Destroy Vega's Dam

Destroy Vega's Dams was a GDI side mission as part of their operations to capture Vega.

Background
Vega's base had been located in Central America by GDI on Umagon's information. However the stronghold had an unlimited power supply that was thanks to the dams in Mexico that was controlled by Vega's forces. Destroying the dams will critically reduce the power supply to the base, meaning that Vega's defenses would be down. Given that the dams were lightly protected, GDI saw this as an opportunity to weaken Vega's defenses further.

Insertion
GDI did not however have enough resources and manpower to launch attacks on both the dams and Vega's base simultaneously, so McNeil was initially given a small squad of Titans and infantry. However periodic reinforcements were available if McNeil could find any suitable drop points reinforcements to bolster McNeil's force via airship. The small squad made their way to a Nod infantry outpost nearby, occasionally defeating a few Nod infantry on the way. Once the outpost was cleared, a GDI dropship deployed three Wolverines at the site, before the strike team continued its way to the dams.

En route to the dams
After more skirmishes with Nod patrols, the GDI strike team came across a wrecked city controlled by Nod forces. The team eliminated the Nod force there and destroyed the watchtowers and SAM sites there, enabling more GDI reinforcements to arrive by air. One ship deployed an engineer on the other side of the numerous waterways in the region. Under fire from Nod rocket infantry, the engineer managed to repair a bridge that was previously inaccessible.

By this time the Nod base at the dams was alerted to the GDI presence and started to prepare an ambush party at the route that was closest and until recently the only accessile path to the dams. The GDI strike team however avoided the ambush party by going through the recently repaired bridge.

Destroying the reactor power stations
After taking out another Nod patrol and an accompanying SAM site, GDI bypasssed the ambush party and sneaked up to the Nod base at its rear by tunnel. GDI proceeded to capture the Nod base along with its Harvester in case the Nod defenders eliminated the strike team and to eliminate the remaining Nod forces.. The strike team destroyed one of the reactor stations there along with most of the base's power plants, capturing the remaining plants for themselves.

The strike team proceeded across the bridge and deployed another beacon for more GDI reinforcements to arrive, The strike team came across the other reactor defended by the remaining Nod defenders. GDI swiftly eliminated the defenders and destroyed the power station. With the loss of both stations the dams suffered an critical power overload, leading to its destruction.

Aftermath
The destruction of the dams led to Vega's base suffering a critical power shortage. With only the island defenses online, GDI would be able to deploy their strike force without suffering anti-air attacks.