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Mission Five: Trouble on Kashyyyk

Objectives

• Stop the Wookiee uprising on Kashyyyk.
• Planet Battle: Protect the Imperial prisons.
• Stop Han Solo from freeing the Wookiees.

When you bring your forces to Kashyyyk, your goal will be to find and stop Han Solo before he can destroy all of the Imperial prisons on the surface of the planet. If you act quickly, you should be able to achieve your goal within a matter of minutes. Be sure to have a fleet in place above the planet for bombing runs before you land.

When Han gets to this location, feel free to drop a bomb on him.

After you start the mission, you'll find that you have enough room to bring down plenty of reinforcements; there's a population cap of 10 units here, so go ahead and swarm the ground with an army of mechanized creations. TIE Maulers are speedy and will make quick work of the Wookiees that you'll be encountering; 2-M Repulsor Tanks will make good teammates for the TIEs, due to their shielding and ability to quickly take down the T-2Bs that the Rebels will be throwing at you. Make one huge group of these units and one for Vader, as well, and that should be about all you need.

There are four or five prisons on the planet, but Han will probably take out two of them before you can move too far from your initial landing zone. After they've been blown, though, he'll seemingly always cross the river in the middle of the map at its northernmost edge, and start attacking the prison there. If you mass your troops near the prison there, you'll be able to intercept the army of Wookiees as they cross over. Shortly afterwards, Han should make his appearance and head towards the prison. His little EMP blast will disable most of your forces, but Vader should be able to wander over to him and start chopping away regardless. What's better is the fact that you should have a bombing run available by the time he approaches this prison, and dropping a bomb on him from above is pretty much a surefire way to kill him.

You don't have to protect all of the prisons here, obviously. Han is your primary target; when you drop a bomb on him or kill him by any other means, he'll retreat into the woods and the mission will be over. You should outnumber him greatly, so even if your bombing run misses the target, you should still be able to pin him down with Maulers (after his EMP burst gets used) and finish him off.