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The Dig – Brutal Difficulty

September 10, 2010

The Dig on Brutal is actually a little challenging. The first few times I tried it I tried to expand too early and did a poor job of defending my ramp. The video above will give you an 8 minute recap of how I completed the mission. Otherwise, here are some tips that may help. [...]

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Outbreak – Brutal Difficulty

September 10, 2010

In Outbreak, your mission is to defend your base from a large swarm of infested terran during the night and destroy undefended structures during the day. The biggest difference in Brutal is that the enemies hit harder and the days are shorter. If you have problems with this mission, complete The Dig mission first, which [...]

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Evacuation – Brutal Difficulty

September 8, 2010

In this mission, it’s critical to maintain the 3 choke points with at least two loaded bunkers and SCVs to back them up. Firebats work fine in the bunkers and 2 Firebats cost the same minerals as 4 Marines.  I used a combination to keep Overlords from causing problems and still keeping a good anti-Zerg [...]

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The Scenic Route – Starcraft Achievement (Feat of Strength)

September 4, 2010

To earn the achievement: The Scenic Route, you must kill all the Zerg structures in The Devil’s Playground on Normal Difficulty. This achievement is hidden and doesn’t count for points, these types of achievements are called Feats of Strength. Since it’s on Normal, it’s pretty easy. The hardest part of this achievement is not completing [...]

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Cutthroat – Brutal

September 4, 2010

In the Cutthroat Mission, you have to race around the map with a small army collecting scraps before your opponents. The first of you to reach 8,000 minerals wins the contract and the mission. On Brutal difficulty, the opponent goes much faster. Not too fast though, start off by building a few Medics to support [...]

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The Great Train Robbery – Brutal

September 2, 2010

The Great Train Robbery on Brutal is a lot more difficult than on Hard (duh). Here are the most important things to consider while trying to complete this mission. Locating the Diamondbacks The first thing you need to do at the beginning is find the first 4 Diamondbacks. They are located to the west and [...]

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Infestation Challenge – Gold Achievement

September 1, 2010

In the Challenge: Infestation you are given 9 Infestors and 10 Roaches and tasked to destroy as many Terran as possible. In order to earn the Gold Achievement you will need to kill 150 units, but it is easy enough and very entertaining to kill the entire Terran force. The key tactic in this mission [...]

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300/300 Psionic Assault Challenge – Gold Achievement

August 31, 2010

Psionic Assault is probably the most difficult challenge to earn the gold achievement on, and easily the most difficult to get a perfect score on (300/300). In the video above you can see how it’s done and below are some details of the strategy I used to overcome all 300 units. First 110 During the [...]

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Path of Ascension Challenge – Gold Achievement

August 31, 2010

In this challenge you are responsible for protecting 3 Pylons in each of 3 rounds. In each round you are given a different combination of units and must assign them to protect specific Pylons based on the units attacking that Pylon. To earn the gold achievement, you will need to do a little bit of [...]

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Harbinger of Death Challenge – Gold Achievement

August 31, 2010

In this challenge you are given several groups of units and expected to manage multiple attacks and unit groups at once to kill as many units on the map as you can within 2 minutes and 30 seconds. To earn the Gold Achievement you only need to kill 175 units, which is actually pretty easy [...]

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