Hey all,

I've finally got through the original game again (I had forgotten how tricky some of those missions were!) and gotten to the Dark Conspiracy expansion, which I had never played before. I've gotten to mission 5, the prison rescue, and for some reason the game is wigging out and refusing to complete the objective for highjacking the hoverdynes.

It worked just fine the first three times I played the mission (managed to fail those in a variety of amusing ways - did you know it's possible for the hoverdynes to get irreversibly stuck on their way to the prison?), but ever since then it just refuses to complete. I can march down to the outpost, start the jamming, and move my units in and kill everything within about 12 miles except the hoverdyne repair bay, but no matter what I do the objective will not complete and eventually the truck runs out of jamming power and the mission fails. As far as I can tell I'm not doing anything different from the first few times I did the mission, so I'm at a loss to understand why this objective suddenly won't complete. I've tried wiping out every building except the repair bay, I've tried not killing any of them, I've tried both killing and not killing the tower you drive past on the way to the base, I've tried both killing the templars/light tanks on the cliff beforehand and not killing them, I've tried having my units all at the outpost and having only the APC and truck there, and I can't get the objective to complete.

I did some searching and found exactly one mention on another forum of someone having this problem 4 years ago, but there was no response. Has anyone here run into this, and if so, what did you have to do to get it to work?

I had this happen to me once I think. What you were supposed to do was use the truck to jam the communications of the small patrol unit and destroy them quickly. This is before you reach the base with the repair bay. If you didn't do it properly, then you will see enemy drop ships landing inside the base and eventually, the mission failure screen. That means that the patrol unit sent out a warning for reinforcements to arrive at the base. The truck can't run out of "jamming power".