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Mission Briefing
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"Cologne is under attack by the invaders and the city is in its last throes.
However, initial recon has revealed that the GDI base in Cologne was left
relatively intact by the enemy after it was abandoned by the garrison force
when the alien attack started. An advance team is being dispatched to
determine the size and scope of the alien presence in the city and you'll be
in command. Once you determine what you're up against, we'll send you an
engineering team to get the GDI base up and running again. Protect the
engineers until they can reach the base, then build up a strike force and
drive the aliens from Cologne altogether. It's not too late to save the
city."
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Intelligence Database
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GDI Eyewitness Accounts
- GDI Field Recon - the Fall of Cologne
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Primary Objectives
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1) Scout Alien Structure.
"GDI Intelligence has located an unknown Alien Structure to the north of the
city. Investigate and confirm."
2) Protect the Engineers.
"This is the only available engineering detail south of Danzig. Keep it alive
at all costs."
3) Capture the northeastern Power Plant.
"This Power Plant is the center of the GDI power grid. Capture it and restore
power to the base."
4) Destroy Alien Command Center.
"We cannot establish a forward base until we have eliminated the Alien Command
Center. Without direction, the Alien threat is significantly reduced."
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Bonus Objectives
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1) Capture the Reinforcement Bay.
"Capture this Reinforcement Bay in order to gain access to Juggernaut
artillery."
2) Capture the northwestern Power Plant.
"This Power Plant runs the Sonic Emitter array on the west side of the city.
Capture it and the array will come back online."
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Walkthrough
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Take your entire group north-west along the bottom side of the river. Lead
with the commando, and he'll slaughter pretty much everything (just make sure
you're ready to detonate a few tripods). When you reach the target building in
the north-west, immediately turn east and cross the bridge once you've been
notified that the first objective is complete.
Quickly move over to the reinforcements you just received and make sure they
don't get killed by any Scrin units in the area, then send everything to the
power plant marked with the yellow 3. Capture it {GDI Field Recon - the Fall
of Cologne}, then repair your base. Build a war factory and a few more
harvesters, then start cranking out APCs and missile squads while you build a
tech center. Get the rail gun upgrade, then load your APCs with the missile
squads as you build a half dozen or so Mammoths. Capture the reinforcement bay
with an engineer if you haven't already.
Insane quanitities of Scrin aircraft will start hammering your base, which is
the main reason you're going to want those APCs full of missile squads. Some
of the Scrin aircraft can hit you from outside of your own range, so make sure
you stay alert and move in closer if they're attacking you from far away. When
your Mammoth cluster is ready, move it over the bridge with the APCs right
behind them. When they're safely over the bridge, quickly send an engineer
over there and capture the power plant to complete the second bonus objective.
All you need to do to finish the mission is destroy the command center, which
is near the top of the Scrin base. Rush at it with all of your mammoths and
APCs, and you should be able to destroy it well before they manage to destroy
all of your units.
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