Mission 5 - The Cartographer | Campaign Halo Wars 2 Guide

Main Objectives: Gain access to the room with maps and clear the way to this location.

Optional objectives:

• Destroy the mini base in the main room (2).

Bonus:

• Kill 30 flying units with Wolverines.

You will continue to infiltrate the location of the Cartographer with the Jerome squad. However, you will need to destroy 4 precursor circuits that powers the gate to the main room. The catch is that the defense systems will activate once enough damage is dealt. Luckily, you will gain an additional ability for your commander - fire DAM. It will push away the guards, and thus grant you an opportunity to strike. Once the health bar of the circuit reaches critical level, the swarm will appear again. This will repeat with every attack at the precursor circuits.

A group of wolverines will quickly deal with enemy transporters.

You will start the mission with a new vehicle, the Wolverine. It's a powerful anti-aircraft unit that can detect invisible enemies. However, it's totally defenseless against all other opponents. The best combinations 4-6 Wolverines (there will be a lot of hostile planes and transporters), some Marines/Warthogs (to fight enemy infantry) and a couple of Cyclops.

Before you actually assault the circuit, prepare yourself to attack the main base, located between the 3 circuits. It's protected by turrets and a shield generator. Once the shield is down, fire the Archer missile at the enemy base. Now kill the remaining troops with your infantry. By destroying this post, the enemy won't attack you that often. On the other hand, you will still encounter hostile transporters from outside of the map. While attacking the most front-end circuit, the Banished will send Engineers to have it repaired. This is where Wolverines will be needed the most. There are mini bases on left and right, where Grunts are summoned. Destroy them to complete the side objective. You can build your own mini bases to generate more resources. Now all you need to do is destroy the remaining two circuit. In your base build and upgrade all the turrets to the anti-aircraft version. Once in a while Wraiths will attack you, and once you destroy the circuits, the Guardians will come after you.

It's time for the last part. A gate near your base will open. You need to get there to complete your main objective. On your way, you will be attacked by flying units but if you use enough Wolverines, they will deal with the problem. Furthermore, you will be attacked by a swarms of Guardians that will block your way. Fortunately, only few enemy units will actually attack you and then the swarm will spread.