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Vidmaster Challenge: No fly zone achievement in Halo Wars 2

Vidmaster Challenge: No fly zone

Gain a gold medal and complete all objectives in ‘Not On My Watch’ on legendary

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How to unlock the Vidmaster Challenge: No fly zone achievement

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    Quick summary:
    -Par time for both missions is 45:00 and par score for both is 160k
    -The score MUST be obtained on Legendary difficulty
    -Use Fully upgraded Hornets. Don't attack Bases until you 15-20 hornets

    You do not need to get the Phoenix logs or make the par time. But getting close to the par time will help with bonus points

    The Objectives
    There are 6 objectives besides the main ones that are required to complete the mission
    They are:
    1) Use only 1 Colussus
    2) Stomp 15 enemy units or buildings with the colossus
    3) Shoot the Explosives around the center

    4) Disable all 4 shields of the Drones
    5) Kill levelboss within 3 minutes
    6) Kill 10 Goliaths


    How to do the objectives
    1) Keep 2 Nightingales at the colussus at all times and use the Pelican Leader ability to move the Colussus to it's locations. I thought the Invincible Mech ability was a waste so I didn't use it
    2) Stomping buildings is easy. In the Northwest there are a lot of tiny decorative buildings that have no function. You can easily destroy 2 or more per stomp
    3) Use a pack of hornets. Or do it after you stomped the 4 'switches' and before hitting the terminal
    4) This can be tricky but just use your ODST Hero. No need to kill the drones, just take over the terminals.
    5) Use 22-25 hornets and shoot the Goliaths exclusively. He will teleport around the middle. Just use your minimap or save beforehand
    6) EDIT:
    3 Goliaths - there is 1 at each Node except the first Node.
    2 at the Cloaked base and
    2 more spawned at the Cloaked Base
    2 More at the base in the North (compas North)
    2 more Attacked Player base. Don't know their spawn
    6 at boss - 2x3
    Making the total of 16 goliaths.

    Overall strategy guide for Gold and most of the objectives
    The name the No Fly Zone refers to the Ship you're dissabling. Ironically going full Hornets (with a couple Nightingales) is the way to go. As soon as you can build a base, get the one in the south. It's better protected. There is also a mini base closeby further down the south. Take that down fast (Goliath will help, but manage him well). This prevents many attacks at your main base.
    Build 2 turrets and make them anti vehicle as soon as you have spare power.

    You will need infantry to take down the powernodes of the shields but the ODST Hero is well equiped to do this. Even on Legendary. Especially if you accompany him with some nightingales.
    To get Gold I use the Nightmare skull. This means you have to do it in one sitting. The level, not the objectives.

    As you can read I use Hornets. They are fast and when they are with many even Reavers don't stand a chance. Goliaths can't even attack them I think and even if they can they are really weak.

    Build many Hornets and start with going for more power than resources to get the Tech Level 3 fast and do the upgrades. Especially Faster Training will help a lot.

    As soon as you have at least 20 Hornets and at least level 2 Air planes you will be fine. Make sure to get 5 Nightingales so the Hornets are even better lasting.

    Leader powers:
    Use full Heal
    use Full Carpet Bomb
    Use Pelican
    ODST Optional but recommended (if you need infantry for pressing buttons)

    DON'T Use Mech Invincibility or Better LOS. They are a waste.

    Good luck. Please leave a comment if you think my guide can do better. I JUST completed this DLC and it's very late here (or should I say early...)

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    Roose91Bullshit achievement.
    Posted by Roose91 on 26 Mar 22 at 18:39
    Dr MartyWell... FYI 54min and even 50min is way too slow. Barely got silver with that time. roll

    Update: Did this mission another time, this time with Nightmare activated and blasted through it in 42min.... didn't even need the skull. had 320k points

    P.S.: I didn't waste my time killing the drones. I just deactivated their shields and left them be. Only the one in the north got killed, because it was in my way. This helped me preserve my units and finish faster.
    Posted by Dr Marty on 12 Aug 22 at 01:39
    EarthboundXUgh......just did this, and it turns out I accidentally had skulls turned on the entire time so I ended up with a score of 13K....It felt BS even with all the beneficial skulls turned on. Wave after huge wave of enemies attacking your bases the whole time.

    OK, I'm really confused, doing a second run and it's way easier. Does the 50% extra health skull give it to the enemy as well? Cause they seem to have way less health this time. I'm not getting massively swarmed this time either, do all the beneficial skulls also apply to the enemy? I know the skull effects can glitch, based on what I've seen with After Party, is that what happened?

    Yeah, just finished and that was pretty easy actually, almost 300K score. All I can assume is that the skull effects did indeed glitch and were applied to the enemy as well. They were literally sending sometimes what felt like 15-25 man groups against my base/s every 5-10 minutes. So they must have had the effects of the extra supplies and faster training, and they most definitely had way more health. Nothing even close to that happened on my second no skull run. This game is pretty buggy overall, I don't recall a single major bug from the first Halo Wars at all.
    Posted by EarthboundX on 18 Mar at 02:26
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