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General Leang is known as the Dragon General for good reason.  She is pure evil -- even though she is kind of cute.
And yes – this mission is winnable on the hard setting.
The race is on to destroy General Leang before she launches her Scud Storm, Nuclear Missile and – deep sigh – Particle Cannon.  The launches can be postponed by destroying one of the three weapons bunkers located in the middle of this elongated map.  Each time a bunker is destroyed, the timer is reset to twelve minutes.
The race is on to destroy General Leang before she launches her Scud Storm, Nuclear Missile and – deep sigh – Particle Cannon.  The launches can be postponed by destroying one of the three weapons bunkers located in the middle of this elongated map.  Each time a bunker is destroyed, the timer is reset to twelve minutes.


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With all of the above said, there is a way to beat this mission.  It may not be fancy or pretty, but it will work – barely.
With all of the above said, there is a way to beat this mission.  It may not be fancy or pretty, but it will work – barely.


==Walkthrough==
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The onslaught begins immediately.  A very tight sequence of defensive posturing will help you survive the first few minutes.
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* Use a single Tomahawk (they are expensive) to help defend your Patriots from Rocket Buggies and your oil derrick from Gattling Tanks that will position themselves up on the ridge.
* Use a single Tomahawk (they are expensive) to help defend your Patriots from Rocket Buggies and your oil derrick from Gattling Tanks that will position themselves up on the ridge.
* You will run out of room to build Particle Cannons.  It is too difficult to expand your base with the constant attacks from General Leang, so sell your Supply Depot and your Barracks to make room for the eighth and ninth PC’s.  If necessary, sell and reposition your Reactors so all of them will fit.}}
* You will run out of room to build Particle Cannons.  It is too difficult to expand your base with the constant attacks from General Leang, so sell your Supply Depot and your Barracks to make room for the eighth and ninth PC’s.  If necessary, sell and reposition your Reactors so all of them will fit.}}
==Walkthrough==
The onslaught begins immediately.  A very tight sequence of defensive posturing will help you survive the first few minutes.


Build a Reactor, Barracks and Supply Center.  Upgrade the Reactor and build an extra supply helicopter.  Research the Capture command and recruit a Ranger at the Barracks.   
Build a Reactor, Barracks and Supply Center.  Upgrade the Reactor and build an extra supply helicopter.  Research the Capture command and recruit a Ranger at the Barracks.   
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When all nine PC’s are ready to fire, again destroy the bulldozers and Command Centers, hopefully targeting both a dozer and Command Center at the same time.
When all nine PC’s are ready to fire, again destroy the bulldozers and Command Centers, hopefully targeting both a dozer and Command Center at the same time.


Once this is accomplished, destroy the Superweapons then the rest of the base with your PC’s.  General Leang will surrender before the entire base is destroyed.
Once this is accomplished, destroy the Superweapons (if necessary) then the rest of the base with your PC’s.  General Leang will surrender once all Command Centers, dozers, barracks, war factories, and airfields are destroyed. Basically, Leang follows the same surrender criteria for a skirmish AI, except you need not destroy the superweapons.
 
==Alternate method #1==
Please refer to the walkthroughs written for the Air Force General and Laser General for a very similar method that involves the use of an Air Field and four Aurora Bombers to establish the same basic methodology.
 
Those two walkthroughs were written after this one -- so that additional guidance and pointers are given to help achieve the objectives with much less stress.
 
If you can't seem to finish this mission, play the challange on easy (yes it might take 2 more hours since you have to beat the others again as well).
Without the time constrained you can practice basebuilding. I could actually fit 11 PC's in the small area..
 
Just set up inpenetreble defences by building 3 EMP's on the east side, 3 on the north side and all secured by a few avanger's. 3 pathfinders will help defending the bridge.
Also have your strat centre near the bridge with bombardment deployed, the gun does a good job in this mission in killing buggies.


Mission accomplished!
Now sell everything you don't need; Baracks, war factory's supply thingie, supply drops...


Now construct the PC's Some odd spaces will open up, make sure to build your power on these spot's. Maybe if you're good at it you might even be able to beat me and squeeze in 12 PC's.


==Alternate method #2==
Leang does not rebuild lost Dozers unless she needs them to rebuild lost structures, so a good strategy is to pinpoint the Dozers with your Particle Cannon shots. Or, even better is to kill a cluster of Reactors and kill the dozers and reactors again once they finish gathering together to rebuild them. Then, take out all Command Centers simultaenously using six Particle Cannons.


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