Killing the Emperor Worm

[Dante]

Oh, that and engineering any refinaries that happened to cross my path. . . ;)

[Duncan_ghola]

if you maneuver it between the hark base below you and the wall of living turrets you can fly over 2 turrets and not run into anything else i think besides those pathetic flying guild planes which i cant remember right now

[nemafakei]

The way that has always worked for me here is to build lots of defensive forces (spearheaded by elite self-repairing units, which you should conserve, if HK) and turrets and prepare for any onslaught. Meanwhile, do *not* scout beyond the long row of living turrets, or make any effort to attack, nor to pay any attention to the 'interesting' structures (Cannon, Palace, FR/SD/IX stuff). Then, once you have a big stable base, and a palace and so on, (NB use the superweapons on the enemy closest to you), build 5 or so ADV carryalls with Minos/ Sonics/ Kobras/ Devastators (Starport is good for this). Then pick them up, and move them as a group along the top-left edge of the map. Save. Find a place to the left/right of your base, and move them there. Then tell them to move directly to the other side of the map, perpendicular to the Worm. Then drop your forces on the far side of the worm's head. Then attack. The counter will not commence until now, and your forces will take out the worm in good time.

If you wish, you can combine this with an APC/Engineer attack on the Megacannon.

[Apollyon]

I'm always very offensive... or so everyone tells me. ;)

[henry]

THe countdown timer doesn't start until you attack any of the guild building of after one hour.

[geberten]

Played that mission a long time ago. Killed it by dropping Devas/Minos/Kobras...

Although I don't intend to go through the mission again myself (don't have any saved games), I was wondering whether fremen warriors would have a good chance of doing away quickly with the Emperor worm--since they are quite effective against worm riders. Same goes for flame tanks.

Just a thought

[Duncan_ghola]

eh the best way to kill ehn emperor worm is by eating out its guts with a wild worm

[lowzeewee]

Slaughtering it with projected units should be enough.You won't need to get your pet wild worm wet with blood. :O