AW1 Normal Campaign Mission 14: Sonja's Goal!

Difficulty: ***
Days: 6-8
Technique Limit: 3
Briefing:

This is a speed map with Andy, and you'll be working with land, air, and sea units. Move your transport copter, lander, and other air and sea units northeast up to capture Sonja's base. There isn't much opposition, but you have to play the level carefully, since you need almost all of your sea and air units to survive. Sonja has a cruiser, a sub, two copters, a bomber, and a battleship coming after you. She also has a fighter stationary near her base, and a rocket launcher stationary in the middle forest south of the mountain.
Once again, when you're dealing with enemy units rushing into your attack ranges, the AI behaves randomly as to whether to rush into harms way. When Sonja uses her CO attack, she can see all of your units hidden in forest and reef, so her units will also react to those attack ranges as well. Try to play it as safe as possible for more reliability.
In order to capture the base in six days, you'll have to work very quickly. Start out by triggering Sonja's CO power on day two instead of three by attacking the copter with your recon and tank before attacking with the anti-air. Rush your units northeast, ignore the battleship, but destroy the copter, bomber, and cruiser. You will have to move your cruiser and lander around the edges of the enemy battleship range. On day four, use your CO power and move both air units into fighter range. Then on day five, begin landing, and capture the base on day six.
Feel free to take the level at your own pace, though. If you want to do a normal capture, trigger Sonja's CO attack on day three, after she's moved all of her units into your hidden distance unit range, and blast them all to bits, including the battleship. Use your CO power on day five when you move your transport copter and copter up north, to survive the fighter attack. If you want to see exactly how to land your units successfully, please see the walkthrough.

Walkthrough:

This guide uses Andy

Day one, dive your sub one north and destroy the sub with your battleship, and make sure it's destroyed! Move your anti-air east into the forest, your APC three east, your copter north, your cruiser northeast to the east of the shore, your tank, recon, and your missile launcher east, and your rocket launcher east along the road. Load an infantry into your transport copter and an infantry and mid tank into your lander and move the transport copter north and lander northeast along the coast, north of the mountain.

Day two, move your APC east of your anti-air, then attack the copter with your recon from the west, tank from the south, then anti- air from the east. Move your missile launcher one east two north, and your rocket launcher one east. Move your battleship east, your sub north of your lander, your lander one northeast, your cruiser one east four north, your transport copter one northeast, and your copter north of your transport copter.

Day three, attack the bomber with your anti-air then missile launcher, and move your tank and recon two east. Attack the copter with your cruiser from the east (or from the south, the point is to attack from the reef to remain hidden), and the cruiser with your battleship and sub from the west. Move your lander one east five north, your copter four east two north, and your transport copter south of your copter. Use your CO power.

Day four, attack the tank with your rocket launcher and tank from the south. Move your anti-air and missile launcher west. Attack the fighter with your cruiser from the east, move your transport copter northeast into the forest and drop the infantry east onto the city by the road, move your lander up to the shore and drop the infantry east, mid tank north, move your copter north of your lander infantry, and surface your sub.

Day five, begin capturing the base. Move your damaged infantry northeast into the forest, attack the tank with your mid tank from the north, move your copter one east, and dive your sub.

Day six, finish capturing.

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