Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

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Short Work

Short Work

Win a battle in less than 5 minutes vs. a skirmish opponent (medium-or-greater difficulty)

4.7%

How to unlock the Short Work achievement in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Definitive Guide

1. Set up a skirmish 3 players
2. Pick hidden fortress map , 40000, crates off, set your position to the top one
3. Make yourself rising sun, your BRUTAL teamate rising sun, your MEDIUM enemy to Allies
4. Start the match
I know this is a cheap way to get seeing as you dont have to do anything in the match lmao. The brutal diffulty bot will rape the medium bot in like 3 mins WITHOUT ANY HELP. i tried this 5 times, each time i won within 4 minutes. :DDD
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12 Jan 2010 02:13

25 Comments
^^ this worked like a charm.

Nice find.
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By inspired truth on 13 Apr 2010 21:57
this didnt work for me but i switched around rising sun and allies and the brutal allie computer destroyed everything within minutes
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By Alexiel Soli 69 on 27 Apr 2010 21:12
Worked first time. Nice one :)
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By ginger1971 on 16 Jun 2010 21:56
This guide is shit i ended up doing all the work took me 6 mins
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By ZachRobins0n on 21 Jun 2010 15:23
This didn't work for me. Switching sides like Alexiel Soli 69 said didn't work for me either. I had Oleg (soviets) as a ally and Lisette (allies) as enemy. That did it for me.

I guess that you just got to be lucky, because i also had the problem that the enemy would pack up they're construction yard and flee. That costs time.
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By Kennyannydenny on 15 Aug 2010 19:47
Tried 3 times and the medium AI has mopped the floor with the brutal AI
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By Mazrael on 14 Oct 2010 02:07
Took about 5 tries to win, and several more tries to get it under 5 minutes..
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By Mazrael on 16 Oct 2010 03:43
Dont forget to instruct your ally to attack the MCV directly when the game starts or it will focus on its own base first == lost time.
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By evilroot on 19 Jul 2011 09:14
This one didn't work for me. After 4 or 5 tries, i gave up and went with the x360a guide, worked first try, if you have trouble, try this:
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/comman-and-conquer-r...
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By LanEvoIX on 22 Dec 2011 20:46
To all the people who are bitching about this guide;

You have to place yourself on the main part of the fortress and your Brutal Rising Sun Ally with the Medium Allied AI at the bottom.

It is preferable if the Allies AI is Giles as he will just make a few air bases.
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By Vahliya on 28 Jan 2012 15:57
Can confirm that LanEvolX's suggestion (the x360a guide) worked on the first try. Won't vote on this solution either way, as I didn't really give it a try.
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By FinderKeeper on 29 Feb 2012 05:13
Worked perfectly, thanks.
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By DivineWind72 on 09 Mar 2012 00:07
A sure fire way to get this achievement is to have a brutal giles on your team vs a medium naomi and order him to attack all the mcvs with his aircraft with the hidden fortress method
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By Skuller 1O1 on 01 Apr 2012 03:37
Doesn't work. Seems there's a bug or something. Your medium enemy attack like a brutal enemy and your brutal ally attack like a medium ally. Heck, I even played 3vs1 but can't get it to win under 5 minutes.
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By Kasmara on 18 Sep 2012 10:37
OK, what I done is, put both enemy and ally on medium (doesn't matter since the AI diff. was broken), both you and ally as Allies, enemy as Rising Sun. After game start, just ask your ally to attack the MCV, while you create 4 airfields. Once all airfields filled up just attack. For some weird reason, after the match, when I go to summary, it states that I finished the game in 05:09...and I still got the achievement.
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By Kasmara on 18 Sep 2012 11:14
Worked very quickly! Thx
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By HitMwitDaRythm on 04 Jun 2013 19:26
Welcome! :) Sorry to those it didnt work for.. they could have fixed it by now.
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By Gogore WoD on 15 Jun 2013 02:18
worked for me, just...4:57 lol
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By ArogueHaggis on 20 Jul 2013 01:02
Your brutal teammate practically starts in the medium opponent's base. It was all over before my units could even get all the way across the map. You don't need to do anything, but if you want to build a few units to make yourself feel better, then go ahead.
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By HolyHalfDead on 30 Oct 2013 19:46
Works fine, id only add that you should build 2-3 do-jus and spam the drone unit, have them all sit top left of the map and wait for the fleeing MVC. When it does show up just self destruct on the MVC.
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By Apache117X on 20 Aug 2018 00:27
This was truly awesome. I put turrets in my allies base to help speed things up.
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By THE DEADLY DOG on 27 Dec 2019 02:59
I had some difficulty with this one and it took several attempts. Firstly, I sat idle but the enemy base flees and I did not get there in time to blow it up, many times after I try to help by building up resources and attacking forces at the spot where they flee but this somehow caused my partner confusion and on two attempts they fleed to sit next to me. On the final and successful attempt I basically sat back and watched as the AI partner quickly destroyed the base then I simply used the LB trigger and right on d-pad then select MCV, this gives an attacking order and the AI will quickly pursue. The game finished in less than 4 minutes total and I got the achievement.
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By RubberSoul1990 on 02 Sep 2022 20:48
used the same tactic as Kennyannydenny and it worked.
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By ReliantGung ho on 29 May 2014 00:41
Worked just fine for me, used the settings from the solution, and just directed my AI to target the MCV. Under 4m first try.
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By ScuzzyBunny on 12 Jul 2014 22:19
I know this is an old game but... If anyone else is struggling with this, make sure to put yourself in the north so your allies and enemies start out next to each other. Then the enemy will pack up their MCV and move it to a sliver of a section of the map on the western edge. I just made sure to instruct my ally to attack the MCV there for the win.
I had to do it 3 times cause when it drives over there I told them to attack, then when it unpacked I had to tell them to attack again, then it packed up again so I instructed them to attack a third time to win. For some reason when the game switches from unpacking to packing up they don't continue to attack.
Weird. Anyway this still works if you do it this way.
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By Nicholas#8183 on 08 Aug 2016 15:10
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Similar settings to Gogore WoD but put yourself as allies.

First build yourself a 2 powerplants and 1 ore refinery.
Second tell your allie to attach the MCV of the enemy.
While hes doing that build 4 Hangers and immediatly create a full army of bombers.
The enemy MCV will be moving over to the left hand side but you will be able to see where he is going because your allie will probably still be attacking.
once you have a full army of bombers send them all to attack the MCV.
***IMPORTIANT***
It takes a full 16 bombers to destroy the MCV since its moving and they dont quite hit exactly so dont skimp on the bombers.
This solution doesnt require luck.
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The solution from 'Gogore WoD' just didn't do the job for me just missed it every time with a par time of 0:15 seconds, but this solution just gave it that little push it needed (4:50). Thank you.
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By VenomXNL on 31 Jan 2011 12:28
I found being the Rising Sun and using helicopters to be easier. It only took 5 helicopters to destroy the MCV while it was on the move. I used a very similar strategy to this guide though.
-2 power plants
-1 ore refinery
-1 mech bay (upgrade mech bay once as soon as its done consructing)
-ally Rising Sun
-enemy allies
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By Solo P3T3R on 24 Jul 2011 01:26
Did this solution and worked 1st time I wish I could give it more thumbs up.
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By matdan on 21 Oct 2012 09:19
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For this you can give yourself two allies on the Brutal difficulty to help you. It makes taking over one base in particular when it is three on one.

I actually got this on a three player map since the quartering was more compact. and the action started up sooner.
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I used the soviets with soviet brutal ally,

I built 2 barracks and nothing else.

One barracks rolled out flak troops while the second rolled out regular soldiers.

As soon as I had 40 odd guys I rushed the crap out of my normal allied opponent and the second I spotted a enemy position I spammed the crap out of the partner attack thing for my brutal team mate.

1st hit whereas these other solutions were doing my head in.
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16 Sep 2013 12:24

On any skirmish map battle and defeat a medium difficulty (or higher) opponent in under 5 minutes.


Dojo Rush

The best tactic is an Empire Dojo Rush. Once a map starts crank out two or three Dojo Cores and have them rush to your opponents base. When they get close have them setup and start cranking out infantry (mix Imperial Warriors and Tankbusters). Once you have twenty to thirty units you can send them in and destroy anything that gets in your way.

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