Starcraft

    Zerg Mission Strategies

    Mission 3 - The New Dominion
    The maturing Chrysalis' psionic emanations have lured the Terrans to the remote ash planet of Char; your mission is to protect the Chrysalis from the Terrans and to destroy the Terrans utterly into the bargain. Your first priority is to morph Drones until you have to spawn more Overlords, mutate one into an Extractor, get four Drones to harvest the gas and set the rest of your Drones to collecting minerals.

    There are more crystals just up from your Hive Cluster, they are guarded by five Terran marines and a Vulture, morph six Hydralisks and take them out.

    Upgrade your Hydralisks at the Hydralisk Den and then morph a Hatchery next to the new minerals. Reinforce your Hydralisks by the new minerals with another six Hydralisks and mutate another Drone into an Extractor by the new Hatchery. Morph an Evolution Chamber beside your Spawning Pool and start upgrading. Around your new Hatchery you will need three Creep colonies mutated into spore colonies.

    Notice how the Hydralisks are set up on the left of the screen, this gives them the range and height they need to take care of any approaching Terrans. Morph three more Drones at the new Hatchery and set them to harvesting the crystals. Mutate one of your Hatcheries into a Lair and morph a Spire at your lower Hive Cluster. Morph four more Drones and mutate them into Creep colonies and then Sunken colonies.

    This will give the left flank of your Hive Cluster some protection and ensure that the Chrysalis is never unguarded. Start upgrading your Mutalisks at the Spire and then morph about 20. You main form of attack is going to be by air so that you can avoid the awesome power of the siege tanks, upgrade your Overlords at the Hatchery as well.

    The only real way to win this battle is by using your Mutalisks in a hit and run style, so for your first run move up the right of the map until you encounter a bunker, destroy it and its contents and then run away to regenerate. Once your Mutalisks have recovered move them up the same direction and take out the starport and Wraiths, then once again return to your Hive Cluster to recover. You may find that the Terrans move all of their ground troops to deal with the threat from your Mutalisks, do not be deterred, if necessary mutate more Mutalisks until the starport is no more.

    Once you have taken the starport hold your Mutalisks in place and place a Drone into and Overlord, move the Overlord with the Drone up the right hand side of the map until it meets your Mutalisks. Now morph a Hatchery with several Creep colonies mutated into Sunken colonies.

    Now move your Mutalisks toward the Terran base; destroy missile turrets first and then marines. Try to go for marines that are clustered together as the Mutalisk weapon ricochets and can damage targets indirectly. From your Hatchery you want to produce Hydralisk after Hydralisk and send them into the Terran base, it is now only a matter of time before you win. Morph a few Drones to keep the crystals coming in and remember to try and take out the siege tanks with your Mutalisks and the missile turrets with your Hydralisks. Victory should now be yours.