Controlled Burn
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:14 pm
Hi everyone. First of all, I greatly appreciate the OpenRA project bringing new life to one of my favourite childhood games, all for free, so thanks to all who are involved. I have just downloaded the newest playtest version and have been enjoying the new missions. I have a question about one of them, though, Sarin 3: Controlled Burn. I have had at least a dozen goes at this. Now, obviously it isn't supposed to be easy, but I am out of ideas how to approach this one. Normally I can tell roughly what I have to do to win, but every time I do this I get buried under an avalanche of heavy tanks, elite infantry, V-2s and ultimately Tesla tanks and Shock Troopers. I have managed to hang in there for half an hour, but the Soviet forces are too overwhelming and aggressive.
Strategies I have tried are: using the spy to turn off the power and engineer-rushing the sarin factories in APCs; using the spy to steal credits from the Soviet refineries to give my army a boost; using the spy to block the spot where the refineries appear (which works in Remastered playthroughs I have seen online but feels like cheating and doesn't seem to work here anyway); attacking the Soviet ore miners with the rocket troops; launching an immediate attack on the Soviet base; building massive base defences and hunkering down; building massive armies for an active defence and counterpunch. I have built my base in several places along the eastern side of the map. Nothing works. If the second or third Red wave doesn't do for me, the fifth or sixth does.
Is it supposed to be this hard? I suppose it hasn't been flagged in testing, so everyone else must know how to do it. I am playing on Normal mode. It feels unwinnable and I am curious to know what I am missing.
Strategies I have tried are: using the spy to turn off the power and engineer-rushing the sarin factories in APCs; using the spy to steal credits from the Soviet refineries to give my army a boost; using the spy to block the spot where the refineries appear (which works in Remastered playthroughs I have seen online but feels like cheating and doesn't seem to work here anyway); attacking the Soviet ore miners with the rocket troops; launching an immediate attack on the Soviet base; building massive base defences and hunkering down; building massive armies for an active defence and counterpunch. I have built my base in several places along the eastern side of the map. Nothing works. If the second or third Red wave doesn't do for me, the fifth or sixth does.
Is it supposed to be this hard? I suppose it hasn't been flagged in testing, so everyone else must know how to do it. I am playing on Normal mode. It feels unwinnable and I am curious to know what I am missing.