Starcraft

Zerg Mission Strategies

Mission 10 - Full Circle
This is it, the final battle for the Zerg. You have to destroy the Protoss temple so that the Overmind may be made manifest upon the Protoss homeworld of Aiur. In this mission you are given very little to start off with, so spawn 15 Drones, morph an Extractor and mine both the vespene gas and the crystals. Morph all of the basic structures and then mutate your Hatchery to a Lair. Spawn yourself at least 36 Hydralisks and begin upgrading at the Evolution Chamber and Hydralisk Den. Leave four groups of three Hydralisks in different places around your Hive Cluster and mutate your Creep Colonies into Spore Colonies. The Protoss will be constantly dropping off small amounts of troops to harry you so be on your toes, have Hydralisks at key points throughout the Hive Cluster. Once you have your force of 24 Hydralisks ready bring them to the base to the left, move up the ramp slowly, keep your Hydralisks grouped tightly for maximum firepower.

Once the area is cleared of Protoss move up a Drone and build a Hatchery near the minerals and morph and Extractor. Spawn about ten Drones here to harvest the resources and set up the base with a refinery and a couple of Spore Colonies. Begin to upgrade your Overlords at the Lair and spawn a Spire and a Queen's Nest at your main Hive Cluster and mutate your Spire to a Greater Spire. Leave the remains of your Hydralisk force at your second Hatchery and build up a force of about 24 to the top right of our Hive Cluster. Spawn eight Mutalisks and when you are able evolve them to their Guardian aspect. Begin to upgrade at the Greater Spire and spawn several Hydralisks to top up your base defences. With your Guardians and 24 Hydralisks you are going to take out the small base that can be found by moving your force right and up along the edge of the plateau before you move on to the larger one just below.

Use your Hydralisks as air cover and move your Guardians forward to inflict the majority of the damage, the Hydralisks will be very vulnerable to attacks from Templar so remember to destroy them first. Always move forward slowly and keep your Hydralisks tight together to increase their effectiveness. When the plateau is cleared of Protoss morph a Hatchery and mutate it to a Hive, then morph an Extractor and start to harvest the fresh supply of vespene gas. Morph a Nydus Canal and link it to your top Hive Cluster, this way you can spawn troops at your bottom base and move them quickly to the top.

At your bottom Hive Cluster morph an Ultralisk Cavern and spawn eight Ultralisks. Move your Hydralisks, Guardians and Ultralisk up to the point just above the central lake.

Using the same tactics move your force to the left and around the diamond-shaped walls, whenever you get the chance halt your troops and allow them to regenerate. You objective is to wipe out all the yellow Protoss forces with this force. If you get wiped out don't worry too much, there are more than enough resources free for you to build two armies of this size.

Once you have destroyed the yellow Protoss forces you can destroy the temple and bring one of your Drones forward with the Khyadarin crystal, place this on the beacon beside the ruins of the temple and victory is yours. Enjoy the cinematic.