Command & Conquer: Generals/Desperate Union

To win this mission, the Chinese Nuclear Missile facility, Chinese Command Center and the GLA base must be destroyed. This mission can actually be finished in less than 30 minutes. The quicker your base is built up and your offense is mounted, the easier the mission.

Keys to Success

 * Build your Particle Cannon as soon as possible. Use the Spy Drone command to locate the Nuclear Missile site on the southeast quadrant of the map.
 * If your offensive battalion cannot destroy the Nuclear Missile in time, a combination of the Particle Cannon blast and Fuel Air Bomb will destroy the installation.
 * Destroy the Chinese Airfield with the Particle Cannon or Fuel Air Bomb as soon as possible afterwards. Chinese jets will continue to harass your offensive units until this is done.

Building Your Base
The base is osmewhat to be quite extensive and barely fits in the area between the southern and northern Patriots that you start the mission with.
 * Start building Supply Center and Barracks.
 * Select your General Powers. I normally pick the pathfinder, spy drone, the A10 missle strikes and the Palidin Tank. Build an extra Chinook for rapid base expansion.
 * Build War Factory, Strategy Center and upgrade a Cold Fusion Reactor.
 * Create two Pathfinders and station one by the north Patriot and one by the south Patriot. Around this time, 2 Maurader tanks will attack at the southern Patriot. Use the 2 Crusaders to fend of the attack.
 * Build two Tomahawks, one for the eastern defense (to protect from Rocket Buggies) and one on the northern defense.

Chinese jets may harass your base until proper antiaircraft facilities are built. Build another southern Patriot and 2 Patriots next to the eastern one.


 * Upgrade the rest of your Cold Fusion Reactor.
 * Go ahead and build a few Supply Drop Zones for needed supplies. Build/Upgrade the C.F. Reactors as nessesary.
 * Wait for sufficient funds and start building Three Particle Cannons. It takes several minutes to aquire the nessesary funds and power for them.
 * When the supply dock dwindles, build a pathfinder and 9 Missle Defenders. send them to the southern dock and garrison them into the tower. Take a dozer and build another Supply Center there. Place it on the south-west edge of the tower for maximum protection.

Offensive Operations

 * While building up your base, be probing with your Spy Drone to locate the Nuclear Missile. It is a mundane-looking square building on the top of a hill in the center of the southeast quadrant.
 * As time permits, locate the Chinese Command Center and Airfield, located in the far southeast corner of the map.
 * Build a healthy land assault team made up of eight Paladins, four Tomahawks, and two Pathfinders. The Pathfinders are more proactive than Colonel Burton.
 * While your assault team heads out and funds permit, research all upgrades available at the Strategy Center: Advanced Training, Composite Armor and Drone Armor.  You can also choose from one of three other upgrades.
 * As soon as the team is assembled, slowly move towards the east, taking out the Tunnel Networks and Stinger sites along the way with your Tomahawks.
 * Very carefully move along the east-west running valley leading toward the GLA camp, keeping your Pathfinders close to the front line to detect Demo Traps. Go far enough east to locate and destroy two Overlord tanks parked at their base and destroy the Demo Traps that are located on the hill leading up to the base.
 * After this, you should very carefully head south toward the Nuclear Missile. It is a true gauntlet, but with care you will lose practically no units.  Defensive structures and armor should be targeted by the Tomahawks before your lead Paladins receive damage.
 * A huge number of Demo Traps will be exposed by your Pathfinders as you head south. Destroy them with your Paladins.
 * Slowly work your way toward the Nuclear Missile. If you cannot destroy it with your armor before it launches a missile, you should use a combination Fuel Air Bomb and Particle Cannon blast to permanently destroy it.
 * If your forces are intact, the Chinese Command Center is due south of you and you will encounter little resistance going forward.
 * Either use the Fuel Air Bomb or Particle Cannon blast (the next time it is available) to destroy the Chinese Airfield or proceed with your offensive ground force to destroy it.
 * Destroy the Chinese Command Center with these same options. A10 Missile strikes can also be used to take out Gattling Cannons along the way.

GLA Base

 * By now you will be out of supplies at your original Supply Dock. If desired, send your Chinooks to the Supply Dock located in the far southwest corner.
 * Proceed with your armored unit back north toward the GLA base in the far northeast corner.
 * Warning: Demo Traps have been relaid along the valley!  Use your Pathfinders to relocate them.
 * If needed, regroup with reinforcements, but the GLA base will be practically defenseless and will be easily destroyed.
 * The southwest corner of the map does not need to be explored. All Chinese structures do not need to be destroyed.

Mission accomplished!