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Mission Briefing
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"After launching a costly but successful counterattack against the Alien
 invaders, the rewly-reconstituted GDI is finally in a position to push the
 Aliens out of Europe once and for all.  The key is the invader's central base
 in Berne, Switzerland.  The invaders have turned Berne into a brutal urban
 wasteland, a vast staging area for the invasion of Northern Europe.  The alien
 encampment is spread across the ruined city and split into three sections:  a
 heavily-defended central base to the northeast of the city and two adjacent
 support bases, one armor and one air, all ringed with what seems to be
 newly-seeded Tiberium fields.  This is going to be a tough one.  Destroy the
 main base.  No survivors.  This is personal."

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Intelligence Database
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GDI Eyewitness Accounts

 - GDI Field Recon - the Fall of Berne

GDI Archives

 - What is it like in a Red Zone?

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Primary Objectives
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1)  Destroy the primary base Drone Platform.

"This appears to be the central coordinating base for all Alien operations in
 Europe.  Destroy it and we'll turn the tide."

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Bonus Objectives
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1)  Destroy the armor base Drone Platform.

"The Aliens have constructed an additional outlying base focused on armored
 units.  Destroy it and their forces will be significantly weakened."

2)  Destroy the Alien Signal Transmitter.

"The Aliens appear to be using this structure to summon something large and,
 presumably, dangerous.  Destroy the Signal Transmitter before this happens."

3)  Destroy the Alien Mothership.

"The Aliens have summoned what appears to be some kind of Mothership, and it's
 heading right for our base.  It must be stopped!"

[Note:  This bonus objective is only available if you failed to accomplish the
        second bonus objective in time.]

4)  Destroy the air base Drone Platform.

"The Aliens have constructed an additional outlying base focused on aerial
 units.  Knock it out and you'll have a much easier fight on your hands."

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Walkthrough
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Leave your six Predators on the north-east part of your base, then send
everything else to the north-western edge of your base.  Drop a war factory
right there, then drop some power plants near your existing ones.  Get a tech
center as fast as possible, then get the rail guns upgrade and upgrade your
power plants.  The Scrin will be hitting you with aircraft and ground units by
now, so use your two groups of units to deal with them.  Repair your damaged
units at the war factory if necessary.

Once you can build Mammoths, build a few and send them to the small clearing
north of your base.  Build and deploy three rigs in a triangle in this area,
and your Mammoth tanks will be pretty much unstoppable.  You'll need to keep
your eyes open for Tripods and aircraft, though, since they can hit you from
outside of your range.  Once you have the defensive triangle up and running,
it's a good idea to build a few more harvesters, just to speed things up.

You should have tons of money thanks to the large Tiberium field surrounding
your base, so build two airfields and load them with Firehawks.  Make them into
a group, then send your Mammoth pile north towards the north-west corner of the
map (leave four or so of them behind to defend the triangle).  There's a Scrin
base in this corner, but it's no match for a group of Mammoth tanks.  Target
the defensive towers first, then pulverize the Drone Platform and everything
else in the area.

You'll be warned about some sort of signal transmitter in the rear of the Scrin
base.  If you want to accomplish the bonus objective related to it, you'll need
to immediately send your eight Firehawks north-east towards the back of the
Scrin base, then bomb the transmitter the instant your Firehawks can see it.
Failure to destroy the transmitter within about half a minute of it being
announced will result in you failing the second bonus objective, and the third
bonus objective will be announced.  The Mothership is nothing to worry about,
though.  Just retreat your entire Mammoth collection to your Rig triangle and
wait for the Mothership to fly right over top of you.  The Mammoths will shred
it instantly.  Note, however, that if you want a "perfect" mission, you need to
destroy the transmitter before the Mothership can be summoned (which results in
the Mothership bonus objective never becoming available).

Anyway, repair your Mammoth cluster if necessary, then make an assault on the
Scrin base in the south-east corner of the map.  It's pretty much the same as
the other one was, so just move in, target the defenses, then destroy the Drone
Platform {GDI Field Recon - the Fall of Berne} followed by everything else.

Move directly north along the eastern edge of the map after that and make your
final assault on the main Scrin base.  Things can get pretty ugly near the
Drone Platform, though, so you'll want to make sure your Mammoths are in good
shape before you attack.  Sometimes the computer leaves a huge pile of aircraft
right above the thing, and they'll fry the crap out of you in no time along
with the base defenses and Tripods in the area.  Focus on destroying the Drone
Platform {What is it like in a Red Zone?}, since that's all you need to do to
finish the mission.