Hey,
I have the same problem - I'm trying to concentrate on completing the mission on legendary but as my mate has got a copy of Halo Wars we keep trying to beat the computer on legendary before going on line. We can easily beat AI on normal and heroic, but we have no hope with legendary.
We are constantly trying to adapt and send out scouts but they always seem to have some much more resources that we can generate. For example, normally we always put a power station on, and then three upgraded supply pads (I normally play as Cutter and he plays as Forge) - by the time we have normally done that they have already sent a first wave over to us so we then have to splash out on 4 * turrets and upgrades . We then try damage limitation to hold off whilst generating more resources, but when the AI informs us they are building a new type of unit we try and build the counter units but you normally have to have two power stations to build up an air pad or vehicle depot (and then need another power station to get the cobra/wolverine) which then costs more resources and by the time they send 8 hornets over we can only generate one wolverine.
What can we do as we always seem to be playing damage limitation instead of concentrating on building up our armies - I know they say the best form of defence is attack but we can never generate enough units to provide an effective attack before their leader attacks us .
Please help as we don’t want to by laughed at as soon as we start playing for real on multi player and my stats are looking poor (They were 90% whilst on heroic before we tried on Legendary and now its hovering over 50% )
Can someone talk me through at least one strategy (including build order ) that we can try.
We've checked the stats after the games and they always seem to generate twice as many resources as us and they don't even bother putting up turrets as they know we can’t attack - I'm sure AI is laughing at us !!
Thanks
Ozzie1975