Mission 12
Destroy Chemical Missile Plant
Battle tactics
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Mission
briefing
Move your units from the northwest corner and destroy any
NOD forces in the area. Follow the road down until you locate the
large field of Blue Tiberium. Harvesting here will jump-start your
base tremendously, so put down the Construction Yard and start
building. Have your other units explore to reveal the map around your
Construction Yard. You find another Tiberium field in the southwest.
Build a second Harvester, and start pumping out Hover MLRSs and
Titans, plus a couple of Wolverines for scouting.
When your Radar Installation comes online, you discover that this
map is very narrow north to south, and very wide east to west. NOD
forces control everything in the eastern three-quarters of the map.
Use Wolverines to reveal more map, and build some base defenses.
Forgo Walls for the most part because there won't be many actual
ground attacks from NOD. Instead, build a Service Depot or two; the
chemical missile attacks frequently target your units. Don't forget
about a Tech Center so you can produce the more advanced
Disruptors.
A small NOD base is on the plateau to the east of your base. This
one is not protected by Stealth Generators, but the northern side is
protected by an Obelisk of Light. Move in a force of Titans from the
south and cross over the bridge: this puts you right in line with the
NOD Advanced Power Plants. Bring in an APC with an engineer or two
and grab the Hand of NOD and the War Factory. Direct the Titans to
destroy the Construction Yard; until this is gone, NOD simple
rebuilds any Power Plants you destroy. Grab the Refinery and the Tech
Center, too.
Now it's time to turn your attention east. Use the captured NOD
base as your own advance base and start churning out additional
units: Tick Tanks, a few Mobile Repair Vehicles, some Attack Cycles,
and most importantly, artillery. Create some MSAs, too. Move this
force, along with your Titans, back across the bridge and start
heading east. Deploy the MSAs periodically to spot NOD units hidden
by the Stealth Generators.
Use the Attack Cycles to scout ahead. All approaches to the NOD
base are protected by Obelisks of Light and SAMs, so there's no good
way to break through until you sacrifice a few units to spot the
Obelisks. Once you find them, pummel them with artillery. Again, you
must deploy MSAs, because Stealth Generators hide everything NOD has.
When the Obelisks are destroyed, send in more Attack Cycles to scout
the area, and keep using artillery to smash whatever you find.
Because your approaching units are a serious threat to NOD, the
chemical missile attacks begin targeting your units instead of your
base. Whenever you hear that a chemical missile has been launched,
pull your units back and wait for the toxins to dissipate. NOD tends
to target your MSAs, so having several operating at once in different
areas will keep NOD forces visible even if one MSA is destroyed.
From here on, the rest of the mission is merely a repetition of
the same basic process. Advance your units, have the MSAs deploy the
spot the NOD forces, and scout ahead with the Attack Cycles. Your
artillery can create havoc when you spot NOD structures. Focus on
base defenses, Stealth Generators, and Missile Silos.
The main group of NOD Advanced Power Plants is in the middle of
the map's eastern edge. Another tremendously helpful tactic is to
send a force of Stealth Tanks to the southeast corner and annihilate
the Banshees and Helipads there. Because you are destroying or
capturing everything. NOD soon runs out of funds and unit-producing
structures. This mission is time consuming, but not too
difficult.
Nod forces
statistics
