Command & Conquer Generals - USA Mission 7 Walkthrough Strategy Guide

This final mission can be quite difficult — finding the right strategic mix to fend off a fierce land assault by the GLA, while being bombarded by battalion-destroying anthrax attacks and the Scud Storm.

Keys to Success:

• Build an extra Supply Drop Zone ASAP for much-needed supplies.
• Build an extra USA bulldozer for quick construction of multiple Patriot missile sites at the two valley entrances to the base.
• Fuel Air Bombs and A10 Missile Strikes cannot reach the Scud Storm. Destroy the Scud Storm in two separate attacks by your Particle Cannon.
• With your Spy Drone, locate the GLA Arms Dealer located on the far east side of their base (near the center of the map). Destroy this base with Air Fuel Blasts. If they rebuild, destroy it again.
• After the two western passes are protected by Patriot missile sites, use Pathfinders at the far northeast and northwest parts of the base. Through the entirety of the mission, tunnel networks located off of the map allow GLA troops to sneak into these areas. Drop off Paratroopers in these areas to back them up.

Establishing Your Base:

The largest part of this mission is surviving long enough to establish your Particle Cannon to destroy the Scud Storm. Anthrax attacks will also be encountered, a blue, expanding mist that destroys all vehicles and troops in its path.

Although a strategy combining the Particle Cannon and Chinese Nuclear Silo can be used to destroy the Scud Storm, this absorbs an extra 9000 credits of resources for the War Factory, Propaganda Center and Nuclear Silo — not to mention the extra power generation that will need to be built.

Since the Particle Cannon can recharge in four minutes, as opposed to the Scud Storm’s seven minutes, a second blast of the Particle Cannon will destroy it before it has a chance to strike a second time.

• Build a War Factory.
• While this is building, research the Capture command at the barracks and send your Rangers south to the abandoned Chinese base.
• Quickly choose your General’s Powers. Highly recommended are Pathfinder, Paladin, Spy Drone, Air Fuel Blast and Paradrop.
• Build Strategy Center and an extra USA bulldozer. (You will be using one dozer to build structures near your base and the other one to build four Patriots by the valley entrances – two by the northern entrance and two by the southern entrance.)
• Capture Chinese structures with your Rangers.
• Drop Paratroopers off at northeast corner of the base. There is a base off map that will send GLA troops to this area throughout the mission.
• Use the Spy Drone to search further up the valley road leading to the base. You are attempting to find the GLA Arms Dealer.
• Build a Patriot missile site at the north valley entrance west of your base.
• Build Chinese bulldozer and immediately construct Nuclear Reactor. As soon as the Strategy Center is complete, build a Cold Fusion Reactor with one of the USA dozers.
• Build Supply Drop Zone.
• Group tanks that came with the mission as #1 and move to north valley entrance.
• Important: Put all units in guard mode throughout the mission.
• Build extra Reactors as needed for the Particle Cannon you will be building soon.
• Build a second Patriot missile site right next to the first one at the north valley entrance.
• Two Pathfinders were provided with this mission. Move one to the Patriots site and another in the far northwest part of your base. Again, just like the northeast corner, you will have a constant stream of GLA infantry that appear from this northwest corner.
• Build three Tomahawks and position behind your tanks at the Patriot site.
• Build two Patriots down at the southern valley entrance.
• Build an extra Pathfinder and move him slightly ahead of the Patriot missile site at the southern valley entrance.
• Drop all of your Paratroopers at the northeast corner of the base.
• As soon as the Spy Drone has discovered the Weapons Factory at the east side of the GLA base, attack it with an Air Fuel Blast. Repeat if it is not totally destroyed. Repeat if it is rebuilt.
• Start building a Particle Cannon on the northern part of the base. The Scud Storm will launch before it is ready to fire.
• Continue to build extra Cold Fusion Reactors and Nuclear Reactors for extra power in case the Scud Storm knocks some of them offline.

Okay. Breathe a sigh of relief. The Particle Cannon is ticking down and now you just need to keep your base safe while waiting for it to charge up. You will need to strike the Scud Storm twice to destroy it. Now the goal is to beef up your defenses to make sure your base is safe until the Scud is gone.

Most attacks will come from the northern valley entrance, but when opportunity arises, beef up your southern defenses as well.

Right before the Scud Storm launches, save your game in case you don’t like the results. If you have a large group of vehicles, it might be best to scoot them out of the area asap. Don’t move them back in the area until the anthrax has totally dissipated. Whatever is destroyed, just calmly rebuild it. You will be just fine.

• Build four Paladins to add to your northern entrance.
• Add a couple of Paladins and a Tomahawk to the southern entrance.
• By now you will have Pathfinders at the southern and northern valley entrance and the northwest corner of your base. Add a fourth one to the northeast part of your base.
• Build third Patriots at both valley entrances, if you want. It’s not necessary.
• Research Advanced Training and Composite Armor at the Strategy Center as funds permit. (Not necessary to win mission.) Pick one of the three extra abilities that are available for no extra credits.
• Build battle drones for your vehicles, as funds permit. Build extra Paladins, as funds permit.
• This isn’t necessary, but you might want to build a Gattling Cannon to the far northeast corner of the map.

Preparing for Offensive Operations:

• If you have over four minutes until the next Scud Storm, attack it with the Particle Cannon. Otherwise, you might want to wait until after it has discharged. Repeat this attack in four minutes, after the Particle Cannon has recharged, to destroy it permanently.
• While waiting for the Particle Cannon to recharge, start blasting the eastern wall of the GLA base with Fuel Air Blasts and A10 Missile Strikes.
• Hold off a number of counterattacks that will come through both the southern and northern valley with your Paladins, Tomahawks, Pathfinders and Patriot missile sites.

There is no need to start offensive operations until this wall is totally destroyed. It is too heavily fortified. Use your Particle Cannon to start blasting it after the Scud Storm is destroyed.

While waiting for the wall to be destroyed, if desired, use your Chinese dozer to build a War Factory and Propaganda Center, then start cranking out Overlords. Upgrade one of them with a Propaganda Tower to heal surrounding units and two with Gattling Guns. For a bit of variety, upgrade a fourth with a Bunker and fill with RPG Troopers.

Once the wall is destroyed, bring a large number of Paladins, Tomahawks and Pathfinders toward the GLA base. The Pathfinders are necessary to reveal Demo Traps and to protect your armor from infantry.

Alternatively, bring your Overlord tanks over in force. No need to use finesse. Big, powerful and self-healing. They also will detect demo traps.

From here on out, the GLA will be on the run as you perform mop-up operations on their base.

Mission accomplished! Congratulations!