Sep 10
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The Dig – Brutal Difficulty
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.
Build tanks immediately.
The sooner you build tanks the better, two on each side will do an amazing job of fending off the first few attacks. Build them immediately.
Upgrade your units.
Build an Armory and upgrade everything as quickly as possible. You can increase the fire power of your tanks and their armor for a few hundred minerals and vespene gas.
Don’t expand right away.
Expanding right away is expensive and unnecessary. I waited until I ran out of minerals and then lifted my Command center off, landed it at the expansion and secretly harvested minerals there.
Destroy the Colossus, High Templars and Archons in that order.
Colossus will blow right through your Siege Tanks, High Templars will take out your ground army and/or bunkers. Kill these two first. Kill Archons next, since they look really scary. Take your time, when new units popup focus on shift clicking them to avoid having to use your defense.
Use Marines and Medics in front of your bunkers.
This will take the heat off of your bunkers and SCVs. If the Marines take the majority of the attacks the Medics can quickly heal them instead of SCVs trying to repair bunkers. The Marines will also do a ton of damage and the Medics will help heal your SCVs who are repairing your tanks.
