Zero Hour – Tank General vs. Superweapon General

The Tank General has many strengths, but offensive air power is not one of them. Helixes work great for defense, but they are slow-moving and easily destroyed by the EMP Patriots deployed in this mission. MIGs are similarly ineffective.

The best method for destroying the three Particle Cannons is by your weapon of mass destruction – the Nuclear Missile.

Do not build an air force on this mission, but simply forge your way straight into building a Nuclear Missile.

Key Strategies:

• Build a few spare Barracks to give cheap targets for the Particle Cannons.
• Consider destroying the Command Center first or before some of the Particle Cannons. The A10 Missile Strikes do more damage than the Particle Cannons.

• Power straight through to building a Nuclear Missile.
• Always have plenty of extra power. Your Reactors will be a popular target of the Superweapon General.
• Station a Gattling Cannon or Gattling Tank or two in the very back of your base to help destroy a sneak attack in this area.
• Keep five Gattling Cannons evenly spaced along the front of your base. The Comanches on this mission are fierce.

Walkthrough:

The usual build routine needs to shaken up a bit for this mission.

Build a Reactor, extra bulldozer, Barracks, and a Gattling Cannon along the coast before building a Supply Center.

Immediately research Capture command and build a pair of Red Guard, setting the Rally Point by the two oil derricks. Capture the two oil derricks.

Wait for the A10 Missile Strike planes to blast away your Gattling Cannon, rebuild it, build a second Gattling Cannon, then build your Supply Center. Build an extra Supply Truck.

Note: If you survive the initial A10 Strike with "only" a single Gattling Cannon lost, save the mission!!

Build a total of five Gattling Cannons evenly spaced out along the beach. Once you have completed this, build straight through to your Nuclear Missile without hesitation – War Factory, Propaganda Center, then Nuclear Missile.

If your Supply Center, War Factory or Propaganda Center are destroyed, don’t rebuild them until after your Nuclear Missile starts building. The destruction of any of these structures shouldn’t slow you down because you will go straight from building one structure to the next.

It will be two steps forward, one step back. You will constantly be replacing your structures -- Barracks, Reactors, Gattling Cannons -- and bulldozers. Just keep rebuilding them. You will be fine.

Build a Gattling Cannon and/or station a few units in the very back of your base to protect it from Ambushes and troops dropped off by Chinook helicopters.

Destroy the first Particle Cannon with a combination of a level three Artillery Barrage and a Nuclear Missile.

Be absolutely sure to keep your Nuclear Missile repaired when it is attacked.

Build a second Nuclear Missile. Use both of your Nuclear Missiles to destroy the Command Center to stop the A10 Missile Strikes, which are more damaging than the Particle Cannons.

Build Hackers when funds permit.

Destroy the final two Particle Cannons by any combination of weaponry you choose. Continue building additional Nuclear Missiles to speed up the destructive process.

It is not necessary to destroy Fire Bases, Artillery Platforms and Patriots to complete the mission.

The only building necessary to destroy on the northwest island is the Supply Center.

The Particle Cannons and Command Center will not be rebuilt but the War Factory and Airfield will. Watch for dozers returning to the area of the War Factory and destroy them before they have a chance to rebuild.

Mission accomplished!