Xbox 360 - C&C Red Alert 3 - A Monument to Madness Achievement Guide

Site	Xbox 360
Game	C&C Red Alert 3
Achievement	A Monument to Madness
Description	You thwarted President Ackerman's insane plan to annihilate the Soviet Union
Value	20 Points

This guide will tell you how to beat Mt. Rushmore on hard, earning you this achievement. On a personal note, I don’t think the United States would actually do something like this. Right?


How To:

1. Send Tanya just a bit below the power plant base. Take out all the guard dogs.
2. Move her around the parking lot to avoid being shot at by the turret. Get Tanya in the power plant.
3. After the power plant is disabled, the turret will no longer be a threat. Take out surrounding infantry and blow up the turret.
4. Get your co-commander to capture the barracks.
5. Head for the second base. Take out all the dogs guarding the facility.
6. Have Tanya blow up the tank. Use her Timebelt if necessary to heal her.
7. Blow up the communications tower.
8. Establish your base with power plants and ore refineries.
9. Use the captured barracks to train nine javelin soldiers and four engineers. When they’re finished training, send them down to your base. Sell the barracks.
10. Capture the oil derrick a bit east of your starting point with an engineer.
11. Start building multigunner turrets around the northern perimeter of your base. Repair, build more, and send javelin soldiers when necessary.
12. After you’re done building your refineries, start unlocking clearance.
13. Once you’ve been authorized max clearence, build an airbase.
14. Start building four Century Bombers.
15. Build a Defense Bureau.
16. When you’re allowed to start building Spectrum Towers, make sure you have your Defense Bureau, stop building multigunner turrets and start deploying Spectrum Towers besides your already established turrets. Repair and build more if necessary.
17. Have one engineers board a Century Bomber while it is in your airbase.
18. Use your Century Bombers to bomb the turrets in the middle southern part of the map.
19. Send the Century Bomber to the Jefferson Head Control Center (can be seen at pause menu). Paradrop your engineer there and give your bomber the order to return.
20. Use an engineer to capture the Jefferson Head Control Center.
21. When this bonus objective becomes available, have another engineer enter a Century Bomber. Send the plane to the Lincoln Head Control Center.
22. Paradrop him there, and capture the control center. Send your bomber home.
23. When the Washington Head comes online, have your last engineer enter a bomber.
24. Have the bomber keep as left on the screen as possible to avoid the turrets. Have it fly to the top-left corner and paradrop the engineer there. Use the same route for your bomber to return safely.
25. Capture the Washington Head Control Center.
26. Build about five more airbases. Spam Century Bombers.
27. When you have a good twenty-four bombers, make sure you've purchased the Advanced Aerodynamics upgrade. Send them all on a bombing run on the Rushmore Firebase.
28. Send your javelin soldiers to the little airbase in the bottom-middle of the map. The president will teleport there. Just finish him off and the mission is complete.

Tips:

• Make sure you buy the Advanced Aerodynamics. It’ll help with everything. All other upgrades are not necessary.
• Remember to build power plants to keep your energy levels in a manageable level.
• Always be making sure your base defenses are sufficient to defend against ground attacks and Vindicator bombs.
• Should you have a surplus of cash (which you probably should), build airbases early and Century Bombers. Although this guide is meant to be able to complete before President Ackerman reaches the firebase, it’s always nice to have a few minutes to spare in case something doesn't go right.

Warnings:

• Do not attack the President’s limo before you are given the order to. Doing so will result in defeat.
• Don’t try to freeze the President’s limo with Cryocopters. They’ll be quickly shot down by enemy Apollo Fighters. Defending your Cryocopters with your own fighters can prove disastrous, as falling aircraft can crash into the frozen limo, destroying it. Again, destroying the limo before you are told to will make you fail the mission.