I just found it easy to keep pressure on the Z while mining, keeping a bunker nearby sometimes, salvaging it before the lava rises. Was playing on Brutal.

Edit: Make sure you use reapers to find minerals all over the place, and killing Z structures also gives money

MalMal

Canada94 Posts

July 27 2010 10:15 GMT

This was on brutal also. I thought the uberlisk would be... welll more uber so I overcompensated quite a bit and I decided to kill him last. I wholeheartedly expected the uberlisk to drop like a large stash of cash once he dies. Sigh, just 1 less of any unit and it would've been gg >_<

pachi

Melbourne5338 Posts

July 27 2010 10:32 GMT

(Brutal) I just used 5 scvs per command centre, which allowed me to easily save 3 CCs from lava.
Overall this mission was pretty fun. Scared to go back through it to kill Lisk with lava though. Mission took so long ><

Cerzi

United Kingdom26 Posts

July 27 2010 11:43 GMT

Mined out with 7995 I kid you not. Massive rage.

SoMuchBetter

Australia10606 Posts

July 27 2010 12:58 GMT

pretty easy level. make small army of marauder, medic, marine hero mercs and a firebat or two. doesnt need to be big because the zerg will never attack you with anything other than a couple mutas and lings. i didn't even come close to mining out the map when i did it.

granted i took a while to do it. mercs marines are pretty strong for this

Ygz

England370 Posts

July 27 2010 13:32 GMT

Could have been more difficult on Brutal, was thoroughly enjoyable though. Killing the Brutalisk with lava should be a neat challenge.

GTR

51561 Posts

July 27 2010 14:07 GMT

am i the only one who didn't find killing the brutalisk a challenge? i just did some reaper micro and that was about it.

Wivyx

Norway624 Posts

July 27 2010 14:22 GMT

On July 27 2010 23:07 GTR wrote:
am i the only one who didn't find killing the brutalisk a challenge? i just did some reaper micro and that was about it.

I was also able to get the brutalisk achievement through repaer micro quite easily as well. Really enjoyed the mission.

Zoltan

United States656 Posts

July 27 2010 14:24 GMT

#10

yea i liked this one too- didnt take all that long.

Electric.Jesus

Germany755 Posts

July 27 2010 14:59 GMT

#11

Did you by chance remeber that you can salvage buildings? Might have got you the extra 150 mins. ^^

AStev

United States24 Posts

July 27 2010 15:16 GMT

#12

On July 27 2010 23:59 Electric.Jesus wrote:
Did you by chance remeber that you can salvage buildings? Might have got you the extra 150 mins. ^^

This.

Also, I made a couple extra CCs to just float around with 5 SCVs loaded inside each. Everytime the lava came, I loaded the SCVs inside and lifted off. Worked very well, although you have to be proactive with your Reapers in picking off the Zerg bases, because they like to ignore your main and attack your roaming Command Centers.

I only ended up harvesting like 4 different high-yield locations, and I think there was another 4 remaining. Plus killing the Zerg bases, there's a ton of resource stashes there.

WiljushkA

Serbia1416 Posts

July 27 2010 15:43 GMT

#13

best mission so far for me, you can make a couple of thousand min just killing the zerg bases.

Pezeteros

Greece7 Posts

July 27 2010 16:29 GMT

#14

Just did this mission on Brutal. Can anyone confirm that is is impossible (or close to it) to get Brutalus killed by lava in Brutal? Was trying to get him killed by lava for like 1 hour, and like a dozen of "volunteer" reaper/marine/marauder causalities and never succeeded. He would always reset the momment he hit the bottom of the ramp. Tried to time him being there exactly as lava hit but didn't seem to work either. Then I proceeded to just go and kill him 3 minutes into normal mode, while having to problem kiting him anywhere.

Other than that it was one of the easiest missions in brutal so far. Had Zerg eliminated for ages, and had the workers just sitting while trying to do the above achievement before giving up and just mining the extra money. Kidna dunno you can run out of minerals. Was spenting way more than I wanted to keep money low while trying to kite brutalus, and still when it ended there was like 1/3 of the map with untouched minerals.

As for OP adding to the salvage idea since your pop is 157/158 check if you have some 2 food unit queued that you can cancel and get the money back.

Ygz

England370 Posts

July 27 2010 16:34 GMT

#15

On July 28 2010 01:29 Pezeteros wrote:
He would always reset the momment he hit the bottom of the ramp. .

Haven't tried but maybe
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throw a bunker down behind him just above the ramp, that way he can't get back up. Might work.

WiljushkA

Serbia1416 Posts

July 27 2010 16:48 GMT

#16

id recommend just saying fuck you to some of the hard achievements and just play the game relaxed for the first time. you know youre gonna replay it at a later date anyway, might as well save the hardest achievements for then.

AStev

United States24 Posts

July 27 2010 17:52 GMT

#17

Strangely, there's a big jump in difficulty between Normal and Hard. Hard can present a decent challenge (especially on that Train Robbery map), but Normal is just super easy so far.

Toadily

United States837 Posts

July 27 2010 19:12 GMT

#18

I still had a ton of the map unexplored when I got 8k/8k, I just used the reapers I find along with a medic and went around and killed all the zerg bases/collecting minerals and brutalisk while I mined and defended with my MM army

WiljushkA

Serbia1416 Posts

July 27 2010 19:18 GMT

#19

reapers are trully awesome in this mission. it was just so much fun abusing the terrain and finding all the hidden stashes of resources.