This mission is really easy with vikings. Just mass them out of a starport with a reactor. Kill the flying units and then land to kill the ground units. There really is nothing more to it then that. I was able to protect all of the settlements. In my opinion this is one of the easier levels.
edit: repair after every battle.

Dromar

United States2145 Posts

July 30 2010 02:06 GMT

#22

I just built a ball of mmf and a-moved, with viking support to help deal with broodlords. (I sided with Protoss)

SC2Phoenix

Canada2814 Posts

July 30 2010 02:15 GMT

#23

I just built pure viking and flew around and killed the broodlords and just used ground vikings to kill the zerg bases.

Itsarabbit

Sweden58 Posts

July 30 2010 02:53 GMT

#24

Get ghosts, upgrade them, start the mission, snipe overseers, NUKE.
When you notice that you are starting to run out of minerals, mass marines and a couple of medics, then kill the northernmost expansion. then, mass marines and ghosts, NUKE. Kill the southernmost expansion last, because ghosts are pretty useless there, as they seem to mass overseers.
The attack forces don't have detection with them which makes this extremely easy.
Note that this takes alot of time to do, it took me more than an hour, but it's pretty sailface(I actually wrote that by mistake xD)*.

*failsafe

Zeridian

United States198 Posts

July 30 2010 05:48 GMT

#25

if you want to beat this mission, it's pretty simple. You can take as long as you want and just keep stopping their infestations. If you're going for the achievement I'd recommend mass viking. With 2-3 seige tanks and 2 bunkers defending your base.

2 Starport + reactors made it easy for me to mass up viking, then I just handled everything with the large mass

Vokasak

United States388 Posts

July 30 2010 05:55 GMT

#26

I did this mission by making nothing but Reapers and using 8 or so vikings to snipe mutas. Everything the zerg has on this mission dies to mass reaper. It's really quite glorious.

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

August 06 2010 06:02 GMT

#27

The thing is, people aren't doing this mission. They chose the other mission. Then they go to mission archives and do this mission so that they can finish all 29 missions and get the achievement. When you redo things in the mission archive, you don't get to use all the units you've unlocked, only a handful. So you can't just say, go get this.

TriniMasta

United States1323 Posts

August 06 2010 06:05 GMT

#28

I think it would be more helpful if you described the mission just a bit, I didn't memorize the mission names =(

TheBigJ

14 Posts

August 06 2010 12:35 GMT

#29

I chose to protect.

Need a lot of Vikings to do this one. The protoss won't really attack you directly until you engage their ships. They use a lot of carriers as raiding units, and Vikings are the best units to shoot them down.

psychopat

Canada417 Posts

August 06 2010 13:22 GMT

#30

Haven's Fall isn't the one with the Protoss... That's Safe Haven.

For Haven's Fall, I massed Vikings off of 1 reactor'ed starport. Use them to clean out the infestation immediately to the right and any new infestation attempts. Clean out the mutas first, then the brood lords, then you can land and take them out with very minimal losses. Of course, repair between each fight. I think I wound up with about 30 by the end of the mission, which is way more than you'll ever need.

Marine/Medic totally dominates everything else in the level. I think the 3 "real" zerg bases have a bunch of spore crawlers and no brood lords, so the vikings weren't the best choice. I just walked in with 20 or so marines with stim and 4 medics and it cleaned everything out easily.

So far, this has been pretty much the easiest mission for me... MUCH easier than Safe Haven to get the Hard achievement on it. The only semi-annoying part is when the first colony in the bottom left gets taken and you don't have much of an army yet, sometimes the virulator can finish before you can take it down... Of course, they always go in the same order so you can actually go and start taking it out before the game even warns you that the zerg are attempting to overtake that camp.

blah604

Canada36 Posts

August 06 2010 14:45 GMT

#31

hey guys is the 5 settlement achi bugged? i was playing on brutal.. beat it it said i saved 4.. so i reloaded and waited for them to attack like 5x and i still didn't get it.

n3mo

United States298 Posts

August 06 2010 15:09 GMT

#32

so i'm not sure how the tech works since i came back to this one after finishing the campaign, but if you have banshees, they are beautiful here. about 6-8 banshees and a bunch of vikings, and the most dangerous units (broodlords) can't even hit you. two tanks and two bunkers at my base was enough to fend off the infested folk.

psychopat

Canada417 Posts

August 06 2010 17:38 GMT

#33

On August 06 2010 23:45 blah604 wrote:
hey guys is the 5 settlement achi bugged? i was playing on brutal.. beat it it said i saved 4.. so i reloaded and waited for them to attack like 5x and i still didn't get it.

I got it yesterday... One time, I saved camps like 8 times, but they keep trying to reinfest the same camps and it also told me 4. I had lost one camp to infestation. When I did it without losing a single camp (ie: there were 5 colonist camps left on the map), I got the achievement.

I think it's just that the wording for the achievement is a bit ambiguous.

Shiladie

Canada1631 Posts

August 06 2010 19:25 GMT

#34

This is an amazingly easy mission if you have science vessals (do all the protoss missions asap for the research) I just massed vikings with a few tanks and 6marines+2 medics in base for defence. Had 20+ vikings backed by 6 vessals. When a new town is being infested, there will be nothing on the ground that can shoot up until infestation is complete. Just be on top of getting there, clearing out all the air, and then land nearby to walk in (landing in the middle loses you a viking or 2 to ling surround) I then just cleared out a base between each infestation, simple and easy...

Gnosis

Scotland912 Posts

August 06 2010 20:34 GMT

#35

On July 30 2010 04:10 TheFinalWord wrote:
I built nothin but vikings on brutal and won. Take you first vikings and kil the infested area, keep building vikings. Take your vikings and kill the top base, while still building vikings. Build more vikings. Kill everything, build more vikings, victory!

This. Mission is incredibly easy pure Viking.

professorjoak

318 Posts

August 06 2010 20:49 GMT

#36

To get the achievement, you need to prevent the Zerg from completing any more hatcheries at new settlements. You don't need to wait for them to attack 5 times.

If you have banshees this mission is a lot easier because viking+ a few banshees is both highly mobile and hard for the zerg to stop. Don't forget that your mercenary camp can drop anywhere on the map by setting rally point, so if you find yourself in a bind you can summon mass mercs to kill off the hatchery before it comes up.

jamesr12

United States1549 Posts

August 06 2010 20:57 GMT

#37

tank viking, you can take out all the nexus from high ground

mkchoi0801

Canada125 Posts

August 08 2010 09:33 GMT

#38

I can't seem to find the 3 protoss research in Haven's Fall. Is it because I already did Safe Haven and I can only choose one of the 2 rewards?

PoP

France15446 Posts

August 08 2010 09:41 GMT

#39

Like 99% missions on Brutal, mass upgraded M&M basically rapes everything there too.

Slayer91

Ireland23335 Posts

August 08 2010 09:54 GMT

#40

I went mostly vikings, they take out the first base easy, the second base you need mnm support and just landed vikings. After that mnm+vikings ftw. Always immediately defend any settlement with like 5 vikings at least, easy way to get achievement.

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