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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

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Guide to Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3's Yucatan mission, featuring Reapers and Grinders. Clear islands and destroy the FutureTech base.

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Guide to Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3's Yucatan mission, featuring Reapers and Grinders. Clear islands and destroy the FutureTech base.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Use your two Sickles to clear the first island, targeting Javelin Soldiers and utilizing Health Crates. Avoid Century Bombers and shoot the Barrels near the Airbase.
  2. 2
    Use Twinblades to deploy Terror Drones to destroy IFVs on the next island.
  3. 3
    Use Terror Drones to destroy Guardian Tanks on the island north of your current position. Zap them with Terror Drones to prevent them from reaching Armour Facilities.
  4. 4
    Use Sickles to clear infantry and destroy Armour Facilities on the northern island.
  5. 5
    Head north and use a Terror Drone to destroy the Aircraft Carrier in the lake, avoiding infantry.
  6. 6
    Use Sickles to eliminate guards and ascend the mountains to destroy Structures.
  7. 7
    An MCV will arrive with three groups of Reapers. Deploy Terror Drones to the northern part of the map and build a Reactor.
  8. 8
    Use Terror Drones to infect Prospector trucks for cash as they arrive from the north and west.
  9. 9
    Avoid Harbinger Gunships protecting Ore trucks arriving from the southeast.
  10. 10
    Build Refineries on the southern islands for resources.
  11. 11
    Build an Airfield and produce MiGs and Twinblades.
  12. 12
    Use Twinblades to destroy the Lab to the south. Have an Engineer collect Cash Crates and capture the Oil Derrick.
  13. 13
    Build a Navy with Dreadnoughts to bomb the Lab in the center of the map.
  14. 14
    Use the Navy to destroy the FutureTech Seaport and damage the FutureTech base.
  15. 15
    Use more Twinblades to destroy the remaining two FutureTech labs.
  16. 16
    Seek and destroy any remaining FutureTech buildings.
Tips
  • If funds are low, destroy the FutureTech Seaport and secure the two southern islands.
  • Reapers are introduced in this mission.
  • Grinders are also available.
  • The mission is set in the Yucatan and is rated Hard with a Fun Factor of 6.
  • The featured bulletin is FutureTech, and the opponent is Thornley (White).
  • Primary objectives include clearing the islands, destroying the Prospectors, and destroying the FutureTech base.
  • Secondary objective: Destroy the FutureTech labs.

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