Campaign play-through on Brutal Only, All Side Objectives

I'm doing a play-through of the campaign on Brutal Only difficulty and doing all Side Objectives in the same mission.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCYkdoPqAL9xfJ5Atuq2gz6MUeQ3RTmDf

I made use of the upgraded commander often, pausing, sometimes terraform, though I tried not to use much terraform. Depending on the mission, maybe some mission-specific tactics (cheese or otherwise standard).

For basically all missions, I'm going in prepared with full data and notes from a previous spectator view. Some of the missions take multiple, upwards of 5 or 10 attempts.

I wanted to challenge myself and also do a more recent recording. I noticed that the only playthroughs were really old or not filling the difficulty criteria.

I hear some other really high skill players have beat missions on brutal, so I wanted to do that as well.

As of June 17, 2026, 43 of 71 planets have been captured, so it's a campaign-in-progress.

Any comments/questions?

Some missions I use others guides for, notably Kitty has some videos for a couple of the missions that seem to be very very hard https://www.youtube.com/@catmaster9410/videos (and they're done very well, as well!)

I did some of the campaign in brutal and all bonus objectives in one match. It's hard. It's possible to play the campaign co-op. If you want, we can do the harder missions together. It's still the same resources, just shared control.

quote: For basically all missions, I'm going in prepared with full data and notes from a previous spectator view. Some of the missions take multiple, upwards of 5 or 10 attempts.

This seems like a step too far in my opinion.
If you always start a mission by going to the spectator view, it kinda warps how you play the game and it becomes more like looking for exploits.
Of course, if you have to replay a mission 10 times, you basically get the same information, but personally, it just feels so nice if you finish the mission in the first try.

Of course, doing all mission objectives in the same run is quite hard, so maybe you have to do exploits on some maps to achieve this.

I haven't played the Brutal campaign in years but when I played it, I did it in coop which is quite a bit easier.
We definitely cheesed some levels, and used paused and whatnot. I think we usually tried to go for all objectives in the same run, but weren't too picky to just replay the level to finish off some other objective in the next run.

I could have done Bluebell in one go had I gone through gs first, just wall off the dante and charon the scuttles over to the objectives, shouldn't be too difficult.

I'm personally predicting one of these: Ganong, Hibilha, Old Falsell, Fel Decia.
On account of their thin thresholds and pressure (whether time or attrition).
I've seen Kitty's Fel Decia video ( ) and frankly, I can not execute like that.
But perhaps there's some more accessible strategy I can use.