EPTCouldn't help but start laughing when 1 marine has finished the mission for me.
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Variance
United States3 Posts
Couldn't help but start laughing when 1 marine has finished the mission for me. | ||
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TriniMasta
United States1323 Posts
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Fraud
Canada108 Posts
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Redunzl
862 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + wall off perimeter with barracks, supply depots. you dont need planetary fortress lol (that cant take advantage of upgrades silly). 3 factories constapump tanks 2 starport constapump banshees (with aoe upgrade). after second kerrigan attack add another fact and 2 starports. build only tanks and banshees. in this mission i made scvs, tanks, and banshees. upgrades (you can be 3-3 on tanks and banshees by the time the artifcat is around 90%) and good walling in with many barrracks will win. i started upgrades from the second the mission started and immediately built another armory. tanks in good position plus roving 3-1 banshees make this easy. you have to be smart about how to pick off the nyduses. sometimes have to split your banshee army (also I used the banshee mercs.. they are good and you can get two sets during this mission). and kerrigan is soooo easy. just split your banshees up so they dont get AOEed (yes you have to micro) and yamato with the 2 crusiers they give you at the start. | ||
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hetpotatis
Sweden24 Posts
I had two bunkers at each entry point. These I filled with 1 firebat and rest marines each. Then I just got a shitload of tanks (both behinds bunkers and on top of cliffs to the sides). I had 2-3 scv's at the bunkers at all times do make sure they didn't go down. The tanks (about 15 or so on each side) would obliterate anything that got near while the bunkers soaked up most of the damage. Then I had a squad of 15-16 banshees just roaming around killing Nydus worms. Don't worry about spore colonies, the problem are the hydras if there are a lot of them with detection. I timed these with Nydus spawns so they would both go offensive to take out Nydus' and help in the base if things spawned there (but mostly the tanks helped with these). As for Kerrigan... just make sure she doesn't kill too much, least of all your banshees, because if you don't have these you won't be able to kill the Nydus' in time. You can attack her with the banshees, then when she casts her storm thingie, quickly move out so she waste it. Just make sure you save a lot so you can re-load in case you get unlucky and she wipes out an entire side. I used 0 PF's, 0 Psi-Emitters and only used 1 factory, starport and barracks. Activated the artifact like 2-3 times and my entire base was standing at the end (save for some Nydus' that got through). Just make sure you upgrade your attack! Constantly! | ||
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Kwidowmaker
Canada978 Posts
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Grains
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 ). I have:- NO 25% more gas = 25% less tanks - NO tech/react addon(even less tanks) - NO Banshee upgrades - NO PF Against nydus worms on brutal. Tried it all and I´m not even close. Almost never died the whole campaign and now its suddenly a mountain to climb... Have to be anyone in my situation that got at least 1 tip? Some people seems to think normal is same as brutal...But might just be my lack of upgrades. | ||
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supersoft
Germany3729 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + 200/200 siegetanks/siencevessels and then pull back on the highground where the artifact is and sacrifice your base... easygoing... the last 30% i did nothing except using the artifact when kerrigans is coming... | ||
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KhaosKreator
Canada145 Posts
Kerrigan on Brutal is a pushover. | ||
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
Ray is right, I found PF's to be really overrated in this mission. PF wastes your precious gas and its better to use the gas for tanks. When I played with this strategy in mind I easily beat it on the first try in brutal. I made a wall with e-bays with about 6 scvs repairing on each side. It was cake although I did have psi disrupters, I probably didn't need them. Literally nothing could get through because of the massive amount of tanks + very little friendly fire and artifact nova. Kerrigan dies to marines. I had slaughtered everything and was killing kerrigan with 20+ tanks when the artifact became fully charged. It was a really easy win. | ||
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Ebonikizzle
44 Posts
I left the ramps to the artifact open, walled in behind them & put a barracks with a tech-reactor up where it was and pumped marines to run out and kill kerrigan when she came. Put some science vessels there too, constantly pumped banshees rallied to where the SV's were, when the nydus popped I'd just shift right click them all with my banshees and then shift click back to the artifact for healing. Milllion scvs at the wall and a bunch of tanks & you're set. | ||
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Half
United States2554 Posts
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MangoTango
United States3670 Posts
On August 08 2010 09:35 writer22816 wrote: Ray is right, I found PF's to be really overrated in this mission. PF wastes your precious gas and its better to use the gas for tanks. When I played with this strategy in mind I easily beat it on the first try in brutal. I made a wall with e-bays with about 6 scvs repairing on each side. It was cake although I did have psi disrupters, I probably didn't need them. Literally nothing could get through because of the massive amount of tanks + very little friendly fire and artifact nova. Kerrigan dies to marines. I had slaughtered everything and was killing kerrigan with 20+ tanks when the artifact became fully charged. It was a really easy win. There are many ways to skin this puppy, but PFs were essential to my runthrough. They easily absorbed 30k damage each (x4). | ||
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Thermia
United States866 Posts
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
On August 08 2010 08:47 Grains wrote: Epic fail of blizzard(and I suck ). I have:- NO 25% more gas = 25% less tanks - NO tech/react addon(even less tanks) - NO Banshee upgrades - NO PF Against nydus worms on brutal. Tried it all and I´m not even close. Almost never died the whole campaign and now its suddenly a mountain to climb... Have to be anyone in my situation that got at least 1 tip? Some people seems to think normal is same as brutal...But might just be my lack of upgrades. You don't need PF or banshee to beat this on brutal. no tech reactor is not that bad because the only gas you lose a the little bit from building extra factories, should probably only amount to ~2 tanks anyway. but why anyone would choose instant-building supply depots over less gas is a mystery to me... I would just play normally with all the tanks you can get with your gas and spending the rest on marines/medics. you should still be able to make it if you have decent mechanics. | ||
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iloveav
Poland1481 Posts
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Dfgj
Singapore5922 Posts
The rest of your money goes into tanks. Have fun. | ||
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Barook
Germany143 Posts
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Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
On August 07 2010 03:14 Jugan wrote: Look at the liquipedia article for this mission. Keep a set of banshees to kill nydus wurms. If you kill nydus wurms when they spawn, it becomes so INSANELY EASY. I had no PF's, and never had to use my nova blast at all. In fact, I couldn't even get the achievement for 150 zerg killed in one shot because I was owning so hard (i only managed to kill 90 zerg in one shot at 99%). Also, get a couple of thors and a medivac to shuttle them around. If you didn't get the cannon upgrade on the thors, you can stun kerrigan to oblivion while she gets owned by your tanks. This is correct. Have one or two squads of Banshees hunting down Nydus worm spawns around the map, and then the only thing that's threatening at all in this mission is Kerrigan- Banshees are my preferred unit to deal with her as well (just be careful to dodge her mega-psi storm). | ||
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n3mo
United States298 Posts
On August 08 2010 18:06 iloveav wrote: This mission was very hard to do for me since i had no planraty frotress, no thor stunt, no psi emiters, no banshes longer cloacking. Banshes tend to die quite fast in brutal so even keeping my monewy under 500 minerals 200/200 units could become 96 in under 6 seconds once those masses of ultra/baneling came along after or with kerrigan you can do them without any of those (as i did), although psi emitters do help. keep your banshees above your tanks so that they only really fire at the occasional unit that makes it to your tanks, and take them over the lava routes to hit nydus worms. use the artifact to remove the masses that come with kerrigan, so you can focus on just her. | ||
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