Campaign - brutal difficulty (keep it spoilerfree) - Page 4

One of the easy missions if you don it right

I didn;t bother with helions or even bunkers at all (actually I made 1 bunker at each side at the start cuz well he said so ) You will never get hold of managing repairs well (and they cost too). I just massed marines, firebats and medics at around 2:1:1 Just keep your forces cohesive so firebats dont run away from medics. Firebats make the most damage but you dont need way too many just a healthy number (if you bought the upgrade for them before it certainly helps), they are bio so medics keep em alive and rest is marines to shoot big guys, straglers and help take down buildings faster. You can really afford to stim all the time. Just make 2 big chunks of bio balls and should be fine. Can also do the kill 15 buildings at night achievement.

Helions are pretty fail. I know it's the theme of the mission but...
The are mechanical so they slowly die even with extreme micro, wile you can attack move with you bioballs
If you repair you have to keep SCV close and waste minerals, and those SCV are not working and prone to dieing
They are pretty bad vs buildings anyways

Build Marines and Medics and make sure stim is reasearched.

Just build marines and medics. Wall off your chokes with depots and bunkers if you want, I did, I don't think it really helped. Just make sure to have lots of marines and medics. Keep stimming as much as you want (esp last 30 seconds of each night wave) When day breaks just run your guys out, stim and kill as much as you can, and run back in when there are 30 seconds left.

BRUTAL. :O

15/29 missions complete on brutal now. I feel so pro. But seriously, ouch, I heard going ghosts/tanks is good for the odin mission but this jackass just dies so fast, and they always focus fire repairing scvs.

First thing is don't panic. There are 3 entrances to your base. The enemy will come in waves 1 entrance at a time for a good part of the game.
Start by queueing up more probes and putting down a 2nd forge + robotics bay so you can train colossi.
Hotkey all your ground forces together, and hotkey all your air units together. Watch the observers closely. You'll see the enemy massing in front of them before attacking. Move your army to protect the cannons. Don't cross the bridges.
Keep making colossi and keep up all the upgrades both air and ground. Non stop. Also, try to replenish your phoenix numbers if any die.
I started to float on minerals around the 16th minute mark before the archives achievement, so I walled off the south-eastern bridge with lots of cannons.
When the hybrids will start coming, lift them up with the phoenixes and focus fire. Do this on the ranged ones preferably, but later on use it on all the hybrids you encounter.
Finishing the archives bonus mission should be a cake-walk at that point. I was floating on around 5K mins and 200/200 food army worth of colossi/phoenixes/voids.
Once the archives submerge, retreat to the higher ground of your base and start to wall off with cannons too.
If you start losing units, make colossi and void rays. No more phoenixes.
At this point you should easily have 3-3-3 ground army and 3-0 air army. When I killed the 2500 necessary, I just kinda gave up after that. I didn't build anything any more. The enemy needed another 25 minutes to finally beat down my whole army :/. The corruptors and mass mutas come waaaay too late for the Z. Before that, the heroes+ void rays are unkillable.

A good tip to keep SCVs alive when repairing (esp on brutal) is to have a medic nearby them healing them as they repair. They are worth their weight in gold and saves loads of SCVs.
Also Maurauders with stim are useful at chokes in bunkers (esp. the drilling mission) with he concussive shell upgrade. They slow the first unit down, so the whole column slows whilst the seige tanks blast away and take em out