MISSION 04 - ARCADIA CITY

WILL GIVE YOU TONS OF NIGHTMARES - this is by far the hardest, the most unforgiving mission in whole game. First, you start from scratch and the Covenant are already fully upgraded. Second, this mission is pure randomness but expect a big whooping of you and civilian transports. Third, this mission be completely random - your Spartans might do stupid moves, transports will be eaten by 4 Locusts at once etc. etc. But to get the Gold with picking up everything, you need to micro a lot and have big combat bonus. Try to not lose as many units as possible, it's hard to rebuild them in this mission. Once Vampires are in sight, pull of your Hornets, in case of Banshees pull of Forge from their sight. Banshees are by far your worst nightmare, three of them might kill the transport. Building a second base give you 500 points, while rescuing 1000 Civilians are worth 1500 points. Sacrificing one transport is a good idea, remember that rescuing all 2 of them doesn't grant any bonuses. The bonus objective is to kill 50 Elites.