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Mission One: Crush. Kill. Destroy.

Objectives

• Build a ground assault force and recapture Fondor.
• The local humans are allied with our enemies. Destroying them and their structures will go a long way toward helping our cause.
• Destroy all Rebellion land forces and structures to win.

Before you head out to Fondor, start working on building up the rest of the planets under your control. You'll probably want all of them to have barracks and light factories, at the least, but when you have extra space, feel free to load them up with mining facilities. You can always sell them later when more buildings are available to you. Coruscant, especially, will be an important galactic hub for you, so keep it well defended with a strong garrison. Build an officer academy on its surface and use it to make at least one fleet officer and one field officer. They'll be handy to have during battles.

When you're ready to attack Fondor, build up a stack of units, with Vader in the lead, and land them on the surface of the planet. (Be sure to have at least one Acclamator in orbit, though; you'll find the bombing runs they're capable of to be quite handy.) Bring down Vader first and let him capture the two build pads near your starting point. The initial danger here is from the respawning infantry from the rebellious building nearby, so you'll probably want to build one anti-infantry turret and one repair station for your mechanized units. If you're planning on performing bombing runs, you may want to just wait for one to become available, then send a scout trooper bike down to the first pair of building and bomb both of them to smithereens. Alternately, you can just fill up the rest of your slots with TIE Maulers; they'll be handy here because there are so many infantry squads in your way.

You can always use bombing runs to destroy any large accumulations of infantry that you find.

When you reach the westmost spawn point for the rebels, send Vader north to capture the northern reinforcement point. With that in hand, you'll be able to bring down a sizable army. (There's nothing you really need to worry about in the passageway to the west, so you can avoid it if you wish; just be sure to destroy all of the spawning points.) It's best to just bring down as many Maulers as you can; their speed and firepower will overrun any infantry in your way, and in large enough groups they can take down the anti-vehicle turrets that you'll be seeing with minimal losses. With a large group of them, sweep to the east, destroy the Rebel buildings, and you'll win the map.