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Is there something wrong with Beta 9 mission? I can not secure the LZ. The VTOLs come in waves of 4 every 10-15 seonds and destroy 1 or 2 units each wave and anything I build. I am unable to kill any VTOls even if I bring in 10 Cyclones. The 3 hovers that come in are killable, but they seem overpowered, they also kill a unit each time the 3 fire at something once each.

I got stuck on exactly this same problem. I have not gotten back to it since I have been distracted by playing Prototype lately.

Its doable, but very hard i found.

The only way i could finish this mission, was to create 5 control groups of 2 trucks each, put them on the transport, then start the mission.
I put them into control groups (select a few, press control 1 or 2 etc, and you can quickly select them with the number) so i could select them as fast as possible.

From here, i built 5 Anti air turrets as quickly as i could, then another 5 anti air turrets (don't build them too close to one another, as the VTOLS frequently take out 2 turrets accidentally), and finally, i built 3 lancer bunkers on the coast to stop the 3 hover lancers.

The VTOLS will still wipe out plenty of your turrets and trucks (infact, i tried this plan 2 times before success i think) so just keep rebuilding as much as possible.

Hope this helps mate.

Thank you, Pazuzu5000.

Your suggestion, eventually, worked for me.
Given the fact that, although I do enjoy this type of game, I am only somewhat mediocre-adequate at playing the thing, your suggestion was able to allow me to finish the mission.

To add a bit more to your suggestion, if I may:
Until I had established a firm foothold on the LZ, I had to alter my tactics and make sure I brought in a few trucks with every transport to establish some batteries of indirect fire artillery, as I was losing too many aircraft to those damnable anti-aircraft emplacements to the East.

This mission is very possible, I beat it using 5 trucks and 5 tank killer tanks (although one more truck wouldn't have hurt either.) I built assault guns closer to the beach and AA everywhere else. Then when the attacks slowed down I brought in my bunker buster vtols to unleash hell.