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well it was fun being the biggest record holder for a little while atleast lol. I'll work on getting more par times tonight

Number One Threat To America
My Time: 6:49
Par Time: 9:30

I used Empire & VXs. =P

Here are the challenges I have done so far:

Deat Meat
My time: 4:09
Par Time: 4:30
Used Peacekeepers to fend off dogs then finished off with some mass Guardians.

(NOTE: IN ALL OF THESE PAR TIMES I USED FAST REFINERIES TO EXPAND EXTREMELY QUICKLY [AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE]! THE COMPUTER IS TOO SLOW TO REACT IN TIME AND BY THAT TIME YOUR ECONOMY BOOMS! AND YOU CAN SPAM WHATEVER YOU LIKE FOR THE WIN. YOU BUILD AS MANY REFINERIES AS POSSIBLE THAT THE PAR TIME WILL ALLOW BEFORE YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO START BUILDING SOME UNITS, KEEPING WARY FOR SOME SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF THE MAP, OF COURSE)

-However, I liked to use some of the earlier missions without coming back, so I liked to defeat the par times using only basic units. I did that for like the first 10 or so. First 20 or so were all done using rather basic units (mostly Tier 2). I liked to decide what faction I played on a whim, and then stuck through them no matter what difficulties I faced/no matter what I hadn't unlocked! I believed they were all possible in this way, and so far I have been right.

Anyways, carrying on:

Blood Feud
My Time: 9:14
Par TIme: 10:15
I did this as Empire. I built 6 refinery cores (since the enemies don't bother you), 2 upgraded mecha bays, and 1 upgraded Docks. I then churned out 8-10 Tengus, and then like, 49 Tsunami tanks for the victory! The enemy didn't know what hit them.

Defense of the Archipelago
My Time: 11:01
Par Time: 11:15
I had to do this one once or twice to work out the kinks. I played as Empire, built 3 refs, and unpacked a defender core at each of the 3 entrances to my base to defend against rushes. The first time I did this map, I tried to use Tengus and tsunamis only, but I found that was too slow so I used sudden transports filled with Tankbusters in place of the tsunamis, and this yielded more impressive results. It turns out, you only have to kill the barracks and the construction yard of each base, and then it gets sold. Rinse and repeat 5 times. I still only managed to do this under par time.
(Again, pride in low tech!)

Creeping Death
My Time: 8:20
Par Time: 9:00
I used dogs to scout, and Peacekeepers to kill his nanocores before they really had a chance to unfurl. Since I was working with T1 units, I had to wait until I had Guardian tanks (the only bombardment unit) to break through the nanocore defenses and win the game.

NOTE: These are not necessarily the best times ever! They are just my times that I am proud of! I hope some of them make the leaders list!
If the thread maker cannot figure out which faction I was, just read the description near the bottom of each one! Thanks!

Crate and Red Barrel
My Time: 6:04
Par Time: 7:30
As Soviets, used (Tier 1 units) conscripts and flak troopers to scout, then built 2-3 sickles and spammed tanks for the victory! Used the red barrels to gain an advantage!

Where Satellites Go to Die
5:57
Par Time: 6:00
I used Empire on this one, but I had to experiment a few times to find the way around the Tengus not being able to kill the buildings quickly enough. I found a few well-placed Sudden Transports worked wonders for this purpose.

Caught in the Crossfire
My Time: 8:38
Par Time: 10:00
This one was extremely fun. I used Soviets to garrison the upper left large building with flaks against Giles, and this stopped all his bombers dead in his tracks. Meanwhile, I rapidly expanded with the MCV, and then churned out tanks and a couple of engineers to systematically *** apart the Bottom Left Girl's Base. I used MiGs against her twinblades. After levelling her base in 2 minutes flat, I turned quickly to Giles and anihilated his defenseless base too. All under par time!
I had to experiment with this one a few times, and I found that the fastest way to victory was simply to build at least 4 refineries before beginning tank production, no matter what. Fast economy worked wonders and enabled a fast victory under par time (and a nice looking force of tanks, to boot)

Cat Fight
My Time: 7:25
Par Time: 8:30
This one was tricky! I was Allies and I decided to use a team of 10 peacekeepers and 5 javelins, built as soon as the game started, to systematically *** apart the chinese girl's base right by my base. Similtaneously, I moved my MCV up (making sure I had plenty of power) and built 4 refineries at the nearest expansions, making it so the ground control of the MCV could reach both refineries. After all my refineries(+ oil) and power plants were built I built two WF. This mission took several tries in order to yield the ideal par time, as many of the missions did. Two WF churned out 5 riptides, then infinite Guardians as I steamrolled the feuding B-I-T-C-H-E-S to victory. The twinblades were annoying! I was forced to build Apollos or risk losing all of my forces to just a few of them.

(NOTE: I guess these summaries can be thought of as a GUIDE for the missions!)

All right, so the other ones were pretty straightforward and I'm not gonna bother posting the Par Times or the Game Descriptions for them, but there is one mission I'd have liked to go through:

Gosh Darn Mongolians!
My Time: 9:05
Par Time: 9:45
This mission I took on suicidally! I used allies, and the only unit I had unlocked capable of defeating the heroic King Onis on the map was Tanya! However, that made for some pretty fun gaming!! I had to get 4 refineries up and going using prospectors as soon as possible before the Onis came, and then building Tanya just in time, I had to make careful use of her Time belt and other considerations, I managed to rip apart ALL of the king onis that stood in her and the base's way! Now, after this hasty and super-fun defense using only Tanya and a few peacekeepers (I also send an engineer IFV to the top left to capture the Veteran Academy, which helped), I built 2 Barracks, 2 WF (I did NOT even have access to vindis yet), and... with only 2 minutes left, I somehow managed to use Tanya to lead the charge, I spammed massive amounts of PKs, and also Athena cannons bringing up the rear! PKs ripped apart iunfantry AND tanks faster than I could have imagined, and combined with Tanya and Athena cannons my force made it completely uncontested (even I was surprised) up to the Empire base in the top right, and the base was levelled in seconds. Seriously, it was Loads of fun fighting using only skillful Tanya and other ragtag units, and then leading a heroic charge to victory. I found that Guardian tanks did NOT work, they just ended up being cost-ineffective fodder for the Onis and the mass PK spam managed to be a much better alternative for sucking up all that damage instead of Tanya.

Whew, there is my super-long post. This is how much I like Commander's Challenge! Thank you for reading! and Thread Starter, please feel free to add my uncontested par times to the leader board!

That was a super long post, Unburying this topic to the Front Page.

Are somewhere the general stats with all the challenges ?

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Where Satalites go to die

Team: Soviets
My time: 4:56
Par Time: 6:00

Took me a few attempts but I found the most effective strat engineer rush

IceyTruth wrote:Where Satalites go to die

My time: 4:56
Par Time: 6:00

Took me a few attempts but I found the most effective strat engineer rush

With which Team? lol

Fixed

IceyTruth wrote:Fixed

Lol.

Good thing I asked.
Oh yeah the Deadly Bullfrog + Engineer Catapult Capture. lol

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Dangerous Skies : 10:33 Soviets
Par:21:00
Twinblade+flaktrooper drop with mig escort.

Double Barreled : 09:08 Allies
Par:13:00
Fasttech Tanya+guardian+athena

Vicious Cycle :14:34 Empire
Par:19:00
4 dojo rush the land base, followed by 4 ref tengu & VX spam, lure his apollo to fly over your vx, kill them then air blitz the island base.

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Updated the record list. mando777, can you post your faction for Caught in the Crossfire?

gamecraziness wrote:Updated the record list. mando777, can you post your faction for Caught in the Crossfire?

soviets

Chrono you Didn't

My time: 11:31
Par time: 14:00
Faction: Allies

Basically I just spammed guardian tanks with one using secondary ability.

No match for the Guardian
par 5:45
my time: 5:25
Soviets: hammer tank steam roll

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Blood Feud
Par Time: 10:15
My Time: 8:21

Played as Empire, rushed 2 Sudden transports full of Engineers, one to each enemy base. Captured the Conyards and refineries, then built Dojos to train infantry at their bases and built some tengus to take out what was left.

Also, I'm wondering, what does the challenge "Chrono you didn't" unlock?

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