Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour/GLA Demolitions General vs. GLA Toxin General

The main challenge in this mission is to stop the onslaught of vehicles coming from the north. The Demolitions General has enough hardware to stop this mass assault with a combination of Marauder tanks, Quad Cannons, Scud Launchers and Rocket Buggies, but it is going to take a lot of baby-sitting.

Build five or six extra Quad Cannons on the northern part of your base early in the mission so that the plane carrying the Anthrax will be shot down before it bombs your base. All of your units are thin-skinned and will not tolerate this toxin.

Two Scud Storms must be built ASAP to destroy the Toxin General’s WMD before it launches.

Good luck!

Walkthrough
Basic start: Queue up seven or more workers. The more you build, the quicker you can obtain enough funds to build two Scud Storms.

Build a Barracks and Supply Stash. Research the Capture command and create a Rebel. Capture the oil derrick. Have the workers start gathering supplies.

Build a Stinger Site to the north of your base, but not too far north, or your vehicles may accidentally get involved with the Toxin Bunker north of your base before you want to. Simultaneously, build a Stinger Site very slightly to the southeast of the oil derrick.

Build a third Stinger very slightly northeast of the oil derrick. Simultaneously build an Arms Dealer. Crank out two Quad Cannons, one for the north and one for the east flank. Once the Quad Cannon is stationed to the east, this area is secure and you can focus on the north.

Build a fourth Stinger next to your northern Stinger.

Add two more Marauders and a second Quad Cannon to your northern defense.

Build a Palace so you can recruit Jarmen Kell. Place him somewhat below the building to the northeast of your base and put him in Guard mode to snipe troops.

Recruit a few extra Rebels and occasionally snipe vehicles and capture them with the Rebels and add them to your forces. Don’t forget to put Jarmen in Guard mode after sniping a vehicle.

This is all of the defenses you can afford to build before starting on your Scud Storms.

Start building your first and second Scud Storm immediately upon having the funds available. If you hesitate, you will not build it in time to avoid being hit by the Toxin General’s Scud Storm.

After this, keep adding Quad Cannons to the north until you have about eight or more, in anticipation of the first Anthrax attack. The plane carrying the Anthrax should never be able to reach your base.

Once the Anthrax plane has been shot down, you can start focusing on destroying the structures north of your base. Use a Scud Launcher to destroy the toxic bunker and keep your troops out of the area until the anthrax dissipates. Then destroy the Toxin Network and Stinger Site north of your base.

Use your Rebel Ambush to provide Rebels to capture vehicles sniped by Jarmen.

Move five or more of the Quads a bit north of your base and just keep them on standby to destroy the planes carrying Anthrax toward your base.

If you want, keep sniping vehicles on the bridge until you stop the flow of traffic so you can concentrate on other aspects of your base building. If you want to easily destroy all of the vehicles on the bridge, launch an Anthrax attack in this area.

Create Quad Cannons, Rocket Buggies or any other vehicles you desire to guard the oil derrick to the northwest of the base. Once the area is secure, capture that oil derrick.

By now the base is reasonably secure and you can focus on building your offensive ground forces and multiple Scud Storms.

Build a Black Market and basically obtain all of the upgrades dealing with Rocket Buggies and your other vehicles. They are all extremely useful.

If you haven’t already, build a Radar Van to activate the radar map on your command console.

When you have spare Scud Storms, start targeting the Artillery Platforms and the garrisoned buildings to the east, then to the north. This will speed up your offensive operations. Destroying buildings further to the north is useless, as they will just be rebuilt.

Artillery Platforms can also be destroyed by driving up directly to the base of it, parking, then firing. You should be too close to the AP to receive return fire.

Take a combination of Rocket Buggies and other vehicles of choice to the east, along with a Radar Van to detect Demo Traps. Rocket Buggies have great reach and can destroy Stinger Sites and Toxin Networks easily. Destroy the Arms Dealer to the east and then turn your attention northwards.

When crossing the bridge to the north, you will be met with a large stream of RPG Troopers that will shred your convoy to pieces if you are not careful. Handle these troops with a combination of Jarmen Kell sniping and a Scud Launch destroying the Barracks to stop the flow of infantry.

Be sure the garrisoned buildings are destroyed before you arrive in the area by the Scud Storm, or destroy them with Scud Launchers.

Destroy the areas ahead of you with the help of Scud Storms to help your offensive efforts. If your troops are overrun and you have to start from scratch at your base, all of the buildings will be rebuilt.

Alternate lazy method: Build eight Scud Storms and let them all count down to zero for launch. After destroying the Arm’s Dealer to the east, launch the eight Scuds in the following fashion to end the game, starting from the north and heading south:

1, 2 and 3. To destroy the Command Center and Barracks. 4. To destroy the Palace. 5. To destroy the Supply Stash and Arm’s Dealer. 6. Barracks. 7. Arm’s Dealer. 8. Black Market off to the east.

This can also be accomplished with seven Scud Storms if you hit the Command Center with two Scud Storms and then finish destroying it with a Rebel Assault. Sometimes it only takes two blasts to destroy it. Mission accomplished!

Save your General’s Powers for the third level Artillery Barrage.

The time sequence is tight here. Build a Bunker slight to the southeast of the oil derrick and a Gattling Cannon slightly to the northeast. Build a Bunker to the north of your base and a Gattling Cannon parallel with it to the east.

Your base is at higher risk from the north, so first recruit three Tank Hunters for your northern Bunker, then three for your eastern Bunker.

Build a War Factory, then put two more Tank Hunters in the northern Bunker and two more in the eastern Bunker.

Your base is actually quite secure to the east now and you just need to worry about the north.

Immediately build a Fire Tank or two to chase down any Scud Launchers that approach the area from the north. Try not to lose them!

Build an Assault Outpost or two to help aid in the defense of the northern flank.

Next build a Propaganda Center and immediately after a Nuclear Missile. While the nuke is building, build an extra Reactor. Your nuclear missile should be ready to fire about a minute before the Scud Storm is ready.

Purchase Radar to activate the radar map.

Build a Speaker Tower or two to repair your units to the north. Keep your units close to your Bunker and Gattling Cannon to help keep them safe from Jarmen Kell.

Move any extra Red Guard to slightly behind your northern defense to recapture vehicles disabled by Jarmen. Keep an eye out for him and attack with your Fire Tank.

Build an extra three or more Gattling Cannons north of your base so that they can attack both incoming vehicles and destroy the Anthrax plane that approaches your base. Hopefully, your base will never be poisoned with these toxins – as your units are extremely thin-skinned.

Research Chain Guns at the War Factory.

Wait until after the Anthrax attack before building hackers, as they might be fumigated if the plane gets through to your base. Build eight or more hackers, placing them in the Internet Center. You won’t have to worry about funds the rest of the mission.

Select Level 3 Artillery Barrage. Use this General’s Power along with your Nuclear Missile to destroy the Scud Storm.

This probably will not destroy the “base” of the Scud Storm. Build another Nuclear Missile and use both nukes, together with the Artillery Barrage, to completely destroy the Scud Storm. Using this method, the Scud Storm will rebuild fewer times.

Destroy the toxic bunker to the northwest and capture the oil derrick in the area. Utilize all of your Cluster Mines above the oil derrick and you won’t have to worry about a stray vehicle destroying it.

Whenever you have the opportunity, destroy the Stinger Site and Toxin Bunker above your base. The Inferno Cannon or Nuke Cannon may be the best way to do this.

You will have to continue to “baby-sit” your troops to the north to make sure Rocket Buggies or Scud Launchers do not destroy your units from a distance.

From here on out, build up a large arsenal Nuclear Missiles to aid in your offensive operations. Don’t shoot off the nukes at enemy structures until you are ready to move in and occupy the area or they will just be rebuilt. No harm is done to have a large number of nukes ready to fire once you reach the northern part of their base.

While building up your arsenal, destroy the Artillery Platforms, garrisoned buildings and toxic bunkers with Nuclear Missiles and your General’s Powers. These will not be rebuilt. It is best to destroy the toxic bunkers ahead of time, if possible, because their toxins can destroy your Assault Outposts and ground troops.

Move to the east when you are ready and destroy the Arms Dealer, then start moving north.

Muscle your way north of the river, making sure the garrisoned buildings in the area are destroyed before you make your appearance.

Don’t be shy about using your nukes. The first Barracks you encounter will crank out dozens of RPG Troopers to shred your units, so blast it to oblivion, then move your troops into the area so it cannot be rebuilt.

Don’t get overly confident yet. The Palace to the north is fortified with RPG Troopers and, again, the second Barracks to the far north is going to crank out massive RPG Troopers. Again, don’t shy away from weapons of mass destruction.

Destroy the rest of the GLA base and victory is yours.

Mission accomplished!