Starcraft

Terran Mission Strategies

Mission 9 - New Gettysburg
Arcturus Mensk has launched his psi emitter onto New Gettysburg, regardless of the consequences to the colonists down there. The Protoss have seen the Zerg approach and are moving in to deal with them, Arcturus wants Kerrigan to stop the Protoss without damaging any Zerg buildings. This puts a whole new meaning on defensive, you have to have an impenetrable base from one side and a lot of attacking power on the other.

Build yourself eight SCVs straight away, speed in the essence here, get the SCVs to mine the minerals, keep one back for building. You will need the back of your base to look like this, if it doesn't then you will more than likely be overrun by the first wave of Zerg.

Obviously to get the missile turrets you will need to build and engineering bay this can be placed next to your command centre. Initially you have very little room into which to expand your base, so keep things nice and neat, allowing enough room for units to move between buildings. Next build an academy and upgrade your Marine's range, then build a machine shop on your factory so that you can start building Siege Tanks, also build a refinery and set a couple of SCVs to gathering the gas. Get your running total of SCVs up to about twelve and research Siege Tank ability.

Now concentrate on defending the front of your base, get it looking like this as soon as possible, build the bunkers first an then dig in the Siege Tanks. Put a Siege Tank behind each of the two middle turrets at the back of your base.

Start upgrading at the engineering bay, then begin building a science facility, starport and an armoury. Remember to keep building supply depots down the right hand side of your base, try to fit ten in there, this should give you enough supply points to begin your next move. Once you have built the starport and science facility build the control tower on the starport and the covert ops on the science facility, then go on to build a nuclear silo on your command centre. You will also need to research cloaking, lockdown, ocular implants and the Moebius generator, now build four Ghosts.

At the science facility research the EMP Shockwave and titan reactor, now build a science vessel and four Wraiths and research cloaking and the Apollo reactor. You are now ready for your first assault. Using a cloaked Kerrigan scout out the terrain toward the bottom right of the map, then return Kerrigan to the safety of your home base.

Move your Wraiths, Science Vessel and Ghosts down to the far right hand corner, keep them cloaked, you will see a Protoss nexus, target this and the robotics facility with the EMP Shockwave from the Science Vessel, now launch a nuclear missile at the nexus. The missile should cause a lot of damage so move your cloaked Wraiths in to finish up the burning and damaged buildings, move your Ghosts back to base and your Science Vessel also. When your Wraiths have finished move them back to your base.

Now build 12 Marines and move them with your Wraiths down to the crystals to the left of your base and down. Using and SCV build three bunkers for the Marines and then a command centre and a couple of missile turrets like this:

Build eight more SCVs at your bottom base. Now using your cloaked Wraiths hassle the bottom Protoss base, destroy as much as you can without risk, and then pull back. Build another nuclear missile, six siege tanks and six Goliaths, you may need more supply depots. Move your Ghosts and Science Vessel down to your second base and build three missile turrets.

Pretty soon your vespene gas is going to run out, there is another geyser next to your second base, build a refinery there and begin to harvest the gas. You will need to protect this geyser so build a couple of bunkers and turrets beside it to protect it from ravaging Protoss. Make certain that no part of your base is approachable by air, place missile turrets in key places around the perimeter, the Protoss and Zerg both use their airforce a lot in this mission. When you have a nuclear missile and your Ghosts are fully charged move them down to the point below and nuke the Photon Cannon and then move your cloaked Ghosts in to take out the three burning pylons, then move your Ghosts back to your second base.

Build another nuke and keep your Ghosts and Science Vessel handy. Now bring your Wraiths forward to act as scouts for the six Siege Tanks and six Goliaths you have built, using their cloaking abilities they can clear the way before your small force saving you time. Keep a couple of SCVs with your force for repairs, now move them down to where you just had your Ghosts, taking care to destroy everything that gets in your way. Use your Wraiths wisely as they are your biggest asset at the moment, now build another nuke and another nuclear silo on your other command centre, this way you can have two nukes ready. Have your tanks and Goliaths move down the ramp where you had your Ghosts stationed use your Tanks in siege mode and use a Ghost as a spotter. Now bring forward your Science Vessel and fire an EMP Shockwave at the nexus and the robotics facility, now use the Ghost to nuke the nexus. Now move your troops forward destroying everything as you go. Your Wraiths can be brought in if you find you need backup. Once you have taken the Protoss base build a command centre and a refinery. If you lost units in the assault on the Protoss don't worry, now that you have access to more resources you can begin to build up your army again.

Build yourself five more SCVs and bring down any spares, start harvesting as much as you can as quickly as you can. It is now time to bolster your defences at your main base as well as build defences for this base.

Get the top of your base looking like below with two more bunkers and an extra siege tank. Put an extra Siege Tank on you're your lower entrance to the base, between the other two.

Now you will need to defend your bottom base, to do this set up as the picture below with three missile turrets along the right perimeter and two bunkers covering the two upper entrances. You are also going to need two bunkers by your command centre and another couple of missile turrets:

Now you are ready to begin developing an attacking force for the final Protoss base. Keep building supply depots so that you can maintain a sizeable force try and get your provided supplies all the way up to 200. Now build Siege Tanks so that you have a grand total of 12 free tanks. Build your Goliaths up to 8 and build four Dropships. At the bottom base build a new science facility with a physics lab, now you can build Behemoth Battlecruisers, always an asset. At the physics lab upgrade the Behemoth with a Yamoto gun and Colossus reactor. At your middle refinery build another bunker and fill it with firebats so that your defences there look like this:

You may find it useful to build two Battlecruisers as their Yamoto guns are invaluable in a base assault. Move your prepared troops to the bottom base as it is from here that you will launch your final assault. Build two nukes and put your Ghosts into a Dropship, move the Dropship as this is the final platform for your assault, your Ghosts can destroy the Photon cannon with a nuke and then move on to the cybernetics core. Cover the movements of your Dropship with your Wraiths as it is defenceless on its own. Now load your Siege Tanks into the Dropships and move them up to the platform. Move all your Tanks and Goliaths up here and launch your attack from this point. Keep your Wraiths an Battlecruisers close to your Tanks to protect them from aerial assault. Whenever you encounter a Photon Cannon use your Yamoto guns on the Battlecruiser to take it out instantly. By moving your Tanks in two ranks, each moving slowly forward past the last rank. Keeping tight control on your Goliaths you can chew up any units approaching and take care of aerial assaults. Remember to keep several SCVs to hand to repair any damaged units. Proceed slowly from left to right, you can build troops as well and set their rally point in the Protoss base, this will distract the Protoss troops and give you even more of an advantage. After about five to ten minutes of this you will suddenly discover you are out of enemies and the battle will be yours.