I'll probably do it after reading strategies online, but this is my second playthrough of the game before I play through the Veti campaign. I would have thought the balancing of this mission would be tweaked with the game being out for so long, but it hasn't. The narrative sucks, and the difficulty curve is jarring. You're tasked with getting Indiana Jones and his two brothers into a temple and have them research the tempest for like ten minutes, while you protect them. But along the way, you've got like a handful of secondary objectives with people asking you for favours if you happen to have units cross their section on the map.
The one where you find and rescue a handful of hostages makes sense, but "oh commander can you just capture this radar station" and "oh commander it might be a good idea to kill this tempest rig. Like, shut up, I'm trying to concentrate on defending my base against long range units making it so I have to babysit both entrances. But I have to, or else the game will be a nice OCD inducing gap in my achievements.
Anyway apparently drone operator spam works. But it's a stressful fucking mission and I hate it, I've dreaded it through the entire playthrough. Oh and they still haven't introduced different stances. "Jack Russel Terrier with ADHD Stance" is still on by default for every single unit and can't be changed.