Victory in the Hudson Guide

Exercise in the Hudson is an incredibly difficult Domination mission you get well after you open the last of the Landmark buildings in Battle of the Philippines. All enemy generals have purple rank and thus lots of HP. You are allowed to choose only naval and infantry units, and you have 25 turns to complete the exercise. You can use up to 12 generals. I highly suggest you have two top caliber infantry generals, Yamamoto and three other top naval commanders before attempting this mission. Here is the opening layout:




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You begin in the upper right. The key to this exercise is carriers. As the U.S. you can use up to 3 supercarriers and up to 4 regular carriers. I suggest using all of them. Deploy all eight of your cruisers in four stacked units. Use remaining spots for triple stacked subs. There should be room for three submarine stacks. Use three quadruple stacked mechanized infantry and one quad stacked mobile infantry. Put your best four infantry generals in those units. You can use tank or artillery generals with off skill in infantry for the other two spots. Put Yamamoto in a supercarrier, your second best air general in a regular carrier. Three naval commanders should go into stacked cruisers. Put remaining generals in carriers if they have air skill or naval units for both the enhanced HP and any other naval skill they might possess. You might leave one general slot unused for now.


Your first priority is to clear the coastal artillery, subs and cruiser from the shore of the land mass to your immediate south. Your goal is to take the city MacArthur occupies at the start. However you MUST thin out defenses with your carriers and Navy first. Use supercarriers to take out coastal artillery, regular carriers on subs and destroyers. Enemy cruisers have missile defense and loads of HP, so don’t bother hitting them from the air. Cruisers should prioritize coastal artillery first and naval units second. Enemies will not come out to confront you until you get close, so do not make any move toward the western part of the map at first. It will take several turns to elongate the units from the coast. As you begin to do so, have your supercarriers and regular carriers take out coastal artillery and rocket artillery on the island to the west Cruisers and supercarriers should continue to attack coastal artillery prioritizing those your Navy will come into range against earliest as it works it’s way to the west and then the south. Regular carriers need to whittle down Halsey in his sub. Leave at least one cruiser on the north shore to take out the bunker you can reach from the spot where the enemy cruiser starts out. You can also whittle down enemy ground units close to the shore. Try to thin them out as much as possible before landing your infantry. Aso use supercarriers to destroy enemy fortifications on MacArthur’s city.

The infantry will only be used to secure and defend the city where MacArthur starts. Land them on the beach to the far bottom right. You can also land one on the coast directly north of the city. Try to avoid getting boxed in by enemies on the shore. Keep units together to limit enemy flanking maneuvers. Carriers can be used to help clear enemy land units as you make your way to the city. Once you have taken the city, pull remaining units into a defense line right at the city. Shift units in and out of the city as they will take air attack damage. Consider bulking up your air defense and building a field hospital in the city. Alternately, you could spend some resources on an additional infantry unit and use your last general slot on it to act as a neat shield for enemy air attacks. Your Navy should have worked its way into the harbor by now. Do not waste any time with Patton and his units on that western land mass. Work your way to the south, clearing out and taking the port where Fletcher starts. Your naval generals should all have Rumor. This will help as they are attacked and land retaliation hits. You should be able to stun lock Fletcher and Nimitz along with some of the land units near the harbor. Once the enemy Navy is mostly cleared (don’t bother with Eisenhower), take the mine damage with a couple of your naval generals in cruisers to start bombarding Hap Arnold. Supercarriers simulataneously need to take out fortifications in the city where Patton began (he should have moved out and left a weaker unit in the city). Once you take the first city, build a nuke.

Use the nuke on Arnold and continue pounding him with supercarriers and cruisers. Save up your resources. You are going to need two paratrooper drops. They need to be executed in the same turn. Your goal is to kill Arnold and the unit left defending the city to the northwest on the same turn and then drop paratroopers to end the exercise. You won’t be able to defend those cities from the masses units, so don’t bother trying. Don’t use those drops until they can end the game.

This is a very difficult mission, so do not be discouraged if it takes you several tries. If the battle turns against you, do a hard reset to avoid having to replace all those units you might otherwise lose from your legion.




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