Last level (All In) *SPOILER* hard difficulty?

On July 28 2010 13:59 Smurfz wrote:
I'm rofling because I'm in the exact same position using the exact same strategy except without the supply depots

[edit] are you getting Siege Tanks? It seems like I do a lot worse on this mission when I don't keep up with a nice Siege Tank count.

On July 28 2010 14:49 CynanMachae wrote:
Ok I've just managed to finally finish it (on Brutal).

What I did was mass tanks (around 12 per side) behind the cliffs (not on high ground), with a craptons of bunkers i kept rebuilding at the chokes (my bunkers have the autoturret upgrade). Also made a group or 6-7 banshess patroling the map for nydus, and really, thats the most improtant thing, dont get the Z get too many nyduses :\

Also you have to makre sure you use the nova when you are about to get overrun, not when you start loosing stuff

On July 28 2010 16:31 superbabosheki wrote:
This is so easy to beat, especially if you have the upgrade that allows you to build with multiple SCVS. What I did was just open up with two more command centers just for the extra mules/scvs really fast. After that I went pure tank, planetary(two on the cliff w/ the artifact, and I ended up having 4 on each side so 10 total), with alot of SCVS.

Buy the tank upgrades that make them do 75% less dmg to your own stuff, and wah-.lah easy win. Did this on brutal on my second try, failed the first time because I just had no clue what my objective was lmao.

On July 28 2010 21:22 st4rfox wrote:
so has anyone done this with air enabled yet on brutal? I've gotten to 70% but it gets quite ridiculous at that point

Is there any way to go back and get more credits? I never got planetary fortress or tank upgrades

On July 29 2010 00:08 Wargizmo wrote:


You can go back and re-do just about every mission to get the bonus objectives - once you max out your protoss and zerg research you'll get money instead of points.

I'd say the SCV upgrades, seige tank upgrades and planetary fortress are priorities for this mission, if you already missed the PF then make sure you have the bunker upgrades. If you're facing air then the viking upgrades are really good too.

I beat it on hard with my 2nd attempt (after getting to 98.7% on my first attempt haha) and it was pretty easy once I worked out the strategy.

I found that Kerrigan goes down pretty fast to a squad of stimmed marine/medic/marauders, I basically just had a squad of about 30 infantry in the centre of the base and would just use them to own her whenever she showed up, they were also really useful at dealing with anything that managed to get into the base.

On the perimeter I had 2-3 planetary fortress each side with tanks behind and vikings patrolling above and a ton of missile turrets everywhere, I had SCVs on auto repair everywhere, I also put two PFs next to the artifact, this setup pretty much held off everything automatically except Kerrigan and the air boss. The infantry squad took care of kerrigan when she showed up and the boss went down pretty easy to all my vikings.

On July 29 2010 02:16 SONE wrote:
Try to just get the merc tanks, and just put like 3 facs uptop with the artifact and wall in with tanks and some marines covering the whole thing. I only played it on normal, but I lasted pretty damn long before I even had to use the artifact. Get +3 weap and speed(if you went this way) and you should be ok. Going to do a Brutal playthrough so yeah I'll check back and see if this worked for you.