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.