Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars: GDI Strategy Guide
General strategies and tips to command GDI army offensively and defensively, strategies and tips to use your unit effectively and Strategies and tips to deal with another GDI, the Nod and the Scrin.
In this article I will try to explain strategies an tips about how to play with the GDI. At the first section I will explain to you how o construct and expand your base and how to use GDI army effectively. At the later section I will explain some tips to deal with another GDI, the Nod and the Scrin.
GDI General Strategies
In this section I will explain to you the general strategies and tips to play with the GDI. First is the very start of the game. At the beginning of the game try to build in this composition:
- 2 refineries. Place your refineries at tiberium depot inside your base.
- 2 power plants
- barracks. Start to build your infantry.
- crane
- surveyor. Send this surveyor to nearest tiberium depot that is not in your base.
Start to expand your base as soon as possible. Start making a lot of infantry and turrets. Do not forget to garrison your infantry in order to maximize their effectiveness. If you use this strategy, you will get a strong start to kick off the rest of the game.
To build your defensive army group use 4-6 Predators and 2-4 APCs with missile squads or zone troopers inside. Both vehicles appear to travel at the same speed, so one group wont get there and get all shot up before the other guns get there. Upgrade the Predators with rail guns as soon as possible. Mammoths are your best defense once you can get around to building them.
To create a good defensive position with the GDI, deploy one rig and two Mammoths. Set both of your mammoths to the hold ground defensive stance, to keep them right next to the rig. Once in a while go and use the repair button on the rig, but usually those 2 mammoths have taken out every wave the enemy throws at it.
At late game, the enemy usually will a lot of air attack. Build a lot of AA gun behind you in order to prevent enemy’s air attack.
To build your offensive army group use about 10-15 Mammoths, try to combine them firehawk strikes on critical structures such as super weapons or construction yards. Use the firehawk’s stratofighter ability to knock out construction yards, with stratofighter you can appear right next to their construction yard.
Orcas are another great supporting unit for mammoths. You can use them to take out beam tanks for example. Orcas are also able to detect stealth units, so they can find cloaked avatars, stealth tanks, anything that might threaten your mammoths.
Use your zone trooper drop pods power on the back of the enemy base before an attack. You may be able to knock out enough power plants to put them below their required power. If you can attack your enemy when they have lack of power supply, you can kill their base defenses with little resistance.
Keep your infantry out of Tiberium. Because being in tiberium will steadily damages most of your infantry units.
How to deal with another GDI
In this section I will explain how to deal with another GDI. Have similar units with your opponents will become your main problem. Learn your unit ability carefully and try to find a way to encounter them. For example encounter enemy’s infantry with your snipers, and enemy’s snipers with your vehicles, destroy enemy’s vehicles with your missile squads etc.
Try to build your tech level faster than your opponents. Because both you and your opponents have exactly the same units, you need to use something they can’t match. By building your tech level faster you will be able to use your advanced vehicles to attack them, before they use those same vehicles against you.
Set up a lot of AA inside of your base to prevent your opponent of using fire hawks.
Beware of their sonic cannons especially when you use your mammoths near enemy bases. Sonic cannons will blow your mammoths. If you group them up, you may even lose several of them in just a few shots.
How to deal with the Nod
In this section I will explain how to deal with the Nod. A good Nod player usually will use Fanatics extensively against you for anti-vehicle and anti- building purposes. To encounter their fanatics, make some extra snipers and scatter them around your base, and also send them with your attack forces. You will need them to kill fanatics.
Beware of the Nod’s stealth towers. Approach their stealth towers cautiously and try bombard it in advance. Usually the enemy has placed a lot of turrets under the stealth field. They will destroy you if you approach them incautiously.
The Nod is the master of diversions. A stealth tower may just be a diversion to make you advance more cautiously, and miss other opportunities while you concentrate.
Each Nod AA tower can fire three missiles, and each one they buy comes in a set of three turrets. Don’t use air attack if the enemy has a lot of AA towers, unless you are ready to lost a lot of your air unit.
How to deal with the Scrin
In this section I will explain how to deal with the Scrin. The Scrin have absolute domination in air power. So do not try to control the air.To support you Anti Air defense, put some firehawks in Anti Airmode around. These firehawk will deal with anything that your AA defense can’t handle.
Build as many bunkers as you can. Put with missile squads, AA turrets, pitbulls, etc, inside of them. Without effective air power, you can force the Scrin to fight you on the ground, where your units are far more resilient.
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How do I build turrets, tiberium silos? I am not sure of all the pre-requitsites. Is there a way for me to obtain a list of all the sturctures and the pre-requisites.
Turrets, or sams, are in your defensive structures tab. The prereq. is the commandpost.
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The Scrin are waaay to powerful. They keep whoopin my in the skirmishes.
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the strat agains the scrin wont be enough im afraid. problem is that if scrin wants to go do an all out air attack then you can build what you like but they WILL overpower you.
if scrin takes/gets the time to build an air army, all hope is lost.
what i need against scrin is a good attack plan. as far as i noticed (im not playing that long but i have a good eye for strategies) you need to finish the scrin off as early in the game as possible.
in end game theres no stopping them
I still dont know how to do the rail upgrade thing. please help
TD, you can use stryker against air attack of the scrin…
scrin is not that powerful to me.. all i have to do is make a good def.. lots of pitbull, APC w/ zone trooper and lots of stryker..
i scared at nod… >.< their fanatics.. flamet thrower is to high defence… T_T
To kill the nod fanatics and theirs flame tanks build venoms and send about 4 at every entrance. upgrade them with the laser ability at them tech lab. they detect stealth, so they can find the flame tanks if they are cloaked, and with their laser upgrade theyll take them out easily. their guns will destroy fanatics without problem. hope this helps Blue
With Nod its easy just get a high tech then start setting up a whle bunch of obleisks of light for defense.They detect stealth and shoot out laser.
I have a great startegy for every army. The first one will we for siege matches and then for versus.
Siege: Scrin
Map: Beatdown
This is my favorite one. First build a base that consist of every building structure. Make sure to have 4 refinery buildings with 8 extractors. Growth acceloraters are very important. When you have all of the buildings complete make sure to have the following:
10 Planetary assualt carriers with shields
10 tripods with shields
20 stormriders
Build about 10 storm columns and 30 aa batteries.
Also make sure to have a drone ship.
When the game starts send your stormriders to blow up the bridges and your drone ship to the far back left of the enemy base. Make sure they can’t see it.
While deploying it put your tripods in aline and put the planetaries above it in storm mode. This will prevent any air attack. Have the storm riders behind that in aggressive. You now have the ultimate defense.
Build two air buildings and start pumping out as many devastators as you can behind the enem base. Make sure to have them on hold fire mode!!! Once you have max command points tell your tripods to swarm the enemy base on agressive stance. They will destroy almost everything unless a lot of air. Once your tripods hit the base send your planetaries in. It will take a while. Send your storm riders in and tell them to hit the enemy power and put them on aggresive. Next, select your entire devastator air army and put them on aggressive. Send the right over the enemy base and you will crush the enemy unless they built defense the entire time.
No one can defend against tripods, devastators, planetaries, and stormriders.
Scrin: Verses:
Once the game starts build a crane. Once completed plant it down and tell your drone ship to go to the enemy base. Quickly build a power plant. Plant it down and then build a portal. Once your drone ship finds the enemy camp plant in near the enemy base. Unpack it and put your portal riht next to it. First pump out both infrantry units and keep building portals. Send them to destroy the enemy baracks. Next build some engineers and start taking over key buildings like the construction yards or the enemies cranes. Make sure you have mass inra building. Once your opponent is dead start building refineries and and tank depots. Tell you ally to attack the enemy from the front while you hit him from the side. This will kill your opponent unless he is a god.
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dont meen to be a critic… but…. i dont think that would work…. when you are usin gdi… you should use the blitzkrieg tactic of ww2.. using firehawks to take out specific buildings namely their construction yard and war factory if your battling nod… if the nod army has already put up air defenses.. their stealth tanks and fanatics would be most likely be at your doorstep by then..so what you need to do is put up watch towers and sonic emitters in advance to build up to 4 airfields use 8 fire hawks to take out the construction yard and immidiately use the 4 to take out the construction yard and use the remaining 4 just in case the task isnt done … and using the artillery will help… if air is extremely tight atack using land based forces … use 4 apc’s with zone troopers 6 apc’s with missle squads.. 2 juggernauts and 3 mammoth tanks… use artillery and super weapon to take out defenses…. but the super weapon isnt realy required then just take them out from the side
sorry… wrong … what i meant was use the 8 to take out the construction yard then use 4 to take out their war factory
i have had this game since it first came out…i have acumilated strategies and tactics that will blow your mind.heres some names of the examples that ive created……the beehive…..the hornets nest…..wounded wolf…..the old man strategy……and yes i know that last one sounds funny…..if that strategie was used against you,you could try to laugh with no money,refineries,construction yards or foundry. as i said dangerous strategies…. to learn these send a message to this e-mail die494906@tmail.com
does anybody know how to build walls around our bases
plz help me ??
Sam C, you can’t.
I’m an expert scrin user, man. the thing is you really can’t fully eliminate a scrin air army. I mean my army always consists of the ff:
-30 Devastator warships
-20 PAC’s
-20 Storm Riders
the secret is, we rely on our numbers more than our power. The little buggers that fly out of the PAC’s are too many to be brought down by base defenses. Furthermore, devastator warships clearly outrange every manmade anti-air defense in the NOD and GDI arsenal, so if I were to plan a full scale attack on a base, I know that i’ll succeed.
But one thing does destroy this army, In the GDI the strato fighters of the firehawks must attack the gravity stabilizer of the scrin base early in the game to cripple the Armada. If, however, the stabilizer is place behind defensive turrets, just attack the signal transmitters or the tech assembler, to lessen their use of superior air units. After crippling that, just focus on the defenses then you’re in the clear
A basic early game strategie for GDI is engineer/APC spam. I wouldn’t put any units with weapons in there. my main counter to scrin air spam is just take them by suprise, i just build lots of predators/zone troopers/mammoths. the scrin are starting to think i lack aa and that is most of the time when they lose by me. against fanatics a few mammoths with railguns paired up would be fine to counter those and flame tanks lack armor so use that as your advandtage. I use sometimes Nod tactics for GDI, they won’t expect it that is a good trick. If you need more info or need help mastering it just send me a mail to rick_zuurhout12@live.nl
sucks u cant build walls!!i miss the gdi and nod walls and gates from c&c:tib sun
what the fractions our best at
nod: stealth, grassion bulidings, intellange & defense best at beating gdi
gdi:ground asualts destroying srtuctes decting stealth & depolying backup from support powers best at beating scrin
scrin:air asualts, harvesting tiberm,fast at troops & caputreing structes best at beating nod
i think nod is best
a vehcily called the surveyour? (i cant spell it) where do i build it from?
There’s quite an easy strategy to counter Scrin air supremacy and that’s Pitbulls! I agree, they get owned by almost anything, but they cost only 800. The mortar upgrade makes them rip through squads of scrin anti tank infantry and they are so freaking fast that they can effectively retreat when attacked by PAC’s. Use them in vast numbers to protect your main attack force (Mammoths). You can wipe out any airgroup that has been built up with an equal ammount of credits. Let the Mammoths take the beating, and the pitbulls do the stinging.
how do i build base defense structures…..help
Is the ground forces in gdi the strongest?
But i can tell u that if gdi want to win they should make a combination of vehicle. This are one of my strategy by using a attacking force to their base by using:
-20 mammoth tank
-10 predator tank
-10 firehawks
-5 apc loaded with rockets squad
-5 orca
-1 commando
With this Scrin would be having a tough time to attack your units. This would already be a superpower, because if scrin uses their air power, the firehawks are ready to defend your unit not only that mammoth tank also can shoot missile together with your apc. this will then neutralize the air attack. You do not need to worry about ground attack because with mammoth tank and predator tank(upgraded with railgun) would actually trash the tripods and other tanks etc.
In fack many people will told you,that scrin air power is very strong.Yes it is,but i have always taked it down by missile squads,AAA and some firehawks 8.If you are playing as a scrin against srin,wait for his attack and once his anti aircraft units are down,destroy all his army with stormrides…then it is easily to destory the remaining forces and take control of the air;)…by NOD…there is good alternative against air attack in stealth tanks,but only against planetary assault ships and stormriders….and of course missile squads:)
I mainly play as G.D.I
…have breakdown many engages by missile squads and predators:)
% please notice that if you want to win many rafineries is a good investition to your money (Nod,Scrin,GDI)