emperor worm mission

[Guest Fremen warrior]

Does anyone have any strats for beating the atreides emperor worm mission? I tried to uses fremen feds but they get slaughtered by the guild mega-cannon. I tried to rush it with all my starting units but my sonic tanks got killed. The projector and the APCs made it but it declared me defeated when my base got trashed. Adv. Carryalls kept get shot down and usually only 50% makes it there. The guild also gets reins quikly there with NIAB tanks. What should I do?

[peseverance]

I replied in the Main Disscussion

[Guest fremen warrior]

thanks

[kloball31]

If you need additional advice, You start with I believe a 3 bar sonic tank.

Build up and go fast to create a hanger, upgrade build a militarized carryall, carry yer sonic tank over to the guild lightning structure. Blow it up, immediately pick it up bring it to one side of the worm and keep fireing, i was able to defeat it this way on the 2nd try.

[peseverance]

how that is almost same as me :)

I did that with Harkonnen Devastators too :D

[Guest Duke Leto]

Build up to hanger, since you start with 150000 solaris, you can do this quickly. Build a militarized caryall. Take an APC and load it up with an engineer as soon as your mentat tells you that you should capture the buildings. Capture the mega cannon and build two gun turrets there (if Atreides, you can find some enemies and have some fun with the mega cannon, as it's splash damage is incredible, if you wish). Then, do a) build 2 caryalls, take 2 apcs, fill me up with 10 sardaukar, and kill da worm. b) get a sonic tank/1 m/caryall (as mentioned above) and nail the worm.

[ordos45]

To be on the safe side fly a Mino or 2 in with the sonic. Just to make sure it dies

[peseverance]

I flew in the two Sonics you start with :)

[Guest Dartok]

I never made it to the megacannon when I took out the worm, though I plan to try that out. My strategy was to build up a force of five or so minos as well as five advanced caryalls. Then using the Adv. Caryalls, I simply fly the minos to the farside of the worm. Once they land, just have them all fire on the worm. Progress is slow, but effective. When all was done, I only lost one of the five minos. But then, maybe I was just lucky.

[Guest wooha]

As harkonnen.. i just built myself about 12 gunships in a big rush, took out the small wall of organic turrets next to the base, and just flew in there and blew that sucker to pieces. It took a lot to ward off the constant attacks, but once i got my gunships going, they just blew that thing to pieces. I also managed to fire off a death hand at it and that took off a quarter of its health.

[House_Corrino]

I just flew the 2 sonics you start at with in kind of a wide V shape.

[firefly]

Once again, I point out that a task force of fedaykin is probably the best means to this end. This tip was originally mentioned in GameSpot.com's guide, and it does work. Here's what you do: set up a solid defense for your base (you will not need a starport or palace, and don't neglect triple-A) and get a healthy economy going. Pump out the feydakin in groups of 5 and walk those groups carefully over to the clearing near the worm's head. Once all of them - 10-20 - are there, walk them right up to the worm and loose a volley or two, then fall back _at once_ to avoid the Guild artillery; repeat this fire/withdraw cycle until the worm gets a terminal headache.

Once you start this, however, a huge assault will come your way - by now, most of your units on the two unwelcome mats should be second- or third-level veterans and be backed up by several other units.

[Guest Ordos_Yogurt]

What is the "MegaCannon" good against? is it anti air defense as well?

[House_Corrino]

It's good against clustered stationary infantry.  That's about it.

[nemafakei]

Plus its massive range (half the map type range) and fairly good spread healps matters.

[Ugul]

after i killed the worm, it's still there but has no health, do I have to wait for the timer to go down or all the people to stop atacking me to beat it?

[Timenn]

yes, wait a while, the worm needs some time to die (you know: writing a testament :))

[nemafakei]

Well, a 500 m gargantuan like that would get a bit of lag!