Original War Walkthrough
By Steven W. Carter
(scarter831@earthlink.net)
Last Updated
February 6, 2002
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* Introduction                                                              *
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Original War is an interesting, challenging game, and in this guide Iíll
provide some general tips plus walkthroughs for the 38 missions included in
the American and Russian campaigns.  These are strategies that worked for me
using version 1.2 and the default (commander) difficulty setting.
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* Gameplay Tips                                                             *
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Armories make excellent defensive structures early in the game.
Mechanics get a double level bonus inside vehicles, and soldiers get a double
level bonus inside weapon turrets.
Characters can reach a maximum level of 10 for each class.
The heavier the tread, the better the defense for vehicles.
An upgraded depot gets a wider sphere of influence.
Soldiers are useful early in the campaigns, but mechanics are best by the
end.
Oil power plants cause a constant drain on your oil reserves, but a single
oil drilling tower can support three oil power plants.  Meanwhile, solar and
Siberite power plants only require a one-time fee.
During in-game cinematics, you can still use the numpad ``+íí and ``-íí keys
to speed up or slow down the proceedings, and you can use the enter key to
skip lines of dialogue.
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The top of the screen is north, the right side is east, and so forth.
I use the word ``Siberiteíí for both campaigns, even though itís really
``Alaskiteíí for the Soviet campaign.
I use the word ``depotíí to refer to depots and warehouses.  Similarly, I use
the word ``factoryíí to refer to factories and workshops.
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* American Campaign, Main Branch                                            *
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Mission 1: Surprise Party
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Main Objective:
1. Survive
Medals:
1. John Macmillan saved.
2. Bobby Brandon saved.
3. Cyrus Parker saved.
Walkthrough:
You start out in the pre-mission area, an American camp in Siberia.  Just
walk Macmillan east to the EON and agree to go in.  (Otherwise itís a short
campaign.)
When you reach the past, and after talking to Powell, head southwest so you
can hide in the trees when the Russian patrol shows up.  After the patrol
leaves, Bobby Brandon will wander over and introduce himself.  Note that heís
wounded.
Wait for Powell to contact you again and then head northeast to the center of
the map.  (If you leave earlier, the patrol might still be there.)  Along the
way you should meet Cyrus Parker and also receive another radio message
directing you to the top center of the map.  The message is a trap, and the
place to go is the northeastern corner.
Still, youíll run into two Russian soldiers before you can leave, but your
three soldiers should be able to kill them easily.  Just make sure you keep
Brandon in the back.  Then just walk your trio into the red area to finish
the mission.
Note: If youíre feeling daring, you can stand right at the edge of the red
area and wait for more Russians to show up (use the G hotkey to prevent your
soldiers from wandering into it).  Youíll be outnumbered this time, but you
might be able to get some extra experience before withdrawing.  You can also
get some extra experience by shooting the wildlife on the map.
Mission 2: Stealing the Steel
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Main Objectives:
1. Capture and defend the (two) Russian supply depots.
2. Find the (five) other survivors.
Medals:
1. Lots of spoils.
2. Minimum losses.
3. Prisoner taken.
Walkthrough:
Youíll meet a soldier and two engineers right away.  After talking to them
and Powell, head north and meet a scientist.  Have him heal your wounds, and
then head north some more.  Youíll find some dead bodies, and thatís a signal
the enemy is nearby.
In fact, theyíre just to the east.  When you get close enough to notice the
enemy bunker, Macmillan will announce you need more firepower.  You donít --
you can use hit and run tactics to do the job -- but play along and head
south.  Youíll come to a river, and on the other side youíll find an allied
soldier being attack by two Russians.  Kill the Russians and heal the
soldier, and heíll join your team.
Then head back to the northern side of the river and go east.  Youíll find
another bunker here, but unlike the one you saw earlier, there wonít be any
soldiers patrolling along next to it.  So go ahead and take it out, and use
your scientist to heal whichever soldier is getting attacked.
Then continue east and kill the two enemy soldiers and the mechanic next to
the supply depot.  You can now capture the depot and also grab the two heavy
machine gun vehicles nearby.  That should give you enough firepower to have
an easier time attacking the first bunker you saw.
So go ahead and do that.  Put Brandon and one of the engineers in the
vehicles, and use them to attack the bunker.  Meanwhile, use the other
soldiers to kill the enemy soldiers and the enemy scientist, and keep your
scientist handy so he can heal your wounded.  Once the enemies are dead,
immediately capture the depot, and then capture the bunker if you still can.
But the mission isnít over.  A Russian mechanic will appear, and youíll have
to decide what to do with him.  Choose the interrogate option, and youíll
learn that his future is different from the normal one.  Then put him in the
depot.  Youíll have to ``guardíí him there, but I think keeping a soldier
next to the depot is enough.
Once youíve captured / repaired the Russian buildings, start transferring
crates from the eastern depot to the western one.  As soon as your engineers
make a delivery, build a bunker west of the depot, and also park your
vehicles there.  (Note: Beware of the lions.  They can kill your engineers if
youíre not paying attention, so take a couple soldiers and patrol around for
them.)
Eventually, a couple of Russian vehicles will arrive and discover that youíve
taken over their base, and theyíll leave to gather reinforcements.  A bunker
or two plus your vehicles plus your soldiers should be enough to defeat the
Russians that will eventually arrive, and once theyíre dead the mission will
be over.
Mission 3: Breaking Through
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Main Objective:
1. Break through the enemy defenses.
Medals:
1. No casualties.
2. Solar vehicle constructed.
3. Solar vehicle taken through front lines.
Walkthrough:
Pick your five best units, put the worst one in the cargo vehicle, and then
head west to the southwestern corner of the map.  Youíll encounter three
enemy soldiers along the way, but you should be able to kill them easily.
When you get to your destination, youíll receive a small base and some more
units.  Unload the cargo, and then start building and researching.  Try to
get Macmillan involved so he can improve his non-soldier skills.
During this time, two things will happen: Frank Forsyth will arrive, and you
can either keep him in your group or not (you donít really need him).  Also,
two enemy soldiers will discover your base, and youíll have to chase after
them to kill them.  Iíve never not killed them, so I donít know what happens
if they get away, but itís probably an attack of some sort.
Eventually Cobra 2 will tell you itís time to attack.  Supposedly by
coordinating your attack with Cornell youíll see fewer enemies, but Iíve
never noticed a difference.  But select your best soldiers and have them head
north along the western edge of the map.  Theyíll encounter several enemy
soldiers, but they should be able to fight them one or two at a time and
simply overwhelm them.
Meanwhile, have your weaker units construct a solar powered vehicle if you
donít have one yet.  Put one unit in the vehicle and have the rest go to the
top part of the map.  Then just have the vehicle run past the enemy turrets
(and any random enemy soldiers nearby).  When everybody reaches the top, the
mission will be over.
Note: You can also hang around on the map for as long as you want to gain
extra experience.
Mission 4: Baptism by Fire
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Main Objective:
1. Defend Gamma base.
Medals:
1. Low casualties.
2. Oil technology researched.
3. Brave attack.
Walkthrough:
Youíve got some time before the first attack arrives, but you need to get
working anyway.  The Russians will start building a base to the southwest at
the start of the mission, so if you can take an attack group in that
direction (consisting of your soldiers and the solar vehicle), you can catch
a few enemy soldiers and mechanics out in the open.  Killing them makes
attacking the main base later much easier.
Meanwhile, pause the game every so often and get your engineer(s) to start
building your base.  Put an armory to the south, next to the plateau, because
thatís the direction most attacks will come from (the armory is more
effective than a bunker).  Then add a lab, and, once you get your scientist
to explore the area east of your base so he can find the oil resource, add
the two oil buildings specified in the objectives.
At about this time the first attack should arrive, but it will only consist
of three soldiers, and a couple of your soldiers in the armory should defeat
it easily.  A little later youíll hear from Lucy Donaldson and find out her
group is somewhere in the area.  A couple minutes later the group will appear
in the southwestern corner of the map.  If you destroyed the potential enemy
base at the start of the mission, then you can just walk Lucy and her group
to your base.  Otherwise, hide them in the trees (and tell them to stand
group so they donít wander out), and then get them when itís convenient.
For the rest of the mission, research at your lab and build gattling gun
vehicles in your factory.  Once you have about three gattling gun vehicles,
go on the attack, retreating as necessary.  Once youíve destroyed enough of
the Russian base, theyíll retreat and the mission will end.  (Possibly, the
mission will also end if you just wait out the Russian attacks.)
Note: Be sure to construct your oil buildings before making your final push
on the Russian base.  Once the Russians retreat, the mission will end.
Mission 5: Soul of the Apeman
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Main Objective:
1. Train an apeman engineer.
Medals:
1. Lots of workers trained.
2. Radar researched.
3. Radar built.
Walkthrough:
Head a little east and then north, and you should find an open area of land.
Itís not very big, but then you wonít need very many buildings for this
mission.  Start by placing the depot, and then build a lab and an armory.
You should put the armory to the east, next to the small lake.
During the mission youíll periodically be attacked by an unknown enemy (not
the Germans), and theyíll always come from the east, and theyíll almost
always come from the narrow land bridge north of the lake.  The armory with a
couple soldiers in it can hold them off, because theyíll only attack with
soldiers.  But make sure you can see to the northern edge of the map (use one
of your vehicles if you have to); otherwise the enemy will sneak into the
trees north of your base and cause havoc from there.
Besides defending against the enemy attacks, about all you have to do in the
mission is research a few topics and tame a few apemen.  The researching
should be easy, but taming can be difficult if you donít know the trick.
That is, if you try to tame with a single scientist (when theyíre low level
like they are now), the apemen will attack or take forever to tame or both.
So instead group together three or four units, change them to scientists, and
then have them tame the apemen as a group.  The taming will be almost
instantaneous, and meeting the objectives should be pretty easy, provided you
can find the apemen without running into the enemy.
Mission 6: From the Future with Love
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Main Objectives:
1. Accumulate 500 or more crates.
2. Protect incoming American units.
Medals:
1. Plenty of crates generated.
2. Few casualties.
3. Remote control researched and tested.
Team Selection:
Youíll get to use two vehicles right away, so when you select your four units
pick one engineer, one scientist, and two mechanics.
Walkthrough:
The mission area is divided into two parts by a river.  You start on the
northern half, and the Russians are on the southern half.  But instead of
building your depot where you start, head southeast a bit, cross the river,
and build your depot there.  That should leave you in range of an oil deposit
near where you started, and it should also allow you to build an armory just
to the north of an east-west road located to the south.
The Russians are a little ways south of the road, and theyíll almost always
attack across the road -- and right into your armory.  So put three soldiers
in the armory, and park your two machine gun vehicles next to it.  That
should be plenty of defense while your engineer, scientist and apemen build
the rest of your base north of the river.
Then itís just a matter of collecting crates.  Plenty of crates will appear
during the mission, so donít worry about skimping on your base or vehicles.
Eventually you can put a second depot in the northwestern part of the map, so
you can collect crates faster (but put a bunker near it in case the Russians
attack the area).  You can also tame extra apemen, and you can create a cargo
vehicle for the first time.  So you should have no shortage of ways to
collect crates.
Every so often a new unit will appear on the map.  Sometimes itíll be one of
yours, and sometimes itíll be a Russian.  Generally, it should be pretty easy
to kill the lone Russians and get your units to your base.  One of the
appearing units will be Kurt Schimdt, a member of the mercenary unit you saw
in the previous mission.  I think itís best to let him go.  Another
appearance will be Joan Fergusson, but this only seems to happen when
Macmillan walks around near your depot.
You donít need to attack the Russian base, and since the Russians get heavy
guns for this mission (and you only get double guns), itís probably best to
leave it alone unless you can capture one of their heavy gun tanks.  And even
then you might want to ignore the base just to make sure you donít get any of
your units killed.
Mission 7: Payback Time
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Main Objective:
1. Destroy the main Russian warehouse.
Medals:
1. You destroyed almost everything. (X3)
Team Selection:
The selection screen is a little misleading.  Youíll only get four vehicles,
and one of them will be a radar vehicle.  Youíll have to do the bulk of your
work with soldiers, so select three mechanics, two scientists, and four
soldiers, and make sure Macmillan is a soldier.
Walkthrough:
Make sure your best mechanics are in the best vehicles, and put one of your
scientists in the radar vehicle.  Scout with the radar and you should notice
three turrets to the south and two bunkers to the east.  You can take the
defensive structures out any way you want, but the best way is to attack the
bunkers first (they should be easy with your arsenal), and then hit the
turrets from east to west so you can attack them one at a time.  Plus, you
can destroy a depot and all the nearby power generators before hitting the
last turret, meaning you can attack it without it attacking back.
Then send Macmillan down to talk to the scout (assuming the scout is there;
it might depend on what youíve done with Frank Forsyth).  Heíll show the
defensive structures of the enemy base.  Notice that the main road to the
base (on the western side) is well guarded, but an eastern approach is only
guarded by bunkers.
So take out the bunkers and ditch the radar vehicle.  Then move your soldiers
and scientists towards the interior of the base while your vehicles go back
to the western edge of the map.  In the middle of the Russian base, on the
northern side, is a piece of high ground.  From there your soldiers should be
able to take out some power generators and some gun turrets without being
attacked in return (if you tell them to attack the turrets, theyíll leave the
high ground, but if you put them on the western edge and tell them to stand
ground, theyíll attack).  Then have your soldiers move south and attack one
of the turrets on the plateau to the west of the road into the base.
Meanwhile have your vehicles attack the other turrets on the plateau.
Approach and retreat as necessary until all the turrets on the western side
of the base are destroyed.
Then just destroy a bunch of buildings with your soldiers and vehicles --
plus your scientists, too, to get them some extra soldier experience.  Make
sure you destroy the power generators and depots / warehouses before
attacking the remaining turrets on the eastern edge of the base.
After 26 minutes youíll get word that the Russians are coming back.  So just
retreat your units to the north to finish the mission.  But youíll still have
a couple minutes leeway to do some more attacking if you need to.
Mission 8: Natural Born Heroes
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Main Objective:
1. Defend Gamma base.
Medals:
1. Good job, John. (X3)
Walkthrough:
Even if you speed through the dialogue, there isnít any way to save the dying
soldiers.  So forget about them and try to fix the base.  Move the apemen
away from whatever theyíre currently doing, and have them repair the damaged
turret and bunkers to the south.  Put your best mechanic in the control
tower, and have him / her take control of the two remote control vehicles.
Figure out which unit is your best engineer, and have that unit build an
armory to the east of your base, unless you already have an armory, and then
just build a bunker (some buildings may or may not be back from Mission 4,
depending on where you built them).  Lastly, get your other units into the
lab and have them research the gun extension for your factory.
Then concentrate on defense, but not too much on static defense.  Add a
couple more double gun turrets to the western defenses, but after that start
creating double gun tanks.  Eventually youíll have to go on the offensive and
attack the Russians.
If you need more crates, feel free to dismantle any turrets not on the front
line, and the lab when youíre done researching.  Also, if you keep a mechanic
near the front lines, you might be able to steal away a Russian vehicle or
two (but donít repair the computer controlled vehicles, obviously).
After about half an hour, reinforcements will arrive, and thatís when youíll
have to start the counterattack (waiting a few minutes is ok).  With half a
dozen vehicles plus your soldiers, the attack should run smoothly.  Once
enough of the Russian base has been destroyed, the Russians will retreat and
the mission will be over.
Mission 9: Siberite!
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Main Objective:
1. Mine at least 200 Siberite crystals.
Medals:
1. Lots of Siberite.
2. Early delivery to Powell.
3. Important information was gathered.
Walkthrough:
Have two of the engineers grab crates, and then take them and Macmillan south
(and slightly east) to the main base.  The main base is small, but it has a
Siberite deposit, so you have to defend it.  Meanwhile, the northern area
wonít ever come under attack, and it has lots of room, so put most of your
base buildings there.  To that end, have the engineer you left behind start
collecting crates, and then have him / her build a lab.  Eventually youíll
want a factory there as well.
Once Macmillan gets to the southern base, have the two engineers build two
more bunkers (to complement the existing bunkers on the east and west sides
of the base) and also have them build an oil drilling tower at the oil
deposit.  Have one of the scientists go to the northern base and discover the
oil deposit there.  Then, once the lab is built there, have the scientist
research Siberite detection.
A few minutes into the mission, General Powell will call, and heíll offer to
give you more resources -- in return for 60 Siberite crystals.  Youíll only
have 15 minutes, so build a Siberite mine in the southern base right away (if
you havenít yet).  There is another Siberite deposit northwest of the
southern base (within range of the depot if you upgrade it), and between the
two you can collect 60 crystals easily.  Just make sure you get them to the
northern base.
With five bunkers and high ground, you should be able to hold off all of the
Russian attacks.  Most attacks will come from the east and west, so if a
battle starts going badly, pull soldiers from inactive bunkers and have them
help out.  And have a scientist and engineer standing around so they can heal
and repair, respectively.  You might also want a mechanic around.  If you can
steal a Russian rocket launcher or two, that will make defending the base
pretty easy.  Also, between battles, you might want the scientist to wander
around a little and find some apemen to tame.  They can help in ferrying and
collecting resources.
At some point during the mission, a handful of mercenaries will contact you
and try to make a deal.  Accept it.  Mortar soldiers are useful because of
their long range, and the cost to you is low.  (Plus, one of the medals is
for the transaction.)  Once the armory is built, you can put units there that
you donít know what else to do with, and they can help with the defense.
Eventually, Powell will call again and tell you to retreat.  Just send
everybody north to the red area, and the mission will finish (assuming you
have 20 crystals at the northern base).
Mission 10: Genie in a Bottle
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Main Objective:
1. Research Siberite topics.
Medals:
1. Laser sights.
2. Artificial intelligence.
3. Traitors punished.
Walkthrough:
Send your cargo vehicles east to the waiting soldiers and scientists.  Then
start up your base.  Put your armory to the west under the Arab armory,
include a bunker to the east (yes, youíll be attacked from that direction),
and construct the other buildings wherever you want.  But note that you donít
actually have to build an oil or Siberite mine.  You have enough oil for an
oil power plant to support research on Siberite power plants, and then enough
Siberite to build a Siberite power plant.  Meanwhile, put your soldiers in
the armory, and get your scientists researching.
As the mission progresses, your units will have a few conversations.  Not
long after they get to the point where they feel like theyíre being used by
the Arabs, the Arabs will attack.  Luckily, theyíll only attack with mortars,
soldiers, and scientists -- and there will only be six of them to boot -- so
putting them down shouldnít be a problem.  But thereís a good chance a
simultaneous attack will come from the east.  Thatís where your eastern
bunker comes in.  It wonít stop the attack, but it should slow it down enough
that your other soldiers can get there before the Arabs destroy any buildings
or kill any engineers.
After the Arabs are dead, concentrate on researching.  Youíll get a report on
a Russian convoy in the area, and while early attacks from it wonít be too
bad, later ones will be nasty.  So you need to do all of the researching
necessary for the objectives quickly.  That is, donít research anything you
donít need to, and pick a couple extra units to help out.  Also, use your
engineer to capture the Arab depot and armory.  That way, you can train some
soldiers to use mortars, and that will help against the Russian attacks.
Note: If you captured the prisoner in Mission 2, Andy Cornell will show up
during the mission.  But thereís a good chance heíll show up at the same time
and in the same place as the Arab attack from the east, and get himself
killed.  If that happens, all you can do is load (or start over), assuming
you want to keep Cornell around.
Also note: If you kill any of the Arab units before they officially become
enemies, you wonít get credit for the objective.
Mission 11: Arabian Question
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Main Objective:
1. Capture or destroy the Arab bases.
Medals:
1. Quick action.
2. Lightning action.
3. Artifact gained.
Team Selection:
Youíll start out with a battle, but youíll be able to grab a couple vehicles
from the Arabs.  So select two mechanics, one engineer, and eight soldiers.
Later youíll be able to build vehicles, so make sure a couple of your
soldiers are also skilled mechanics.
Walkthrough:
As soon as you gain control of your units, send everybody east into the Arab
base.  Eventually the remaining Arabs will realize whatís going on, and
theyíll exit out of the lab and depot and head for the unmanned turrets and
armory.  But if you get into the base quickly enough, youíll be able to catch
them in the open and mow them down -- except for one turret.  Fortunately,
there will be two empty vehicles next to the turret, and your two mechanics
can enter the vehicles and use them to destroy it.
Then capture the depot and the rest of the base, and get to work.  You can do
some researching in the lab, and you can build your own factory (Arab
vehicles arenít as good).  Crates will be slow to come by in the mission, and
so you might want to sell off a few things, like the southern turrets and the
oil buildings.  But donít sell off the Arab factory; youíll need it later.
Note: If you have Frank Forsyth with you, heíll ask to reconnoiter the enemy
bases.  Donít let him.  Sometimes he doesnít come back, and the information
he provides isnít that useful.
Eventually, youíll come under attack from the northwestern Arab base.
Theyíll send a few vehicles and some explosive apemen your way, so prepare by
putting soldiers in the two western turrets, plus a couple of mortal soldiers
in the armory.  Those defenses plus the two captured vehicles should be able
to hold off the attack.
Then concentrate on assembling an attack force.  You should dismantle the two
captured vehicles and create three heavy tracked double gun tanks.  Those
tanks plus two soldiers plus three mortar soldiers plus a scientist are
enough for attacking the northwestern base.
Leave the other three units in the base to defend it against attacks from the
northeastern Arab base.  The Arabs will always attack from the northeast and
across the water, so the two existing turrets on the eastern side of your
base, plus an added double gun turret, should be able to keep them at bay.
When you attack the northwestern base, keep to the western edge of the map.
Youíll discover a narrow ramp leading to the high ground where the base is,
and you can then proceed south to north and destroy everything in your path.
But move slowly and use the range of the mortar soldiers and tanks to do most
of the work, relying on the regular soldiers for when things get messy.
When you destroy the enemy depot youíll discover an alien artifact, and
youíll be given a new objective: to capture and protect it.  So create a
cargo vehicle in your base, and then send the vehicle to pick up the
artifact.  As long as you finish the mission with the artifact in a cargo
vehicle, youíll meet the objective.
Also, at some point during your attack on the northwestern base, youíll
receive a message from an Arab mercenary.  Heíll try to make a deal with you,
and you should go ahead and accept it.  The ``truckíí he wants is actually a
medium trike with a cargo bay, but it might take him a while to show up at
the rendezvous point once you drop it off.  However, once he does take the
trike, the outer defenses of the northeastern Arab base will become visible,
and you wonít have to worry about spotting for your mortar soldiers and
tanks.
Finally, when you decide to attack the northeastern base, donít leave your
own base undefended.  The Arabs will still receive units from somewhere, and
theyíll still try to recapture the artifact.  A good plan is to put two or
three mortar soldiers in the armory, and park the cargo vehicle next to it.
Then, once you destroy the northeastern baseís depot, youíll complete the
mission.
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* American Campaign, Solo Branch                                            *
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Mission 12: Fox Hunting
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Main Objectives:
1. Destroy the Russian Siberite / weapons lab.
2. Kill the Russian scientists.
Medals:
1. Scientists eliminated.
2. Scientific data secured.
3. Teleport inspected.
Walkthrough:
Call for reinforcements when things go badly at the first ford, and then just
explore until the cargo vehicles and engineer arrive.  In particular, find
the Siberite deposit to the north of where you start out.
When the first convoy arrives, start building your base.  Put your depot
within range of the Siberite deposit, and put your armory to the west.  Every
so often the Russians will teleport some vehicles to the western side of the
island youíre on, and theyíll attack from that direction.  But an armory with
a couple soldiers inside, plus the wimpy computer controlled vehicles you
start with, should be able to stop the attacks.
Meanwhile, take your two double gun tanks west to the second ford, and have
them cross.  Theyíll find some vehicles on higher ground, but after repeated
bouts of attacking and retreating and repairing, they should be able to
destroy them.  Itís not quick, but it works, and itíll give you something to
do while you build your base and research.
At some point after the second convoy arrives, youíll be approached by some
mercenaries (this might depend on what you did with Kurt Schmidt in Mission
6).  If you can afford it, pay the mercenaries to fight on your side.  The
cost is only 120 crates and 120 Siberite, and you can get 80 of the crates
right back if you dismantle the vehicles the mercenaries bring with them.
Plus, getting Arab units will allow you to train your soldiers to use mortars
(but youíll have to research mortars at an Arab lab first).
Once you have an attack force of half a dozen snipers and / or mortar
soldiers, send them and a couple scientists west across the southern ford.
Youíll find a narrow land bridge beyond where the enemy vehicles were before.
If you didnít pay the mercenaries to at least stay neutral, theyíll have a
couple soldiers at the bridge, and theyíll set off explosive charges when you
try to cross.  So make sure you take them out with snipers before proceeding.
Beyond the bridge youíll find a Russian base, complete with a teleporter.
Use the vision of your snipers with the range of your mortar soldiers to take
out the base quickly, and then send a unit through the teleporter.  Youíll
discover the teleporter is how the Russians were sending vehicles to your
base, and so you wonít have to worry about attacks any more.
Send your attack force east and youíll find the bazooka soldiers that made
crossing the northern ford so exciting when you first started the mission.
With your snipers and mortar soldiers you should be able to take them out,
but watch your units carefully and have them retreat when their health hits
yellow.  With the bazooka soldiers gone, you can now bring vehicles across
the northern ford to help out.
So just gradually advance your units east into enemy territory, killing
whatever you see in the process.  Eventually youíll encounter the lab youíre
supposed to destroy, but donít attack it right away.  When you damage the
building enough, the enemy scientists will all flee to the west, so put your
soldiers there before continuing.  Then just destroy the lab and scientists
to complete the mission.
Mission 13: Original Cold War
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Main Objective:
1. Build a Siberite rocket.
Medals:
1. Gorky stopped.
2. Stevens saved.
3. Explosion observed.
Team Selection:
Youíll get four double gun tanks plus assorted other vehicles at the start of
the mission, so pick your four best mechanics along with the required
scientist and engineer.
Walkthrough:
Make sure your mechanics are in the tanks, and then send everybody south.
When you get to the southern edge of the map, move a little east and then get
your scientists out of their vehicles.  Next to the ridge you should find a
Siberite deposit, so put your depot within range of it.
Youíll have the entire map to yourself at the start of the mission, so take
advantage of the situation and do some exploring, and have your scientists
look for some apemen to tame.  You should find a couple to the north and a
couple to the east.  Then bring everybody back to your base and start
building and researching in earnest.
Several minutes into the mission, youíll get a message from General Powell
letting you know that the Arabs have discovered your presence.  (So if you
havenít gotten your scientists back to your base yet, nowís a good time.)
Furthermore, youíll be directed to kill a Russian named Gorky.  Gorky will
always travel on the north-south road in the middle of the map, so just park
your tanks there and wait for him.  With four tanks against one, he wonít
stand a chance.
Shortly after you kill Gorky, the Arabs will make their appearance on the
map.  Theyíll attack with vehicles -- and scientists.  Arab scientists have
the ability to contaminate Siberite deposits, so keep a soldier (or an
automated turret) next to your deposit to keep it safe.
Most battles will take place northeast of your base, at the intersection of
the roads.  So while youíre researching and collecting crates, build some
automated turrets in the area to help out your tanks.  Also, the Arab attacks
will gradually become more powerful, so donít spend a lot of time researching
topics you donít need.  Get to the Siberite rocket as quickly as possible.
Once you research the rocket, youíll get reinforcements.  Then, once you
actually build the rocket, youíll be directed to test it.  So build an
upgraded depot and armory in the specified location, and also have a mechanic
or two build a radar vehicle back at your base.  (The radar vehicle must be
heavy tracked.)  Then put the radar vehicle in the right spot, fire off the
rocket, and get a reading using one of your scientists to finish the mission.
Mission 14: One on One
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Main Objectives:
1. Keep Joan and Macmillan alive.
2. Destroy the Russian base.
Medals:
1. Joan saved.
2. Double laser.
3. Base saved.
Walkthrough:
Immediately start driving east along the road.  Shortly youíll hear a
distress signal from Joan at Delta base.  It seems sheís all alone and under
attack, and youíll have to save her.  So travel south as far as you can and
then ditch your vehicle and walk the rest of the way.  Youíll find that Delta
base is in a shambles, but if youíre quick you might be able to save a couple
of damaged vehicles and buildings.
Youíll also find you have an apeman engineer to help you out.  Once you get
your buildings and vehicles out of danger, change one of your units to
scientist and explore north of the base.  You should find a second apeman
there.  Youíll need your two apemen, so keep them safe.
Youíll also find you have several remote controlled vehicles, but no control
tower.  So have one character and the apemen start repairing buildings and
especially turrets, and have the other one build a tower.  Put the tower
close to the lab and the factory so a single character can quickly move
between the three.
Now youíll just have to survive for a while.  The Russians will periodically
send several vehicles at your base, so youíll have to beef up your defenses
to the east and north.  Youíll also need to do some researching (rockets and
ammo upgrades are useful right away).  So keep one character in the lab /
factory / control tower trio so he / she can research and guide the cargo
vehicle when things are quiet, and jump into the control tower to drive your
tanks when the Russians come.  Have the other character build (a second lab
for researching computers is useful) and repair (vehicles and turrets) and
even drive (if you have a manual vehicle).
Eventually you should research materialization.  The reason for this is so
you can see where the Russian cargo vehicle will go.  Then, once you have a
couple heavy gun tanks, wait for crates to show up between your base and the
Russian base (to the northeast), and send your tanks to guard it.  When the
cargo vehicle shows up, try to kill it but donít chase it into the enemy
base.  The Russians donít seem smart enough to repair or replace the vehicle,
so once you destroy it, the Russians will have to reply on engineers for
crates, and at that point the mission will be just about over.
Since the Russians will be gathering crates much more slowly, youíll have
quite a bit more time between attacks (if the Russians even attack again), so
while youíre building an attack force (heavy gun tanks and rocket launchers
work well), also do some researching so you can make your weapons and
vehicles more powerful.  Then just whack away at the Russian base, keying on
humans if you can find any.  Eventually youíll break through the outer
defenses, and all youíll have to do is mop up.
Note: The mission will end once you destroy the Russian base, so make sure
youíve researched double lasers and also built a couple double laser tanks
before getting that far.
Mission 15: Final Countdown
---------------------------
Main Objective:
1. Destroy your enemies.
Medals:
1. Peter Roth was captured.
2. The secret project was cancelled.
3. No losses!!!
Walkthrough:
Your first job will be to defend the southern entrance to Powellís base.
Donít try to do too much here.  Just keep close to Powellís base (but donít
move above the ridge or Powell will get upset) and build some basic
buildings: a depot, an armory to the south, a lab, a Siberite mine, and a
solar power plant.  Three soldiers in the armory can defend against all of
the Russian attacks that will come your way, and the other three characters
can research and collect crates.
Note: If you really want to be efficient, build the depot, armory, and lab so
their entrances all point at each other, and keep as many characters in the
lab as possible.  Then, when an attack comes, move characters to the armory
and switch them to soldiers.
Another note: Donít specialize your lab for weapons.  The lab in Powellís
base is already specialized that way, and youíll get to use it eventually.
Instead, research Siberite and computers at your lab (if you have time).
After about 10-15 minutes, Powell will call for an all-out assault on the
Legion base, and heíll get himself (plus a lot of other people) killed.
However, heíll also destroy the Legion factory, and so you wonít have to
worry about Legion attacking you.  But youíll still have to destroy their
base before they can develop a Siberite bomb.
After Powell dies, youíll gain control of his base.  Since you wonít be
attacked for a while, send most of your new units to the lab and start
researching weapon topics.  Have a couple other units switch to engineers,
and use them to dismantle and rebuild Powellís depot so its entrance is
pointing to the east.  Then upgrade the depot to expand its coverage, and
also build and upgrade a factory.
As soon as itís convenient, start dismantling the base you created to protect
the southern entrance to Powellís base (but leave any mines and power
plants).  Having two depots is sort of annoying, and there isnít any need for
it here.  Then add some automated turrets south of the ridge line.  Youíll be
attacked by the pink Russian forces for the rest of the mission, but a couple
heavy gun turrets with a radar and rocket launcher should be enough.
After 18 minutes on the ``actioníí clock Joan will show up with some computer
controlled vehicles.  Leave the laser vehicles at the southern entrance, but
take Joanís rocket launcher and the computer controlled rocket launcher and
make them a part of your attack group.  In fact, this is a good time to
attack the Legion base if youíve managed to create a couple other vehicles to
go with the rocket launchers.  If not, get to work because there are timed
events you need to worry about.
Instead of attacking the Legion base from the south (like Powell did), attack
generally west to east so you only face one or two turrets at a time.  And
only attack turrets and soldiers.  Once you kill all the soldiers in the
base, Legion will surrender, and the rest of the units and buildings will
become yours.  But the base isnít very useful, so dismantle everything but
the lab and associated power plant and depot.  The lab is specialized for
Siberite, and, assuming you dismantled yours earlier, will prove useful
later.
If you havenít had a chance to put up much in the way of defenses for the
eastern entrance to your base, then leave your attack force east of your
base.  Once Legion surrenders, the red Russians will start attacking, and
theyíll always attack from the east.  In fact, you might want to create a new
base far to the east of your base, next to the river, so youíll have a rally
point for your vehicles.
Meanwhile, keep researching and also build a computer or radio controlled
bulldozer.  There is a hidden Russian base to the east, and the only way to
get to it is through a bunch of trees.  (Youíll also need the bulldozer,
eventually, for the Alliance base.)  So send your attack force across the
river (using the middle ford), and take the bulldozer with it.
You should notice that the river has an east-west fork to it, splitting the
eastern part of the map in half.  The hidden Russian base is just north of
the river, so have the bulldozer remove the trees along the northern bank.
This will take a while, but just keep at it while you do other things.  Also,
donít attack the hidden Russian depot once you find it.  Youíll eventually
receive an objective about the base.
After 35 minutes on the action clock, Hugh Stevens will show up with more
reinforcements (plus crates, since you can dismantle all the crummy vehicles
he arrives with).  His arrival means you can finally start researching a
Siberite rocket, and you should get to it right away.  After 55 minutes the
Russians will announce they have a Siberite rocket of their own -- and that
they plan to use it on you -- and the only way to trump them is to have your
own rocket.
Note: When the Russians announce they have a Siberite rocket, youíll be
allowed to lie and say you have one as well.  That will give you a few extra
minutes to get one.  But if you allowed Powellís ``friendíí to join your
cause, heíll inform the Russians that you donít really have a rocket, and
theyíll learn of your deception right away.  So itís best to have the rocket
ahead of time.
After 40 minutes, Peter Roth will announce that thereís an Alliance base on
the map.  The Alliance will be sort of annoying.  Theyíll send out units to
teleport your humans (even if theyíre in vehicles) back to their base, and
then theyíll convert them to their cause.  The Alliance base is surrounded by
trees, so youíll need to use your bulldozer to clear a path, and then use
computer or radio controlled vehicles to destroy the base.  Itís probably
best to deal with the Alliance before dealing with the Russians, so they
donít sneak up behind your attack force and steal your mechanics.
After 50 minutes youíll learn about the secret Russian base.  Assuming youíve
already cleared a path to it, just send in your (human controlled) attack
force to destroy the depot and the behemoths the Russians are building.
Plus, you can attack the southern edge of the Russian base and clear out a
few turrets while youíre there.  This attack should take priority over the
Alliance attack, if youíre still working on the Alliance base.
Then you just need to destroy the Russian base.  You can clear away a lot of
the outer turrets with your vehicles, but attacking the inner part of the
base is probably best with humans.  So train several mortar soldiers, use a
sniper as a spotter, and attack the Russian base from the south.  Youíll
probably notice a Siberite rocket vehicle right off the bat, and, if so, you
should definitely give it priority.  Sometimes the Russians will use their
rocket(s) if they think theyíre losing.
Once youíve destroyed enough of the Russian base, some Arabs led by Omar Ali
will appear in the northeastern corner of the map.  Theyíll try to destroy
the Siberite, so use your soldiers, and bring in your vehicles, to deal with
them.  Once theyíre all dead, the mission will end.
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* American Campaign, Alliance Branch                                        *
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Mission 12a: Long Way Out
-------------------------
Main Objective:
1. Escape with your friends.
Medals:
1. You contacted all your men.
2. You saved all your men.
3. You avoided killing your former friends.
Team Selection:
Select your five favorite characters, and make them all soldiers.  But donít
take Joan Fergusson.  Sheíll join you regardless.
Walkthrough:
This is a reasonably easy mission, provided youíre patient.  You need to
contact the characters you selected, plus two scientists, and then get them
all to the rendezvous point.  Youíll find lots of enemy soldiers, vehicles,
and turrets around, but by making good use of invisibility, crawling, and
trees, you can make it through without killing anybody (which is necessary
for one of the medals).
The best path is to proceed clockwise from your starting position.  Try to
avoid turrets when possible (unless theyíre laser turrets), and try to keep
to the edge of the map.  There are enough trees around, and enough space
between the turrets, that you should be ok.  But if you find yourself in
trouble (or face to face with a vehicle) quickly turn invisible, and then
only move again once youíve regained your health.
The only tricky spot is an area near the middle of the map where youíll have
a character right next to an enemy soldier.  There are a couple ways to
handle this: you can put the enemy soldier to sleep (if you have a sniper),
or you can use the special bazooka attack to move the enemy soldier away
(Macmillan will turn into a bazooka soldier when you take him to the lab).
Or, if the character you need to meet there is a soldier, you can just use
the tried and true turn invisible trick to solve the problem.
Mission 13a: Peace on Earth
---------------------------
Main Objective:
1. Destroy the Arab base.
Medals:
1. You saved Masha.
2. Sheik Abdul killed.