If that's what the man says, you better obey him. The western side of your compound is secure, so move the forces east. Group the berserkers at the east end of the rock passage and use the dire wolves to lure anyone you find to this nice little welcome party. If you move the returning wolf behind the berserkers, more often than not, the pursuing enemy will try to get at the offender and be killed without an answering shot. With any luck at all you should finish this level without losing a single warrior. [back]

Your funds are limited and you can expect to have no more. There's a small group of enemy to the north-west of your camp. Wipe them out to avoid nasty surprises at awkward moments. Praise the patch-building of units--make as many shotgunners as you can at once (or berserkers, if you believe that it's quantity that matters in war). Use a small group to guard the Clan Hall from the east and take a decent party straight south to erase the oil rig. Unless you do that pretty quickly, the enemy will soon krush you with sheer mass. Use concentrated fire to wipe out any rescue parties, be over with the rig and move east to finish the dirty job. Beware of the last little group of enemy soldiers the AI so very much loves to keep its base. [back]

This time the funds are more or less unlimited for the purposes of this game. You set up the rig in a basin right south of your camp and the power station in the middle slightly eastwards. Use a group of perhaps a dozen shotgunners to guard the rig and the passage leading to it, and another group for the camp. Build a beast enclosure next to the clan hall where it'll be protected by the rocks, then start thinking of another power station and blacksmith's. Again the surest way to victory is to take out the enemy oil rig which is this time located on the other side of the central basin to the southwest. A good moment for hitting it is when an enemy raiding party has appeared in your camp. The enemy camp is located in the northwest corner of the arena. This is a very good level for running groups of enemy infantry over with tankers. [back]

What you'll have to do is rather marauding than stealing. Head east with all your men and machines and keep going northwards along the edge of the canyon. Krush any opposition you find and proceed to the northeast corner of the arena where the last enemy buildings and the four tankers await. Collect and return. This mission is easy unless you split your forces, or start scouting and picking off the enemy units that are scattered all over the map. [back]

This is actually not exactly what you have to do. Take the men across the bridge at once and head south along the riverbank. Cross the bridge and meet the artillery. This is where you make your last stand using concentrated fire on anything that tries to cross. Every now and then small reinforcement groups will pop up from behind the right border of the screen. You'll never find out about what happens at the other bridge... (my lucky guess is that the AI will not be interested in an undefended position.) [back]

Take the available units at once and ward off the tank and the ATV that start harassing your tankers just SW of the starting spot. Start upgrading and building units. You'll want to have monster trucks that are relatively fast and good for running over all types of infantry. Move the units that are left at the drill site east to discover another drill site and to wipe out two tanks and an ATV (produce and bring some dire wolves over). Build another power station SE of the clan hall and send its tanker to the new site. 

The northern part of the camp is easily protected if you gather a group of (4) scorpions and two mastodons behind the guard towers and keep repairing/rebuilding the towers. A monster truck every now and then will help you deal with the infantry that lags behind the armor. 

Build a menagerie in the center of the camp, if you like, and heal the vet units. Move out and lure the patrol halfway to the ramp into your defense line. Then gather forces and block the ramp. Gather forces and at the end of the next enemy attack that ends with a retreat, move up the ramp and destroy everything west of it, including the oil rig and any replacement that might be sent. Northwards, around the grove of trees, there's another rig. Take it out, and have a party. Move clockwise around the enemy camp and leave the guard towers just east of the ramp as the last. [back]

Speed mission. For best results you need to more or less run all through the mission. Gather everybody and move north. All through the mission shoot at vehicles and run over infantry. A prison stands in the NE corner of the map with a missile battery guarding it. Smash the battery and the prison to get reinforcements. Move east and again south down the ramp. Meet some troops and another missile battery. If you've been quick, the battle shouldn't take long. Hit the drill site at the west border of the map to stop further unit training. Destroy the next prison and the rest of the village. 

If the mission doesn't end, check back to the NE corner of the map. The AI has started rebuilding the missile battery you blasted sky-high. At the price of 1500 credits you can understand why you weren't constantly attacked by fresh forces at the village. [back]

Speed mission. For any results at all you need literally to run all through the mission. Take the men and rush south. Keep your eye on the three bikes. Don't stop to blast light vehicles that you may encounter, let the slower units with their turrets take care of these minor problems as they move by. You should run over men though, if any stand in your way. Turn around the rocks and head directly north. A road leads diagonally NW, but even if you see tankers moving there, don't take notice. Keep going north until you reach a barrage craft. Let it get everything you've got. If you've been quick enough, your units fighting the barrage craft will block the road for the first tanker. Once it's blasted, blast the tankers and anything else that might still be bothering you. 

Total destruction at that very spot is quite important as further on the enemy has Anaconda tanks waiting for you. Following the course laid down here you'll also miss some useless battles with other units. [back]

Take off south. You'll have to turn off two missile batteries and quite many units. Bring more scorpions as they mature at the beast enclosure. NW of the first building, there's another missile battery, you'll want to keep out of its reach. While you're working at the enemy outpost at least one newly produced vehicle will hit you from SW. Destroy it and send some units to close the machine shop. You can take out the whole camp and a drill site without getting under missiles. The remaining enemy forces will be three missile batteries roughly NW of what used to be their camp, and four more in the east, guarding another drill site together with some tanks. As the enemy replication has been stopped, take your time and create a suitable number of convenient troops to bring peace to this corner of the planet. [back]

As the situation stabilizes, use a group of dire wolves to gallop through the missile battery defense line and investigate the enemy territory. Move the defense line further NW to the relative bottleneck between the creek (west of it) and the cliffs, but out of the reach of the missile batteries. This secures another oil patch for deployment. Then gather beetles to take out the missile batteries one by one, starting from the west side batteries and destroying the drill site at the end of the line. The rest should be simple. 

None of this mission is as simple as it may seem from the above. The enemy sends attack waves one after another and you have to deal with them while doing all the necessary upgrades. After the first outpost upgrade, use pyromaniacs to stop the heavy armor and set up temporary guard towers, which will be wiped out, but do their job. Keep mekaniks behind each grapeshot cannon to repair at need. Keep a couple of monster trucks at hand to run over any big (or small) infantry groupings that follow armor. Use a menagerie to heal vet beetles. Taking out the tankers at the closest drill site will help a lot, but can't be done very well without beetles. [back]

If you have the urge, upgrade something. Otherwise gather another force of scorpions and walk through the enemy camp to the NE corner of the arena to take out another drill site and tankers. Fire at will afterwards. The drawback of the missile batteries (or grapeshot cannons, for that matter) is, that you need additional forces to stop the enemy for them to take aim. 

In this mission you actually don't have to upgrade anything to win as long as you ignore the missile batteries but stay out of their range anyhow... and as long you don't give the AI the time to establish an army that might spoil your pleasure.[back]

Back at the camp you will have started your regular economic activities. Produce any number and type of units you consider necessary to take out the remaining enemy structures and units. Take your time. [back]

Leave the mech to guard the northern bridge, build a derrick, and move the rest of your units south through the village to take out an enemy tower and a drill site. Then secure the bridge and deploy your own derrick there. Start building southwards, so that you can fortify the bridge down there with towers. Upgrade the clanhall and the beast enclosure twice. Put a grapeshot tower at the northern bridgehead (try not to block the passage) and bring the mech down to any men you may have left there. Put one beetle at the northern bridge and four of them at the southern. Keep reinforcements coming, especially mekaniks, as the AI will likely direct its wrath at inanimate objects like buildings (north end of your village) and defense structures (south). 

At the southern bridge I used two grapeshot cannons and a rotary cannon, keeping four beetles and two missile crabs nearby. In the north I added a missile crab between the buildings to the grapeshot cannon and beetle I already had. 

Once the situation more or less stabilizes, it's time to attack. An initial group of 10 scorpions managed to take out one of the two cannon towers located on an island across the highway bridge. They also did about 70% worth of damage to the other. For the next wave I gathered 10 beetles, moved them across the northern bridge and secured the oil patch . The traffic on that bridge will slow down if you deploy a derrick there. I next brought another 6 beetles, left them behind at the drill site and moved the 10 across, taking out at first the damaged cannon tower and then the other. Didn't touch the drill site, but dealt with any hostile units that came along. That included several tankers. 

From that moment the AI starts sending its units against the middle island. Keep units there refreshed, and it will not be too hard to assemble another force to strike again. Beware, the AI has almost more than his share of cannon towers waiting for you. As the crabs are no good in crossing bridges, use more beetles. [back]

Build a power station pronto and launch credit production. Build a blacksmith and an alchemy hall and position them so that you can later cover the corners of the southern plateau with towers. Upgrade the clanhall twice and put a guard tower east of the clanhall to draw sniper fire, then the blacksmith to get another tanker. Build grapeshot cannons to back up in the northwest and southwest and have mekaniks ready to repair them. (The southern towers are pretty hard to repair as the mekanik has to enter from south, i.e. from the attack side. Awkward. Train scorpions for backup, until you have upgraded the beast enclosure twice, then concentrate on beetles. If you have managed to hold your ground that far, all that remains is to wait until after another attack you're announced the winner. 

I had already upgraded everything when a vicious attack from the southeast (and another from northwest) wiped out all my defenses and destroyed the alchemy hall I had positioned southeast. I never bothered to rebuild the hall and rebuilt the cannon that much closer. 

The last attack waves came from southeast and northwest more or less simultaneously. Groups of 3-4 survivor vehicles just dropped in from behind the screen border. [back]

To start with the mobile clanhall seems to stand at a pretty awkward spot, but deploy it then and there. The first enemy attacks will happen quite soon. Preparing for it, move both missile crabs to the eastern side of the two entrances, so that the attacks will not be heading at them. Build a blacksmith as far to the east of the clanhall as you can, then put two powerstations next to the two oil patches. Start building two derricks and build an alchemy hall closer to the ramp just northwards. Start upgrading the clanhall at once and continue to the maximum. Put a machinegun nest in front of the ramp and send a mekanik over to keep it healthy whatever happens. Put another one west of the clanhall. If you like, build a beast enclosure now in the small nest in the cliffside. 

As soon as you get the chance to start building crazy harrys set the production to non-stop mode. Start upgrading the blacksmith and make two more tankers. Build two rotary cannons to cover the northern ramp, and another two for the lower entrance (the left next to the rock, the right one between the clanhall and the rock pillar. Position crazy harrys between the rotary cannons. 

Gather a team of 20 or so crazy harrys and take out the cannontower guarding the upper end of the ramp from the west. Blast the tanker at the site and get back under the cover of the rotary cannons to give the aggravated enemy a warm welcome. After the attack see if the AI has started to rebuild, go blast the other cannon on the other side and another tanker. Retreat. Next time hit the site itself. This little game can be played for a long while until the AI realizes that spending bucks on rebuilding is not the smartest thing to do. During this action you can bring reinforcements from the clanhall (the non-stop production is still on, isn't it?). With crazy harrys popping into existence every now and then, the southern entrance is pretty secure, especially if you send mekaniks to the towers that take damage. 

When the AI has stopped its attempts to drill oil in front of your gate, send a group of about 20 harrys up the ramp and west, after an attack from the south to take out a single cannon tower guarding a drill site. The AI will take offense and send most of its troops there. Retreat around the cliff corner and let the crazys take out the revenge convoy as they approach around it. Simultaneously take all the harrys you have in the south and wipe out at least the two eastern cannon towers of the three blocking the entrance to their camp. Send reinforcements while the AI desperately tries to rebuild, and take the camp out. Even if the northern drill site and cannontower remain, they won't be of any interest. 

By this time the AI will have re-established the activities at your northern gate. Then again you have provided yourself access to new oil fields in the south. Build two power stations thataway and restart the wipe-your-cannons-out game in the north. 

The northern camp will be slightly harder to take out, so I suggest upgrading everything until you can try what an air-attack can do to the enemy. Send scouting groups over to wipe out one of the cannons and to get an idea where the symmetrics build their stuff and hold their meetings. As harry production is pretty slow, build also a dozen beetles. Send them up the ramp and drop a bomb. Quick advance will let you mop up the remains. 

As in the last survivor mission, the always-step-ahead AI did not use air forces against me. Maybe this game isn't as unfair as some claimed it to be. [back]