In the first campaign, you will deal with Alpha Base. Their main objective is to locate and recover neural synapse technology, by first establishing a base and searching for a pre-collapse structure.
Scavenger Raiders
Scavenger raiders are approaching. Defend the base then destroy the Scavengers. While you are free to take your time to complete the mission, it would take an excessive amount of time to be worthwhile.
You start in the bottom-left corner of the map, with three trucks and four vipers with machineguns. You will shortly receive a briefing that scavengers are raiding; they are unarmored infantry with a machine gun and are easily killed by your vehicles.
Build your base, with a command center, power generator, factory, and oil derrick. A research facility will be useful once you collect an artifact.
Once you are satisfied with your base, send your combat units to the east. They will encounter light resistance at the corner of the road. Push north for a larger number of enemies, and to reveal the location of the first scavenger base. Destroy the base to obtain an artifact for Hardened MG bullets – research them at your research facility to increase their damage. You will also gain access to APDSB MG bullets up to Mk2. Build an oil derrick as well.
Push to the northeast of the area to reach a scavenger base. This is slightly more defended than the first outpost, but also contains a resource location as well. It is defended by two small machinegun towers and several units. Attack with at least six vehicles. When the base is destroyed, you can research the Flamer, which is effective against bunkers, wheeled and hover vehicles. Note that there are still nearby enemies even when the base is destroyed; they are northwest of the resource.
A third scavenger base will be marked. It contains five machinegun towers and is lightly defended, but reinforcements will arrive from the south. Destroy it to obtain the artifact for machine gun towers.
The final base is located to the south. The enemy forces will defend this base in large numbers. The front wall has two maching gun towers, and two flamer towers, and is occupied by a large quantity of infantry and light vehicles.
The mission will end when you destroy the base and collect the artifact to research Engineering.
Power Surge Detected
Time limit: 60 minutes
A power surge was detected to the south of your base. Investigate it and secure any artifacts.
Any buildings constructed on the southern outskirts of your base will be harassed by scavengers. While units in the base can return fire, you will have to head southwards on the eastern-side of the map. In addition, enemies are more aggressive in this mission, and will attack your base at least if it is left undefended.
Research engineering to gain access to Tank Traps and a Mobile Repair Turret.
When you head south, you fill first encounter machine gun bunkers. The are vulnerable to flamers, but you will still need machine guns to take out other units that approach.
The first base has four machinegun towers that allows research on the High Temperature Flamer Gel. While only defended by four machinegun towers, there are nearby bunkers that can attack approaching units. This opens up an attack path to the base either to the west or south.
The west base gives access to the Twin Machinegun technology, and is the source of the attacks coming from the south of your base. The outpost just to the south is filled with machinegun bunkers, and a sensor tower. Knock it down to allow research for the Sensor Turret, and its tower. This turret allows a wider detection radius, as well as allows artillery units and turrets to attack at long range.
The final base to the south is defended by scattered bunkers surrounding the area, and by a few machinegun towers within the main base itself. It has two access ramps, either from the east or northwest. Taking out this final base will start the next mission.
Power Module Artifact
You have obtained the Power Module artifact. Research it and build it in your base. There is no time limit for this segment.
While researching it, scout around the area to make sure the base is completely safe from hostiles.
Locate and Recover Artifacts
- Time limit: 15 minutes
This is your first mission that takes place away from your base. Select 10 units from your base and load them onto the transport. They may either be combat units, or construction units (in order to build sensors or turrets in the remote region. If you loaded an incorrect unit, right-click the transport, and remove any unwanted units. Click the transport icon in the top-left corner to start the mission.
For this mission, the best loadout is machine gun vehicles, with one repair vehicle. There are only 15 minutes to complete the mission, including time spent preparing at your base.
Once the units are transported, order them directly to the marked location on the map, but watch for an enemy patrol coming from behind. The base located in the north-west corner only contains a flamer tower, and the artifact. Collect the artifact and start research on the Heavy Machinegun.
Return all units to the landing zone to continue the mission. You can also complete the mission by destroying all enemies on the map, but this is not recommended.
Investigate Research Center
- Time limit: 30 minutes
- Reinforcement Time: 1 minute