Paradise Lost

Mission 3 - Paradise Lost

Strike Team Assembly:

You can take along a Nuke or two instead of Missile Launchers, but when a new bughole is sighted, you'll have to move your team a lot further back so they don't die in the blast. Also, only fire one Nuke at a time. It's overkill to fire all that artillery at once, so assign your "Nuke-Troopers" to separate selection numbers.
Don't forget you now have a Medic.

The goal is to meet up with some trucks and escort them to the airport in the South. Before meeting up, I recommend first performing a sweep of the entire map to make the escort as easy as possible. Start on the island you're on, and go counter-clockwise, taking out all bugs and bugholes you find. Next head towards the southern-most island. Take out the bughole in the southwest corner of the middle island on your way. On the south island, there's only the one bughole in the middle of the square to the east, at least for now...

Reload your troops at the ammo box and sweep the rest of the northeast island. Gather your wits before heading into the fenced-off area. Stick close to the fence so as not to trigger the trucks, and take out the bughole to the north. Then head towards the back of the trucks, take out the Warrior bugs and two bugholes back there. If you haven't already, you can now say hello to Depot Manager Jon Roscoe. Just position your team over the indicated spot.

There are two ways to make the trucks start and stop. 1) put your pointer over them and click when the cursor turns into a hand. 2) click the red icon in your HUD.

Assuming you successfully swept the whole map, you can safely keep the trucks way behind you. There are now a whole new set of triggers. Start the trucks moving, and lead them across the first bridge. Stop the trucks on the bridge, and inch your strike team along, following the road. A huge Tanker bug will crawl out of the ground. Tankers are always accompanied by a new bughole. Use your Artillery to take out the Tanker, but wait until he's fully out of the ground, as he's not vulnerable until then. Once he's gone, clean up any other bugs that came with him, and the new bughole.

Continue to inch along and keep the trucks moving, but well behind you. Stop the trucks whenever a new bughole pops up, or new bugs appear. When the trucks get near the airport, a set of drop ships will fly in and pick them up. Position your team south of the green circled R's, and a new bughole will appear. Hold back and pick off the Warriors until no more come out, then seal the hole. You're now cleared for retrieval, and you can just high-tail it to your RZ.

This page last modified 2 May 2004