Generals Zero Hour China 3 Hard

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2I next (recently) won the challenge on the hard level using the Chinese Infantry General. It was not easy, at all. The last super general was particularly difficult to figure out how to beat. In that Challange, I actually had the most difficulty at Stage 2 (Prince Cassad).

3. Now, however, I am stuck on the hard level as Air Force General and Laser general. In both cases, I am stuck agains the Superweapons general and I imagine others are as well. She sends very early (too early in my opinion) helicopter attacks.

You can barely survive this with China infantry general because you can manage to build a bunker and get a few (2-4) mini gunners in their and they will shoot down the inital 3 helecopter attack - giving you time to populate with more mini gunners (spread them out so a bunch don't get taken out by a single aurora bomber attack) - However, when playing as air force general (this is level 3 in the sequence) or laser general (level 5

in the sequence) I can't seem to get quite enough air defense up in time (the particle cannon attacks are not the problem) and I am beginning to think its almost not possible, tho apparently Sparticus as gotten by this point with the Air Force General.

4. And my tip to the group - when playing as China Infantry General on Hard challange against Prince Kassad - don't even bother building gattling cannons, bunkers with mini gunners and rocketeers will work better and you won't have the squander precious resources to build power plants. If you get 2 -3 bunkers fully populated out near the rocks in front of your base they will shoot down the anthrax bomb plane before it relases the bomb that kills all your tractors and trucks.

As you found out the hard way, it's all about the rockets, baby. It took me three times before I figured I could use them against the stupid choppers. However, instead of using a whole lot around to protect, I used three Combat Chinooks full of 8 rockets each. (After her inital attack, of course.) Her Raptors couldn't take them down due to laser-point defense, and they made short work of all of the Chinooks.

That's an... [ahem] ...interesting strategy. Odd, but if it works, I say go for it. Kind of neat. Strangely enough, I used a combination of Rockets and EMPs. I spaced a bunch of power plants in the main base, two directly on either side of the Command Center, and two more farther out on either side. I placed an EMP in front of each of those, and sprinkled the base with about ten or so Rockets. Maybe it was luck, or maybe it was ignorant skill, but his first wave didn't drop my power, and I had a few humvees around to help out when he dropped infantry in the base. I'd lost four times in a row before this worked for me, so I'm not sure exactly how I did it. I'm going to have to go back and replay it. After I finish on Hard with Townes, which is my current project. (Last USA General Challenge...)

I wasn't sure what Platinum was talking about, but I think he was asking about the General's Challenge with Townes against Alexander? Instead of using rockets, get two Laser Turrets up. Build a power plant right next to your Command Center, then use the second Tractor to build a Turret on the left, while the other builds one on the right, and your power plant is upgrading to Control Rods. Townes gets a little better than normal power upgrade, so it can support the two. If you're quick, you should have the second up just a little while before the Commanche's show up. Then build a Supply Depot, and then go after the Oil Derricks. Be sure to build one turret next to each Oil Derrik, and one right at the bottom left corner of your base. She tends to send a single Chinook with a bunch of infantry there to cause trouble. The Lasers should either drop the chop, or kill off the infantry pretty quickly. Hope that helps a little.

I used the: "pump out rocket guys and build secondary base" on Granger while being Townes and it was the only way I could beat him. His money does seem to be finite, and its easy to cut off. The hardest part is just surviving the initial assault.

Yeah, that's it! Why didn't I think of that? When you can't beat something, why not just cheat? What a great idea? I know, let's eliminate all the challenge of games and just focus on cheating to win. No more hard work, no more hard-to-win matches, we can just mod the game, make it so that one unit is invincible, and then we can win without trying! What a great recommendation!

Then I beat the last secret general using Alexander since I was able to build so many particle cannons and mega-reactors. Right before her countdown hits zero I take out the countdown reset bunker with a particle cannon. Did that 3 times, by then I had 5 part cannons and used them to wipe her out. You have to get all 3 of her command centers also because she starts bringing the general points attacks big time at the end.

Anyway Im not sure how I could have possibly done it using anyone else, cause I really needed the cheap part cannons and mega reactors. So again, how come you guys arent talking about how to beat the last general???

In the final challenge, Superweapons are always the trump card. I've beaten just about all of the Challenges, now, (GLA is the easiest to beat the last General with), and it's always about the superweapons. I'd love to see any strategy to beat Liang that doesn't involve more than 3 superweapons, and just keeping her random weaponry at bay. The key, I think, is to simply spread your base out so far that it limits her manuverability. I always build all my supers in the bottom right corner, build a solid defense just slightly back from the bridge, (covered by long-range weapons, either Tomahawk, Buggy, Scud Launcher, Inferno, or Nuke Cannon), and finally make three layers of anti-aircraft weaponry at the river, spaced out far enough that even one superweapon can't elminiate all three lines. (Avengers, Quad-Cannons, or Gattling Tanks work best, but with Infantry General, a whole bunch of Mini-Gunners was cheaper, rebuilt faster, and did just as much damage.)

Then it's all about keeping her attacks at bay, striking with the Superweapons, and causing general havoc. (With USA, I kept hitting her with Auroras to destroy things, slowly pushing my way into her base. China Nuke MiGs are also excellent weapons, and I recommend them right after the Aurora Alpha.)

In any case, it's all about spreading yourself out so that even a single super won't kill you completely. Keep her contained, because she still fights like a computer, sending only a limited amount of units at a time. Then just build a lot of superweapons, keep them protected, and let them fly. The match is yours.

In the final challenge I used a lot of tanks. I wsa playing as china tank general and did not even bother with more than 1 super weapon. Everytime the counter became critical my emporer overlords blitzed one of the bunkers.

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