Mission 1: First Strike

Conditions for winning

• Destroy the enemy Command Center
• Duran must survive

Conditions for losing

• All your structures are destroyed
• Duran must survive

Once you start off, your Marine will realise that the landing site doesn't have any vespene gas. So Bunker up on your eastern flank and build up a solid force of 24 Marines.

Send them along with your 2 Siege Tanks east, and then follow up north. Do not be too eager to engage in battle with all enemy forces you see. You will eventually meet up with Duran's forces. He is eager to help you and surrenders his forces to your command.

Put Duran in a safe spot such as a Bunker near the Command Center and start mining the gas at Duran's location. Build Factories with Machine Shops and start building Siege Tanks. When you have 6 or so, along with 12 Marines, you can start moving along the back entrance of the Confederate base. Slowly inch your Siege Tanks along, pulling into Siege Mode often. Have your Marines kill anything air or anything that gets close to the Tanks.

Make your way into the middle of the Confederate base and destroy the Command Center there to win the mission. There is a northern base that does not do much, and destroying that base is optional, but good for unit control practice.