EPTSupernova on Brutal - Page 3
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
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Deathizer
Canada1 Post
Pumped a few SCVs for gas economy Pumped banshees and 2 vikings from the single starport As the fire wave got close, lifted off all buildings and sent them towards the bottom of the map, then towards the bottom right corner. On the way to the bottom right corner there's a group of units guarding a tech thinger and an expo location. I cleared it with cloaked banshees, and had to micro a bit to kill a scout with the two vikings. My CC went weird and got damaged, then I landed it and tried to build an SCV to repair it but maphacks got it killed. Then at the bottom right corner there's a few cannons powered by warp prisms (and maybe stalkers too but I forget) which I had to clear with banshees, microing so none died. After you get all your buildings and units into the bottom right corner, cheating brutal computer sends warp prisms and lands immortals, senties, and zealots under your buildings. Focus the senties (obviously) then pick off the rest. You can cloak to avoid damage but I preferred to soak it with the units as I had Regenerative Biosteel and would just regen, in order to keep my buildings at full HP. Eventually the drops stopped happening ( I don't know why, perhaps I killed all the void prisms?) and I could wait until the fire wave came. First try, I waited for the firewave to take everything out, ran in with banshees, did some damage, the banshees then burned to death, and the firewave destroyed the temple before my Starport. "The Artifact has been burned by the fire!" And I lost. Reload, this time not waiting too long. I waited until the cannon closest to the bottom right corner was destroyed (or unpowered I forget) and then proceeded. I had to destroy one cannon in order to shoot safely. I'm pretty sure the temple was being burned, but perhaps the artifact was in the East part of the temple. (Maybe you need the last hit? Who knows..) At any rate, I was able to do this with only 6 banshees. I believe all it takes is good timing. Good luck. | ||
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Lobo2me
Norway1213 Posts
Don't know if they're smarter on brutal and aggro more but I'll try the same. | ||
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blackodd
Sweden451 Posts
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Thereisnosaurus
Australia1822 Posts
A lot of these missions are doable by just not fighting and sniping the objectives. | ||
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ETHANOL
Canada68 Posts
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konadora
Singapore66358 Posts
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JunZ
United States314 Posts
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blackodd
Sweden451 Posts
On August 03 2010 01:17 JunZ wrote: You don't need to do the bonus objectives Ayadew. Just beat it on brutal and get the relics on a lower difficulty. I'm doing it for the achievement, so yes I do need them hehe thanks anyway Found it now.. it's in the middle down | ||
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
On August 03 2010 01:11 ETHANOL wrote: did it with pure vikings and got the save 2 outpost achievement on brutal, get 2 armories, start weapon upg asap then get some scvs and build a bunker for first attack, then get more vikings, go kill the carriers just before they hit the camp, then you come back just in time to kill the colossi, when u pick up ressource, start lvl 2 weapon and level 1 plating, take your vikings to top right base and hit the prisms/ phoenixes, land on high ground, kill nexus. Mass vikings now with all your cash and go around 2nd protoss base (snipe the warp prisms) +1 colossi, land on high ground and kill nexus. Then, kill 2nd protoss attack and go back to your base to defend those 2 carriers and colossi, go str8 to third protoss base start off by killing warp prisms, carrier, colossi and void ray with your super range, then go from behind, land and target nexus, fly back, send all your scvs to 3rd refugee camp repairing your vikings and massing turrets with the cash you got left, the mothership should arrive just in time and you just attack it you have so many vikings it goes down pretty fast Wrong mission. And you can't land. Archons wreck Vikings at the third base. | ||
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QueueQueue
Canada1000 Posts
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EnigmaZero
United States56 Posts
14 banshees, 6 vikings and 3 vessels was enough to easily overtake the last base on brutal. I also have the regenerative mech zerg research, which helped a bit in healing up. Keeping the vikings alive is extremely important as you'll face several scouts and phoenixes at the end. Also there is an observer sitting right on top of the objective but if you have a vessel or raven you can detect and kill it. | ||
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SC2Phoenix
Canada2814 Posts
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
On August 03 2010 10:48 SC2Phoenix wrote: Why even go MnMnM is beyond me. You can totaly cheat this mission like every other. Get armory asap and head towards +3 air attack. have 2 starports with tech reactors (or with3-4 techs) and just pump banshees. As the fire moves use pure banshee to kill the first base and keep mining. Eventually youll have 40 banshees and you can just right click the target and dont worry about any enemies. When the toss storms just move out of the way and keep shotting at the target. Because not everyone plays the entire game, then plays this mission? Stop coming up with ridiculous solutions that involve getting the maximum upgrade technology. If people had that, they wouldn't have trouble in the first place. Is the cheese strategy to hide a bunch of banshees and buildings in a corner until the map burns out and then snipe the temple? Sounds doable. | ||
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jmark
United States4 Posts
I saved every time I transferred bases because I'd lose concentration and fly my banshees right into a storm every now and then. After hitting up each base attacked the protoss camp with banshees, flying around the edges picking off what I could before moving in for the kill. It's annoying having to rebuild your tech lab each time you move. I think I had science vessels as well by the time I played this mission; unfortunately they just die if you cloak your banshees, so I didn't use cloak at all. Just don't lose any banshees and you're gold. | ||
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CScythe
Canada810 Posts
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kaztal
Sweden68 Posts
thought this mission would be hard but it turned out really easy. | ||
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NETRAT
Belarus180 Posts
stimpacks and medic upgrades are super strong for their cost ye HT raped half of my army in the end but i stimed again and focus fired temple pretty fast | ||
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Mortician
Bulgaria2332 Posts
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humblegar
Norway883 Posts
A few tips: - Bring detection for illusions :p - Kill the base north of you before it gets killed by the fire, get ressources on the ground and from the dead nexus. - Land your buildings as far right as you can whenever you stop. - Tanks > cannons and small armies with illusions. No need for merc tanks, any will do. - If you just keep whatever kind of army alive you will have a small passageway to the objective with perhaps 1 cannon 1 archon or similiar surviving to engage you (with the fire to your left smoldering the last base). | ||
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