ended up wiping out every toss structure on the map just by baiting all the units at the ramp with goliaths/marines(for AA) while the tanks just kill everything on the ground.

NETRAT

Belarus180 Posts

July 29 2010 12:27 GMT

#22

got all achievements on hard with 1 run, floating barracks and shift-queue with laser, targeted void rays, colossi, immortals and hts with laser, 6 sieged tanks each side of the base
the only problem was rebuilding 8 or more barracks to float over protoss base because they die very fast to void rays
protoss rebuilds every lost building so u don't even need to float all over the base, u can regularly destroy buildings on the corner without moving barracks

Latvia791 Posts

July 29 2010 18:35 GMT

#23

I'm extremely frustrated and now I know I'm f... because I had to do viking-unlock mission first, that would make it easy compared to, imho, unwinable conditions with standard ball even with good timing AI seems to still have MORE than you do and even with laser spam he still overwhelms..

God damnit viking mission... Would I have known...

EDIT: I DID IT. ARG!

I just whined and did it like in 10 minutes in the same game. I decided to try to float the 2 factories from lower right corner - it worked really well. Gave me enough vision to slowly take out the structures there (protoss doesn't rebuild that base instantly).

Then I floated 3 barracks over the Xel'Naga temple by the right side and came in from the right upper side into the big upper base. Left barracks hanging in the air on the ledge and just destroyed everything he was rebuilding and it was happening instantly. EASY.

Thank God!

Keitzer

United States2509 Posts

July 30 2010 04:17 GMT

#24

hey RA... did you use lazerzz to attack buildings with vision from factory? sounds like a good idea since i no has scan or starport

Vokasak

United States388 Posts

July 30 2010 05:28 GMT

#25

I didn't think to use floating buildings and I didn't have any air units unlocked at the time. I got it just by using bioballs and going a little heavier on the medics. I got it on my second attack, which ended up taking out the right-hand base completely. The game ended before I could take the other, bigger base. But I have my achievement so I'm happy. There's no Feat of Strength for taking out both bases, is there?

chukolna

78 Posts

July 30 2010 21:53 GMT

#26

i just did it with flying barrack to the top left of the map , and easy easy taking out units that can attack it and then the buildings .

Kambing

United States1176 Posts

July 31 2010 00:57 GMT

#27

Echoing floating raxes as the way to go. You need to sacrifice a few to cut the cannons and air units around each base's perimeter, but you can abuse the high ground edges and longer los to snipe at will.

Dr_Strange

United States80 Posts

July 31 2010 02:54 GMT

#28

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?

I was able to build starport when i got to the level. Its all based on which missions you chose. I bet you were able to make goliaths which I wasn't.

TheFinalWord

Australia790 Posts

July 31 2010 03:06 GMT

#29

I just did it with mm, no tanks/vikings involved. mm is so op in campaign.

erlaiys

Estonia46 Posts

July 31 2010 03:52 GMT

#30

1. Build solid defense with tanks
2. Lift CC and fly straight to north
3. Get vision of buildings and use laser to kill (abuse cliffs and the fact that AI rebuilds a lot of buildings)

Zato-1

Chile4253 Posts

July 31 2010 04:11 GMT

#31

Siege up a good ways away from their ramps. Gain vision of their units / buildings with floating barracks or air units. Kill buildings / threatening units with drill. When they're weak enough, march up the ramp and level their bases.

Sadistx

Zimbabwe5568 Posts

July 31 2010 04:14 GMT

#32

Kill the structures as early as possible, preferably before the protoss start getting colossi and high templars in their waves, then it's much much easier, also use the drill to kill the Stargates and Robotics ASAP, cuz voidrays will fuck your shit up if you let them charge.

KaiserJohan

Sweden1808 Posts

August 02 2010 12:53 GMT

#33

Best strat is by far the spam barracks and float them over (like 4-5 a time) and then kill. Easy peasy.

devilesk

United States140 Posts

August 02 2010 12:55 GMT

#34

I just used merc vikings to give vision of the protoss base and then queued up the laser to kill all the buildings. Meanwhile I walled off my ramp with PF and put siege tanks behind it. You never relaly need to leave your base with ground units except to take the expo. I also had a group of vikings to kill air and get vision. It was pretty easy.

Munk-E

United States672 Posts

August 02 2010 16:27 GMT

#35

i just got vision with a building and lazer cannoned it

Skygrinder

Greece241 Posts

August 04 2010 08:29 GMT

#36

I just finished the mission with +2/+2 MMM and +2/+2 Vikings at about 160-170 supply, i destroyed every building and didnt get an achievement, FML

zotax

Sweden20 Posts

August 04 2010 12:15 GMT

#37

i just made the usual defence with bunkers and tanks, just continous production of tanks thought the mission, what else to do right :S
the only thing you need to watch are flyers and collosi cuz they will get vision of the tanks up on the highgrund and that with a wave of other units can wreck ya tanks upp.

and when i decided i wanted to do the achievement, i just made like 10rax and flew them in to there base and qued all those buildings upp with the drill. i lost all the rax, but that dosnt matter, redid on the next base and only needed a few more othere then that one complete base.

zotax

Sweden20 Posts

August 04 2010 12:18 GMT

#38

vyyye

Sweden3917 Posts

August 04 2010 12:47 GMT

#39

I did this achievement in a pretty cheap way. If you just hug the edge of the map on the left side you can get into the protoss base with a few vikings. Keep hugging the wall and you'll get to a high ground and you should be able to see a few cannons, pylons and a gateway IIRC. Let the lasers kill them, wait a bit and a probe will come along and rebuild all of it. Rinse and repeat.

waveforce

United States2 Posts

August 04 2010 13:03 GMT

#40

Yea, I just used a flying CC and started in the top left of the the right base and slowly worked my way through it all and whenever it would get attacked I would just make sure the laser focused on those units ASAP then went back to killing buildings. It goes pretty quickly, then I moved to the top right of the top left base and finished the job there. This method was actually kind of fun...