Starcraft

Zerg Mission Strategies

Mission 9 - The Invasion of Aiur
You mission is to bring one of your Drones to the Khaydarin crystal, this may sound easy but once you get there you will find that you have a timer and it takes several minutes for your Drone to finish. You have to protect your Drone the whole time this is happening so you need a very big well-organised force.

You need 12 Drones, spawn a Hydralisk Den and an Extractor, with five of your Drones harvest vespene gas and with the rest harvest crystals. Begin upgrading at the Evolution Chamber an as soon as you have a Hydralisk Den, upgrade there as well. Spawn three more Drones, these are going to be morphed into Creep Colonies, evenly place these at the bottom of your Hive Cluster and morph them into Spore Colonies. Now spawn 16 Hydralisks, leave six at your Hive Cluster and bring the remaining 12 to the little Protoss gathering to the right of your Hive Cluster.

Place three of your remaining Hydralisks with your Sunken Colony and the other three with you Extractor, don't worry too much about you Zerglings as these are next to useless against the Protoss. Once you have destroyed this little group you will see another photon cannon directly down from your position, destroy this as well and then retreat your Hydralisks back to the relative safety of your Hive Cluster.

Mutate your Hatchery into a Lair and then spawn three more Drones, morph one of these into a Spire and another into a Queen's nest, the remaining Drone should be morphed into a Creep Colony at the extreme right of the Hive Cluster. Mutate this Creep Colony into a Sunken Colony and then spawn three more Drones, place these at the extreme right of the Creep and morph them into Creep Colonies, now mutate them into Sunken Colonies. This set-up should give you a little protection on the entrance to the Hive Cluster but they will need to be backed up with Hydralisks. So you are going to want the right side of the Hive Cluster very well defended.

Mutate you Lair into a Hive, once this is done begin to upgrade your Overlords. When you have a Hive mutate your Spire into a Greater Spire, spawn 12 more Hydralisks and move them to the bottom of your Hive Cluster. As soon as you are able spawn six Mutalisks and mutate them to their Guardian aspect. Use these Guardians to take out the Protoss on the little ridge below your Hive Cluster.

If you have problems with air attacks retreat your Guardians behind your Hydralisks and let them take care of the attackers. Once the ridge is cleared of Protoss then spawn another 12 Hydralisks and put 24 on top of the ridge. Retreat your Guardians to the Hive Cluster, put two on the right entrance and the rest should be left on the lower perimeter of your Hive Cluster.

To begin your assault on the Protoss you are going to need eight Mutalisks in their Guardian aspect, these should be extra so that you still have some guarding your Hive Cluster. Bring your new Guardians down to the ridge and destroy everything you can see past the ridge, use the Hydralisks as air cover, any attacks pull back behind the Hydralisks remember 'Hit and Run'. Begin upgrading your flyers at the Greater Spire.

Taking a Drone move right as far as you can go, you will find some minerals and a geyser here, set up a hatchery and an Extractor, now spawn about 20 Hydralisks here to protect your Drones.

The problem you may have facing the Protoss behind the ridge is that there as just so many of them, you will lose a lot of Guardians, just keep building them. A good tip is to hold your Guardians in one place, when you do this they destroy everything that comes toward them, usually without taking any damage themselves. Move along the ridge and destroy everything and then move your Guardians around the perimeter of the body of water to the right of your second Hatchery. You should create a suitable amount of grief and free up these resources for you to exploit.

Now take a Drone to each of the Protoss resource sites that you have just cleared of Protoss, build hatcheries on each of these and spawn several Drones at each to exploit the resources.

At each of your new hatcheries spawn eight Hydralisks and four Guardians as protection. Morph an Ultralisk Cavern and a Defiler Mound at your main Hive Cluster. Remove the Hydralisks from the ridge and using them in conjunction with your main Guardian force move right along the ridge, move to the extreme right of the map, you will encounter a medium sized Protoss base, destroy it. Gather the remains of your force just above the Khaydarin crystals, now bring down a Drone a build a hatchery and mutate it to a hive:

Now move all of your force down to this Hive, spawn about ten Ultralisks and four Defilers, with the Defilers cover the Khaydarin crystal with Dark Swarm, this should give you some freedom once you start mining and will protect you slightly form the Protoss assault to come. Move a Drone down to the beacon by the Khaydarin crystals and prepare for a massive assault, arrange you troops around the crystal and prepare to repel the assault

Once you have harvested the Khaydarin crystal return it to the beacon beside your main Hive Cluster and victory is yours.