StarCraft II: Campaign Collection - Nova Covert Ops 02 - Sudden Strike

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My definitive playthough of the StarCraft 2 Campaign Collection trilogy and Nova mission pack. Each mission video will be a walkthrough explaining and executing strategies to succeed and obtain most achievements on Brutal difficulty. All dialogues, cinematics, and story-related material will be at the end of each video.
In some cases I omit completing Mastery achievements that would require a separate playthrough detracting from a full showcase of the mission in question.
Achievements completed this video:
Arachnophile - Destroy 30 enemy forces with Spider Mines in the Sudden Strike mission.
Built to Last - Prevent Admiral Horner’s base from losing more than 5 structures in the Sudden Strike mission on Normal difficulty or higher.
[Mastery] Indestructureable - Prevent Admiral Horner’s base from losing any structures in the“Sudden Strike mission on Hard difficulty or higher.

[@SevenBlood]

I absolutely love snowy look on the buildings in this map, someting about it is so pleasing to look at.

[@ryuuyukiyama7554]

I feel bad for that brutalisk, spinning around in a circle is never pleasant! especially when you're that big!

[@jeffreyhoon]

I guess you could say what Nova did was just... Brutalisk in a way.

[@JosephJoboLicayan]

I can imagine that cheese being canon on the story, like Nova and Reapers circling around the Brutalisk and one or two of the Reapers gets brutally impaled (see what I did there) as theyre distracting it from going towards Horner n friends.

[@dionatartomines4286]

Nice pun

[@thanhtamdu4675]

One of the most advance Zerg evolution get cheese by some dude with drugs How does Abathur feel right now :D

[@blitzace111]

Dominion entered age of peace and prosperity... but it didnt last too long it seems...

[@TheHalogen131]

I like how the snow covers your buildings. Even though this campaign has an even worse story than the Epilogue, the level design and details are stellar.

[@Draeckon]

Agreed.

[@Aliencommander1245]

You think it has a worse story than the epilogue? That’s sort of weird, I thought the general consensus was that covert ops had one of the tightest stories of the trilogy

[@wilhua3083]

@@Aliencommander1245 I agree, I definitely find the DoM's notion of sabotaging the Dominion and the use of Psi-emitters more believable, and has the OG SC1 vibe to it, than Kerrigan turning into a glowy angel.

[@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786]

@@wilhua3083 The SC1 vibe makes some sense. Im pretty sure they were specifically setting up the Defenders as remnants of the good old Terran Confederacy as a red herring, since they're based in Tarsonis despite it still being swarmed with Zerg, and they use psi-emitters.

[@bolg892]

Uhm no. This story is fine and so is the Epilogue lmao. You're just delusional, that's all. :)

[@VladLad]

You forgot to show an easteregg. Theres a psi emitter with a cloaked ghost above the zerg base. The only reason for scanner sweep.

[@AceofShadow]

It's possible he only avoided it for spoilers but hopefully he shows it later.

[@JosephJoboLicayan]

@@AceofShadow Jay does not give an F about spoilers in this series. Hes been saying Duran/Narud is Narud/Duran backwards. I mean come on, the games been out for nearly a decade now (Wings of Lib)

[@AceofShadow]

@@JosephJoboLicayan To be fair that was so obvious that I remember online discussion at the time hoping it was a red herring.

[@SeriousApache]

WTF is that "orbital command" ripoff? Those stupid Dominions couldn't build actual Orbital Command that can drop MULEs...

[@ДаниилКарандеев-я2э]

Brutalisk: Yoo spin me right round, baby right round...

[@HeIsAnAli]

_Meatspin intensifies_

[@blitzace111]

I wonder if Horner has any personal grudges against Nova for apprehending Raynor in the Hots...

[@khoanguyen-wc8qz]

he knows about the brainwash protocol of the Ghost program under Mengsk Senior's reign, he would not!

[@-Garaf-]

Don't think so, but maybe he would had Raynor died back there

[@kennovafastforward8460]

Is that the Hercules from the inside???

[@zenkozenko4989]

This campaign seems really cool and fun to play, but the cutscene cgi seems a little... off... The character animation does that "cycle 2-3 slight animations" and uh- look at the marines gun at 2:23 lmao

[@Poputrash]

0:54 "...You have the right to remain silent" They forgot to tell her to put her hands up 1:18 Enter Charlie Vane 1:24 Oh you do, don'tcha? 1:29 From Wraith pilot, to fugitive, to rebel to flippin' Admiral? And Blondie salutes you? Hell of a journey, Charlie. 1:38 Assassin's.....booty 1:50 Charlie: "You went fucking AWOL!" 2:01 Ch: "You're a communist now, girl" 2:11 Blondie: "Ah's 'Murican, yo!" 2:20 Overused Starcraft trope: Shit hits the fan at the worst time 2:45 Cute blond girl with a big ass gun? AMERICA. That's all the proof you need, Chuck 4:42 Cute blond girl with a Shotgun!? 'MURICAAAA! 5:54 Cute blond girl with a shotgun and a jetpack!!?? kzbin.info/www/bejne/an3TimZ8gN6MmKM 6:08 Protip 7:12 Zerglings: "Hi! We're a thre"-BOOM Blondie: "GIT OFF ME LAND!!" 10:48 This fucking comment would hold out if you could actually use the damn things on this mission. 13:54 Defiler: "Don't worry, guys! We got you cove-"BOOM Blondie: "GIT OFF ME LAND!!" 15:37 Swann's goofy nicknames return! 19:33 Dumbalisk 20:04 Blondie: "See? I's 'murican" 20:28 Roll credits 21:47 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaXPi3iBpK-aZ5I In this context, the Zerg are Inmigrants. NEXT ON BLONDIE COMMANDO: Infiltratin' feat. Robo-arms wiseass

[@bolg892]

Stop.

[@wilhua3083]

I just finished watching your last Mass Recall playthrough, and I loved your used of dark swarm, but now I see it used against you xD But hey, I was wondering if you would be looking through the descriptions of key locations while on that Tac-Map at the start of missions?

[@blitzace111]

I believe these zergs are "feral" zergs? Couldn't Zagara integrate all of them to legitimate zerg swarm to keep them under control? Could terran confederacy's psi emitter effect Zagara and her swarm as well?

[@Aliencommander1245]

cheol yoon chung Zagara could’ve I guess, but feral Zerg have always existed even under the overmind and kerrigan’s swarm, if they have no overriding intelligence like a broodmother then getting one deep into Terran space just to retrieve them is way more trouble than it’s worth for a bunch of outdated Zerg strains. Psi emitters do work on zagara’s swarm though, in the book Evolution, set after lotv, terrans use psi-emitters to lure a bunch of rampaging swarm Zerg to a place they’ve set up a nuke, to thin their numbers. In this scenario they’re exploiting some issues in broodmother control, though, so under normal circumstances a brood’s leader could override the attraction of the emitter

[@ppatrik3]

you can build a command center right next to your ally's and sort of leech minerals from them, it's useful since only have 4 mineral fields

[@blitzace111]

It would be nice if Toshi makes an appearance...I wonder if Nova and Toshi could get along at this point...

[@wilhua3083]

Is it canon that he didn't die?

[@VladLad]

@@wilhua3083 yes. Im pretty sure it is.

[@kennyrlarsen]

I like building a command center inside Horner’s base and stealing his minerals. If you set it up within the first five minutes or so, it definitely pays for itself.

[@MaskedImposter]

I had a feeling those build here doodads weren't always telling us the truth!

[@Za11oy]

What an interesting little mission set-up, almost tower defense like. Def of Men can say whatever they want, anyone would be on their knees needing to rebuild after the events of those campaign. It's already a pretty penny pretty much a miracle that all the Terrans worlds didn't just completely fall at all. So much for peace and prosperity when groups come out to further sow divisions while everyone is basically at their weakest. Also that first shotgun shot! Daaaayum! 'We are the zergling rush! Hope you don't have too much defenses set up yet so we may nibble on those yummy SCVs and command cen- KA-BLAAAAAAMO Whooosh!' Not in my town!

[@petedingding3057]

Blizzard Evolves Everytime.. Always amazes people and... Nova is hot and I'm obsessed

[@sadnessthing7600]

She beautiful than old version, more sexy

[@Nate31891]

Hey Jay, there is a series of games you might like since you like micro lol. It's called Ground Control. It's a bit older but still enjoyable. It has an expansion called Dark Conspiracy and a sequel GCII Operation Exodus. You can get them from GOG.com Give them a try. Btw, been following your videos where I can. Great job so far!

[@phantomeye5199]

Good point Jayborino. Bring SCV build bunkers on roof top and train marauder and load bunkers can slow them down. Great ideal.

[@sadnessthing7600]

I feel like Nova is grower than old version, about thinking, beautiful than

[@stangundam01]

for this mission also have a command center in horners base with scv's at it

[@blitzace111]

Shouldn't Dominion troops be wearing red armor? I wonder why they retained Raynors Rebel uniforms...I guess after the fall of Arcturus, Raynors Raiders has been officially integrated into Dominion Military, but Horner thought it would be meaningful to keep the spirit and pride of Former Raynor Raiders alive by keeping the old uniforms...

[@MrRys]

If Valerian turns out to be evil as his father at least they don't have to change the armor

[@haxurmom93]

dominion changed colors after valerian came to power so dominion is blue officialy from the former red cuz blizz wants all bad guys to have red when it dont make sense every faction should have their colors as in sc broodwar but well well

[@hub1986]

The cheesing with the bruta was so nice hehe GG m8 and good night

[@adrianrafael2999]

It seems membership is disabled for me.. Strange..

[@user-cy-wu]

A dance of death with brutalisk lol

[@ibrahimelwaraky8471]

12:25 FRIENDLY FIRE ZERG FRIEND!! 😂

[@LeoUSA33]

@JayborinoPlays Hey man, I really enjoy your videos. Any chance you can do some covering how to get the Tactical Achievements? Thanks 🙏🏻!

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Tactical achievements? You mean the WoL challenges?

[@LeoUSA33]

@@zaxtonhong3958 Correct, that was what I meant to say :)

[@blacklight2488]

Jayborino in "The Great Wall"

[@Mr_Polandball4]

play heart of the swarm coop

[@Storm2war]

Defilers not the defilers!!!

[@emerson21962]

Dominion base huh, those are Raynor's Raiders.

[@herrdoktor1810]

They just painted their armor's blue so we know they are the good guys now.

[@reginaldsafety6090]

Tower defense? Hrmmmm...

[@chulxu8846]

The Nova Campaign is after amons true death right?

[@niko386]

yes

[@chulxu8846]

@@niko386 thx

[@padurarulcriticsicinic4846]

What does the cheese actually mean?

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Cheese is what you put in food to make it taste good. It's the "easy way out," making it so you don't need as much effort as intended. Need to make something good? Throw cheese on it. Need to kill a brutalisk? Throw cheese on it