Actually, the silo was :
* On top of the hill (near the geo patch)
* On top a little pylon
* Covered by heavy AA
* And three shield
* Protected by two crab on front of it (on the cliff flank, if memory serve)
* beyong a line of patrolling spiders of all types.
Add that a very cool game with heavy fighting everywhere, meaning they couldn't, maybee, divert too much against it.
Actually, we just forgot antinuke.
- silo of course
They tried that, but apparently the height gave too much range to the Cerberus. They didn't think to put the silo high enough, maybe.
- jack drop, sometimes. even if it's terraformed too high you can almost always take out the pylon and everything else surrounding it
Heavy AA (including spiders) stopped the few air attempts. For some reason, they didn't use a lot of Air this game, or maybe that was because the heavy fights all around.
- impalers + terraform wall, the enemy can set high trajectory but they won't have radar
They tried imps, but the Cerb countered before they could hit it through the three shields.
- burrowed tremor, simply a tremor dug into the ground. the cerberus is unlikely to hit with high or low trajectory
I would never have though of that (plus a suffer from keybinding hell : I can't build walls, for example). But I fear the High position from where the cerb fired would had needed some cloaking protection in a really disputed zone.
- tanks and cyclops can get to a cerberus pretty much unscathed
Well, some idiot told Blankmind Scorps are tanks with legs, sorta. Then we had to suffer from one,then two, then an army of scorps escorted by a Dante or two. Guys, you should all learn to shut up. Hellish vision.
They didn't succed after a lot of trying. They never succeded to go trough the barrage of various spiders in patrol defence, allies and the two crabs.
- 2 likhos or a handful of bombers is enough to kill it. You can place your shields such that it can stop a raven bomb but you need to be precise
They tried that, but the Cerb was on top of a little pylon, itself on top of the cliff. It's difficult for bombers because they fly lower than that and have to climb at point blanck range of not only the AA, but all the defensives spiders.
- Merlin. Cerberus slightly outranges merlin, but if aided with a shield of some sort, or even just well micro'd, it will kill a cerberus
They didn't try that.