So, in order to get this achievement, you need to destroy 50 protoss structures on Hard. How the heck are you supposed to do this? They have collosi, voidrays, archons, and immortals out the ass, and all you have are infantry, tanks, and gols. In order to enter one of their bases, you need to go up a ramp that is covered by like 4 or 5 cannons and a ridiculous number of high tech units. The laser can only target 1 thing at a time and is really slow, so you can never kill off all the dangerous units before your army is dust.

nMn

United States144 Posts

July 29 2010 00:19 GMT

Edit - I'm retarded

NotJack

United States737 Posts

July 29 2010 00:20 GMT

Use siege and vikings to give vision; easiest thing in the world.

kAz3

United States56 Posts

July 29 2010 00:31 GMT

hm, yea i decided to do this one before the mission that gave me vikings, I should probably go back and do that

Sfydjklm

United States9218 Posts

July 29 2010 00:43 GMT

i just floated buildings instead of vikings but i still cant do it- i am playing on brutal however

SilverSocks

Netherlands6 Posts

July 29 2010 00:54 GMT

I got this achievement today, and I wasn't able to get any vikings as well.

The trick is to have a critical mass of siegetanks on one side of your base (like 8) and take the whole rest of your force to the beginning of the topleft ramp. Siege up, build a few turret and float over a few barracks.

Don't rush it, it takes a while, and you should use the cannon on immortals > collosus > buildings.

Good luck.

SC2Phoenix

Canada2814 Posts

July 29 2010 01:00 GMT

I just finished getting all the achievments for the campaign and i got to say this is one of the hardest. I did Mass marauder medic Tank golith and kept pushing foward as i spammed bunkers to defend. Use the lazer to pick off all the immortals and colosus so you dont get over run from the second lane they attack from.

Allegria

Switzerland83 Posts

July 29 2010 01:00 GMT

U don't need any Tanks at all.
Get a ball of MMMedic, use the laser for Collossi, ???, profit.
Took me a LOT of tries for the right timing to push up the ramp, but that's how i did it.

Gryffes

United Kingdom763 Posts

July 29 2010 01:07 GMT

If you do another mission first you get mule+scan, I just abused scan+the laser for pewpewpew.

( I built like 4 CCs in that starter lane area that nothing goes to so it was safe and just chain scanned + melted stuff ).

fourthirds

Canada132 Posts

July 29 2010 01:26 GMT

#10

You can't build a starport in that map so I don't think you can get vikings. Can you hire viking mercs maybe?

hofodomo

United States257 Posts

July 29 2010 01:39 GMT

#11

On July 29 2010 10:26 fourthirds wrote:
You can't build a starport in that map so I don't think you can get vikings. Can you hire viking mercs maybe?

Like others have said, tech unlocks as you complete certain missions. Perhaps you need to finish another mission first (one that provides vikings), then you will be able to build them.

Radio.active

United States121 Posts

July 29 2010 01:43 GMT

#12

vultures dude, they are like completely unfair in this game. not only do they come with mines, mass vulture demolishes any number of protoss units, and just a few anti air to help take care of the scouts.

Sfydjklm

United States9218 Posts

July 29 2010 01:44 GMT

#13

maybe it's because i am a terran noob, but this mission turned out to be super easy once i figured out how to defend. 5 bunkers(capacity+defense upgrades) with marines, 6 tanks, 4 turrets and 4 scvs completely shut down an entrance for the entire duration(grab some extra tanks and scvs tho just to be safe:D). I did not do it, but i imagine if you quickly shut down upper part and then expand to the natural you can easily amass enough force to kill 50 protoss buildings.
Because after i build up my defenses i literally afked for the remainder of the mission. In fact first time i did it i thought to check out how far i can push it and with 4 tanks per side the laser died with the door having 700 hp left.

Earll

Norway847 Posts

July 29 2010 01:47 GMT

#14

I didnt even know about this achievement, but I ended up getting it when i was trying to destroy the protoss base (which by the way is pretty impossible) with my 200/200 m&m ball.

KnightOfNi

United States1508 Posts

July 29 2010 01:54 GMT

#15

I didn't get this achievement (I'm pretty much just tearing through the campaign atm, not worrying about achievements, those can come later

), but I did the viking mission first and used the laser on archons/immortals and vikings on collossi. Doing the viking mission first was a HUGE advantage on that lava mission on redstone or whatever that mission was (collect 8000 minerals)... having the vikings flying around killing stuff is SOOOOO great on that map

kzn

United States1218 Posts

July 29 2010 02:05 GMT

#16

Heh, I did it on hard by sacrificing like 20+ barracks.

The key was to wait until I had like 5 or more barracks, rather than sending them in one at a time, and focusing on one base so that as I killed more buildings my barracks survived longer.

OminouS

Sweden1343 Posts

July 29 2010 02:12 GMT

#17

Scan + Laser is the easiest way if you got some patience.

VelRa_G

Canada304 Posts

July 29 2010 03:05 GMT

#18

I just built lots of units really fast and threw them up the ramp. Kite with laser hitting the big guys, Colossi, then VR. I love how epic they make archons sound in that little blurb.

Half

United States2554 Posts

July 29 2010 03:30 GMT

#19

imo this was easier then the 3rd mission bonus objective lol.

Immediately take nearby expo. Defend with 2 bunkers and 4-5 siege tanks on edge and you don't have to worry about that side...forever. Macro up fast, use lasers to defend. Get 200/200 mix of 8-10 tanks and bioball with full upgrades (you should have this at ~10-12 minutes). Protoss base towards your left. Siege tanks outside, attack-a, stimpacks=gg. Don't worry about bonus objective till base 1 is down (its really big).

I actually beat this mission by killing all the protoss buildings lol.

I didnt even know about this achievement, but I ended up getting it when i was trying to destroy the protoss base (which by the way is pretty impossible) with my 200/200 m&m ball.

nope ^_^. The mission actually ends prematurely if you take out both bases, I managed to take both bases out+bonus objectives with 1000 hp still on the clock.

You need to take out the massive base to the Northwest. The southern base is literally impenetrable unless you throw everything you got at it due to the very narrow choke (Had to send my 50 SCVs to kill it), without worrying about defending. But on the flipside, the attacks are very easy to defend against with just 5 siege tanks on your ledge, 2 bunkers, and 1 scv. The northern base is big, but you can set up a good concave of siegetanks outside and push in with MM. Once half of it falls the second half doesn't offer much resistance and can be cleared with only ~30-40 infantry units, no tanks.

You don't really need anything other then your tanks and basic upgraded MMM+mercs.

Hitotsu

2 Posts

July 29 2010 07:23 GMT

#20

So by the time I did this mission I had wraiths and the hurcule mega transport. I found out quickly that wraith sight = cannon range xD

However I ended up using one of the transports to spot for the laser drill. The top left protoss base there are a bunch of high cliffs surrounding the base. With those cliffs the transports can operate with full impunity. The toss will keep rebuilding the structures. From this point just keep blasting them well keeping yourself alive.