"Battle of Minds" unbeatable?

[okitu]

Hi there,

im sitting here for hours now trying to beat the maybe last fight of the single player campaign.

You are told to protect Eji, but also to find the enemy-master, to interrupt his concentration, so Eji can win the Battle of Minds.


Although u can order reinforcement nearly everytime u need them, u cannot stand against the hordes of enemies.

So it seems, the goal of this fight, is to stop the attack from one side, so u can proceed to the enemy master. Easy thought, hard done.

U need to destroy two breeders, while under attack of 3 or 5 turrets, while enemies spawn around u, and while masses of harvesters attack Eji.

If u split up your troops, u dont have enough power to hold the harvesters long enough, to get the breeders down, and if u hold more units and healpower, to protect Eji, u cant survive against the Turrets/Fear-Combo of the nearby base.


Could u plz give me a hint, on what im doing wrong?

Whats the key to this mission?

[okitu]

No answer, no suggestions, cmon plz help me frujin, mishony or whoever =)

[DanteOne]

this map is pretty easy. i needed 20 mins to do it. was about 3 or 4 tries...

Map must be harder

[okitu]

ZOMG i did it!

I got no video, but at least a screenshot. (btw screenshot, the quota for attachments in this forum is 250 kb? that's way too less!)


My tactics:

Build 2 groups of units:

1st Group: Master, Arbiter, Dominator, Arna, 2nd Commander, tritecs and the mechs.
2nd Group: Denkar, Trisats, and whatever there's left.


Phase 1:

U run in, and Eji will take position, while u run up two the gate straight north, where the first enemy-group comes out. U have to fear this grioup, before the enemy arbiter fears your troops. This moment makes u win or loose!!! If he feared just let someone die and retry, believe me.

Now move the 2nd group a little bit back to south, so they catch the enemy troops coming from west, and let denkar confuse the first row of harvesters once, then send him behind the rest of your units.

Now it gets tricky again. Use the 1st group, and run though the north-gate, then straight east, and give all u got into the breeder standing there. U cannot be fast enough to kill it before a arbiter-group respawn, but to handle this, leave your dominator behind outside of fear-range. Catch the spawn with him, and kill it, then proceed with the breeder, until its dead. Then run back to reach Denkar before he's dead. (u can use reinf on denkar, if u got cooldowns, so all dead units of your first group will respwan to help there.


Phase 2:

Get down all enemies, that have ralllied in front of eji and denkar (much easier now, as there wont be any arbiters anymore).

Create the first and second group again (not exactly the same, but u need much firepower in group 1 again, to kill the second breeder inside behind the northern gate.

If u got it down, be sure to return and cover denkar and eji again.


Phase 3: (it gets easier now!)

Repeat your breeder-destruction on the western base, where u have to kill 2 breeders again (i reccomend the northern one first; otherwise the spawns from there will run to eji behind your back, and we dont want that!).

If u managed to kill all 4 breeders, there's only the master left, and he's nothing to fear, so just attack him, until eji wins the battle -> congratz, gief epix plx!!!


Hints:
Ignore the alien-turrets, u cannot attack them, just live with the damage.
Its always good, to keep all important commanders in an extra group, which u can access through another shortcut, so u can move all away from the front, if it get's close to mission failed.



Now, have from, and be prepared with some coffee! Annoying mission

[DanteOne]

omg... you doing like this was something special :D

[Mishony]

Woow, grats to the first people who beated the campaign! :)

[DanteOne]

your rush to north base -> kill breeder.

rush to enemy master -> let some troops there for keeping him down

rush to western base -> kill breeder

rush to eji -> kill units her

win :)

to easy

[Jeans]

your rush to north base -> kill breeder (there are 2).

rush to eji -> kill units attacking her

rush to western base -> kill breeder (there are 2).

rush to eji -> kill units attacking her

now you have all time in the world and no more enemies

rush to enemy master -> get him down

win



This way it is very easy, i was even able to drink my coffee with this strategy *g*.

[innociv]

Kill breeders before moving eji to the spot :)

[Rynn]

Kill breeders before moving eji to the spot :)

Wouldn't that be the first logical thoguht when attempting this? I'm not there yet, but I'd sure try to toast as many enemies and -spawns as possible, before Eji does her thing :p

Then again, I'm already getting stuck with scorpion hordes overwhelming me. Oh well.

[Throb]

AHHHH AHAHA HAHH I DID THE SAME THING kill breaders befo you go in it makes life easyer. :go:

[DemonicTutor]

Yes, with no reinforcements the oppenent is definetly weaker ;-)