Feats of Strength Achievements - Page 2

You'll need to be very careful with your forces. Do not lose any units, and micro efficiently. Save after every little portion of progress you make. Most of the way it is very straightforward, however after the first heal-reward, things get tricky. Hold position your marines and medics on top of the ramp (just out of LOS) and use Raynor to bait things up to the kill zone one by one. Be careful and save frequently. This is very easy to mess up.

Now, to get past the room you're "supposed" to use the Ares in, hold position your marines and medics at the entrance. Use Raynor to pull (and tank) small groups until there's only two medics, a viking, a tank, (and some marines? I forget.) Put one medic in the south corner, and use Raynor to attack the medic. This will cause the viking and siege tank to chase. Have Raynor tank and kite them into the big orange buckets, then throw a grenade on top of everything. Boom!

Next room (with the Thor and marines): lure the marines with the same method described above, but this time you don't have a ramp to abuse. When the Thor is alone, just use plasma shots on it (they have no cooldown) and it'll explode. Owned.

After that, choose 3 marauders over everything else. Clear the room carefully, leaving your marines behind. Focus fire is your friend. Clear the whooole room, pick up ammo, and send one marine back to the Ares, and one marine to the beacon for the brutalisk. First, have your Ares marine start that -- it'll show you an empty room. Select armored missiles, then run him all the way to the Brutalisk. Move Raynor, the marauders and the medics back up against the northeast wall, and when the Ares is right infront of the brutalisk, use your second marine to get that started. It'll get unleashed, and if you did everything right, the Ares should have enough time to kill it (Ares soloed it for me on Brutal, so I'm assuming you'll have enough time on hard.) If you feel like your Ares might die, use the marauders and Raynor to sneak in some DPS, but don't let them get hit -- if they die, you'll miss getting the normal difficulty achievement. Make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN to pull your units back when the Brutalisk is low on life. The Ares DOES need to get the kill.

Enjoy the achievement!

I actually killed the Bruta with ARES straight-up, pretty much. Well, Raynor shot a bit, but no abilities used or any such. I simply cleared the area (easy with Raynor's special weapons & some healing; tanks are no threat and they're the toughest crap in there), then activated ARES, brought it to the Brutalisk, activated Bruta and let 'em duke it out with some Raynor-help.