Mass Recall (Starcraft 1 in SC2!) UED Campaign - Part 2

[@inquisitormalleus6435]

Can we talk about the fact that not only can one pilot operate a battlecruiser just fine but after embarking they also get a fancy uniform, beard, and pipe?

[@VegetaLaunchedFinalFlash]

Yeah and a brand new accent and personality, I guess being a battlecruiser pilot changes you that much.

[@3Black.1Red]

they become "operational" 🥁

[@zennim125]

that is hilarious, but i think the drill is that the pilot get the cruiser to the spaceport where it gets fully loaded with its crew and russian captain

[@Wrenling]

@@zennim125 Maybe they leave battlecruisers in dry-dock fully staffed and they just obey whoever walks in the door. Raynor walked into the Hyperion's bridge one day and they said, "where to, sir?"

[@kommodore979]

Or that the supposedly powerful Earth forces plan was to bring minimum weapons, ships and supplies and to steal them from the colonies. It is more what the rebels had to do not an actual military superpower. Why didn't they just send 1000 battlecruisers, how could they have known before coming those ships would be empty, the Dominion could have easily have activated them in the long trip or due to the attacks before this.

[@Rannos22]

to be fair he is GENERAL Duke not ADMIRAL Duke so his incompetence commanding a space navy makes sense

[@DamnDaimen]

Where you study TACTICS, boi?

[@Kai-K]

@@andrewgreeb916 It worked on Marshal Raynor, and I imagine it works on **almost** anyone when approached by a flagship with escort. Sure the Protoss refused, but they had capital ships of their own at the time. The average Terran colony has what, a few wraiths at best? As long as you're not gunning for hugely guarded worlds or talking to the seat of power of an empire, it seems like a reasonable enough first go of things.

[@rock1145]

This Duran seems like a stand up guy. He's been nothing but helpful. A good, kind soul.

[@liden77]

My thoughts exactly, son-in-law materiel

[@dragonhuman6484]

Fun fact: if you optical flared a drone and it morphed into a spore colony it would retain the blindness

[@justaclock4768]

Cool and fun fact.

[@calebadam2576]

"Oh noooo, I did it deathless!" All the dead infantry and mech: am I a joke to you?

[@luckylarry71]

Not sure how the Optical Flare functions in SC2, but in BW a blinded ranged unit could still return fire to any hostile ranged attacker. This is due to the fact, that in BW whenever attacked by non-cloaked unit, you temporarily gain vision from the hostile's location, even if that location is on an elevated surface (the miss chance did apply though). The affected target's sight range is reduced to a single grid, other than that, it also removes the detection ability, if the target happened to have it.

[@luckylarry71]

@@octav3k Thanks for the confirmation. I agree that in multiplayer it's a meme ability and a waste of res. but for campaign purposes it's actually a very cool and useful one, plus it sets apart the UED Medics, from those in WoL.

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

Yeah, I remember the same thing. In SC1, non-cloaked units always gave their location away when they opened fire and I abused this fact at least once to kill units on the high ground. I always figured that the brief visibility was due to advanced sensors and computers could trace weapons fire back to their point of origin. It's now counterbattery fire works IRL after all. I also remembered being surprised that SC2 units didn't retain this ability.

[@toddclawson3619]

This was one of my favorite missions in Brood War. Stealing a bunch of battlecruisers and then using them to blow up the Dominion fleet was awesome.

[@RoyalFusilier]

I love that smirk Grant has in the briefing. He knows that, having pointed this out to us, it's now impossible to un-hear it. The mind's capacity for pattern recognition is frightening.

[@GirrionSpellbane]

meee-eh-eh-eh-eh

[@sjbuttonsb]

I'm confused. How is Lieutenant Duran a turncoat? He was a confederate soldier fighting the Dominion, and now he's allied with the UED to fight the Dominion. He hasnt turned on anyone!

[@Snowfireblues]

Good point

[@crosseightyeight]

That's what I've always asked myself too. He never worked for the Dominion.

[@nihilvox]

I'd assume that in the eyes of UED command, it's like feudalism or whatever: The royal family has changed (Confederacy -> Dominion), but as a human citizen of Koprulu it is Duran's DUTY to transfer loyalty to his new sovereign. Instead, Duran was like, "Nuh uh, more like Dumb-minion", and his first response to encountering an alien invasion fleet that came to conquer everything he'd even known was, "Hey, let me help. Here's a map to the secret entrance." Useful, but he can't be trusted in the long-term.

[@poiuyt975]

These were my thoughts back in the day as well. Although the UED might not be aware of the previous terran regime - the conferedacy. That could explain this minor plot hole.

[@LordMalice6d9]

@@nihilvox A lot of the standing forces that the UED acquired were former Confederate loyalists. Makes sense they would join the UED to help dispose Mengsk.

[@skeptic_lemon]

Ah yes, The Dylarian Sheepyards (as DuGalle would say it).

[@Znwarp]

Ah yes, the mission to steal sheeps

[@indominusrex1652]

*sheep noises intensifies*

[@tacticaldroidtx22]

Not much lore to talk about this mission other than the fact that Dylar 4 is the home planet of Omega Squadron. Aparently it's an arid world and it absolutely sucks to live there which is probably why the Confederates decided to base the squadron with the highest percentage of criminals there...

[@Evan-mt7bc]

This is also the shipyard Raynor and Horner stole the Hyperion from after episode 1 but before episode 3.

[@tacticaldroidtx22]

@@Evan-mt7bc Oh, yeah, I forgot abput that!

[@Evan-mt7bc]

@@andrewgreeb916 You're right. This information is from the book "Starcraft: Queen of Blades". The only information alluding to the acquistion of the Hyperion in game is in Wings of Liberty when Tychus asks Raynor how he got the ship he just replies that it used to be Mengsk's flagship until Raynor and Horner yoinked it when they split up without specific details when and where he got it.

[@Nathrezim0]

@@Evan-mt7bc Weird that they would retcon that. In SC1 the Hyperion is just the ship the Commander was on when they decided to betray Mengsk. Raynor wasn't even on it. That they'd then have to go back and steal it sounds strange

[@LordMalice6d9]

@@Evan-mt7bc Of all the ex-confederate squadrons to join Raynor's Raiders I would have expected most of Jame's volunteers to come from Omega Squadron.

[@hiromaru5226]

My first thought upon seeing this thumbnail was that the UED were like lambs to the slaughter (as they will be annihilated by Kerrigan at the end) lol

[@goldengolem4670]

At the end grant sounded like "no not my baby! How could you do this?!"

[@alexbarac]

Is this a TFS DBZ reference?

[@我想想-e5d]

This mission is perfect in broodwar! Teaching dialogues, puzzle games and after all of those stuff we have a ginormous fleet battle which is controllable in the end.

[@vedgie]

You know, General Duke does seem like the kind of guy who wouldn't know how to A-move..

[@stylesrj]

Just where did he study tactics?

[@JayXdbX]

fun fact..... as a kid, i didn't know how to A-move. I likely only learned after returning to the game in my late teens or adulthood. Likely the latter.

[@JessWLStuart]

20:59 Awesome Reference! :D

[@MrPanda-ug4zo]

Thank you for bringing us such amazing content Grant. Ever since I have found your channel I have always had amazing and fun Starcraft content. Thank you so much and hope you are doing great.

[@guardianof2fort964]

I wonder where Duke went to study tactics, that fleet battle is gonna be a yike from me.

[@poilboiler]

He taught Warfield everything he knows.

[@indominusrex1652]

@@poilboiler so he taught warfield a bad tactic of launching 7 gorgons one by one

[@poilboiler]

@@indominusrex1652 No, Duke would have sent all of them at the same time, half of them missing the enemy and sitting there waiting.

[@indominusrex1652]

@@poilboiler so that means that warfield didnt listen to duke

[@ChannelMiner]

Lol, the ghosts missing the lockdown for the restoration tutorial was also in Nrals video.

[@justaclock4768]

And Nral has to lockdown the tank himself to do the tutorial.

[@anonnymousperson]

"I don't care where you're from son, nobody pushes around the Terran Dominion on MY watch!"

[@insignificantgnat9334]

I'm struggling to remember a time in the campaign when the Dominion wasn't getting pushed around on Duke's watch.

[@anonnymousperson]

@@insignificantgnat9334 lol, maybe the part after Duke's untimely death?

[@djenei2564]

sheeeeeeeeeepyards chapital sheeeeeeeeeeps

[@VegetaLaunchedFinalFlash]

French accent buddy

[@SmokeBloody]

One of the most memorable missions in the game. I remember playing it as a kid, nostalgia😭

[@indominusrex1652]

For me its brood war zerg 2

[@tiborgrun6963]

15:10 I think the medic died while the Flare projectile was still moving and like with the queen and the broodlings, the spell doesn't work when the caster dies before it hits the targets.

[@Weigazod]

SC2 is really weird.

[@TheVindicar]

2:25 what the hell did adjutant cyborg do? Did she... open her face?

[@alexstewart9592]

Haven't you seen that before? Ajuntants have weird idle animations.

[@ghost_curse]

Yeah that's the adjutant's idle animation in the SC2 base game

[@TheVindicar]

@@alexstewart9592 let's just say GGG's videos are about the extent of my experience with Starcraft franchise.

[@retloclive9118]

Looks like the only difference on higher difficulty is that there's more Duke Battlecruisers at the end. Normally, there's 12, but I counted at least 15.

[@DamnDaimen]

Shame that the duc didn't know how to a-move

[@VegetaLaunchedFinalFlash]

I think Admiral Gerard DuGalle is inspired by the famous and former president General Charles DeGaulle of France

[@WrathOfMega]

Dugalle not trusting Duran for being a traitor doesn't even make sense, since duran was part of the now-defunct confederacy and joined them explicitly so that he could continue that loyalty by continuing to fight the dominion.

[@thespaztagonist984]

As a pre-teen getting into Starcraft; the first few minutes of this really tell how 'regen' influenced my race choice in SC1. "Yes, you can repair; but you can't repair the Space Marine suit because the human has taken damage. I guess."

[@MichelCarajo]

Mandatory comment saying I love this playthrough and thank you so much for all the content you provide.

[@blazethefaith]

I like how during the briefing they say the battlecruisers are in "dry-dock".

[@ko71k52]

I actually thought about how it happened lorewise, like they sent 1 pilot, who commandeered the initial crew by convincing them? Or did he taunted them into thinking they are the Dominion forces, and Duke's fleet are rebels/invading force? That would make sense, since they might have no communication because of diversion. That would also explain why Duke is so cocky, him seeing that fleet in Dominion colours (they couldnt have repainted all the BCs, right, it's only gameplay visual, right?) might had him thinking the UED presence is limited with those tac teams and maybe an Alexander capital ship floating aside, so that space battle shouldve been a surprise for him when the tables turned? Or do those pilot units represent a whole battlecruiser crew and all of it is just a miniature? Because sometimes those fights are so lorewise bullshit, like a bunch of marines assaulting a whole planet and succeeding...

[@stylesrj]

Could also be that the ships are undergoing refurbishment and there's only a skeleton crew onboard. Or maybe it's like that beam sweep thing in Star Trek where the whole crew needed to be off the ship while it was being cleaned. So you get a pilot in there, he takes the helm and pilots it to the middle where maybe a UED skeleton crew can be assembled within the 30 hours before Duke's arrival.

[@yutuvefan4ever]

"Stealing the capital sheep from the sheep yard" hahahaha

[@kingoli9565]

10:16 "Nuclear lunch" XD

[@jek_si2251]

What's with all the Spacesheeps?

[@Bertaroo1]

Did you know? According to the official lore, the UED commander survived the campaign and eventually enlisted in the Dominion. They were the marine that got squashed by the Ultra in the HOTS cinematic

[@DamnDaimen]

That....that makes no sense. Why would he enlist in the dominion. Cmon blizz.

[@rinkitorirataki7488]

is this me or those pilot rapidly age when enter the BC

[@ImmacHn]

It's funny how Dugalle was 100% right here, but you know, foreshadowing.

[@Deneb626]

I had to double check this wasn't the Mindhawk Gauntlet with that thumbnail.

[@riluna3695]

Glad it wasn't just me. But it all made sense the first time DuGalle said the magic word. And it was hilarious watching Grant break out in that sheep-eating grin :P

[@caelvanir8557]

Those UED ghosts look *terrifying*

[@pantuternik]

Ah yes, the UED stealing captial shEEps from the Dylarian shEEpyards Oh hey, I predicted what Grant's gonna say!

[@krotash7740]

The UED have come for the sheeple

[@Dianbler]

That tank is in the same position in normal. I remember that in the original it can be flared in the high ground.

[@LuminousLead]

I find it weird to see Duran a few shades lighter. He looks like a slightly darker Stukov. Also, Stukov looks a good deal chunkier than I remember

[@atenek9243]

22:51 That didn’t work . Where did I study tactics boy ?

[@alorestrasz2524]

Is there a way to make dialogs louder?

[@BladeWinters]

Never understood how Samir Duran is a traitor, he was never part of the dominion

[@SpidoriT]

Grant over here playing Farmcraft, getting cattle out of the sheep yard

[@flamerollerx01]

Whoa whoa whoa, grand sheep larceny is baaad!

[@Y0G0FU]

Optical Flare is such a cool skill. Wish it would have returned in Sc2

[@calebadam2576]

It doesn't have much of a place in SC2 though, other than removing detection, as most battles are much faster paced and with many more units than SC1. Though even in SC 1 I get the feeling it was mostly a meme ability.

[@zhadez10]

@@calebadam2576 You're right Optical Flare is nothing but a meme to everyone but Boxer who brought 8 medics in a dropship, somehow managed to blind 6 observers following a 20 carrier fleet without smart casting and then proceeded to kill off the carrier fleet with a handful of cloaked wraiths

[@Paxel911]

The way medics work in the SC2 engine seems to be making the missions easier?

[@Frostburnphoenix]

dugalle sure says some ironic stuff in the mission brief

[@Chick3nluvver]

The thing that always confused me about the UED, despite having no direct contact with the Koprulu terrans for many many years, they use pretty much identical combat units.

[@UNSCscorpion212]

Did Grant just nrrrr at 2:40?

[@pantuternik]

Wait, so if these are capital shEEps (TM) are called cattlebruisers, does that mean they're sheep fighting cows? Does that mean then, that the Dominion BCs are cows?

[@sober667]

That story so good EPPic forshadowing good too dam SC is such a nice game

[@Venkintus]

Dunno if you will see this but an idea I have for mission 4 should be a game show choice, door number 1 or door number 2

[@ghost_curse]

I was never able to beat this mission legit as a kid. I was never able to steal enough sheeps so Duke's herd either was the same size as mine or outnumbered it, and his sheeps obliterated mine

[@IncoherentOrange]

One of my favourite no-builds.

[@davidcolby167]

the thing that bugs me is...like, Lt. Duran *isn't* a traitor from DeGalle's perspective. He's a Confederate officer! The Confederacy opposed the Terran Dominion so hard that the Dominion had to obliterate it to even come into existence! In NO WAY is Duran a traitor, he's not a Dominion soldier! He's just NOT!

[@BlazingGlaceon]

The sheeps have been obtained.

[@raynightshade8317]

Apparently Medics were going to be in the base starcraft game but they did not have the time to add it

[@lixnix2018]

I always loved playing it

[@fengraf1120]

@GiantGiantGrantGames Archives consider an Endgame playthrough. I know you've said why you are not doing it, but having personally done both hard and endgame now on the 8.0 version it really isn't too bad. Over half the missions I did not even need a reset but even the ones that do it's usually an early reset because the first attack is sometimes large and comes in at a weird angle.

[@LixLorn]

...the medics also say "stay frosty." raynor started a trend?

[@Zeratul649]

That joke in the beginning was "lamb". ;)

[@stylesrj]

The baaa was rather low...

[@willowori]

This should be called mass sheep call

[@cropathfinder]

no even in OG broodwar he BC duel is onesided AF cuz the AI usually just moves their ships one at a time into a killzone or forgets to attack move

[@calvinginn1637]

Where did General Duke study tactics?

[@You-Know-Youre-Right]

"Where does it hurt? ;)"

[@Luwi1996]

Great thumbnail

[@Santisima_Trinidad]

To be fair, you did rescue all of the BCs, so you had numbers, and i don't know if yamato cannon was any good in starcraft 1, because its a spell, so thats probably why duke didn't use it and thus got obliterated, yamato cannon having the effect of just wiping out as many enemy units as you have yamato cannons.

[@VK-sz4it]

Not yamato cannon. Yamato gun!

[@wherethetatosat]

"We will steal their sheep." Koprulu sector confirmed New Zealand.

[@oliverlacota3112]

Oof, that final battle was disappointing. Where did Duke study tactics?

[@cjayhay]

10:35 Cool guys don't look at explosions.

[@weltsiebenhundert]

What does the sheep say?

[@DarkinPunk]

Hah! I always knew Duke was an incompetent hack!

[@Anderson-ov4tp]

I have a feeling you are playing an outdated version or a buggy one, but I can't be sure.

[@sauceover]

Sheepyards? Didn’t know we were on AOE4

[@ebadathar5066]

I think in earlier versions of mass recall this mission was much harder on hard difficulty. I remember when I played this a few years back it was more comparable to the BW difficulty

[@Scherezad_]

I was gonna boot up Fallout New Vegas... but then I saw this went up.

[@poiuyt975]

So you think this mission is better than "Reinforcements are on route now, young templar"? ;-)

[@GenericProtagonist7]

To this day I'm still confused at them labeling Duran a traitor, he quite literally is not a traitor at this point, as far as the UED know; he's loyal to the Confederacy, the Confederacy no longer exists, he has dedicated himself to the destruction of the Dominion to avenge the Confederacy and is siding with the UED only because they're fighting the Dominion. Where, exactly, is he a "turncoat" in any way?

[@OpaqueWindow]

Yay

[@syeblaize]

Dominion Sheepyawds

[@sauceover]

Why aren’t the captured bcs helping us liberate more? :( ;)

[@stylesrj]

Maybe they're not fully crewed yet. And in later levels, they're being diverted to other UED Captains, etc.

[@sar_ptolemy]

where'd you studeh tactics, boy?

[@fare-5174]

I love how Grant is trying super hard to avoid spoilers when the characters themselves are calling out other characters for being traitors when no actual betrayal happened yet. First Kerrigan in the Protoss campaign, then Duran here, and then Kerrigan again in the Zerg missions. I love Brood War story to bits, but the original Blizz crew should have at least QA tested their dialogue. It's not a modern game, they actually had standards back in the day.

[@NotHPotter]

He's calling Duran a traitor for rebelling against the Dominion as a former subject of the Dominion. He considers it treachery for Duran to have sided with an invading army (which, it is).

[@fare-5174]

@@NotHPotter Duran claimed to be from a former Confederacy unit when we met him last mission, so he did not betray the Dominion, he was actively resisting it. And then he was impressed into the UED army, so it's not like he betrayed anyone from the defunct Confederacy, either.

[@Based_Witch_Hunter]

He's stating that you shouldnt trust someone who betrays a cause, as they might just as easily betray you.

[@NotHPotter]

@@fare-5174 DuGalle doesn't strike me as the type to care about nuance, and since the Terran Dominion is the effective authority of the sector, he probably sees Duran as a traitor and rebel rather than a resistance fighter. Regardless, the UED is still an invasion force, and they're not about to reestablish the Confederacy which just makes Duran a mercenary at best.

[@shadowrobot7708]

this mission would have made way more sense if it took place during the original campaign and you were stealing battle cruisers from the confederacy as the sons of Korhal. Stealing military equipment doesn't really make sense for the UED since they are supposed to have more advanced tech.

[@codewraith1]

It's called a strike team grant

[@ditmarvanbelle1061]

that third platform ... now that's what I call sloppy! They're nothing compared to my Alpha squadron boys xD

[@rock1145]

I know you're disappointed that Duke is a bad commander, but... h's Duke. The man has never won a battle the player didn't control. I mean, he attacked a horde of mutas and scourge with a single BC at Antiga Prime! The real disappointment is that Mengsk gave him more BCs to trash.

[@FrozenPyro06]

Microsoft for full sc1 remaster?

[@JayXdbX]

I doubt it. SC 1 just got a remaster a few years ago. The community was very decided they wanted the game unchanged, which included QOL improvements.

[@recombinantgestalt]

Oh no. Deathless Mass Recall when? I don't know if you hate yourself enough for that.

[@videosthatwhatever]

wait how is he a traitor if he is not "dominion" he was "confederate" lol

[@NotHPotter]

DuGalle strikes me as the type to simply view whoever has the biggest army as the legitimate authority of an area, so while Duran may not see himself as a Dominion subject, DuGalle probably doesn't care. Sorta the same lines as "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter".

[@Based_Witch_Hunter]

It's not who but what he is. If somone can betray something once then they can again

[@kampfer91]

Is Gen Duke a very bad general in the lore ? Where did he learn strategy ?

[@DamnDaimen]

He doesn't know strategy. He wants to know where you learned tactics. Boy.

[@Talon771]

Random comment for channel interaction.

[@Aleksei-r4r]

Activate brutal plz