Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

Just to add my method


This is just after your mcv is deployed and you have cleared the island.

Using your 5 mirage tanks move east and attack the 4 war factories. At the same time build 2 engineers. If done carefully your mirage tanks will have destroyed the base and survived. Now use your engineers to capture the iron curtain and super power reactor. Quickly head north west towards the enemy airbase with the mirages. Deploy the iron curtain on your mirages and storm the airbase killing all 4 airbases.


You will probably lose your mirages now but you have just wiped out all airbases and war factories. From here I built airfields and bombers to destroy all the iron curtains and the super vacuum imploder. Also remember to make your co commander attack.

As mentioned secure your base with some air defences and some tanks but generally the counter attack is small.

Finished the final attack using a bomber to paradrop tanya into the enemy complex to destroy. Had about 4 mins remaining.

Hope this helps

Why Not Just C4 It?

If you are beating this on hard make sure you keep a commando alive to take out the launch platform. It has a ton of health and cannot be easily destroyed in the time allowed. The commando can take it out with one well placed C4. You'll have to warp them there inside a personnel carrier. Warping them outside a vehicle will insta-kill them.

This may seem obvious to some people but it took me a multitude of deaths to realize this. Hope this helps someone.

Also in the onset of the map make sure you keep your tanks alive. You'll need them to knock out the enemies, weapon emplacements, and weapon factories at the base nearest to you. Build engineers to capture this enemy bases power plant and harvesting facility. This will help tremendously because you will soon find yourself outnumbered if you do not.

If you’re attempting this on hard, I would strongly recommend you do this co-op as the time limit becomes very restrictive.

Once the bases have been set up, the blue commander should rush to get mirage tanks and use them to attack the east side of the map. Keep a few tanks back for base defence, and aim to build a chronosphere, charged by the time the iron curtains are down. With the spare airfield, you could build some Apollo fighters as you will be bombarded with Kirovs later in the mission.

The green commander should aim for air superiority and bombers and build a photon collider. Use the bombers to take out the west iron curtains and save the photon collider for when the vacuum imploader appears at the north east iron curtain.

Once all iron curtains are down, the green commander should use his air support to soften the forces around the shuttle and use his photon collider again if it has been able to recharge. The blue commander should then chronosphere in a group of 6+ mirage tanks to finish the job.

In general, don’t forget about defending your base and be prepared to help each other out if problems occur.

This is possibly the hardest level in the game to beat on hard. Keep cool, stay patient and good luck!