For a follow up mission we went with kill them all, which sees you drop into a small area to kill as many of the enemy as you can. This mission is stupidly easy against the bugs, and stupidly hard against the robots. We died before we could deploy our gear, died as soon as we stepped off the reinforcement pod, died over and over again. Did I mention we died a lot. Myles always the overachiever died 8 times. But we prevailed, in the dark, mud and blood. As you come back from your mission, bloodied and battered you have to wonder where all the blood on your armor comes from (as robots don't bleed). As Myles and Craig were still not level 8 (where the good shopping starts) we decided it was time to Nuke them from orbit (its the only way to be sure). They didn't mention in basic training that nuking from orbit requires dropping onto the planet to recover the launch codes, find the nuclear warhead, punch in the codes, raise the rocket (what there are override locks to deactivate), select a target, fuel the damn rocket, and then fire the rocket and run for cover (all whilst the robots who have an aversion to being nuked send wave after wave at you). At last the missile reached orbit, dropped and in very satisfactory fashion blew the buggers to hell and back whilst we ran for the dust-off.
That was so much fun we decided to do a double nuke mission. This time in the daylight. We found a SAM site and brought it online, just the thing for blowing those robot drop ships away. Take that you A.I f$%k3rs!! After the first mission was a success Craig bailed, so it was just Myles and Dave pushing on, through blood and fire (literally fire, firestorms suck, also not mentioned in basic training), repeated deaths to try and find some pumps to clean and turn on. Suckiest, suck-fest of a mission ever (on par with the laser cannon of death). Do not walk in the fire, even a little - you will die faster than any bug attack
