Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour/USA Superweapon General vs. China Tank General


 * Welcome, General. Are you ready to begin?

This was played on Hard Difficulty, which is a lot harder than Normal And Easy Difficulty.

You will have to note a few things before fighting General Ta Hun Kwai. First, despite him being a Tank General, he will use more aircraft and men than tanks. Second, he will not build his Nuclear missile till you build a particle cannon. Third, the start is extremely tough and you may need to try this a few times.

You start with a Command Center, a dozer and $10,000. First, build two dozers to help with the building. Use your primary dozer and start building a cold fusion reactor. Upgrade it and start building your supply center. The other two dozers will build your ring of defense. Start by building a patriot at the top left of your base, just parallel with the supplies near some rocks to the right. Then start building another patriot to the bottom right of your base, again, parallel to those supplies at the rock above. Do not build beyond these limits or defending your base becomes more difficult. Do not bother teching up yet as your defense is more important. Every dollar now should go to building your ring of death. You need not build a barracks so you should have plenty of money. Build patriots towards those supplies near the rocks by starting from those two patriots mentioned earlier. You need not space them too close together, but not too far so that they cannot link with each other. Use your first dozer to help building your patriots once Kwai announces that he is coming, but pull it back to build another cold fusion reactor when you have five patriots up and running. Build enough patriots to cover most of your base front. Now, Kwai sends all sorts of recycled trash at you which include Gatling tanks, Battlemasters, Emperor Overlords, MIGs, Helixes, Red Guards and Tank Hunters. What you need to look out for are the "Meat dragons", which are the infantry he sends. They are downright annoying as your patriots have absolutely no accuracy whatsoever when attacking infantry. Your EMP patriots will render his vehicles useless so they do not become much of a threat. Do take note that when they mass in numbers, they will make themselves pesky. His aircraft are also annoying, especially the MIGs, as they will kill your dozers while damaging your EMP patriots. Expect to build more dozers to replenish those lost. Add more patriots and power stations if the need arises. What you are now aiming for is the ability to train Pathfinders, which disappointingly takes a three-star general's authority to do so. Once you do get the chance to do so, quickly build a barracks and train five of them. Place them at the enemy infantry's approach points near your patriots and give yourself a round of applause. You have just killed off a major threat.

Now, you should have enough money to build a war factory. Build it and then amass enough money to build a strategy center. You can use any mode but i found "Search and Destroy" to be more useful as it increases your pathfinders' range by a lot. Research supply lines and begin building two supply drops to fund your war effort. Once you have enough money, build Avengers and station them near the patriots which the MIGs often attack. They will shoot down the MIGs and their napalm missiles. Now you have a impenetrable defense which will protect you without any much problems arising.

The fun part starts now. You should be able to build a fusion reactor, upgrade it and then build a pair of particle cannons. Once you complete the particle cannons, Kwai would start building his Nuclear missile. Do not worry as your cooldown times for your superweapons will always be faster than his nuke. When your particle cannons are ready, aim both of them on his nuke and destroy it. Do note that he will rebuild it again and again and again every time you destroy it. Your goal now is to build more supply drops, fusion reactors and more particle cannons.

Once you have at least six particle cannons all ready to fire, start by razing his Command Center. After that is gone, use your Intelligence and sniff out his dozers. Use your particle cannons and destroy those as well. After this, he is as good as dead as he cannot rebuild what you destroy. Kill all his other buildings in any way and any order you see fit and you will win the game.

Tips

 * Mind your power. Your EMP patriots are mush without power.
 * You can try to capture the tech buildings scattered around the map but if you do not guard them, they will be destroyed quickly.
 * EMP patriots can be left on their own, but do target for them when many units are attacking you all at once. They can be stupid at times.
 * Emperor overlords upgraded with gatling cannons CAN see your pathfinders. Do not be surprised to look away for a moment and find one or two dead.
 * Building a second chinook for your supply base is optional. But if you have finished your defense and you have the money, go for it.
 * Tomahawks are not especially useful as you are fighting lots of tanks and aircraft. They are limited to helping defend your base.
 * It is highly recommended to build the Superweapon General's particle cannons in pairs. Not only will this allow you to destroy Command centers, it will allow you to kill off superweapons as well.