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Mission Briefing
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"GDI is advancing through the Italian Red Zone more quickly than anticipated
 and will soon threaten every Visitor installation in Italy.  We need to slow
 them down.  The largest danger comes from a large GDI force currently routing
 the Alien forces on the east bank of the Tiber.  Given our small number of
 true believers, direct engagement is not an option.  Instead, Use a Commando
 to lead an infiltration force comprised of Shadows and Saboteurs.  Seize
 control of both GDI Construction Yards, then eliminate our most hated enemy
 with their own forces.  Then capture both Alien Drone Platforms.  Only then
 will Kane's plan be allowed to come to fruition.  Destroy anyone and anything
 that gets in your way, GDI, Nod, or Visitor."

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Intelligence Database
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The Inner Circle

 - The Towers Sacrosanct

Nod Field Intelligence

 - Field Report - Alien Gravity Stabilizer

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Primary Objectives
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1)  Capture both GDI Construction Yards.

"GDI does not regard the Brotherhood as a threat, and will not attack us until
 we provoke them or capture one of their Construction Yards.  All captured
 Construction Yards must survive."

2)  Capture or Destroy all GDI Barracks, War Factories and Airfields.

"The more of these we claim or destroy, the weaker GDI will be.  We will need
 their captured forces to achieve victory."

3)  Capture both Alien Drone Platforms.

"The aliens do not appear to regard the Brotherhood as a threat.  They will not
 attack us until we provoke them or capture one of their Drone Platforms.  All
 captured Drone Platforms must survive."

4)  Capture or Destroy all Alien Gravity Stabilizers, Portals and Warp Spheres.

"Without their production structures, the Alien war effort will collapse.
 Claim what you can, destroy the rest."

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Bonus Objectives
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1)  Build a Mammoth Tank.

"The Mammoth Tank is the pride of GDI's land forces.  With these vehicles in
 our hands, GDI's destruction is assured."

2)  Build an Annhilator Tripod.

"The Mammoth Tank is the pride of GDI's land forces.  With these vehicles in
 our hands, GDI's destruction is assured."

NOTE:  No, that's not an error on my part - that's actually what the bonus
       objective says.  Also note that the only way to make these two bonus
       objectives appear is to capture one of the GDI war factories and one of
       the Scrin Warp Spheres.  If you destroy all of the war factories, the
       Mammoth Tank objective will never appear, and you'll still be able to
       get a perfect medal when you complete the mission (and the same goes for
       if you destroy all of the Warp Spheres).

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Walkthrough
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It's very important that you remember to set your commando and Shadow Teams to
hold their fire, or you'll wind up screwing yourself over the instant they get
near an enemy.  Train another eleven Saboteurs from your barracks, then send
all of your units to the south-west GDI base.  As long as you don't fire at any
of their units or structures, they won't attack you.  Position a Saboteur
directly next to every building in the base.

Turn on "Planning Mode" using the toolbar in the lower-left corner of your
interface, then order each Saboteur to capture the building they're standing
next to.  None of them will move until you turn Planning Mode off, so once
you've ordered them all, turn off Planning Mode.  All of your Saboteurs will
move at the same time and capture the entire GDI base in one quick move.  Use
the Commando and the Shadow Teams to deal with the GDI infantry, then destroy
the base defenses that're still standing.

If you were fast enough, there won't be any GDI vehicles in the base yet, but
if so, just build some Predators or something to get rid of them.  Build a
second refinery at your Nod base to increase your income, and build a second
harvester for your GDI base.  Get a tech center built as fast as you can, then
start the rail guns upgrade while you start building Mammoth tanks (you'll
complete the first bonus objective as soon as the first Mammoth tank comes out
of one of the war factories).

GDI will be a little annoyed with you, so they usually send a bunch of stuff to
attack your Nod base.  Move your first Mammoth tanks over there to intercept
them if possible, and try to make an attack on their north-western base as soon
as you have five or six Mammoths.  Scrin units will usually have it pretty
beaten down thanks to you making them low power, and if they manage to destroy
the construction yard before you get there, you'll fail the mission.

Build an APC and stick an Engineer into it, then send it to the construction
yard when you've secured it with your Mammoths.  Capture the yard, then repair
it.  Undeploy your Rig from the south-west base, then send it and any more
Mammoths you've built to the center of the map along with your other cluster.
Deploy the Rig somewhere in the middle of the map, repair your tanks, and then
assault the southern Scrin base.  If a Gravity Stabilizer is still standing,
make sure you don't destroy it, and make sure you don't accidentally destroy
the Drone Platform, either.  Leave them both intact, then move north to deal
with the other base.  Send Engineers to capture the Drone Platform {The Towers
Sacrosanct} and the Gravity Stabilizer {Field Report - Alien Gravity
Stabilizer} (if the Gravity Stabilizer was already destroyed or you destroyed
it by accident, you can get the same intel entry by using the Drone Platform to
build Scrin buildings until you can build your own Gravity Stabilizer).

Depending on how fast you've been, this base could be fairly undefended or
incredibly well defended.  The Scrin Warp Spheres will be cranking out Tripods
like crazy, and for some reason, they usually just stand around up here instead
of attacking your bases.  This can make attacking the northern base quite
difficult, since ten Tripods can really dish out the damage.  You could take
care of a lot of them with an Ion Cannon blast, but you need to make sure that
you leave one Warp Sphere standing if you want to get the second bonus
objective.

There're two fully leveled Tripods in the upper-right corner of the base which
should be your immediate concern, since they're much more powerful than the
regular Tripods.  Try to smash your way past all of the other stuff and take
them out first, then concentrate on the rest of the Tripods and smaller units.
When you've cleared the place out, capture one of the Warp Spheres and build
any other structures you need to be able to build a Tripod, then build one to
accomplish the second bonus objective.  Capture the other Drone Platform, then
destroy everything else if you haven't already.

NOTE:  Don't care about the two bonus objectives?  If not, then you can simply
       position enough Saboteurs at all four bases to completely capture
       everything in a single move using Planning Mode.  You'll have to be
       quick about it, though, or GDI's likely to demolish the southern Drone
       Platform before you can position all of your Saboteurs.