I've finished the main game and Core Contingency already before, and working my way through Battle Tactics missions. Arm medium mission "Islands of Grace" may break the camel's back, and make me stop there for good.

Is there a timer in that mission, or what can make you fail the mission? I don't think the briefing mentioned any timer, yet now I am in a situation where I get the Defeated-message quite soon after I load a save game. I have no idea why I get it, I am merely moving my units to the SE corner of the map, in order to attack the island in SW.

On the other hand, if I just try to rush to the SW island ASAP with all force, it seems the enemy long range weapons kill like 2/3 of my units before I even get there. For some reason they especially are able to take out the transports, which probably makes it near impossible to win the map.

I have to admit I don't like the Battle Tactics missions much, especially the shorter ones. They take away all freedom and expect you to win in a very restricted manner, and usually seem to have timers, forcing you to rush and just hope for the best. Maybe I should just call it a day with this game and proceed to some other RTSes.

I hate those shorter battle tactics missions too, especially the ones involving transports. And i have not, neither will i ever complete those missions and you know what, it bothers me not.

I play the game as a General to manage resources and build stuff, and my units are totally expendable to support my grand strategy. Why would i want to be demoted to Sergent and run around with my ass on fire yelling orders at a small number of idiot units that instead of being expendable are now invaluable.... absolutely NOT for me.

There are certain missions that are very hard, but in a good way, my favourites being the krogoth encounter, the defence of larab harbour and the brawler one - forget the exact name - the one with the huge attack by masses of brawlers