I can't play it as part of campaign because it's locked for me :(

When playing not as part of campaign it's rather super annoying to guess where the legate will run >.>

just rapier spam and you win

I never figured out how to play in campaign mode.

What is it like, what does it change?

codex? zomg i might have to do it then!

Maximize eco and untit efficiency, make sure that a step forward is permanent. So:
Link grid asap, get wind on high ground etc. Dont lose units, beware of dante. There is a spot on the middle plateau from where tremors can just hit the center hills. Support your ally, try attack together sometimes. Once you take out a hill, hope for your ally to secure it with crabes. I think retreat and repair is important, also knowing when not to attack.

Here's how i did it.

1) Walk commander to below north hill, acquire tremor, bombard north hill. Once defences are down, ally seizes it, then invade. Use gunships to defend.

2) Spam Reaper just in case. Link grids, including allied mexes (CAI doesn't know how to do it, so it's all on you). Get enough energy to benefit from overdrive. Construct critical pieces of defense the allies will not (like Chainsaws to stop them from being molested by air).

3) When north hill is seized, porc on top of it, construct a Missile Silo, and methodically use it to destroy enemy grid, powering down defenses and allowing ally to destroy them.

4) Push with Reapers and multiple Tremors to siege and dismount south hill. Do the same with Silo, use it to dismantle Behemoths, Annihilators, and Screamers.

5) Drop Goliaths onto sites needing capture if you lack time.

quote: Every single one of them.

I think at least Tremors and Silo are allowed. Silo works great.

I could probably just remove most of the DDMs outright (replacing them with lighter porc), it's not like the Behemoths don't seriously mess up any land assault anyway. Requiring airdrop or gunships to bypass them is probably too gimmicky. (also DDM wtfomgs gunships)

The pathfinding on the slopes works just fine on the 98 engine.

The CAI eats up resources like crazy if allowed to build a lot of units.

I'm not sure for missions such as this one there's an actual need for an advanced AI, maybe just creating a bunch of enemy units and sending them towards your base at intervals could be enough, maybe just have an AI for a few units guarding the main base.

I'll try connecting all the extractors and putting silos to work, I already did the north hill, send units there, multiple tremors south hill, go air spam, but was never enough or was never too fast, didn't really silo + more connected extractors, I just did a few.

But sunlances too op!

quote: Actually what are victory conditions? I've destroyed everything (except the tree undestroyable building) and still no endscreen.

Of course it is "destroy everything". What else would you expect from Ada the destroyer? She is a homocidal maniac wich just kills things without much reason. Maby its good that humans were wiped out after all.