Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour/China Nuke General vs. USA Laser General

Hard Difficulty
The most important thing to remember on this level is to spread out your base. While on easier difficulties it may be possible to play without getting hit by a particle cannon it is impossible to avoid it on hard difficulty. On hard difficulty, the Laser General starts with 3 Particle Cannons and the power to use them.

Start this level building two additional dozers. Remember to put a little distance between all structures and build your barracks, Nuke Reactor, and Supply Depot. At this point put up a few base defenses. You should build a bunker and a Gattling Cannon on the road near the tech repair bay. Then build the same on the road on the same diagonal to the northwest. For the most part, one of each along with a speaker tower(after they are available to you) should suffice until you can supplement them with an Overlord tank and/or a Nuke Cannon.

After your first bunker is built, start building a War Factory right away followed by the propaganda center, internet center, nuke silo. Remember to space everything out so that the particle canon will not take out more than one building at a time.

Leave some extra room around your Nuke Silo and build a speaker tower near it. Before you build a Nuke Silo, your perimeter base defenses and your command center are the primary targets of the Laser General's particle cannons. When you have a Nuke Silo it becomes the ONLY target of the particle cannons. When this happens you will want to keep a dozer next to it to repair it after every strike and the speaker tower will heal the dozer if it gets to close to the particle beam.

Once you get your base up and running, as long as you repair the damage from the particle cannons it is just a matter of time before you can build up a force to enter his base. The computer mainly plays this level defensively with only a small strike force that should easily be taken care of by your Bunkers/Gattling Cannons. You can take out all three particle cannons at once with a combined Nuke Missile strike and a Level 3 Artillery Barrage back to back.

By the time you are a 5 star General, your Nukes and your Generals Powers should have softened up his base a little. You can start a frontal attack with a few Overlord Tanks (half with Speaker Tower and half with Gattling Cannon upgrades usually works fine) Keep a Nuke Cannon or two behind the Overlords to take out base defenses as you advance. With a strong strike force, it is not too difficult to wipe him off the map on this level.

On this level, air power was not really necessary as his laser patriots tear your planes to shreds. Just be sure to build enough gattling cannons to take out his gunships. Also, early in the game, there is an unguarded supply pile to the east of the map. You can send a dozer to go and build a supply depot there, but this expansion base is usually nothing more than a preferred target for his particle cannons.