AW2 Classic Campaign – Mission 31: Rain of Fire

The enemy forces have set up along an active volcano! Can Green Earth stop them without suffering a burn?

Mission Strategy

This mission is mostly a standard fight. Your goal is to capture the enemy HQ or rout all of their forces. The main difference is the Volcano in the center of the map.

Every Day, the Volcano will erupt, dealing 5 damage to every unit it hits (yours or the enemy’s). The volcano has two different patterns, hitting the exact same spots each time the pattern is repeated. This means that every other Day, the same spots will be hit. You can memorize the specific danger locations and be sure to not have units on those tiles the turn before.

There are two paths you can take to reach the enemy. You will be nearly guaranteed to capture the north Bases if you go for them first. The east Bases will be much harder to contest, as the enemy will go for them immediately and are much closer. If you build an APC and rush it, you can just beat them there, but it will be tougher to hold.

HQ Capture: This strategy involves pushing down only one side. For simplicity, go for the north neutral Bases and Cities. Build up a column of Medium Tanks and Tanks backed by Rockets and Artillery and push your way into the enemy HQ. Let them capture the south uncontested and let them waste resources on building units there.

Bring an APC up behind your main force to drop a capturer on the enemy HQ. Surround it with your units and take out any indirect-fire threats to it and you’ll cap easily.

Defeat All Enemies: Defeating all enemies will have you focus both lanes. You can rush to the east neutral Bases to contest them early and stop Black Hole from establishing a foothold. Take the north Bases and other neutral Cities once you have a good force to the east keeping the enemy busy.

Slowly push both fronts toward the enemy HQ, repairing as needed and keeping a balanced army. Use Jess’s CO Power if you need the extra movement range to take out an enemy threat.

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Turn by Turn Walkthrough

Hawke seems to have some randomness built into his AI. Even doing the exact same thing, Hawke seems to make slightly different decision sometimes. It’s usually moving to a different spot or building a different unit. If your mission deviates from mine, you can either reset, or continue on with the same general strategy. The differences in this mission have usually come near the end, so you should already be in a good position to win by that point.

Day 1

1. Build an Infantry at your north east Base
2. Build an APC at your south Base

Day 2

1. Load your Infantry into your APC
2. Advance your APC
3. Build an Infantry at your north east Base
4. Build a Recon at your south Base

Day 3

1. Start capturing the neutral City with your new Infantry
2. Advance your Recon and APC
3. Build a Tank at your south Base

Day 4

1. Finish capturing the neutral City
2. Advance your APC, dropping the Infantry onto the Bridge
3. Advance your Tank and Recon
4. Build a Recon at your south Base

Day 5

1. Start capturing the east neutral Base with your east Infantry
2. Attack the enemy Infantry with your Recon from the east
3. Advance your other Infantry, Tank, APC and new Recon
4. Build a Tank at your south Base

Day 6

1. Finish capturing the neutral Base
2. Attack the enemy Artillery with your Recon from the north
3. Advance your APC, Tanks, west Infantry, and west Recon
4. Build an APC at your south Base

Day 7

1. Attack the enemy Artillery with your north Recon
2. Attack the enemy Tank with your Tank from the east
3. Attack the south enemy Infantry with your west Recon from the south
4. Start capturing the south central City with your west Infantry
5. Advance your west Tank and APC
6. Build a Tank at your east Base

Day 8

1. Attack the enemy Recon with your south Tank
2. Destroy the south enemy Infantry with your other Tank from the east
3. Attack the 9 health enemy Infantry with your Recon
4. Finish capturing the City
5. Advance your west Tank and APC
6. Build an Anti-Air at your east Base

Day 9

1. Destroy the south enemy Artillery with your Anti-Air from the north
2. Advance your Recon (don’t attack)
3. Attack the enemy Anti-Air with your west Tank from the south
4. Destroy the enemy Anti-Air with your 7 health Tank from the north
5. Load your Infantry into your APC
6. Advance your APC and 1 health Tank
7. Build a Tank at your east Base

Day 10

1. Activate Jess’s CO Power
2. Destroy the south enemy Infantry with your Anti-Air
3. Destroy the enemy Rockets with your south Tank
4. Attack the enemy Artillery with your south Tank from the north
5. Destroy the enemy Artillery with your 1 health Tank from the west
6. Attack the enemy Anti-Air with your south Tank
7. Advance your Recon and APC
8. Build a Tank at your east Base

Day 11

1. Destroy the north enemy Infantry with your Recon from the enemy HQ
2. Attack the enemy Artillery with your uninjured north west Tank from the north
3. Destroy the enemy Artillery with your other uninjured Tank from the east
4. Attack the north enemy Infantry with your 6 health Tank from the north
5. Attack the north enemy Infantry with your Anti-Air from the south
6. Advance your APC, dropping the Infantry north
7. Advance your other two Tanks

Day 12

1. Destroy the enemy Anti-Air with your 6 health Tank
2. Attack the 4 health enemy Infantry with your Recon from the north
3. Start capturing the enemy HQ with your Infantry
4. Attack the enemy Artillery with your north uninjured Tank from the north
5. Destroy the enemy Artillery with your other north uninjured Tank from the east
6. Join your 1 health Tank with your north Tank
7. Destroy the enemy Tank with your south Tank from the north
8. For Technique Rating:
   • Build an Infantry at all four of your Bases

Day 13

1. For Technique Rating:
   • Move your Infantry off of your Bases
   • Build an Infantry at all four of your Bases
2. Finish capturing the enemy HQ

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