Total Annihilation: Krogoth Encounter Mission Intro and Ending (The Core Contingency)
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- The briefing narration, victory screen, ending narration and music for the special ARM bonus mission, Krogoth Encounter, in RTS classic Total Annihilation's expansion pack, The Core Contingency.
"This mission is for experienced Commanders. You will find CORE to be without mercy...
Playing Hard is the only option." 
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One of my favorite things from Total Annihilation was the Narrator's voice. I could listen to that guy read a dictionary out loud all day. Well, maybe not a dictionary. Ender's Game more likely.
the voice of the tf2 sniper
I really thought it was james earl jones when I was a boy
I played this game with every commander being prime
The narrator reminds me of Freespace 1 and 2
Peace through superior Peewee power.
Had to build a base on the ledge to the left, built one Kbot factory to pump out lots of Jethros (until my Hawks were up) + 2 energy storage + moho extractor + fusion plant + multiple Annihilators. Then I built 3 advanced airfields and pumped out hundreds of Hawks circling my base - that made my base invulnerable. Then, I cloaked my commander and sent him walking toward the main island, D-guned the anti-missile launcher and then had him WALK round the map spotting for the Kroggies
Cool.
I managed to survive down the ledge by building dragons tooth on the right to stop side attacks, so they could only attack in the front where a big army and some annihilators were waiting; but built aircraft factories on the ledge to save space down and did like 10 big berthas to fire against incoming krogoths and like 5 annihilators and 5 guardians. I did many spiders along with bulldogs to fight krogoths early game I even captured some krogoths because they were paralyzed. I also did a ton of defenders against their heavy aircraft assaults and 2 nukes. Finally, when most of their base was down I sent a captured Krogoth to destroy the rest and I found their remaining enemy Krogoth so it was Krogoth vs Krogoth final fight, mine won with like 20 aircraft constructers repairing my Krogoth while he fought :D
Surround Kroggies with Spiders and capture them. However, even if you try to use three or four of them at once you still won't be able to take down the main island. They work well was walking defensive element for the troops, though.
If only more people new about this game. I would use your phrase in everyday life. Peewees >
Took out a couple of awards too
took me 5 hours! nice feeling indeed
@bartelgrant
Nah, the Arm were terrorist humans who cloned people. The Core were cyborgs who merged their top thinkers into a collective, and then forced people to become robots and cyborgs.
It's the other way around lol. Arm are cyborgs, Core are pure machines.
@@HeavenlyWarrior What? Are you saying that ARM is technically the Cybran from the Total Annihilation? (Cybrans are cyborgs from Supreme Commander series, the spiritual succesor of Total Annihilation).
@@rodrigopachaurivillafuerte9211 I don't know Supreme Commander and I really hated the game.
yup. more people sided with the arm because they had cooler unit designs and they seemed more "moral" than the core (cloning is moral, I guess). so cavedog decided to make them the "Protagonists" I guess.
Arm is human, battle robots and cyborgs.
Core is a hive of uploaded minds. Everything completely robotical.
Core briefings also usually sounded more authoritarian, always ending in "DO SO NOW"
"In an engagement which would be studied by historians and military experts for generations..."
doesn't this imply that ARM managed to somehow bring back humanity? or at the very least some sentient life-form?
Arm never cessed to be composed of humans. It used cloning to make pilots for their units. In my opinion, not much better than forcibly transferring human consciousness into machines. I think we just don't see "blood" on their k-bots because they are "meant to be" much bigger than an average human being...
i though arm still had humanity and they just kept waring against a faction that downloaded their brains into machines to become immortal and since they could jsut make new bodies they kept at it but arm still had humans and jsut used computer controlled ai so they wouldnt have to be on the actual battle field
@@coolchrisable I was under the impression that humans went extinct and both sides became entirely robotic
@@carteradams43 lore wise that wouldnt make sense since arm was against downloading their brains into robots
@Carter Adams the ARM is human, there's a Campaign mission in the original ARM campaign that says the CORE captured ARM pilots and are torturing them by turning off their pain negation in their K-BOTs. I assume the ARM uses human clones, the CORE is fully robotic and AI.
(Almost) The Greatest Story Never Told, this mission seems to be. Reminds me of StarCraft's "Loomings/Precursor" Terran demo prologue campaign, Tiberian Dawn's Nod dinosaur levels and Red Alert's Ants! missions.
You know why this mission is hard? Its because you are handicapped. You cannot build the tier2 AA gun (Flakker). You just can't.
Korgoths die easily to D-Gun, you just have to intercept them with fodder of light units and your commander.
Enemy air squadrons, however, cannot be stopped. You are guaranteed to loose your fusion plant and half a base in the air raid just after the first korgoth attack. I had a gazzilion of tier1 AA units and towers. Still undoable.
Its not hard, just cheap.
The only way to beat this mission is to slowly spread east, building anti-air along the way and D-Gun any Krogoths from a distance. Then, scout the map to find the Krogoth facility and nuke it to a crater.
dsargent724 I used the stun spiders to stun the krogoth, then got the commander to 'capture' it. I'd use that krogoth to defend my base and stun and capture more that arrived. then when it came time that they were running out of krogoths to send to me, id use resurrection kbots to steal by their technology and nass produce krogoths and win the campaign
@@bonfirehazemusicanime didn’t have resurrection kbots back in the day used your strategy but try find and hacks a adv building kbot and make my own gantry. Plus nuke ‘em!
I did nothing like that and I won. The only very hard part is early, you just need a lot of defenders and many spiders, some big army and 1 annihilator at least to start take down krogoths.
@@bonfirehazemusicanime Ressurection kbots? Arm has no such thing, only Core, unless you captured a core constructor, even so most likely that unit wasn't available for construction. Those units only work in skirmish.
Took me literally thousands of hawks to beat this map lol.
Stupid unit death explosions took out most my jets -.-
FLESH IS WEAK ! CORE ALL THE WAY !!!!
Arm is also robotic lol
@@HeavenlyWarrior on the CORE mission briefings, they state they Arm still uses organic components.
ARM is cyborg mankind, with clones and such. That is why the game bends a little to make them the "good guys"
@@arthurbarros5189 Yes but robotic notheless. Arm is not pure robotic, core is.
Peewee's are much stronger than AK's! Damn you Arm! Long live the Core!
flash are way better
Skillful? Tactical? Not sure about that. Just a couple hundred Jethro's, 6 airports worth of Brawlers and Hawks, 3 nuke silos firing upwards of 30 missiles each, and several hours. Honestly if you manage to stabilize past the first hour, you're pretty much set, it's just down to assaulting the island, which is basically impossible without nukes.
How do you deal with the anti-nuke array they have? Just stock up a dozen missiles and keep firing until they run out of counter-nukes.
Finally beat this mission after having this game for years. Honestly it was kind of dull, just because of how huge the map was.
Just build many planes and destroy the anti-nuker along with most of their base around the island.
So, is this mission part of the ARM Campaign in the main game or the Core Contingency? It says that it happens in the Core Contingency, but it seems like this would happen towards the end of the main game. So, which is it?
This was a bonus mission included with the Core Contingency Expansion. Setting wise, it took place just before the last ARM missions of the original game.
According to the story and the units you could build is part of the main campaign as an extra mission. Although the Krogoths appear in the final mission of the Core contingency campaign.
@@HeavenlyWarrior Gotcha, and thanks.
So the arm won?
Depends on what you mean by winning
Perhaps? There are many possible scenarios for both sides.
@lovlymoney You need the Core Contingency expansion.
Give him a nanolathe
They won the game, but the expansion pack has no confirmed ending (I think?) so Core could have wiped out Arm if they won in the expansion pack I guess. I like to think of it as a never ending war *shrug*.
The Core Contingency Expansion Pack already stated the Arm Ending confirmed as canon.
Who calls the Dragon Knight!?
Oversized Experimental Wardroid.
Core = Soviet Russia
Arm = NATO
and if the cold war became an actual "war"
Carter Adams a war so brutal the entire galaxies resources were exhausted and quadrillions of people died.
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor -All because someone thought The Matrix (pre-Matrix) was a good idea. I remember playing this in undergrad and grappling with poli sci reading lists. Good times.
It's the other way around actually. NATO wants to transform humans in machines, Russia not really.
@@HeavenlyWarrior I wasn't talking about Russia. I was talking about the SSSR
arm is the man orrr robot :P ARM is gangz as
No.
its silly krogoths cant just step on units, so you can spam flashes n they just stand there
Except krogoths destroy flashes like mosquitos so for that tactic to work you would need like 200 flashs and probably wouldn't be enough.
@@HeavenlyWarrior the time it takes to build a krogoth you can have enough to spam it to death or at least tie it up with their terrible pathing ai for heavier shit to shoot it
@@andrzejwysocki609 For that mission I don't know because there's several krogoths coming in somewhat short intervals.