(03/08/2010 11:02 PM)Hellgiver Wrote:  Which mission are you talking about, specifically? The one right before final mission? I usually go BCs + 3-5 vessels

No, the one with the flame wave that travels slowly across the map and will burn you if you don't keep relocating your base.  The mission that unlocks the banshee.

Pretty much just attacked with banshees while spending all the money at home to build more.  Probably the only mission I spent absolutely 0 money on getting defense at all.  When I went on attacks, I placed an SCV on their main attack path to warn me of when I need to pull my air force back and defend with it.  At the very end, having no defense came to bite me as they rolled rampant through my base when I was busy sacking theirs, but I survived by lifting off the buildings and flying them to where my army was.

(03/08/2010 11:02 PM)Hellgiver Wrote:  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.

Never tried on brutal, but on hard, I pretty much just got like 4 canons (in the middle, so I don't have to defend both sides) + a few zealots to ward him off at the start, while taking stalkers around the map killing the random pockets of units around the first base, and eventually, the base itself when I got around 10-12.  Later on he has a skill which does massive damage to a single target (enough to 1 shot a cannon, and I think 2 shot a gateway), and he uses that stuff to rape all the cannons, so I didn't build any more cannons after that.

But by the time he got that skill, I've already taken the first base and had an expansion running there, so I just used my main invasion force to intercept and deal with him when he came.  Took out the 2nd base not too long afterwards, was quite difficult because I underestimated it's defenses, and pretty much dropped 3/4 of my (not large enough) army, even though I was pulling them, and actually spent effort microing my units (blink rotating the damaged stalkers and focusing dangerous units).  Note: usually, I'm too lazy to micro stuff, I only micro when I'm loosing or in installation maps where dropping stuff is very bad.

After that it was a piece of cake, both their main attacking bases were gone and I was resourcing large amounts from 3 bases at the same time.  I just set all the gateways to continuously produce stuff and attacked moved into the final base with a force of 30+ mixed units and killed them with superior numbers.

(This post was last modified: 04/08/2010 12:39 AM by Assassinator.)