This is another one of those achievements that were pretty hard. Mostly it's because you are misdirected by the Goliaths you get for the mission and although they can be used to succeed in the normal mission they are too weak for their cost to be used effectively. There are a few ways to prevent all the capping and the most direct one I could think of was to learn the sequence and the timing for all attacks and capping, this however is very time consuming and you will have to play the map several times to get to know it exactly.
What I figured, and I also got this suggestion from several other sources, was to mass out infantry. For this you would want all the marine and medic upgrades; Combat Shields (marine hp increased by 10), StimPack (marine attack and movement speed increased by 50% for 12 seconds at the cost of 10hp), Advanced Medic Facilities (allows medics to be produced without the tech-lab addon) and Stabilizer Med-packs (medics heals 25% faster and for 33% less energy, basically making each medic close to twice as efficient). Start producing SCVs, add you a reactor to your barracks and start producing marines and medics. You don't actually have to push out and get any gas until you have secured the whole map but you can if you want to finish up faster.
You need to push out to block the first cap in the west side though, and eventually in the east. I basically left my western force in place and trained a complete new force to push out east after the first assault on the base. Build a second barracks and attach a reactor to that one too, you basically want each of your forces to have a 3:1 composition of marines to medics and a force of perhaps 10 marines and 4 medics can take down most early assaults. As you have a pretty high production of infantry you can easily reinforce both your troops as well as building up a third force in your base. This third force should push out and take down the Protoss base to the immediate north of your own base and set up an expansion there for extra income. Also make sure to get the upgrades for your infantry.
You don't actually have to go through all this as you can probably cap all seven of your gas canisters by now but I found it entertaining, as well as safer, to take control of the whole map before I even started capping anything. From this point you will have a lot more income also so you can build a third barracks, on which I put a tech-lab to make marauders to make an easier job with the ground units and towers as well as producing Goliaths. You can easily push out further and basically make static defenses outside the Protoss base entrances, there are two, one in the west and one in the east, but make sure you take out all Protoss buildings and units outside the base, especially the pylons and warp prisms so they can't warp in more units behind your lines.
When your forces are strong enough you can pretty much get out seven SCV's and simultaneously cap all seven 7. You can also muster up a big enough force of marines, medics, goliaths and marauders to destroy the protoss bases for the feat of strength achievement "You'ze So Crazy!".
Introduction
I'm not a great Starcraft 2 player, I'm not even good or decent, I'm actually quite bad. But that is why I want to share this, share how I might develop into a better player. For now this will mainly be about Starcraft 2 but as the title hints I tend to write a little about other Blizzard games. I do play World of Warcraft too but has put it on ice until the next expansion and I now focus exclusively on Starcraft 2.
Starcraft 2
I've recently done my placement matches and of course I ended up in Bronze league, I play pretty odd hours as I live in East-Asia but play on European servers so I'm rarely online for the busiest hours, this means I will usually play versus other players who are online at those hours. I try to play some 2v2 and 3v3 with some friends at home too but together we are even weaker than we are alone, actually my 2v2 team can't even get a placement, I think the system is bugged.
I try to do most things in Starcraft 2 and I enjoy it; I play quick matches alone and with friends, I play the campaign, I play custom maps and I even try to make custom maps, and I will try to write a little about all of these things.
World of Warcraft
I have 10 characters on Shattered hand alliance EU server, six of them are between level 5 and 30, two are just above 70, one is 79 and my current main is a 80 human paladin. I like most aspects of the game except end game raiding, while the concept of being the best in the world is appealing I find it too time consuming. My World of Warcraft account is currently frozen, mostly because I ran out of material to get without raiding and PVP got boring.
Friday, September 10, 2010
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