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Poll: What did u find easier on brutal ?Nydus (202) 81% Air (48) 19% 250 total votes Your vote: What did u find easier on brutal ? (Vote): Nydus
(Vote): Air
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I plan do play the campaign on brutal but I wonder since the all-in mission is considered by most people as the hardest mission which direction I should choose to make this a cakewalk  I just wanna get the achievement and wanna get through this as easy as possible =)
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Doing it with the Nydus is much easier from my experience, tanks can kill the spawned units while banshees go for the nydus worms. If you leave the air units active, Brood Lords can mess you up badly.
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Kill off the air units in the second-to-last stage, then make sure to get a squad (or two squads) of Banshees in the final stage to hunt down Nydus worms all around the map. Nydus worms spawn big waves of tough enemies, wherever they may spawn.
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Air was extremely easy, at least on normal. Right now I'm on Nydus on hard and I've tried 3 times and failed (at 99% no less...). A bit harder but it depends on your strategy.
From what I've seen perdition turrets + siege tanks are great against nydus but of course I chose PF instead... Honestly you just need to have a good medic/marine ball for Kerrigan either way and a good fleet of banshees for worms or vikings + turrets for mutas and broodlords. Kerrigan is the only hard part of this mission, she is just so dangerous if you go the wrong side with your MM ball, odds are you will lose immediatly.
*Edit : I know you're talking about brutal but a good strategy translates into whatever difficulty.
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Taking out the air platform is hands down the easiest All In. With air you have to worry about ground and AA, without it you only have to worry about ground, which tanks pound into submission pretty well.
From what I've seen perdition turrets + siege tanks are great against nydus but of course I chose PF instead
PF is more than enough for Nydus. It does splash damage too and at longer range, not to mention having a ton more hp and more armor.
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I found Nydus to be easier on All-In. I also found that the mission prior to take out the Air was easier then the mission to take out the Nydus worms. Not only is the final mission easier without air Leviathan <Queen, at least in terms of difficulty (on Brutal btw).
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Nydus is definitely easier, as you don't need any anti-air whatsoever (and you can just use the artifact during the mass overlord phase), which saves a lot of resources for tanks and MnM.
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On August 11 2010 06:52 ariK wrote:
Nydus is definitely easier, as you don't need any anti-air whatsoever (and you can just use the artifact during the mass overlord phase), which saves a lot of resources for tanks and MnM.
What does the mass overlords even do anyways? I killed them before anything happened(played on normal, yes I suck).
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Through me experience, facing the nydus worms were a lot easier. You could easily cloak in six to seven banshees and take the nydus out with ease when they emerged.
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The only way I've tried it on brutal was with air gone, but when I played the normal speedrun I did with nyduses gone and used mind control on all the air units that came. With over 100 mutas and 16 brood lords near the end I easily pushed into the zerg base the last 5 minutes, so I'd imagine on brutal it would be a bit more hectic but a lot more fun and easy in the end (you'd still have siege tanks).
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Nydus was superrrrr easy.
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Nydus is definitely easier. Tanks rape everything on the ground.
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It's pretty simple, Nydus just requires massing a giant blob of siege tanks with 2 sci vessels healing them near the artifact but not on the high ground while building psi disruptors near their position to slow them down in the rain of fire while building 2 planetary fortresses near the choke points.
Against zerg air requires a little more skill and micro, you need to mass vikings with some banshee and sci vessel support and just patrol for any aerial assault and also build the 2 planetary fortresses with a lesser extent of blobbing siege tanks.
Both are pretty easy to beat but patrolling your mass vikings takes more skill to win the game.
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Air is actually pretty fun and easy if you do the MC tower strategy. Just build TONS of them and mind control as many mutas and broodlords as possible. Broodlords immobilize Kerrigan pretty fast and the mass number of mutas take care of the rest as long as you dodge her storm.
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Air was the only brutal mission I felt that I couldn't possibly beat, so I loaded and did Nydus and beat it in 2 or so tries.
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I went Nydus.
Just wondering, do Spider Mines prevent the nydus worms from popping?
if so, that would help greatly.
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On August 11 2010 07:00 Itsarabbit wrote:Show nested quote +On August 11 2010 06:52 ariK wrote:
Nydus is definitely easier, as you don't need any anti-air whatsoever (and you can just use the artifact during the mass overlord phase), which saves a lot of resources for tanks and MnM. What does the mass overlords even do anyways? I killed them before anything happened(played on normal, yes I suck).
They drop zerglings that try to kill your supply depots and scvs.
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the general consensus is clear I see  I will definitly do nydus worms on brutal for that mission it does mean that I have to play the whole campaign for a third time the other 2 differetn campaigns I did were with air lvl hehe
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Nydus is easier. You dont even need to kill the Nydus Worms with Banshees. Just make like 40 Tanks and the rest is marines/medic for Kerrigan.
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I've only tried to face Nydus in the final battle and that was pretty easy, just went around with 15 banshees and oneshotted the nyduses with shift-click.
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