This mission is really crazy i've only ever beaten it by going one whole group of gaurdians with 3 groups of 9 mutas and 3 devourers. I take out the orange zerg base near your starting location early with hydras and lings. Then I take all those air units and destroy the white base above your starting loc and then take the air over to the island. So then i mine for awhile get ultra upgrades and stuff and eventually get the expo right below the main base of the orange zerg. Then i get some lings hydras and ultras and take my remaining air kill the orange guy then kill off what's left of the white guy. I did this over 2 years ago so some of the details of my attack are probably off.

So that's how i beat this level before i discovered macro. I've known about macro but i never actually played SC by just continuously making units. I always built an attack force and tried to win with it and didn't really have the skills to reinforce it with more than one control group. So about 2 months ago i replayed the whole campaign by just macroing my butt off. I ended up beating the whole SC campaign in less than 24 hours, the last level was a lot easier this way. Then i beat the toss and terran campaings in less than a day too. So i'm wondering how would a macro player beat this level? My idea is to take out one of the close bases fast with hydras lings and mutas then use hydras and gaurdians and just to keep pumping hydras once i start attacking. Could the BW wiki make a guide for this level please like they did for the whole SC2 campaign? Is there any way to beat mengsk with ground units in the last BW level?

gun.slinger

Canada258 Posts

September 15 2010 23:45 GMT

wow, that's a blast from the past

meegrean

Thailand7699 Posts

September 16 2010 00:03 GMT

hmm, i don't even build guardians. i just go mass hydralisks and use the extra gas for ultralisks.

GunSlinger

614 Posts

September 16 2010 00:15 GMT

Hey you stole my fucking name!

jpak

United States5045 Posts

September 16 2010 00:24 GMT

I remember just dropping ultras just below overmind (there's an empty space) along with hydras, zerglings, and 8 templars, then just mowing everything to overmind and killing it.

Edit: oh and for the 10th lvl, mix in a group of mutas or 2 along with ur ground attack force (ultras a must) and you'll be fine.

seRapH

United States9799 Posts

September 16 2010 00:27 GMT

i beat every zerg level using mutalisks. i basically used pure muta to practice micro ^_^

but it took a really long time since i would micro against every supply depot i saw. >.>

also fuck valks/devourers/irradiate/archons

Mike941

United States98 Posts

September 16 2010 01:05 GMT

On September 16 2010 09:27 seRapH wrote:
i beat every zerg level using mutalisks. i basically used pure muta to practice micro ^_^

but it took a really long time since i would micro against every supply depot i saw. >.>

also fuck valks/devourers/irradiate/archons

Lol i did that too it's nice. you forgot defilers!

agen

Barbados111 Posts

September 16 2010 01:27 GMT

you stole your name too

Tazza

Korea (South)1678 Posts

September 16 2010 01:51 GMT

Wow, whats with all the nostalgic Starcraft 1 campaigns?

zer0das

United States8519 Posts

September 16 2010 01:57 GMT

#10

The easiest way is probably to just mass hydra... take out the north base, and then drop hydras. You lose a lot of overlords, but any dent you make makes each subsequent drop easier. You can kill Mengsk with a bunch of drops too.... lots of hydra/ling does the trick. It kind of sucks, but eventually you wipe out most of the tanks, and then it gets pretty easy.

ReTrooper

Germany526 Posts

September 16 2010 02:36 GMT

#11

Here's a really fast way to do it:
http://speeddemosarchive.com/demo.pl?StarcraftBroodWar/StarcraftBroodWar_Z08_1054

Pokebunny

United States10654 Posts

September 16 2010 02:37 GMT

#12

zomg I remember having so much trouble w/ this mission like right after I got into competitive bw. Was a fun one though.

Mike941

United States98 Posts

September 16 2010 04:20 GMT

#13

Fun fact about this mission. If you could somehow outlast the enemies until their mineral patches are gone they won't attack you anymore. That's assuming you take the island you start on though.They will still build defensive units as soon as you show up but it won't be too much. As time goes on they even build less defensive units.

Darksoldierr

Hungary2012 Posts

September 16 2010 04:50 GMT

#14

Good times

Hyde

Australia14568 Posts

September 16 2010 07:39 GMT

#15

There were a lot of valks in slay the beast mission lol, that would have been so annoying with pure muta micro.
I beat that mission with just hydras, drone up at the beginning then take out the north and eastern base on your island. Build a couple more hatches and tech to hive for nydus. Then I planted a nydus on the top left edge of the middle island and rallied my forces there, that bases falls really really easily. Drop 2 drones on the right island side and build a hatch and nydus and then I just stream hydras in.
For the last mission I used hydras/lings, take out Protoss because they fall easier for some reason. Then take the bases and do the same with the terrans at the top, and for mengsk I had so much money that I just suicided my hydras/lings left over and build nothing but ultras and scourged whatever wraiths he had. Fun times, brings back a lot of memories.
These missions are actually really fun.

arbiter_md

Moldova1219 Posts

September 16 2010 08:50 GMT

#16

That was by far the hardest mission for me. I was always trying take the middle-south base, without engaging the zerg near me, and the south base from the right after that. And from there I tried to use drops on the overmind area. Never succeeded with this approach.

Finally, I succeeded only when I started with taking down the north-left base, and from there to go north to the right.