The brutalisk was probably the easiest thing about that level. Was it supposed to be a boss or something? I just kept shooting and backing up, probably the easiest micro trick known to man and it didnt get a single hit off on my marines. It was a joke. As for the expo's, I went in this order:

Main, the one north, the one directly east, the one directly south, the next one directly south, the north-western most one, and I win.

Xception704

United States161 Posts

July 28 2010 00:02 GMT

#23

On July 28 2010 01:34 Ygz wrote:

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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.

What you want to do is

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lure the Brutalisk to the low ground on the RIGHT, not straight up. If you lure him to the low ground on the right, you can make him stay there for 10+ seconds.

Worm104

England28 Posts

July 28 2010 00:33 GMT

#24

I wasn't paying attention and lost all my SCV's but I managed to scrape together the resources by killing all the zerg with good micro. I had about 2 spare mineral drops when I finished.

Cofo

United States1388 Posts

July 28 2010 00:37 GMT

#25

Anyone have some overall strategy tips for this one? It's the first mission that's been giving me trouble on brutal. Do you split your forces between mining defense and main base defense? How much food are you typically at to get a balance between spending and saving?

question

Czech Republic509 Posts

July 28 2010 00:40 GMT

#26

20 min here

Snowfield

1289 Posts

July 28 2010 02:48 GMT

#27

I did this on brutal earlier, and what i did was just get the second command center, float that around with my main army and keep a small army in base right at the entrance to the second gold patch (to teh right) an keep the main HQ to make SCVs with if you lose some

I just keep the main army around the SCVs working, it has to be fairly big, so 5-6 medics and couple firebats + mostly marines and the reapers you pick up.

the brutalisk was just natural, i expanded there and took my army to kill it, npnp

I also hotkeyed all workers working the patches to 3 and army to 1, so it was easy getting them all when the lava came up

TheFinalWord

Australia790 Posts

July 28 2010 02:58 GMT

#28

you can easily do this mission with just reapers at least on hard. Reapers don' t cost
many minerals and they can get to all the high places. Only thing you have to watch out for is mutas.

atenthirtyone

United States88 Posts

July 28 2010 05:12 GMT

#29

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.

Concussion grenades also worked on maruaders, I think. Done this on Hard, don't know if brutal changes anything.

konadora

Singapore66358 Posts

July 28 2010 11:03 GMT

#30

fyl indeed lol

Merikh

United States918 Posts

July 28 2010 15:20 GMT

#31

On July 27 2010 19:06 ThePassingShadow wrote:
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

Oh nice did not know that

. I'm currently playing on hard and woo tough I'm going to try working counter clockwise to see how it works out.

bulge

161 Posts

July 28 2010 15:27 GMT

#32

this mission drove me nuts on brutal. i ended lifting my base and flying it to the edge of the map and then just killed the zerg and took all their phat loot

Sfydjklm

United States9218 Posts

July 28 2010 15:44 GMT

#33

how do u kill brutalisk with lava? I actually had him in the lava several times and he didnt die. Are my forces supposed to be out of the lava?

NonY

8751 Posts

July 28 2010 15:50 GMT

#34

wow i played on brutal and i only mined like half the map because i barely built anything (and yeah i killed the boss)

RifleCow

Canada637 Posts

July 28 2010 16:08 GMT

#35

4 marines, 4 maruaders, 2 firebats, 3 medics + all the reapers they give you will take out anything the zerg can throw at you.

Sfydjklm

United States9218 Posts

July 28 2010 16:09 GMT

#36

On July 29 2010 00:44 Sfydjklm wrote:
how do u kill brutalisk with lava? I actually had him in the lava several times and he didnt die. Are my forces supposed to be out of the lava?

allright so i figured this
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the units die instantly in the lava while brutalisk doesnt. I simply put a bunker two squares down the right side ramp

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pretty much didn't build anything, mined from one location(using both ccs is counter productive- you'll spend more on split defensive forces then gain mined time). Just fly around the map with reapers and collect minerals/rape hatcheries. I got like 3-4k minerals like that

terranghost

United States980 Posts

July 28 2010 19:06 GMT

#37

I built 3 cc's and 15 scvs everytime i would land at a new stash i would build 2-3 turrets and 1-2 bunkers
I had a force of like 20 reapers (+ the extra reapers that joined my cause) 10medics so my reapers could get healed occasionally. when the lava started coming i told all my scv's to hide in the command centers lifted them off salvaged the bunkers. And would only lose 2-3 turrets everytime the lava came. Even had some war pigs camp by my medics to keep them alive.

The bunkers I have course manned with 2 reapers as in this mission they dont attack you with many roaches. =)

Brutal difficulty setting FTW

On July 28 2010 06:52 Fruscainte wrote:
The brutalisk was probably the easiest thing about that level. Was it supposed to be a boss or something? I just kept shooting and backing up, probably the easiest micro trick known to man and it didnt get a single hit off on my marines. It was a joke. As for the expo's, I went in this order:

Main, the one north, the one directly east, the one directly south, the next one directly south, the north-western most one, and I win.

I don't think it was supposed to be hard unless you made the mistake I did....
Use reapers hit back up hit back up.... *why are my reapers exploding the brutalisk isn't attacking them... Sigh lava... (on another note it got me to kill the brutalisk by lava

Shiladie

Canada1631 Posts

July 28 2010 19:16 GMT

#38

uhh, this map is unbearably easy on brutal, and I'm not saying that to be mean or arrogant. I just massed medic/marine and cleared the map of zerg in a clockwise direction. I ended dodging mineral chunks everywhere so i could lure the brutalisk onto lowground, which was also very easy, I just spread marines all over the low ground and then kited him into it. While he ran around killing the marines I microed them a bit, and he died easily. saced probably 10 marines for it.
This was one of those 'all 3 achievs on the first try on brutal' maps...

NeonFlare

Finland1307 Posts

July 28 2010 19:25 GMT

#39

I used small group of reapers and marines to clear everything, kited the brutalisk with a handful of reapers while defending with bunch of marines that had medic or two with them, wasn't even half way mining the map out, but I finished it too fast and ended up missing one group of Tosh's reapers...

JQL

United States214 Posts

July 28 2010 20:13 GMT

#40

Didnt bother to build any reapers, just 6-8 marines with 2-3 medics on each of the mineral line. Combined the 2 groups to take out the brutalisk.