themousemaster wrote:
Keep 3 HC tanks, as they have the highest body points, so they fill the role of "damage sponge" the best (for now).
4 trucks
5 Tank Killer rockets (having them all focus-fire on 1 thing will guarantee a kill in 1 volley, something you will need the power to do against nexus bodies in the early missions).
Any Commanders you wish to keep (I only brought 1)
The rest, make Assault gun units.
And since money is no option, make EVERYTHING on Tiger-Track. Trust me, once you see the damage Nexus does early, you won't regret it.
And...
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Massed assault gun units will tear apart every non-plane nexus has for the first 2 stages; and will tear apart cyborgs and structures for the first 5. Around that time, you'll get your first Laser. replace your entire assault gun army immediately with lasers at that time... if you have 100K money at this point, I'll assume you know how to milk the clock to do this appropriately
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Mousemaster,
I've reached Gamma 1, and have tried it over twice from an early save point.
The first time, I gave up, because my attempt at building artillery emplacements for the innocent purpose of defending my base resulted in a severe counter-barrage from NEXUS' main base that damaged a lot of other stuff apart from simply obliterating my expensive Hellstorm emplacements.
The second time, I made more use of my my main tank group(Group 3), consisting of a Hero-level Commander with 2 Heavy Tank-Destroyer Mk.2s(Tank Killer + Python + Tracks), and 20 Heavy Tank Mk.2s(Heavy Cannon + Python + Tracks). The Heavy Tank Mk.2 design dates back to Alpha 11, but has got several firepower and durability tech upgrades since then. By holding fire until all tanks are within range of a target, and then focusing fire, I managed to blast the early cyborgs to bits. I set up 3 TK hardpoints and a wall with 3 trucks to defend my main base, set up 5 AA emplacements on the hilltop, and sent Group 3 to capture the northeastern base along with 3 trucks to build a forward Repair Facility.
After destroying and capturing the base and all the oil derricks, I set up a defensive wall on the river bank near the northeastern valley. But the wall, just attracted NEXUS' patrolling hovercraft to attack, and my main tank group had to tie itself up to defend my forward base from a constant stream of guerrilla-warring cyborgs and hovercraft. Although the cyborgs could be handled, even focus-fire blasts couldn't kill the hovercraft. They had Retribution medium bodies, a stronger Auto-Repair system(compared to the cyborgs), were very fast(top speed 200), and were armed with Railguns, Pulse Lasers and, worst of all, Scourge Missiles.
My VTOLs, meanwhile, were unable to attack anything for the moment they crossed the river, a giant swarm of blue missiles would materialize out of the fog and chase them down. They couldn't be used to defend either, for then, NEXUS fighters( Retaliation light body + VTOL propulsion + Scourge Missile ) would shoot them down. Meanwhile, 5 NEXUS heavy bombers kept flying raids on my main base, and were seemingly immune to my flak. They'd fly in, drop bombs, and fly out unscathed. So I'm stuck in a stalemate for now.
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You say Assault Gun units will work? How, they're just a fancy version of the machine gun. I understand their effectiveness against cyborgs, but I doubt how useful they'll be against those super-hovercraft and those Plasteel defenses. The only upgrade my Research Facility is showing right now has a machine gun picture, and I'm not sure if it'll work on Assault Guns. I've attached a picture of the unit I think you're recommending.
Also, the Commander does have a tendency to move first. Although this can be avoided by manually moving the tanks ahead of the commander and reassigning.
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