Plant most of your units on the road, but keep some to the north near the oil well to protect it from the odd group of scorpions and monster trucks that will attack from the north.

The CPU will be attempting to ferry tankers and units along the road, and if you are fast enough you can wipe out that tankers before they can reach their operating area. This will reduce a lot of the pressure on you, and you will eventually be able to set up other oil sites, then roll over the enemy as if they weren't even there. have to say that this is actually one of the hardest missions in the game. What you need to do it to set up your base about a screen up and to the right of where your units begin.

This base position should place you directly between two oil patches, one on the right and one on the left. From this position, you can easily defend the choke point in the cliffs just to the north of your base. The first thing to do it to place your units just back from the choke point, as a defensive line. With your units holding this line, you need to develop your oil routes to both oil patches, with at least two tankers on each run.

Once you've consolidated your position here, you should upgrade your Outpost to get guard towers. Don't bother with the base level tower, build four of the missile batteries at the sides of the choke point in the cliffs.

By this stage, you should be able to successfully defend against any attacks from the north. Soon you'll probably find that you're running out of oil. You'll have to expand to the right (over the river) and possibly up towards the enemy's base.

The way to win this mission is to send a bunch of flame ATVs and tanks up the right of the map, round the back and into the enemy's base. At the same time you should attack him up from your base to take out his lower drill rig.

By this stage you should be in a pretty unlosable position and it's just a question of finishing off the rest of his buildings.


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You will also need to put a decent size force northeast towards your original position because small bands will try to attack there but they will eventually stop. Don't forget to reinforce this group!!! It would suck to have giant scorpions all over your camp.

The Achillies Heel of this mission are SWATS.

I won by Sticking SWATS on infinite build. Call it lame, but It works.

Once I had a reasonable sized force of about 25 SWATS, and all the starting units, I went SW and took over the little installation comprising of 1 mach. gun nest, 1 beast enc. and I think, 2 Rigs.

Once your force crushes it, Take and Hold the area by sending reinforcements of about 15 SWATS. The computer will lamely try to rebuild the stuff. I took great pleasure in letting them get almost complete, then destroying them.

Upgrade the outpost to get a missile battery or two and put them on the front line, then upgrade the machine shop and don't forget to cover your back because there are some "freakers" back east of the river.

Simple enough, first thing to do is move your outpost and derrick down until they're between the clifs. Second, send all your military to wipe out the towers and derricks. Then, develop a little. Don't sit and do nothing, so they roll over you later (they CAN and WILL build up faster than you if you let them!), but don't send all your units out NOW IF NOT SOONER; you'll loose more than you have to. Set your derrick up on the spot they just 'involuntarily deserted'; it's safer than to the north right near the beginning. If they try to rebuild the towers, make destroying them top priority. But get your power station and machine shop up and running! Build another soldier or two, and then go after the town hall right there. Blow it up, and the tower; then, the blacksmith. They're the most important targets this early. They will try to rebuild, but don't worry, that's easy enough to deal with.

If you can take out that base and develop your own (don't forget the 6-or-so scorpions and the trucks from the north...), you can take advantage of the game a bit here. If you leave your units down on the hills to kill the buildings as they're rebuilt, then build a force to choke off the road. They will send a few tankers initially, and later military forces, but they'll be sent to reinforce the town. If you choke off between the woods, and make them go north through your base, you can wipe them out without them even shooting back.

Remember to keep some units in your base when you send your final attack because some CPU forces may remain in the map and might attack your base.

When the tankers first go into the town, a whole crap load of evolved infantry come at you from the north and the south. DON'T PANIC - this is actually easy to take care of - just run over them with your 8 atv's! The next attack upon your convoy will be from the rear, so move your atv's to the rear and defend against the dire wolves and motorcycles. You shouldn't lose anything in this battle because the enemy will be going after your tankers, whick are tough. The last attack upon your covoy will be from the north of your base all the way to the west. This attack is actually just a monster truck and mixed units. All in all you should lose only a couple of units.

If you simply can't beat it with your forces then do this: send you 3 dirt bikes to your base and then send them up on the mountain to the south of your base, then send them due east until you see this tall metal box that will open when you ride by it. It is a tech bunker and it contains a awesome robot. Send the little mech robot to your convoy at the abandoned town and see the robot take care of everything.