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Sep 29 10 10:32 AM

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Has anyone got some good strategies for Mission Six of the campaign?

It's bugging me to death, I can't seem to pass it.

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GoldenDragon

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Sep 29 10 2:22 PM

Start by ramping out henchmen until you have 2 per coal pile. Lucy can help gather coal until you have enough henchmen.

Send Rex around to collect animals in the low area you start in. Once he's collected the samples, put him near the entrance to your base to serve as defense.

Once you do have enough henchmen, have Lucy go up and right to the steam vent, and build lightning rod, generator, LR, LR, LR. Research advanced structures as soon as the first rod is built, and have Lucy build 4 AA towers near the electrical stuff.

Now that the economy is going, get to level 3 research and build a water chamber. If Rex get attacked, just run him around in circles while his gun reloads. Build about 8-12 Chameleon/Polar Bears (Cham head and tail).

Start research to level 4 and take your critters and Rex to clear out the area until you get to the mouth of the volcano. Once it's clear, you can move your henchies over to the 2 additional coal deposits. Don't forget the animal samples.

Build back up to about 15 Chambears and add about 4-6 Musk-ox/Lobsters. Also, tail the group with at least 5 henchies. Send Rex back to the base in case any Eel/Whales appear.

Clear the area in the volcano and position you Muskobsters in the pool on the right. Split the Chambears into 2 groups, one in the pool, and one on the plateau. If you need more time, leave one of the AA towers near the entrance and have just one Chambear working on it.

After the cutscene, run your 5 henchies up and have them help repair the landing pad. Over and done with in a few seconds.

After Velika zaps your lab, get your henchmen back to work, clear out any stragglers in the volcano, and have Lucy Build a genetic amplifier and fix the lab.

Fly your copter along the bottom of the map until you find the lage coal deposit. there is a low area to the right of this where you can construct a creature chamber or 2. Delete your other critters until you have about 4 of each kind and start building Muskobsters and Chameleon/Crocs (Cham head only) from your new outpost.

Clear the enemies guarding the entrance to the coal pile and then max out the population cap with about 50-50 Muskobsters and Chamodiles. Push north and slaughter everything in sight. Make sure to keep the Chamodiles hotkeyed so you can shoot down any flying chimps when they appear.

Your main base will probably get attacked by the Eelwhales at some point, just pop Rex out of the Lab and shoot them



These are just what works for me, there are plenty of ways to finish this mission.

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

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Sep 29 10 10:45 PM

QUOTE (ShadZ @ September 29, 2010 04:30 pm)
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Done that already

Thanks for the strategy GoldenDragon, I'll give it a try.

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Sep 29 10 11:53 PM

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. I hate that mission. I beat it by making Crocagonflies, upgrading everything on them, then spamming the hell out of them. Now I can't beat mission 8. Damn Giraffe/Cobras...


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Sep 29 10 11:58 PM

QUOTE (VisserZer0 @ September 29, 2010 11:53 pm)
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. I hate that mission. I beat it by making Crocagonflies, upgrading everything on them, then spamming the hell out of them. Now I can't beat mission 8. Damn Giraffe/Cobras...

I agree. It's terrible.

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Sep 30 10 12:33 AM

I did what gold said to do.. mostly except my army was cheap and crappy, I spammed the shit out of my coyian lions at the very beginning I had skunk lemmings as my lvl 1s using teh stink cload made teh artilery attacks fail.

at lvl 3 i just spammed my grizzly bear wolves and wolverine porcupines.

as soon as I got to levle 4 i just hunkered down in my base untill i could make teh crocodile chameleons i made close to 16 or so of them and took that flight pad easiyl as had enough left over to keep a permant defnese

as soon as I could I flew lucy and rex over to the toehr side and build 2 creature chambers where i created 28 crocodile/chameleons and attacked the base, of course this was all done with stink cloud support and rex there as well

I never got worried about the eel whales as i made ram archerfish(swimming) they managed o take care of them easily


as for killing velika (mission 8).. if was pretty eays as well I followed teh same strats as before I killed teh upper left hencheman with my lvl 3 rush and put a dent in the lower rights' witht eh remainder of that force.

Veliak was tough though not going to lie, but nothing that repeated chamelon/corcodile raids didn't take care of. i tried to do a musk ox lobster combo but that just didn't work as good as the corc's by themselves.

this mission for me was more about patience than being actually difficult

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Sep 30 10 8:46 AM

QUOTE (Matt @ September 30, 2010 07:12 am)
Mission 8: Labrush Velika.

Wouldn't want that practice spreading too much now would we ?

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Sep 30 10 3:47 PM

QUOTE (Dumbass @ September 30, 2010 08:46 am)
QUOTE (Matt @ September 30, 2010 07:12 am)
Mission 8: Labrush Velika.

Wouldn't want that practice spreading too much now would we ?

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Sep 30 10 5:32 PM

QUOTE (Dumbass @ September 30, 2010 08:46 am)
QUOTE (Matt @ September 30, 2010 07:12 am)
Mission 8: Labrush Velika.

Wouldn't want that practice spreading too much now would we ?

QUOTE (ShadZ @ September 29, 2010 04:30 pm)
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GoldenDragon

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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.

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Sep 30 10 10:03 PM

QUOTE (ShadZ @ September 30, 2010 05:32 pm)
QUOTE (Dumbass @ September 30, 2010 08:46 am)
QUOTE (Matt @ September 30, 2010 07:12 am)
Mission 8: Labrush Velika.

Wouldn't want that practice spreading too much now would we ?

QUOTE (ShadZ @ September 29, 2010 04:30 pm)
cheat_coal(65500)
cheat_electricity(65500)
cheat_buildings


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Oct 7 10 7:44 AM

SEXTROUSERS.

Beating Matt's post count.

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