Need some strategy tips for single player Options

[thefran]

I've never played multiplayer, only completed all campaigns and several challenges on medium or hard in vanilla Generals and ZH.

Due to a combination of me being very rusty and the AI being (subjectively) improved, I get absolutely pummeled on Challenge mode. As China Nuke, I try to turtle a bit till I can get some nukes and overlords going, get a defense line of 3-4 Gattling tanks and a propaganda tower as I go north with a Desolator, 2 Gattlings and a Dozer to establish a second supply center, and then get rolled by a bunch of laser paladins and that damnable laser artillery. (Rocket soldiers don't help much obviously). Build order is reactor-racks (capture, 4 Red Guards, capture oil derricks and whatnot, then camp in a building)-prop tower-supply-war factory-2 supply trucks-gattlings and rad tanks-nuclear center-strategy center-dead.

As US Laser, I kinda expected to get an easy win against Granger before realising that I don't actually have good ground air defense. Sure, he doesn't get countermeasures against my lasers, but I build a half-circle of laser partriots as I desperately try to build a good tank wave, but avengers turn out to be very expensive and very cost inefficient, his raptors kill them easy.

[Shockfan42]

Here I'm getting over the river, spreading out my base a little (because I won't get two nuclear missiles up before the first earthshaker is ready to launch), difficult as it might be as the terrain is really bad, taking out her artillery with my nuke cannons bit by bit, and then the meatgrinder starts and just won't end. I try to get things out with one or two nuke cannons or groups of 4 artillery, enforced by a small fist of 5-7 battlemasters, 2-3 overlords, and gattling tanks. but i need so many gattling tanks. I have an entire war factory designated to churning out gattling tanks non-stop.

You can have 2 superweapons. Yes, is the most efficient way for remove the earthshacker, And if you're quick you have plenty of time to build them before Leang attacks. The money is in the little box from supplies (UN) what you can get across the river. And yes, you need gattling for the continued air attack, but scattered. After those initial attacks build another superweapon, a pair of artillery and protect the base until you have level 3 for use the GP against airports. Then it is safe to expand, build more superamas or an army and send Leang some nuclear greetings.