors on all the points near your main base. Each of the defenses there will consist of a few interceptors flying around, a bomber, and a mixture of point defenses and anti-air defenses.

First off, build some anti-air units, around ten of them, and move them into the areas through which each patrol passes, which will let you knock them out of the sky. With that done, you can knock out the north and southern defenses with mobile light artillery, and the middle defenses with a few bombers. Use your light artillery to mop up any remaining defenses. Keep around 15 units in the group, though, as the point defenses will knock out some of your forces as you attack.

Destroy the UEF Base

After defeating the patrols and defenses, another base will pop up to your east. You have to destroy everything that moves in order to free your Cybran friends from the clutches of the UEF tyrannists. The easiest way to proceed here is to simply load up a transport with engineers and move it to the extreme southeastern corner of the map, hoping that it doesn’t get shot down. When it lands, you can set up a pair of land factories and begin pumping out the new heavy combat bots, as well as some artillery units and anti-air bots. (Note that you don’t really have to proceed from the south if you don’t want to; heading in from the west works just as well.)

A large army will push past the enemy defenses.

You will likely have a bunch of units in your old army that you want to bring along for the battle. If you want to try ferrying them over, you can construct five light transport units, then have four of them assist the fifth. If you click on the fifth transport, then click on the ferry icon, then left-click on the southeastern corner of the map, you’ll see a purple icon appear beneath the transport. Selecting your entire army and right-clicking into the purple icon will start loading up transports and shuffling your army off to meet the new group.

When you have enough units, start pushing your way north through the enemy defenses. You should have plenty of resources to construct units by this point, so just keep churning out heavy combat bots to overwhelm the defenses of the northern base when it comes time to attack it, focusing on the point defenses first. Sure, you’ll lose some units, perhaps even most of them, but when you attack with 60 units in your army backed up by 20 artillery pieces, it won’t really matter.

Defeat the Aeon Commander

One last expansion, to the south this time. Your goal here is to destroy the base, but what you should really focus on is killing the Aeon commander, as that’s what ends the mission. Roll in hard, with around 100 heavy combat bots, backed up by artillery and anti-air, and you should be able to steamroll through your opponent.

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