Argentina

Introduction

Argentina includes the first up till the 6th mission of the campaign and can be seen as a sort of tutorial where players can learn the basics of playing the game. Unlike the other, later campaign areas, it has no minimum star requirement.

Mission 1

The purpose of the mission is to introduce basic unit controll to the player and is more or less impossible to fail, as the game slows down and directly shows the player where to tap the screen to give the needed commands to the unit. This is the case both in easy and hard mode, so victory is more or less guaranteed.

Map: Fort Kyten

Mission 2

In this mission the player has a base of their own for the first time and learns how to produce units from production buildings. At the same time a victory condition is to survive until reinforcements arrive at the base. The assault that one has to build as part of the tutorial are enough for this. It is recommended to send 4 of them to the northern and 4 to the eastern side of the base, as they are the most likely to be breached during the attack.

It is not recommended to leave the base before the reinforcements arrive, as only they allow the player to successfully destroy the enemy base, which again is done in a sort of tutorial. So getting 3 stars on hard mode is almost guaranteed.

Map: Unknown

Mission 3

This mission is very similar to mission 2, but on a smaller scale. In general it is recommended to position the units close to the bunkers, so that they get supported by them which helps keep the losses to a minimum. All the time while defending, Assaults should be produced from the barracks until the small reinforcement army arrives in the base, which is the perfect time for attacking the enemy.

There are 2 paths (south and east) leading to the the 2 entrances of the enemy base in the south east. Usually the southern path is the better option, as it will allow directly attacking the enemy Headquarters instead of first fighting through the (albeit not heavily fortified) base before reaching it. It also has the added bonus of blocking the enemy's unit production, because they no longer have any command points to produce them from.

Mission 4

This mission once again tells the player what to do and when to do it and has the main aim of teaching the use of control groups and to encourage fighting the enemy units with the correct counter units. Even on hard difficulty this just requires one to follow the commands given by the scenario.

Only at the end, when the big red army arrives, and the player has to attack it, one should not do so. The troops sent by the green AI player are easily capable of defeating the red army on their own, meaning that the player will just risk losing their own units, which will lower the overall rating of the scenario and could result in less than 3 stars.

Mission 5

In this mission the player is introduced to a vital game mechanic: building upgrades. They are are required to build more advanced and stronger units.

The scenario can be split into 3 stages:

  1. Container gathering

In the beginning of the battle you are recommended to collect at least some of the containers spread around the map. To do this, send 1 Assault over the hill to the west of the base and 1 more Assault to the north-eastern hill from the base. This enables them to gather almost all containers without trouble.

  1. Defending

The game tells the player of an incoming attack on the base. To defend it more easily, it is recommended to not gather the units inside the blue indicated circle, but to instead place them in a vertical line to the right of it, as this will allow the units to have a good formation when clashing with the attackers. It is important here to make sure that the Fortresses are always in front of the infantry, as otherwise their flame attack will result in friendly fire.

  1. Attacking

After defending the base, the worst is already over and the remaining troops can be moved following the road to the west. After waiting for the slower units to catch up, so the army is all together, they can be moved to the north to attack the enemy base which is only protected by a very small army and has no defensive buildings, and is therefore very easy to overwhelm.

Mission 6

This is the first mission, where almost everything has to be done by the player themselves. To finish it successfully, it is recommended to place the 2 Barracks at the start to the north and west of the base. From those, 8 Assaults should be produced and be sent to the north of the map together with the starting units. Along the way a few containers can be collected.

After finishing those preparations the Barracks need to be upgraded to level 2 so that the production of Heavy Assaults can already be started while working on the next step. Those should be kept inside the base for now.

Meanwhile, the army in the north can be used to move to the northwest corner of the map, where a small enemy force can be eliminated. After eliminating it, a small reinforcing army from the green player will arrive from the east and gather at a point to the west of the enemy base (southeast of the player base. At this point the remaining army, of what attacked the enemy force can be moved forward to the bridge in the center of the map, but should not move further than that to avoid engaging to early.

All the Heavy Assaults, that were meanwhile produced, now need to be moved to the gather point of the allied player to cause it to attack the enemy and then sent to the southern map border. Now a 3-sided attack is required to easily overrun the enemy base.

The allied units will attack the main entrance of the base. To support them, the units that have been waiting at the central bridge should be sent in from the north towards the same entrance. Their main goal should be to take out one of the 2 sniper towers and a couple of the troops. Meanwhile, the Heavy Assaults on the southern map border should be sent in along the map border and then attack the sniper tower at the back entrance of the base.

Here it is important to wait until the main army has already started attacking the front entrance, as otherwise the backup army will be attacked by infantry hidden in the forest.