Starcraft

    Zerg Mission Strategies

    Mission 6 - The Dark Templar
    A simple mission brief, destroy the Protoss whilst keeping Kerrigan alive. Set your four Drones to harvesting the crystal, morph six more Drones set another five to harvesting crystals and mutate one into an Extractor. Now morph four more Drones and mutate them into Creep colonies then Sunken colonies arrange them with your Hydralisks and Guardians around the two ramp entrances to your Hive Cluster.

    Mutate your Hatchery into a Lair and then morph six more Drones, set five to harvesting vespene gas and then mutate the last one into an Evolution Chamber near your Hydralisk Den. Start upgrading at both the Hydralisk Den and the Evolution Chamber. Morph three more Drones and mutate a Spire and a Queen's Nest, start to upgrade your Overlords at the Lair and spawn about 12 Hydralisks. Once your Queen's Nest is ready you can upgrade your Lair to a Hive, do this and then mutate your Spire into a greater Spire.

    Once you have a greater Spire you can start to upgrade your flyers and then start spawning about eight Mutalisks.

    Once your Overlords are able to carry troops place a Drone inside one and move it to your right until you see the crystals. Taking the Drone mutate it into a Hatchery and produce about 12 Drones to start with. Mutate all of your Mutalisks into Guardians, now move your force of 12 Guardians down the left hand side of the map until you see crystals. Now proceed slowly and focus your attacks on individual creatures until you have uncovered the whole little plateau, now using and Overlord move a Drone down and morph a Hatchery.

    At your second Hive Cluster, the one to the right of your first, morph about six Creep colonies, mutate them into spore colonies along the edge of the plateau, this will give you some defence from air attacks. Now set three Drones harvesting vespene gas and three harvesting the crystals. Do the same at your third Hive Cluster when it is ready. Start upgrading the Queens at the Queen's Nest, spawn Broodling should be your first power to evolve, spawn a couple of Queens as well. At your second and third Hive Cluster you should spawn about six Hydralisks, these will take care of any Protoss that get past your air defences, you can put a few more there if you're a little nervous.

    The first thing you should do is fly your Queens over and perform hit and run tactics against the Dragoons with the 'Spawn Broodlings' in this manner you can destroy quite a few of their troops for very little damage. Do this until you have killed as many Dragoons as you can safely manage, once you feel that the Protoss have been softened up enough move in with a Queen and ensnare as many as you can, now move in with your Guardians and destroy everything.

    Once you have destroyed the small Protoss base move your Guardians back to your first Hive Cluster immediately as the Protoss will launch a pretty large attack. You should be able to beat of the Protoss as long as you use your Guardians to destroy their Reavers first and then concentrate upon the Dragoons. This attack will move a lot of troops from the entrance to the Protoss base, so you can now move your troops pretty much right into their base, although this is not advised.

    Move your Guardians down to the bottom of your first Hive Cluster, mutate about 30 Hydralisks and send these down as well. Now morph 24 Zerglings and use these as a softening up force. Split the Zerglings into two groups and send them down to the small group of Photon Cannon.

    Now move them through and let them attack what they will, guide them a little but in general give them free reign. Once all your Zerglings are dead move in with your Hydralisks and Guardians, bring down Kerrigan in an Overlord but do not let her loose in the battle.

    Move your Hydralisks through the entrance and up to the main camp, take out any defences that are left and then move your Hydralisks into the centre, bring your Guardians in and use them to specifically attack Protoss that look to be damaging your troops.

    When Tassadar challenges Kerrigan move her to his position and release her from the Overlord, victory is now yours.