Empire Earth Speedrun (German Campaign) - The Red Baron

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Objective:
Destroy the three forts.
Eliminate the Anti-Richthofen Squad.

The first actually difficult mission in the campaign. There are four objectives which each require an entirely different approach, and need switching from one side to the other constantly.
First, the eastern fort can be destroyed with only your starting units, as the AI barely bothers defending it. My spotter balloon sets up line of sight for my artillery to safely take out the towers, after which everyone moves in to efficiently kill all the buildings.
Second, the artillery spotter balloon can singlehandedly destroy one of the forts, so I obviously choose the one furthest away from me.

Third, the western fort is assaulted with an army of Howitzers. This fort is heavily defended, in a manner that is completely random. There could be tanks here. There could be infantry here. There are always a bunch of artillery in widely differing positions. And worst is, howitzers are horrible to micro because they move slow, accelerate slow, their turn rate is atrocious, and they tend to stumble over one another. In order to alleviate some of the effort, I put buildings around the siege factories, which prevents units from spawning from those buildings, but it can only help so much. It takes extreme luck to even enter the fort unharmed, and successfully destroying every building at a good speed barely ever happens.

Finally, once the forts are destroyed, a squad of fighter planes spawn in the upper right corner that need to be destroyed. Since waiting for them to fly to your base is slow, I sneak my civilians into that corner to build an airfield, allowing me to keep a flock of planes very close to the spawn location for a speedy kill.
There's definitely some optimization possible here, but it'd just require even more blind luck.

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