[No Commentary] Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency (PC, 1998) ARM Krogoth Encounter Hard 1080p

The Core Contingency is the first expansion pack for Total Annihilation released in 1998. The story continues a century after ARM's victory over CORE from the original game. But before that, the third video of this series will cover the ARM's encounter with the CORE Krogoth before their total annihilation in CORE PRIME.
This mission is utter chaos right from the start. It felt like the devs had ramped the difficulty up tremendously, by having the AI throw at you some of the strongest units in the game at the start while you were under-prepared. They were not kidding when they said the mission was for experienced commanders. I decided to upload this mission play-through separately because the time I spent to nail this mission alone was enough to play another round of of the original ARM campaign. It is also a telling sign that the upcoming Core Contingency campaign missions would not be as kind to players as they were in the original.
I think the easiest way to manage this mission is to spam expendable missile defenses, while building up a mass of Hawks to rush the Krogoth gantries. Spiders can be useful in disabling the Krogoths, but it was buggy in my experience. The Spiders might seem to stop the Krogoths from firing, but they were still able to run straight into the center of my base, not sure if that was intended or actually a bug. Hence, I didn't really use them that much. After surviving the early attack, it is just a matter of preference whether you want to just finish the mission by wiping out the remaining Krogoths, or totally annihilate the enemy for a challenge. I of course chose the easier option as I was exhausted by the point of doing this successful run, but I imagine the latter can be done rather easily with plasma cannon / Bertha creep.
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[@jims146]

What I liked to do was capture core plant and make my own Krogoths.

[@Chanwsan]

Yeah that would be fun to use against enemy base.

[@mzjango]

Yeah that's what I used to do - in fact I tried not to fight the battles in the first 10 minutes or so - i used to dragon teeth off the entire base area, focus on air defense and then when ready attack and capture the base to the far east, cordon that off and then start krogoth production on mass, it was quite a low unit loss tactic but it would be a 2/3 hour game. Staggering to see this done in half an hour - insane! TA... what a game it was, makes me want to reinstall!

[@boyd868b]

@@mzjango used to to that with the dragon's teeth but use spyders to stop one krogoth then turn him

[@Predaaator]

My friend, thx for your channel, this is a list of games you could do gameplays: Terranova (1996) Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy (1998) Independence War 2 (2001) Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising (2001)

[@Chanwsan]

Thanks. I'll see what I can do.

[@cobrazax]

stealth fighters are OP as fuck

So are these actual humans fighting or just AI robots fighting each other long after their creators disappeared?

[@stofsk]

CORE are robots, ARM are supposed to be clones but the lack of any human communication from any ARM units probably indicates they're not actually humans either.

[@ShadowWolfTJC]

Supposedly, Arm's units are controlled by fleshy human minds, while Core's units are controlled by digitized human minds. Not like in Zero-K's campaign, where the units are controlled by non-sentient A.I. commanders (except for the player, who is a human waking from cryosleep), which were created long after a calamity seemingly wiped out human sentience (fleshy, digitized, or otherwise) from the galaxy.

[@hermit1255]

Personally hate this level. I like building a small but well defended base away from any agro first before engaging on an even footing, but the AI has different ideas on this level.

[@fremenondesand3896]

ree horrible non aligned base building no horrid my poor OCD.

[@munsookim5248]

First wave 13:50