Supreme Commander

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Aeon Campaign Complete: Hard

Finish the Aeon Campaign on Hard.

How to unlock the Aeon Campaign Complete: Hard achievement in Supreme Commander - Definitive Guide

Strategy One

TrueAchievements

29 Jun 2012 06:46

Aeon Campaign Complete: Hard

This is not too difficult, but it took me 2-3 hours for every mission(on hard). There is a total of 6 missions. Each one has 3 phases. Everytime you complete a mission the map expands.
You should save every once and a while, I usually saved before finishing a mission, or even attack.

Tactics

My tactic as the Aeon was to use the SEA as much as possible. On the final mission you must immediately build up your defense. Use alot of shield generators, which are very nice. Build a naval army as soon as possible as the entire area around you is sea. I recommend working on Tech 3 battleships (beautiful offense and extremely powerful) and immediately build the Flying Experimental bug. When you unlock the strategic Nukes, build a ton of them. If you just nuke like crazy you will hit them. The enemy has a limited amount of Strategic missile defense. As so as you unlock the entire map just nuke the left side of Black sun and you will hit the Lead ACU. Keep a save in case you need to redo the end.

29 Jun 2012 06:46

Gdinut

TrueAchievements

23 Jun 2010 03:07

The Campaing consist of 6 missions
mission 1 thru 5 you can play them on easy
for the last mission you need to go back and pick hard from the main menu then select the mission here are some simple pointers that helped me complete this without many issues

1. once you gate on the island on the last mission begin building reactors and converters on the southern part of the island and shield (the shields beginning in the middle section) with anti air and artillery until youve covered all the island the UEF will keep sending tech 3 bombers but they will always try to punch thru the middle section so dont put any important buildings in that area.

2. as soon as you have your island shielded and the bombers aint causing damage anymore. on the nothern part of the map behind your island you can star building a fleet and on the island build some nukes(i built 5) and assigned each one to a group individually to individually fire nukes faster.

3. to capture the black sun control center i nuked out the UEF defenses as soon as i did that i moved in 4 transports carrying tech 3 engineers to capture the point asap! otherwise the uef will send gunships if you are not quick enough. but if you capture the center fast then the uef commander dies and you get a lot of dialogue.

4. the cybran commander will send ground troops to try to destroy the control center. all you need to do is nuke the whole path. i launched 5 all down the road at different spots, no cybran units made it to the installation. once you do that i sent the fleet of tech 2 and 3 ships to the cybran base (at that point i had around 30) and the cybran commander was at the shore waiting to get owned.

5. finally once you take the cybran commander out you need to destroy the aeon commander guarding black sun. its not easy to nuke him since his base has 3 missile defenses the fastest way i could get is to send gunships(you need at least 100) and destroy 2 of the missile defenses just targeting that. then send 5 nukes were the enemy commander is located and its surrounding areas the missile defense will only take out 1 or 2 nukes at most depending on how fast you fired them. ( there are other methods but i tried doing experimentals and i tried building a ground assault force but i wasnt even half way thru any of those by the time i built the gunships). once you blow up the commander you get a cutscene and the credits.

23 Jun 2010 03:07

2 Comments

First off, excellent guide. It was very helpful in beating this mission. There are a couple of things I'd like to add though.

1. Instead of building artillery at the beginning, create a bunch of subs instead. They're cheap, quick to build, and will chew through all of the naval units sent at you with the exeption of the massive fleet during the missions final phase.

2. T3 Artillery works wonders on this map as they can hit the control center, parts of the Cybran base and all of the Aeon base. If you can manage to get 3 or 4 of them up you've pretty much guaranteed that you'll beat the mission. They are particularly useful for taking out those missle defenses as well.

By SecludedArbiter on 18 Mar 2011 02:13

the subs are a good idea, i remember when i tried this i had 4 T3 artillery scattered on the island but i couldnt get them to do anything significant quick enough so i scrapped them out of the guide

By Gdinut on 18 Mar 2011 02:38

silva, Creech

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The Aeon campaign has six missions. You can play the first five on easy or normal if you wish, although the hard AI is not particularly more difficult. To change the difficulty when you tackle the last mission, enter the single player menu, select Campaign (not load), Hard, make sure Aeon is selected, press X to choose mission, and select mission 6.

There is a mission walk through available here.

Shadow 00 Fox

TrueAchievements

14 Dec 2014 16:42

Great campaign! I learned more of the niceties of air factories linked to combat air patrol with air staging facilities during this campaign.
I also used this walkthrough

most of the way because I got sick of surprise attacks that could make you fail the game if you couldn't prepare ahead of time! Still a great game!

SHORT VERSION:
1. ASAP build T2 shields over AA then T3 shields on your island.
2. AA and Torpedo defenses SE to NE of your island.
3. Air and naval patrols SE to NE of your island.
4. Tech up including multiple nuke launchers, and battleships.
5. Use AA to take over the control center site.
6. Defend the site completely with T3 shields/AA,(save game), capture it!
7. Nuke incoming armies...
8. Nuke enemy bases relentlessly all at once.. OR
8. Send Battleships/Colossus to wipe out enemy bases/nuke defenses then NUKE.
9. Capture Black Sun, end the Infinite War!

I'm mainly writing this solution to give some tips on what to do for the final Aeon mission on Hard, as you can play the rest of them on easy and they're pretty straightforward that way(with walkthrough help especially!)

LONG VERSION:

For the final mission, you have only 4 objectives.
1. Capture Black Sun Control Center
2. Defend Black Sun Control Center
3. Defeat the Cybran Commander
4. Destroy Marxon

1. Capture Black Sun Control Center

For the first objective, you aren't timed, so don't capture the control center until you're ready. And, that means population cap, with the control center fully shielded and provided with AA defense!
The hard part is the very start.
You will be continuously assaulted by air forces and naval forces in different waves from the SSE, SE, and NE, UEF and Cybran. I'm assuming you will keep engineers produced as needed.

As soon as the mission starts, you need to build T2 shield generators(T3 took to long to build, and I couldn't withstand the assault as they kept getting destroyed by bombers) on the NE top of your island and SE side of the island below your base. Those can protect your first AA installations and are CRITICAL. Once you get those first shields up add T3 shields as power allows, start completing your base buildup including 4+ AA on the NE and SE of your island, and T2 torpedo launchers SE, E, and NE of your naval factories. A ring of AA from below your naval factories to above near the top of the island mixed with torpedo launchers is an excellent idea! These will be continually attacked, so you'll need engineers working on this for a long time! (build an omni sensor when you have the power to run it)
Your goal is to get air factories producing T1, T2, and then T3 fighters and some torpedo bombers/gunships on patrol around the east of your island and your factories. I had them patrol just a little past my torpedo installations. For the first part of the game until my economy was really rolling I had almost no air force as it kept getting shot down, but it finally started rolling!
While this is going on, get your naval factories producing a mix of T1 and T2 navy, and have them patrol in a loop from south of the naval factories to near the top of the island. They'll take a lot of the damage and let your defenses do the rest. When your naval factories start out-producing their losses, tech up and start producing battleships from a couple factories. These battleships practically won the sea battle and knocked out the Cybran's on their own.

Once you have stabilized your base, with lots of Mass Fabricators and Power Generators, Shields around your base, and a good AA/Torpedo defensive ring, not to mention air superiority and naval supremacy close to your base, start building several Nuke launchers(I built 3, should'a built 5

), and nuke defenses(2). I also spread my battleships out in a line from my base towards the control center, and they were able to knock out most attacking ships very easily. Just make sure they have a few support ships for AA and subs..

While you're getting those built, a trick to take over the control center area easily I found involves lots of AA sites. The problem is the UEF keeps sending in bombers and fighters that can knock you out quickly! Through trial and error I discovered what will work the best is to send a crowd of engineers across the water supported by some battleships(battleships or nukes can take out all the UEF defenses at the control center, but DON'T hit the control center with a nuke!). Have your engineers start building a string of AA sites starting offshore and onto the land--once you have them on land, get some shields up around them and you pretty much have the site now! I recommend building at least 4 T3 shields around the control center with supporting AA and expanding your air factory patrol routes or building a new air factory right there and setting up CAP. You probably don't have to worry about ground turrets as I started mass producing Colossus' near the control center as soon as I captured it. (Omni sensor near the control center is a good idea)

2. Defend Black Sun Control Center
3. Defeat the Cybran Commander
4. Destroy Marxon

These objectives extends to the end of the mission, and aren't hard if you have the battleships/shields and AA around the control center/Colossus/nuke defense at the control center/nukes! (You could probably win almost the entire rest of the mission with smart nukes)
There will be several large attack forces coming from north and south soon. If you fire ahead of them, you can nuke the entire northern force, if they're not dead, send a colossus over to intercept and cleanup--and they're so much fun to watch in action!
Keep an eye on the south, and either nuke the path, shell with your battleships, or bring a Colossus or two to intercept.
For the Cybran's, I sent 8 battleships up that way, and they just shelled the base from the edge of their range for the rest of the game. Once they started taking out the naval defenses, and got in range to shell the base, the Cybran weren't a threat anymore. Just make sure to have an Omni sensor so your battleships have targets and don't forget to have them keep shelling the base to pieces! Alternatively, I think there is one Nuke defense up there. If you fire all your nukes at once, you can easily overload their defense.... BOOM. I just had fun with my battleships.

For the southern Aeon base, you have a LOT of options. They have two nuke defenses, one on each side of the base around the control sun, slightly north side of the base. If you take those out with a Colossus/battleship attack, you can simply nuke the base to pieces. I personally had fun sending Colossus in just to see what they could do. Beware, Marxon does build Colossus.. but they are no match for 2 or 3 Colossus' and Battleships!

Once you've knocked out Marxon, move in, secure the Black Sun, and fire it to end the Infinite War!

Or, if you're like me, annihilate everything that isn't yours on the map, build lots of Colossus, capture the Black Sun, save... sacrifice/destroy everything on the map that is detonateable/deletable, and fire the weapon!(partly just for fun, partly to make sure to have the Hard end of campaign save file, and partly to try to avoid freezing)

And that's it! Rather length, please ask for clarification, I enjoyed this very much, great game other than the freezing which I might have found some solutions for.

I found that zooming all the way in and turning the game speed to slowest helped with some of the freezing issues...
AND. According to my testing, the freezing seems to be linked to the Supreme Commander saved file/preferences. If you delete or backup the Prefs file from the Hard drive, you can still access your saved games and should be able to redo what you need without worrying about freezing. For some reason, the more you play it, the more it freezes!

14 Dec 2014 16:42