Supreme Commander

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Cybran Campaign Complete: Hard

Finish the Cybran Campaign on Hard.

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

Strategy One

TrueAchievements

29 Jun 2012 06:36

Cybran Campaign Complete: Hard

This is not too difficult, but it took me 2-3 hours for every mission. 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 Cybrans was to use the SEA as much as possible, when you get the TECH 2 battleships use them, they can also go on land and have a extreme range of fire. They can also attack air and will obliterate buildings. This will work until the 6th and final mission. On the final mission you must immediately build up your defense from your left sea, and build an army of air superiority aircrafts, this will be needed to destroy the Aeon flying saucer. You will also be attacked from the right side of your base naval, and the land below your. I recommend working on Tech 3 battleships (beautiful offense and extremely powerful) and immediately build the Flying Experimental bug. When I attacked the final base at the bottom of the island I used 10 flying bug and 4 artillery which destroyed over 50% of the base.

29 Jun 2012 06:36

Brendan695

TrueAchievements

14 Oct 2010 19:41

This Achievement as well as the other campaign achievements are Stackable.
For this achievement you do not need to beat all 6 campaign missions on Hard. You only have to beat the last mission on Hard difficulty and all three Achievements (Easy/Normal/Hard) will be unlocked.

14 Oct 2010 19:41

silva, Creech

XboxAchievements

The Cybran 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 Cybran is selected, press X to choose mission, and select mission 6.

There is a mission walk through available here.

Shadow 00 Fox

TrueAchievements

06 Dec 2014 21:27

This campaign was fairly fun--I did use this walkthrough

the whole way, because I got sick of having the enemy send experimental units that you couldn't be ready for if you didn't know about them ahead of time. Still a great game!

SHORT VERSION:
1. You have approximately 12 minutes before the Czar destroys the control center!
2. Rapidly build AA south and west of your base, some torpedo defense west of your naval factories, and some point defense south of your base.
3. Mass produce Mass Fabricators and Power Generators..
4. Setup air and naval patrols.
5. Mass produce Experimental Flying Bugs for the rest of the mission.
6. Use your bugs to take out the Czar while it's crossing the water!
7. Build a few nuke defenses.
8. Build Scathis/Long Range Artillery/Battleships/or LOTS of BUGS.
9. Capture the control center.
10. Use your power units to wipe out the UEF.
11. Capture the Black Sun and end the Infinite War!

I'm mainly writing this solution to give some tips on what to do for the final Cybran 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:

This part was the key for me--I never ran out of power or resources until I started mass producing experimentals... later in the game. As soon as the final mission started, I set my SCU Commander to building 27 Ion Power plants. At the same time, I set an engineer assisted by my ACU to build ~27 Mass Fabricators. I also set 2 engineers on both factories, and had them producing engineers non stop. As soon as one engineer was produced, I would take turns.

My engineer build orders are in the spoiler:

Primary battle strategy and early plan to not lose to the Czar:

Now, you have to be ready for a few different attack forces from the Aeon and the UEF, I used my Soul Rippers to take them out. I had 3 Soul Rippers when the Czar took off. About the same time the Czar takes off, the Aeon send a level 3 battleship with a lot of escorts towards your docks--you need to take care of this at the same time as taking out the Aeon threat to the UEF base. I sent 1 Soul Ripper to help my navy take out the Battleship and fleet, and I sent all my fighters and other Soul Rippers after the Czar. You MUST destroy the Czar ASAP otherwise the Aeon's attack aircraft will take out the Black Sun objective on their own. Once you take out the Czar, you are good for a while, sort of! Watch out for a slow moving attack force coming from the Aeon base--it is a giant robot with 240,000 health! I sent 12 Soul Rippers over.. it didn't last long. LOL. Keep an eye on the eastern side for boats, and send Soul Rippers to take out anything not submerged. Also, very helpful is to build some Torpedo launchers on the east side near your base to knock out submarines. Continue building up your forces! I finished the map with 45 Mass Fabricators and 43 Ion Power plants. That was enough to power shield generators on my defenses, 2 Scathis firing continuously, and my construction projects. I recommend you just build those right away while building experimentals and watching the map for attack forces.
I also built 3 anti-nuke defenses covering my base, probably 2 more than I needed!
I would recommend you focus on getting the power generators and fabricators up--I spent more time than needed doing other stuff. once you have enough Soul Rippers to defend with up to 35 Fighers on patrol, you should be good to build up your base.
Once you have your power and mass coming in well, build two scathis and let them go to work moving them down halfway on your island protected by Soul Rippers. In addition, I built 7 level 3 artillery just south of my base with my engineers that had finished building Soul Rippers. These were terrific for taking out the bases and helping the Scathis. I probably didn't need them either. LOL.

I discovered something really neat after capturing the first black sun control point. First of all, send in just one engineer to try to capture it, then send in all your Soul Rippers to take out the nasty attack wave that shows up as soon as you try to capture it(I had three air transports ready to send in the engineers). Once the attack wave is gone, go ahead and capture the black sun and wait for the next objective.
Somewhere before this, I built extra Omni sensor arrays so I could both see the rest of the map south, and the whole Aeon base. Very helpful to watch for incoming attacks, I placed the sensors about 75% down the original island you can see. before the map expands south.

Now, the neat thing-- if you shell the UEF base with your artillery without exploring the base, the UEF doesn't respond or start launching nukes at all!! I happened to hit their commander with my artillery, and the UEF forces went dead after that except for firing back at my Soul Rippers. So, let your artillery go to work, preferably on fast speed, and if you want the Aeon to get killed, explore the UEF base finally so they can launch a nuke at the Aeon..... if you haven't taken out both nuke launchers yet. Makes it really easy if the UEF isn't really doing much! Now, you might have to face one major wave of fighters and bombers from the UEF which you can see at the bottom of the map--but the Soul Rippers, fighters, and defences took them out fairly quickly. Once you take out the UEF commander, you can mostly just send in everything and mop up, or you could go for a quick capture and finish the mission faster. I wiped the map clean after the UEF took out the Aeon, and it looked so pretty!

My defences--

And that's it! Rather wordy, please ask for clarification, I enjoyed this very much, great game other than the freezing!

I found that zooming all the way in and turning the game speed to slowest helped with some of the freezing issues...

06 Dec 2014 21:27

2 Comments

Great amount of info. Only question is how do you change game speed in the campaign?

By Harbringernight on 22 Apr 2017 04:19

Good question! If I remember right, isn't there an option in the game menu? Where you would save, etc?

By Shadow 00 Fox on 22 Apr 2017 08:26