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Sep 30 10 8:08 PM

For mission 8 I just wall off each entrance to the base (left, top, and right) with bramble fences, 12-16 soundbeam towers, and 2-4 AA towers. Get the AA towers ASAP to stop Velika's scouts. A defense like this, backed up by Rex, can hold off anything Velika or her goons can throw at you, especially if you supplement Lucy with a seperate group of 3 henchies.

Next get to level 3 and make some chamar bears. Once the coal at your initial base runs out, clear the way to the coal pile between your base and the guy to your right.

Guard with the Chamar Bears while Rex runs around in the interior (AWAY from the enemy bases) gathering DNA. Meanwhile, build up a second group of 12 miners and have them tap some of the interior coal deposits. There's one at the top-center of the map ontop of some waterfalls, one on a peninsula in the lagoon in the middle of the map, and one on a hill about dead-center between your and Velika's labs.

Reinforce your first expansion's guards with some Chameleon/Hippos (Cham head and tail [yes, again]). Once you have enough of those to serve as defense, swim your chamar bears up the lagoon to attack the light-blue lab. You'll get attacked by some eagle/eels and piranha/mantises, but just deal with them and get back to atttacking the lab. It'll fall in no time.

By now your first expansion will probably be dry, just colonize another one of the safe spots I already mentioned.

Add some Rhino/Lobsters to serve as battering rams and take out the dark-blue base.

Max out the population cap and move your regenerating army up through where the light-blue base used to be and approach the entrance to Velika's base. Activate the radar pulse at your lab, and then cycle through you army telling every critter to attack Velika's Lab. It should fall before your army does.

Of course you should fight fire with fire, you should fight everything with fire.