Command & Conquer 3's Ion Cannon

Build Ion Cannon Control Center

The pic/button appears on the left as all other support powers, when it's ready (takes a really really long time), left click it when ready, then select an area of the map that you SEE (no fog of war).

All support powers afaik needs the location to be seen without fog.

Man I love the Ion Cannon...

Tiberian Sun it sucked as well, but GDI had Firestorm Defense, which was as awesome as it sounds.

I have a semi foolproof way.

Right at the start, queue up tonnes of Predators, and queue up 2 engineers, enable all light gun turrets, and most of the anti-air defences, put the rest of your infantry close to the south and west entrances.

When you have around 6 predators, lead them east and then north, and put the engineers on persuit, take out all turrets and vehicle/infantry production centres, and then get the engineers to capture the base.

Now you have the worst of it out of the way, you can easily build Nod power stations and defenses to back-up your own.

The rest I leave up to you. I tend to like the nod flying stealth infantry (can't remember the name), as they can fly over to the south western base and silently take out the power and production centres.

Get a lot of units over to the MCV before you take it, as some nod rocket infantry take over the houses when you collect.

Yeah, took me 10 tries, I eventually found a way of making a really really big force and total anihalated NOD.

The NOD stealth guys are Shadow Teams, my fav NOD unit, but im a GDI man, and Zone Troopers are my fav unit overall (besides the Mammoths lol).

yes the engineer rush a classic stratagy that I used meny times in the original C&C esspessialy when I had limited funds to work with, I can't believe that I didn't think about using it on that mission. I replayed that one about 10 or so times before I was able to build a force that was able to protect the MCV and it still just barely made it to the base in one peice.

There called raptors i think? not 100% though and cant be bothered to look. Also.....

Does anyone else except me think that the scrin mothership you can build is a bit like a cheating unit? As it can destroy your base with 1 attack and isnt even there superweapon.

VENOMS! lol



I don't play online multi, no time to do so.

Stealth tanks? Bikes? Don't they shoot missiles and are cheap? (I usually just make 50 venoms in skirmish/singleplayer) - I beat the NOD campaign mostly by making a mass amount of Venoms.

I love the VeRtiGo BoMbErS (I typed it that way because that's what they look like to me when they're cloaked), it has one of the best unit voice in the game imo. The Venoms are just so easy to destroy the AI in the campaign.

Although one mission (the one where Tricia.. you gotta kill her or something), I just build 8 avatars and mutant marauders, I think there was way too many SAMs to build air units or something.

I finally figured out how to launch the ion cannon. I was relieved when I did it last night. I won the game too. I kept clicking on the icon of the timer instead of the ion cannon itself. I was so glad I finally got that aspect of the game figured out.

I shot that thing down on my scrin opponents power plants. 4 of them were in a cluster along with a tiberium refinnery and there were some warfactories or what ever you call them around that area that got vaporized too. That took out my opponents radar then I started nailing his planetary destroyers with Pittbulls.

What a great victory.

ANOTHER QUESTION. HOW DO YOU SET OFF THE NUKES WITH NOD? Is there a timer for the Nukes also?