Halo Wars Mission 6 Dome of Light

This is Part 7 of our complete Halo Wars Walkthrough, featuring Halo Wars Mission 6 Dome of Light.

Mission 6: Dome of Light
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1. Watch the cutscene. A horde of covenant troops come out of the big energy shield.
2. Black Box Location: Directly next to the third rhino position.
3. Fight the incoming covenant troops. You start with Forge, three spartans, and a few marines. You'll easily defend the base without any casualties.
4. To the East of your base is a landing pad. Select it and the command circle comes up. Request a Rhino.
5. New Unit: Rhino
6. The rhino is a long range tank. It's a special unit that you can't build normally. Keep in mind that you can only have 1 rhino at a time.
7. At your base, build 2 supply pads. You'll need a good income.
8. Move your army North. To complete the next objective, your rhino needs to enter First Position. The area is marked on the minimap and appears as a big gray circle when you find it. It's just North of your base, you can't miss it.
9. When the rhino tank reaches the marked position, you lose control of it completely. Now you need to get another rhino and escort it to position #2. This mission is based around escorting rhinos to various places.
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1. Hold off on completing the next objective for now. Instead establish your base and build an army.
2. Build a reactor and another supply pad back at your base. Make sure you upgrade all of your supply pads into heavy supply pads.
3. Soon you'll encounter your first enemy banshee. This starts an optional objective that leads this mission's skull.
4. Optional Objective: Kill 50 Banshees
5. Build turrets around your base. You'll constantly be under attack and this greatly helps your defense.
6. TIP: Don't forget to pick up the supply crates around your base. This is a good way to boost your income early in the mission.
7. Upgrade your main base into a fortress. Soon you'll be needing those extra building spots.
8. When you get 500 supplies, build another reactor.
9. Once your second reactor is complete, build yourself a vehicle depot. You can't make air units in this mission, so this is the highest tech level that's reachable.
10. TIP: Covenant troops continually attack your base. This includes attacks from banshees. Don't forget that you need to kill 50 banshees to get the skull. So just wait for more banshees to come if you don't have enough.
11. Build a scorpion at your base. These tanks will be your main offense in this mission.
12. You should have 1 building spot left in your base. Go ahead and make a supply pad there. There is another base later that you can take over if you want an armory or barracks, but for now it's best to have the maximum potential income.
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1. Train 2 more scorpion tanks. You should now have 3 total.
2. Wait until you have 1200 supplies and then upgrade one of your reactors. With 3 power you can now upgrade your scorpions.
3. Select the vehicle depot and research the canister shell ability for you tanks.
4. TIP: The rhinos that aren't under your control anymore can still die. They will call for help if their health gets low. If this happens, press D-Pad Up and select heal. Then place the healing circle over the damaged rhino.
5. Once canister shell has been researched, train 1 more scorpion. Now it's time to be offensive.
6. Don't forget the rhino! Make sure you click on the landing pad and request a second rhino tank before you attack. You'll be placing the rhino right at the covenant base your about to siege.
7. Travel North-West to find the covenant base.
8. First use your canister shells to destroy the two towers. Then concentrate on the regular units.
9. This battle can be tough. You may lose a tank and possibly your spartans.
10. TIP: Your spartans count as hero units. If they die, they'll simply be put into Down status. Keep a friendly unit near them for a little while and they'll recover.
11. Once you've taken out the towers and surrounding units, use your canister shells to destroy the covenant buildings.
12. You need to clear out everything in this area. Once that's complete, the rhino can take up it's position. Like the first rhino, you'll lose control as it prepares to fire at the energy shield.
13. SECRET: You should be nearing 50 killed banshees. Once you've killed the 50th one, the Sickness Skull appears in the bunker just South-East of your base. You'll need to turn the camera with the Right-Stick to see it. Have any unit go pick it up.
14. Continue training scorpions. You're already close to maxing out your population, so just build as many as you can.
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1. Now you need to get a rhino into the third position. Immediately you'll notice that you can't reach the area normally. It's time to call in some pelicans.
2. Press D-Pad Up to call up your commander powers. On the left of the command circle is an option to call in Pelicans. These transport planes can carry your army over the gap to reach the third rhino position.
3. That's all of the rhino positions. However, if one of your rhinos got destroyed after you lost control then you'll need to replace it.
4. There is a cutscene once you have all 3 rhinos in place. Some locusts attack your base from the East.
5. Bring your whole army to the East side of your base. Locusts can attack from very long range, so be quick.
6. Your tanks should easily be able to destroy both lucusts without any casualties.
7. TIP: Alternatively, you can just take your spartans and have them hijack the locusts. This is a good strategy, since it nets you two long-range fighters for free.
8. The mission isn't done yet. It seems you'll need 2 more rhinos in order to blast a big enough hole in the energy shield.
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1. Request another rhino and then take your army East past where you fought the two locusts.
2. Here you'll find the 4th rhino position. There isn't much defense here, so just blast the two buildings and set up your rhino.
3. The covenant now start assaulting your home base. Send your army back. You'll need them to escort the 5th rhino to its position. Otherwise it will be easily killed by the attacking covenant.
4. Train your 5th and final rhino. Have your army escort it directly East past the 4th rhino position.
5. TIP: Don't forget to check your previously escorted rhinos. Make sure to heal them if they take any damage.
6. Here you'll find the last rhino spot. Really, this base is a push over. Your spartans and scorpions will tear it to shreds.
7. Once the covenant base is gone, place the final rhino in position.
8. A cutscene plays once you have all 5 rhinos in place.
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1. SECRET: If you didn't let any of your rhinos die, then you'll unlock Achievement: Rhino Hugger.
2. This next part is fun. You have access to a new commander power, Mac Blast. Mac blasts fire a huge devastating ray down your enemies. Aim carefully and then fire it with A.
3. The game takes you automatically into mac blast aiming mode.
4. In normal gameplay, you only get 1 mac blast and it costs a lot of supplies. But here you have 40 mac blasts here and they're free. So go crazy.
5. The mission is complete once you've completely destroyed the covenant base with mac blasts.
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