So I've been playing the Campaign mode, and I've been stuck on this level. I don't have any trouble for the first 4 trains, but then I just get destroyed for some reason. I can beat the first time there are ravens and golis without a problem, but for some reason the second time it happens it is so much harder! Any tips?

I've been using diamondbacks with medic/marine, FYI.

CynanMachae

Canada1459 Posts

July 28 2010 05:52 GMT

I did it with Tank + a few diamondback, if you have tanks it's not that hard

DeckOneBell

United States526 Posts

July 28 2010 06:14 GMT

For me, going mass diamondback off two factories worked. Just diamondbacks off one base. Be sure to take out as many bunkers as they go up as possible, so you don't get damaged by them later on. You should also run any diamondbacks targeted by HSM back so the HSM doesn't hit your diamondback ball.

Worked for me. Tanks also seem to be popular, same with MM, though you probably need at least stim upgrade. I liked diamondbacks since that means you can avoid the kill squads entirely.

Half

United States2554 Posts

July 28 2010 06:30 GMT

I did Diamondbacks+Hellions. If you kite you can pick off the escorts into chunks.

NATO

United States459 Posts

July 28 2010 06:35 GMT

I invested a lot in my tanks, so I built 3 to support mass diamondback and got through it fine (with the bully achievement)

QuothTheRaven

United States5524 Posts

July 28 2010 06:37 GMT

I beat it (on brutal) before I had unlocked tanks. Mass Diamondback worked beautifully for me. They tear through the trains, and with half-decent micro they tear through the escorts as well.

Teejing

Germany1360 Posts

July 28 2010 06:42 GMT

marines + medic to clean the guards and 8-10 of those hover tesla tanks to kill those fast trains.

mahnini

United States6862 Posts

July 28 2010 06:57 GMT

i used 6-8 diamondbacks and 2rax MMM. was hardest mission for me so far because you dont get constant resources

SoMuchBetter

Australia10606 Posts

July 28 2010 07:50 GMT

marauder + medic, 6-8 diamondbacks, marine mercs for anti air.
just engage the marauder patrol when it appears, with marauder/medic you'll pretty much lose nothing with focus fire and upgrades. make sure you run around killing the bunkers as they build them as well it makes life easier when chasing after the fast trains with your diamondbacks
when theres a patrol with a raven send a single marauder ahead into it to eat the hunter seeker missile

ChickenLips

2912 Posts

July 28 2010 08:00 GMT

#10

mm + db avoiding the bunkers with the dbs is quite easy, i also lured the marauders into my base for the positioning.

teamsolid

Canada3668 Posts

July 28 2010 08:04 GMT

#11

Massing pure diamondback also worked fine for me... just remember to send scv's to repair them after each train.

Anxiety

United States650 Posts

July 28 2010 08:24 GMT

#12

Diamond back+ Rauders, with War Pigs for ravens. War Pigs are free merc.

HubertFelix

France631 Posts

July 28 2010 08:28 GMT

#13

Marine medic and diamond backs. When you engage a train, attack the units with the M&M and follow the train with the diamond backs.

I think the key is to not lose many units at the beginning against ravens. Put a diamond back 1rst in the fights so he takes the missile (and not your M&M).
Your M&M don't die => you will stack a lot of diamond backs for later.

kodancer

United States89 Posts

July 28 2010 08:35 GMT

#14

Mass diamondbacks from 2 fax and a few rines in base to destroy any banshees. And remember after every wave, repair your diamondbacks. I ended up with almost 30 diamondbacks in the end.

Tozar

United States245 Posts

July 28 2010 08:48 GMT

#15

The mercenary tanks helped me a lot on this mission when the marauder kill squads came out. I had to load a save a bunch of times before i got the first fast train. You need to make sure your diamondbacks are attacking while moving instead of just chasing the train. Only 2 or 3 DBs will attack if they do it automatically. Actively micro with the train with a bunch of DBs.

I'm pretty sure you can beat this mission with just mass DBs and marine+medic.

blade55555

United States17423 Posts

July 28 2010 08:55 GMT

#16

lol this mission was easy for me (I played on Brutal difficulty also).

What I did literally the whole mission was spam those diamond raiders or w/e. I got soo many of them that no matter what the enemy did it didn't matter. I thought the mission was pretty fu ncause I loved those diamondbacks :D

Nokarot

United States1410 Posts

July 28 2010 09:03 GMT

#17

I just massed 5000 diamondbacks. At this point it was the only vehicle I had unlocked, but I ran a reaper around to get all the free ones and then just used 1 factory to spam them from then on out.

Didn't get the achievement to kill a marauder kill squad but I didn't try. wasn't sure how strong they were.

Latham

9568 Posts

July 28 2010 09:04 GMT

#18

I used 2 facts to pump diamondbacks constantly + 1 reactor for marines (anti-air).
Just make sure to get the 6 diamondbacks quickly at the start of the game.
Taking down the trains is not a problem up until the mara death squads show up. When they do, get like 5-7 scvs + marines and attack move into the mara death group. Once the marines and scvs start soaking up the mara hits, move in with diamondbacks and kill the maras.
For the last train I think I had around 14-16 diamondbacks. Just make sure that after each train raid, you come back to your base and get them repaired. There's enough time for that. I had 5 scvs on a separate hotkey for repairing.

Crahptacular

United States295 Posts

July 28 2010 09:18 GMT

#19

2fac diamondback + 2fac mmm (medic, obviously, not medivac). The first few trains are incredibly easy, so use that time to find all the neutral diamondbacks and the artifacts and the scrap resources. after that, just chill in your base until a train comes out, make sure a marauder squad isn't headed your way, and a-move your bio ball. Medics with upgrade heal so ridiculously fast that you should rarely have any casualties, and you just follow the train with diamondbacks while your bioball mops up. Eventually you should have enough diamondbacks (they never die, so you build up quickly) to kill the trains + escorts with them alone, leaving your MMM at home to defend from occasional harass. When it gets to the "they lost their speed but they've got a huge escort" alert, amove everything and laugh as medics let you absorb infinite damage.

Monokeros

United States2493 Posts

July 28 2010 09:39 GMT

#20

On July 28 2010 15:57 mahnini wrote:
i used 6-8 diamondbacks and 2rax MMM. was hardest mission for me so far because you dont get constant resources

after a few attempts I realized that diamond backs RAPE the 'anti-maraduer' death groups that wander the map if you get some rine/med to soak some of the damage for you. After that I just used a constant stream of minerals (from constant exploring) to have a wall of stimmed marines infront of my diamond backs. MAKE SURE TO GET ALL OF THE DIAMONDBACKS ON THE MAP, repair is also SUPER useful, I'd pull 6-7scvs at a time just to make sure (auto-repair is so imba)