Original S.W.I.N.E. (2001) is now remastered in higher resolutions! (allas, not the funny animations between each missions but it's better than nothing, I guess...).

Some useful informations for achievement hunters:

• Time to complete: ~30 hours, if you'r an average RTS player like me. I also had to replay 1 mission due to a mission script issue.

• Missable achievements: 1. "You just stood here didn't you?" (Have at least one unit survive a entire campaign). Hardly missable since you cannot harvest and create units like many RTS games: it is mandatory to keep your leveled units between each missions.

• Difficulty-related achievements: none. I highly recommand playing the game in easy (seriously, missions are not for the faint-hearted).

• Do cheats unable achievements?: There is no cheat codes, you just have to commit and learn from your mistakes. Your best weapon: you can save and load at will! Try not to override often the same save slot. It's easy to forget and lost an unit with a big army, you will hate yourself overwriting the wrong save, believe me!

As I've spent several hours to compile this guide [and sadly a lot of shady websites copy Steam users' guides without permission or giving credits these days] please consider rating this guide! 💜 Parallel Platypus.

The first missions act as tutorial missions: you will gradually unlock new units. Each unit come with a Special Skill or even "stance" you can toggle with the "x" key. For instance, the Light Tanks can burrow themselves to gain serious armor points, but cannot move during this status.

Let me insist on one thing: it is crucial to keep every unit alive, not only for achievements, but also to avoid being softlocked during the last missions. If you lose one unit, simply reload the previous save (save frequently).


Must have been the wind
Get hit by a unit hidden in the fog of war.


Unmissable; Hidden enemy Artillery units will harass you during the entire campaign...!


Here's Johnny!
Get a new unit onto the field via airdrop.


Unmissable; The airdrop function is almost mandatory to win the game, mainly to keep your units alive while regulary dropping Repair trailers (cost: 150 credits). I advise you to spare ~450 credits before launching each mission to airdrop trailers or to call bombers (Commander unit Special Ability, cost: 50 credits).

Before finishing each mission, remember to spend the rest of unspent credits to airdrop extra units!

Anything else?
Have 3 different equipments for a single unit.


You can now upgrade your vehicles. My recommendations are: Armor+ / Auto-Repair Kits / Carrot Juice (-10% Reload Time) for every unit when available, Mine Detector for Recon units (mandatory), View Range+ for Commander.


Oooh, shiny!
Capture a trailer from the enemy.


Unmissable. You will capture a lot of trailers during the two campaigns.

Special snowflake
Reach the maximum rank with a unit.


Each ally or enemy unit have three XP ranks : Standart / Veteran / Elite. They get better stats whith each rank. Again, it is really important to keep your ranked units alive between each mission. You will need it later for other XP-related achievements.

Is someone there?
Destroy a unit hidden in the fog of war.


You can use your new Artillery units to hit hidden units. Simply move your Commander and reveal enemy locked Artillery units or Burrowed Light Tanks. Then use the Attack Button ("a" key) to target them with your own Artillery. Move the Commander away so the enemy get hidden in the fog of war while still being pounded by the Artillery.


Mine Layer is really your best friend during the defense missions, and also during most of your playthrough. You can also trap & bait most enemy squadrons early game! It can help with another achievement: 100 kills with mine (can be farmed later one, so don't worry too much about it). But be careful, late enemy Recon units will be equiped with Mine Detector, so the Mine Layer will be practically useless later on...

Live. Die. Repeat.
Load the same mission 3 times in a row.


Self-explained. If you haven't unlocked it during the entire campaign, you'r really skilled at this game!



Party pooper
Kill 3 units with a single air strike.


Remember: those pesky enemy Artillery units on hills can be swept using airstikes (Commander Special Ability (cost: 50 credits).


Not such a special snowflake
Reach 1000 experience with a single unit.


Plumped up
Reach 1000 experience with 3 units.


Time for a feast
Reach 1000 experience with 5 units.


You will eventually get this, don't worry, just keep your units alive. My early units reached more than 2500 XP during the last Rabbit mission.


Power overwhelming
Have one of your units destroy 100 enemy units in a campaign.


You will most likely earn this first with the two Mission 1 Recon units. Why? Because mines count as enemy units.


Barbecue
Destroy 1000 Pig units.


Almost unmissable, I believe. If by any chance, you cleaned the entire campaign with less than 1000 kills, simply reload previous missions.

The Dirty Ten
Reach 1000 experience with 10 units.


If you managed it well, your army will probably include around 14 units with more than 1000 experience during the last mission, so again, keep your units alive and don't worry. Also remember your Commander can also earn XP with airstrikes.

The bigger they are…
Destroy an elite unit with a standard unit.


I can be technically missed but you still can reload any late mission, call a helicopter to drop a standart unit (vanilla) and get the last hit with it.


This mission can be cheesed as hell, seriously, The objective flag gives you enough vision to call helicopter unit drop. Easy peasy, mission complete!.

Sting like a bee
Complete a mission using only Mortar units.


Okay, just after launching Mission 11, DO A MANUAL SAVE.
We will reload the last Auto-Save just before Mission 10, sell every unit and buy only Mortars and then call a helicopter to drop a Mortar on the flag, like we did before.

Thanks @Valodis for the tip! Remember to like his/her guide.


IMPORTANT NOTE: I had to redo the entire mission because one major bug of this HD Remaster edition has not been fixed and will probably not be fixed! Indeed, each time you reload a save, buildings will respawn: if you destroy one of the objective, make sure to destroy the second before reloading. Destroying the respawned building will not count for the objectives (this may be a flag issue?). This bug has been reported on the steam forum. You have been warned!


At this point, your first Recon units may reach almost 3000 XP points! You will also have around 12-14 heavily experienced Elite units.



















Knock, knock
Destroy a dug in tank with a mortar unit.


I got this achievement during the last campaign, but you might unlock it earlier of course.
Mortar unit is a slow and highly armored unit from Mission 7.

Fat free diet
Complete the Rabbit Campaign.


You just stood there didn't you?
Have a unit survive an entire campaign.

Wow, remember your 2 Light Tanks, 2 Recon units and 1 Commander from the very first mission? If you played carefully, you will most likely have at least one survivor! Personnally, I only lost the Commander, but it's a very fragile unit anyway.

Stay a while and read
Watch the complete credits.


Wow nice, you made it! Time to begin the Pig Campaign.

In my honest opinion, I found the Pig campaign way easier (less defense mission, less narrow passage and units to micro-manage), but maybe I was way more skilled after 15 hours of game time?

You can still clean-up some remaining achievements, but I recommand keeping the grindy achievements for the last part where you can still reload any mission anyway.








Bad-tempered rodent
Destroy 1000 Rabbit units.


You will eventually unlock it during the middle of the campaign.




Just a hint of seasoning
Complete the Pig Campaign.


It was easier, wasn't it?! If you completed the 100 Mine Kills Achievement already, you completed S.W.I.N.E! Congratz! If not, check the Third Step below to know how to tackle it easily.

Clever use of...
Destroy 100 units with mines.


I found an easy spot to grind mine kills in the very beginning of the 3rd Pig Mission (called 'Ores de Combat').
In fact, there are a lot of Recon and Light Tanks enemy units at the end of the road leading to the Oil Refinery. Luckily, those Recon aren't equipped with Mine Detector!

Fill the road with mines and save.

Bait them with your Mine Layer or any unit and enjoy the massacre!
Reload, rinse and repeat!

You can change how units behave with the bottom right panel. If you found them way too passive, set them to Agressive (they will tend to chase enemy units).

You'r meant to micro-manage units. You can regroup them with CTRL+NUMBER. Each time you press NUMBER, you will auto-select those units.

For example, this is why I generally do:

> CTRL+1: Scouting units like Recon and Commander.
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> CTRL+2: Light Tanks in the frontline (Always use the Burrow Special Ability.). They are way more versatile and easy to control than Mortar. Avoid Mortars, seriously... You can also add Tank Killers for more DPS in the frontline.
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> CTRL+3: Artillery. Probably one of the best unit in the game. Awesome range but you need a solid frontline because Artillery can't easily target moving units.


Use SHIFT+RIGHT CLICK to create a command queue for your units. Less idiotic pathfinding!

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Also feel free to check my other achievement/walkthrough guides here.

Cheers,

Parallel Platypus.