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Escort

Primary Objectives:

• Rescue 100 Darwinians

Secondary Objectives:

• None

Walkthrough:

This map is optional, and completion of it is not required to finish the game. But, since the amount of research the Doctor performs for you is directly tied to the number of Towers you reprogram during the course of the game, you should probably give it a shot.

You have one main island full of baddies, and three smaller islands. Two contain 100 DGs each, and a Tower/Incubator each. The third has a Trunk Port and a Tree, to which you must escort at least 100 DGs in order to complete the level.

Three methods of completing this map are listed below:

• Method: Hardcore Carnage

Difficulty: Hard Estimated beginner time: 1/2 Hour - 1 Hour or longer, depending on skill

Create a Squad on either smaller starting island, and dish it to the large, main island. Clear the area arond the Tower/ Dish. Reprogram the Tower with an Engineer. Eradicate enemies as you go, and fight your way tooth and nail to clear a path to the goal island. Harvest souls as you see fit. When you have a clear-ish path, Dish in your DGs, and use an Officer and Squads to escort them to the goal island if their research level is less than v3.0. If the DGs are v3.0 or v4.0, and there are no Spiders left on the island, then they can take care of any stray Virii themselves. Keep an eye on the Triffids - or better yet, try and take out as many as you can, along with any Egg-laying baddies so that they don't create more Virii and re-block your path.

• Method: Sneak Attack

Difficulty: Slightly easier than above Estimated beginner time: 1/2 Hour - 3/4 Hour or longer, depending on skill

Fly an Engineer over water to the goal island, reprogram both Towers, and begin your assault from behind. For some reason, it seemed to me that I cleared a path much faster this way. Your mileage may vary.

• Method: I'm Not Here, You Can't See Me

Difficulty: Easy, but you may feel you cheated yourself out of a fun fight Estimated time: 5 minutes tops.

Dish all the DGs from the island with R1 on it to the island with R2 on it - this will give you 200 DGs on one island. Dish a Squad from R2 to R4, and clear out the immediate area. Dish your DGs from R2 across to R4, and using an Officer, lead/send them OVER the mountain, as closely parallel and as close to the edge of the island as possible, towards C5 and R5. WHILE they are moving (as it will take a minute or so), fly an Engineer over the water from C2 or C4 to the goal island, and reprogram C5 and C6 in anticipation of the DG's arrival. You'll probably have time to secure C3 as well, for the Research points. When the DGs arrive on the other side of the mountain (there's a song in that somewhere, I'm sure of it), Dish them onto the goal island. Done; no muss, no fuss, but no fun. :(

Alternate Strategies:

You could just use Armor vehicles to transport the Darwinians. Takes about three minutes. But, as stated earlier, you may feel cheated out of some serious action.

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