R.U.S.E.

This will require you to complete 2 missions with other people. I will provide a tactic that will ensure you at least manage to win each operation.

Tobruk ’45 (June 1945, Cyrenaica): This operation requires you to team up with another person. You will be fighting the French who focus on tanks and the British who focus on planes. It will be the same for your team as one person can only build tanks and the other AA/planes. I will break this down into how each person should play, however one point to note is that you should try to always keep Blitz up around your base as the maus are really slow movers. Camouflage and radio silence are useful but if your AA units have been set up right you will not need to waste RUSEs on them.

Person with Planes: To start off, build a few supply depots then spam AA units and put them in the forests to the left and right of the town and to the left of your base and right of their team mates base. After this get some recon in the air to see what is going on. Get a prototype building up and get the Wirbelwind ready for production. You will basically want to follow your teammate's maus with 2-3 Wirbelwind to give air cover so keep an eye on his movements and make sure to provide cover. There will come a point where you should have $100 spare, at which point I recommend an administrative building (eventually you want 2) to help cover expenses once the supply depots are empty. Your final job is to build a lot of fighters and fighter bombers so you can provide aerial protection when you are storming the bases. Once the French are taken care of and you reach the British base, send all the planes you have over his base to distract his bombers/fighter bombers so that your teammate can get his maus in to take out the airfields.

Person with Tanks: You want to build some supply depots and then build a prototype base and research maus tanks. As the British come at you with planes, you will want to focus your tank defence over on the left side to protect your teammate. Build an AA/AT base and research the AT gun and put 2 in the woods left of the town and 2 in the forests next to the 2 supply depots. Now build 2 maus tanks and send them over to the path of the left. Slowly work your way forward where you will come to some French buildings. Make sure your ally is giving you AA cover. When you can, build 2 more maus and send them north of the town where the 2 supply depots are. From here you can send them northwest by the mountain where you will come to some secondary HQ's that are easy pickings. Again you need to make sure your team mate has Wirbelwind AA cover. It's possible to completely destroy the French base with just these 4 maus tanks. The entire time this has been going on you want to build as many maus as you can afford and start collecting them to the right of your base. When you have 6-7 and your teammate has Wirbelwind's there, send them towards the British. While doing this link up your 4 maus that took out the French and come around the back so you are attacking the Canadian's/British from both sides. I'd highly recommend a recon unit as they camouflage their buildings. To help with funds when you have a chance build an administrative building (you will want 2 eventually).

Note that the AI will have lots of units scattered about after you take out his buildings, so make sure you have recon units scouting the map to find them and you use fighters/AA to shoot down his remaining planes or you will fail objective 11 and possibly 1 as well. Following this method should earn you all 8 secondary objectives. - special thanks to Jjos for helping with this method -

Triple Alliance against the Axis (May 1940, Northern Europe): This operation is in my opinion the hardest of all and in order to attempt it you will need at least 2 other people. I'd not even try to do this with random people as you'll only waste your time. Thanks go out to the people who've shown me how this works - Eagle Soars and Agent Ace (ps3trophies.org username unknown) -. The way the game has been split up means you'll have a person as the British (whose power is the airforce), the Italians (whose power is the anti tank units and cheap tanks) and the Americans (whose power is their artillery). Note that the AI plays differently each game and it took a few tries doing the identical thing until the AI worked in our favour (we had the AI rush the US twice, we had some problems with the Italian stack being nuked before it was destroyed etc) so don't be put off if you don't make it first time.

Person who is Italy: As the Italians, your role will be to build up a large army to attack the German's base once America and Britain have done their jobs. When the operation starts build 2 supply depots (the one near your base and the one over the river but not the one nearest the Nazi's!!). Now build an artillery and anti tank building and a tank building. Build 4 of the $10 AT guns and put them in the little forest strip close to the unoccupied supply depot. Shortly after starting you'll get 3 paratroopers which you'll also want to move into the forest. This will protect you from any attacks that come your way although by not taking the supply depot you should face no attacks. Now you will want to work on building up a large army. To start with build 4 of the AT/AA guns. These will be important as they are your only protection against aerial assault. After this just build tanks tanks and more tanks. By the time you're ready to attack you'll have near to 30 tanks. You'll want to send them over the bridge all as one group and wipe out the Nazi's buildings and units through an overwhelming unit advantage.

Person who is America: The Americans will face the brunt of attacks early on from the ground and later on from the air. For this reason your first job is building up defence. Take the supply depot near you base and the one over the river but leave the one nearest the Nazi's base. Now put some AT bunkers close to this uncaptured supply depot. After this you'll want to build 4-5 AA guns and put them close to the mountain. Finally you'll need to start pumping out priest artillery. If you move them right up to the mountain you'll be able to attack their headquarters from where you are. Obviously attacking with one priest will have little effect and he'll simply camouflage. To begin with, just take out what you can see so the Siegfried bunker etc. Once you've got 7+ priests all hugging the mountain attack the HQ. You have to hope that you manage to destroy the HQ before he uses camouflage. If he does then attack any units around his HQ so that you'll also hit it. With his HQ down he can no longer replace any destroyed buildings or collect any money so this is vital. You'll want to have radio silence and camouflage on the American sector to help counter the aerial and artillery assault you'll face. After building the priests, turn your attention to building tanks with any remaining money you have so you can assist the Italians.

Person who is Britain: The British have without a question the most important role. The aerial cover they provide is key to winning this operation. As with the other two people, you will want to avoid the supply depot nearest to the Nazi base. Due to the amount of money you'll need to cover the planes it is advisable to build up a secondary HQ either side of your main base near to the supply depots. Now with a large income you can focus on your air force. You'll want to create a recon plane and have it at the American base so their artillery can see hidden stuff but make sure you keep it in the range of the American AA bunkers or it will be shot down in seconds. You'll want to make sure you're using the upgraded fighters and fighter bombers. 4 fighters and the rest fighter bombers will do the trick. Your job will be to support the Americans in defending as well as defending yourself (don't worry about the Italians they won't be getting attacked and if they do they can defend themselves).

When the Long Tom appears you'll want to send your fighter-bombers in instantly to take it out before it can get off more than 1 nuke (the last thing you want is the Italians to lose their stack of 20+ tanks). Remember to use the spy ruse to see it. Don't worry if a lot of planes get shot down. Send in fighters first to attract their planes to those instead so the fighter-bombers have a clear run. When the Maus tank spawns you'll also want to assist in its destruction. Again using the spy ruse to see it then sending over fighters followed by fighter bombers does the job. Other than that you'll be keeping the Nazi air-force in check until the HQ is destroyed and they have no money to build more planes. At this point you'll provide support for the Italian assault by taking out the AT guns and artillery they use as well as the Siegfried bunker and finally help in the clean-up of units and buildings.

Using the above method you should be able to entirely clear the map of enemy units with more than 5 minutes of time remaining. Doing this method will net you every secondary objective however (8) is hit and miss. One game we got that, another time we didn't even destroy 10 infantry. To encourage him to build infantry you could destroy everything but his barracks or aim for a points victory and turtle for 25 minutes keeping everything but your AT guns hidden so he sends in infantry to destroy them.