Starcraft

Terran Mission Strategies

Mission 8 - The Big Push
General Duke is now on your side, with his powerful Behemoth Battlecruiser he can be a valuable asset. You must completely eliminate the Confederate forces, things are now beginning to hot up. You get given a pretty complete base to start off with, this is how you should land your buildings, next to the ready built add ons.

You are going to need and engineering bay and an academy so build them down by your lower base.

By your top base build four supply stations and move an SCV up above the wall with a Dropship and have it build three missile turrets like this:

The Confederates constantly test your defences so you want to have a well defended front gate, below is how you can do it. Having your defences like this prevents the Confederate attacking the front or moving troops along the top edge to where you have the missile turrets at the top of the wall.

Upgrade your weapons and armour for the troops at the academy first and then at the engineering bay.

To cause a little early damage move Duke and your three Wraiths along the left of you base, heading past your lower base here you will find a small amount of Confederate forces. Using Duke's Yamoto gun destroy the missile turret proceed slowly along blasting with normal lasers until the Yamoto gun is fully charged again, then blast the next missile turret. The Confederates will retaliate so be ready to pull your troops out there quickly if necessary. The Confederates will anticipate further attacks there and will place Marines and Goliaths there, these can be picked off one at a time at your leisure with Duke's Yamoto gun.

Now you have to research the cloaking device for your Ghosts and a moebius reactor to give them more energy. You will also need tanks so build five Siege Tanks and research the siege tank ability. Build an armoury and four more supply depots in the bottom left hand corner of your base and begin upgrading your vehicle and ship weapons and armour.

Next to your refinery it will become necessary to build three or four missile turrets as shown, this is to defend from flanking aerial attacks that become quite regular.

The next stage is to build a nuclear missile in one of the silos located on your command centres and place the Siege Tanks as below, to get a bit more range use a cloaked Ghost as a range finder. Now research cloaking for your Wraiths and keep upgrading your weapons and armour.

Using your nuclear missile move a cloaked Ghost up through you main gate and along the left wall until you can see three bunkers, target the nuclear missile on the back bunker this should take care of all three bunkers and the missile turret behind them. Now using a cloaked Wraith fly up to where the bunkers were and act as a range finder for the Siege Tanks, again if you see blue sparks around your ships move them back as they have been uncloaked. Now build another nuclear missile and do the same tot he other three bunkers to the right of the first three.

Now you have a good deal of freedom past the bunkers so build five more Siege Tanks, five more Wraiths and one more nuclear missile. Once you have the Wraiths move them up cloaked and wreak a little havoc, then move your five new siege tanks up to where the Confederates had their bunkers. Build three missile turrets and arrange it all like this:

Remember that platform you cleared off a while ago? Well now is the time to use it, using a dropship place two Siege Tanks and an SCV on the platform. Use the Siege Tanks to clear the missile turrets that may be left and then dig them in where the Confederate had their last missile turret, put them in siege mode, build a missile turret beside them and bring up another two Siege Tanks as support.

Once you have freed up the resources from the Confederates you are going to want to reorganise your defences. By placing three Siege Tanks in siege mode on top of this platform with two missile turrets you are going to pin down not only the New Entrance to your base number two but you can harry the enemy opposite.

Move one of your Command centres up to beside the new crystal that are available, build a refinery and defend the entrance to the base like below. This will take care of not only air attacks with the turrets and Goliaths, but any troops getting too close will be chewed up by the Goliaths before the Siege Tanks can do themselves to much harm.

Now is a good time to garner more minerals for your war effort these can be found at the top left of the screen, take a force of four siege tanks, two Goliaths and an SCV and move past your top blockade. Defending the crystals is a bunker and a skeleton force of troops, these can be taken care of very easily.

Move your troops up to the crystals and dig in the tanks in a line. This will allow you to destroy any approaching targets and move your Goliaths forward as range finders for the Siege Tanks. Within a very short space of time these crystals will be yours so you need to build missile turrets around the perimeter to protect your claim, once this is done you will need to build a command centre and 8 SCVs so you can start harvesting. It may be a good idea to build yourself 6 supply depots up here so that you can continue to increase your army. Now build a couple of bunkers and fill them with Marines, you should end up with a little base with defences looking like this to the right of the crystals:

Now you will be ready for the final push, for this you will need a nuclear silo on each of your three command centres, build three nuclear missiles and five Ghosts. Now you are ready to begin weakening your enemy. You should have a grand total of around six Ghosts, split them into three groups of two. The first group you will want to get up.

From here you will be able to move along to the right and then up along the far right edge, cloaked of course. If you move all the way to the top you will see a group of buildings, using one of your nuclear missiles destroy the groups of supply stations and all the troops around it, now move your Ghosts back to a safe distance and prepare group two.

You can now damage their factory with your second team and destroy all the tanks around it, so target the factory, then when possible move back a safe distance so you don't get caught in the blast. Now restock all your nuclear missiles so that you have three again and withdraw your Ghosts to a safe distance, preferably back within one of your bases. Now let your Ghosts recharge their energy and prepare for another sortie. At this point you should also build yourself ten more siege tanks and twenty Marines.

Now using your Ghosts you should be able to get quite deep into the enemy base, use the nuclear missiles to wreak as much havoc as possible, remember to remain cloaked for as long as possible and to take out any missile turrets you can see with the nukes. Now move in with your Marines and tanks, Dropships are good for transporting your tanks to crucial positions and the Wraiths make excellent Dropship and Siege Tank support. So move your troops here and prepare to annihilate the Confederates. If you get the chance build more nuclear missiles and drop two missiles one after the other on the Confederate command centre with the commsatt station. This will take out one of the last means they have to detect your Ghosts, giving your Ghosts will have completely free reign to blow up whatever they like. You can destroy the Confederates using nothing but nukes, but it is always more enjoyable to finish them with a big tank and Marine rush. So position your forces here and then proceed into their base, slowly destroying everything you see.

Now by moving your troops up through the base you will be unstoppable, use your Wraiths to scout the map for stragglers, taking care of loose ends and you will be victorious.