Which mission are you talking about, specifically? The one right before final mission? I usually go BCs + 3-5 vessels


As for the hybrid level, I found that jerk was crazy susceptible to cannons and melee units. I started getting 5 cannons at each entry, then got a handful of zeals to backup my main stalker force. Eventually I added in about 6 dts. At this point, I could take him on which any fraction of my force, even if i left my base. Once the side bases were down, I pushed straight in, and got the attention of all the enemy units on my zeals and stalkers, while my dts ran to the back and opened all the preservers (quite quickly I might add). This was on brutal, so I'd guarantee a similar strat would work in lower difficulties.